Break Free from Stress Hormones and Reclaim Your Power: A Journey to Self-Mastery

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You know I've heard the term self-mastery before.

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I think I know what it is.

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I've taken a lot of Joe Dispenza classes.

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But please share, just in case, what is self-mastery?

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Well, the easiest way for most people to understand mastery in general is we know how to do it outside of ourselves, right.

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So we became A students.

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We knew how to master curriculum right.

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We knew how to study for an exam in sports or in an instrument, right.

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To become proficient you have to practice, you have to create neural pathways to become a master at an instrument, a master at a sport.

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But when have we ever asked to be the master of our own self right?

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The master of our own emotional states, the master of our own thoughts?

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Hi, I'm Lennis Woods Mullins and I love to help women to vibe, to be more vibrant, intuitive, beautiful and empowered in their life.

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So come on, let's vibe.

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Complete and full disclosure.

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We are doing this podcast the same day that we had the announcement of a new president and I kind of thought that this is so apropos because people's feelings are all over the place.

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The only feeling that I haven't run across since I've been talking to people today is they have no feelings.

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They all have feelings and the interesting thing is, how do we encode those feelings?

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What's really going on?

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Just so excited to have with us today Carol Merko, and she's going to be talking about something that's really truly important.

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She is a student and also a consultant of Dr Joe Dispenza.

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She does a lot with helping people with their energies and kind of changing things around in terms of how we think about things and just raising our overall conscious level as we move through this life, and I think one of the things that's so important about what she does is that it really can wake you up into how to look at something.

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She is what we call a self-mastery coach.

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She's a mindset, self-mastery and health coach and she is dedicated to activating that healing within each individual.

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She's also founder of Love, heat and Heal, and Carol champions the belief that true healing begins with your self-love, conscious eating and wellness practices such as breath work, meditation and journaling.

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Oh my goodness, carol, welcome to the Vibe Living Podcast.

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It's wonderful having you here today.

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Well, it's actually really wonderful to be here with you today.

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I know, especially today.

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I have to admit we were kind of chatting beforehand, yeah, and I have so many questions.

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You know, I've heard the term self-mastery before.

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I think I know what it is.

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I've taken a lot of Joe Dispenza classes.

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But please share, just in case, what is self-mastery?

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Well, the easiest way for most people to understand mastery in general is is we know how to do it outside of ourselves, right.

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So we became A students.

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We knew how to master curriculum right.

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We knew how to study for an exam in sports or an instrument right.

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To become proficient, you have to practice, you have to create neural pathways to become a master at an instrument, a master at a sport.

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But when have we ever asked to be the master of our own self, right?

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The master of our own emotional states, the master of our own thoughts, the master of our own emotional states, the master of our own thoughts?

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And that is what self-mastery is.

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It's taking all of those skills that we know how to do outside of us to become masters, to direct them inside of us.

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And to do that we have to first become aware of how we are showing up in the world, like what is our state of being, what are our thoughts, what are the actions that we're taking, the choices that we're making, and then, ultimately, what are the feelings.

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And you know, it's interesting because I think the feelings today for many people are hitting the gamut of all the negative ones, right?

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Anger, sadness, fear, frustration, confusion, anger, sadness, fear, frustration, confusion, disappointment, like those are very low frequency emotions, right low vibration emotions, and those emotions create the hormones of stress, cortisol, cortisol, adrenaline no oxytocin there, right?

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all the stuff that our bodies produce mostly to aid us, but not necessarily for the youth it's not supposed to be produced in those large quantities, and that's one of the reasons why it's so important that maybe we learn how to digest those emotions in a effective way.

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But I gotta ask you this how did you come to be so fascinated with the idea of self mastery?

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Well it's, you know, as one might guess, it's usually some sort of wake up call that you get from the universe.

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And for me it was a theoretic, theoretically incurable eye disease, so it was the potential of becoming blind, that kind of, and the no known cure in the Western medical model.

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And so when I started looking at alternatives, you know, and there are many, I mean we live in an amazing time when we do have a fairly robust Western model but we sorry, my dog is pawing me, oh, that's okay, that's right, it's like mom but we have also a really robust set of alternative types of healing out there.

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And Dr Joe Dispenza, I think you know fits into the alternative space and you know, think you know fits into the alternative space.

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And you know, when I was on the beginning part of my journey, I tripped into his work and when I began to understand that we have everything within us to create the life that we want, whether it be healing, the job that we want, the partner that we want, the house that we want, all of that right, but we're not taught to manage our thoughts right.

