WEBVTT - Before You Burn Out: A Healing Conversation with Mona Sharma 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:02.800 Cancer just doesn't show up overnight. It's the result of 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.640 this stress on the body. And when our body no 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.960 longer has the meats the resilience to deal with the 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.360 stress within, the red alert is going to go on. 0:00:10.560 --> 0:00:13.280 Today we have Mona Sharma, a nutritionists that works with 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.360 high performing entrepreneurs and celebrities as well as a wellness 0:00:16.400 --> 0:00:19.639 advisor and coach. She blends iovating wisdom with modern science 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:20.800 to optimize. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:23.000 Health for somebody who suffers from something like stress or anxiety, 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:24.960 Is it stress or anxiety or does it come from 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:26.560 a deeper cause. We live in a world where we 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:28.440 need to be busy all the time. We think it's 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:31.240 a weakness to stop because it makes us vulnerable. What 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.440 are the practices that you have every single day that 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.360 are training your nervous system to be in this hypervigilant, 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:38.879 busy state. We need to decipher the foods that are 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.279 causing us to be sick and imbalanced. We know that 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:45.320 these ultra processed foods are linked to diseases amongst adults 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.720 and children. Things like metabolic dysfunction, diabetes and obesity, and 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.559 even cancer rates are going up. So control with your 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.960 dollar and make better decisions I'm Radie w. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.640 Kia and on my podcast A Really Good Cry, we 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.720 embrace the messy and the beauty, providing a space for raw, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.960 unfiltered conversations that celebrate vulnerability and allow you to tune 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:09.640 in to learn, connect and find comfort together. Hey everyone, 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:12.080 welcome back to this week's episode of A Really Good Cry. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.840 Today we have a nutritionist that works with high performing 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.480 entrepreneurs and celebrities as well as a wellness advisor and coach. 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.080 She blends iravatic wisdom with modern science to optimize health. 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.000 She is my go to person whenever I have any 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:28.280 health questions or issues, and she always shares solutions with 0:01:28.400 --> 0:01:29.360 love and compassion. 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:32.759 So Mona Sharma, thank you so much for being here. 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.000 So good to be here. I'm so excited to connect 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:35.760 with you me too. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.080 I have to tell people that when I say she 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.520 is my go to I mean like every single thing 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:43.679 that I possibly think of, you get a text message. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:44.880 Of I love it. Yeah, I love being the go 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:45.360 to person. 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:47.440 I know you really are and you have such a 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.240 magnetic energy and I mean that in the sense of 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.160 the things that you share you feel like when you 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:53.480 meet you. 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:54.880 So I don't know whether that makes sense. 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.400 But your energy is so representative of the wisdom and 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:02.000 the nourishment that you give to other people. As soon 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.360 as you walk into our room, I feel like my 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:08.440 whole pattern of voice changes. I feel calm, and I 0:02:08.480 --> 0:02:10.800 think that that's just your presence that allows people to 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.400 feel that way. So I'm so excited to share you 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:14.680 with everybody that's listening. 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:17.160 The highest compliment for me, Thank you so much. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.560 I wanted to start off by just asking you one 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.200 how you got to where you are today and how 0:02:23.360 --> 0:02:26.440 you have created a world where you're able to share 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.280 iobating wisdom which is so old with Western medicine and 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:32.440 make it relevant and applicable to people. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.400 Now. This is literally what drives me today. If the 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.639 future of medicine can really merge the wisdom of all 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.120 of our ancestors, no matter where we come from. Abada 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.359 is one of those incredible sciences with the amazing, incredible 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.280 science that Western medicine is giving us. Yeah, merge the 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.800 two door together for true integration. I think that the 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:53.880 world would be in such a better place. I think 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.920 that disease prevention would be the primary source of healthcare 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.200 instead of symptom management. And I can say that, yeah, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.040 because I lived through all of it. So prior to 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:07.120 becoming a holistic nutritionist and yogi and meditation teacher and 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:10.720 reiki practitioner and NLP practitioner, I list them all because 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.640 I probably should have just become a doctor instead of 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:13.959 doing all of these modalities. 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:14.720 No, I love it. 