Self-Worth Revolution: Tips for your Transformational Journey

Unlocking the Secrets to Self-Love and Personal Power with Aliyah

• Vivian Medrano • Season 1 • Episode 3

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Ready to shift your energy and embrace tranquility? We promise you're going to love our latest chat with Aliyah, an experienced energy healer. This episode sails through the realm of healing, where the gentle tide of Aliyah's voice guides us through the transformative power of Reiki, sound baths, and the art of self-compassion. We travel down the enlightening path of Reiki, sound vibrations, and yoga, learning how these practices can unblock energy and add a layer of relaxation to your life. Aliyah reveals the magic of sound baths and takes us on a journey of healing and transformation, making us realize that understanding and responding to our triggers is a significant part of our wellbeing.

Switching gears, we unpack the wisdom of 'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz. We emphasize on not taking things personally, avoiding assumptions, and striving to bring out our best. Hear us out as we stress on the importance of intentionality, self-acceptance, and the unique journey each of us embarks on. We remind you that healing isn't linear, and that embracing your imperfections is a critical step towards personal growth.

Finally, we dive deep into emotional well-being with a life coach who shares her 10-step healing program. We converse about the power of awakening, the necessity of forgiveness, and the importance of setting goals. Learn with us, the importance of feeling and letting go of emotions, and how to deal with perfectionism and self-doubt. With each breath, we draw closer to realizing that our emotions are as transient as the clouds above, not defining us but simply passing through. Aliyah's testimony imparts the wisdom of accepting our feelings and the profound effects of emotional expression on our well-being.  

As we wrap up in white, a symbol of purity and enlightenment, Aliyah leaves us with a calming, guided breathwork exercise, leaving you refreshed and ready to prioritize self-care. So tune in, feel the energy, and join us on this this heart-to-heart healing journey, and let the soothing currents of Aliyah's expertise chart your course to inner peace.

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Aliya Austin is an Energy Healer and she coaches and guides others through their personal healing journeys. She grew up in New Jersey but is now planting roots in Los Angeles. Her passion fo

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Speaker 1:

everything in energy. So with sound, the bowls are actually, I guess, attuned to that 432 hertz frequency. That is known to be a vibration that can help clear some of your energy. So when you play the bowls, different bowls speak to different chakras, but it's kind of like one of those things that's not so tangible where I'm going to take this tile and all my headache's going to go away.

Speaker 1:

You know, it's like you go to these kind of settings for sound baths. So practice relaxation and the sound vibrations, like everything's a vibration, but the sound vibrations will flow through and just help move some of that blocked energy around. Some people have tears during the meditation experience, you know, because you're releasing at that time. Yeah, some people are snoring, but then they're not even sleeping, you know. But they're very just relaxed and open. That their body is just kind of like in that I don't even know what the word just that relaxed state. But that's not really right.

Speaker 2:

When I'm in it and I'm trying to be in my space, what I really hear from other people is when they're in that deep space I could feel them releasing, and it's like a community that's so powerful because we're all in it for the same purpose, trying to release whatever it is within us, and it's just so beautiful. Welcome to the Self Worth Revolution podcast. I am not only a podcastor, but a mother, a nurse, a life coach and a survivor. This podcast is about turning your pain into your power, your experiences into your lessons, and to start living a life full of abundance, inner peace and fulfillment. My higher purpose is for my listeners to find their self worth and their value by following their path to greatness. We are all deserving of living our best lives. It is time to stop identifying with our past. Start living in the present for a better future.

Speaker 2:

This podcast will have guest speakers that will share their stories of how they transformed their lives and found their worth. My mission is to let my listeners know this is your time to shine, to know that you are not alone. Healing is empowering. It takes courage to be vulnerable and our voices have power. Hold on to your lives, because this will be an incredible ride of self transformation, self empowerment and radical change. It is time for us to take our power back. With this next episode, I was able to interview the beautiful and wonderful Aliyah Austin. She originally comes from New Jersey, has been living in Los Angeles for the past two years and is an amazing sound bath healer, ricky healer and life coach. She has so much valuable information to deliver to you and to let you know what the beauty of healing has done for her and her journey by living an intentional life and accepting herself fully and completely. Without no further ado, I want to hold you back from an amazing episode. Here is the wonderful Aliyah.

