The Yoga Heart Mind Podcast
The Yoga Heart Mind Podcast
#160 Cultivating Silent Intelligence
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Blessings everyone. So good to be with you. I know it has been a little while and I apologize. I do recall in the last episode I recorded I was intending to do these more regularly but since then so much has happened. So since then I forget what the date was, but we had our winter retreat. Straight after the winter retreat we moved out of, out of our house while it gets renovated. So since then I and my daughter Soleil have been in 17 or 18 different places, from Airbnbs to rentals, to friends, places to India, and we've just recently moved back and we're getting a little bit of rhythm and normalcy happening again. So I do apologize, just as I was intending to get the momentum and consistency back with the podcast.
Speaker 1:Everything got shaken up, but it's been a great time, a great practice of finding the center amongst so much chaos and so much uncertainty and ungroundedness. Into our heart and our literal center, our central axis, we can find this paradoxical groundedlessness which simultaneously is very grounded, and I've been diving deeper and deeper into that since our winter retreat, which was themed Journey into the Heart, which then followed soon after this trip to India with my daughter Soleil. It was a dream come true. It was so beautiful. It was so deep and fun and absolutely exquisite. And since then, this reintegration, getting creative with Mama Jo on so many fronts, but especially the householder front. So many fronts, but especially the householder front, which is further substantiating why we haven't been doing much recording lately. Our mics have been deep in the rubble. Literally our house has been full of dust and rubble and some much needed renovations have been getting done. So during all that, I thought, because our mics, our usual mics that we record our podcasts with are still I don't even know where they are. I will find them eventually, but I thought during all that I would get this new mic set up and record via video, which hopefully is a bit more interactive. So bear with me while I dial in the sound aspect. Please feel free to give me feedback if the sound doesn't sound as good as usual, but we'll see how we go.
Speaker 1:This is a beautiful day. I am much preferring to be outside on the earth in the beautiful sunlight. The ocean is right behind me. If you're on Spotify or YouTube or the platforms that show video, enjoy a bit of this spring energy. It is absolutely a perfect day in Perth today. I just jumped in the ocean, which is why I look pretty salty. It was just sublime. So sharing with you some of this spring salty Perth energy. I apologize if you're picking up on any of this wind. There's a little bit of a breeze but I think this mic should do a pretty good job at cancelling out any of that wind noise. But if it is windy through the sound, I hope that is just further deepening the experience of being together in this moment. But today, in this episode, I essentially just mainly wanted to connect in with you all, give a little update on what is flowing in my life, in Joe's life, in our life, and what will be flowing in like the months to come. So it's a little bit of an update on where we're at, a little bit of a broadcasting of what is happening and maybe through these ramblings, some insights and little tips will come through it, because I do feel compelled to share.
Speaker 1:I've been on quite a journey of optimizing my health, really the last couple years, but it's actually been ongoing for a while. About eight years ago I picked up this eye virus. I think it was in india or somewhere it's. It's an eye virus that then became systemic. It's a eye quote-unquote disease called figenson's keratitis, which, um is this kind of these lesions within the eye. That doesn't seem like a big deal, but when it flares up, the whole body goes into shutdown and I become very sensitive to sunlight. So if it was flared up now, like in this moment where I am right now, I would need sunglasses on. I wouldn't even really have the energy to talk. Truly, when the eyes would flare up, you would need sunglasses on and just wouldn't feel like talking. So this first started happening about eight years ago while we were in Los Angeles one trip and I thought it was just allergies, because I thought it was like dry eye, itchy eye kind of allergies. And then an eye specialist diagnosed it and this has actually been ongoing for the last eight years, but it was manageable. It was manageable, I had it under control and then a couple years ago some really bad flare-ups started to happen and it's been interesting working with it and I feel compelled to share it with you all because it's been jam-packed full of insights and I've been having a great time refining my sadhana, my practice and just my health. I truly, in this moment recently feel the healthiest I have been ever so being cracking codes and upgrading my life in so many different ways, so I would love to share some of those tips.
