Speaker 1: Cancer just doesn't show up overnight. It's the result of
Speaker 1: this stress on the body. And when our body no
Speaker 1: longer has the meats the resilience to deal with the
Speaker 1: stress within, the red alert is going to go on.
Speaker 2: Today we have Mona Sharma, a nutritionists that works with
Speaker 2: high performing entrepreneurs and celebrities as well as a wellness
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Speaker 1: Health for somebody who suffers from something like stress or anxiety,
Speaker 1: Is it stress or anxiety or does it come from
Speaker 1: a deeper cause. We live in a world where we
Speaker 1: need to be busy all the time. We think it's
Speaker 1: a weakness to stop because it makes us vulnerable. What
Speaker 1: are the practices that you have every single day that
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Speaker 2: Kia and on my podcast A Really Good Cry, we
Speaker 2: embrace the messy and the beauty, providing a space for raw,
Speaker 2: unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune
Speaker 2: in to learn, connect and find comfort together. Hey everyone,
Speaker 2: welcome back to this week's episode of A Really Good Cry.
Speaker 2: Today we have a nutritionist that works with high performing
Speaker 2: entrepreneurs and celebrities as well as a wellness advisor and coach.
Speaker 2: She blends iravatic wisdom with modern science to optimize health.
Speaker 2: She is my go to person whenever I have any
Speaker 2: health questions or issues, and she always shares solutions with
Speaker 2: love and compassion.
Speaker 3: So Mona Sharma, thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 1: So good to be here. I'm so excited to connect
Speaker 1: with you me too.
Speaker 2: I have to tell people that when I say she
Speaker 2: is my go to I mean like every single thing
Speaker 2: that I possibly think of, you get a text message.
Speaker 1: Of I love it. Yeah, I love being the go
Speaker 1: to person.
Speaker 2: I know you really are and you have such a
Speaker 2: magnetic energy and I mean that in the sense of
Speaker 2: the things that you share you feel like when you
Speaker 2: meet you.
Speaker 3: So I don't know whether that makes sense.
Speaker 2: But your energy is so representative of the wisdom and
Speaker 2: the nourishment that you give to other people. As soon
Speaker 2: as you walk into our room, I feel like my
Speaker 2: whole pattern of voice changes. I feel calm, and I
Speaker 2: think that that's just your presence that allows people to
Speaker 2: feel that way. So I'm so excited to share you
Speaker 2: with everybody that's listening.
Speaker 1: The highest compliment for me, Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I wanted to start off by just asking you one
Speaker 2: how you got to where you are today and how
Speaker 2: you have created a world where you're able to share
Speaker 2: iobating wisdom which is so old with Western medicine and
Speaker 2: make it relevant and applicable to people.
Speaker 1: Now. This is literally what drives me today. If the
Speaker 1: future of medicine can really merge the wisdom of all
Speaker 1: of our ancestors, no matter where we come from. Abada
Speaker 1: is one of those incredible sciences with the amazing, incredible
Speaker 1: science that Western medicine is giving us. Yeah, merge the
Speaker 1: two door together for true integration. I think that the
Speaker 1: world would be in such a better place. I think
Speaker 1: that disease prevention would be the primary source of healthcare
Speaker 1: instead of symptom management. And I can say that, yeah,
Speaker 1: because I lived through all of it. So prior to
Speaker 1: becoming a holistic nutritionist and yogi and meditation teacher and
Speaker 1: reiki practitioner and NLP practitioner, I list them all because
Speaker 1: I probably should have just become a doctor instead of
Speaker 1: doing all of these modalities.
Speaker 3: No, I love it.
Speaker 1: But prior to that, I actually come from the world
Speaker 1: of fashion. So I worked out of sales for massive
Speaker 1: beauty brands, so Christian Dior and tom Ford Beauty and
Speaker 1: Estate Lauder companies and say that about you. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: my twenties was full of this like high paced fashion,
Speaker 1: fun lifestyle, traveling the world doing makeup for fashion shows,
Speaker 1: training people at big retailers. And I say it out loud,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that sounds kind of fun. Like it
Speaker 1: was a really cool job to have. And as you know,
Speaker 1: being Indian, having an Indian father, I didn't become a
Speaker 1: doctor or a lawyer or a judge like my dad
Speaker 1: or like my brother. When I got into the corporate world,
Speaker 1: I hustled like this, A type hypervigilance that I had
Speaker 1: was like literally get to the top, get security, you know,
Speaker 1: do as much as you can to get a high
Speaker 1: paying job that was going to get me respect, and
Speaker 1: you know it came with a big, big, big priced egg.
Speaker 1: So I used to say all the time that anxiety
Speaker 1: was my blueprint, like it's just it's who I identified at.
Speaker 1: I hit it very well, very very well. I would
Speaker 1: almost say that the calmness that you so pleasantly gave me,
Speaker 1: that compliment, that was almost a coping mechanism for me.
Speaker 1: If people perceive me as calm on the outside, they
Speaker 1: won't know about the internal suffering anxiety that I'm feeling
Speaker 1: that I think I've had since I was a little kid.
Speaker 1: So here I am anxiety, fast paced life, waking up
Speaker 1: a hotel rooms, not knowing what city I was in,
Speaker 1: chasing this high corporate salary. It was a corporate job, right.
Speaker 1: Burnout is what I got to. During that time, I
Speaker 1: started getting heart palpitations. These heart palputations got so fast
Speaker 1: that I would bend down to pick something up and
Speaker 1: nearly hit the deck. I would want to pass out,
Speaker 1: and things got really bad. I ended up getting pcos.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget a doctor told me that it was
Speaker 1: so bad that I would probably have a really hard
Speaker 1: time having children. Having children is the only thing I've
Speaker 1: ever known that I really really wanted, and I do
Speaker 1: have two kids today, beautiful children. Beautiful children. And the
Speaker 1: heart palpitations. I was like, look, this isn't working for me.
Speaker 1: This is now impacting my life. What's the solution. At
Speaker 1: that point in my life, I wasn't interested in getting
Speaker 1: to the root cause of healing. Give me quick fix.
Speaker 1: So doctors wrote me a prescription medication for beta blocker medication.
Speaker 1: Beta blocker medication. They did slow everything down. I still
Speaker 1: to get my heart palpitations, but they weren't as bad,
Speaker 1: but they also caused me to gain forty five pounds.
Speaker 1: Forty five pounds later, I was like, hey, this isn't
Speaker 1: working for me, Like I feel completely lethargic. Everything, my tone,
Speaker 1: my energy just like drained. It dropped. And so they said, well, hey,
Speaker 1: we can go in for surgery, and I said, okay,
Speaker 1: let's do it. So I went in from my first
Speaker 1: heart surgery. I was twenty three years old.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: They go through in ablation, so through your groin and
Speaker 1: through your neck, you're awake for the whole thing. Your
Speaker 1: heart's on this massive monitor and they induce you with
Speaker 1: you know, adrenaline and caffeine and all these uppers to
Speaker 1: try to induce these palpitations that I knew what only
Speaker 1: happened if I was moving my body right. And so
Speaker 1: they found a place where they could do an ablation,
Speaker 1: where they burn off a portion of your heart on
Speaker 1: this electrical note. They say they ended up doing two
Speaker 1: oblations in that surgery. But the next morning I woke
Speaker 1: up in the hospital and my heart was still pounding. Oh,
Speaker 1: bawling my eyes out, What the hell is going on?
Speaker 1: They said, well, let's go back in. So now I'm
Speaker 1: twenty four, go back in for my second heart surgery,
Speaker 1: and I'll never forget. Doctors asked me why I was crying.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I'm looking at my heart on
Speaker 1: a massive screen. I identify now as somebody who's on medication
Speaker 1: and somebody who has a heart condition. I'm young, I
Speaker 1: have this great life, but I'm not happy. I feel
Speaker 1: depressed most of the time. At this point, I feel sad,
Speaker 1: But doctors never asked me about that. Doctors wanted to know,
Speaker 1: like how much she's smoking, how much are you drinking?
Speaker 1: Are you parting? From the outside, you look really good.
Speaker 1: And I really want to call out to listeners who
Speaker 1: like so many people reach out to me about heart palpitations,
Speaker 1: and I think we all suffer from them for different reasons.
Speaker 1: But for me, like I literally had a broken heart,
Speaker 1: I was really sad. There was a lot of like
Speaker 1: turmoil happening in my life. My parents were getting a divorce,
Speaker 1: I was going through massive changes, and they just didn't
Speaker 1: ask about that big part of me. Right, So I
Speaker 1: passed all the tests on paper, and they said, well,
Speaker 1: you know, at the moment, we can do this oblation again,
Speaker 1: but if we go through with it, it's right next
Speaker 1: to your sinus node, your essay node, and so if
Speaker 1: we do that, you might have to wear a pacemaker
Speaker 1: for the rest of your life. In that moment, it
Speaker 1: was like one of those situations when your life flashes
Speaker 1: before your eyes, and I was like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is happening. I know that there's a better way to heal.
Speaker 1: I don't want to identify as somebody who's sick, who
Speaker 1: has a heart conditions. Makes no sense. And the irony
Speaker 1: of this entire story is that I knew that there
Speaker 1: was a better way. So I said. My dad was Indian,
Speaker 1: my mom is Danish. I've only ever known my mom
Speaker 1: to suffer from debilitating autoimmune disease, so rheumatoid arthritis. So
Speaker 1: I've only ever known my mom to have deformity, so
Speaker 1: for all of her limbs. Right, my mom is such
Speaker 1: a fighter, you know. The model owner houserowing up was
Speaker 1: eat it it's good for you, Drink it, it's good
Speaker 1: for you. She tried every single Eastern modality to heal
Speaker 1: her body. And my dad with his inside in Nayraveda.
Speaker 1: My mom found this ashram in Valmaran and Quebec. It's
Speaker 1: the Shivananda Ashram where we would go and spend summers.
Speaker 1: So my summers as a kid, I didn't get to
Speaker 1: go to fun summer camp. I literally had to go
Speaker 1: to yoga camp.
Speaker 2: Yah.