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And so a lot of times we most people, because we live in a society that statistically produces the hormones of stress 70% of the time.

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And the hormones of stress are addictive.

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So, without knowing it, we are unconsciously addicted to these negative emotions, and so we stay in those loops and many of them happen beneath the surface of our conscious awareness.

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And so what this work does, the Dr Joe Dispenza work, is, you know, we teach the neuroscience and the biology of how our brain and body work.

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So first is like understanding that our actual thoughts produce chemicals.

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Every single thought that we have produces a chemical.

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We have not 60 to 70,000 thoughts a day.

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90% of those thoughts are the same thoughts we had yesterday.

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So, as you might imagine, with all those thoughts, most of them are not conscious, they're unconscious thoughts, and so, and 70% of those produce the hormones of stress.

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So the work is about making the unconscious conscious, so beginning to identify.

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Like you know, I feel frustrated, right?

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So if you're feeling frustrated, it might be a good idea to take your journal out and trace back what thought created that frustration, what you know?

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Did you have some expectation of yourself or others?

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And are you addicted to that concept of like, like, setting yourself up right For frustration?

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Right, because it's like, oh well, I should be an, a student, and I should do this, and I, oh, I'm Wonder Woman, I can get all of these things done.

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And then, oh my gosh, you didn't get them done.

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And then you're frustrated.

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At the end of the day, that will become a habit and that will become something that you will loop on, and then that creates those hormones of stress in your body.

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And guess what that?

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All you know.

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We live, you know, in the state of creation or we live in the state of survival.

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Survival was a very important part of being a human being be able to run, you know, fight or hide.

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But in modern society we live in that state 70% of our time, and that's why there's so much disease.

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And so that's how I got to this work.

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So I realized that you know my perfectionism thing, my good girl Jean, my, you know, all of this conditioning that I had as a young woman a girl, you know, and even, you know, an adult woman were not serving me.

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But I was very unconscious about being those things.

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Right, I was, I just was.

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And then all the I now said I spent a lot of years being my own personal mean girl.

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Okay, you would beat up on yourself.

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You didn't have any need anyone else to do it.

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You would do it yourself.

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You know?

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There's something that you said that was interesting.

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You mentioned about journaling, and I think it would be really kind of an aha moment for those that are listening.

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Why is journaling so impactful?

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What's the neuroscience behind that?

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So there's a few things.

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First of all, the connection to your, your hand, to the pen, to the page is very it's very somatic, right Like there, you have your body involved.

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There's also when you journal first thing in the morning before we've kind of we still have a little melatonin in our system.

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We're still in a state of brainwave state that's not highly active.

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Yet we can, we really can kind of touch some of those.

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Here comes the dog, right here.

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She wants to be part of the interview.

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She's like Mom, if you're not going to pay attention to me, I'm just going to jump right in here, right.

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Oh, hi there little dog.

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That's fine, I'm a dog person.

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That's fine, good.

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Well, hopefully your listeners are too, but it's I and it's a total aside.

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But you know animals are.

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They know a lot more than than we realize, right?

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So I?

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think they're probably in a lot of ways.

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Plus, they figured out a way for us to have a great life kick back, eat, sleep whatever and don't have to do anything for it, except for just be around.

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They're smarter than us.

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They figure that out, I agree.

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And then the ones that ended up in our lives right are even the smartest because they get tool, because we could write down what we're thinking, what choices we're making, what actions we're taking, and then you know, tying those to feelings that we are experiencing.

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And it's private, right, it's not for anybody else's eyes except your own.

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And so you have this somatic experience.

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Then you have this experience of really truth telling, right.

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And then the next stage, after you've written your truth, is to what I call is write yourself happy, is to what I call is write yourself happy, because you know if I'm feeling frustrated or sad and you know I wrote a lot this morning when I woke up it gives you the opportunity to get it all out on the page, right, all of that negative stuff.

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So it's, you're not carrying it with you.

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But you can't just leave it at that.

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You have to now move to an elevated state or you have to move to happy.

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Because you mentioned the word, you know, raising consciousness in the introduction to me, and I believe that you know many of us doing this type of work.

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Our purpose is to help raise the consciousness of the planet, even if it's one person at a time, a group at a time, which is really something that we could use right now, given the current circumstances today, but just in general in the world.

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In fact, I had a chance to talk to some friends through the night this morning, right before I talked to you.

