Speaker 1: When did I lose this permission to do nothing and
Speaker 1: really have these moments to myself of joy. Finally, welcome
Speaker 1: back to the Rise and Conquer podcast. The podcast for
Speaker 1: my girl going who want to take control of their lives,
Speaker 1: gained the confidence to live unapologetically, and for those who
Speaker 1: are ready for more. If you're ready to rise up
Speaker 1: and conquer your dream, career, most aligned health, a positive mindset,
Speaker 1: and basically everything in between, then you're in.
Speaker 2: The right place. In today's solo.
Speaker 1: Pep talk, I am chatting about giving yourself permission to
Speaker 1: do nothing, my experience with this, I've got a bit
Speaker 1: of a story for you, and then also what I've
Speaker 1: kind of found that has been I guess, the consequence
Speaker 1: or you know, the thing that's come out of creating stillness.
Speaker 2: So let's back it.
Speaker 1: Up a little bit and explain a little bit of
Speaker 1: why I'm you even talking about this.
Speaker 2: So in a.
Speaker 1: Couple of episodes ago, I spoke to you about my
Speaker 1: recent diagnosis with Hashi motos, which is a autoimmune thyroid condition.
Speaker 1: The condition basically means I have a whole host of
Speaker 1: symptoms and they can sort of be triggered by another
Speaker 1: whole host of things. It's it was super confusing for
Speaker 1: me to find out what this condition was because they're
Speaker 1: symptoms like you know, hormonea balance, fatigue, irregular period, acne,
Speaker 1: and these are all things I've been getting for a
Speaker 1: very long time. And then I finally got the right
Speaker 1: test done and I've found this out.
Speaker 2: So I have been I'm on thyroid medication.
Speaker 1: And also I go way into I go into what
Speaker 1: I'm doing with this condition in my other episode, so
Speaker 1: I will link that in the show notes if you're interested,
Speaker 1: I won't, you know, repeat the whole thing. But basically,
Speaker 1: I did get recommended or I am. I am taking
Speaker 1: medication from my GP. And then I've also been seeing
Speaker 1: my natural path who has got me on you know,
Speaker 1: some different herbs and supplements, and she recommended me to
Speaker 1: see an acupunturist. Wow. And if you guys are kind
Speaker 1: of been here from the start, you would know I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of acupuncture. I used to get it
Speaker 1: religious a couple of years ago when I lived in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: I had an amazing accupuncturist. I'll shout her out. It's
Speaker 1: called Greenstone Acupuncture and Brisbane and I saw Anna and
Speaker 1: she was the first time I ever did acupuncture, and
Speaker 1: it's when I was dealing with hormone issues and in
Speaker 1: regular periods in adult acne, and she completely.
Speaker 2: Helped me.
Speaker 1: So basically, if you guys don't know what acupunctuated acupuncture is, sorry,
Speaker 1: it is where you get those little tiny needles put
Speaker 1: into you.
Speaker 2: It is a Chinese traditional.
Speaker 1: Practice and basically it's all about mine body connection. So
Speaker 1: basically it's this medicine of fine needles and they insert
Speaker 1: it in the skin at specific points which are considered
Speaker 1: to be lines of energy, so you can use it
Speaker 1: for a whole range of physical and mental conditions. And
Speaker 1: what it does is it improves the body's functions and
Speaker 1: promotes the natural self healing process by stimulating you know,
Speaker 1: these energies and points. And so, like I said, I've
Speaker 1: seen an acupuncturist previously for my skin and hormones and
Speaker 1: I found it really helped. And so myntch path is like,
Speaker 1: I know a really good one at the Gold Coast,
Speaker 1: Go see her, and I had my first session a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and so I will be doing that,
Speaker 1: which is really great. But I was chatting to her
Speaker 1: about you know, my Hashimotos and my.
Speaker 2: Condition, and.
Speaker 1: I'm told, like I've told you guys this and I
Speaker 1: kind of know this, but she's like, I think you know,
Speaker 1: the Hoshimoto's flare up is a huge sign of how
Speaker 1: stressed you are and how exhausted, Like you know your
Speaker 1: dreamals are because you know, you clearly have a stressful
Speaker 1: job and you're constantly on and that is so like
Speaker 1: you guys know this about me. I love my work.