Speaker 1: My dad would tap me on the shoulder at five
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning to go and meditate. But that
Speaker 1: was my blueprint, and I would see my mom's symptoms subside.
Speaker 1: I would see the energy of my parents shift here.
Speaker 1: I would even feel better going to this place, right,
Speaker 1: And so in that moment on the surgery table, I
Speaker 1: knew that I had to go back to my roots,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what I did. So I called it
Speaker 1: quits on the corporate world. Craig, my amazing husband, was
Speaker 1: so supportive. I went and I lived at the ashram
Speaker 1: for two months, and that's when I became a yoga teacher,
Speaker 1: just for my own personal healing, and rathery at the Ashram,
Speaker 1: returning to all of those ancient healing principles. My heart
Speaker 1: palpitation subsided, the weight fell off my body. I stopped dieting,
Speaker 1: I stopped being hardcore hardcore exercise, hardcore dieting, and my
Speaker 1: body came into balance. And we can talk about this more,
Speaker 1: but the structure at the ashram, literally the schedule is
Speaker 1: set so that you were forced to be present. So
Speaker 1: maybe for the first time in decades, I became present
Speaker 1: to my thoughts, the quality of my thoughts, which God,
Speaker 1: nobody in this world should have ever hurt, my feelings,
Speaker 1: my emotions, the things that I was stuffing into my body,
Speaker 1: and like you know, he stuffings into your body, and
Speaker 1: I'm focus on doing, doing, doing, doing doing, I just
Speaker 1: ignored everything. And so looking back, when I think about
Speaker 1: my poor heart, was like, I can't do this anymore.
Speaker 1: We can't take it. Like You've been ignoring all of
Speaker 1: these symptoms for so long. Here's what's going on, and
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, did I need the heart surgeries?
Speaker 1: Probably not, Like I really think that had. I have
Speaker 1: done just a lot of this introspection work, you know,
Speaker 1: work with different coaches and guides, work on my frequency
Speaker 1: and my vibration words that I use with my clients
Speaker 1: all the time. But back then was completely woo woo.
Speaker 1: I think that now today there's a different approach to
Speaker 1: healing because the structure of my heart was actually healthy.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, so many questions come to mind, but
Speaker 2: thank you so much for sharing that. What beautiful insight
Speaker 2: into why you are the person you are today. At
Speaker 2: the time, what were they naming your condition out of interest?
Speaker 1: Yeah? So I get it was given the label of
Speaker 1: atrial tachycardia.
Speaker 3: Right wow.
Speaker 1: And so when people go to the doctors, I mean,
Speaker 1: what feels so good is to finally get a diagnosis. Right,
Speaker 1: we all want a diagnosis. Great, we've got a diagnosis.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to treat the diagnoses. But without getting
Speaker 1: to the root. And as you and I were talking about,
Speaker 1: we live in this symptom approach based healing methodology without
Speaker 1: considering the body as its whole. So if we know
Speaker 1: that the heart communicates to the rest of the body.
Speaker 1: The rest of the body communicates to the heart. Why
Speaker 1: wasn't there ever any other introspection to this?
Speaker 2: Right, so interesting how we always try and treat a
Speaker 2: physical problem with the physical solution. But the thing is
Speaker 2: so like we've now learned and we still talk about it,
Speaker 2: but I don't think it's put into action where oh, actually,
Speaker 2: what your mind is feeling, your body feels the emotions
Speaker 2: that are being suppressed, Your body is showing you what
Speaker 2: they are. So the physical is just the depiction of
Speaker 2: what's happening everywhere else, in your subconscious, in your mind,
Speaker 2: in your heart. But when it's a heart problem, you
Speaker 2: end up trying to fix the heart as a physical
Speaker 2: body part rather than thinking about, wait, but what is
Speaker 2: the heart feeling? And we forget that the heart as
Speaker 2: a muscle feels something. It's more like it's a muscle
Speaker 2: and we have to try and fix it physically. But
Speaker 2: it's so interesting that they try to fix it physically,
Speaker 2: and it was actually something mentally and emotional that you
Speaker 2: actually did that helped heal it.
Speaker 1: And what was so much worse for you know, I
Speaker 1: started to identify as somebody who is sick. I'll never forget.
Speaker 1: My brother asked me to do this triathlon with him.
Speaker 1: My brother's ten years older. He's the athlete, he's the
Speaker 1: end all of those things. And he asked me to
Speaker 1: do it one year and I was like, well, no,
Speaker 1: I can't. I've got a her condition. And thank God
Speaker 1: for him. He's just looked at me one day and
Speaker 1: this is close, like twenty eight, twenty nine, and he said,
Speaker 1: how's that working for you? And I was just like,
Speaker 1: my life stop. Because although the disease had passed, the
Speaker 1: weight had come off. I started my healing journey. There's
Speaker 1: obviously some part of my belief system that still identified
Speaker 1: as somebody who had a heart condition. So because of
Speaker 1: that I went. I found a cardiologist who was in
Speaker 1: tune with healing. I found a reiki practitioner. I made
Speaker 1: it kind of like my non negotiable to go back
Speaker 1: to the Ashram consistently as my source of healing, because
Speaker 1: it meant that I was moving myself to the number
Speaker 1: one position of my priority list to heal, so that
Speaker 1: I would never go back to that old version of
Speaker 1: myself that identified with sickness and illness.
Speaker 2: And what was the routine that you had at the aushtrum. So,
Speaker 2: for example, if people are trying to implement, you know,
Speaker 2: I'm sure many people listening to this are like, oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, I've I get help palpitations. Well, I feel
Speaker 2: like I'm sad in my life right now. You know,
Speaker 2: if they don't have access to the ostrum. What is
Speaker 2: a simple routine that you were doing there that you
Speaker 2: recommend people implement into their life now to create mimic
Speaker 2: that same effects.
Speaker 1: I love this question, So I really I have this
Speaker 1: protocol with my clients, and it's really about building your
Speaker 1: ashram at home. I would love for every single listener
Speaker 1: to be able to go and experience an ashram. I
Speaker 1: know that you have many many times and the magic
Speaker 1: that comes with that, but it also means that if
Speaker 1: I'm looking to go somewhere to feel a certain way,
Speaker 1: that I'm putting that power outside of myself, when true
Speaker 1: healing and consciousness is within. So I need to learn
Speaker 1: how to replicate that at home wherever I am. So
Speaker 1: maybe let's first describe the rituals at the ashram and
Speaker 1: then we'll describe the second half. So, like I said before,
Speaker 1: the structure the schedule at the ashram is pretty strict, honestly,
Speaker 1: so strict and repetitive and consistent to the point where
Speaker 1: it kind of feels like torture where they're like, oh
Speaker 1: my god, this again yoga, you know. So first of all,
Speaker 1: we wake up early in the morning, We rise with
Speaker 1: the sun every single day. We hydrate with warm, nourishing
Speaker 1: liquids to support our digestion and talx and elimination. From there,
Speaker 1: we move into about thirty minutes of meditation and about
Speaker 1: an hour of set saying so set syng sitting in
Speaker 1: community gathering, chanting together, which activates your vagus nerve, which
Speaker 1: is like the spiritual calling and attunement of your own frequency,
Speaker 1: followed by some sort of a lecture from whether it's
Speaker 1: a swami at the ashtram or a spiritual teacher that's there.
Speaker 1: It's the education around like, hey, there's this wisdom and
Speaker 1: intelligence within your body, let's learn how to awaken it.
Speaker 1: So we're already anchoring that belief. From there, we moved
Speaker 1: to our yoga practice. And yoga practice isn't like this
Speaker 1: crazy hardcore, you know, hot yoga. It's thirty minutes of
Speaker 1: breath work, breath work again, attuning to our vegus nerve.
Speaker 1: We can talk about that in a bit, turning into
Speaker 1: heart rate variability, calming down to the heart rate, coming
Speaker 1: into the present moment, balancing the left and right meridians
Speaker 1: of the body in or energetic centers right before we
Speaker 1: move into the asiner practice. The asiner practice is the
Speaker 1: actual yoga poses that most people in the West are
Speaker 1: familiar with. But the really cool thing about this lineage
Speaker 1: of yoga that I grew up with at the Shavvenandashram
Speaker 1: was after every single pose that you hold, you're holding it,
Speaker 1: you move into shavasna. So hold the pose, move into shavasna.
Speaker 1: Hole the pose, move into the shavasna, and it's training
Speaker 1: your mind and your body to move through these periods
Speaker 1: of stress where it's like, Okay, I want to get
Speaker 1: out of this the mental resistance that comes with us.
Speaker 1: So we all experience off the mat and then we
Speaker 1: go into relaxation. So we're ultimately retraining our nervous system
Speaker 1: on how to build that resilience of moving into fight
Speaker 1: or flight right or something stressful, then back into relaxation.
Speaker 1: It's retraining and we take that back into the world.
Speaker 1: From there, we go into beautiful sethfig high vibrational brunch,
Speaker 1: which is like so colorful. I said, I started eating
Speaker 1: more carbs than ever before, and that's carbs from the earth,
Speaker 1: like really trusting in nature to heal the body, reds, purples, blues, greens,
Speaker 1: like all of these beautiful colors, more fiber than I
Speaker 1: was definitely eating. Back home, and the afternoon's open for
Speaker 1: either devotional practices, some karma yoca, maybe some study, and
Speaker 1: then we repeat that whole thing at noight we go
Speaker 1: back into our breath, work, back into our yoga at
Speaker 1: four o'clock. Six o'clock is an early dinner. Seven thirty
Speaker 1: is back into set saying, and then lights out by
Speaker 1: about nine thirty or ten every single night. So imagine
Speaker 1: doing that for two months straight. Yes, talk about retraining
Speaker 1: for this, like really stressed out, high intensity, plugged in
Speaker 1: nervous system, you know, behavior that I had into now
Speaker 1: feeling a sense of rest and digest I put the
Speaker 1: wisdom back into my body to heal, so it could
Speaker 1: really just start to activate instead of worrying about stress
Speaker 1: and worrying and anxiety and fear. It can now operate
Speaker 1: and do the things that it needed to do every
Speaker 1: single day. To heal.
