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Speaker 1: What's going on everybody?

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Speaker 2: Emily Abadi here, you are listening to another installment of

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Speaker 2: Five Minute Friday from Hurdle Now. On last week's episode,

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Speaker 2: I talked about the concept of energy attracting like energy.

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Speaker 2: Quick summary for those of you that may have missed it. Basically,

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Speaker 2: if you are approaching your day with optimism and positivity,

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Speaker 2: then it's likely that that is what you are going

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Speaker 2: to find during your day, Whereas if you approach your

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Speaker 2: day with negativity, you're more likely to be easily capable

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Speaker 2: of pointing out the not so stellar things around you.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to link that episode in the show notes

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Speaker 2: so that you can check it out well. I want

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Speaker 2: to expand on that conversation today and do a little

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Speaker 2: exercise with all of you by addressing the two different

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Speaker 2: types of energy. We all have two different types of energy.

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Speaker 2: Period We have catabolic energy, which is essentially a destructive

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Speaker 2: tearing down force, often associated with stress. With this type

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Speaker 2: of energy, when people can work well under stressed and

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Speaker 2: experience short term success, the long term impact can be

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Speaker 2: super draining and then impact levels of satisfaction. The other

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Speaker 2: type of energy, anabolic energy. Think of it like a

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Speaker 2: constructive building up force. So the opposite of catabolic energy.

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Speaker 2: This is associated with less stress. And it happens because

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Speaker 2: when the brain isn't under stress, it tells the body

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Speaker 2: to release what we call anabolic hormones that are designed

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Speaker 2: to optimize ciss When that happens, as a result, it

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Speaker 2: becomes easier to focus on solutions and tap into creativity

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Speaker 2: and experience a more complete and conscious.

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Speaker 1: View of situations. So that's the baseline.

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Speaker 2: Now I'm going to do an exercise with you that

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Speaker 2: was really helpful for me in understanding what all of

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Speaker 2: this really means. So right now, if you think about

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Speaker 2: something that you really enjoy and you were going to

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Speaker 2: tell me about it, think about that thing.

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Speaker 1: So, for instance, for me, I love my morning routine.

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Speaker 2: I really love waking up in the morning and going

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Speaker 2: to min espresso machine and pressing the button after putting

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Speaker 2: in the pod, bringing that espresso over to the couch,

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Speaker 2: diving into my open breathwork moment, and then going straight

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Speaker 2: into my journaling practice. Okay, that's the thing that I

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Speaker 2: like to do. Now I want you to do this.

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Speaker 2: I want you to stick two fingers in your rib,

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Speaker 2: like lodge them into your side, and then experience what

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Speaker 2: it would feel like if again, you were going to

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Speaker 2: tell me about the thing that you enjoy for the

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Speaker 2: sake of the fact that this is a podcast, I'm

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Speaker 2: not just going to hold twenty seconds of blank space,

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Speaker 2: but try that exercise, and I want you to reflect

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Speaker 2: on what you notice when speaking about the thing that

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Speaker 2: you enjoy with your fingers and your ribs. Ask yourself

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Speaker 2: what was different about that experience. And basically what I'm

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Speaker 2: trying to get out here is catabolic energy works just

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Speaker 2: like a finger in the ribs. So what happens is

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Speaker 2: it distracts you and pulls your focus away from what

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Speaker 2: you're trying to accomplish and toward what's painful or stressful.

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Speaker 2: And again I need to reiterate this that neither of

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Speaker 2: the energies are positive or negative, or good or bad,

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Speaker 2: and they both can serve a really powerful, important purpose.

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Speaker 2: But the key here, and I cannot stress this enough,

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Speaker 2: is that you need to know if you're experiencing them

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Speaker 2: by choice because it serves you, or by default because

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Speaker 2: it's what you're used to. Now, if you notice that

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Speaker 2: you're the kind of person who may be experiencing more

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Speaker 2: catabolic energy than you would like, I have good news

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Speaker 2: for you, there is something that you can do about it.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell us, Emily, what does that look like.

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Speaker 2: Well, it looks like getting very sure and firm on

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Speaker 2: the things that bring you joy, leaning in too those things,

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Speaker 2: and also confronting and fully accepting the idea that you

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Speaker 2: are responsible for how you react to your thoughts. So, yes,

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Speaker 2: a certain thought experience can trigger an emotion in you,

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Speaker 2: but then you get to decide how you move forward

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Speaker 2: recognizing that emotion. This really goes hand in hand with

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Speaker 2: the concept that the greatest freedom is the freedom of choice,

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Speaker 2: and we have that right. We have the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: choose where we go, how we respond. And like I said,

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Speaker 2: it is not always a bad thing if you are

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Speaker 2: operating with catabolic energy. We all are to some extent.

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Speaker 2: Some of us really can use it to our advantage.

