"Taking Aligned Action" with Rebecca Stephens

https://www.lfenergetics.com/

A lot of people can talk about “healing.” Fewer can describe what it feels like to live years in survival mode and then climb out, one choice at a time. I’m joined by Rebecca Stephens, founder of Life Force Energetics, who shares the lived experience behind her work: a childhood across cultures, the unimaginable loss of her young daughter to cancer, and the long stretch afterward where therapy, medication, and coping strategies still didn’t restore peace in her body. Her honesty lands hard, and it opens the door to real hope.

From there, we get practical. Rebecca explains how she moved from aromatherapy and brain curiosity into energy medicine, eventually creating her own hands-on approach called quantum neuro-repatterning. We break down what she means by the quantum field in plain English: a space of information and infinite possibilities that becomes more available when we quiet the mind, soften the body, and stop fixating on one narrow story. We also talk trauma in a way that’s useful, not dramatic: trauma can be big or small, but what matters is how much it disrupts the nervous system and gets stored as a pattern.

We go deeper into why people “bungee cord” back to old stress loops, why calm can feel unsafe when chaos has been your normal, and how lasting change often requires alignment across body, mind, energy, and soul. Rebecca even shares a simple, listener-friendly technique you can try at night to settle your system and invite insight. If you’re interested in nervous system regulation, trauma healing, manifestation that includes aligned action, and practical mind-body tools, this conversation will meet you where you are.

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Transcript

Welcome Back And Guest Setup

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Hello and welcome to the Bamboo Lab Podcast with your host, Peak Performance Coach Brian Bosley. Are you stuck on the hamster wheel of life, spinning and spinning, but not really moving forward? Are you ready to jump off and soar? Are you finally ready to sculpt your life? If so, you've landed in the right place. This podcast is created and broadcast just for you. All of you strivers, thrivers, and survivors out there. If you'd like to learn more about Brian and the Bamboo Lab, feel free to reach out to explore your true peak level at www.bamboollab3.com.

Brian 0:41

Welcome everyone to this week's episode of the Bamboo Lab Podcast. It's really good to be back on track again, as all of you know, all of you um subscribers, and I've taken some time off, man. And I've I took a few months and just scattered some podcast episodes here and there. But thankfully we're back on track. We have five interviews in a 10-day period, so we'll have content for the next several weeks, and we're doing more podcasts uh two, three, four weeks down the road. So, and I've really been trying to be selective about the people who either reach out to me and get referred to me, or people like our next guest who I proactively reached out to her. I'm looking for content from people who have had really great life experiences and are now sharing their journey and their wisdom and their and their and their um their craft to the world at helping other people. So um, and this is a a friend of mine, well, a lady in Facebook, a Facebook friend we've never met, but she's um from my um my hometown or my city that I lived in for 20 some years in the in southwest Michigan, so in that area. And I really liked her content. I liked her style, and um, I thought I just did a little more research and I reached out to her through Facebook uh messaging and we agreed to talk. We had a little conversation last week. And uh without further ado, I want to introduce my friend, my new friend from Life Force Energetics, Rebecca Stevens. Welcome to the Bamboo Lab Podcast.

SPEAKER_03 2:04

Thank you, Brian. How are you? It's so good to be here.

Brian 2:07

It's fun. It was fun talking last week.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

It was, yeah.

Brian 2:12

There's a lot of, I mean, what you do is different than what I do, but there's so much uh cross set crossover and just when you're trying to help people and work with people and help them to change the trajectory of their lives. I just find that, you know, when I meet with somebody like that and I get to talk to them, especially like in your arena is so more specialized than mine is. And uh, but it's just I find it fascinating. And I think I'm gonna learn a lot from this episode that I can incorporate into my life. So I'm excited to have you on.

SPEAKER_03 2:38

I'm excited to be here. Yes. Like I said, I was asking for more podcasts to be on, and I was asking to manifest it, and then here it is. So thank you for having me.

Brian 2:51

Old guy from Marquette, Michigan just happened to reach out, does it look like you're good. Um, well, you know, I I got a little bit time to get to know you a little bit last week on the phone, but can you tell us a little bit about yourself, where you're from, you know, you know, family, whatever, who or what inspired you growing up? Just give us a good sense of who Rebecca

A Childhood Across Cultures

Brian 3:10

is.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Sure. So um I'm really from a lot of different places. I was born in Michigan, but my parents were missionaries. So I went to 12 different schools growing up. And I also, um, as a child lived in Costa Rica and Honduras. And then when we had to move back to the United States, it was like reverse culture shock moving back to um live in the US. So it was really um an interesting growing up childhood period for me. Not many people, I think, have that experience. And what that did for me growing up in a different country was it allowed me to see the world as a young person from a very different perspective, right? So I grew up understanding that there's lots of different things and people and cultures and lifestyles out there, not just the ones that are right in front of us. Um, so grew up like that. And then when I was 20, I had my first child, and she we found out that she had cancer when I was 22. She was two years old. And then she passed away when I was 25. So I lived in a hospital basically with her for two and a half years, um, battling her cancer. And she died at home. So again, another huge like life transformation, right? At a pretty young age, um, and not knowing really how to go through it um really well. And back then, this was um, gosh, 11 years ago she passed away, right? No, 16. I don't know. She more than that, 26. I time is hard for me sometimes. But um, so she was born in 1995 and she passed away in 2000. But through all of that, my point is that back then I didn't have a lot of resources like we do now, whether it be coaching or alternative holistic healing methods, or even in um the more allopathic like um psychological or psychology studies, right? We're coming now into a time where we're researching the nervous system and the fascia in the body and our brains, and we we just know a lot more now of how to help people. And so from the age of about 25 to I would say 32, um, I just really struggled to want to stay alive and know what to do with my life and who I was, and everything had just kind of crumbled after my daughter passed away. So I was really searching for something and I had done all of the other stuff. I had gone to therapy, multiple different therapists, none of that was helping. Um, I had been on a cocktail of um medications, I prescription medications, I tried drugs, I tried alcohol, I tried very promiscuous, dangerous things. I just wanted to feel better, Brian. I just wanted happiness again. I wanted to wake up wanting to live, not wanting to die. Um, so at the time when I was 32, I started to find um like Abraham Hicks and some other um like law of attraction sort of teachers and leaders out there. And that path led me to um aromatherapy. And I started to find that aromatherapy really helped me and how I felt. And as I started to become a certified aromatherapist, I learned more about the brain. So I became very curious and interested in the brain because again, I was trying to get away from having chronic negative thinking and having those feelings and emotions in my body and not knowing what to do with them or how to transform them or how to um make them not my major reality, but maybe just something in the background so that I could function as a happy, productive, creative um human being that was contributing, not someone who felt like a victim or kept myself in that sort of victim mentality. I was trying to get out of that. So through that journey, um, I started a little apothecary where I was blending essential oils and I had a little retail shop called Drop by Drop Drop Apothecary, and people would come in and they would talk to me, and then they would say, Oh my gosh, I feel so much better just talking to you. And they would leave without buying anything. So I um ran my little retail store for a couple of years, and I knew that I needed to change the um business model because obviously I wasn't making enough money because no one was buying anything in the retail store, but they were enjoying talking to me. And I found that I have a really great way of speaking to people and helping them regulate their nervous systems just by me regulating my nervous system. And I learned about people a lot in that situation. And one day a woman came in and she's like, Have you ever thought about learning energy medicine and energy healing? And I was like, No, what is that? So then I went down a whole

