Speaker 1: You know, and I don't want to be in this
Speaker 1: constant state of trauma and upsets. Let me say, first
Speaker 1: of all, I heard you say I don't want to,
Speaker 1: but I want to offer you that instead of affirming
Speaker 1: because you're afaming, you're you're important, You've got power, instead
Speaker 1: of affirming what you don't want, just make another choice.
Speaker 1: So I'm choosing too. I'm no longer choosing to be reactive.
Speaker 1: I'm choosing this because choice is your power. What's up, everybody?
Speaker 1: I'm Gammy and this is positively gam Every week I
Speaker 1: have raw, in depth conversation with inspirational people pushing for
Speaker 1: change on everything from aging, relationships, politics, wellness, to the
Speaker 1: current issues facing the black community. In this episode, we're
Speaker 1: going to be discussing how to cope as a society
Speaker 1: saturated with trauma. Joining us today is yan La van
Speaker 1: zand Iyanla is more the most celebrated writers and speakers,
Speaker 1: and she's among the most influential and acclaimed spiritual life coaches.
Speaker 1: Yanna embodies a no nonsense approach in her message. Currently,
Speaker 1: Illana is the host and executive producer of the award
Speaker 1: winning breakout hit Illanla Fix My Life. The number one
Speaker 1: reality show on own. Thank you so much, Illanna for
Speaker 1: joining us. I feel so blessed today and I actually
Speaker 1: am feeling the need to talk to you today. Congrats
Speaker 1: on your new podcast, Everything's Podcast Now. So good for you,
Speaker 1: I know, thank you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: I'm enjoying it. But how has it been for you
Speaker 1: fixing other people's lives? You know, I don't. Everybody says
Speaker 1: that I don't. I don't really fix their lives. I
Speaker 1: give them the information that they need to fix their
Speaker 1: own line. You know, people come with their story and
Speaker 1: with their beliefs and with their everything, and you know,
Speaker 1: I go into interrupt the patterns that they have and
Speaker 1: provide them with a different perspective on not only what
Speaker 1: the problem is, but what they need to do or
Speaker 1: not to get to where they want to be. So
Speaker 1: it's been quite a journey's eight years, it has been.
Speaker 1: And I'm a huge fan. I'm I watched you know
Speaker 1: all the time, and I must say that you really
Speaker 1: find some really creative ways to get people to really
Speaker 1: look at themselves and to look honestly at what's going
Speaker 1: on because and and that's how it work, well, that's
Speaker 1: how it work because most times we're in such denial
Speaker 1: we don't want to see ourselves, you know, and particularly
Speaker 1: for people of color, we don't want to move into
Speaker 1: anything with the consciousness that there's something wrong with me,
Speaker 1: you know. So when we when you start telling people
Speaker 1: that there's another way, what they hear is you did
Speaker 1: it wrong. And for people who have been oppressed or
Speaker 1: denied or help back for so long, that's a hard thing.
Speaker 1: But it is also a common human challenge that just reflection,
Speaker 1: self reflection. It's hard, you know, But I think my team.
Speaker 1: I have an incredible team of producers that support me
Speaker 1: and coming up with what we call our long pad
Speaker 1: and our exercenses, and then I just go in and
Speaker 1: do the work. That's the easy part. Oh, that's the
Speaker 1: easy part. No, that's the hard part. Actually. I was
Speaker 1: thinking earlier and I had this conversation with Will and
Speaker 1: with Jada constantly about compassion, and I was like, why
Speaker 1: am I charged this year and all within all with
Speaker 1: everything that's going on with trying to live my life
Speaker 1: from a more compassionate space, and it's just been so
Speaker 1: very challenging for me. It's just been really difficult and
Speaker 1: adoring this everything, with everything that's going on. If this
Speaker 1: year has been so traumatic for so many reasons. We
Speaker 1: have the pandemic, we have the Black Lives Matter protests,
Speaker 1: we have all the police brutality that actually has been
Speaker 1: going on for years and years now, we have the
Speaker 1: writers and the storming of the capital, Like, how do
Speaker 1: let's start with how do you personally deal with the
Speaker 1: state of affairs in this country and not lose your
Speaker 1: mind because I'm I get so full of anger and frustration.
