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Picture this: I just stepped off the stage after speaking in front of a thousand people. I’ve completely poured my heart out—my story, my struggles, everything—to all of them for more than an hour. 

I’m excited and I feel so privileged to do this work. But I’m also tired.

Now I have hundreds of photos to take and a thousand books to sign.

I have two choices: I can soak up all the energy from everybody else and let my own energy get even more depleted—or I can create an energetic boundary

So I say a prayer. 

I call on my boundary gatekeeper, Peter. He protects me from soaking up what everyone around me is feeling.

This process of setting energetic boundaries is a conscious commitment we have to make to ourselves. On this episode of Dear Gabby, I’ll give you the tools to find your own boundary gatekeeper and establish boundaries that stick.

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I want you to open up to the idea that you can call on your own boundary gatekeeper. Your gatekeeper can come to you through meditation—or pray about it and pay attention to the signs you receive.

Then call on the gatekeeper to close the gate when you want to protect your energy, or any time you need help with setting boundaries.

The key to creating a healthy boundary in any relationship is to do it with love. 

You can see someone with tremendous love and oneness and still create a boundary that is backed with faith, as long as you are committed to creating boundaries with love.

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Here are a few ways you can create clear, compassionate boundaries:

  1. If you’re prompted to talk about a desire before it’s ready to be shared, you can kindly say, “This new project or idea means a lot to me, so I’m not going to share more about it until it’s really fully developed.” 
  2. Ask that certain topics be left alone completely. For example, when I was trying to conceive, I had to lovingly ask my mother to stop asking about it. I told her that her actions were inadvertently triggering disappointment. I asked her instead to talk to me about anything else.
  3. If it’s impractical to create those loving boundaries—or if they aren’t being respected—you need to consciously disengage from people who are energetically bringing you down. For example, if you’re trying to improve your financial situation and your friends are all talking about money problems, you may need to leave the room. 

Please note: If you are in physical or other danger, immediately take steps to remove yourself from that situation. Create safety for yourself before you focus on your energetic connection to others. (See the resources at the bottom of this page.) 

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I’m also opening up in this episode about a time recently when I had to establish clear, immovable boundaries with my own family. This had been building up for about 10 years. This time, it stuck.

in this episode, you’ll learn:

  • Steps to establishing clear, effective boundaries from a place of love
  • 2 prayers: one to protect you from absorbing the energy of others and another to restore your energy when it’s been drained
  • How to respect your own needs in relationships
  • Why “no” can be your most loving response, and 4 questions to ask before you say “yes”
  • How to assign a spirit guide as your boundary gatekeeper
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dear gabby #138 May 19, 2023 relationships 47 min

3 steps to set healthy boundaries from a place of love

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Hi there, Gabby here. This podcast is intended to educate, inspire, and support you on your personal journey towards inner peace. I'm not a psychologist or a medical doctor and do not offer any professional health or medical advice. If you are suffering from a psychological or medical condition, please seek help from a qualified health professional.

If you're a regular listener of this show, you know that for the most part, I'm pretty chill and believe it or not, that's true even when it comes to my parenting style. I'm that mom who can stay calm even during a four-year-old meltdown. Seriously.

And I know that's kind of a brag, but it's something that I'm proud of and you might be wondering, Okay, Gabby, really, how do you stay calm when your kid's freaking melting down?

Well, well, number one, I know I can trust the universe when the sh*t hits the fan. That's period. And number two, I lean heavily on my meditation practice. I've been meditating daily for 17 and a half years. Yep, that's right. I've never skipped a day of meditation. I just haven't.

And it is this practice that has helped me navigate the most stressful situations in my life. And it's also given me the ability to really lower my anxiety level. So whether you already have a meditation practice or if you've never tried it before, I want to help you cultivate that same sense of inner peace.

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Hey there. Welcome to Dear Gabby. I'm your host Gabby Bernstein, and if you landed here, it is absolutely no accident. It means that you're ready to feel good and manifest a life beyond your wildest dreams. Let's get started.

Welcome back. Welcome back, welcome back. Welcome back. We've just got the most divine topic for you.