Speaker 1:What has been helping me recalibrate and take my health and my clarity to a whole nother level and my clarity to a whole other level? So I have been checking in with an eye specialist every now and then Dr Evan Wong big shout out. He has been great. I have been doing blood work every now and then and just making sure everything is nourished and balanced. So I've been going about it in quite a multifaceted approach, getting all my bloods dialed in all of the vitamin mineral just nourishment from every direction. Dialed in all of the vitamin mineral just nourishment from every direction dialed in. A big part of it, though, has been inspired from the work of dr jack cruz. Big shout out of gratitude to Dr Jack Cruz, and this is why I am motivated right now, rather than recording this in a recording studio indoors, outside skin contact with the earth.
Speaker 1:This has been huge, and I know the term grounding is uh, it's, it's popular, you know. Just to ground, we need it, we need it, I need it. Um, I've been taking my daily practices of grounding to a whole nother level of consistency, and I do feel that that has been huge Grounding, optimum hydration, optimum light exposure. So each morning I'll take the dog for a walk in that low-lying sunlight. Feet on the earth, feet on the pavement, feet on the earth. Thankfully, gratefully, this new area we've moved to has lots of sandy beachy sections, lots of grassland, rolling hills, and it's very grounding. This new location has been so good and I totally get it. For those of you that are in big cities or urban settings in which you don't have much opportunity to get your feet on the earth, I highly recommend getting grounding technologies, grounding sheets, grounding mats and then red light.
Speaker 1:So big shout out of gratitude to my family, cam Leesh, mum, who last year for my birthday, generously gifted me this epic red light panel, a really legit, powerful red light panel. I feel that has been huge in my healing, without a doubt, actually without a doubt. So every morning I will hydrate with good spring water from Apostle Spring Water. Big shout out I don't know Lots of shout outs, I'm just bursting with gratitude right now to apostle spring water for just the most pristine, beautiful spring water I've ever come across. I enliven the water in this um, what's it called, like a vortex. Mayu mayu creates this beautiful jug that sits on this magnetized structure that spins the water around. So I know this is a lot I'm throwing at you. For those of you that are just rolling your eyes and like, oh enough with the biohacking bullcrap, um, see you later. Thanks for joining, but if you're interested and keen, this is just what has I do. What I do feel has helped me really heal from this autoimmune condition and continue to feel better and better. And yeah, I feel inspired to share it with you all.
Speaker 1:Take or leave whatever you want. So put the spring water in this Mayu syndrical water structuring device and I'll put that in a glass. I will put about 10 to 20 drops of methylene blue in the water and just sit in front of the red light while drinking the water and breathing. Well, I'll do that for about 10 minutes in the morning, with as much skin exposed to the red light, and then again, if possible, if all is flowing well in the family unit, I will do it again just a little bit before bed. A bit more methylene blue, with the spring water sitting in front of the red light and the family gets involved, not with the methy water sitting in front of the red light and the family gets involved, not with the methylene blue. You don't want to be. You want to discern whether to do that or not. It's quite an interesting supplement.
Speaker 1:I was very skeptical of it at first but after reading and listening to a lot of Dr Jack Cruz and his work and Mark Sloan and his work, I became very inspired to incorporate methylene blue and red light. But if you don't have access to red light technology, you can get that red light spectrum through the low-lying sun. So sunrise, sunset, close to that time, with that low-lying sun, and it's during that time where we want to get as much skin soaking up that low-lying sun. I know we've become a culture, especially here in Perth, where potentially the rays from the sun seem to be stronger, and it's true. That's why I'm in the shade. Right now it's 1230, peak sun, peak UV rays. This is when I wouldn't want to just be sitting directly out in the sun getting fried.