Loss, Grief, And Wanting To Live

SPEAKER_03 8:50

interesting road of educating, um, education, getting certifications all over the United States, kind of all over the world, um, on energy medicine and different techniques. And I landed on Dr. Joe Dispenza and Greg Braden and Bruce Lipton, and they all talk about the brain and the nervous system and our thoughts and epigenetics and things like that. So in 2017, I started um Life Force Energetics, and I because as I was learning these different techniques and these different modalities, I really started to feel better. And I was like, oh wow, I get to create my life differently and I get to think differently, and I get to repattern my thoughts and I get to um feel better because I learned that me feeling better was really in my habits and my choices and my thinking. And so, sort of like how we go to the gym and we want to train a muscle, you have to do that pretty much consistently if you've ever done any kind of bodybuilding or muscle building. If you stop going for a while, you'll lose that muscle structure, you'll lose that tone. So I learned that practicing what I do and what I teach every day had to be a part of my lifestyle. And that's really where Life Force Energetics came from. I just wanted to practice it every day, and a great way for me to practice it is to help other people with it. So then out of that, I developed my own methodology called quantum neurorepatterning. And basically, that what that message methodology is, is it's a hand-on technique that helps people repattern and reprogram their nervous systems and their neurological pathways that they have in their brain. And it's a form of um energetics, energy medicine. I studied a lot of quantum physics. And so I use um the quantum field to access energy and different um feelings and techniques and observations to help my clients get through whatever it is that they're going through, um, to repattern themselves, either their habits or their behaviors, or their feelings, or their emotions, or their thoughts, or their point of view, or their judgments, to get them to a place to where they really want to be, whether it's they want something like a better job or they want a different life, um, or they feel stuck, or they're in pain, or they can't sleep. So the methodology really kind of covers um helping people with a lot of different things. It's not just one thing, but it has helped um hundreds of people over the last nine years, and I really love doing it. And now I'm actually starting to teach it as a methodology to teach other practitioners how to do it.

Brian 11:56

Okay. Now, can we go back a minute? Can uh for some of the audience members who are thinking and asking themselves what is quantum field? Can you explain what quantum field is?

SPEAKER_03 12:05

So the quantum field is the way quantum physics describes it is it's basically the field of energy where everything comes from. So it's where we can access like information. So if you sit in a meditation and you quiet your mind and you quiet your body, and you can sit there for long enough to expand your energy out to access something other than what your brain can think of, that's that information is coming from the quantum field. So when you have like an aha moment, or even I would say our intuition or our awareness or something that I call our knowing that's like beyond the ego and beyond thinking, all of that information is in the quantum field. And in the quantum field, it's like an energy field of infinite possibilities. So if you can think about it, if you can be aware of it, if you can ask for it, it's going to come from that field of possibility. And in the quantum field, there's a study that's out there, and you can um Google it or watch it on YouTube. There's lots of people talking about it and describing it, but it's the where you observe a particle, and if you observe a particle as a solid, then it'll it will be a solid. But if you observe a particle as a wave, then it will be a wave. So with our thoughts, which we can literally now um measure the energy of our thoughts, that then is going to be what gets created for you in your life. So let's say you wake up in the morning and you're like, oh, I can't, I can't pay rent today. I have a lot of clients that are struggling financially right now with the economy and everything. And so if you wake up and thinking, if you're thinking that, then that's all the possibilities that you're gonna see. It's sort of like you have blinders on then, and you're like, okay, I can't pay rent today, I can't pay rent today, I can't pay rent today. And it's going to disrupt your nervous system as well because you're gonna start feeling that in your body. But if you can open up and ask a question, like, well, what can I choose that might help me pay some of rent today? Or what are all the infinite possibilities that I've never even thought of before that could help me come up with an idea that would help me pay rent today? So it's like getting our thoughts out of a singularity and opening us up to infinite possibilities.

Brian 14:45

So basically we kind of plugging in. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 14:48

Okay, definitely. Yeah.

Brian 14:49

I was listening to uh Dr. Julia Moss Mossg? Mossbridge, I think. She's a um cognitive neuroscientist yesterday on a podcast. And she that that's her actually, it's on one of one of Joe Rogan's uh recent ones. I I really liked what she had to say, and I've heard of her before, so I listened to it. She talks a lot about that from a scientific level of how her her theory is that everything has is is that every piece of knowledge or thought or feeling is that's ever happened or are or will happen is somewhere in the universe. And she had a term for it. It was almost like there was this big data database that you you that you can plug in. That's why they do the the um the nonverbal or the non-speaking uh uh you know, maybe autistic per uh child or something, and they can predict things

The Turn Toward Aromatherapy

Brian 15:40

or they can be miles away and they can you can put up a a picture on you know while you're talking to that person on a phone call and they can describe the picture and they're going to all it's getting real deep, but I mean this the idea is it's there's something more than just between our ears.

SPEAKER_02 15:55

Yes, definitely.

Brian 15:56

That's a very limited amount, but we can pull that power in. Have you ever read anything by Stephen Pressfield?

SPEAKER_03 16:02

I haven't. No.

Brian 16:04

Stephen Pressfield is a is a an incredible author. Um he wrote uh uh well, the movie The 300 is based on it with the Spartans, but his book was a deep research historical fictional um account of that series, Gates of Fire, I think, or something like that. But he's written several books, and his books are really intellectual, but because they're really well researched historical fiction. Um but he's written a lot of books now recently for thinkers and authors and really anybody in his one of my favorite books of all time. Um I read it, I read it every year. It's called the um The War of Art. Um instead of the art of war, it's the war of art. And in there he talks about as an such an accomplished author, he has plugged, he said, I don't really create my ideas. He said, No one does. He said, I yeah, what I tell people is our ideas come from the muse. And we have to be sitting, like if you want to in the muse, could be you could believe it to be God or an angel or the universe, whatever it is, but there's the muse, he calls it the muse. And he said, If if as a writer, if I'm not sitting down writing, and the museum comes by me to give me this piece of wisdom to share, the muse will just keep going. So you have to be doing the work to collect the muse's, you know, wisdom. And I really really I like that idea. Um I know one of the things you talk about, and I I think I saw this on your um website was when you look at healing, because you heal you're working with people of all different you I know you work a lot primarily with women, but you also will work with men too. But it's sometimes it's people who are going through trauma. And can you describe your definition of trauma? Because a lot of people think of trauma as something like what you went through as a young girl, a young mother. Can you decide describe what trauma could be to anybody?