Speaker 1: God is so for me. God is sovereign, God is
Speaker 1: in charge, God knows, God is moving, God is shifting,
Speaker 1: God is changing. And so I don't have a story
Speaker 1: about anything that's going on because I know that everything
Speaker 1: is exactly as it needs to be in order for
Speaker 1: what is required to unfold. So I no, I haven't
Speaker 1: had no trauma. I haven't had no upset. You know,
Speaker 1: every now and then the thing that makes me crazier
Speaker 1: than anything else that they repeat the same thing over
Speaker 1: and over, give me some new information. So you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't watch it, but I think that everything
Speaker 1: and you know, I look at this, We're looking out
Speaker 1: and I'm looking in and I'm saying, okay, I do that.
Speaker 1: How do I lie, change my story, bullying myself, deny,
Speaker 1: How do I do that? And once I get it
Speaker 1: clear in me, when I see it out there, I
Speaker 1: know what it is. It doesn't bother me. We are
Speaker 1: looking at ourselves. But because as we said earlier, it's
Speaker 1: so hard for people to reflect and self reflect, we're
Speaker 1: making it about what's going on out there? What are
Speaker 1: you doing in here? Turn the spotlight in instead of
Speaker 1: making it a spotlight that goes out Everything that we're
Speaker 1: seeing is what we as a human race do. This
Speaker 1: is the truth being revealed. Oh I'm so excited. I'm
Speaker 1: excited personally. I know that's a little strange. Whether it's
Speaker 1: very no not, I understand. I understand what you're saying.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, in the moment, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just typically difficult for me to go into that space.
Speaker 1: If in the minute you think it's happening out there,
Speaker 1: it's happened. You'll get upset about the minute you think, oh,
Speaker 1: look what they're doing, Look what they're saying, as opposed
Speaker 1: to how do I do that? Have I done that? Okay?
Speaker 1: And then when I get it in here, when I
Speaker 1: see it out there, I said, oh, I know what
Speaker 1: that is. I know what that is. Okay, I know
Speaker 1: what you're doing. I don't need the news or anybody
Speaker 1: to tell me the truth because I know the truth
Speaker 1: in me. So when I see it out there, I
Speaker 1: just say, thank God, I'm better now. I'm better now,
Speaker 1: you know. So, Yeah, compassion is the thing. I have
Speaker 1: compassion for us right now because we've prolonged and denied
Speaker 1: and we assisted for so long to the universe has
Speaker 1: now just dumped it all in our lap at one time.
Speaker 1: But that's because we didn't take the clues along the way.
Speaker 1: We know that racism exists. We know that white superiority
Speaker 1: is the foundation upon which this this country was built.
Speaker 1: We know that people have, in order to maintain their position,
Speaker 1: will deny other We know it, and then we've accommodated,
Speaker 1: we've tolerated it. We've gone along with it, and the universe,
Speaker 1: you know, God is saying enough until we surrender, and
Speaker 1: surrender is coming. We're not. Yes, that is a good word.
Speaker 1: I'm familiar with that word as a recovering addict. I'm
Speaker 1: familiar with that word surrender. So it's surrendering to to
Speaker 1: what has happened, so that change can occur. Is that
Speaker 1: a good way of looking at it? And you know
Speaker 1: what else? Get me? All change is preceded by chaos.
Speaker 1: Think about when you want to clean your closet out.