Speaker 1:

My name is Aliyah and I am an energy healer. I've been on a healing journey for about 15 years or so and I've practiced several different modalities through the course of those years to get to where I am today, to find that they're all beneficial and effective. I just realized with the healing journey it is literally a journey, not a destination. I live in LA for two years now from New Jersey and it has been very insightful for me to be patient with my journey, because the formulas that I applied previously before I moved out here for my wellness you know, when I was in a comfort zone are just not working out here. It's really forced me to learn more about myself, practice a lot more surrender and acceptance, and I like to help other people through that process as well. So I do like I learn what I learned from me and then I just share whatever with my community through meditation, through yoga, through Reiki through sound.

Speaker 2:

I really want the listeners to know about Reiki and I know that you had already explained it, but unfortunately we didn't catch it and I feel it's so valuable for people to know how to connect with themselves.

Speaker 2:

A lot of times, people, when they see somebody putting their hands over somebody, they really don't believe there's an energy flow that flows from us to another person, and a lot of times you may even carry such energy from other people that you have to go sage yourself because you're taking in that energy that they're feeling. So, as a trauma survivor, reiki has actually helped me connect with myself and there's times where I do connect and there's times where I come out and I'm still like I still need more work, depending on your day. So it's not that it's not working, it's just. It's just like everything else. You know, it's kind of like a process. Sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it doesn't, and that's okay. But I want you from your point of view because you're a Reiki healer and how it works for you and why you think people should try it out, even if it's just once, just to try it out and see the words.

Speaker 1:

Yes. So Reiki is probably like the fourth modality of healing that I learned, after yoga, after therapy, after, like, reading the personal discovery books. So it's a Japanese stress reduction and energy healing technique. I hover my hands over energy centers. I might do some touching or tapping to help clear the energy, that's you know, to help move blockages, to help move stagnant energy back into flow, help you better release things. Reiki stands for intelligent energy or universal energy. So you know, I always encourage people to set their intentions for it. For sure, but the energy is intelligent and knows what it needs and the practitioner is just the vessel the energy works through. Sometimes the practitioner does get messages about what they feel with your energy and it kind of help you with your process and where to go from your session or just give you that reassurance that you need. I think everyone should try it at least once, but it's so beneficial.

Speaker 2:

The more you can do it the better.

Speaker 2:

Exactly. Yeah, you know how you said that you were going through phases. So your you know, healing and transformational journey is a never-ending journey. It's basically a process and it's beautiful because we're always learning about ourselves. But now we're in deeper connection with who we are as ourselves. We're able to be very intuitive with what our body feels. That's the power of healing and transforming ourselves. Not because there's anything wrong with us per se. It's just because now we want to be able to understand how do we respond to our triggers instead of we acting to our triggers. How can we communicate what we're feeling? Because we are emotional beings and that is the power of being human. It's beautiful to be able to connect with one another through your phases. What were the different phases that you feel about them? Where you are right now?

Speaker 1:

Oh, oh my gosh. Okay, I'm trying like a lot of things were coming to my mind, as you, there's never a wrong way, but like my phases of, like what I had to work through, I guess.

Speaker 2:

That, or just whatever you feel, would be very empowering to the listeners to know. You know, I've been in this healing process for me for a year and I was in a very dark place. I had to learn to be alone I was. The hardest part for me is because I was programmed to believe that I needed companionship to find my happiness and my love. Yeah, when I realized that in order for me to heal, I had to be alone and really feel my feelings, it actually made me stronger. The reason why is because there was no outside influence at all. There was nobody there, it was just me myself and I and I had to learn how to Understand what happened to me and why I accepted certain things that came along through my process. That's how I came connected with you. Yeah, you made me see the bigger light in me when it took a while, but it's such a beautiful journey that I'm on Finding myself that I'm just like, wow, you were there this whole time and you were hidden for a very long time.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, thank you for sharing that part with me too. You're right. I think everyone's journey has to start with that awakening. You know we had that's. That's step one to healing. You have to wake up and have some insight that there's something I'm doing that's just not right. If I continue to operate this way, it's not gonna be good for me in the long run, and it doesn't have to be something to acknowledge with shame or feel bad about yourself because you're awakening to something.