SPEAKER_03 17:53

Um trauma could actually even just be stubbing your toe. Like, like trauma is um, you know, when when something really disrupts and changes your nervous system enough that it sort of sticks you, and then it's stored in your body. And then as that trauma, it can be then it can come up again, or you can be reminded of it, or you can be triggered, then the brain, you're gonna feel that feeling in your body, and the brain then that information will go through the reticular activating system, and then the brain has to decide that reticular activated system has to decide where it's gonna land that information from the body. And so then it will continue, that's where the pattern gets started. So then it will continue sending it to the thought form where the brain goes, Oh, you're being traumatized, or oh, this is something bad that's happening to you.

Brian 18:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:54

So, and and for and everybody's different, right? Like if you have a really sensitive person who has never had much support or training or knowledge about who they are and that their sensitivities are okay, literally stubbing their toe could be a traumatic event to them.

Brian 19:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 19:14

Because maybe there's no one there for them, or maybe there's no one to help them, you know, heal it or what to do with it.

Brian 19:22

And so from that perspective, if like when somebody let's say somebody d has a traumatic experience in a in at any phase in life, but typically younger, I'm thinking of younger, um and they really don't truly they kind of live in that trauma. They don't work through it, they you know, they don't have a guide. Does is it hard for them when they when they kindly can then they can finally break free on a cult, I don't know, but from that trauma or that experience and kind of you know get that healing they need. Is it sometimes hard for them to go back to like, okay, I'm not living in trauma? Like I'm not in survival mode every day. I'm now my life is more peaceful, I'm more energetic, I have more can feel more control. And does that is that sometimes a difficult adjustment for people?

SPEAKER_03 20:04

A hundred percent, Brian. Yes, because the nervous system and the brain get programmed and regulated to a fight, flight, freeze, or fun state of being.

unknown 20:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 20:16

And so that becomes your normal. And then when you want to get out of that, you want that to change and you want your normal to be I can create from ease, I can create from peace, I can live and ease and peace

Finding Energy Medicine And A New Path

SPEAKER_03 20:30

and relaxation like 90% of the time. There will still be things, painful situations that come in. We're still human, um, we still live in this 3D reality. Stuff's gonna come up and come in that still might be um uncomfortable, maybe a little bit triggering, but not as much as it was. Is there's still gonna be that stuff there. But definitely when we are regulated to a nervous system that the normal is that, you know, stuck response, that frozen response, or that fight response, or that freeze and fawn and like overwhelm. I'm just gonna sit down and do nothing because I'm just too overwhelmed. If that's your normal, then you're gonna keep bungee cording yourself back to that normal until you finally change that loop or that pattern enough to where you can catch it and go, oh wait, that's not that's not my normal anymore. How do I want to feel? What do I want to think? Is this a productive thought for me? Is this really who I am and who I want to be? But originally what's gonna happen though is that your nervous system, your brain is gonna tell you that that's that relaxed state, that easy state, that more peaceful state isn't safe because it's not your normal and where you've lived for so long.

Brian 21:55

Yeah, when you're when you've constantly put out fires, you kind of want to start your own fires when once you put them out. I mean it seems that way for I I know for me in my younger younger years, that's kind of what I lived. You know, it wasn't a problem. I'll just create a problem. So I'll have something to do. You know, something to focus on. Um you mentioned too, and I um that the kind of the you really have to heal in four layers. Uh I think it's body, mind, energy, soul or soul energy, I'm not but body mind. Can you talk on that a little bit to really get true healing?

SPEAKER_03 22:27

Yeah. So um I'm working on another framework to go along with um the quantum neural repatterning. And it's called the alignment method. And so what I found for myself is that if my body and my mind and my energy and my spirit or my soul are not in alignment, I'm basically an unconscious creator of crap. So if I'm if I'm just in the body and I'm feeling my body all the time and I'm in constant pain and suffering and dysregulation and autoimmune disease or whatever it is, then I'm not gonna be able to hear anything else or feel or see anything else. I'm just gonna be in that situation with my body. If I'm only in the mind or the brain, I can't really have the coherence with my body and I'm not gonna understand my body or I'm not even gonna be connected to my body. And if I'm just in my mind, then I'm gonna start believing that I can think my way out of it. Like somehow I'm gonna have the knowledge or the information or whatever it is, I'm gonna be able to think my way out of it. And most of the time, if you're thinking, you're stinking, like you're not really ever gonna be able to think your way out of something because you're not allowing then all the infinite possibilities to be shown to you. You're not gonna be aware of them if you're just in the mind. And then um, with energy, if you're just in energy, then you're not grounded usually. Like if people are working just it with energy, they're they're usually kind of floaty, flighty. Um, they're not connected to anything in the mind and the body. And the mind and the body are still necessary and required. They're actually very helpful and beneficial to us. It's just we don't maybe use them properly, or we don't know how to use them properly, or be with them properly. But if you're just in the energy side, then you're then you're kind of bypassing things too. You're not looking at what's actually causing it. Now, I don't necessarily believe that you always have to look at it. You can transform that without actually like rehashing it over and over again. Maybe just to acknowledge that it happened and then say, okay, I want to move beyond this. How do I do that? But if you're just in energy, you're usually bypassing things. And then the soul and the spirit, um, you know, that's like our higher selves. That's like the peace and part of us that I believe is the infinite being, the the part of us that really our bodies are within that. We're not actually in our bodies.

Brian 25:12

Okay. Wow, interesting. Wow, that's that's pretty deep. Um, it's deep, but it makes so much sense. And I think you and I, when we spoke on the phone last week, I share with you maybe 20 years ago, a client of mine gave me the book, The Secret.

SPEAKER_02 25:26

Yeah.

Brian 25:27

I looked at it, I read kind of like the back. I'm like, this is a bunch of bullshit. And I I did, I thought I threw it away, but I I remembered I didn't. I put it in my bar, I put it in a box or something. Well, I didn't believe in manifestation energy in the sense that we're talking energy anyway. I didn't, I just didn't believe in anything. I was very pragmatic about things. And um, I don't know what it was, Rebecca. I don't can't remember like if there were and so many things happened during that time period. It was probably uh, you know, I was given fuck custody of my my son who was two years old and raising him on my own, and probably was more connecting more with I now I want to, you know, do this. I know I had helped raise my daughter already. She was sixteen or she was 18 at the time when he was two, so there's a big gap between my two children. But as a little older father and having sole responsibility for this little tiny boy, I think I started thinking maybe maybe that's kind of what was my my my fulcrum to think of him of other of other sources of of energy or power or strength or whatever wisdom. I don't know what it was, but something happened, and then I started really kind of looking at that manifestation, but from a uh a neuroscientific level, I really like to read on neuroscience. I mean, I'm I'm a novice