Speaker 2: You know, I remember when I when we go back
Speaker 2: to the actual room every year that we go to
Speaker 2: to do our practices. My first few days, my body
Speaker 2: is like what are you doing? Like high alert, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, so, what's next?
Speaker 3: Where do we go?
Speaker 2: What's happening? Why were you sitting around? Why are we
Speaker 2: not doing this? And it really takes i'd say good
Speaker 2: few days, if not a week, oh yeah, to settle
Speaker 2: in to the space of space, like to set it
Speaker 2: into the idea that we have time, set into the
Speaker 2: idea that we don't have to go from thing to
Speaker 2: thing to thing, and that the busyness is sometimes a
Speaker 2: way to hide or step away from what you actually
Speaker 2: have to come to terms with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's an article written about that too, like what's
Speaker 1: the new emotion that we all have? How are you busy? Right?
Speaker 1: How are you busy?
Speaker 3: It's so true? Are you trying to get out of
Speaker 3: saying that?
Speaker 1: I know it's so true?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: And we're giving each other permission to just be busy. Well,
Speaker 1: busy to me, my shoulders are up at my ears,
Speaker 1: everything's contracted, my digestion shut down, everything's kind of sore.
Speaker 1: I'm not sleeping well. I'm not, you know, I'm eating
Speaker 1: all the time, so it's really addressing that. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: a good question for your audience is what are the
Speaker 1: practices that you have every single day that are training
Speaker 1: your nervous system to be in this hypervigilant, busy state
Speaker 1: and the retraining with your question about what can we do,
Speaker 1: like what practice is from the Ashram? Can we rebuild?
Speaker 1: You can obviously do every single one of those things
Speaker 1: that I had mentioned from the Ashram back home, but
Speaker 1: if you want to start with one or two, your
Speaker 1: morning is magic. It has to be able to set
Speaker 1: the tone for the day that you want ahead. So
Speaker 1: one of my favorite meditation teachers, he came up with
Speaker 1: this analogy RPM rise P meditate. Every day I say
Speaker 1: add on a G RPMG rise P meditate, and then gratitude.
Speaker 1: So every morning, before I even get out of bed,
Speaker 1: my hands are over my heart. I'm literally like, thank
Speaker 1: you for waking up today. Thank you to this heartbeat
Speaker 1: who's been beating for me since before I even arrived
Speaker 1: on this planet. Thank you for detoxing overnight, for replenishing
Speaker 1: and restoring my body. Thank you for the ability to
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning with a sense of common peace.
Speaker 1: Help me carry this with me throughout the day. And
Speaker 1: it's like we now know, through incredible practitioners and doctors
Speaker 1: and science that is now validating that the power of
Speaker 1: gratitude can change the frequency of your heart. Right, So
Speaker 1: you mentioned before the power of your heart having this
Speaker 1: electromagnetic frequency. We now know that through gratitude practices, you
Speaker 1: can expand your own electromagnetic frequency beyond the radius of
Speaker 1: your own body. So if you start off in gratitude
Speaker 1: or throughout the day practice gratitude, you're radiating that energy
Speaker 1: to people around you. You're going to be impacting their field,
Speaker 1: impacting the way that they feel. You're going to notice
Speaker 1: that people are going to want to come talk to
Speaker 1: you and maybe smile at you or say good morning.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's pretty incredible the power of our energy
Speaker 1: when we tune into it. It so is.
Speaker 2: And you know, the busy thing that we were talking about,
Speaker 2: it's almost like now it's not it is an emotion,
Speaker 2: but it's also almost like an award that we think
Speaker 2: we're giving ourselves that like, oh, yeah, I'm just so busy, right,
Speaker 2: And I think like, if I reflect on it, I
Speaker 2: definitely had that mindset of it, because I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: it proves that I'm doing something, and it proves that
Speaker 2: I like doing such important things because I'm busy all
Speaker 2: the time. But actually, in the moments that I have
Speaker 2: felt that way and I have actually been very busy,
Speaker 2: it has depleted my mental energy, my physical energy, my
Speaker 2: emotional energy, my ability to interact with people in a
Speaker 2: way that's present, to be able to interact with the
Speaker 2: people that I love with presents and with mindfulness.
Speaker 3: And with love.
Speaker 2: And it almost like it depletes you of all the
Speaker 2: things that you actually want to be. It depletes you
Speaker 2: of all the emotions that you want to have. It
Speaker 2: depletes you of like the ability to actually have meaningful
Speaker 2: interactions with the people you want to have meaningful interactions with.
Speaker 2: So it strips actually, it actually takes things away from
Speaker 2: you more than it gives to you.
Speaker 1: Right, And I think, like the intention behind the busy aspect,
Speaker 1: let's focus on the positive with it, right, So we
Speaker 1: treat cortisol as like we demonize it. Cortisol. Oh, stress,
Speaker 1: you're gonna gain way, You're gonna hold onto fad, You're
Speaker 1: gonna do all these things too much. Cortisol. Cortisol is
Speaker 1: actually a beautiful thing. It's our motivation in the morning,
Speaker 1: it's our get up and go, it's our drive. But
Speaker 1: living in the state of constantly feeling like we're wearing
Speaker 1: busy with a badge of honor. Yeah, right, and like
Speaker 1: no one else is noticing. It's just you that's putting
Speaker 1: self impose limitation and belief upon yourself. Over time, without
Speaker 1: practice coming into kind of that RESTful state, we've become
Speaker 1: addicted to living there. That's what that was my mo
Speaker 1: The busier than I could be if I was sitting down,
Speaker 1: resting or watching a movie, I need to be doing something.
Speaker 1: I can't just tell I have to be doing something.
Speaker 1: If I was in a car, it's like I had
Speaker 1: to be listening to something educational. I couldn't waste time
Speaker 1: in the car. Right, it's constantly busy in doing and
Speaker 1: if you get stuck in that kind of hypervigilant state too.
Speaker 1: To your point, it's that analogy of like you know
Speaker 1: animals running in the wild from a predator, right, they're
Speaker 1: running constantly there. You know, their processes and their bodies
Speaker 1: shut down, digestion stops, and yet we operate at that
Speaker 1: pace for as long as we can. Then we go
Speaker 1: out and we try to biohack our way to try
Speaker 1: to feel better, do things that are really really hard, right,
Speaker 1: to kind of shift us back and because we think
Speaker 1: that it's good and it's strong. But I would say
Speaker 1: the most challenging practices for any of the people that
Speaker 1: I work with is really just like stop exactly breathe
Speaker 1: and learn how to be in their bodies. Like if
Speaker 1: a lot of my men, specifically that I work with,
Speaker 1: if I guide them to an embodiment practice to come
Speaker 1: into their bodies within fifteen seconds, their eyes are closed,
Speaker 1: but they can't keep them closed. They need to open
Speaker 1: them to see. Yeah, so much discomfront. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be and there need to be doing something keep
Speaker 1: my eyes open? Right, and women too, right. We live
Speaker 1: in a world where we need to be busy all
Speaker 1: the time. We try to wear these accolades of being
Speaker 1: moms and entrepreneurs and doing it all, and we think
Speaker 1: that we need to show up to everybody else by
Speaker 1: doing it all. We think it's a weakness to stop
Speaker 1: because it makes us vulnerable, yes, right, it makes us
Speaker 1: be it as though we're going to be perceived as
Speaker 1: not successful.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so much I always think about this.
Speaker 2: I know I'm in that state when certain workouts that
Speaker 2: are really intense feel more attractive than the ones that
Speaker 2: are calm. And I have to like sit into the
Speaker 2: pose and you have to like go through each thing slowly.
Speaker 2: And I always, for a long time, I've chosen the
Speaker 2: hard the ones that I perceive as being harder. But actually,
Speaker 2: if I think about it, sitting in the arseness or
Speaker 2: like the slow movements of yoga, the reason I avoid
Speaker 2: it is because I don't want to go through the
Speaker 2: slow pace. I'm so used to the fast pace. This weekend,
Speaker 2: actually I took a nap a day, nap for like
Speaker 2: a couple of hours. And I since me and Jay
Speaker 2: have been married, I've probably napped in the day maybe twice.
Speaker 2: He's seen me do that because I just don't. I'm
Speaker 2: never and when that was when I was unwell and
Speaker 2: had COVID, those are probably the only two times. And
Speaker 2: it was so interesting because I was reflecting back on
Speaker 2: it and I woke up from the nap and I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my God, like what just happened? As
Speaker 2: I said to Jane, and I was like, when was
Speaker 2: the last time you saw me nap? And he was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think I've really seen you nap. And I
Speaker 2: think for the whole day, I was kind of going
Speaker 2: on about it, saying, I can't believe I napped, Like
Speaker 2: I don't even know what happened to me, Like why
Speaker 2: I told my mom about it, I told my dad
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 3: I was like really in shock that I actually needed
Speaker 3: to nap. And Jay was like, God, I feel like
Speaker 3: this nap really affected you.
Speaker 2: And I was like, and I think it was the
Speaker 2: idea that one why am I tired? One why am
Speaker 2: I acting on it? And two why am I acting
Speaker 2: on it? Why did my body need that much rest?
Speaker 2: I never need that much rest, So it was almost
Speaker 2: like my body was telling me you should have been
Speaker 2: doing something else, or my mind was telling me, but
Speaker 2: my body was so exhausted and I really needed that nap.
Speaker 2: And it's so funny how the rest feels more uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I could have organized this,
Speaker 2: and I could have done this, and I probably should
Speaker 2: have read this book for work, but it reminded me
Speaker 2: of that because I felt so uncomfortable and I had
Speaker 2: to explain why I took that nap to so many people.
Speaker 1: You had to justify it app to other people, right,
Speaker 1: And let's have around that for a second, because you know,
Speaker 1: I can hear a lot of your listeners probably empathizing.
Speaker 1: You know, we have to rationalize it afterwards, right, instead
Speaker 1: of just owning it. But here's what like again, science
Speaker 1: is proving at the astrom they rest in between those
Speaker 1: yoga poses. They rest because they know that your productivity
Speaker 1: can actually go up. Your motivation goes up, your creativity
Speaker 1: goes up, the way that your body functions goes up.
Speaker 1: Your digestion is able to turn, you know, go up.