Speaker 1:

You know, but it might feel that way and we have to work through that and I think you do have to like when you first awaken, it's like now I have to immediately get uncomfortable to make that change. And it's so hard Because before that you were in a comfort zone of this, like mine, was a lot of self pity, a lot of self victimization, a lot of you know why me and life is so unfair to me and when is my Life gonna change? And I really had to stop thinking like that. You know, like you literally got to stop with that self talk. You have to stop that. It's just not gonna help. Nothing's gonna change as long as you can talk to yourself like that.

Speaker 1:

I started with reading the four agreements and the secret, which were two books that really just helped me realize, like how I'm thinking and how the power to think differently. So everyone's journey does include that awakening phase. You have to get uncomfortable to realize like, what habit right now do I need to stop? You know, like so for you being alone, like, and there are people I don't want to say you say codependent, but there are people who are codependent, who have to be with someone or be in a relationship or be, you know, in the company of someone and, yeah, like, if you recognize that that's not good for you anymore, you have to immediately, like now choose to be alone, not choose to do those habitual things that made you comfortable. And for me, when I was able to like Stop my thoughts and choose different thoughts, that was so powerful for me. You know, and even like journaling I've done a lot of journaling in my early healing journey and just seeing, like how my, my entries have shifted from Just a lot of negative focus to like choosing to empower myself in my writing and and talk good to myself, and just going back and reading old entries, just makes me fall in love with myself.

Speaker 1:

So, like you said, you've been here this whole time like it gets very uncomfortable, but on the other side you learn, you love yourself so much more, you respect yourself so much more and everything that you've been through, all that you've overcome, and it doesn't mean that sometimes those past thoughts or feelings don't come back and that's kind of what it gets Discouraging, you know, and that's what I experienced in two years in the last two years coming back out here, some of that self pity again needing like more outside validation and feeling like I needed reassurance, just not being that same confident person I was. And then I'm applying all those formulas. Let me read the four agreements again. I might even hosted a four agreements workshop I don't know if you came to that one.

Speaker 1:

But yeah, yeah, just reading the books and still not feeling good. But you know, I had to practice now that major acceptance and surrender of where I am right now. You know I'm here for a reason. The universe has brought me to this moment. Everything is divine. So just doing the best you can, even when you don't feel at your best, and that's.

Speaker 2:

It's like you said something right now, and I just let my mind right now about, oh, comfort and uncomfortable, and In order for us to get to where we want to get to, we have to be uncomfortable, and that's the hardest part, for people is being uncomfortable to get comfortable, because everybody wants to stay within the familiar, yes, but the familiar is not always the best thing for us, and I'm going to go to the book that you just mentioned right now, which I love, and we went to the intentional shop, the boom up by Miguel Reese, which is the four agreements, right, and so in the four agreements, he talks about how we have to start creating our own agreements.

Speaker 2:

We have to start reprogramming our thoughts and our brains to what it is we authentically believe for ourselves, and not what we were raised to believe by either our teachers or parents, society, community, whatever it was, because that is not us, that is them instilling their thoughts and their beliefs onto us, and that's the hardest thing for people to understand. You still have not found yourself, your authentic self, until you start creating your own beliefs and your own agreement. And so I want you to talk about that book a little bit, because that book was very inspiring and very empowering, and Actually it's one of the books that I feel a lot of people should read when they're going through this journey, because it gives you the four main things to not create assumptions.

Speaker 2:

Yes, to tell take it personal to, not this personal, and when you see yourself, use words of affirmation, think of yourself positively, because if you don't, then when others speak of you ill, you're already speaking about yourself ill.

Speaker 1:

So you're.

Speaker 2:

You're, you're, yeah, exactly a more inclined to accepting it. And there's Another one. Which one?