Speaker 1: I love to work. I love to put one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of effort into things, and I also like doing
Speaker 1: a lot of things at once. So as you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm so multi passionate. I have this podcast where it's
Speaker 1: all about interviewing, you know, people I find interesting and
Speaker 1: who I think I might be helpful for you guys,
Speaker 1: and then chatting about really these bits of health, then
Speaker 1: finance and feeling empowered to go after what you want
Speaker 1: and not keeping yourself small. And obviously you could tell
Speaker 1: by these podcasts I'm just so passionate about that. And
Speaker 1: then I also, you know, have my other business, Naked
Speaker 1: Harvest Supplements, which I'm so passionate about in regards to
Speaker 1: being in the fitness and health industry and producing natural
Speaker 1: supplements that actually taste good. And I have a wide
Speaker 1: variety of things I like to do, and I'm wearing
Speaker 1: lots of hats and all that sort of thing, and
Speaker 1: so of course I know this I and even though
Speaker 1: I love what I do and I love to work,
Speaker 1: I am definitely realizing that it's a lot for my
Speaker 1: body and it's a lot to like, you know, go
Speaker 1: and go and go. And I will often find myself
Speaker 1: if I have the option of having the day off
Speaker 1: and you know, having some time to myself or working
Speaker 1: more on a project I enjoy, I always.
Speaker 2: Pick the working more.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Long story short, My acupunctress was like, you need
Speaker 1: to be inserting more nothingness time and more you time.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I do that, you know, I
Speaker 1: do that every Sunday, me and Tim go for a
Speaker 1: beach coffee and blah blah blah. And she's like, look,
Speaker 1: that's great, but you need to be inserting an hour
Speaker 1: every single day because you're like it's not enough and
Speaker 1: your body is just not really coping with it. And
Speaker 1: so she kind of explained it in the way of like,
Speaker 1: you know, imagine if you didn't exercise all week and
Speaker 1: then on a Sunday, you did like a four hour
Speaker 1: workout and you're like, you know, that's that's all I'm
Speaker 1: doing this week. And she said the exact same with
Speaker 1: including stillness and nothingness is it's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot more better for me and my nervous system and
Speaker 1: my body if I include one hour per day. And
Speaker 1: she's like, you know, I can tell you someone who
Speaker 1: likes you know, structure and routines and you know, homework,
Speaker 1: so this is homework. You have to be doing nothing
Speaker 1: for one hour per day. And she explained to me,
Speaker 1: like this is stuff like you can't have your phone,
Speaker 1: you can't be with someone unless it's like really.
Speaker 2: Sort of filling your cup up.
Speaker 1: It's got to be like you know, meditation, eating lunch outside.
Speaker 1: She even said stuff like watching a TV show as
Speaker 1: long as you're not on your phone and you're being
Speaker 1: completely present. But like doing hobby stuff like she was
Speaker 1: explaining she loves to do pottery, and it's an hour
Speaker 1: of time where you know, her team can't contact her
Speaker 1: and she can't you know, use her phone because it's.
Speaker 2: Full of clay.
Speaker 1: And she said, it's just so important for us to
Speaker 1: take this time for ourselves and really be present and
Speaker 1: you know, be still. And you know, as she's saying it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, yeah, okay, you know, thinking, I'm like
Speaker 1: I kind of do this, you know, I meditate and
Speaker 1: I journal. But she really kind of pressed the point
Speaker 1: of it being not productive in the way of you know,
Speaker 1: like about business or you know, bettering yourself, but really
Speaker 1: just like a time for stillness and nothing. And she
Speaker 1: explained it in the way of when we're working and
Speaker 1: when we're doing a hard gym session, and when we're
Speaker 1: you know, going, going, going and doing and doing doing,
Speaker 1: we're in this state of fight or flight, which I'm
Speaker 1: sure you guys know about this concept. So you're telling
Speaker 1: your body you're stimulated, you're going, you've got you know,
Speaker 1: quartersol going. And so she said, what you need is
Speaker 1: at least an hour. She said, I could split it
Speaker 1: up like half an hour in the morning, half an
Speaker 1: hour in the afternoon if it was too hard to
Speaker 1: do a whole hour where I'm really getting into you
Speaker 1: know this, I think it's called rest and digest.
Speaker 2: So it's the opposite switching.
Speaker 1: From the flight flight or flight and getting into this
Speaker 1: rest and digest and you know, telling my nervous system,
Speaker 1: it's okay, we can relax and doing.
Speaker 2: This every single day.