Speaker 1: So you know, when we think about the things that
Speaker 1: your body is communicating every single day, I think, as women,
Speaker 1: especially because we do have that intuition, we've almost mastered
Speaker 1: ignoring the symptoms. Yes, right, So one of the practices
Speaker 1: that I have whenever I'm speaking to larger audiences is,
Speaker 1: you know, how many people here, by rays showing their hands,
Speaker 1: how many people here suffer from digestive issues, heartburn, gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea,
Speaker 1: actne on their skin, ezema, low sex drive, lack of concentration,
Speaker 1: inability to sleep, inability to rest, hypervigilants, worry. You know,
Speaker 1: every single hand.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, by the INDs already have.
Speaker 1: So these are symptoms. These are modern day symptoms that
Speaker 1: we're all suffering from, and we're identifying with them. They
Speaker 1: become us over time, especially if we're not doing anything
Speaker 1: to change them, and then we're normalizing them in society
Speaker 1: and the work that you and I do with our clients.
Speaker 1: It's like recognizing those symptoms are so common, but they're
Speaker 1: certainly not normal. And so if you can just honor hey, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm getting this, you know, irritability every single day, getting
Speaker 1: these digestive issues every single day, instead of ignoring them,
Speaker 1: tuning in understanding where they come from, talking with a practitioner,
Speaker 1: and then working with your body, which is unlike any
Speaker 1: other body on this planet with a different background and
Speaker 1: genetic code and obligations and expectations and everything, working on
Speaker 1: a protocol that's so unique for you to subside those symptoms,
Speaker 1: because if we do have a symptom, it's simply our
Speaker 1: body's way of communicating with us so that we can
Speaker 1: resolve it. And instead we see the accumulation over time
Speaker 1: that leads to further imbalances for the diseases that eventually
Speaker 1: lead to disease disease just doesn't show up overnight. Cancer
Speaker 1: just doesn't show up overnight. It's the result of this
Speaker 1: stress on the body. And when our body no longer
Speaker 1: has the means or resilience to deal with the stress within,
Speaker 1: the red alert is going to go on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like we've normalized it because the only
Speaker 2: time anything spoken about is when it's.
Speaker 3: It's chronic state.
Speaker 2: So you don't hear doctors going on about if you've
Speaker 2: got a bit of bloating, should be get if you
Speaker 2: have eczema, you know, just put this cream on it.
Speaker 3: It's so interesting.
Speaker 2: I keep seeing these ads whenever I'm watching something, when
Speaker 2: an advert comes on, it's all a lot of them
Speaker 2: are health things, like a cream for XMA or this,
Speaker 2: And it's so interesting to me that they will say
Speaker 2: this can help take your XMA away with them two days,
Speaker 2: and then at the end it's like, can cause cancer,
Speaker 2: can cause multi disorders, can cause all these things. And
Speaker 2: I think about how we've normalized the fact that you
Speaker 2: can take away these daily symptoms by putting a band
Speaker 2: aid on it, and like you're not really taking them away,
Speaker 2: you're just allowing You're not allowing your body to show
Speaker 2: it and I think there's a difference. You're not taking
Speaker 2: it away. Your body just isn't showing the symptom because
Speaker 2: you're suppressing that, and so it still exists in you.
Speaker 2: But all of these little things, they're trying to take
Speaker 2: them away so easily by pretending like they don't exist,
Speaker 2: but they're still developing in our body. And so I
Speaker 2: think it's normalized because the only time you then hear
Speaker 2: about a health issue is when it's it's chronics, when
Speaker 2: it's a cancer or heart disease or diabetes, and so
Speaker 2: we get used to thinking, oh, well, the doctors don't
Speaker 2: saying this is a big deal. So if I have
Speaker 2: bad digestion for three years, four years, five years, my
Speaker 2: whole life, it's a normal thing.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Yeah. And that goes from like all
Speaker 1: these imbalances that you're talking about that are seemingly quite simple,
Speaker 1: to even bigger things like miscarriages. Doctors are like, I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry, it's it's normal. Ya. It's like, well, no,
Speaker 1: it's not normal for me, right, And so I think
Speaker 1: that you know, the wisdom, it's time for the wisdom
Speaker 1: to come back into our bodies. And I think that
Speaker 1: deep down a lot of women understand this concept of
Speaker 1: consciousness within us or intelligence, like we see it all
Speaker 1: the time. If we break our bone, our body knows
Speaker 1: what to do to heal it, repairs it. If we
Speaker 1: have a wound or a cut, our body heals it.
Speaker 1: But we were never taught that we could become our
Speaker 1: own healers. And so I still think, like right now,
Speaker 1: it's still a little bit of a foreign concept. But
Speaker 1: as this world of like quantum healing is now waking
Speaker 1: up or understanding. Okay, you know what kind of done
Speaker 1: with the system of diagnoses and diagnosing. Ye, if we
Speaker 1: understand that we have a physical body, but there's also
Speaker 1: an energetic body that stands behind it. And now we
Speaker 1: understand through science that every single cell has its own frequency. Okay,
Speaker 1: And if you think about an orchestra, if there's one
Speaker 1: instrument in the orchestra, call it a violin that's off tune.
Speaker 1: Now that's a cell in your body. The whole orchestra
Speaker 1: is going to go off. But we have to understand
Speaker 1: what's the source of the imbalance and the frequency. And
Speaker 1: this is where I think, you know, not only ancient
Speaker 1: healing modalities, things like aire beta and traditional Chinese medicine
Speaker 1: and so many other ancient cultures, but also sound healing
Speaker 1: and frequency healing and PEMF and vibrational tables and acupuncture
Speaker 1: and all these modalities that I think need to be
Speaker 1: needs to go viral, and it needs to go mainstream, right.
Speaker 1: I'm amazed at how many people still haven't experienced something
Speaker 1: like acupuncture when it balances the meridians in your body,
Speaker 1: like I've seen so many people yield through acupuncture and
Speaker 1: through sound healing.
Speaker 2: It's just it's incredible, it is, And I think we
Speaker 2: get skeed of, you know, whenever I talk about anything
Speaker 2: to do with natural means of healing. And I find
Speaker 2: it really interesting because people's a lot of people's automatic
Speaker 2: reaction is stop telling people misinformation, and you know, doctors,
Speaker 2: like you can't tell people people that doctors aren't wrong.
Speaker 3: I'm not saying doctors are wrong, but.
Speaker 2: I think people are so scared to believe that they
Speaker 2: can heal themselves because it feels like such a heavy responsibility.
Speaker 2: It's like, wait, how are you telling me that I
Speaker 2: can heal myself and I don't need to go to
Speaker 2: a doctor. And I'm not saying you don't need to,
Speaker 2: but what I am saying is I truly believe that
Speaker 2: how the person that knows how to heal your self
Speaker 2: best is because you are living in your body day
Speaker 2: and day out. You are observing your if you choose to,
Speaker 2: you can observe your body every single day, in every
Speaker 2: single moment, so you have the ability to get to
Speaker 2: know your body in the best way possible, more than
Speaker 2: any diagnostic tool possibly can. And the more that you
Speaker 2: connect to your body and your heart and your mind,
Speaker 2: the more your body starts speaking to you. And so
Speaker 2: it's not saying that you're worried about something you don't
Speaker 2: speak to a professional about it. But in the day
Speaker 2: to day life where little things are going wrong, you
Speaker 2: should be able to self correct by having the education
Speaker 2: to do so. And I know you know it does
Speaker 2: feel heavy like to think that you can heal yourself
Speaker 2: after being told that just for a coffin of cold
Speaker 2: you should go to the doctor and get antibiotics. Of course,
Speaker 2: you're going to be scared to take that responsibility onto
Speaker 2: yourself because you've forever been told that it is not
Speaker 2: in your control and that you do not have the
Speaker 2: power to do it. But again, just because something is
Speaker 2: normalized does not mean it's the right way or the
Speaker 2: right thing to do. And so I think people's fear
Speaker 2: is very justified. But I think as soon as you
Speaker 2: start taking it back into your own hands. Like I
Speaker 2: share this not.
Speaker 3: Very often, actually I don't even know whether I've shared
Speaker 3: on this.
Speaker 2: Podcast, but I have chosen for the past ten years
Speaker 2: not to take medication, like conventional medication. And at first,
Speaker 2: I swear people thought I was psychotic. I was like,
Speaker 2: I had a headache, everyone take just take an advil.
Speaker 2: I was like, I don't want to take an advil.
Speaker 2: I'm like, And now my friend's come over and they're like,
Speaker 2: do you have advain? I'm like, can I give you
Speaker 2: peppermint oil on your head?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for ten minutes.
Speaker 2: If it doesn't work, ask me for the advil and
Speaker 2: I will happily give it. Actually I don't have advalin
Speaker 2: in the house, but I will order it for you.
Speaker 2: But try this, or if you have a cough, let
Speaker 2: me make you some udgewayhing water and if it stops
Speaker 2: the irritation, great.
Speaker 3: If it doesn't, I will order you some cough serrup.
Speaker 3: And what I've.
Speaker 2: Realized is, in those ten years, touch with it. Even
Speaker 2: when I had a tooth infection, which I think I
Speaker 2: had messaged you about at some point years ago. I
Speaker 2: got tooth infection and the passor was I take antibiotics,
Speaker 2: and my body was telling me you don't take antibiotics, like,
Speaker 2: don't do it. And I put clove wall and I
Speaker 2: was chip. My mom was like, chew on cloth. It
Speaker 2: will help with the pain, it will help the inflammation.
Speaker 2: And I had those antibiotics that were given to me
Speaker 2: and I didn't touch them. And all that to say,
Speaker 2: there are I'm not saying everything will be healed by that,
Speaker 2: but trusting in my body's ability to actually do what
Speaker 2: it's supposed to do by me fueling it in the
Speaker 2: way I know I should. So I think it's two things.
Speaker 2: It's like, yes, your body can do the work, but
Speaker 2: are you giving it the things to allow it to
Speaker 2: do the work in the best way possible. Are you
Speaker 2: feeding it, nourishing it, listening to the right things, learning
Speaker 2: the right things to know what to do in those situations.