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:16.720 But prior to that, I actually come from the world 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:19.799 of fashion. So I worked out of sales for massive 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:23.840 beauty brands, so Christian Dior and tom Ford Beauty and 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:27.280 Estate Lauder companies and say that about you. Yeah, So 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.320 my twenties was full of this like high paced fashion, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.639 fun lifestyle, traveling the world doing makeup for fashion shows, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.360 training people at big retailers. And I say it out loud, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.000 I'm like, yeah, that sounds kind of fun. Like it 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.080 was a really cool job to have. And as you know, 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.880 being Indian, having an Indian father, I didn't become a 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.120 doctor or a lawyer or a judge like my dad 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.720 or like my brother. When I got into the corporate world, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.480 I hustled like this, A type hypervigilance that I had 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.400 was like literally get to the top, get security, you know, 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:01.040 do as much as you can to get a high 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.240 paying job that was going to get me respect, and 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.760 you know it came with a big, big, big priced egg. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.560 So I used to say all the time that anxiety 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.640 was my blueprint, like it's just it's who I identified at. 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.080 I hit it very well, very very well. I would 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.280 almost say that the calmness that you so pleasantly gave me, 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.880 that compliment, that was almost a coping mechanism for me. 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.600 If people perceive me as calm on the outside, they 0:04:25.680 --> 0:04:28.279 won't know about the internal suffering anxiety that I'm feeling 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.000 that I think I've had since I was a little kid. 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.839 So here I am anxiety, fast paced life, waking up 0:04:33.880 --> 0:04:36.000 a hotel rooms, not knowing what city I was in, 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.000 chasing this high corporate salary. It was a corporate job, right. 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.320 Burnout is what I got to. During that time, I 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.040 started getting heart palpitations. These heart palputations got so fast 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.000 that I would bend down to pick something up and 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.080 nearly hit the deck. I would want to pass out, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.599 and things got really bad. I ended up getting pcos. 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:57.320 I'll never forget a doctor told me that it was 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.240 so bad that I would probably have a really hard 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.960 time having children. Having children is the only thing I've 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:04.000 ever known that I really really wanted, and I do 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:07.839 have two kids today, beautiful children. Beautiful children. And the 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.159 heart palpitations. I was like, look, this isn't working for me. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:13.480 This is now impacting my life. What's the solution. At 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.279 that point in my life, I wasn't interested in getting 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:17.760 to the root cause of healing. Give me quick fix. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.240 So doctors wrote me a prescription medication for beta blocker medication. 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:24.760 Beta blocker medication. They did slow everything down. I still 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:27.000 to get my heart palpitations, but they weren't as bad, 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:29.520 but they also caused me to gain forty five pounds. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.480 Forty five pounds later, I was like, hey, this isn't 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.920 working for me, Like I feel completely lethargic. Everything, my tone, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.880 my energy just like drained. It dropped. And so they said, well, hey, 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.040 we can go in for surgery, and I said, okay, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.440 let's do it. So I went in from my first 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.200 heart surgery. I was twenty three years old. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:47.120 Oh my gosh. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:51.320 They go through in ablation, so through your groin and 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.960 through your neck, you're awake for the whole thing. Your 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:57.680 heart's on this massive monitor and they induce you with 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.359 you know, adrenaline and caffeine and all these uppers to 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.240 try to induce these palpitations that I knew what only 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.120 happened if I was moving my body right. And so 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.840 they found a place where they could do an ablation, 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.480 where they burn off a portion of your heart on 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.280 this electrical note. They say they ended up doing two 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:17.440 oblations in that surgery. But the next morning I woke 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:21.200 up in the hospital and my heart was still pounding. Oh, 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:23.400 bawling my eyes out, What the hell is going on? 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.360 They said, well, let's go back in. So now I'm 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.360 twenty four, go back in for my second heart surgery, 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.320 and I'll never forget. Doctors asked me why I was crying. 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:35.000 I was like, oh, I'm looking at my heart on 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:38.400 a massive screen. I identify now as somebody who's on medication 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.919 and somebody who has a heart condition. I'm young, I 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.239 have this great life, but I'm not happy. I feel 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.120 depressed most of the time. At this point, I feel sad, 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.360 But doctors never asked me about that. Doctors wanted to know, 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.200 like how much she's smoking, how much are you drinking? 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.880 Are you parting? From the outside, you look really good. 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.080 And I really want to call out to listeners who 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.520 like so many people reach out to me about heart palpitations, 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.760 and I think we all suffer from them for different reasons. 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.480 But for me, like I literally had a broken heart, 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.880 I was really sad. There was a lot of like 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.640 turmoil happening in my life. My parents were getting a divorce, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:14.080 I was going through massive changes, and they just didn't 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.480 ask about that big part of me. Right, So I 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.360 passed all the tests on paper, and they said, well, 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.240 you know, at the moment, we can do this oblation again, 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:24.200 but if we go through with it, it's right next 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:27.280 to your sinus node, your essay node, and so if 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:28.720 we do that, you might have to wear a pacemaker 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:31.160 for the rest of your life. In that moment, it 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.400 was like one of those situations when your life flashes 0:07:33.400 --> 0:07:35.760 before your eyes, and I was like, what the hell 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.880 is happening. I know that there's a better way to heal. 