Speaker 1:But that low-lying sun, that pre depending on the time of year pre 10 am, pre 9 am, as you get into peak summer, and then that low-lying evening sun, we want to get that through our skin, not staring at it, even though I do for a moment so does Joe right at the moment of sunset, right at the moment of sunrise, a bit of eye gazing directly at the Sun. That's controversial, but we have deepened our connection with the Sun and that feels good for us Again, discerning the low-lying Sun, getting that through our eyes, through our skin. You know we've become paranoid of the sun, but that seems to be leading to a whole host of other issues. When we've always got our sunglasses on, always got sunscreen on, always got our shoes on, it's fucking us up really is. And I, I truly do feel regular skin contact with the earth, regular. And you get it through the clouds as well those of you entering into um winter soon you get that sun exposure, those rays, through the clouds as well, which is the light spectrum. Yeah so, um, I know it's trickier and I lived in canada for years and it was trickier during those peak months. So that's where these red light technologies are handy and, um, I know they're illegal now here, but they were massive in canada during peak winter.
Speaker 1:The, the um solar beds what are they? The tanning salons um, they have their place when used. Well, you know. And yeah so, grounding, light exposure. And another thing bathing it's been huge the sauna and bathing to help cleanse out inflammation and heavy metals. Without a doubt something was accumulating in my system causing excess inflammation, so the regular sweating it's been huge, combined with bathing.
Speaker 1:So bathing in the ocean, bathing in hot springs not that here I don't think we've got access to great hot springs, but for those of you that do check it out, bathing again, big shout out of gratitude to mark sloan. He's got a great book on bathing um, bath bombs and balneotherapy. It's been a game changer for me. Just regularly, just sitting in a hot bath full of dead sea salts and carbon dioxide literally you want to check that out. So naturally a hot spring has a lot of carbon dioxide in it. That bubbly magic really that helps the body recalibrate. But we also get that effect in a good salty body, body of water, the ocean. So that's just what I was doing before this. I had a sauna at alchemy saunas down at port beach. I love it, it's paradise. Just sweat it out and then on a day like today, just swimming and chilling.
Speaker 1:Great investment for us has been putting a complete filtration system on in our home and I know that's not possible for everyone. It wasn't possible for us in our old house, actually due to the uh, the water and network. But for those of you that it is a possibility, I mean we started off just with filters on the shower heads and filters on the sinks. But the importance of good, clean water, which we cannot assume that is coming out of the tap automatically, we cannot assume that. Um, uh, I can taste it, I can taste the, we can all, if we're honest with it. We can taste the difference between water that's unfiltered, or spring water, or alkaline water, or hydrogen water. You can taste the difference, you know. So that's been a game changer for us. This, oh, I forget the company. I'd love to give them a shout out as well while I just shout out all these beautiful companies, but that has been huge.
Speaker 1:So regularly, I mean, we all bathe and I know that's a bit of a throwaway thing that we take for granted, but for so long, culturally, we have bathed medicinally and even within medicine, one of the first protocols for healing was to take a hot salty bath. You know, and we we hear of that every now and then, but I don't think we take it earnestly. It's been very healing for me and it's healing for us all, especially with this filtered water. So we've got this really epic system where it's a three-part filtration system and then the water gets energized, similar to what I described with the Mayu water jug that spins the water and gets it very light and very oxygenated and energized. So, bathing in a body of water that's been filtered and then re-energized with a whole lot of Dead Sea salt, epsom salts and also good quality bath bombs that create that carbon dioxide reaction, and also whenever I've got access to it, big shout out to Amanda Noga and her company called Steep, in which she makes these beautiful herbs to put in the bath. So she was actually the first inspiration to me for taking my bath time more seriously. She, through her Ayurvedic education that's become a real staple in Amanda's practice. She truly regards it as a fundamental part of her practice and so do I.
Speaker 1:Now, just recently, it's just been like the last few weeks really, where the bath game in my life has gone to a whole nother level, because we even yeah, we may not notice it, but in a good hot bath we are sweating, sweating, sweating, which some of you may think is disgusting just to sit there or lay there in your own sweat. Yeah. So maybe after all that sweating you have a shower, just a quick five-second shower, to wash off all all the stuff that has come out of the body through that bath. Because our skin, you know, it's our largest organ. So everything we put on our skin or shower in or bathe in, where it's kind of like eating it, drinking it, now it's coming into our body. So bathing in good quality water with good quality herbs and salt is incredibly healing so it could be worth checking it out.