Speaker 1:

is it, don't how's where they'll have expectations or don't expect. That is that how it's worded, as long as you're doing the best. Yep so don't take anything personally, don't make assumptions, don't have expectations. I believe and don't take things personally. I'm or are and do your best because those others they're not easy to do, we're actually going to expect, we're actually going to assume, because we are conditioned that way. So we go into our best every day to try to make the best decisions for ourselves.

Speaker 2:

And that's what he says. He says, as long as we're doing our best and we're not a hundred percent doing the other things, it's okay because we're attempting to do them and that's the first step for us creating that change within ourselves. So, when you talk about the how, we have to be very intentional and create those intentions within ourselves. What exactly is intentions to you?

Speaker 1:

You know something said earlier that we think. When you say like we have to get uncomfortable to get comfortable, I think like we have to intentionally recognize what makes us uncomfortable. You know what we need to change about ourselves. So intentionally is like Really like getting to know yourself. Like what does it mean to let go and create space for something new? What does it mean to accept and surrender? And my healing journey is going to look completely different than your healing journey because my past Experiences are different than yours, my thought processes are different than yours, so you can't really compare yourself to the next person and do you know what they're doing? You can be guided or coached or receive some insight, but you really have to intentionally connect to yourself to know what you need and then make time to do the things that you need. And you, you're not going to just do those things for five years and be good forever. You have to continue to practice that.

Speaker 1:

I realized that also moving out here when I wasn't practicing yoga as much and yoga is everything for me when I was, when I was in Galloway like my brand started with yoga, you know, on instagram and when I haven't been doing that.

Speaker 1:

But then when I got back into it, I felt amazing immediately, you know.

Speaker 1:

So I recognize here, I like I need to really probably practice yoga no less than five days a week to feel, to intentionally feel, like my best self, a lot of what it comes up in the four agreements. It's like unlearning and relearning and it's the things that we need to unlearn. Like you said, what's authentic to me with where that come, what came from my mother and and do I truly believe that? Or do I want to make that change? And then empowering yourself to make that change without feeling guilty. And it's not easy, like you said, to let go, because when you let go of your old self, you have to let go of your old ways. You might even have to let go of people, you know, because they are, they're lowering your vibration or stopping your elevation, impacting your journey, and that's not easy, you know. So, just being intentional with recognizing what you need to do and then, you know, doing your best, because it's not easy To get to where you want to be one day at a time, and it's okay to be imperfect during this journey.

Speaker 2:

It's absolutely okay. There's no human in this world who is perfect, and that's what makes us so unique. Is that our imperfections make us beautiful too, because that gives us a power to be who we are. I'm not you, you're not me, and even if we're going through these same energy, healings, journaling, writing, we're our own selves. Yeah, and that's the beauty of it. You know, people need to stop trying to compare themselves. Especially when they're healing, they're like, oh well, why is that person doing better than me? No, like you had mentioned earlier, healing is not a linear path. There's a lot of ups and downs along the way, and that's the beauty of it. And how I take it is I'm going through a path in life and if I hit a bump along the road, that's just a challenge, but it's okay, because that's the lesson I need to go through in order to get me back on track. Absolutely so that's how I take my bumps along my journey path.

Speaker 1:

And you know what you said it's not gonna. It doesn't have to be a perfect journey, like it absolutely won't be. And that's something I had to realize too. Like trying to be perfect, I thought I held, I really thought I held, before I came out here and not to say I didn't think I would, you know, I just didn't think I would go low, that low again, you know. So that was just insightful for me. And then I beat myself up how can I set up here and host these healing workshops when I'm still working through it myself? But you were not perfect and I realized that was a part of my work to stop trying to be perfect, because I'm never going to get there.

Speaker 1:

Never, none of us ever are. So was I anticipating or expecting perfection? That's one of the agreements with expectations, you know, and I had to kind of change my mind around that, because it absolutely won't be perfect, you know, and it's not that you haven't started. You know, if you see someone who appears you know well because they work through their stuff, but you're not there when they're crying to the therapist or writing and releasing some words in their journal, you don't see that part of it. So when you experience that yourself, it could be a little scary, you know. You can feel like you're doing something wrong. Um, but that's the beauty of it too, to accept that part of it.

