Donna McDine's Energy of Serenity Podcast

Graceful Presence: Finding Peace Through Self-Awareness

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What if empowerment wasn’t about pushing harder, but about finding peace through presence and self-awareness?

In this powerful and deeply grounding conversation, we explore how energy healing, honest dialogue, and inner alignment shape the way we empower ourselves and others. From the foundation of a heart-centered practice to the clarity found in unfiltered conversations, this episode reframes empowerment as an inside-out practice.

Our guest, Grace Pisciotta, a Reiki Master and the founder of Gracespiration, shares her devotion to creating spaces for healing and compassion. As the co-host of the podcast The Chat- Life Unfiltered, she offers insights into inspiring calm, clarity, and connection in a busy world. These insights are especially vital for anyone seeking inner alignment and the courage to live authentically.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • The Power of Presence: Why self-awareness is the first step toward lasting empowerment.
  • Honest Conversations: How heart-centered dialogue fosters deep connection and clarity.
  • Inner Alignment: Simple ways to support yourself in finding peace amidst life's challenges.
  • Healing through Compassion: The role of a devoted healing space in personal transformation.
  • The Ripple Effect of Energy: How putting out kind words and positive energy returns to you tenfold.

This episode is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and lead from a place of clarity, integrity, and calm strength.

If you’ve been feeling disconnected or seeking a deeper sense of peace, this conversation will help you reset and realign.

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SPEAKER_00

Whether someone's going to their MD doctor, their mental health doctor, or an energy healer, they know innately within them that they need the guidance, they need the help.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, that's why they're there. Right.

SPEAKER_00

And they really need that reassurance with that loving touch that they are here, they are safe, they're worthy, they are safe. Everything they want in this world.

SPEAKER_02

And that's all anybody wants. You're absolutely right to feel safe.

SPEAKER_00

And it's so important that when someone connects with us as Reiki practitioners, that they even know before they step in the door that they're going to be entering a safe environment.

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That's right.

SPEAKER_00

Hi, I am Donna McDyne, and welcome to the Energy of Serenity podcast. Here we unleash empowerment through the power of the word. Join me and my guests as we share stories, tools, and insights to help you feel grounded and aligned. Let's dive in. Great. So welcome to the Energy of Serenity Podcast. I have an extremely special guest. Well, they're all special, but Grace is a Reiki master like I am, and she has her own practice called Grace Spiration, and she is an energy healer who supports others in finding peace through presence and self-awareness. We all could use that, Grace. Yes, absolutely. As I said, she is the founder of Grace Paration, a space that is devoted to healing, compassion, and inner alignment. As the host of the chat Life Unfiltered, Grace invites honest, heart-centered conversations that inspire calm, clarity, and connection. Welcome, Grace.

SPEAKER_02

Thank you for having me, Donna. I'm so excited to be here.

SPEAKER_00

So happy to have you here. So I really want to tap into how you created Grace Spiration and why you did it.