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, yup, easy. And it's funny
Speaker 1: because like the first couple of days after that appointment,
Speaker 1: I really struggled. I like, I even like, you know,
Speaker 1: one afternoon, I had a plan to you know, I
Speaker 1: left it. In the afternoon. I had planned to go
Speaker 1: a beach walk by myself with my air pods and
Speaker 1: I was gonna turn my phone on silent and you know,
Speaker 1: just listen to.
Speaker 2: A podcast or music. And then something happened.
Speaker 1: With work and I couldn't do it, and I was
Speaker 1: like to Tim, I was like, wow, I didn't realize
Speaker 1: how much time I don't put aside for myself and
Speaker 1: how much time I don't have for myself. And so
Speaker 1: after the first couple of days of kind of missing
Speaker 1: this and not really getting to it, I was like, no,
Speaker 1: I need to take this seriously and I need to
Speaker 1: actually like you know, inject this time and see it
Speaker 1: as you know, a business meeting the same sort of
Speaker 1: value as a business meeting i'd have with you know,
Speaker 1: Cooper or mel or someone like that. And so I
Speaker 1: started injecting this time, I'm not gonna lie. I started
Speaker 1: with just half an hour, but I have been like
Speaker 1: sort of revving it up to the hour point. And
Speaker 1: I've been doing stuff like going for a beach walk
Speaker 1: with flight mode on.
Speaker 2: I have been eating.
Speaker 1: Lunch outside with the dogs with my phone inside and
Speaker 1: flight mode. I've been doing yoga, like going to a
Speaker 1: yoga class. I've been going for a walk with a girlfriend.
Speaker 1: She said, just be careful when you do stuff with
Speaker 1: other people, because sometimes even though you know you're sitting
Speaker 1: there and walking, if the person is putting like a
Speaker 1: lot of not so much like bad energy, but let's
Speaker 1: just say you know your friend has an issue and
Speaker 1: she's putting a lot of kind of like she's knitting
Speaker 1: energy from you, and you're having to give her time
Speaker 1: and energy to sort out this problem or something like that.
Speaker 1: So she said, just be very careful anything when you're
Speaker 1: giving out energy and you're not just kind of like
Speaker 1: sitting still and letting it come to you, you don't
Speaker 1: want to be doing.
Speaker 2: So I've been doing that.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because the other day I watched the
Speaker 1: movie Eat, Pray, Love, and in the movie, she's it's
Speaker 1: in her first place where she's in Italy and she's
Speaker 1: getting the lecture from a local Italian person who they
Speaker 1: call it and I'm gonna butcher this, but it's la
Speaker 1: dolchea nitcha. Yeah, I can't say, but basically, it's this
Speaker 1: word in Italian that means the sweetness of doing nothing.
Speaker 1: And so, you know, this Italian man was explaining, you know, Americans,
Speaker 1: they work their arses off during the week, and then
Speaker 1: because they're so exhausted from the week, they spend their
Speaker 1: weekends in their pjs, you know, watching TV. And he
Speaker 1: really was pushing this fact of you know, you need
Speaker 1: to be able to do nothing, can be in the
Speaker 1: moment and be present. And I was like thinking of
Speaker 1: my life, and I was like, oh, this may hit
Speaker 1: home a little a little bit, because I do do that,
Speaker 1: Like I fit so much my week and I get
Speaker 1: so much done with work, and then when it comes
Speaker 1: to like meantime, I often just want to do nothing
Speaker 1: and like veg out on the couch. And of course,
Speaker 1: you know, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there's
Speaker 1: anything wrong with that, but I was like, when did
Speaker 1: I lose this thing? When did I lose this permission
Speaker 1: to do nothing and really have these moments to myself
Speaker 1: of joy. And so, like I said, I have been
Speaker 1: really putting this in place. I've been being serious about this,
Speaker 1: Like I have calendar time locked out.
Speaker 2: I tell people not to contact me.
Speaker 1: I need an hour, and I've been doing it for
Speaker 1: an hour each day, and this crazy, amazing thing has happened.
Speaker 1: And this is what you know, this whole podcast is about,
Speaker 1: is I've realized by taking this time out for myself,
Speaker 1: it's obviously going to be amazing for my health and
Speaker 1: my hashimotos. But also what I've realized is, for example,
Speaker 1: if I take an hour out at lunchtime, I ually
Speaker 1: have this period in the afternoon where I have complete
Speaker 1: brain fog and I get like a little bit unproductive
Speaker 1: just because I've been going hard all day.