Speaker 2:

It's to accept who you are as a total person. Yeah, and we have to be able to do that. And along with that Comes the things that we're not in control of. But what we're in control of is how we deal with it, and we are warriors, like there is nothing that we cannot handle. That's given to us and that's the beauty of it, because we hold the power within ourselves. Like you said, we had a change. You had to change how you process your thoughts, how you made your thoughts, because your thoughts have control over you. So if you're telling yourself, I'm not good enough, you're gonna believe you're not good enough. Your body is going to believe you're not good enough. But if you tell yourself, I am, I will and change everything from negative to positive, your body is going to just naturally start feeling that you're able to and you're capable to, and you will commit to it. And it's just we have to change what's in here for our body to feel great.

Speaker 1:

Oh my god it's, it's, you're so right, it really starts there. I mean, it could start backwards, it could start with the breathing and things like that as well, but we really do have to tune into our thought process. For me, it started with the mind. You know, I just recognized my thought processes and how I had to change that. And and there's so many powerful books like.

Speaker 1:

Another good one is Psycho cybernetics, which is such an interesting name it's. It's actually written by a plastic surgeon. But what this plastic surgeon observed was that he could do the work on people and their self image. If they didn't have a good self image at the core of themselves, they weren't going to be satisfied with the work. You know, he just noticed how the work he did on people was more so about their belief about themselves. And you just literally have to change, like the way you see yourself, the way you talk to yourself, it. The impact that has on us, on our DNA, on our on the way we feel, is so much more powerful that we can imagine. And even saying this now, I'm feeling like, oh, and I've been so negatively.

Speaker 2:

You know that's okay, yeah, because we are allowed to have bad days.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, we are going to have step back, so we're going to have bad days.

Speaker 2:

And it's like, yeah, it's just now. You don't sit in it for like weeks and months. 100%, that's the difference. You're going to have bad days, but you're not letting it dwell inside of you.

Speaker 2:

You know, how to let go of that a lot quicker. And you know how to deal with it a lot quicker, because You're in that phase in your life where it's like, okay, yes, I'm going to deal with this, what is it telling me to do? So I'm reflecting on it, you're become aware of it. All right, what am I supposed to do from that? And that's called growth. Yeah, that's called us growing, you know, and that's beautiful, and you have a program coming out. Oh yes, are you working on?

Speaker 1:

a project.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and I want you to talk about it Because you mentioned it. I want to make sure that we don't forget about this program, because, working on any project or any program, you have to put your whole heart into it, and I want you to talk about it.

Speaker 1:

Thank you for bringing that up and I'm just glad to even be doing this podcast with you because, like I said, I'm here going through things but I'm trying to get back to what I know I'm capable of. And so, in the Savannah area, yes, I did start to develop a program and, like I said earlier, step one is awakening and it's actually like 10 steps to healing. What 10 steps do I kind of need to go through? So it's a 12-week program. Each week focuses on a different topic. One is awakening, as I mentioned. One is forgiveness. That's a part of the process. Recognizing who you need to forgive all the way back to your childhood is one week.

Speaker 1:

Each week has just some journaling or self-reflection questions related to the topic. Some of it includes visualization and what you want your life to look like. As children we have that imagination, we're full of dreaming and we lose that when we're adults and it's so important. So we practice some visualization and just what that feels like if you don't have a meditation practice. And then it comes with weekly coaching with me, because I did used to do therapy work. I'm not licensed as a therapist in California, but just working with people one-on-one to coach them through the process, because the topics of the healing program are going to impact each person differently. So just to help them process whatever comes up for them week to week and the last couple weeks is setting even goals. So what do I want my life to look like three months from now? Six months from now? Because we have to set goals for ourselves if we want to see change in our life. We don't have to set major goals, but just something to be working towards to feel better, because we want to do something different to get that diverse off.

Speaker 1:

And there's even a part of this program that acknowledges the maintenance. Because we will have those setbacks. We will have to go back to the forgiveness modality or the awakening. What's coming up for me at this point in my life? Because as we go through our life journey, we'll have different experiences that trigger different part of ourselves that will need to heal from and overcome. It's just inevitable. So the program is really powerful in helping people with that.