Speaker 3: So it goes in two ways.
Speaker 2: Your body has the ability, but not if you're not
Speaker 2: treating it in the right way to actually fight the
Speaker 2: way that it needs to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't be silly. I know the people that you're
Speaker 1: talking about who say it's irresponsible in all the things,
Speaker 1: but we're also waking up to the fact that Western
Speaker 1: medicine is also a very antiquated form of training. Right
Speaker 1: the fact that we now you know, this past year
Speaker 1: was shining light on the fact that doctors really have
Speaker 1: no nutrition training when nutrition and hydration is a pillar
Speaker 1: of survival keeping a human body alive, it makes no sense.
Speaker 1: And the fact that we just know that there's so
Speaker 1: many things that we can be doing. So I think
Speaker 1: that if you can become your own greatest investigator to
Speaker 1: understand what's causing your symptoms or if you're noticing that
Speaker 1: you do get things like head of headaches pretty consistently,
Speaker 1: something's caught it causing the headache your body communicating like hey,
Speaker 1: figure this out for me, right, and like you don't
Speaker 1: pop TITLENL and advil when I needed. I just really
Speaker 1: understand what I can be doing and all these other
Speaker 1: incredible modalities that we can be doing.
Speaker 2: Also, and even with breath work what you mentioned, like,
Speaker 2: I emphasized this so much because I'm seen not even
Speaker 2: just mentally and emotionally, but physically, what difference it made
Speaker 2: I from a young age was told I was asthmatic.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: So I was on in halo's when I was younger,
Speaker 2: when I would work out, when I was, you know,
Speaker 2: doing any kind of exercise, or I was at school
Speaker 2: and I did pee, and I was like getting a
Speaker 2: bit out of breath. In my mind, I was told,
Speaker 2: take you in haler before you even do that. Take
Speaker 2: you in haler before you even go into an exercise,
Speaker 2: just in case, so that your lungs can handle it.
Speaker 2: And so I grew up taking an inhaler before I
Speaker 2: started running, before I played with my friends. As soon
Speaker 2: as I felt a little bit out of breath, when
Speaker 2: I had allergies for cats or dogs or whatever it was,
Speaker 2: it was like minehala was the way to go. I
Speaker 2: made a decision that I did not want to use
Speaker 2: minehala when I got into I think my teens, and
Speaker 2: then when I got to my twenties, I decide and
Speaker 2: I was use it here and there. As soon as
Speaker 2: I felt my chest go tight, it was scary for me.
Speaker 2: So I'd be like, okay, I need to take my inhaler.
Speaker 2: I made a decision not too. And that was after
Speaker 2: learning breathwork and what I realized was, I would say
Speaker 2: every single time I felt it, all I did was
Speaker 2: take deep breaths, And all I did was sit there
Speaker 2: with my breath and go deeper and deeper into it.
Speaker 2: Whether it was at night when I was feeling wheezy,
Speaker 2: whether I'd just been around a cat and I was
Speaker 2: having an allergy for it.
Speaker 3: You know, there was so.
Speaker 2: Many times where I've been through it where I was
Speaker 2: about to take reach for something and I didn't, and
Speaker 2: breathwork was the thing that got me through it. Even
Speaker 2: the most recent time, I haven't had an allergy for
Speaker 2: such a long time. But I went to a house
Speaker 2: and I had a shoot where they had obviously had
Speaker 2: a cat in the house, and I was literally in
Speaker 2: this photo shoot and my team was seeing me getting
Speaker 2: more and more breathless through it, and I actually got
Speaker 2: a wheeze, which I hadn't had for a long time.
Speaker 3: My face was tingling from it. Everything.
Speaker 2: I got home and I was like, I have to
Speaker 2: have a shower. I need to put eucalyptus oil in
Speaker 2: the shower, and then I need to get out and
Speaker 2: for half an hour I need to.
Speaker 3: Deep breathe, let the oxypen back in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, an hour, maybe too later, I felt like nothing
Speaker 2: had happened to me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was just so interesting for me to observe.
Speaker 2: And again I'm not saying this is going to heal everyone,
Speaker 2: but I am saying it was so interesting for me
Speaker 2: after not having experienced it for a long time, actually
Speaker 2: putting it into practice and being like wow, I would
Speaker 2: have normally, yeah, taken something for this, done something for this,
Speaker 2: but my body knew what I needed, and because I
Speaker 2: listened to it, I didn't go straight into trying to
Speaker 2: work or do anything else. I took two hours where
Speaker 2: I was trying to listen to what's happening, and I
Speaker 2: took action in that way. And breath is just so
Speaker 2: powerful it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So what did you do? You took your body from
Speaker 1: a stressful state, yes, where your mind wanted to take
Speaker 1: over and say, oh my god, it's happening again, start
Speaker 1: to freak out more anxiety and instead of going to
Speaker 1: pop the pill or whatever your trained response is for
Speaker 1: when that anxiety comes up, which is a rightly deserved
Speaker 1: anxiety response. Like, I'm not dismissing that, but there's so
Speaker 1: few people because of your background and where you came
Speaker 1: from knew. Oh, hang on a second, my body's stressed.
Speaker 1: I need to come back into balance again. What are
Speaker 1: their modalities that got and help me? And it's retraining
Speaker 1: And I think that people need to understand, like you
Speaker 1: can train your body, you can retrain your nervous system whatever,
Speaker 1: this state of comfort that you're used to being in.
Speaker 1: I know for me growing up, I was on antibiotics
Speaker 1: every single year from the age of three until about
Speaker 1: fifteen when my mom found a functional medicine.
Speaker 3: Doctor and we'll be you on antibiotics, fool.
Speaker 1: I tonsilitus every year, tonsilitis every single year. It was wild.
Speaker 1: And back then it was just like, oh antibiotics, Sure,
Speaker 1: two weeks later again, Sure, give it to it again,
Speaker 1: over and over. Right, Now we know the gut microbiomes
Speaker 1: completely wiped out, and the vagus nerve moves from our
Speaker 1: gut through our heart and up to our brain. Right,
Speaker 1: this constant state of stress that's moving back and forth
Speaker 1: through my heart right, and the bacteria that are also
Speaker 1: involved in our immune system and stuff like that. And
Speaker 1: after stopping that those antibiotics, I've never looked back like
Speaker 1: I really haven't. So again, I think it's just about
Speaker 1: asking questions and being curious. Just be curious if there's
Speaker 1: another way that you can heal your body.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just don't change the plan. Just have a
Speaker 2: plan A. Yeah, that's a little bit different. And if
Speaker 2: Plan A doesn't work within an hour, within two hours,
Speaker 2: go back to the plan B can. I think it's
Speaker 2: just giving yourself that grace of space to think and
Speaker 2: create a new pathway. And if that new pathway doesn't work,
Speaker 2: go back to the old pathway.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And I love that you brought up breath work too,
Speaker 1: So breathwork I think is also like the future of medicine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really do so. If you can imagine going to
Speaker 1: your doctor's office, sitting in the waiting room and being
Speaker 1: prompted through a screen on how to breathe deeply, I
Speaker 1: wonder how many people would go into the appointment like, oh,
Speaker 1: you know what, I don't know if I need to
Speaker 1: be here anymore, or if it was something that was
Speaker 1: more acute, or if it was related to an illness
Speaker 1: then leaving the doctor's office. But the first thing that
Speaker 1: they recommended was breathwork every single day, right, or even meditation, right. Like,
Speaker 1: I think that there's so many people out there who
Speaker 1: say that they can't meditate. Yes, And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: if I told you that there was this one thing
Speaker 1: that science is now proving that can lower your anxiety,
Speaker 1: improve your happiness, give you great your creativity and mental focus,
Speaker 1: optimize your digestion, literally lower inflammation in your joints, help
Speaker 1: you sleep better, help you have better relationships, all proven, Right,
Speaker 1: would you do it? Yeah, we would do it, right,
Speaker 1: But when we lived in a pill, but it was
Speaker 1: a pill, that's easier, right, So I don't have a
Speaker 1: five or ten minutes in the morning.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you spoke about energy, you know, we would talk
Speaker 2: about energy and frequencies, and I think sometimes, you know,
Speaker 2: back in the day you said it was woo woo.
Speaker 2: I still think people have that narrative of it, that.
Speaker 3: It is a little bit woo woo.
Speaker 2: I would love to hear one when you're speaking about energy,
Speaker 2: When people are talking about energy, what does it mean,
Speaker 2: what does it look like, how can people experience it?
Speaker 3: And frequencies?
Speaker 2: Discuss that a little bit so people can understand where
Speaker 2: in their day they're experiencing frequencies and how it affects them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you think about your current state of energy,
Speaker 1: I want you to consider when you wake up in
Speaker 1: the morning, what's the most important feeling that you want,
Speaker 1: what's the most important emotion that you want? And I
Speaker 1: bring this up with my clients on our first call.
Speaker 1: You know, the first call is always want to tell
Speaker 1: me what to eat, what's the supplier protocol, what's the diet?
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, I've been brace a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't want to know what to do. I want
Speaker 1: to know what to do also, right, But when we
Speaker 1: peel back the layers, when I'm understanding my clients, so
Speaker 1: that other branch that I'm working with my clients on
Speaker 1: is understanding what is your core value system? What do
Speaker 1: you believe to be true about healing and health? How
Speaker 1: are you describing yourself every day? I've said a few
Speaker 1: times on this podcast, my blueprint was anxiety. How would
Speaker 1: my body function if my blueprint was anxiety? How do
Speaker 1: you identify? And typically within the first sixty minutes on
Speaker 1: this initial call, I met with tears by like ninety
Speaker 1: percent of the callers because they identify with a memory
Speaker 1: that they had. You know, last time, I felt like
Speaker 1: really happy and like peaceful in my body, with like
Speaker 1: no worries in the world. I was like five or
Speaker 1: six years old, Like, I remember a version of myself
Speaker 1: that felt peace, but I don't feel it anymore.
Speaker 3: I think I cried in my first cool you did, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I remember now that you mentioned. I was like, I
Speaker 3: think I'm one of those clients.
Speaker 1: But it's so normal way because we peel back the
Speaker 1: layers of what do I think I need to be doing.