Speaker 1: In order to do your closet, you gotta take everything out,
Speaker 1: and the bed, the floor, the shoot, you find the
Speaker 1: two things that you bought that you never bore. Everything
Speaker 1: is all over. So it's chaos and you have to
Speaker 1: sort through the chaos in order to recreate order. And
Speaker 1: that's what's going on. Like that is such a good
Speaker 1: way to put it. Let me ask you, though, what
Speaker 1: are some techniques that we can use in order to
Speaker 1: confront you know these? For me, it's still I still
Speaker 1: call it trauma, so that we're not keeping it all
Speaker 1: bottled up inside or have this emotional outbreaks. And I'm
Speaker 1: going to use my husband and I as an example.
Speaker 1: We have a ethnics are very different way of looking
Speaker 1: at the pandemic and how we are managing it in
Speaker 1: right now and it is it continues to be an
Speaker 1: area of contention for us. So for me, I've surrendered
Speaker 1: to and respect how he feels about the pandemic and
Speaker 1: how he wants to move about. And I asked him
Speaker 1: to do the same for me, and this morning, the
Speaker 1: conversation just went left, like my, my, I don't even
Speaker 1: really want to talk about it, you know what I mean? Yeah,
Speaker 1: about the pandemic. I don't feel the need to converse
Speaker 1: about it, like how many people are dying, Like the
Speaker 1: numbers are really high here in California right now, and
Speaker 1: I don't feel the need to discuss that because I
Speaker 1: know that compared to even him, we as a family
Speaker 1: out here are so in tune to it because we
Speaker 1: have to get tested constantly because we're all working, and
Speaker 1: so we're constantly being tested. Like I'm on a first
Speaker 1: name basis with the E. M. T That comes to
Speaker 1: do our testing. I see him like two and three
Speaker 1: times a week. We're friends, you know. But yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, how do you have conversation with people
Speaker 1: and not just get all out of whack when you're
Speaker 1: talking about any of this. I find myself to be
Speaker 1: on social media constantly. I'm on Facebook when things like
Speaker 1: when the riots are I got something to say about everything,
Speaker 1: and I'm on Facebook and then after I'm done, I'm like, girl,
Speaker 1: then do you feel better now that you because I'm
Speaker 1: I'm going on their thinking that I'm releasing my frustration,
Speaker 1: but I don't feel that way. After it's all said
Speaker 1: and done, I really actually feel even more amped up.
Speaker 1: So then I'm like, maybe I just need to not
Speaker 1: be on social media, maybe I don't need to be
Speaker 1: watching the news, But then I feel uninformed. It is
Speaker 1: traumatic because it's such a abrupt and radical change to
Speaker 1: our habitual problem solving techniques. None of our problems solving techniques,
Speaker 1: Corona don't respect none of them. Okay, So it is
Speaker 1: quite traumatic because one of the number one addictions of
Speaker 1: human beings, all human beings, is controlled, and we have
Speaker 1: totally lost control. So to be informed is one thing,
Speaker 1: but to want to know what to do then stirs
Speaker 1: up something else in us as human beings, which is survival.
Speaker 1: So I gotta know what to do to survive because
Speaker 1: I can't control this thing. So we go here to
Speaker 1: get some info, and there to get some info, and there,
Speaker 1: and we're listening and this one and then somebody says something,
Speaker 1: and no, that's crazy, and you know, so as opposed
Speaker 1: to trying to make it again, trying to make it
Speaker 1: outkay out there, you gotta get okay in here. When
Speaker 1: this thing first hit, I said that ain't got nothing
Speaker 1: to do with me. I'm not having it. I'm not
Speaker 1: entertaining it, I'm not engaging it. But I got to
Speaker 1: do Okay, I did not know toilet paper, and if
Speaker 1: the toilet paper was pure, I was in a lot
Speaker 1: of trouble because I had don't doilet paper, you know,
Speaker 1: up so but I have to do so. Number one,
Speaker 1: I was just real clear that okay, this has to
Speaker 1: be a lesson and universal lesson that we're all learning.