Speaker 1:Many cultures around the world still to this day it's a part of their culture to bathe in a very healthy, medicinal way. But I know here we kind of roll our eyes that that is actually really healing. But medicinal bathing has been a part of medicine and healing for so long in many different cultures, so just felt compelled to share that. That has really helped me in healing, rejuvenating, taking my health to a whole another level. Anything else, everything else, is being kind of just as per usual in my healing protocols. They're the main, like new things, the red light.
Speaker 1:I've always prioritized the grounding, but the priority of that has gone to a whole nother level. Grounding, grounding, bathing, red light I just swallowed a fly. I don't think I even got that out. Fly medicine oh my goodness, yep, swallowed a. That's part of being outside. You know, especially in Australia, the fly in Perth, the flies are really coming in strong, so I can feel it right here, right here in my throat. Bit of protein, I needed some. India was epic just gotta zoom back to that.
Speaker 1:Um, I've had, I've had a lot of people, a lot of dads and a lot of um, yeah, just a lot of dads have been like wow, yeah, I'd love to do that with my kid, but I just can't find the time. They don't want to, like the kid doesn't want to. And yeah, for me personally, like I just felt it so strong in my gut, in my bones, and I kept telling, telling joe, like I know it's not ideal timing, we had just begun the renovation and it's a big project and I was like babe, like if I look forward to the next year or two, I don't, I don't think there will ever be an ideal time to do this, but I'm feeling it strong, I'm feeling it in my gut, I'm feeling it in my bones. I gotta do this.
Speaker 1:It feels important for our daughter, for Soleil Growing so quickly, becoming a woman, moment by moment, this incredible growth and development. So it felt like a time for a deep spiritual pilgrimage, this kind of rite of passage, and it was that it was so beautiful. It took a moment like I really bow to her in so many regards. But you know, being at this ashram, it's quite, quite an austere ashram and real serious yogis on the path are there. It's not like a Disneyland Resort, far from that. You know, it's seekers and yogis really going deep. No kids I have seen kids there before but in this instance there were no kids there and it took a day or two for her to accept that and to drop in. But when she did so beautiful, I saw her uninhibited, radiant joy come back. Because, uh, you know it's tricky as you get into that pre-pubescent, pubescent time, you know a lot of the insecurities and angst start to emerge and it's confusing as the hormones kick in and the ego and the mind and peer pressure and all that stuff. And when we were there I saw all that drop away.
Speaker 1:And another shout out of gratitude to Dr Gabor Mate. I've been listening and reading a lot of his work lately, which further inspired this trip, this trip to India with Sole soleil, of really really staying close to your kid, to your child. Um, because in our modern day it's uh, the, the, the. The importance from a child's mind, the importance of friends and technology commonly is overshadowing the importance of their parents. So Dr Gabor Mate talks a lot about now, like you, as that child's parent, need to remain the most important part of their life, like they got to be able to lean on you and a lot of us parents. In today's busy, noisy times, we're just not that present for our kids, not that present for our kids. And, yes, there are many valid excuses, but we've got to watch it, don't we? We've got to watch it. We've got to watch our hypocrisies, we've got to watch our cop-outs and just stay accountable. Stay accountable, our cop-outs, yeah, and just stay accountable, stay accountable. So I'm so grateful that I did that trip with soleil. It's been amazing, interesting, challenging, reintegrating into to, yeah, just the flow of school and work. But I think we've done pretty damn good, I think we've done really good and it's also inspired an upcoming retreat. So stay tuned.