So get psyched. Get psyched. Get psyched. And the topic is, I create boundaries with love. Woo. Take that in. Take it in. And there's so much to this topic of boundaries. So many of you, and we've been asking on the Facebook group about what topics you want me to talk about. I can't even begin to tell you how many of you guys have said boundaries.

I wanna hear about boundaries and we've so much greatness for you on this topic. There were so many questions on it, and it started with somebody asking this interesting question.

They said, "In Judgment Detox, you teach that we can dissolve all boundaries with love. In Super Attractor, you teach about creating loving boundaries to protect your good feeling emotions. You also teach that oneness is our true nature. So how do we reconcile the idea of oneness with the idea of boundaries?"

Such a good question. And what are the boundaries we want to dissolve, and what are the boundaries we want to create? Let's first start with this. How do we reconcile the idea of oneness with the idea of boundaries?

Oh my goodness. What a good one. So here's the deal. You can see someone with tremendous love and oneness and still create a boundary that is backed with that faith and oneness as long as you are committed to creating boundaries with love. Let me give you an example.

So a year ago I had to create a major boundary with my mom and my stepfather, and this had probably been like 10 years coming. Because I was always trying to create boundaries from this place of attack. Like, why the F are you guys treating me like this? Stop doing this. Leave me alone. You're so aggressive. You're always nagging me. Just constantly fighting them, thinking I was creating boundaries. But fighting someone is not creating a boundary.

It's just creating more resentment, more drama. Creating a clear, true boundary that will stick has to come from a place of love. So in this instance, with my mom and my stepfather, I finally just hit my bottom with them and I wrote them an email. It was a long email and it opened with, I hope that you'll receive this email with love.

And I went on and on and on about the ways that their behavior had been affecting me. And I talked about how I felt, how this makes me feel. Rather than you did this, you did that. I just said, this makes me feel this way. This makes me feel this way, this makes me feel this way.

And then lovingly, I said, and with a lot of love, I am asking you to stop now, to change, to do this differently. And then I went into the benefits for me will be my nervous system will relax. I won't feel attacked. I can spend more time with you and be happy to be with you. And just listed all the benefits of what the boundary would create for me. And then I closed with: Thank you for respecting my needs and understanding this boundaries coming from a place of love.

Let me tell you, people, they changed. After 10 years of being in this chaos with them, they stopped the behavior, they heard me, and they changed. So the key to creating a boundary is to create that boundary with love. So all the work that you've been doing with Judgment Detox and Super Attractor, it all lines up with this final frontier, which is creating that boundary with love, with love, with love.

And so, it's really important to create these healthy boundaries in order to protect our energy, but to make them long-lasting and not shame people, right? So the question was how do we reconcile the idea of oneness with the idea of boundaries? When you create a boundary with love, you are saying to the person, I see that we are one, and I recognize that you are me, that this is my experience, and with so much love and understanding, I'm asking you to change.

And these would be the benefits, you know, this is how it's affecting me. This would be the my request, and this is the benefit. Take this with love. Huge difference, but you could say all the right words and if your energy isn’t backed with love, it still won't work. So make sure you back it up with love.

And this is gonna be really important for Lisa who said to me she has toxic in-laws. Uh-oh. I swear to God. I wrote the book Judgment Detox for people that don't like their in-laws, so many people will be like my mother-in-law, blah, blah, blah. So this is Lisa who has toxic in-laws and when your husband doesn't see them as toxic is what she said.

So what do you do about toxic in-laws when your husband doesn't see them as toxic? Usually we have choices to not engage and continue friendships with toxic people, but we don't have a choice when it comes to family members. So this is really about energetic protection. And so, before you enter the room to be with them on a holiday or dinner or anything that you're gonna do, set your intention to protect your energy and create a healthy, energetic boundary.

So it's not that you actually have to say anything to them, it's about you making an energetic commitment to yourself. Say this prayer to yourself silently.

I set the intention right now to be loving to be kind. And to be forgiving. But I'm also not going to be a sponge. Right now, I'm not going to take on the energy of others. I'm gonna create a boundary with love.

That's your prayer. I'll say it again.

I set the intention right now to be loving to be kind. And to be forgiving. But I'm also not going to be a sponge. Right now, I'm not going to take on the energy of others. I'm gonna create a boundary with love.