The Quantum Field In Plain English

Brian 26:40

at best, but I like the study of neuroscience. And hearing neuroscientists and behavioral scientists as well talking about manifestation, plugging into the universe, energy. I'm like, whoa, whoa, what's uh time? Let's go back a little bit here. Well, also at that time, right before I was given full custody of my son, I was a I believe at the time I was an atheist. Um, I don't remember. I would I I went atheist, atheist agnostic believer. I went Catholic atheist agnostic believer through the course of my 59 years. Um but I think that that time and I I we started seeing uh sort uh what I don't know what to say, ghosts. I don't know what the hell else to call it, ghosts in our house in down in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And um, my this was when I was just at the tail end of my marriage. So my ex-wife and I, um, my father-in-law saw them, my family experienced things when when they were there, but um my son was reporting something, you know, talking about something a little boy in his room. Um, and I saw two entities. I'm plain as day. My father-in-law's son saw one when he was out mowing the lawn through our window looking out the in the basement. It was a little boy, and at the time it was only three of us in the house. It was uh the two of us and you know, a year and a half-year-old baby. Um, and my son Dawson would talk about a little boy in his bedroom. Anyway, I that was kind of a trigger too, I think was and that was early stage thinking, okay. There's uh what I'm what I've now I have proof in my mind that everything I believed was wrong. Like there's something beyond this. There's something's there. I don't know if it's uh so but today, I mean, just kind of fast forwarding, I am a full-on believer, and I just a knower, actually. I just know that manifestation and plugging in that I like like we talked about earlier, it works and it's real. Like I you know, I look back and think of my ignorance, and I know there are a lot of people out there in the audience right now probably feeling the way and thinking the way I did 20 years ago. But I'm just gonna ask the bamboo packta, those who are already believers, man, keep believing, keep researching, reach out to Rebecca. We'll include her website in the in the show notes. Um, but those who don't, open your mind a little bit and just think ask yourself, what if? Um so um that's good stuff, man. And uh it's weird though. It's it's it to me, it's like it's because it's hard, like you can't touch it, but you can see the results from it. You can feel the results from it. Um, and now it's one of the number one things I do with a client when I first they hire me, is when we work together, is the first thing to do is an exercise that involves manifestation. And that's kind of that's the groundwork of the framework for the rest of our coaching, which becomes more pragmatic, but this is more like I don't even like to use the word pragmatic, it becomes more touchable, but it starts off with this idea. And most people are like, what is this? You haven't they I'm like, dude, trust me, just trust me, trust me. Um not to the level you do, but it's a very, you know, uh surface uh level manifestation, but there's a deeper process that goes into it before you start manifesting. Um, but um okay, so uh enough of that. So um I want to ask a lot of questions, and I I I kind of think we're gonna probably make this into a two-part series, maybe in a couple of months, get come back together and do this. Because I think there's so much to explore here. And I, you know, as I was going through your website, I really was fascinated by the testimonials in there because the testimonials were very real, like the you know, Rebecca helped me take the pain away from my body. I mean, those are when I hear a testimony like that, I really get like, okay, this is that's a real physical result of something. You know, you can say I was I felt better, and that's which is good. I mean, there's nothing wrong with feeling better after meeting with somebody when somebody says this is what you specifically did for me, I you know that was part of the reason why I really wanted to get you on here too. Um, so tell us a little bit about what when you're talking to a uh a bamboo pack member out there in the audience somewhere in the in the ether. Explain to them how what you do, or no, I let's rephrase that. Explain to them what they might be feeling right now or experiencing, where what you offer in your expertise could benefit, what could be a benefit. So give an example of what they might be experiencing or feeling right now.

SPEAKER_03 31:03

Um, so if they are or were experiencing like extreme stress, um, extreme nervous system um dregulation, any kind of um like trauma or grief, I help people transform that feeling because it's not it's it's real. Like I witness it with them, and then we also go go, okay, what else is possible here? And we move it energetically, mostly into something else where the body and the mind stop looping it as the trauma or the pain, and we move it into something that's like, oh, it's just information, or oh yes, I did go through that, and now what is it that I really super desire in my life to have? And most of it, most of the time is I want more joy, I want more ease, I want more peace, I want more fun, I want less pain, I want to be able to sleep better, I want less stress. And so moving from that place or space that you are with that dysregulated nervous system where the trauma had occurred, where you might have been abused or gone some through something really difficult and hard, instead of living in that all the time, to moving into a, I call it like a clear water space. So if you can imagine that that space that you're in right now is like a mucky, muddy water space. And then to be able to look over and go, oh, there's a clear water space over there that's like fresh and so cool and clean. And I just want to move over there to that clear water, that's where we go. We we take you from where you're at and we do it together because I'm not really ever healing anyone. I believe that we're all always healing ourselves. Um, but we go from that mucky water to that clear water space, and we we that's where you stay. And occasionally there might be like a little flow of mucky water then that flows through there, but it never stays or sticks you as long as it did before. You'll be able to move out of it out of it faster and easier. And yeah, does that answer your question? Yeah, it does, yeah.

Brian 33:37

Okay. Which it may which leave brings up uh well that interesting thing, that that clear water thing, I was interviewing um oh my god, he's a really oh my god, I can't think of his name. He he he's a children's author. He writes children's horror books, he's got like hundreds of them. I forget his name. Well, his pseudonym anyway, I forget. Um anyway, um, Jonathan Rand. And this is probably two years ago, and he um he was talking about in in in the in the podcast, we talked about you know writing and things like that, a lot of stuff. He's a very interesting, interesting, smart man. And he talked about uh meditation, and he used the example of and I and I'm not a meditator, I tried, for some reason it scares me. I don't know what it is. I keep trying, but it does, I'm scared to do it. And I know why. I don't want to sit in my own head quietly for that long because I I guess my mind just starts to wander. So it's something I I kind of turn more to prayer, and it's kind of a medif uh it's kind of a meditation. But um anyway, in there he was explaining what his idea of meditation is. It's when you oftentimes you it's like your body, your your mind is like a jar