Speaker 1:The details have not been finalized but since coming back, I've been hearing from oh, I've lost count so many people, students and friends that want to do a pilgrimage in India, want to do a retreat, an ashram type experience, like what I did and what I've done many times uh, but they don't want to do like a tour with people they don't know, uh, to a guide they don't know, they don't, they don't know where to start, what ashram to go to, whereas I've been quite a few times now. Joe and I ran a retreat at this ashram nine years ago now, nine years ago. It's that ashram, anand Prakash, where I've done quite a bit of training and been there several times after my training. So it feels like home away from home. So I feel inspired to run a retreat there. We've decided it's too much to take the whole family there and to run the retreat with both Joe and myself. The last time we did that we all got really sick. A series of events made it really challenging and stressful to look after the family and look after a large group of people. So Jo has just given me her blessings to do it solo and so I can just purely focus on the group. Okay, so stay tuned for details, but it's looking to be late next September. Sorry, I just flicked my mic. It's looking to be late next September for about a week. Okay, so I'm just communicating with the ashram to lock in details and then I'll let you all know. And, yeah, be a total honor and delight to be in India with you all and it's been a place that has served me so well. It's helped me really go deep into not just doing yoga but taking these big leaps into being yoga. It's really those times and just immersing deep into the teachings, just steeping in it. It's been life-changing for the good, for the better. Okay, so I'll keep you posted on that. What else is happening? My upcoming workshop Cultivating Silent Intelligence is booked out. Thank you all for trusting in me and locking that in. It's going to be beautiful.
Speaker 1:I'm really excited for offering this again as a kind of antidote for our noisy, polarizing, confusing times and just recalibrate our nervous system, our senses, our dopamine receptors, and really apply these tantric and somatic practices that can help us access these certain modes of samadhi, deep clarity, silent intelligence, in a way that is very embodied and very functional, very sturdy. And this has been a refinement for me, because I'm well aware and I've experienced this a lot of having a meditation practice or a yoga practice and it not really integrating into 3D life, relational life, and this workshop, cultivating Silent Intelligence, is very much about. We can transcend and include, and this is to paraphrase the work of Ken Wilber, who's helped me so much. We can do both. We can do and be simultaneously, simultaneously transcend and include. Or, as he also says, this is not just about waking up, is about waking up and growing up, but first we got a clean up and yeah, then wake up, show up. What else is there? Wake up, show up, grow up, but first we got to clean up. So for us to, we're going to be utilizing that languaging in the workshop and I know there's a bit of a wait list for it as well. People have been really interested in this workshop, which I'm really humbled and honored, so we'll do it again. We'll do it again and for those of you that missed out on a spot you just got to book in sooner, to put it frankly. Also, I will eventually put it online on our Yoga Heart Mind website, yoga Heart Mind app under the course bundles, and I also apologize in that regard. The app can you hear the crows? And the construction there's quite a bit of noise going on, so I do apologize. And the construction. There's quite a bit of noise going on, so I do apologize. I do apologize for the neglect of the Yoga Heart Mind platform, the app and the website, but we will do our best.
Speaker 1:Now that we're coming back to a level of normalcy, I'm just cramping up a bit after that sauna. I need to remineralize. After that sauna, maybe I'm a bit dehydrated. Um, yes, we will put some new content on there soon. We will refresh it. Uh, it's just been a chaotic time, a chaotic year really, yeah, since Dad passed and a couple of winter retreats and Hawaii renovations, india it's been a lot going on, not to mention just the normal rhythm of householder life and teaching in the community. Don't mind my little burps, I just had a big smoothie, but we're getting back into a rhythm of normalcy. Within myself, this new gained, a new level of health and vitality, is allowing for me to be more creative and productive again. But over the last like couple years, it's been like enough having a few clients a day, a few students a day, our online teacher training and, this year, our online ether mentorship program like that's been enough. And other than that, I've just been focusing on healing. Truly, it's been an amazing time.
Speaker 1:So for those of you that missed out on cultivating silent intelligence, stay tuned for the next installment of that Cam and myself do have. We haven't announced the dates yet, but we're going to do a kind of weekend retreat at Center Space and that'll be a great opportunity to dive in deep. We just recently had a big Quiet Mind, open Heart event. We're going to do another one more at the end of summer, so stay tuned for that. We'll announce that soon.