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:39.760 I don't want to identify as somebody who's sick, who 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.360 has a heart conditions. Makes no sense. And the irony 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:45.400 of this entire story is that I knew that there 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.880 was a better way. So I said. My dad was Indian, 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.200 my mom is Danish. I've only ever known my mom 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:53.920 to suffer from debilitating autoimmune disease, so rheumatoid arthritis. So 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.840 I've only ever known my mom to have deformity, so 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.360 for all of her limbs. Right, my mom is such 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:00.440 a fighter, you know. The model owner houserowing up was 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.360 eat it it's good for you, Drink it, it's good 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.600 for you. She tried every single Eastern modality to heal 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.440 her body. And my dad with his inside in Nayraveda. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.760 My mom found this ashram in Valmaran and Quebec. It's 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.840 the Shivananda Ashram where we would go and spend summers. 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:16.840 So my summers as a kid, I didn't get to 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.920 go to fun summer camp. I literally had to go 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:19.600 to yoga camp. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:19.920 Yah. 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:21.520 My dad would tap me on the shoulder at five 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.800 o'clock in the morning to go and meditate. But that 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.360 was my blueprint, and I would see my mom's symptoms subside. 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.640 I would see the energy of my parents shift here. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.840 I would even feel better going to this place, right, 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.599 And so in that moment on the surgery table, I 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:36.160 knew that I had to go back to my roots, 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.240 and that's exactly what I did. So I called it 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.640 quits on the corporate world. Craig, my amazing husband, was 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.439 so supportive. I went and I lived at the ashram 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.000 for two months, and that's when I became a yoga teacher, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:49.480 just for my own personal healing, and rathery at the Ashram, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.719 returning to all of those ancient healing principles. My heart 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:58.160 palpitation subsided, the weight fell off my body. I stopped dieting, 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.640 I stopped being hardcore hardcore exercise, hardcore dieting, and my 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.240 body came into balance. And we can talk about this more, 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.840 but the structure at the ashram, literally the schedule is 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.080 set so that you were forced to be present. So 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:16.760 maybe for the first time in decades, I became present 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.720 to my thoughts, the quality of my thoughts, which God, 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.520 nobody in this world should have ever hurt, my feelings, 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:25.680 my emotions, the things that I was stuffing into my body, 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.320 and like you know, he stuffings into your body, and 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.680 I'm focus on doing, doing, doing, doing doing, I just 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:34.360 ignored everything. And so looking back, when I think about 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:37.040 my poor heart, was like, I can't do this anymore. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.199 We can't take it. Like You've been ignoring all of 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.560 these symptoms for so long. Here's what's going on, and 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.200 I think that, you know, did I need the heart surgeries? 0:09:46.840 --> 0:09:49.640 Probably not, Like I really think that had. I have 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:53.520 done just a lot of this introspection work, you know, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:57.000 work with different coaches and guides, work on my frequency 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:58.920 and my vibration words that I use with my clients 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.040 all the time. But back then was completely woo woo. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.120 I think that now today there's a different approach to 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.840 healing because the structure of my heart was actually healthy. 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:09.520 Oh my god, so many questions come to mind, but 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.160 thank you so much for sharing that. What beautiful insight 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.640 into why you are the person you are today. At 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.240 the time, what were they naming your condition out of interest? 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:20.920 Yeah? So I get it was given the label of 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.040 atrial tachycardia. 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:23.480 Right wow. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:25.360 And so when people go to the doctors, I mean, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:27.840 what feels so good is to finally get a diagnosis. Right, 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.240 we all want a diagnosis. Great, we've got a diagnosis. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.959 Now we're going to treat the diagnoses. But without getting 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.480 to the root. And as you and I were talking about, 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:39.920 we live in this symptom approach based healing methodology without 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.680 considering the body as its whole. So if we know 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:45.880 that the heart communicates to the rest of the body. 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.240 The rest of the body communicates to the heart. Why 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.720 wasn't there ever any other introspection to this? 