SPEAKER_02

Well, I knew I wanted to have a holistic energy business about 15 years ago. It was something that I just witnessed through my own experiences and family and friends, the healing process. And I said, I want to be involved in this. But I did not move it along until about seven years ago when it really, a passion actually turned into my purpose. Because I'll tell you a short story because it's very important and it is the basis of how Grace Ferration started. Seven years ago, um, my cousin and very close friend was struck down with a mystery illness. And we took her to all kinds of doctors and holistic practitioners, and nobody knew what was wrong with her. So, in the interim of trying to find a diagnosis, um, family and friends rotated, caring for her in the ways that we knew how cooking, you know, taking care of her home. And the days I went there, I would sit with her and we would pray, I would do Reiki, um, we would meditate. And one day, we did the same routine all the time, but one day she grabbed my hand, looked me in the eye, and said, You need to do this for other people. And I was like, Well, I do, I do it for my family, my friends goes, No, no, no, you need to do this on a larger scale because I have never felt peace, clarity, and safety that I feel when you are with me. And I was like, So I said, Okay. And she said, No, no, no, you need to promise me to look me in the eye, promise me. So I did. I promised her that I would do whatever I could to get my message, my energy, my touch, my words out to as many people as I could. Within two months later, she passed away. Oh, so yeah, that I know it was it was heartbreaking for me. And because I was doing it, I thought with her, here she was going to be my partner, support me because she believed in me so much. How was I gonna do this without her? Until I went to grievance counseling and the power of words, which is where Grace has always been a speaker, but the power of words, my grievance counselor said to me, I know how difficult this is to move along without her beside you. But how about you move forward with the intention of this whole thing is in honor of her. And those words shifted not only my mindset, but the feeling inside of me, the energy around it. And I said, Oh my God, I can do anything in an honor, honor of her. Absolutely. And from that day forward, I knew I had to put the pieces in place to get this business going so I could reach a lot of people. And she always told me how much I inspired her. So she said, You are my inspiration. So I said, Well, what better words and what better name? Taking my name with the word inspiration and making great inspiration. Beautiful, and that's my true story.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. So out of heartache has really blossomed and pulled out almost like a lotus flower. Yes, absolutely. Have opened your heart, your compassion to help others, and that is just beautiful. Thank you. And I love the fact that your grief counselor spoke to you about the power of the word, the power of the words. That is what Energy Serenity Podcast is all about. The words we tell ourselves, the words we write, the words we share with others. So powerful. So without getting into specifics of a client session, how do you use empowering words in your sessions with your clients?

SPEAKER_02

Well, you know, to me, words have always been so important in my life. So, words to me, when I try to summarize to someone, words are like putting your emotion in their own home. It's giving a home to your emotion. So we have a feeling, what are we doing with this feeling? How do we connect it? So the words validate to me the energy or the emotion we're feeling. So, for like example, if somebody is feeling a heaviness, I mean, just the power of a mantra to close your eyes and say with compassion and love, I release and let this go. I mean, your nervous system absorbs that and you start to feel that you can let that go. Yes. So, you know, I always felt that the words need to validate the energy that we are facilitating and they work hand in hand.

SPEAKER_00

Most definitely. Because I know for myself in my journey, I often speak to my students and my clients that we're our own worse inner naysayer.

SPEAKER_03

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

And we need to stop speaking to ourselves like that because the words we say to ourselves often, we would never say that to someone else. So when you catch yourself and you become aware that you're speaking to yourself as a naysayer, you stop yourself and you kind of brush it off and you start engulfing yourself with grace and kindness to yourself.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. And if you think of words, to me, they're like, like I said, your words work with your emotions. It's like love in motion. Yes. You're getting if for someone else it's love in motion for yourself, it's that self-love that you're giving. You're you're putting it out there and making it work for you. And to me, words can move our emotions too. We have an emotion, it could be stuck, but the words help facilitate and move it through so we can move it out of our body and move on to whatever we want to, our goal is for peace or clarity or whatever we're trying to work on. But the words help move that energy.

SPEAKER_00

Yes. And when you when you move that energy, you start to get a lightness in your step. And you start to realize that when you start speaking kindly to yourself and you choose your words carefully until it really becomes more of a habit, a gracious habit to yourself of real self-care and really taking care of oneself. Because if we don't speak to ourselves kindly, then it's very hard to embark that on someone else.

SPEAKER_03

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

And it really is that beautiful ripple effect that we can create with the power of our words. So I love that your first name is Grace, and it's part of your company name. And I'd like to know how you feel innately what grace means to you beyond your name, beyond the name of your business.

SPEAKER_02

And just so you know, when I was a kid, I hated having that name. And I grew to understand why it was given to me. So to me, the word grace is like that space in between who we are, who we're becoming, and like accepting ourselves where we're at, and other people and giving ourselves the kindness because we don't get better in life by punishing ourselves. A lot of times we think that's what we need to do, but it's by opening up and accepting with compassion where we need to go and what we need to do. So that space in between where we're trying to get there, if we can get there with the with the compassion and kindness, that to me is the grace.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

Until we get where we need to be.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And it's a journey. And we don't and we don't need to make a big leap in a short amount of time.