Speaker 1:

Truthfully, I developed the whole program, I did the recording and then I had my perfectionist mind on and just not feeling like it was good enough, not feeling like I'm good enough right now. Like I said, I'm not licensed as a therapist out here. Let me get licensed as a therapist first, if I can do this, but there's people who are out there who are not licensed as therapists doing this work, and I don't have to be so. There's still a lot of things that I have to work through to fully launch this program, but I know it's a good program. I know I put a lot of work into it and I know it's going to help people.

Speaker 2:

I just never promoted it.

Speaker 1:

So now I'm working on getting it back on the platform and I truly believe in it. It's 10 steps to healing and the name is actually not even set in stone, but just kind of journey to your inner peace. Like everyone's journey is different. It just really helped someone with that, because happiness and inner peace are even going to be two different things and we talk about that. We're not going to feel joy all day, every day, unfortunately, but embracing sadness, embracing whatever comes up for us with compassion, like how would you come for your inner child from the most nurturing place for feeling these human emotions? And just, yeah, it helps you get to that point of acceptance.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, so I really am proud of that.

Speaker 2:

I love how excited you are about it. Do not question yourself, you're amazing, thank you. Yes, you're a life coach and that's what you're here. You're here to guide them through that, finding their inner world and, like you said, happiness. We have to be in tune with all our emotions and just because we're angry, sometimes it's OK to feel that anger. Sometimes we have to feel it. Our body's going through something. Why are we going to deny that from ourselves? If we're sad, cry or whatever it is that we're going to be able to feel that emotion. If you're happy, great, you're happy.

Speaker 2:

Just because you're sad does not mean that you retracted back to where you were before, because we feel that's the beautiful thing is that we're able to feel we have a big heart and we have to be very self-compassionate with ourselves to understand that we're going to go through this and it's OK. We're going to have bad days and that's still OK. It's not an identification of who we are as people. Of course that, yeah, and a lot of people say oh well, I'm sad. It just means I'm a sad person. No, you're not. That means you're just a person who happens to be sad at that moment in time for whatever it is you're going through.

Speaker 1:

Yes.

Speaker 2:

Yeah.

Speaker 1:

All emotions, literally, are beautiful, all of them and just allowing yourself to feel them because you deserve to feel them because you're human and you're feeling it for a reason.

Speaker 1:

Your body's telling you something and that's the opportunity to increase that awareness and get to know yourself better. Quick story that happened to me the other day. I had some inexperience where I felt like I needed to cry and I suppressed the crying for like 15 minutes because I felt bad about crying, but I realized the pain was getting so much worse because I'm not letting it out. And I just had to let it out and I was telling myself I don't want to cry, I'm not a fifth grader, but yeah, someone kind of hurt my feelings.

Speaker 2:

And I let it out.

Speaker 1:

And I felt immediately better after I really gave myself compassion for that. It's OK to cry Leah, and even like that person doesn't. It wasn't even their intention to make you feel that what came up for me in that moment had everything to do with me and just based on some of the work I've done, I'm able to know where it comes from. So those emotions are an opportunity to get to know yourself better and it's a direct path to that self-love.

Speaker 2:

I'm just kind of understanding what triggers you, right, and nobody knows what could trigger you. To them it may be something very minute, what they said or what they do or how they acted or just anything. And you now understand what triggers you, you know, and it's okay to acknowledge that, and what you did. Which was amazing is you actually Acknowledged it and you cried and then, once you cried, I'm sure all that tension that you had in your belly and in your throat it went away. Just let it out, which you have to, you know, because I have those moments too where I'm just like my body feels like it wants to cry. I don't know why, but as soon as I just cry, I'm okay a lot like yeah.

Speaker 2:

It's so much like it's like a release of energy that you needed to get through. Whatever that phase of it was. Sometimes you can't pinpoint it, but your body feels something and you just have to acknowledge whatever your body is feeling. So that is so wonderful and I'm so glad you cried it out, because I would have been horrible for you Not to cry it out. There's just been bustering in you.

Speaker 1:

Exactly.