So this is a very important prayer that I hope you can repeat every time you show up. Memorize it; every time you show up, or before an hour before a day, before you end up being with these family members or friends. Set those intentions and boundaries energetically. This is really important if you're gonna enter a space with someone who has a very needy energy, or someone who has a really negative energy.

You can even do this before a phone call or a Zoom chat. Just because somebody isn't in your physical space doesn't mean that they aren't sucking your energy out of you. So set that intention immediately, and that will create an invisible wall. Doesn't necessarily mean that you're gonna be negative. It just means that you're saying you can't get in here, right?

So you have to believe that you have this invisible gatekeeper for your energy. And my very good friend, Kyle Gray, who's a medium in Europe, and he said to me this beautiful message, he guided me to this angel named Peter, who's been like my gatekeeper. He's been a guide to me. And he said that I can call on Peter when I'm around a lot of people and feel like my energy is getting depleted.

So he said, open up to the idea that you have this invisible gatekeeper. And I was like, wow, that's really cool. He's like, at a book signing, when you just opened up so much for a talk and now you have all these people coming at you, ask Peter to help you.

And throughout the entire Super Attractor book tour I did this, I would just be, I would start feeling very overwhelmed because I took pictures with like hundreds and thousands of people and signed thousands and thousands of books. And it's such a privilege to do that work, but I didn't wanna feel depleted by it. So I'd just be like, Peter, step in, create the wall.

And so, what's happening is you're creating an image in your mind of who that might be. Is it an angel? Is it a spirit guide? Is it a force of energy? Who is your gatekeeper? And that can come to you through meditation or just pray about it and see what signs you get.

So call on the gatekeeper to close the gate when you want to protect your energy. And you can call on the energy gatekeeper by saying, Thank you for closing my gate right now.

Simple. Thank you for closing my gate right now. So, for example, when I'm sitting at that book table and I feel all that energy coming at me. If I forget to ask Peter to come in, I start to feel that wobbliness. I almost get dizzy actually at times because there's so much energy coming at me. So it’s always before that I have to just bring Peter with me to start the signing so that I'm not all messed up, right?

But sometimes if I forget in the moment, I can say, oh, Peter, thank you for closing the gate. So even if you've forgotten and you feel like your energy's being sucked out of you, you could just invite your gatekeeper in, right in that moment.

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And then after these encounters, and this is what I do after a talk, but after any encounter with people that are toxic for you or people that might just have been bringing a lot of energy to you—good or bad—if you haven't protected your energy before the encounter, then you can restore it afterwards.

Or even when you do protect yourself before, you also wanna restore it later. So you're gonna say this prayer if you feel drained or negative, after these interactions.

I ask that any negative energy I picked up be removed, recycled and transmuted. I ask that any positive energy I may have lost be retrieved now.

This is an energetic boundary and it's an energetic clearing. So setting boundaries and protecting your energy will help you stay positive and aligned and happy, and you still can be loving and kind and gracious, but it's about creating that loving boundary and trusting that you will be taken care of even when you're in an energy of love. That energy of pushing and protecting yourself and being so forceful, it won't be heard.

Now, sometimes forcefulness is necessary to stick up for yourself or to protect yourself, but there can still be love behind it. In situations where there's abuse or attack, let's address that. This is about, yes, you know, there's opportunity for forgiveness and love behind the scenes, but I do want you to be very conscious of removing yourself from a situation, whether it be contacting 9 1 1 or getting the police involved, or having a friend help remove you from the situation.

So I don't wanna send somebody out there who's been dealing with emotional or physical abuse to just create a loving boundary. Yes, you can do that energetically when you're separated from that situation. Let's just be very, very safe with this. So there is, in extreme cases, when we have to literally be removed so that we're physically safe.

Okay, everybody? So let's just be real about that. Let's take it seriously. Call 9 1 1 and let yourself be served. Okay?

So how do we tell the truth? Elizabeth now says, how do you tell the truth and remain authentic and grounded? How do you say no from a place of love or calm while remaining friendly, especially in a work environment where I don't have time to do what's been asked.