Speaker 1:I know this has been really a lot of plugs and shout-outs, but just kind of catching up and announcing everything that is going on. In terms of my private sessions, which is mainly what I do day to day, I'm pretty booked out until the end of the year. Yeah, I'm pretty booked out until the end of the year. So if you've been wanting private sessions one-on-one, two-on-one reach out ASAP to book that in for the new year. So, yeah, one-on-one.
Speaker 1:And I've been doing a lot of couples work that I've been loving. Just it's not couples therapy, don't jump to that conclusion, but just drawing upon the lessons I've learned in being in relationship and then also just holding a space of loving, awareness and witnessing. Holding a space for couples to connect, to listen to each other, to pay attention, and then, even beyond that, there's a really cool you could call it like an entrainment or this alchemy. This relational alchemy takes place when we're just in each other's space, Right, and doing inner work. So, meditating, practicing yoga, quietening the mind, opening the heart.
Speaker 1:Meditating, practicing yoga, quietening the mind, opening the heart together, right next to each other as you practice, has an effect beyond words. It really does, and a lot of couples quite simply are not spending enough intimate time together. Busy lives, busy lives and then coming together at the end of the day when there's very little bandwidth left, very little vitality left. How do we expect to get the best from each other? It's pretty fucking challenging. So in coming together, optimizing our nervous system, focusing the mind, opening the heart, I see couples like fall deeper in love with each other. In that moment, in that raw, attentive, vulnerable, focused moment, their nervous systems can re-enter and train with each other. That soul connection that brought the couple together initially can be reignited, because so often through the busyness of life and the stresses and the trauma and whatever that, the resentments and the stories and the whatever can tend to layer upon layer, overshadow the love and the connection.
Speaker 1:So, uh, what I've found is it doesn't even require that much work, it's just a matter of showing up and paying attention. Paying attention, reigniting that beauty of loving attention, eye to eye, heart to heart, skin to skin, or just in each other's field, mat to mat, cushion to cushion. I've seen beautiful things, which is what has been a part of inspiring conscious marriage, requiring conscious marriage, like doing that kind of work, that kind of satsang, that meeting of souls again and again. It's just like stoking a fire or looking after a garden or anything that requires care. So, rather than the old notion of relationships require work, yeah, they do, but similar to anything, just like being a good parent, it's work, but you do it from a place of love and it's just like it's just care. Just take care, so we take care of our own body. So we're vital, we're healing, we're opening, we're strengthening, fortifying. That helps us. As Jordan Peterson says, like before you do anything outside, like clean up your room, clean up your room, clean up your room literally, metaphorically, figuratively, clean up your room. So, as Jack Kornfield says, just shout out, so just flow it. Jack Kornfield talks a lot about tend to the part of the garden you can touch. So care for your garden. If you've got a garden, what areas of your house, your garden are neglected? Take care of that. Our intimate relationships are like that. Just take care of it. Don't take it for granted. Take care of it. So, this new role of being a marriage celebrant, oh yeah, since my last episode, I I've officially become qualified as a marriage celebrant, which, in Australia, is, um, it's a real process. It was a real process. So I feel very, uh, content and satisfied in achieving that. Since then, I've officiated a couple marriages and it's been so beautiful, I love it so much, so I look forward to serving in that role more in the future.
Speaker 1:And, uh, you know when, when Ram Dass married Joe and I, he was like this isn't what I did, ram Dass speaking, this isn't what I did. He chose the path of renunciation, the path of really being a single yogi on the path, and he had relationships which he shares a lot in his book. Being Ram Dass, yeah, being Ramdas, yeah, being Ramdas. But he didn't get married. So when he married us, he's like you and Joe, you're both on a tandem path to God. I was on a solo path to God. I am on a solo path to God. This is what he was saying, but you're on a solo path to God. I am on a solo path to God. This is what he was saying, but you're on a tandem path to God. So for those of you that, um, I meet many people that hear Joe and my story and they, you know they want that, they, it inspires them to, to that, to want that.