SPEAKER_03

No, absolutely not.

SPEAKER_00

Really taking the time to go inward to really listen to what we need to do to cultivate our own energy and to really bring it to a heightened awareness that not only what we say to ourselves, but what we say to others is impactful. Impactful.

SPEAKER_03

Absolutely. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

Growing up, my Nana always would say, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all.

SPEAKER_03

That's so true. We all grew up with that.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And at as kids, we're like, what? I want to tell them what I'm thinking. Right, exactly. So when you step into young adulthood and you're cultivating your life, you know, not away from your parents, but your own life, you're going out into a career, you really start to realize what that statement means.

SPEAKER_03

That's true.

SPEAKER_00

Because you don't need to say everything on your mind all the time. And truly, if it's not something that's pleasant to be shared, it's better off left unsaid.

SPEAKER_02

Right. And like you said, we take that advice and put it onto ourselves as well.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Exactly. And it's just so impactful when we really realize that the choice of words that we select is so important.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

And the way we deliver them, not the loudest one in the room. Yes. Having a nice even conversation and allowing the other people that are in the conversation to have an opportunity to speak.

SPEAKER_02

And sometimes the way we say something is just as important, if not more important of what we're trying to say.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_02

It's absolutely so important. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And always, I always find with myself by taking that deep breath in.

SPEAKER_03

Taking a space. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right. Exactly. Making that space for the energy to expand those loving words outwards. It's just so important. And so I'd like you to share with the listening audience a real impactful moment that you had with a client where the moment they walked in, you just knew before they even relaxed on the Reiki table what they needed to hear.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. Okay. I'm going to talk about a gentleman that I worked with many times before we got to the point where he was accepting of what he needed to hear.

SPEAKER_04

Okay.

SPEAKER_02

But what he needed to really hear is that no matter where he was in life, a small child or now, that he was enough. That he was loved. Yes. That everything he needed to bring out in the world was valuable. And it came from childhood.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

So there was a lot of hurt and pain. But the minute he walked in, I could feel that. Oh, this man needs a hug. He needs to know he's worthy and he needs to know he's loved. And he matters just because he exists. Yes. He doesn't, we don't matter because people give us our worth. People don't put our worth on us. We have to understand that we are worthy because we are born. And somebody drips that away from us. So after about maybe three or four sessions, he started to feel the messages that I was trying to relay in the session. Because again, it was with Reiki energy is so gentle but yet so powerful.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_02

And he would feel it, but not had know how to explain it to me. And we would do our talks after, and when this is where all the words became more and more powerful and validated what he was feeling. And little by little he started to understand that it didn't matter what kind of childhood he had, and no matter what was told to him, right? That he was worthy and he mattered. And he started to walk in here very differently after the that maybe third session, very differently. And he thanked me for having the patience, yeah, and the kindness to work with him and not force him. But we don't ever force anyone to accept the energy and to release whatever they need to release. It's all in their time. We're just here to guide and support and bring out the healing that they already are doing for themselves. We're just supporting that. And that took a while for him to see. But oh boy, that was amazing for me. Because I kept going, God, I'm seeing a like I just wanted him to feel better. Right. And he'd feel better temporarily here. But then he texts me a week later and say, Oh, I said, okay, okay. But we got there and it was amazing. Just brought tears to my eyes.

SPEAKER_00

That's beautiful. Because when when whether someone's going to their their MD doctor, their mental health doctor, or an energy healer, they know innately within them that they need the guidance, they need the help.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, that's why they're there.

SPEAKER_00

Right. And they really need that reassurance with that loving touch that they are here, they are safe, they're worthy, they are safe. Everything they want in this world.