Speaker 1: What is my lesson? For me, the lesson was for
Speaker 1: the past I don't know, fifteen sixteen years. I probably
Speaker 1: haven't spent two consecutive weeks in my home. So when
Speaker 1: they said stay home, I had to get adjusted to
Speaker 1: not being busy. Really just gets still, and that for
Speaker 1: me was traumatic. You know, that was about that. So
Speaker 1: here I am. I'm home. I'm not out in the
Speaker 1: world not doing my work. Who did you? You know?
Speaker 1: So for many of us that was the issue. So
Speaker 1: you have the not being in control. What do I
Speaker 1: need to do to survive? And now my whole modus
Speaker 1: opera run die has been shifted, So that was challenging
Speaker 1: and many of us had to be home with people
Speaker 1: that we love but don't like. So that was a
Speaker 1: whole another thing. So I think your question, when I'm
Speaker 1: hearing you ask, is how do you communicate compassionately with
Speaker 1: someone standing in a different way than you are? So
Speaker 1: compassion really is about seeing the position or suffering of
Speaker 1: another and taking action to alleviate the sun. Like you said,
Speaker 1: you don't want to talk about it. Maybe somebody else does,
Speaker 1: but that's because their lack of control and their fear
Speaker 1: and their coping mechanism. Maybe talking about so how do
Speaker 1: you have compassion? And I think I heard you say
Speaker 1: it was your husband, so you can't tell him talk
Speaker 1: to me about that? What's that about you? Okay, we're
Speaker 1: only gonna talk about this from six am to seven am,
Speaker 1: from noon to twelve thirty, from four pm to four
Speaker 1: five o'clock, and that's it. Other than that, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you not to talk about it to me, and
Speaker 1: if you do, I'm gonna leave the room. Can we
Speaker 1: agree to that as opposed to he shouldn't be or
Speaker 1: they shouldn't be, or why do they compassion see the
Speaker 1: position or the suffering of another person and then take
Speaker 1: action to alleviate the suffering without sacrificing yourself. You can
Speaker 1: talk about it for half an hour. You don't even
Speaker 1: have he's talking, you don't even have to respond. Your
Speaker 1: job is to listen, and then what is your internal
Speaker 1: dialogue while he's talking. You know, like a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, people talk to me about everything in the supermarket,
Speaker 1: in the wal market, and in my brain, I'm in
Speaker 1: my mind, I'm saying, I don't have nothing to do it.
Speaker 1: It's not I am not on this committee. I am
Speaker 1: not on the heel of your mother committee. This is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying in my brain. But I'm looking at
Speaker 1: her because she needed to talk. And when she was finished,
Speaker 1: I said, you should go online and get on my
Speaker 1: mailing list because my newsletter might be helpful to you.
Speaker 1: But got it. So that's what compassion is about, putting
Speaker 1: seeing where the other person is, seeing sense and feeling
Speaker 1: where the other person is and whether they're in a
Speaker 1: form of suffering or a form of fear or anger
Speaker 1: or whatever, and then doing what is required, what you
Speaker 1: can do without sacrificing your steps self to put an
Speaker 1: end to there, whatever it is they're going, because we
Speaker 1: we are traumatized. Yeah, and I guess I I really
Speaker 1: have to open my mind and be mindful while we're
Speaker 1: having the conversation, because he senses from me that my
Speaker 1: attitude is, oh, here we go again, and that is
Speaker 1: not compassionate, that's not compare and it's not helpful. I
Speaker 1: remember the day when George Floyd was murdered and everybody
Speaker 1: was in such uproar, and I said, thank you God
Speaker 1: for that angel named George Floyd who came to remind
Speaker 1: us yet again that we have to deal with this
Speaker 1: racism and we have to deal with these abuse. So
Speaker 1: now they're finding court offices, firemen, retired police, retired military,
Speaker 1: all involved in this assault on the White House. So
Speaker 1: if they would go against a building because they didn't
Speaker 1: like what was going on in the building, what do
Speaker 1: you think they're going to do the people that they
Speaker 1: don't like, you know? And so I I my heart
Speaker 1: goes out to the Floyd family and the Martin family
Speaker 1: and the all of the families. But I've just seen
Speaker 1: all of these people as angels who've come and made
Speaker 1: a masterful, mighty sacrifice to wake us up. And we
Speaker 1: still ain't woke up because you know, we marched and
Speaker 1: screamed and protested, which we needed to do for what
Speaker 1: three four months? You don't even hear George Floyd's name.