Speaker 1:

It was spending my life. You know, I believe true, like you said, we're all. We're emotional beings and we're beings of love. We are beings of light, like heart. Our heart is literally an energy center at work it feels. You know, people suppress and put guards around their heart which lock their vibrations or Impact your energy is.

Speaker 1:

We really don't realize how powerful this stuff is, but I think we have Experiences through life that dim our light, that stop us from wanting to give our love, and I truly think that's like the goal in life To stay that being of light, to stay that being of love love for yourself, love for others because we all have a story. We're all going through something. We all have pain, love, loss. We really do need to give each other more grace, which is easier said than done because it's so easy to take everything personal. It's all about us in this world, but we really are beings who are here Meaning to spread our love and our light. So connect to your emotions. They feed your life, they feed your love, like and you got a lot of yourself to feel and flow and it sounds so, you know I don't know, stacy, or it's like I'm a doctor and I'm in a room talking this way. It's like you know, I get what people don't buy in, but it's everything.

Speaker 2:

I am a nurse.

Speaker 1:

Yeah.

Speaker 2:

And I tell my patients when they feel really down, and I'm just like, and I could see it, but they don't want to cry because they want to stay strong. And I'm like, do you want to cry? Like yeah, I'm like, cry, you're gonna feel better. It's just gonna be so invigorating to cry, and then you're gonna feel better. And so they do. And I'm like, how do you feel? It feels better? I'm like, yeah, because your body is telling you to feel your feelings and we, we have to feel our feelings. And if we ignore those feelings, they're not gonna go away, they're just gonna stay there and just until it explodes. And then that's when you become angry, you know, and it's like, no, I really could get splacked in our body, like.

Speaker 1:

That's why people might become tense or tight, or the dis ease or the discomfort in our body leads literally to disease If we don't release that energy. It's all connected, it's all we carry, you know, it's just, it's like our cortisol hormones go up during stress.

Speaker 2:

So in our cortisol hormones go up during stress, our body becomes inflamed. When our body becomes inflamed, then our organs become affected. Hence why a lot of people then suffer from disease, different diseases, when they're under stress. The process and anxious and they don't know how to turn that around To empower themselves. And so then that's when they become just more sick and more sick, because your body could only take so much, until it says I've had enough and yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1:

So that's why I have to break down. Stuff starts to break down. So, yeah, it's just important to know yourself. That's the biggest part of it connecting to yourself and Just having your wellness toolbox. There's so many different ways. Different things work for different people, so just because you might not be into yoga or journaling doesn't mean there's not something out there for you that you can do for yourself on this journey to healing.

Speaker 2:

So exactly it to each zone. Everybody's energy tool, healing tool, healing box, as you've noticed, is like their tool that they go to. It's Made for you as your individual. Whatever works for you, and that's what's important. Don't not compare yourself to others. You're not somebody else. You are you and you have to value yourself for who you are completely. Did you want to end it with like a breath work or kind of like an intentional breath work between us?

Speaker 1:

other people could feel it or yeah, it would be really nice grounding and Some counting, the counting secrets but that I really like to use. Don't use too much in the sound baths.

Speaker 2:

All right, let's start on this.

Speaker 1:

Everybody, or find a comfortable seat. If you're listening and you're able to do this, settle into your seat or into like a lying down position and Just take a few rounds of clearing breath and lower your gaze, close your eyes and inhale your biggest, fullest inhale of the day, causing at the top. Open your mouth, sigh it out, exhale Another clearing breath. Inhale, fill your lungs, extending your body, extending and pause. Hold it at the top, open your mouth, audible exhale. Sigh something out, release something. Let's something go and one more clearing breath, inhale. So all the way up and hold it. Take another sip of air at the top. If you can, open your mouth, exhale and all go. Relax your body as much as you can. Just breathe, natural, scanning your body quickly. Just notice, if you're holding tension in the face, the cheeks and the jaw, letting that go. You're holding tension in the chest or the abdomen or the glutes common areas where we hold tension just let that go. Feel your feet resting on the ground if you're seated and your hands resting on your lap. Fill your body resting on the energy beneath you if you're lying. We're gonna do a counting breath, so we're gonna inhale for four, we're gonna hold it for four, then we're gonna exhale for four and then we're gonna hold our breath at the bottom for four.