SPEAKER_02

And that's all anybody wants. You're absolutely right to feel safe.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And it's so important that when someone connects with us as Reiki practitioners, that they even know before they step in the door that they're going to be entering a safe environment.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

And that the tears are welcomed, that the letting go of the heavy sigh shifting while they're receiving the session, that it's so important because it's all part of the process of releasing and oh that's right.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

Just letting the body relax. I would like you to share that when a client comes for a session as to what they should expect from Grace.

SPEAKER_02

Okay. Well, the most important word you said a few minutes ago was safe. So I think people can expect a safe grounded environment where you feel the energy is light but yet powerful. Like I often tell people when they walk in, I don't know what's gonna what's coming up up there, but any emotion that comes up is fully supported. No matter what it is, I'm here to support you and to help you validate what you're feeling. But I can almost guarantee you that you will feel so much lighter when you leave than when you walk in. And we leave it at that. And then at the end of the session, people will say, that was the most important phrase you said because it's so true.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Whatever you're I was carrying when I came in, I am not leaving with. So it yeah, it's important for clients, as well as we know, when we're going out in the world to do anything that we do, feel safe where we are, right? That we feel grounded, that the energy is light but yet powerful. And I keep saying that because Reiki energy to me is so caring and so gentle, but the results are amazing. And that's what's powerful to me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right. So impactful. And yeah, it's so for listeners that are unfamiliar with Reiki, can you share how we we understand what the energy is, but I'd really like you to explain to the listening audience what the Reiki energy really means for their mind, body, soul, and their aura.

SPEAKER_02

Right, right. Oh, I don't know how to put that in a few words. Um listen, Reiki energy is just, like I said, the most powerful, gentle, kind energy from source that we are holding for someone that is on our table for them to feel your word, which I love to feel empowered and able to bring that healing out that they already have, they already own. We're just supporting it and helping them get there. But it's just I call it like the goose chills because I feel like you lay there and you're just amazed at what you're feeling, all positive, all beautiful. And people go, I feel like I got goosebumps. I feel heat in my body. I just felt calm. I fell asleep. I just felt so beautiful here, like I never want to leave. And I don't know if there's just one quick way to describe it, but that's the way I would describe it to someone. It's it's all beautiful. You're not gonna leave here feeling anything but that. And whatever burden you walked in is gonna be gone.

SPEAKER_00

Absolutely. And I love that you started off your explanation of it that it's energy from source. Yes, it's not the facilitator's energy whatsoever. No, they're a funnel for it that comes through and out our hands, and it's beautiful when you have a client on a table, and oftentimes they're tense when they lay down, and then as the session proceeds, you see this relaxation, their breathing becomes yeah, more relaxed, and oftentimes a hand may twist, twitch, a foot may twitch. Oh, yeah, and that's all about the energy releasing itself from them to replace it with the beautiful source of healing light that is, as you said, is available to us all.

SPEAKER_02

Absolutely. It's and I will I will have people say to me, What what do I do? What what do you want me to do? I go, you don't need to do anything, you don't need to believe anything, you just need to be and accept, open yourself up to accept whatever beautiful energy is going to come in. That's it. Yes, because I do get that question. Well, what do I need to do?

SPEAKER_00

Right. Because we're we're in such a society that we have to do, do, do all the time. Yes, yes, yes, prepare. And when people realize they're coming in for a session and it's their time to disconnect. Yes, this is the beautiful source light, thanking them for giving themselves the time to do this without worrying about their to-do lists and what else they have to go on when they get home, that they're really cultivating that time for themselves.

SPEAKER_02

It's your time to just be. That's what I say. It's your time to just be.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_02

Whatever time that is.

SPEAKER_00

Oftentimes clients ask me, Well, how often should I come?

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

And how do you handle that convers? That question.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, that question comes up often. And I I say always, you will know, you will call me. You will call me.

SPEAKER_00

Bravo, because I approach it the same way. And they say, Really? Yeah. Really? You're not going to tell me I have to come every other week, once a month, whatever. I said, no, because you will know, because you don't want this to become another oh to-do item. Yes, exactly.