And then Sabrina echoed that and she said, how do I maintain the balance of good boundaries as well as coming from my highest self? Sometimes I think I'm wanting to come from an enlightened space, but instead I overgive and get taken advantage of.

Ah, so good. Both of these questions are kind of asking the same thing, so listen, you have to learn that—this beautiful concept that my friend Latham Thomas said to me—no is a complete sentence.

And also accept that sometimes no is the most loving response. So when it comes to a work environment or a person that you feel is you wanna act from your highest self, but you don't wanna over give. This is about recognizing that no is sometimes the most loving response. And so for instance, in my business and my team, I've got amazing people that work with me and they really, really wanna please me.

And they wanna bring their A-game to the work, and they really wanna show up for the mission that we're on. But sometimes they deny what they need, they deny their own needs or their own boundaries or their own capabilities. And so they'll just say yes to something that isn't comfortable for them or outside their comfort zone because they're afraid of saying no.

And that never works. It always, always, always falls flat. And I really wanna say that I love and respect their devotion to try to say yes to something. But if you actually feel uncomfortable about it, that ‘Yes’ will be more detrimental than a loving no.

And so, I've trained them now to understand that no can be the most loving response, and actually in my case, is the most impactful response because I don't want somebody out there for two weeks working on a project that they don't resonate with. If it's triggering for them, that makes them feel not good enough. And then two weeks later to come to me and say, I'm miserable. I hate this. I can't do it anymore.

Because that's not forward momentum. It's really hard. So the training that I've given them and I continue to is to say no when you can't do it. Because we have 15 other people who can do it. So chill, say no, let's somebody else do it.

Okay. If it's something that they absolutely have to do, then I'll get them trained on how to do it. So no can be the most loving response. Not everybody's gonna have Gabby Bernstein as a boss. And let me tell you, it is a big blessing to have Gabby Bernstein as a boss. I can be a crazy woman sometimes, but most importantly, I'm really loving and I care about the people that work for me.

I'm just patting my own back right now. But let's say you don't have Gabby Bernstein as a boss, you can still go to your boss or a friend, or the person that you feel like you're not gonna disappoint and say, "This is a little uncomfortable for me. I'm not exactly sure how I'm gonna show up for it, but do you think you could give me some guidance or is there any direction that you recommend I take, or is there a training on this that I could try?"

Because you're not saying I'm not willing to do what you need me to do. You're saying I need some help. Right? It's a big one and we have a lot of issues around saying no. I mean, think about it. So many people just say are yessers, and a lot of these issues stem from people-pleasing behavior and the need to receive approval. And our work is to really start to recognize that doing anything that's out of alignment with our core beliefs and truths won't work.

And so, as we become this person done a spiritual path and we start to accept this, we realize that no is the most loving response. So some people are gonna resist your no’s. They're a hundred percent gonna be like, then you can't have the job, or you gotta figure it out. Manipulative folks will do whatever it takes to turn your no into a yes, right? If you're in those manipulative relationships.

So be mindful of these people and trust that the more you exercise the word no, the more it will become second nature for you. So if you have trouble saying no, just start to take an inventory of the areas of your life in which you're saying yes, when you really want to say no.

This is a very powerful practice. I want you to open your journals and do this practice. So make a list of all the ways you're avoiding saying no, and then clearly outline how it's affecting your relationships and your happiness. And here are some questions that you can ask yourself.

So number one, in what instances do I avoid saying no? So make a list, might be a very long list. Just get clear. Number two, how does this behavior affect me? It makes me sick. It makes my stomach hurt. Be very specific. Long, long list. Number three, how does this behavior affect the other people involved? Woowoo. Big one. Because in my case, if you were looking as my team, that's been not saying no to me.

How does it affect me? Well, it takes me out of momentum. It makes me frustrated. It's making the rest of the team go back on what they need to do because they may have been held up. Because if you had we said no in the first place, we could have had somebody else do it. So you can see how it affects other people.

And then how would it have helped me and the other people involved had I said no? And that's nature. In my case with my team, it's like if you had just said no. This is for so many people on my team. They just say yes sometimes when they don't mean it. Had they just said, no, we would've found somebody else. We would've moved fast and moved along. Moved at the speed of Gabby, as I say.