Speaker 2: But what I've been finding is, you know, I take.
Speaker 1: This hour out and I'm away from my phone and
Speaker 1: I'm away from the hustle and bustle and whatnot, and
Speaker 1: it's like making me super creative. And I'm finding I'm
Speaker 1: having some really good ideas. I'm having some really good
Speaker 1: like light bulb moments. I've just got like a download.
Speaker 1: Literally this morning, when I went from my beach walk
Speaker 1: for a really good business idea within my business that
Speaker 1: just sounds amazing to do, and I think that will
Speaker 1: be so helpful for you guys. And I'm also just
Speaker 1: feeling the sense of like peace and happiness. And I
Speaker 1: know that probably sounds like so like oh typical, but
Speaker 1: it just it really feels good. And it's like when
Speaker 1: did I forget to take you know, us, Like if
Speaker 1: you guys think about an hour per day, that it's
Speaker 1: not a huge amount of time, and at the start,
Speaker 1: I couldn't even do that amount of time.
Speaker 2: And so it's kind of like remember back in the.
Speaker 1: Day when they're like, you know, half an hour, an
Speaker 1: hour per day is only percentage amount of time, you know,
Speaker 1: just do your workout, and it was all kind of
Speaker 1: you know, pushing you to work out. And it's kind
Speaker 1: of like the same concept of just having time for yourself.
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Speaker 1: But let's get back into the episode. So I just
Speaker 1: wanted to come on here and challenge you guys. If
Speaker 1: you're currently in a state where you're not feeling yourself,
Speaker 1: maybe your health isn't one hundred percent, you're feeling super anxious,
Speaker 1: or even if you're feeling if you're someone like me,
Speaker 1: where you're just feeling like you don't have enough time
Speaker 1: for these things, like you don't have enough energy or
Speaker 1: time for anything, start injecting these periods of time, like
Speaker 1: literally start with thirty minutes when you're not on your phone,
Speaker 1: when you're not serving other people, when you're not being productive.
Speaker 1: And you know, like I said, it could be as
Speaker 1: simple as like playing with your dogs or getting outside
Speaker 1: putting your feet in the earth, And it's so simple,
Speaker 1: but it's like completely blowing my mind right now, I
Speaker 1: can't actually wait to see I have my next like
Speaker 1: acupunture appointment and tell her because it just has it
Speaker 1: just it feels so good and I'm feeling so much
Speaker 1: more creative. And I guess it's also really helping me
Speaker 1: because I was actually my structured brain was like, what
Speaker 1: is happening? And I was I was researching kind of
Speaker 1: the scientific way, the scientific background of it.
Speaker 2: And what happens when you have.
Speaker 1: This space and stillness is you're going from the right
Speaker 1: side of your brain, which is actually let me check
Speaker 1: if it's the right or left before I tell you guys, Okay, yeap, no,
Speaker 1: I've got it right. So the left side of your
Speaker 1: brain is very analytical and like structural, it loves routines,
Speaker 1: and it's very masculine energy. And I am definitely someone
Speaker 1: who is dominated with my left brain one hundred and
Speaker 1: ten percent. We all know this. And so what I'm
Speaker 1: finding is what actually happens is when you are in
Speaker 1: stillness and you have this space and time to yourself,
Speaker 1: you actually start activating your right side of your brain.
Speaker 1: And your right side of your brain is creative and
Speaker 1: artistic and flowy, and it's definitely more your fem energy.
Speaker 1: And so I'm finding this really sort of amazing transition
Speaker 1: of going from you know, my left brain to my
Speaker 1: right brain. And it has been so helpful from getting
Speaker 1: out into this like masculine doing feeling like I have
Speaker 1: no time. And it's the funniest thing happens is when
Speaker 1: I actually take an hour out of my day and
Speaker 1: to get into the right side of my brain and
Speaker 1: this stillness and this fem feeling, I'm actually realizing that
Speaker 1: I do have enough time, and I'm realizing my priorities
Speaker 1: and I'm realizing what's important. And I've got like these
Speaker 1: really good examples of just what has happened recently. And
Speaker 1: for instance, the other Friday I was seeing I had
Speaker 1: planned to see my best friend who recently had her baby,
Speaker 1: and her baby's so cute guys, and I had seen
Speaker 1: her before and she was like, Oh, I'm going to
Speaker 1: come to the coast and see you and we can
Speaker 1: have lunch.