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Brian 34:40

of water and dirt, or sand, you could call it. And when you're moving around, your mind is just going, it's your that that jar is being constantly shaken up, so you can't see through that. But when you meditate or settle, he said, then just like your your mind and your everything settles, that sand settles to the bottom of that jar. And so when you pick it up now, you can see through it. And that made a lot of sense to me. Even though I haven't meditated more, I thought of that that metaphor, that visual, when I'm just needing to relax a little bit, just okay, because I'm used to for me, Rebecca. I I I'm guilty of this. I live alone. I'm an empty nester, my dog's been gone for two years. Like, I it's just me. Um, and so that quiet of my house gets eerie to me. Not scary, like not spooky, but just like uncomfortable. And I noticed that I don't watch a lot of TV. Uh TV's almost never on. I'll watch Modern Family at night for maybe an hour before I go to bed, just watch because I love that show. Um, but it's always a book on tape, an audiobook, I mean, or a podcast going, um, sometimes music. And I was it in the last week, I don't know what it was, I didn't have anything on. So I'm in the bathroom, brush my teeth in the morning. And usually, again, I have a podcast on or an audio book going, uh piping through the speakers. And um, I didn't have it on that morning. And I took the toothpaste cap off, or no, I'm sorry, I brushed my teeth, and then I put the little thing that goes over the head of my toothbrush, like a little holder so it doesn't get dirty, and I put it back in the cabinet. And just the sound of me doing that made me think, I never hear that sound. It's a mundane sound, doesn't mean anything, there's no impact on me, but I don't ever hear it because I always have in the speakers piping through the house is this a book on tape or a podcast. And it made me realize I don't ever want to be here when it's quiet. So I purposely have stopped doing that. A lot more anyway. Like I don't like I'll just do my life without having some background, you know, instructional or story or whatever, you know, book or podcast going. And so I had and I now this last week I feel these last few days, I feel like that jar is settling. And that's all I did. I didn't sit and meditate. I just was with myself alone more uh more often in a lone or uh in a quiet environment. And so that was kind of when I when you were talking about that. I know what you're talking about is much more advanced, but that idea of seeing that being that clear water, it's so much more powerful.

SPEAKER_03 37:07

Mm-hmm. Definitely. Um, would you like me to share a little technique I use?

Brian 37:13

Yeah, that's why I said it. I'm looking for some advice.

SPEAKER_03 37:17

So um when you go to sit quietly, what I've found to meditate is that I have to be an in an extremely extremely vulnerable state, which is scary for most people. And when I say that, I mean a vulnerability that's like I'm willing to receive and feel and experience anything that's gonna come up for me. Because when you're meditating, a lot of stuff can come up. So um, when someone's in a session with me, especially an energy session, and the quantum neural repatterning is basically like meditation on steroids. And what happens is I tell people to lower all your walls and barriers. So if you just sit up for a moment, Brian, are you sitting in a chair? I'm assuming that you are. Okay. So just take a couple deep breaths. And try to exhale for longer than your inhale. So when you inhale, maybe inhale for four and then exhale for eight to ten. Just try to eliminate all of the oxygen, all of the breath out of your body. So after you do that a couple of times, and what I tell people is is just to lower all your walls and barriers. And you don't really have to understand cognitively what that means. You can just say to yourself and your physical body, body, energy, energy body, mind, lower all your walls and barriers. And then from that space, expand out. And by expanding out, I mean from where you're sitting quietly, allow yourself to sort of energetically or in your mind imagine someplace or somewhere farther away from you. So maybe for us it's like Lake Michigan. So from my house, I usually expand out to Lake Michigan. And I've been there enough times that I can sort of bring that experience to the present moment, to where I'm at, and then just be there and allow your mind to sort of be in that space. But it's that energetically like openness. That's where you can start to really feel the sparks of possibilities and the information that's available to us in the quantum field.

Brian 40:09

You know what was interesting. I did do that, and I and I pictured a place where I hike almost every day at Black Rocks, and um and what it was what what happened, I don't know, I don't know what this means, but my face got my like my nose area got really warm. I don't know. I don't know what that meant. Like I and I was thinking that I'm like, is it because of my breathing? So then I start thinking of what why is this happening? You know, I just marked in the in the in the podcast that was about the 39-minute mark of when you because I'm gonna go back and read, I'm gonna listen to that again, and I want to try that method. Um, because you know, I've shared this so many times, Rebecca, on the podcast, and I probably shared this with you last week. I'm a very strict morning person, uh very strict routine six days a week, but I don't have a good evening routine. And I find myself uh almost in the evenings, like I get a lot of unease in the evenings, um, where I'm like, okay, you know, and you know, I know my son and his girlfriend and their dog, they're they're they're doing their thing, they're hiking, they're walking. My daughter's settling down with her family, so everybody's kind of tucking in for the day. And and I'm like, okay, what do I do? Like, you know, do I read? Do I watch TV? Do I do an edible? What do I do here? And um, and that idea is I want to have some type of a transition for myself, like at say six o'clock, where I do one thing that kind of because waking up and doing the thing I do, which is I do planks right away, that's a transition for me. When I'm doing my planks, I know my day is now officially started. Um, and then I go make my bed and all that stuff. But um, and so I have that, but I don't have an and I'm thinking that like something of we that exercise you just shared could be a good transition and try that maybe two or three days a week to you know, start with because I'm a I'm a guy who starts and builds over time um with things, and so that usually works for me. But I'm gonna try that. I'm gonna try to do that like a just a couple of nights this between now and the end of the by between now and Saturday. Um, because I think that would be kind of like okay, my body can be vulnerable. I can my mind, my space can be, I can feel more, you know, just like the best word I can use is plugged in, you know. Yeah, and I know I can there's so many places I can picture that I've been to many times that I just love, especially in this area, um, with the you know, cliffs and the water and the and the things like that, that um I can just go there because it's places I just love to be, you know. I just I could just sit and look. Oh yeah. Yeah. I have a question. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 42:33

Okay, one more thing to add to that little practice is then as you drift off to sleep, because you can do that while you're laying in bed or you know, preparing for sleep or whatever, too. But then ask or say, like, universe, show me what I need to know,

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SPEAKER_03 42:50

or so universe, surprise me when I wake up in the morning and then see what happens.

Brian 42:56

Okay. Um I'm just writing this down. So great. Thank you for that. And I, for everybody who's listening, a lot of you are on your treadmill, you're hiking, you're running, you're driving, you're in your office. This would be go back somewhere between that 35 and 39 minute mark in the podcast. Um start there and go back and listen to it again. I think this could be an impetus for a lot of people to start plugging in.

SPEAKER_03 43:23

Um I'd love to hear what happens for people too if they try it.

Brian 43:26

Yeah. So I mean, you um, anybody you know how to reach me, Brian at Bamboo Lab3.com. So feel free to reach out with anybody who's tried this and just see what they and I and I know any heart letters we get, you know, sh please share with us what you got out of this podcast uh this episode, um, what you're doing, how's it working for you? Then I can re I can send that back to Rebecca, or they can you can go to um light uh life uh life force energetics and I'll include the the the show notes, I'll include the uh website address. So go there and let her know directly.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

I would love to hear it.

Brian 43:56

Rebecca, I've got a question for you. You talk about trauma, and one of the things that um I try to tell I mean I try I've convinced myself over the years is that the things that happened to me in my childhood um didn't happen to me, they happened for me. Um now it took a lot for me to really work through a lot of things to feel blessed by at this point in life, blessed by some of the things that were traumatic at the time, because they did build me to the person I am today and the amount of love I feel I can give people and how much I feel for others. The question for you is when you deal with trauma, is it is there is there a better way, is there a healthy or unhealthy way to look at where trauma is a bad thing, we gotta, you know, get it out of our lives, or can we use trauma as a spearhead for us to grow from? Like, okay, if that hadn't happened, I think because of who I am, it's a lot of that happened because of what I went through as a child and how I went, you know, how I worked on it or whatever. So can trauma be a good thing?