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.360 Right, so interesting how we always try and treat a 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:58.040 physical problem with the physical solution. But the thing is 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.400 so like we've now learned and we still talk about it, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.160 but I don't think it's put into action where oh, actually, 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:07.079 what your mind is feeling, your body feels the emotions 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.320 that are being suppressed, Your body is showing you what 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.120 they are. So the physical is just the depiction of 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:16.080 what's happening everywhere else, in your subconscious, in your mind, 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.680 in your heart. But when it's a heart problem, you 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:21.880 end up trying to fix the heart as a physical 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:25.880 body part rather than thinking about, wait, but what is 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.559 the heart feeling? And we forget that the heart as 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.320 a muscle feels something. It's more like it's a muscle 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.360 and we have to try and fix it physically. But 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.040 it's so interesting that they try to fix it physically, 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:38.880 and it was actually something mentally and emotional that you 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.720 actually did that helped heal it. 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.720 And what was so much worse for you know, I 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.079 started to identify as somebody who is sick. I'll never forget. 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.320 My brother asked me to do this triathlon with him. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:51.560 My brother's ten years older. He's the athlete, he's the 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.720 end all of those things. And he asked me to 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.160 do it one year and I was like, well, no, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.160 I can't. I've got a her condition. And thank God 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.520 for him. He's just looked at me one day and 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.440 this is close, like twenty eight, twenty nine, and he said, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.960 how's that working for you? And I was just like, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:09.880 my life stop. Because although the disease had passed, the 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.880 weight had come off. I started my healing journey. There's 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.720 obviously some part of my belief system that still identified 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.520 as somebody who had a heart condition. So because of 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.720 that I went. I found a cardiologist who was in 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.360 tune with healing. I found a reiki practitioner. I made 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.600 it kind of like my non negotiable to go back 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:30.360 to the Ashram consistently as my source of healing, because 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.280 it meant that I was moving myself to the number 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.080 one position of my priority list to heal, so that 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:36.920 I would never go back to that old version of 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:39.920 myself that identified with sickness and illness. 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.000 And what was the routine that you had at the aushtrum. So, 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:44.320 for example, if people are trying to implement, you know, 0:12:44.320 --> 0:12:46.400 I'm sure many people listening to this are like, oh 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.560 my gosh, I've I get help palpitations. Well, I feel 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.920 like I'm sad in my life right now. You know, 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:55.120 if they don't have access to the ostrum. What is 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.480 a simple routine that you were doing there that you 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:00.839 recommend people implement into their life now to create mimic 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:01.640 that same effects. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.640 I love this question, So I really I have this 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:05.960 protocol with my clients, and it's really about building your 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.559 ashram at home. I would love for every single listener 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:10.400 to be able to go and experience an ashram. I 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:13.160 know that you have many many times and the magic 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:16.120 that comes with that, but it also means that if 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.840 I'm looking to go somewhere to feel a certain way, 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.600 that I'm putting that power outside of myself, when true 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:24.920 healing and consciousness is within. So I need to learn 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.720 how to replicate that at home wherever I am. So 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:31.000 maybe let's first describe the rituals at the ashram and 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:34.200 then we'll describe the second half. So, like I said before, 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.400 the structure the schedule at the ashram is pretty strict, honestly, 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.199 so strict and repetitive and consistent to the point where 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.880 it kind of feels like torture where they're like, oh 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:47.240 my god, this again yoga, you know. So first of all, 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:48.960 we wake up early in the morning, We rise with 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.840 the sun every single day. We hydrate with warm, nourishing 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:56.760 liquids to support our digestion and talx and elimination. From there, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:13:59.559 we move into about thirty minutes of meditation and about 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.880 an hour of set saying so set syng sitting in 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:06.800 community gathering, chanting together, which activates your vagus nerve, which 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:10.040 is like the spiritual calling and attunement of your own frequency, 0:14:10.640 --> 0:14:13.360 followed by some sort of a lecture from whether it's 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:16.040 a swami at the ashtram or a spiritual teacher that's there. 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:19.240 It's the education around like, hey, there's this wisdom and 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:22.320 intelligence within your body, let's learn how to awaken it. 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.440 So we're already anchoring that belief. From there, we moved 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.600 to our yoga practice. And yoga practice isn't like this 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.960 crazy hardcore, you know, hot yoga. It's thirty minutes of 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:36.520 breath work, breath work again, attuning to our vegus nerve. 