Speaker 1:But I always share like I wasn't looking for it. I wasn't looking for it. I feel blessed, I feel lucky, I feel like I've had good karma and it all just worked out beautifully, everything aligned to meet Joe in the right setting, the right circumstances, and we've continued to do the inner work and we've continued to grow together. And it's just exquisite. It blows me away. It's a dream come true.
Speaker 1:But when I was single, I wasn't looking for relationship. Actually, I was diving deeper and deeper into the yoga, deeper and deeper into the teachings with Ram Dass and was actually very content and grateful in my life being single and was just falling deeper and deeper into love, into being love. So I encourage that to everyone that I meet. That's like looking for their soulmate looking, looking, looking, keep looking within, keep looking, looking within, keep uncovering it within, and it is amazing how things can just align but it it tends to happen spontaneously. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1:But we got to uncover it within, we just do. We got to uncover the bliss, the love, these resources of contentment, and then the world does tend to be a reflection of that, and we need more and more of that with these devices, in undating our mind and our nervous system with war and chaos and polarizing tribal madness like which is a relative truth that is a reality of our collective. But never before have we been so inundated with this stuff with our devices, you know. So we got to watch that and that's been actually huge in my healing is being even more discerning as to when to put the devices down, because in this moment, as I look around, I mean, there's no body, there's a bit of construction, noise over there and birds over there. It actually feels like paradise and I know we could use the narrative that well, that's just ignorance, is bliss. You're just denying that there's wars happening over there and poverty over there. So, again, this is the balance of opening up our vision to yes, there is so much chaos and harm and suffering and cruelty in the world, but obsessing over it, allowing it to paralyze us through our devices, isn't helping anyone. So we've got to strike that balance, don't we?
Speaker 1:It's becoming apparently increasingly common for people to be so inundated with that stuff that many people go to sleep with it right there on the device through the ears and then to wake up to it. Oh, if they're lucky, they get any sleep. Which brings me to yeah, a big part of my Healing has been taking my sleep hygiene to a whole nother level, turning the device off and just being with my thoughts, being with my breath, being with the boredom, not distracting myself from my thoughts. And every now and then, yeah, I will listen to an audio book or something like that, but 99% of the time I try to turn the device off and just breathe and enter into deep sleep.
Speaker 1:My sleep has been better than ever. Most of the time it's sometimes thrown off. Right now, our bedroom is out of action while we clean out the rubble. Of the time it's sometimes thrown off. Right now, our bedroom is out of action while we clean out the rubble of the renovation. So I'm sleeping in this random spot by our stairway on this thin little mattress and there's a lot of light coming through. So I've got this tiny little eye mask on. I can't find my good eye mask. I just ordered another one. So my sleep has been a bit disrupted, but still way better than I can remember.
Speaker 1:So, prioritizing deep sleep, I just keep meeting so many people that are not sleeping well and, yes, admittedly, when you've got little babies and toddlers, and that it'll disrupt your sleep, without a doubt, we've done that. It's time to regain good deep sleep. I'm going to wrap this up soon, but if you're still with me, it's time to regain good deep sleep. I'm going to wrap this up soon, but if you're still with me, thanks for going with me on this yarn, on this journey of really just sharing where I've been psychologically, psychologically, energetically, emotionally and kind of where it's all headed over the next months, months, years, and I'd love to hear from you all and, yeah, I really do intend to check in, probably from this location actually, if the sound came out okay and it's good.
Speaker 1:I love this, this is paradise to me and to share a bit of this with you all. It just feels way better than me sitting in inside. So I urge you, if you've got the time and the capacity. Get outside and let's upgrade our energy together. I truly do feel these teachings and sharings can transmute. Transmute, can transmit through the ether, through these technologies. So maybe go for a walk barefoot on the earth as you listen to this, maybe then have a bath, drink some good water, have a laugh, treat these bodies well, support the intelligence of your heart, mind, and then spread that out into the yoga of relationship. Thanks for being with me everyone, so good to connect with you all. Until next time, much love.