Speaker 1: So what are we gonna do? Everybody is talking about
Speaker 1: the fact that those protesters or rioters or insurrectionists or
Speaker 1: whatever they're being called today, we're able to roll up
Speaker 1: in the capital, thousands of them in the street, and
Speaker 1: people will say out loud when you know, couldn't have
Speaker 1: been black people, And we'll say it. But what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do? What's our ask? What's our approach? What are
Speaker 1: we gonna do? What are we gonna do? We're just
Speaker 1: sitting here, one thing up our nose and the other
Speaker 1: one twiddling in our hair. But what we're gonna do?
Speaker 1: And until we get clear about what we're asking and
Speaker 1: what we're willing to do to get it, it's gonna
Speaker 1: keep happening. Thank you? Can you please say that again, Inyana,
Speaker 1: because I I feel so so strongly about it, and
Speaker 1: I'm just not I still am not clear on exactly
Speaker 1: that what is our ask? And how are we going
Speaker 1: to hold this administration accountable or whoever we think needs
Speaker 1: to be held accountable? How are we going to do that? At?
Speaker 1: What is our act? That's the first thing, because until
Speaker 1: we're clear about the ask, we don't know who to approach.
Speaker 1: We don't have to approach. And you know, I've said
Speaker 1: this for years, everybody, please forgive me. Don't send me
Speaker 1: no emails and and send me dirty letters. I've said
Speaker 1: this for you. I've said it too, and all my
Speaker 1: friends and all my community leaders for years we've been
Speaker 1: affirming no justice, no peace. And I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: hold up, that's not what we want to say. We
Speaker 1: don't want to say no justice, no peace. We want
Speaker 1: to say justice now, peace now. But we the very
Speaker 1: thing we've been saying is exactly what we have, no
Speaker 1: what we're getting, and no justice for And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: we can't. But you know, we get into these slogans
Speaker 1: and we get into the thing, and that's what we
Speaker 1: want to do. No, no, no, no no. So we've
Speaker 1: got to get clear about the ask. If we're asking
Speaker 1: for justice, what does that look like? And the other
Speaker 1: thing is, you know, I know you I'm a child
Speaker 1: of the fifties and the sixties. I'm a panther and
Speaker 1: you know, snick and the at all of this, and
Speaker 1: we had leaders, and so everybody's looking for a leader.
Speaker 1: But the piece that I find was then that I
Speaker 1: can't quite put my finger on now. Back then, there
Speaker 1: was a communal commitment to whatever it was, whether it
Speaker 1: was the free breakfast program or whatever, voting rights or
Speaker 1: early lem of education, there was a communal commitment. But
Speaker 1: now we are so busy, you know, with everything else,
Speaker 1: and we get all into personalities. So I don't like
Speaker 1: this when you can't trust that, when you can't do this,
Speaker 1: you can't do that, and this cancel culture where we
Speaker 1: don't tolerate mistakes and we don't tear people down. So
Speaker 1: there's no focal point. I don't even want to say leadership,
Speaker 1: but there's no focal point. And then the people that
Speaker 1: we have elected, you know, they don't seem to be
Speaker 1: coming out to ask us. So anyway, that's my little soapbox.
Speaker 1: But what do we ask? No? But it's important, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's important, Like how do we get that? How do
Speaker 1: we get back into that space? Is there? I don't
Speaker 1: want to say committee, but who are the leaders that
Speaker 1: we gathered together together to get us focused? Here's from me,
Speaker 1: Gammy again. You know, I come up out of that
Speaker 1: community spirit. So we've become such individuals and seeking such
Speaker 1: individual fame and glory and advancement and notice and recognition,
Speaker 1: until the things that would support and matter to us
Speaker 1: all can't seem to come together. And we're so eager
Speaker 1: to be against something that we have lost the to
Speaker 1: know how to be for something. Against this, Oh I'm
Speaker 1: against that, I'm against you, I'm against him, I'm against her.