SPEAKER_03 45:00

Um yes and no. So I used to believe that everything, all of the trauma could be that spearhead, could be that fire under my rocket ship, right? But in a way, for me at least, and I don't know that this happens for everyone, it just I've seen it with my clients and for myself now, that I had never processed the trauma out of my body. So it had stored in my body for me because it had dysregulated my nervous system enough. And even though in my mind I was saying, okay, all of that happened for me. So I had changed my mind enough, but I hadn't worked with my nervous system or my body enough to transform it out of my body. And not that I would ignore my body, but I would go to, okay, body, I hear you, and everything's gonna be okay. But it would keep coming back. I would still keep getting triggered in ways in my body. So I think that like when we have stress or traumas or abuse or things like that, grief that we've never really worked with in our bodies, then it can become things like tumors, aches and pains showing up, um, stuff that we've stored in the fascia, especially, or things can manifest in our bodies because of that. Like maybe you get a hip or a knee thing going on, and it's like, well, have you, you know, have you processed that? What is that and what's coming up for you? And have if you move the whatever's causing that out of your body, and it might not be something tangible or physical that's really happening, it's something energetic or it's something that's being stored there, like cellular memory in the body. So I believe that if we don't process it with the body sometimes, it can really cause a lot of issues.

Brian 46:59

And my idea of processing with the body or through the body, I mean, and I'm I'm wrong on this. So I'm just I want to be corrected, would be like being physically active, you know, taking care of your body, you know, coal plunges, saunas, red light therapy, whatever. I mean, but that's not really what you mean, right?

SPEAKER_03 47:18

No, I mean like asking your body and or working with a practitioner that can help you ask your body, like, okay, body, what is this? What are you what are you trying to tell me here? Because for me, like within the four pillar methodology with the alignment method, like if we're not communicating with our bodies, if we're not asking our bodies, we're not really then in coherence with the body. The body is an organic, um, like intelligence from this planet, right? Like our cells and and what our bodies exist of basically come from what's available here on earth. Like our infinite beingness, our souls don't really need a body. But because we're existing here and we're having this experience, then the body is required and necessary for this tangible physical creative expansion that we're in here. So if we're not bringing the body with us and we're not really communicating and clear with the body, then we might be misinterpreting what's going on with our body. And I do believe in exercise for sure. Um, I like to lift weights, I like to walk, um, I like to hike, I love doing things, bike, I love doing things with my body. But if I'm not listening to my body and I'm not aware of my body and what's actually going on in my body, then something is probably gonna happen to it.

Brian 48:45

Okay. Okay. Um have you ever read Jonathan Livingston Siegel, the book?

SPEAKER_02 48:52

No.

unknown 48:53

Oh my God.

Brian 48:54

Richard, all right.

SPEAKER_03 48:56

I'm writing it down. I'll just go.

Brian 48:58

It's called Jonathan Livingston Siegel. You can read it in probably an hour to an hour and a half.

unknown 49:03

Okay.

Brian 49:03

It was written in the early 70s by Richard Bach.

SPEAKER_03 49:07

Um I have heard of it. I've just never read it.

Brian 49:10

Oh man. It's so it's it's the book, it's one of three books that was the impetus to me leaving American Express back in 1996 to start coaching. Um it was just weird because like over the I was considering leaving, I was considering, I didn't, I mean, I was 29 years old. I don't know why I ever got into coaching. I was, you know, it was just something I wanted to do with book. And um, but three people recommended that book, completely unreal people irrelet, uh not three people completely

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Brian 49:40

disconnected, didn't know each other, over about a two-month period as I was considering whether I was gonna stay or leave and start consulting my consulting company or my consulting practice. And um I read it and that was the number one impetus. So I read it every year, and it literally takes like an hour and a half to read it.

SPEAKER_02 49:58

Okay.

Brian 49:58

I would love for you to read that because uh people read that book and they get whatever they want out of it. Um but it's a fable about an actual seagull, a seagull who wants to be the wants to break the sound barrier. He wants it, he wants to live unlike every other seagull, which they just scraps off of books. But he has this transcendental experience during it. And every time I read it, I get a little bit more out of that fable. And I mean, my book is just my brother bought me the copy of this book 30. Uh well, he was one of the people who recommended that book to me, and he gave me a copy so 30 years ago. And I that book is you know, I have so many book dear uh dog tags and book you know, highlights and notes in that book. I would love if you read that book and you and I could have a conversation of course on the phone on what you what what you got out of it. Because I think there's so much of what you're talking about. That book just came to my mind as you were talking. Um I'll recommend that. And when you do read it, let me know. Shoot me a text.

SPEAKER_03 50:59

I will, I will, I'll order it today.

Brian 51:02

Oh, good, good. Um the question I love to ask everybody, uh no matter if we ask all of my typical questions or not, is this one question. And let's go back to you at a take, let's say I drove down to Holland, jumped in my time machine, and we took you off to some former state of your life, that's 20, 21, whatever age you want. And you can sit down and talk to your former self, and you can give words of wisdom, uh, recipes for success, advice. What would you tell your younger Rebecca?

SPEAKER_03 51:31

You know, I read that question in your in your um in your email to me before the podcast. And um it was difficult for me to to answer because I sat with it. And you know, going back to what you just said about how everything happens for you, not to you. I guess at some point during my life, maybe when I was really young, I might say to my younger self, it's really gonna be okay. You know, it's just everything is really gonna be okay. Um, but I I honestly don't know how to answer that question. I know that might be kind of weird, but most of the time I really truly believe that everything that's happened to me in my past has happened for my greater and highest good. Um so I don't know that I would want to go back and change anything or to tell myself anything because that might change where I'm at today.

unknown 52:44

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 52:44

And not that not that I don't want things in my life to be different, because there's definitely things in my life that I want to be different, but I'm just not sure if there's anything that I could have told her that would have made a difference. Um yeah.

Brian 53:00

No, that's I don't know. And that that's perfectly fair. Because I, you know, there what what are your thoughts on the observer? I don't know, this isn't the right term now. Observer changes the outcome. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 53:10

You know, my thought, I always I have a mantra that I give my my clients. I tell them, please observe, do not absorb.

Brian 53:19

Okay, that's I mean, they're sci they're showing this scientifically with uh I forget the name of the um the two slit um uh proton. Oh gosh, I can't think of what it is.

SPEAKER_03 53:30

Where yeah, that's what I was talking about earlier, how you observe the particle, if it's a wave or a yeah, a solid. Yeah.

Brian 53:36

I mean, 50 years ago, this was all witchcraft.

SPEAKER_03 53:40

I know it really was.