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.080 We can talk about that in a bit, turning into 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:42.440 heart rate variability, calming down to the heart rate, coming 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.920 into the present moment, balancing the left and right meridians 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.600 of the body in or energetic centers right before we 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:51.640 move into the asiner practice. The asiner practice is the 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.880 actual yoga poses that most people in the West are 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.720 familiar with. But the really cool thing about this lineage 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:58.840 of yoga that I grew up with at the Shavvenandashram 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:03.480 was after every single pose that you hold, you're holding it, 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.440 you move into shavasna. So hold the pose, move into shavasna. 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.520 Hole the pose, move into the shavasna, and it's training 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.120 your mind and your body to move through these periods 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:15.200 of stress where it's like, Okay, I want to get 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.680 out of this the mental resistance that comes with us. 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.240 So we all experience off the mat and then we 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.400 go into relaxation. So we're ultimately retraining our nervous system 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.600 on how to build that resilience of moving into fight 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:30.200 or flight right or something stressful, then back into relaxation. 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.520 It's retraining and we take that back into the world. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:37.920 From there, we go into beautiful sethfig high vibrational brunch, 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.160 which is like so colorful. I said, I started eating 0:15:41.160 --> 0:15:43.680 more carbs than ever before, and that's carbs from the earth, 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:48.240 like really trusting in nature to heal the body, reds, purples, blues, greens, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.280 like all of these beautiful colors, more fiber than I 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.600 was definitely eating. Back home, and the afternoon's open for 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.440 either devotional practices, some karma yoca, maybe some study, and 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.760 then we repeat that whole thing at noight we go 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:02.880 back into our breath, work, back into our yoga at 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:06.520 four o'clock. Six o'clock is an early dinner. Seven thirty 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.440 is back into set saying, and then lights out by 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:10.840 about nine thirty or ten every single night. So imagine 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.720 doing that for two months straight. Yes, talk about retraining 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:18.480 for this, like really stressed out, high intensity, plugged in 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.080 nervous system, you know, behavior that I had into now 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.240 feeling a sense of rest and digest I put the 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.800 wisdom back into my body to heal, so it could 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:30.080 really just start to activate instead of worrying about stress 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:33.640 and worrying and anxiety and fear. It can now operate 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.240 and do the things that it needed to do every 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:36.120 single day. To heal. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.880 You know, I remember when I when we go back 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:41.640 to the actual room every year that we go to 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:45.360 to do our practices. My first few days, my body 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:49.520 is like what are you doing? Like high alert, and 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.440 I'm like, so, what's next? 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:50.960 Where do we go? 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.760 What's happening? Why were you sitting around? Why are we 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.960 not doing this? And it really takes i'd say good 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.680 few days, if not a week, oh yeah, to settle 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.280 in to the space of space, like to set it 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.439 into the idea that we have time, set into the 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.119 idea that we don't have to go from thing to 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.760 thing to thing, and that the busyness is sometimes a 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:17.159 way to hide or step away from what you actually 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:18.480 have to come to terms with. 0:17:18.600 --> 0:17:21.200 Yeah, there's an article written about that too, like what's 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.400 the new emotion that we all have? How are you busy? Right? 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:25.200 How are you busy? 0:17:25.280 --> 0:17:27.639 It's so true? Are you trying to get out of 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:28.200 saying that? 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.240 I know it's so true? 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:30.880 Right? 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.520 And we're giving each other permission to just be busy. Well, 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:37.399 busy to me, my shoulders are up at my ears, 0:17:37.760 --> 0:17:41.359 everything's contracted, my digestion shut down, everything's kind of sore. 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:43.800 I'm not sleeping well. I'm not, you know, I'm eating 0:17:43.840 --> 0:17:46.520 all the time, so it's really addressing that. Maybe that's 0:17:46.560 --> 0:17:49.040 a good question for your audience is what are the 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.600 practices that you have every single day that are training 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:55.119 your nervous system to be in this hypervigilant, busy state 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.840 and the retraining with your question about what can we do, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.440 like what practice is from the Ashram? Can we rebuild? 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:04.160 You can obviously do every single one of those things 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:05.960 that I had mentioned from the Ashram back home, but 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.640 if you want to start with one or two, your 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.080 morning is magic. It has to be able to set 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.640 the tone for the day that you want ahead. So 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.000 one of my favorite meditation teachers, he came up with 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:22.120 this analogy RPM rise P meditate. Every day I say 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.960 add on a G RPMG rise P meditate, and then gratitude. 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.200 So every morning, before I even get out of bed, 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:31.400 my hands are over my heart. I'm literally like, thank 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.920 you for waking up today. Thank you to this heartbeat 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.320 who's been beating for me since before I even arrived 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.119