Speaker 1: But what are we for? And where are those communications coming?
Speaker 1: Black radio it's gone. I remember Bob Law from years ago,
Speaker 1: night Talk and if you wanted to get some information
Speaker 1: about what was going on in our community, you went
Speaker 1: to Bob Law and night Talk and you get the
Speaker 1: whole Where where do we go now as a community
Speaker 1: to get information? And then because the small stations are gone,
Speaker 1: is these big conglomerations lest your Facebook? But there's no
Speaker 1: communal meeting place, there's no communal mind. Yes, there are
Speaker 1: small organizations, you know right now everything is or isn't
Speaker 1: Black lives matter. If you're not in Black Lives Matter,
Speaker 1: how do you find out what's going on? And then
Speaker 1: if you're in Black Lives Matter or you against this
Speaker 1: and now against that, it's it's crazy, but that's how
Speaker 1: things are changing. So my thinking and this is just
Speaker 1: my thinking. This don't have nothing to do with no
Speaker 1: behind My thinking is let me continue to work with
Speaker 1: individuals y and get individuals clear in their thinking and
Speaker 1: then there being and they'll be guided and directed into
Speaker 1: what to do and how to do it. So that's
Speaker 1: my contribution. Because if you told me today we're to go,
Speaker 1: I give to the Congressional Black Caucus, the United Egoral College,
Speaker 1: Run Black Lives, Stay June's Children Hospital. But nobody has
Speaker 1: ever called me to collectively have a discussion about anything.
Speaker 1: Never they get my money. They don't call me and
Speaker 1: ask me nothing. And I if I needed you can't
Speaker 1: call nobody. You go on the website contact us and
Speaker 1: they give you an email form. We don't talk. We
Speaker 1: don't talk, So where am I supposed to go? Where
Speaker 1: do we go? But things are changing and they're gonna
Speaker 1: be different, and we have to We're we're approaching the
Speaker 1: new time doing the old ways. And that's why so
Speaker 1: many of us are just lunch right yeah, And I
Speaker 1: guess you know, so that we can show up and
Speaker 1: be present and available for whatever our calling is. We
Speaker 1: have to learn how to stay calm and be mindful.
Speaker 1: And I know that you have a new app called
Speaker 1: mind matters meditation, tell them, tell us a little bit
Speaker 1: about that. What can we expect to hear on that
Speaker 1: app Well, you know, it really came out of the
Speaker 1: hysteria and the wahalla that everybody was experiencing during the
Speaker 1: day home Order. And I would say your home read meditate.
Speaker 1: I thought, I don't said, but it's your mind. Your
Speaker 1: mind is what you're gonna need to get through this. So,
Speaker 1: because I've been taped doing this for thirty something years,
Speaker 1: I just combed back through my files, my records, my everything,
Speaker 1: and just put pulled up what I thought was some
Speaker 1: of the twenty most powerful guided meditations that I've ever done.
Speaker 1: I have one on there that just says, do you
Speaker 1: know how beautiful you are? You know people were freaking out,
Speaker 1: couldn't get their nails done, their head done, you know,
Speaker 1: but you are beautiful. I have another one called you know,
Speaker 1: just peace, just how to be in peace. So, because
Speaker 1: my gift is my voice, people recognize my voice guide
Speaker 1: people into a deeper place within themselves because gave me
Speaker 1: We're not gonna do nothing out there. We gotta get
Speaker 1: it right in here. And if we're not right in here,
Speaker 1: whatever we do out there, is gonna continue to be
Speaker 1: chaotic and uh reactive and aggressive. Now we gotta go up.