Brian 53:41

It was psycho babble bullshit for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03 53:43

It was that way 10 years ago. It was called a witch 10 years ago.

Brian 53:46

Well, it was for me 15 years ago, I know, so or whatever it was. Um, but it's interesting now when the scientific uh community is actually getting involved with this. And I think that's a really good start. Um, I think a lot of things are still getting squashed because people don't want their theories and their life work to be challenged. But uh as those uh academics and scientists kind of age out, so to speak, I think some of the newer uh people are coming in, newer uh professionals are coming in and saying, well, we're gonna we're gonna base our theories on this and we're gonna base our studies on this. So they're gonna be looking for more and more reasons to prove it right, not to squash the outcomes of the or the results of the experiments. So I think that's gonna be very exciting for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_03 54:26

Yes, I agree, definitely. And I think um the more we're the more science is able to embrace quantum physics, the more we'll change there as well. Because we'll open ourselves up to other possibilities, like how they're dissecting DNA and starting to learn how to change um the DNA in the body so that we can heal and not have um genetic disease anymore, you know. So there's lots of things happening that I think once we start to open ourselves up to different possibilities, definitely we'll see science moving in that direction. I think we as a collective consciousness too are actually asking for it. And so it's gonna have to become um visible and aware and and there for real and our reality because we're we're saying we want more of this.

Brian 55:18

Right. Well, I I think in social media, better or for worse, the one thing it has allowed is for people to gain knowledge and wisdom on things that they never would have would have had um in their in their purview. Where you know, and they see other people talking about it. I think that's helped in a lot of these what back in the day would be called quack science, but now is becoming more mainstream. Um, I think people are really they're seeing that. You know, you see people using more holistic medication medicines, you see people doing, you know, I mean yoga's through the roof right now. Not that that's you know, it's in some kind of a mind-body uh thing. I mean, people being more in touch with the universe or God or you know, like I'm the best word I can use is plugging in. That was the thing I that when you were saying that earlier, that's what came to mind. I'm gonna use that a lot in my own mind. I'm gonna plug into the cosmos or the universe, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_02 56:06

Yeah.

Brian 56:07

But um, I think that's helped a lot, which is social media with this this you know, infinite amount of of material and content we have. Um, do you believe? Now, I I know we talked about this, and I'm pretty sure I know your answer, but I want to I want to clarify this with so many of the Bamboo Pack members out there who are thinking, okay, if I just manifest, things are gonna be fine. Now, uh, you know, I like Stephen Pressfield's idea, the muse will come to you, but you have to be putting in the work, or he'll just bypass you and it'll just go to the next person doing the work who are trying. So, how do you correlate that? Let's just use talking about manifestation anyway, in plugging in to also working toward what you're trying to manifest. Can you can you address that if that question made any sense?

SPEAKER_03 56:51

Mm-hmm. Yeah. So I call it um taking aligned actions. Um, do you know anything about Vadim Zeeland? He wrote reality transurfing.

Brian 57:02

No.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

Okay. So I'm not gonna his stuff is he's a he was a Russian physicist, but anyway, he he

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SPEAKER_03 57:10

talks about um like you put the idea of what you would like to create out there, and yes, you can use your imagination to imagine it or whatever, but basically, it's not to hold your focus on it, it's to learn about yourself more, so like more self-awareness in what you need to become or the aligned actions that you need to take that will actually help get you more toward or more in the um frequency or the vibration of the thing that you desire. So then you become more of like a magnet to it. And also then whatever is outside of you starts to rearrange itself in a different way because you're taking action toward it. So it's not just sitting there on your couch and eating grapes thinking that, oh, I want that red Ferrari, you know, then it's just gonna come to you. Technically, yes, maybe is that in the realm of infinite possibilities? Sure. But I've found that we're here to create. And so taking those aligned actions will actually help us get to our manifestation.

Brian 58:23

Okay. That's that term take aligned action, that nailed it right there for me. And that makes a lot more sense because I've never been able to put into words what I mean by you can manifest, but you have to work there, you you've got to put in the effort, you've got to put in the work or whatever that is, you know.

SPEAKER_03 58:38

I've heard a lot of people say also about like inspired, like inspired action, or I don't feel inspired to do that. And aligned action is not about inspiration. I want to clarify that because sometimes aligned action is doing something that you really don't feel like doing, but somewhere in your body, mind, energy, and soul, you know that if you do it and you choose it, it will create something different for you.

Brian 59:05

So, okay. So one of the things I work with my clients on at times is to help is to get them to do not maybe not every day, maybe every week. For some people, it depends on the client. To do one thing that kind of scares you, that that's not gonna physically that's not gonna physically hurt you. I mean, it might physically wear you down. Is does that fall into this at all? Yes, okay, for sure.

SPEAKER_03 59:28

Yeah. Like for me, um, earlier today you said something about me showing up and you seeing me on social media. Well, social media doesn't scare me, but it's not something that I actually love doing. Like I'm I'm okay at it, but I'm not like a marketing genius. I'm trying to teach myself how to become better at marketing. But to create a post and do that, it takes time out of my day from my research, my studying, my clients, um, my work, right? To do that marketing piece. But it's something that I know that if I do it and choose it, and it's not maybe fear for me, but it's more like, oh, I have to do that thing.

Brian 1:00:09

Right, yeah. It's not a fun thing. Like it's not something you look forward to doing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:15

Not always. No.

Brian 1:00:17

There are three things I do every day that I don't like, and literally two of them scare me. And but they become a habit now. But they still like when I do, when I jump into a cold shower or a cold plunge, I'm never less scared than I was the very first time I started years ago. I'm never I'm just as scared every time. And planks, when I do planks in the morning, I'm never more fear. I'm never, I'm no, I'm no less fearful when I went from my bed to my my mat than I was years ago when I started. And I really no, the fear's still there. Like I haven't lost any of the fear. Like the thing is I still I maybe fear is a strong word.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:54

Um well, maybe the fear is propelling you to do it, actually.

Brian 1:00:58

It could be. I mean, I I now I don't like there's no I don't second guess it. Like I before I'd be like, oh well, I can do this later. Oh, you know, I can just have a lukewarm shower today. You know, that was years ago. I don't ever question it, so I just do it. But that fear is still there. And and I'm I'm okay with that, really, quite frankly, because it means I'm doing something that is good for me, but also pushes me out of my comfort zone. And I can do it, I can do both of those a lot longer than I so my comfort zone within those is is is is expanding. But maybe so if I if I were to like the first time I ever did a plank, I did it for three three 30 seconds, okay. Um, and I was deathly afraid. Oh my god, planks are gonna hurt. I mean, now if I were to if you were to say do 30 seconds of a plank right now, I'd say there would be no fear there. So the fear expands or the fear stays, but the uh outcome of the long that longevity of planking or cold showers, uh have they've expanded dramatically the time I'm doing them. So maybe that's something that's the but my fears on expanding, it's the same, but yet my doing them, I'm doing them longer. You know what I mean? Does that make sense? I'm not sure if I'm really explaining that right.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:05

So I think I'm hearing you. I also am gonna ask or share this. Um, sometimes what I've found, and this is um based, this is science-informed information. So when we have a feeling, an emotion, or um a feeling in the body, um what happens sometimes is that our brain, the reticular activating system, again, will will store it, we'll send it to the file to where it's not actually meant to go. So we can misidentify and misapply our feelings and emotions. So the and a good example of this is when I was a little car girl and I would get excited, I'd get butterflies in my stomach, and sometimes even to the point to where I'd throw up. Like I'd get so excited, I would throw up.