Speaker 1: What's the next thing that I can try, what's the
Speaker 1: next protocol I'm going to try something new? What's the
Speaker 1: next magic pill? There's no magic pill. Let's peel back
Speaker 1: the layers to figure out, like, when's the last time
Speaker 1: that you actually felt good in your body? What are
Speaker 1: the emotions that we can waken from that point? Right?
Speaker 1: Have you ever read any of David Hawkins? No? But
Speaker 1: I washed his stuff. It's like incredible, Right. So he
Speaker 1: has actually a chart of vibrations that people can look
Speaker 1: at where we can actually measure the vibrational frequency of
Speaker 1: specific emotions. When somebody's feeling anxiety or shame or stress
Speaker 1: or worry or tension or fear within their body, like
Speaker 1: that energy comes in, it's a lower vibrational frequency. When
Speaker 1: someone can shift into feeling a sense of happiness or
Speaker 1: peace or even joy, all of a sudden that expansion
Speaker 1: opens up. We can measure this, and we now know
Speaker 1: through doctors like doctor jo Despenza, right, whether you can
Speaker 1: visualize the feeling and make it feel really real in
Speaker 1: the moment, your mind and your body doesn't know the
Speaker 1: difference between it happening in the past versus happening right now.
Speaker 1: This is true gratitude, right. So with my clients, I
Speaker 1: help them really uncover, like what is your core value?
Speaker 1: The sad part about all this is that I would
Speaker 1: say a lot of people, how do you want to
Speaker 1: feel when you wake up in the morning. I want
Speaker 1: to feel successful. I want to feel motivated. I want
Speaker 1: to feel wealthy, I want to feel admired, I want
Speaker 1: to feel like you know, people want to connect with
Speaker 1: me like, yeah, none of those are really emotions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the core emotion that you want to feel. And it
Speaker 1: could take like honestly up to thirty minutes for some
Speaker 1: people to really even come to the word happy.
Speaker 3: I know I was going to feel how do I
Speaker 3: want to feel? And I was like content and satisfied?
Speaker 1: Did you come into this world to just feel content
Speaker 1: and satisfied? What's bigger than content and satisfied? For you?
Speaker 3: What's bigger than content and satisfied?
Speaker 1: If you were to wake up tomorrow morning and you
Speaker 1: wake up feeling content and satisfied, is there anything bigger
Speaker 1: than feeling content and satisfied?
Speaker 3: I can think of lots of words, so I could
Speaker 3: just shout them out, ye, shut them out? Devoted, useful,
Speaker 3: not this?
Speaker 1: How do you feel when you're useful to others and
Speaker 1: devoted and content and satisfied?
Speaker 3: Present whole?
Speaker 1: How do you feel when you're present and whole? You
Speaker 1: can see how this exercise is kind of so good.
Speaker 3: It's actually good going through it. How do I feel
Speaker 3: when I'm present in whole?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? And if listeners are doing this, do you close
Speaker 1: your eyes just come into your body? How do you
Speaker 1: feel in the morning when you wake up and you
Speaker 1: feel content and whole and on purpose and pleasant and whole?
Speaker 1: How do you feel what's that emotion within your body?
Speaker 3: Joy?
Speaker 1: There? It is?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always joy.
Speaker 1: I feel joy? Right, and we think about all these things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to be on purpose, I want to contribute,
Speaker 1: I want to be able to support others. I want
Speaker 1: to be in mission based right, But how do all
Speaker 1: those things make me feel. That makes me feel like
Speaker 1: joy for some other people makes them feel a sense
Speaker 1: of peace and calm.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if I could work with you every single day
Speaker 1: when you wake up every single morning and just visualize,
Speaker 1: like that train thought that took you through all of
Speaker 1: those things, the thoughts that came up, the activities that
Speaker 1: you're doing, the people that you're meeting with, like, get
Speaker 1: all that in, Like, how does that make you feel joy?
Speaker 1: Your core value then that day is joy. So if
Speaker 1: you are lining all of your decisions around what you eat,
Speaker 1: is this going to take me close to joy or
Speaker 1: deplete me from joy? I'm going to eat that. Is
Speaker 1: watching this movie going to take me towards joy or
Speaker 1: deplete me from joy? I'm going to watch that? Is
Speaker 1: it doing this activity going to move me towards joy
Speaker 1: or not? Right? And I'm hearing listeners say, yeah, but mohen,
Speaker 1: I go to a job that you know I need
Speaker 1: to make money, it doesn't bring me joy. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's your ownership for your healing blueprint to seek more
Speaker 1: joy in the opportunities when you can.
Speaker 3: Yes, right, my gosh.
Speaker 2: Frequencies and energy people, and I feel like we spoke
Speaker 2: about vegas nev as well. Could you just talk a
Speaker 2: little bit more about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, vegas nervous is like miracle wisdom. I call it
Speaker 1: intelligence of the body that moves from our brain down
Speaker 1: through our body, passes through our heart into our gut microbiome,
Speaker 1: and it's by directionals, so it's communicating to the brain
Speaker 1: commuting back to the gut through the heart. Right, So
Speaker 1: we have more nerve endings also within the gut microbiome
Speaker 1: than we do within the brain, but we don't have
Speaker 1: any connection to what's happening in our gut. It's become
Speaker 1: this trendy word. There's science behind it that we're trying
Speaker 1: to validate. It's still evolving. We can't see your gut, right,
Speaker 1: so we're so does connected. Get to know your gut?
Speaker 1: Get to know your gut through things like your bowel
Speaker 1: movements through you know, if you're somebody who gets nervous
Speaker 1: all the time and your stomach kind of goes off, right,
Speaker 1: just get to know your gut is your digestion optimal
Speaker 1: because if it's not, you're suffering from any of those
Speaker 1: digestive symptoms. It's sending a stressful state, a stressful feeling
Speaker 1: up to the brain. So for somebody who suffers from
Speaker 1: something like stress or anxiety, is it stress or anxiety
Speaker 1: or does it come from a deeper cause? Right, and
Speaker 1: we now know that we can do vague toning exercises,
Speaker 1: and Western practitioners will often recommend a device that's you
Speaker 1: know you can put up. It's like this electrical stimulation
Speaker 1: for your vagus nerve that you hold up. I'm holding
Speaker 1: my pulse points right now. They're great, they can be effective.
Speaker 1: But again, ancient wisdom knew about this. They knew that
Speaker 1: through humming, chanting, we can activate our vegas nerve. Right
Speaker 1: when you're gargling, you activate your vegus nerve. When you're
Speaker 1: speaking with some people, there's a way that you can
Speaker 1: speak to activate the vegas nerve. Through breath work, you
Speaker 1: activate your vegas nerve. Through yoga practice you activate your
Speaker 1: vegas nerve. There's so many modalities that activate your vegus
Speaker 1: nerve that we need to focus on because you're building
Speaker 1: resilience back into the body. Interesting, So going back to
Speaker 1: the resiliency training, you're retraining your vagal tone by shifting
Speaker 1: your body. Knowing how to shift your body from fight
Speaker 1: or flight into your parasympathetic, which is your rest and
Speaker 1: digest So when you're in your rest and digest mode,
Speaker 1: this is your This is when you're priming your vagel
Speaker 1: tone to be optimal. Your digestion is on point, your
Speaker 1: energy is on point. You eat when you're hungry, you
Speaker 1: stop eating when you're full. Right, you can recognize anxious
Speaker 1: th thoughts, and you can come back into the present moment.
Speaker 1: It really is our body functions at its best. But
Speaker 1: again you have to understand, like when am I living
Speaker 1: out of alignment and too far over here for too long?
Speaker 1: I'll stay there when it feels good. When I need
Speaker 1: to be productive and on overdrive, maybe giving a presentation
Speaker 1: then know how to calm back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you said sound frequencies, it really reminded me
Speaker 2: of I tried so many different meditations as I was
Speaker 2: coming into the practice, and I found chanting and the
Speaker 2: practice of montra meditation was the most encapsulating one like
Speaker 2: the one that attracted me and took over my senses
Speaker 2: more than anything else did. And I was thinking this
Speaker 2: morning when I was doing my practice, I've started this
Speaker 2: hibit every time I get distracted or my waivers anywhere
Speaker 2: with the mantra I put my hand on my chest
Speaker 2: and I feel the vibration and my body of the
Speaker 2: of the mantra that I'm chanting.
Speaker 3: And it completely takes me back into my body.
Speaker 2: Like that feeling of the sound vibration where I feel
Speaker 2: it in my heart and I feel it through my body.
Speaker 2: It completely brings me back into the present moment. And
Speaker 2: so that's why I always found montra meditation to be
Speaker 2: a little bit more useful for me than silent, because one,
Speaker 2: the mantra carries so much energy that has existed in
Speaker 2: the world, as has been said over and over again,
Speaker 2: like words carry so much weight and power. But at
Speaker 2: the same time, the sound vibration that's going through me,
Speaker 2: it's almost like a humming feeling. You're saying the mantra
Speaker 2: over and over again, feeling that sound go through you
Speaker 2: over and over again. I've even heard that the different
Speaker 2: levels that you say it makes the difference. So when
Speaker 2: I'm chancing it, I'll do a higher pitch, which I
Speaker 2: feel up here, and then I'll do a lower pitch,
Speaker 2: which I feel down and like your body, yeah exactly, yeah,
Speaker 2: And so it's so beautiful to play with those sound
Speaker 2: vibrations as you're doing your meditation because it kind of
Speaker 2: takes you up to your mind and then down to
Speaker 2: your feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is something you can do on your own.
Speaker 1: You can do this with your kids. You can do
Speaker 1: this anytime. You can, like gosh, just happy birthday every
Speaker 1: single day, which is powerful. Yes, I'll never forget. After
Speaker 1: I was giving my spiritual name, so you chant the
Speaker 1: same mantra over and over and over and over and
Speaker 1: over and over and over. And I got up to
Speaker 1: stand up and I was walking, and in that moment,
Speaker 1: I was like, I can't feel my feet. I cannot
Speaker 1: feel my feet on the ground. This is so good.