So now that you have, uh, a little bit more clarity on the next step to begin exercising your no’s, this new behavior is gonna require repetition. So don't worry if you start to do it poorly at first. Just get into the habit and like even do it if it's awkward and scary at first, just do it.

And the more confident you get at saying no, the more people will thank you for it. So this is so major, so major in boundaries.

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All right. McKenna on the Facebook group said that she wants boundaries, boundaries, boundaries, boundaries with friends who are in toxic situations, boundaries with people who are close, but at a different part of their spiritual journey. How to navigate continuing your journey while growing in a relationship.

Okay, so in Super Attractor, I talk about this. And it's a very important practice and it's about protecting your own energy from other people's words and their attitudes and their toxic situations that they've had that they wanna project onto us, which is what McKenna's asking. So I tell the example of when I was going through my fertility journey and I was, I was struggling to conceive, I was really open publicly about it, right?

So I was talking to people about how it'd taken me three years to conceive and in The Universe Has Your Back, I wrote about how my fertility journey was my greatest teacher. And I knew that my openness was really helping people as all of my openness continues to help you, and it was really helping a lot of women who had gone through that or were going through that.

But first, I felt empowered by writing and speaking publicly about it and sharing it in these new open ways. But what happens is when you get on Oprah’s stage and you talk about your infertility, then every email in your support email index comes in with women telling me their stories, and I received text, emails, DMs, social media messages all over the place from women all over the world wanting to share their miracle stories, but a lot of people wanting to share their struggles.

And so, I was so grateful for their outreach. And I want you to know if you're someone that sent me those stories, I'm grateful. But I also noticed myself feeling really down because a lot of the emails that were coming in were stories of hardship and heartache. And over the years of being a spiritual teacher, I've welcomed people's stories and held everyone in a real deep compassion bubble, right? Loving them.

But this time it was really close to home for me, and it was a struggle I was still living through. So began to feel my faith began to dwindle, and I started to feel that positive momentum that I had slow down. And I started to worry about some of the stories I was hearing, like, oh, could that happen to me?

That kind of thing. And I became really conscious of how other people's words were affecting me. So as soon as I noticed that I was really out of alignment and I noticed that I wasn't feeling good, I decided to pivot that and I began to change the way I interpreted their information. So when you're getting toxic information, you can decide to interpret it differently.

So when someone shared a negative fertility story with me, I immediately would help guide them to a better place. And so let's say I received a story with resistance about fertility. I'd say a prayer for that person and gently remind myself that their story wasn't mine. And I did everything I could to protect my good-feeling momentum.

And so, after several months of just gently deflecting the negative stories and choosing to commit to feeling good, sending them prayers, just giving love. Something really, really interesting happened. I noticed that I was no longer getting negative messages or comments at all. It was almost like I was immune to them.

There was nothing negative coming through. So my commitment to feeling good, right, really sent out this universal memo to all the women out there, and it said, I'm no longer a match for negative fertility stories. And so, not only was I no longer hearing the negative stories, but I was also attracting so many happy stories.

And so, every woman I heard from was really coming to me with positive miracle stories about fertility. And even if it started with a struggle, they would tell me their miracle moment. And even if it was started with a struggle and they maybe they never conceived, it would still end with the miracle that they're the happiest they've ever been or whatever it was.

So it was amazing to see how my commitment to feeling good made me a super attractor for stories that were really gonna support my intentions. And so I want you to clearly see that when people project their stories onto you or seem to naysay and blaming themselves, or blaming others, or putting their resistance out onto you, they are merely reflecting back to you a lingering resistance of your own.

So you have to use these moments and opportunities to surrender, to feel good, to open Super Attractor. Start to remember. It's good to feel good. You can't control what people are saying or doing, but you can control how you choose to perceive it. It's really important, guys. Take that in. You can't control what they're saying or doing, but you can control how you choose to perceive it.

And so I want you to practice protecting your good-feeling emotions at all costs. And so, One way that you can protect your desires is by creating that clear, loving boundary and really do that first step that I gave you of just saying that prayer. And it's not uncommon for people in your life to throw preconceived notions of who they think you should be or perhaps like what you used to be.