SPEAKER_02

Exactly. You wanted them to want to be there. Yes. And they open the door to feeling the energy. And it's not like, oh, Grace said, I got to come every week. Now I got to get there. Yeah, I totally agree. I think they know. And I have people call me up and say, I only feel good coming every other week, or I want to come once a month. Okay, that's great. Right. But you know, we'll communicate in between. If you need some guidance on what we talked about in that session, we can talk through it as much as you want, texting, email. I never ever, once someone's a client of mine, they're a client for every room. If they come once or a hundred times, so I tell people that, but you don't need to be here all the time because you want to be in contact with me. If you want to, you'll know. And I get those calls. I think it's time for another session, Grace. Okay, great. Yeah, all the time.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. And I do similar approach as well because I always tell my clients sessions are not one and done. No, no, never. I'll check in on you in a couple of days, or if you need to check back in with me because you have a question or you want to share something. Yes. Feel free to do that because I explain to them the more you talk about releasing what no longer serves you, and you have that beautiful connection of that common conversation, your vibration rises.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

And it's just such a beautiful feeling knowing that you're actually learning to calm your own energy down within during the session.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, they're sitting with it and they're learning. That's exactly what I was gonna say. Absolutely, it's their time to learn and experience and really feel what we started in that Reiki session.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, when a client wraps up a session with you, do you give them tips like drink water or you can do this to keep your energy moving?

SPEAKER_02

Yes, absolutely. And I I send them an email to follow up about the session and go over it, and I will put those self-care tips in there. Remember to drink your water, remember to stay on this course, whatever we discuss to keep those chakras open. Um, you know, if I pulled a card for them, this is what this means. Try to remember this mantra to go along with it. Yeah, I'm constantly, I like to put it in writing for them so they can look back at it. And I also in my Reiki sessions like to use instrumental but also lyrical music because I feel, again, the power of the word gives people messages. So I will send them the playlist if they want, so they can reflect and meditate at their own time to go back and feel that energy again and go over what we talked about. So, yeah, I give so many tips. I probably reach out to many times.

SPEAKER_00

Sometimes, hey, how you doing all that? It's like it's homework, you know. But that's they want to do the homework, and that's beautiful too, because having the conversation at the end is beautiful.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

But then putting it in writing for them because we're all so busy. You get busy with your next, you're you're actually as you're leaving your session, you're getting in your car, you're thinking about okay, I need to cook dinner, I need to stop at the grocery store, whatever it may be. And that conversation becomes a little fleeting.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, yes.

SPEAKER_00

Then when they receive that follow-up email, they're like, Okay, that's right. Yes. Now I have a bit more guidance on this.

SPEAKER_02

Yes, and I try to make suggestions, and I'm sure you do too, on how they can incorporate all that in their life. All right, you know, you got an email with a lot of stuff. How about we start here? Yeah, take this mantra, use that for a week, then maybe do a meditation around this one particular song that you know you felt, you know, hit hit home with you. And so it's all different homework that I know I hate that word homework, but it really is that they can use throughout weeks following the visit, that they can keep working on the cells. And if if they're stuck, they call me. Hey, what was that about that song? What do I need to do? Yeah, and we just have that conversation back and forth.

SPEAKER_00

And it keeps that beautiful connection going.

SPEAKER_02

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

And then they know, like, okay, Grace gets it. Grace is really listening to what's going on during my sessions. Yes. And no session is ever the same exact the next time.

SPEAKER_03

Yeah, nope, you're right. You're right.

SPEAKER_00

And it's beautiful because I have clients that say to me, What's amazing, I always have an enjoyable, relaxing time. I feel released, but every session is a bit different. A little bit different. And I said, Well, because your energy from the moment you wake up in the morning to the moment you arrive here is different, and your energy that it was at a session last month is different than your energy today.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

And when they start to realize, like, oh, wait a minute, our energy is constantly changing throughout the day. Yes. We're not always in this one energy zone. It changes.