Speaker 1:

All right, so, starting with that. So release all your air out now and then we're gonna inhale two, three, four, four. Two, three, four, exhale two, three, four. Hold two, three, four. Inhale two, three, four. Hold two, three, four.

Speaker 1:

Exhale two, three, four and hold two, three, four. Inhale two, three, four. Hold two, three, four. Release two, three, four, pause two, three, four. Just keep going. I'm gonna be silent while you breathe, hold it, do a couple rounds. So you're counting in your mind. Just feel the flow, relax on the pause and the hold and every stage and every phase of this breath work, maybe just one more round. Wherever you are and whenever you feel complete, you can place one hand on your heart, one hand on your belly and just feel yourself connected to yourself, feel your heart beating and in this moment of presence with your body, with your breath, your mind, give yourself something you need, a word of affirmation, something you need to hear, think or feel. Take this opportunity to give yourself that good, honor yourself and together let's take another full breath in and a long breath out and gently float your hands back down. You can blink your eyes open whenever you're ready.

Speaker 2:

How do you feel so amazing Sometimes I really don't have a way of describing how it feels you just feel it and it just feels like you're floating and there's really nothing that's holding you back. Beautiful, and it's just so empowering and it's great.

Speaker 1:

I'm glad to hear you feel that and you're able to get to that point to feel that. And yeah, it's hard to put words to it Not everything is logical. Not everything falls into, I think, the perfect description with this energy work. That's why it's not like one plus one automatically equals two. It does that, just doesn't always. You can't always find it that way so easy.

Speaker 2:

So, yeah, Well, I want you to tell me when you start your program, because I feel it's going to be such an amazing program that's going to bring so much positive change and abundance to people that they need, and you're just amazing with your words and with your energy that I know people are going to just be able to grow through it. So I can't wait to hear when you launch it. I would love to have you back on when you launch it so you could talk about it and we could tell people about it and it's coming through, because I want to create happiness in this world. We need to give more happiness and kindness and love. Everybody's so deserving of it and they're holding themselves back and I think it's time for no more holding back.

Speaker 1:

Yeah, thank you.

Speaker 2:

So now I appreciate you. Thank you so much. Is there anything that you would like to leave the listeners with? What would that be?

Speaker 1:

Just be patient with your process and your journey. Honor, where you are, you know, recognize that now is all that there is. The past is gone. You know the future's illusion. Sometimes we have to float to the past and the future for planning and things like that. But, honor, where you are now, no matter what's going on, you can just let things go and just love yourself.

Speaker 1:

However, you know, like I said, any meditation, just give yourself something you need in this moment. I think we should practice that every day, at least one point of the day. Yeah, and I just want to say I appreciate you so much, you know, I appreciate crossing paths with you and your support and coming to the workshops and just reminding me that I am working in my gifts and I am exactly what I'm supposed to be, because, you know, sometimes we forget that as we're on our journey and we second guess and we question. But then we meet people, you know, like me, meeting you, and you are our light in my life and, yeah, everything is aligned and it happens for a reason. So I'm just glad to be here right now on this podcast with you and I appreciate that you are doing this, you know, I know you're going to do great things.

Speaker 2:

Thank you so much. And look, we're wearing white.

Speaker 1:

Oh yes.

Speaker 2:

Curity.

Speaker 1:

Curity yeah. Light, love and light, yeah enlightenment.

Speaker 2:

Well, thank you, I appreciate you. I will see you yeah.

Speaker 1:

Bye, bye Okay.

Speaker 2:

Thank you for taking your time and connecting with me on this beautiful journey of life. Please subscribe and review, and don't forget to follow so you don't miss out on any of these amazing and empowering episodes. Always remember you matter. If nobody has told you today, I am here to tell you that you are enough, you are worthy and you are deserving of the best. Every day that you wake up, I want you to take one moment and just look at yourself in the mirror and know that the person staring back at you is so proud of you and loves you beyond measures. You are a true warrior.