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Speaker 2: But you need to have the awareness to recognize if

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Speaker 2: So my question, my thought prompt for you this week

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Speaker 2: is do that exercise. Fully, sit there and think about

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Speaker 2: how it feels. Notice what exists when you have that

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Speaker 2: how I noticed catabolic energy coming into my being this week.

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Speaker 2: Over the last few days, I have been feeling like

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Speaker 2: an unnecessary amount of stress right when I get out

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Speaker 2: me feel as though a lot of the things that

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Speaker 2: just weren't bringing me the same amount of fulfillment. And

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Speaker 2: when I sat down and I realized what was happening

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Speaker 2: and how I was allowing this like negativity to kind

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Speaker 2: of take over my day, I took a deep breath,

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Speaker 2: in as I was trying to address this issue, and

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Speaker 2: I went for a walk around my neighborhood. And it

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Speaker 2: was during that walk that I realized and remembered that

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Speaker 2: in this situation, that catabog energy just was not serving

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Speaker 2: me at all. In fact, it was putting me in

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Speaker 2: a heavy victim mindset, and it was a mindset that

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Speaker 2: I wanted to shake. And so upon coming back inside,

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Speaker 2: I sat down at my desk, I checked something super

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Speaker 2: small off my to do list and decided to roll

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Speaker 2: with that. Decided to roll with the feeling of self

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Speaker 2: ride that into the next task and the next task.

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Speaker 2: And by the end of the day, when I stood

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Speaker 2: up at my desk, I let out an exhil and

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Speaker 2: I was just proud of myself for consciously choosing to pivot,

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Speaker 2: recognizing again and I know I use this word a lot,

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Speaker 2: but that I had the opportunity to pivot. So an

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Speaker 2: exercise for you, A thought provoking moment, hopefully.

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Speaker 1: And now let's segue into a listener question.

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Speaker 3: Hi, Emily, this is Maggie from Austin, Texas, big fan

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Speaker 3: of the podcast, a long time hurdler. My question is

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Speaker 3: how do you celebrate a big achievement? And running you

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Speaker 3: often hear how important it is to celebrate your success

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Speaker 3: before moving on to the next goal. I just had

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Speaker 3: a ten minute PR in my half marathon, but it's

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Speaker 3: part of a for a full marathon, so I feel

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Speaker 3: inclined to hurry on the next thing. I do know

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Speaker 3: it's important to stop and celebrate. So how do you

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Speaker 3: celebrate your big achievements?

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Speaker 1: Hey Maggie, thanks for this.

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Speaker 2: I love this and you're so right, it's just so

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Speaker 2: important for us to take some time and be proud

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Speaker 2: of us, be.

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Speaker 1: Proud of you. Now.

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Speaker 2: I definitely have a myriad of ways that I like

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Speaker 2: to celebrate myself achievements and those wins big and small,

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Speaker 2: and honestly, I could give you an answer like sitting

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Speaker 2: down at my favorite restaurant and eating a nice dinner,

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Speaker 2: and that is certainly something I do every now and again.

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Speaker 2: But really, what I've been doing lately is just giving

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Speaker 2: myself time, which sounds so small, but it makes such

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Speaker 2: a major difference. So, for instance, I recently finished the

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Speaker 2: third module for the Certified Professional course that I've spoken

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Speaker 2: about here on the show before, and I rewarded myself

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Speaker 2: for three back to back ten hour days and making

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Speaker 2: myself to do some of the things that I wasn't

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Speaker 2: able to do while I was in class for three days.

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Speaker 2: So even though it was a work day, in quotes,

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Speaker 2: I'm very lucky that I make my own schedule. But

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Speaker 2: I unplugged completely, left my phone in my apartment and

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Speaker 2: decided to go get a pedicure, bring a book, and

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Speaker 2: then after the pedicure, I went and I went grocery shopping,

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Speaker 2: and it was like it was just small stuff, but

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Speaker 2: recognizing myself enough to take that time for me and

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Speaker 2: then come home and sit on the couch and watch

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Speaker 2: some mindless television show. I have absolutely no moment of

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Speaker 2: shooting on myself for other things that I could have

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Speaker 2: been doing in that moment to be more quote unquote

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Speaker 2: productive that time for myself. It's so special and it's

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Speaker 2: something that I don't necessarily get to do all of

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Speaker 2: the time. So that's how I like celebrating myself lately

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Speaker 2: by giving back to myself the gift of time. When

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Speaker 2: I say that, I feel like I'm listening to Oprah's

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Speaker 1: But you get the drift.

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Speaker 2: Like I said at the top of that, make sure

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Speaker 2: you're taking the time, whether the wind is big or small.

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Speaker 1: To be proud of you.

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Speaker 2: Life can feel really damn hard sometimes and you owe

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Speaker 2: it to yourself to be your own biggest cheerleader.

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Speaker 1: That's it for this week. Make sure you're.

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