Speaker 1: We gotta be the thing that we're trying to create.
Speaker 1: So twenty of my most powerful meditations where just listen.
Speaker 1: You know. I think the longest one is thirteen minutes.
Speaker 1: So if you don't have thirteen minutes to get in
Speaker 1: touch with your mind, then you've got a problem, got
Speaker 1: it that I feel it would be a perfect way
Speaker 1: for us to close because meditation is something that I
Speaker 1: have committed myself to this year. You know, I've talked
Speaker 1: about it or you know over and over again that
Speaker 1: meditation is a struggle for me because my mind is
Speaker 1: always raising. But I definitely in this space and what
Speaker 1: I've been going through, you know, last year and into
Speaker 1: this year is that reactivity, you know, and all of
Speaker 1: that negativity and I you know, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to live like that, you know, And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be in this constant state of trauma and upset.
Speaker 1: So would you kindly close us out and lead us
Speaker 1: through a quick meditation? I would love if you could
Speaker 1: do that. Let me just find you. Let me say,
Speaker 1: first of all, I heard you say I don't want
Speaker 1: to but I want to offer you that instead of affirming,
Speaker 1: because you're afaming, you're you're important, You've got power. Instead
Speaker 1: of affirming what you don't want, just make another choice.
Speaker 1: So I'm choosing too. I'm no longer choosing to be reactive.
Speaker 1: I'm choosing this because choice is your power. The other
Speaker 1: thing about meditation or just stealing getting still that most
Speaker 1: people don't realize is the key to it is your breathing.
Speaker 1: That's what you in So let's just do that. If
Speaker 1: you just allow your eyelids to close for just the
Speaker 1: moment and just connect with become mindful and aware of
Speaker 1: your inhale and your exam. Nothing to do. Just be
Speaker 1: aware of your inhale and your exams and whatever the
Speaker 1: rhythm is, whatever the rate is, we can read you
Speaker 1: like that. So you want to inhale for three and
Speaker 1: exhale two right, and inhale one two three and exhale
Speaker 1: one two three, not just like your shoulders rebelling the face,
Speaker 1: find the rhythm of your breath again and just listen.
Speaker 1: Listen inside within, what's going on? What are you here?
Speaker 1: What do you feel? Listen to your feet, just listen
Speaker 1: to your legs, and you can't do it wrong. So
Speaker 1: just let your mind go to your knees, Listen to
Speaker 1: your thins. Listen, what are you aware um in your feet,
Speaker 1: your legs, your knees, your thighs, what are you aware
Speaker 1: of and whatever it is. Just stay with the rhythm
Speaker 1: of your breath. You're in and you're out. Listen to
Speaker 1: your belly, in your chest, in your breast, just listen,
Speaker 1: just be aware, nothing to do. Stay with your inhale
Speaker 1: and jags. Listen to your shoulders, in your neck now,
Speaker 1: just listen to your face. Just listen, breathing in and now,
Speaker 1: and just imagine you just had a conversation within yourself.
Speaker 1: Now take along deep inhale and let it out. Whenever
Speaker 1: you're ready, you can open your eyelids. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: It has been a blessing to talk with you, and
Speaker 1: I hope that you will come back and join us
Speaker 1: again when the time. It was such a blessing to
Speaker 1: be in conversation with the Yama Vansan today, and these
Speaker 1: are my takeaways. Number One, when we are in a
Speaker 1: state of upset, we tend to look at what's going
Speaker 1: on outside of us. Instead, try turning the spotlight inward
Speaker 1: for understanding Number two, during these times when so many
Speaker 1: of us are feeling traumatized, try to have compassion for
Speaker 1: others as well as for ourselves. Number three, consider the
Speaker 1: importance and the impact meditation can have on your life.
Speaker 1: Meditation put simply is stillness and the rhythm of your breath.
Speaker 1: And number four, be careful what you are firm in
Speaker 1: your life, remembering that choice is your power. If you're
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