Speaker 2: And go to the beach.
Speaker 1: And I was like, cool, come Friday, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: have everything done. And I kind of forgot about telling
Speaker 1: her this, and then it came to Friday and I
Speaker 1: had some stuff to get done and I was feeling
Speaker 1: really stressed, and so I got like all my major
Speaker 1: priorities done in the morning, but I still had some
Speaker 1: kind of just like more ad mini stuff to do.
Speaker 1: But I really wanted to get it done before the
Speaker 1: weekend because I wouldn't have time to catch.
Speaker 2: Up on the weekend. Anyway.
Speaker 1: I was going to bail and just go, oh, look,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't have enough time, blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: But then I just thought, Georgia, like your emails are
Speaker 1: going to be there when you, you know, get back to
Speaker 1: your computer on Monday or whatever. Like you've done the
Speaker 1: most important things. You don't need to be like on
Speaker 1: top of things all the time because these tasks like
Speaker 1: they just keep coming back, there's more of them. Like,
Speaker 1: just take some time to yourself, It's okay. And so
Speaker 1: I didn't bail. I had this time with my best
Speaker 1: friend and it completely filled up my car and just
Speaker 1: made me feel so good. And it was only about,
Speaker 1: you know, three hours, but I thought, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: someone who can create my own schedule, like what am
Speaker 1: I doing with my priorities?
Speaker 2: And it was like I needed to do that, and.
Speaker 1: Also like I have a great example this this weekend
Speaker 1: that just has gone On Sunday, I did beach coffee
Speaker 1: was Tim, which was great, and then I saw some
Speaker 1: girlfriends and we just went to the beach and we
Speaker 1: turned and we had a laugh and had some assiables
Speaker 1: and that was amazing. But I still kind of felt
Speaker 1: like I hadn't had my mean time because I'm a
Speaker 1: bit of an introvert and I was giving out a
Speaker 1: lot of energy and so I, you know, like they
Speaker 1: were all going to have some ava drinks and watch
Speaker 1: the UFC fight and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2: And so I decided to go home and Tim still.
Speaker 1: Wasn't home, and I had a shower, I cleaned up
Speaker 1: the house, I got a bit sort of for the
Speaker 1: next day, and then I just there and I read
Speaker 1: my book and I looked out the window.
Speaker 2: And I know you're probably thinking this is like the
Speaker 2: most boring thing, but it.
Speaker 1: Felt so good, and I hadn't done anything like that
Speaker 1: because usually, if you know, I've got home on a
Speaker 1: Sunday and I've got a spare hour or two, I'm
Speaker 1: like prepping for the next week and I'm doing some
Speaker 1: meal prep, I'm writing my to do lists, and to
Speaker 1: just have that time where you know, I still saw friends,
Speaker 1: I still did, you know, get ready. I didn't really
Speaker 1: get ready for the week, but I kind of just
Speaker 1: like cleaned up my room and made myself a bit sortid.
Speaker 1: But then still having that hour where I just did nothing,
Speaker 1: and you know, previous to me would have been like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's so unproductive, like i'd I'll just get some stuff done,
Speaker 1: and it just felt so goddamn good. So anyway, guys,
Speaker 1: I just had to share, and I've been calling it,
Speaker 1: like to Tim and my family, I'm like, it's the
Speaker 1: hour of power, the hour of me, and I'm really
Speaker 1: committing to this process because I am very committed to
Speaker 1: this health journey of you know, helping my hoshimotos and
Speaker 1: helping my autoimmune condition. But I strongly believe that like
Speaker 1: life doesn't happen to me, it happens for me. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, on this journey, I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be learning things like this and growing as a human.
Speaker 1: So anyway, long story short, I've been taking an hour
Speaker 1: out for just me.
Speaker 2: It has been so amazing.
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you guys about it and really
Speaker 1: challenge you if you're feeling the same and needing something
Speaker 1: like that to do it. But yeah, I'm going to
Speaker 1: wrap up this episode. It was just a little quickie,
Speaker 1: a little update. I hope you enjoyed it. Like always, guys,
Speaker 1: if you enjoyed this episode, please screenshot it, tag me
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Speaker 1: and get some to listen to the pod. But thank
Speaker 1: you so much, guys. I will catch you in my
Speaker 1: next episode.
Speaker 2: Bye.
Speaker 1: For now, there's no maybe there's only type of food dreams.
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