And so, these projections from other people can also be very toxic and take you out of alignment like McKenna asked, so that when you find that your desires are being challenged by others, you wanna respond by creating compassionate boundaries. Right? And a lot of people come to me and they're like, oh, I wanna create this in my life, but my family are bringing me down and not believing in me.

And so, this is where we create compassionate boundaries. These are the boundaries that they don't need to know that you're creating them. You're doing it with your silence.

So for instance, if you're prompted to talk about a desire before it's ready to be shared, you can kindly say, “Listen, I'm currently developing this new idea and a new project, and it means a lot to me. So I'm not going to share about it right now and I'm not gonna share about it until it's really fully developed.”

And I did that yesterday with my husband. I was like working on something and he's like, tell me about it. Tell me about it. And I was like, it's actually not really ready to talk about yet. I wanna keep it safe. I wanna keep it close, and I'll let you know when I'm ready.

And so if you can request that certain topics be left alone completely. For instance, when I was trying to conceive, I had to lovingly ask my mother to stop interfering. I had to kindly told her that her actions inadvertently were triggering me to feel disappointment and feel shame.

And so I asked her to instead just talk about other topics. I said, talk to me about anything else. Because I created this boundary with her so clearly and lovingly, she was really able to hear me and respect my desires, and I was able to protect my dream and stay connected to that good feeling.

So sometimes it's impractical to create these loving boundaries. So in those situations, you're gonna have to consciously disengage from people who are energetically bringing you down. So you may need to leave the room. Or step away cuz you need to meditate. If you're trying to attract more money, limit your time with the friends that you have that are constantly talking about how their financial problems are their biggest issue.

Don't hang with them. And then, you know, if you wanna manifest a new partner in your life, just don't engage with your friends that are single and bitching about it. Just disengage. So if you're ready to step into this new way of being, it's about you deciding that I'm gonna create this boundary with love and just remove myself and let myself be protecting of my own energy.

So protect your dreams, no matter what. And then there's some questions that I received from people that were about what do you do once you set these boundaries and family members are unhappy with it, right? So you can trust, trust, trust, trust, trust that if you're setting a boundary with love, that it will be felt and respected.

And so the same example that I gave about my mom and my stepfather, that was a loving boundary set and it was loving and it was respected by them. So if you don't set that boundary with love and spiritually-aligned action, then you, it's not gonna stick. So let's just review as we close this topic of boundaries, the spiritually aligned action method from Super Attractor because it's when you set a boundary from this action method, it will stick. It will work.

So your desire is to create a boundary, right? So step one, make sure that desire is backed with love and service. So rather than, my desire is to create these boundaries so they can just get off my back. My desire is to create this boundary so I can have a greater relationship with them.

Like when I was talking to my mom and Mike, I was like, listen, I just wanna love you more. I wanna be able to talk to you about things that are not related to my conception, or whatever it was, right? That's step one. Desire is backed with love and service. Step two is to believe in it, and this is where your spiritual faith is gonna come in.

So you're gonna work your faith to really believe that this is possible. And then the third step is to take that action from that place of love, service, and faith. And pick up the phone and create a boundary with love. And then the final step of the spiritually-aligned action method is to just be patient and let people do their thing.

They're gonna fall off, they're gonna make mistakes, but you can patiently allow them to just to just show up and be who they need to be. Okay? So just allow yourself to be free in this. Allow yourself to trust that when you set a boundary with spiritually aligned action and love, it will be honored. If it's not, you will do it again, and then if it's not, you will do it again.

And if it's not, you will say, listen, I can't be around you, but I'm gonna continue to set this loving boundary.

If it's an unsafe relationship, remember you have the resource of calling 9 1 1 for help. Getting yourself out of a situation that's unsafe physically or emotionally. Make sure that you take on the resources that are available to us and trust that it's safe to create a boundary.

It's safe to say no. It's safe to let love set in. It's safe to let love set in, and it's safe to let the universe work on your behalf when you're creating these boundaries. So make sure that you invite spirit into the experience and you'll see radical shifts occur. Thank you, guys. I love you and I really wanna hear from you on this topic.

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