Speaker 1: Don't lose this, don't lose this. It was just like
Speaker 1: this incredible light feeling. And again it was free. There
Speaker 1: is no psychedelics, there is no plan, medicine or anything needed.
Speaker 1: It's just something that we need to shed light on.
Speaker 3: What would you say?
Speaker 2: You know, I've actually not made it through any of
Speaker 2: my questions because this has been such a great conversation.
Speaker 3: But I love it so much. I guess it.
Speaker 2: You know, for anybody hearing this and they're like, I
Speaker 2: want to start this journey, but I don't even know
Speaker 2: where to start. What are some of the tips that
Speaker 2: you give to people to just start off with as
Speaker 2: a baseline, Let's start with food, because I feel like
Speaker 2: foods are places where people formally confuse in lost. Right now,
Speaker 2: what are some of the things that you recommend people
Speaker 2: incorporate into their life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So for listeners, I have an incredible program on
Speaker 1: my website, So go to Monasharma dot com and it's
Speaker 1: the Roots of Healing. So the things that you and
Speaker 1: I've been talking about today kind of just recaps all
Speaker 1: of that. Food is such an important piece because I
Speaker 1: think we need to stop thinking of like just throwing
Speaker 1: things down the hatch and expecting her bodies to deal
Speaker 1: with that fast food. Where do we start with us? So,
Speaker 1: food is information for every single cell in your body.
Speaker 1: So how you fuel your body is everything. And we
Speaker 1: live in a world where we've been taught to believe
Speaker 1: that food that comes from boxed packages, you know, with
Speaker 1: these fancy words on the front of the box, healthy, organic,
Speaker 1: gluten free, keto, paleo. It's like, oh, it must be
Speaker 1: good for me. But from the diabetic standpoint, it's a
Speaker 1: boxed dead food. There's no information or life force energy there.
Speaker 1: So I would say, do an audit. So if Ribby
Speaker 1: and I were in your kitchen today, what would we
Speaker 1: want to see? What would you know? Intuitively, like we
Speaker 1: probably would just throw in the trash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what you hiding? What you hiding? And you'll cover
Speaker 3: that you don't want us to open.
Speaker 1: And always say your health, your kitchen is your primary
Speaker 1: source of healthcare. Healthcare starts in your kitchen. So fuel
Speaker 1: it like a medicine cabinet. Right when you go grocery
Speaker 1: shopping shop the outer perimeter of the store where there
Speaker 1: are more things from nature, the colorful red blue, purples,
Speaker 1: greens that I was talking about that come from nature,
Speaker 1: from the earth. Fuel it with that and become an
Speaker 1: expert at reading labels. Right. Because of this, like you know,
Speaker 1: revolution of fast processed foods, we need to decipher the
Speaker 1: foods that are causing us to be sick and imbalanced.
Speaker 1: We know that these ultra processed foods are linked to
Speaker 1: diseases amongst adults and children, things like metabolic dysfunction, diabetes,
Speaker 1: and obesity and even cancer rates are going up. So
Speaker 1: control with your dollar and make better decisions right. And
Speaker 1: it's not to say you've got to go full turkey,
Speaker 1: but just opt for more real whole foods from nature
Speaker 1: foods with no ingredient labels, and they know you're busy.
Speaker 1: But now at the grocery store you can get things
Speaker 1: that are pre chopped, pre washed to make things easy
Speaker 1: and use your Sundays as a food prep day to
Speaker 1: prepare for the week. So chop store them in glass
Speaker 1: food containers so that they're just grab and go or
Speaker 1: grab and saute throughout the week and take away the
Speaker 1: ability to reach for the foods that you know intuitively
Speaker 1: are making you sick.
Speaker 2: Planning and prepping is so important, Like I've started doing
Speaker 2: that whe whenever I'm making dinner or on the weekend,
Speaker 2: if I have some extra time, one I make sure
Speaker 2: things are chopped so that I know that I have
Speaker 2: like veggies, even if I want to dip into a
Speaker 2: hummus or something like. Instead of going to where there's
Speaker 2: packaged foods, the first thing I know I can go
Speaker 2: to is my fridge or my fruit bowl or something.
Speaker 2: And I've noticed such a difference. I'd rather have food
Speaker 2: that I've made the night before then I want from
Speaker 2: a packet. I'd rather have chop up some fruit and
Speaker 2: eat it instead of going to pick up a protein
Speaker 2: bar or like something that is just you can open
Speaker 2: up and it's literally been there for like a year
Speaker 2: on a shelf. But I will say I think it
Speaker 2: takes a second two or a month or more to
Speaker 2: get your body used to having those foods, because if
Speaker 2: you've been used to it for so long, it shocks you.
Speaker 2: It is a lot more preparation than you're used to.
Speaker 2: And so I think easing into it is one thing,
Speaker 2: but also giving yourself grace of like, Okay, if right
Speaker 2: now I am twenty percent whole foods and eighty percent
Speaker 2: packaged foods, the aim is to switch that around.
Speaker 3: The aim is to be at.
Speaker 2: Twenty percent maybe package foods, eighty percent whole foods. And
Speaker 2: I love what you said about things with no ingredient labels. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I never thought of it in that way, but it's
Speaker 2: so true. It's like you shouldn't need to read the
Speaker 2: back of a packet to you know, you can eat.
Speaker 1: It Apple's spinach, just no ingrediently. Well, that's there, right.
Speaker 3: And eventually you become more attracted to it. And I
Speaker 3: think that's the point.
Speaker 2: Like I always remember this, and it's in regards to
Speaker 2: any part of your life.
Speaker 3: My teacher.
Speaker 2: Rather than that, Sammy says a lot, and he says,
Speaker 2: don't think about what you're taking away, think about what
Speaker 2: you're adding in first. So when you start adding in
Speaker 2: goodness into your life, in practices, in foods, in rituals,
Speaker 2: whatever it is, naturally the lower frequency things or the
Speaker 2: things that you actually don't shouldn't be having, will slowly
Speaker 2: fall away and.
Speaker 3: You won't even be attracted to them anymore.
Speaker 1: You got it.
Speaker 2: And I remember that even when I was going through
Speaker 2: phases of like going out and doing things that I
Speaker 2: wasn't good for my body and I started meditating, it
Speaker 2: was like they were clashing. There were two wells that
Speaker 2: meant to be together. And so the more I did meditation,
Speaker 2: the less I even had the taste or desire to
Speaker 2: do those things. It was also when I became more
Speaker 2: conscious about plant based eating and my body vibrationally. You know,
Speaker 2: I was born vegetarian, but even having the food that
Speaker 2: came from an animal that had been suffering felt uneasy
Speaker 2: to meet in my body. When I had experienced a
Speaker 2: path of more compassion and love and grace. And so
Speaker 2: what I realized is, don't think about the things you're
Speaker 2: going to cut out, just start introducing more good things
Speaker 2: into your diet, and naturally it'll be like I actually
Speaker 2: don't feel like having that super salty, super fried for
Speaker 2: everything snack. I actually do want to have a crunchy
Speaker 2: piece of ceedary. And it sounds so crazy if you
Speaker 2: haven't experienced it, but I guarantee you, the more your
Speaker 2: body experiences the nutrient value of food, the more it's
Speaker 2: going to crave that food. It's because we're not used
Speaker 2: to having that nutrient dense food in our life that
Speaker 2: we end up going towards the fast fixes, and so
Speaker 2: your body definitely gets used to it.
Speaker 1: It's food addic. Yeah, it's such a beautiful story to tell.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget at the ashtrom once you go through
Speaker 1: this period of just eliminating the foods that are processed
Speaker 1: and highly addictive, which by the way, come from a
Speaker 1: factory where a scientist was hired to make them hyper
Speaker 1: palatable to you, like you literally cannot why do I
Speaker 1: need to have it? Right? It's food addiction. It triggers
Speaker 1: a reward center in your brain. If you simply eliminate
Speaker 1: it and go through this process, I'll never forget when
Speaker 1: I could actually taste like sweetness in spinach, Yes, which
Speaker 1: makes no sense whatsoever, right, But to your point, you
Speaker 1: retrain your taste buds and you start to crave those things.
Speaker 1: And ultimately what you're doing is you're starting to eat
Speaker 1: like you love yourself. Right, You're nourishing your body. And
Speaker 1: this isn't to say that I don't have like the
Speaker 1: chocolate cake and go out and the baggy chips here
Speaker 1: and there. You know, I'm human, I'm normal, but I
Speaker 1: know that through my own healing journey. When you bring
Speaker 1: your body back into balance, when you're in balance and
Speaker 1: you're optimized when you go have those kind of you know, fun.
Speaker 3: Foods, I guess it's done off that one time done.
Speaker 1: I hate you could like, okay, let's get back to
Speaker 1: this again today, right, and you feel so much better.
Speaker 1: So the elimination process could feel a little bit intense,
Speaker 1: but start with that one category before anything else, and
Speaker 1: with the other big things like if you are suffering
Speaker 1: from digestive issues, looking at things that like are genetically modified.
Speaker 1: So you and I we eat soy as an amazing
Speaker 1: source of protein, right, but you have to look for
Speaker 1: organic soy that's not genetically modified. I promise the way
Speaker 1: that your body will digest it is completely different. Corn
Speaker 1: is another one that tends to be a big trigger
Speaker 1: for people, dairy, which ties into the whole dairy industry thing,
Speaker 1: which could be a little bit overwhelming. To just make
Speaker 1: sure you know where your food comes from exactly, because
Speaker 1: the other thing from our spiritual teachers is that if
Speaker 1: food has energy, think about all of the steps that
Speaker 1: it's taken for that food to go from where it
Speaker 1: was and for some people that's animal based products to
Speaker 1: getting to the supermarket and then onto your plate, right,
Speaker 1: like so many steps and different energy on the way,
Speaker 1: and chemicals that are used as ripening agents on the way.
Speaker 1: And if it's in protein, well, how is that animal treated?
Speaker 1: Did it have a life? Was there fear in its body? Right?
Speaker 1: You ingest all of that, The hormones that we need
Speaker 1: to keep these cows lactating all the time, right, we
Speaker 1: ingest that. So just be mindful of what you're ingesting.