Brian 1:02:54

So not so you're more not nervous, excited.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:57

Right. But my parents told me that that was anxiety and that I was nervous. So I grew up in as adult believing that whenever I had that feeling, I must be I must be afraid, or I must be nervous, or I must be scared, or I must have lots of anxiety, when really there were times when I was misidentifying, misapplying it, and it was really excitement. And they've measured how

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SPEAKER_03 1:03:20

fear and sometimes anxiety and stress and those types of emotions in the body are the same frequency and the same vibration and the same energy as excitement.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:33

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:33

So we can misidentify and misapply things all the time. And so that's where I ask people to tap into your body too. So when you have a feeling or emotion, like instead of letting the brain just go to where it goes, stop the brain from going there and say, wait, wait, wait, wait. Okay, body, what is this actually? And then listen.

Brian 1:03:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:54

Like sit for a minute and try not to let your brain figure it out, but really try hard to let your body tell you. Like, oh, this isn't actually fear. This is just a feeling of, I don't want to do this, or it might be, you know, I'm just feeling lazy. Or I'm I'm not saying that that's the truth for you, Brian.

Brian 1:04:14

I'm just saying, you know.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:17

Um, but I think there are times where we think it's something and then that stops us, right? Because we think we're feeling afraid of it when really we're not, we're like excited for it.

Brian 1:04:29

Well, I yeah, I see where that is very apropos because I know when a lot of times when I you know, I don't speak as much in public anymore, but um maybe a handful of times a year, a couple times a year now. But you know, I was consistently traveling and speaking for years before COVID. And people would ask me, they still ask me sometimes, do you get afraid? Do you get nervous? I'm like, well, I think it's nerves, but it's more excitement. It kind of, you know, you get that. So what my son has is he's just graduated his senior year, he had a lot of projects, a lot of presentations his senior year, um, in front of, you know, large groups of people, and you know, the dean and things like that at the university. So people who are prominent. And he, we I've and I've always told him, like when he was competing in karate or boxing, is what you feel you consider it maybe fear or nerves, but also maybe it's just excitement. And it's good to feel that because it tells you that you care about it. Those nerves. So it's the same thing. It's exactly what you're saying now. I just never put it, I never put it to the test. Like it was like I I've been saying I'm afraid of cold showers and I'm afraid of planking and whatever it is. And I but I've been saying that so long that my brain just thinks that, but perhaps it's not fear because really nothing bad happens to me.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:39

Well, and then I would also, you know, if that feeling is still there, then maybe also ask your body like, body, is this actually good for you? Like, do you actually want to do this? Like, or is there something else that I could be doing that would actually be more beneficial and more exciting and more generative to my body? And doing these things that I think I should do. Whereas the body's really trying to get your attention and saying, hey, Brian, don't choose this anymore. Like, choose something different. That may not be your truth. I'm just saying you could ask your body that too.

Brian 1:06:14

Well, with the cold showers, I'm probably never going to do that because I know the benefit. And I love when I'm when I'm after like after the first maybe five seconds, I'm perfectly fine. I can sit in there as long as I need to. Um, but planking, I've now moved over over the last couple of months and doing interjecting, doing crunches in there for the core workers. So and crunches, no, they don't, I don't have that same, they don't fear. They're uncomfortable and they hurt, but you know. Um, but um, before we wrap up, is there a is there a chance that we can do an episode two, probably sometime between now and the fall?

SPEAKER_03 1:06:49

Yes, for sure.

Brian 1:06:51

Let's let's count on that because I think there's so much here that I want to dig deeper into. Um, is there any final message you want to leave with the bamboo pack?

SPEAKER_03 1:07:00

Oh, I just um really, if you are out there and oh, I'm gonna cry. Um, if you're struggling in any way, please, please, please find some help. Like you really do deserve to feel better. And I am a living example of turning something very traumatic and a series of more like unfortunate events in your life to um really being able to live a joyful, lovely, ease life. And just please know that you can find help for that.

Brian 1:07:40

That's perfect. You know, as the the subtitle of the podcast is Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things, one of the things that people ask me, you know, what do you think people get most out of your podcast? If you had to give one word, and I'd say I think what I'm hearing from almost every letter I get is hope. That word is in there, or it's described, it's another

Hope, Help, And Closing Requests

Brian 1:08:00

word, but they're saying the word hope. And as we were talking today, you know, you especially you starting off with your story of your of your loss when you were in your early 20s with of your daughter. Um, I didn't know where that was gonna go. And you told you what through the podcast, what I in the interview and the conversation we've had, that word in my mind kept popping up. This listening to your story and where you where you were then, what you've gone through, where you are now, where you're continuing to go, that that word is just it's iconic. Like it's just it that you describe hope in the way you're living, probably as much, if not more, than any other guest in 160-some episodes. So thank you for that.

SPEAKER_03 1:08:39

Yeah, you're welcome. You're welcome. And I really hope that what I share today if um can help someone. I mean, that's really what my life work is about. I just really am passionate about um helping others feel better.

Brian 1:08:55

I'm sure you've had an impact. You'll be making an impact, but based just on the bamboo pack members today. You did on me for sure. So thank you for that.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:03

Yeah.

Brian 1:09:03

Um, so everybody out there, Life Force Energetics, I'll have the link included in the show notes. Please click on. So, Rebecca, we'll sign off. Um, I just want to thank you. You're an awesome person with an awesome story, and you shared a lot with us that really helped. So um, thank you for being such an amazing guest on the Bamboo Lab podcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:22

You're welcome, Brian. Thank you, and thank you to all of the Bamboo Lab listeners.

Brian 1:09:28

Uh it's it's been a pleasure. Okay, everybody. So I know when you get done listening to this, please get out there and share this with people. Pick one person, two people, three people who you know who you that you care about, that you think I think they need to hear Rebecca's uh uh information here. They need to hear her story, they need to hear her, you know, the wisdom she shared. Please email or text this episode to those people and share that this gift to them as well. Um, I'll talk to you all in one week. In the meantime, please smash that like button, uh, rate me, review me, whatever you think. Um, all I'm gonna really ask you to do, though, is please get out there and strive to give and be your best. Show love and respect to others and and also back to yourself and live with purpose and intentionality. Until next time, I appreciate each and every single one of you.