SPEAKER_02

Oh, yeah, it changes all the time.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_02

And yeah. So many different things that we do in our day is different types of energy that we don't realize. Like we're saying, words are powerful, that's energy. Reiki is a different type of energy. So the different things that people involve themselves with, they're not realizing that's a different form of energy. So now that's changing the process of how you walk through your daily life. When you start talking to people about it, oh, I went to yoga. Well, that's a different type of energy. You're moving energy in a different way. Oh, okay. Because a lot of times people think, okay, this is just energy when I'm in Reiki. So to explain the process that everything is energy and moves energy in different ways, they start to understand exactly what you were saying, why their energy would be different or they would feel different that particular time.

SPEAKER_00

And when you start to really tap into that and speaking with your clients and they start having those, oh, okay, I get this now. And then they start to become more centered themselves. Yep.

SPEAKER_03

Self-aware.

SPEAKER_00

And really learning that, okay, that really doesn't need to get me ruffled anymore. Because I'll just let that go, let it release from me, and I won't hold on to it. Because the more we hold on to anything that no longer serves us, the heavier we feel.

SPEAKER_03

That's right.

SPEAKER_00

And we want to be able to feel lighter lighter and to be able to have a lot of people. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. We just together.

SPEAKER_02

I love it. It's so true. I mean, I if someone ever asked me what I strive to have every day, it's peace of mind. Yes. And the way to peace of mind is having that clarity. So these are the things we do. And when you were saying before, people need to like to be seen and heard. I I like to reiterate that over and over in my podcast that if people feel seen, heard, and understood, they in turn will see, hear, and understand others. Right. And vice versa. Absolutely. So that's the process in the world. We need to understand each other. And that's the way to do it.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah. To validate those things.

SPEAKER_00

I love that. I love that. The clarity, the validation, listening to others.

SPEAKER_04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

And then as we do it or others are doing it, the other people in that conversation will then start reciprocating the same way.

SPEAKER_03

That's right. That's right. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00

And so much more is heard then.

SPEAKER_03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

And taken into the heart in such a manner that we're just, wow, that was one of the best conversations I've had in a long time. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful. And I know that you've been doing uh your podcast for a bit of time now. And it the chat, life unfiltered, is just so beautiful. So before we begin to wrap up, I'd like you to share with the listening audience how they can connect with you with your Reiki practice and where they can find your podcast. So they may tune in to that.

SPEAKER_02

Yes. So you can find anything you need to find about my services and who I am is on graceporation.com. I am on social media, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, GraySpiration. I have numbers on some of my accounts, 22, but if you put in Graceperation, I come up. Okay, great. My YouTube channel, also Graceperation. And on there, you can find all my episodes of the chat Life Unfiltered, which is my way of bringing out to the world the power of the word in the masses. So that every week it's a different topic of just everything that people are going through. Like we can all relate to different situations as a collective. And those are the topics I like to bring out to people. But you can email me on my website and message me on any of social media, and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. It's always within 24 hours.

SPEAKER_00

Great, beautiful, beautiful. So completely honored that we had this time together, Grace.

SPEAKER_02

I am honored that you had me and humbled. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00

Such a beautiful connection. And uh Grace and I have the privilege of not living too far from one another. So that's exciting for us. And especially that before we close out, audience, please remember energy is everywhere. What you put out there and those kind words, you'll receive it back tenfold.

SPEAKER_03

Absolutely beautiful, Donna.

SPEAKER_02

Beautiful.

SPEAKER_00

Kindness. So it's Namaste to you.

SPEAKER_02

Namaste to you, and thank you again. This was beautiful, and good luck with everything that you're doing and all your beautiful messages spreading to the world. I thank you for that.

SPEAKER_00

And yours as well. Thank you so much. Thank you for joining me on Energy Serenity. I appreciate you taking the time to explore the power of the word, mindfulness, and calming practices with me. If today's episode resonated, please subscribe and consider leaving a review. Until next time, may your energy be serene and your words be empowered. Namaste.