Speaker 1: And I wish that we could live in a world
Speaker 1: where we could just like trust these big food companies,
Speaker 1: but even things like eggs. I just got a dozen
Speaker 1: people off of these eggs from this really reputable air
Speaker 1: quote brand who just responded with pride, saying that they
Speaker 1: feed their hens corn and soy. Right, So while you're
Speaker 1: eating that corn and soy that's going into your eggs also,
Speaker 1: and you're wondering why you have these inflammatory issues or
Speaker 1: the eggzema or bloating and stuff like that. You have
Speaker 1: to become an investigator. And I know for people just
Speaker 1: getting started it's going to feel a little bit overwhelming,
Speaker 1: but start with one, two or three categories. Do your research.
Speaker 1: I always say you're like my role model because you
Speaker 1: were so great in the kitchen. I'm the nutritionist that
Speaker 1: throw I throw things together. Yeah, I just simplify everything.
Speaker 1: Being healthy is actually really really quite simple when you
Speaker 1: avoid over complicating it. And if you really want to,
Speaker 1: just like increase the nutrient density of all of your
Speaker 1: food no matter what you're eating. Look at your herbs
Speaker 1: and your spices as nature's anti inflammatories. Your spice cabinet
Speaker 1: should literally be your medicine cabinet. Yeah, and cook with
Speaker 1: more of those every single day. Make it a priority.
Speaker 1: Put them out on your counter every single day, grow
Speaker 1: them yourself if you can even better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so basically what you've said is eat more
Speaker 2: whole foods, strip things back and have more spices and herbs,
Speaker 2: and I feel like those are very manageable things totally.
Speaker 1: Maybe a great analogy is, however, your great grandmother would
Speaker 1: have eaten eat more like her exactly. It goes for
Speaker 1: all of us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, my grandmother definitely eats like that, and you still
Speaker 2: don't even know. She could probably count on her hands
Speaker 2: how many times she's eaten out right at a restaurant
Speaker 2: or anything like, she just doesn't. It also reminded me
Speaker 2: I've really started thinking of my body. You know, I
Speaker 2: think so many people go through extreme diets or you know,
Speaker 2: all the things that you've spoken about. And the thing
Speaker 2: that's changed it for me so much, the moment I'm
Speaker 2: putting things into my body is thinking about my body
Speaker 2: being a gift from God. And I think, oh, gift
Speaker 2: from the universe or whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 2: If you see your body as a gift, the way
Speaker 2: that you interact with your body, you don't see as yours.
Speaker 2: You see it as something that's been given to you
Speaker 2: and that's borrowed. And I'm just like, every single time
Speaker 2: I think about that, I'm like, oh, I've been given
Speaker 2: two legs, two arms, two eyes that can see whatever
Speaker 2: we've been given what a gift is. And the only
Speaker 2: way I can repay that gift is by treating my
Speaker 2: body with gratitude, treating my body as if it is
Speaker 2: temporary and been given to me, and I'm so grateful
Speaker 2: for it. And so every single thing that you do,
Speaker 2: every single thing you put into your mouth, every single
Speaker 2: person that you allow in the space of your body,
Speaker 2: you think about so much more because you're like, is
Speaker 2: this showing gratitude for the life I've been given? Is
Speaker 2: this showing gratitude for the fact that I woke up
Speaker 2: this morning and I'm able to walk, talk, and live life.
Speaker 2: And so it really shifted my perspective on wanting to
Speaker 2: see things externally on my body and the shifts and
Speaker 2: changes that I want to see externally physically versus what
Speaker 2: I'm actually giving to my body for nourishment, and sometimes
Speaker 2: it can be two very different things. Wanting to see
Speaker 2: things visually sometimes means you have to you know, so interesting,
Speaker 2: I kept being told I have to have more protein
Speaker 2: and more this and more that, and it was fundamentally
Speaker 2: ruining my gut. Like I was so unhappy, my body
Speaker 2: was unhappy in the way that I was feeding it,
Speaker 2: and I was trying to not to listen because I
Speaker 2: was like, oh, but I have to because I want
Speaker 2: to see more muscle mass and I want to see
Speaker 2: abs and I don't want this on my body and
Speaker 2: I don't want this. And I made a decision, and
Speaker 2: funnily enough, going to the usherment over the holidays gave
Speaker 2: me the perspective that I needed. And I got back and
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm not doing this. I'm not eating
Speaker 2: a protein bar. I'm not eating this. I'm not doing this,
Speaker 2: and my gut and my body not only did I
Speaker 2: see actually more changes physically exactly my whole body shifted
Speaker 2: in how happy I actually was and how I was
Speaker 2: feeling it was actually doing I was actually listening to
Speaker 2: what my body needed versus what other people were telling me.
Speaker 2: And a's me who also someone knows the fundamentals of
Speaker 2: I should be listening to my body.
Speaker 3: And I still got swayed.
Speaker 2: And so it's such an interesting world that we live
Speaker 2: in where we can get just shifted in mindset so easily.
Speaker 1: This is my constant work. I'm so tempted. I work
Speaker 1: with so many incredible doctors who are doing these exciting,
Speaker 1: incredible things, and these educators that are coming on my
Speaker 1: podcast talking about these great things. Now I should try
Speaker 1: this too, or should try it like oh this insane
Speaker 1: protein amount every single day? But does it feel good
Speaker 1: for you? Just because it's good for somebody else doesn't
Speaker 1: mean it's really good for you. And I love what
Speaker 1: you brought up because I think that if like the
Speaker 1: biggest takeaway I could give any of my clients, If
Speaker 1: you can make your healing journey your greatest spiritual journey ever,
Speaker 1: a lot of your issues with will dissipate. The urges
Speaker 1: that you have to go and be a certain way
Speaker 1: because you want to get to a certain macro level
Speaker 1: or number on the scale. Like it dissipates and you
Speaker 1: shift from that feeling of like do do do doo
Speaker 1: doo too? How do I want to be in my body?
Speaker 1: And if I could just feel really good in my body,
Speaker 1: my choices will align. I'm turning down the noise on
Speaker 1: what everyone else thinks that I should be doing, and
Speaker 1: I'm coming into my own wisdom of what I know
Speaker 1: to be true and what I know to feel good. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: is there a time and a place, you know? How
Speaker 1: I work with people like once a year, twice a year,
Speaker 1: go understand your physiology. Understand your biology, Go do a
Speaker 1: full panel blood lab, find a doctor who is your
Speaker 1: partner in healing. Hey, maybe you do a stress test,
Speaker 1: Maybe do a Dutch test to understand your hormones. You know,
Speaker 1: DNA test is really great. It helps us really understand
Speaker 1: your constitution. Maybe you're doing a stool test, which is
Speaker 1: like so informational because there's so much information for your healing.
Speaker 1: And then on the other side, really do that inner work.
Speaker 1: And I think ultimately what we're talking about is coming
Speaker 1: into your own consciousness. Right if you're so conscious of
Speaker 1: who you are and how you want to be in
Speaker 1: this world and how you want to feel, with practice
Speaker 1: and with coaching and some guidance, aligning key rituals in
Speaker 1: your life every single day that are going to align that.
Speaker 1: I really do think that, like habits come and go.
Speaker 1: We always try these new things on and a new habit,
Speaker 1: and they come, they go, they come, they go. But
Speaker 1: when you find a ritual that feels really really good,
Speaker 1: so you with your mantra meditation, me with my warning
Speaker 1: visualization and meditation, it becomes me like I don't forget it.
Speaker 1: That would be like forgetting to brush my teeth before
Speaker 1: I leave the house. So for someone else, that could
Speaker 1: be journaling, it could be walking outside, it could be
Speaker 1: going for a run, It could be so many different things.
Speaker 1: What's your thing that's going to align you with your
Speaker 1: consciousness and stay on that spiritual path of like just
Speaker 1: getting to know who you were? I think I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, but growing up was always you know,
Speaker 1: trying to fit in, trying to be better, be like
Speaker 1: someone else, and even at the Ashram, the spiritual kind
Speaker 1: of knowledge of like trying to become one with God
Speaker 1: or become one with consciousness. And I'm lifting my hand
Speaker 1: up outside of myself, like it's something outside of me
Speaker 1: that I'm trying to get to instead of recognizing that
Speaker 1: everything is within. And when you get to that point,
Speaker 1: then you're like, oh, I get one shot at the
Speaker 1: same called life. My dad would always say, your body
Speaker 1: is just a vessel. Yeah, how are you going to
Speaker 1: treat this vessel in this lifetime? And then it just
Speaker 1: shifts our perspective from healing like being on a diet
Speaker 1: or a protocol, into no, the diet is actually the
Speaker 1: unhealthy process, highly addictive food, that's an unhealthy diet. There
Speaker 1: is no diet, and just eating like you love yourself
Speaker 1: and eating whole foods from nutrition. That's just wholesome, nourishing foods. Right,
Speaker 1: there's no diet, it's just eating.
Speaker 3: I honestly have so.
Speaker 2: Many more questions, but I actually think we might have
Speaker 2: to have you on another time so that people can
Speaker 2: really digest this information, because I think what we've already
Speaker 2: covered has been so impactful, so simple, yet so needed
Speaker 2: and necessary, and I think just letting people appreciate what
Speaker 2: we've given them this far, I think will be formal
Speaker 2: beneficial than me going into some detailed questions. So I
Speaker 2: feel like we definitely have to have you on against.
Speaker 3: I can ask the other how many cars do I
Speaker 3: have left? One, two, three, four? I basically made it
Speaker 3: through the first card, so we definitely have to have
Speaker 3: you on again.
Speaker 2: But I honestly think what we've covered has just been
Speaker 2: so useful, and you've are so eloquent and just I
Speaker 2: feel like your energy can not many people's energy can
Speaker 2: be felt through a microphone, but I definitely feel yours can.
Speaker 3: So thank you so much. This has been phenomenal.
Speaker 2: Honestly, one of my favorite episodes and we're definitely going
Speaker 2: to schedule you to be back on very soon.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait. I adore you, which is probably why
Speaker 1: this is so easy, so we'll definitely do it. Yeah. Thanks,
Speaker 1: thank you, Van