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You know everybody's talking and I can sense the unease, the anxiousness, and a lot of times that unease and anxiousness can lead to other things if we don't know how to manage them in the right way.

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So what kinds of things do you do with people to help them deal with their feeling of fear and anxiety?

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Yeah, Well, the first thing when we're in that, you know that sort of extreme emotion of fear and anxiety that I need to get people out of their heads, right, and so the best way is to do breath work.

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Breath work is active.

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Right, you have to focus on your breath, whether it's as simple as a box breath, or if you're doing a yoga kriya breathing technique, or I also teach qigong and there are a few breathing techniques in qigong.

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All of those types of breath work are how would I describe it?

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They are conscious, right, you are consciously changing your breath and when we do conscious breathing, our nervous system recognizes it and it activates our parasympathetic nervous system, which is the rest and repair.

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And you may not even feel like you've came down out of your anxiety, but your body begins to, you know, shut down the production of those chemicals and moves towards creating the rest and repair chemicals.

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So this is very interesting to me, in particular because I am doing what I'm doing now, because about 18 years ago I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and I took a respite for a year and when it was time for me to go back to work I was feeling a little bit better.

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But I just decided I'm not gonna put myself back in the same.

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You know, I'm not going back to corporate America because that was part of the source and I found out later there were three sources of my anxiety.

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Private was working in corporate America and climbing that corporate ladder, being the only African-American, being the only female in a male dominated kind of thing, getting to C-suite and almost losing my mind.

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And the other part was post-traumatic stress, which was involved with how I found out about my mom.

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She was hit by a fire truck on her way to work and how I found out about that was very traumatic.

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And the third thing was menopause, which is something that I found out many years later.

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A doctor never mentioned it because this was 17 years ago.

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Now maybe they would, but they never mentioned about the idea of how the hormones can drive up that feeling of anxiety.

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And you reminded me of that when you talked about the chemicals, because a lot of people don't realize that your emotions can bring up chemicals and if it's kind of like an overload, that can be damaging to the body.

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Can you talk about that a little bit?

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Yeah, so we produce a lot of adrenaline, a lot of cortisol when we're in stress, right, that is just.

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And if you think about, okay, so if in when we were evolving as humans, we were hunter gatherers, right, so so we needed the stress response when we're out there hunting and hunting and and gathering, because you know there could be some sort of a wild animal that would be chasing us.

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So we needed that rush of adrenaline so that we could prepare to run, fight or hide, right.

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And so what happens when we are in stress?

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There's a physiological process like our pupils dilate, our blood moves to our extremities, our heart rate changes, our breathing changes as we prepare to run, fight or hide.

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We also become narrowly focused, right.

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So we, because you know we're really and what do we?

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What are the three things that we think about?

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We think about our environment, right, our body and time.

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So, obviously, you know, when we were hunter gatherers, you kind of knew it was in nature, right, but in modern society, what's our environment?

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It's the people, right, the things.

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Right, I mean this thing.

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This has created a lot of a lot of anxiety.

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Right, the things, right, I mean this thing.

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This has created a lot of a lot of anxiety, right, like it's the stuff, all this stuff I mean, look at all the books that I can't throw out and then time right, so, and it's linear time, right.

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It's that time like where we're worried about, you know, the future and we are betching about the past and we forget to be in the present moment.

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And so being, you know, overly concerned about our environment, our body and time keeps us in survival, right, and, and so that's what happens.

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And so when we're in survival, we also produce a lot of adrenaline.

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I always tell people we create the same amount of adrenaline by having anxious thoughts that a guy in a squirrel suit, right, who is an adrenaline junkie, jumping off a cliff right doing the like squirrel thing and then putting his parachute up and landing right Same adrenaline.

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Adrenaline rush Isn't that interesting and a lot of people don't realize.

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For me I would get it first thing in the morning and I realized later that part of that was because my cortisol levels were really, really up.

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And when your cortisol levels are high like that in the morning, you're going to feel maybe a little queasy, anxious.

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Something doesn't feel right.

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More than likely that's what it is, and one of the things I had to learn was get up first thing in the morning and start moving and basically try not to sit down at all for at least the first hour, hour and a half or whatever, to kind of adjust.

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Lots of times I'll go for a walk early in the morning.

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I have a whole morning routine that I do.

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But when it's too cold outside, you know in the wintertime, I may not go walking right away.

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So I'm walking around the house, you know, doing the dishes, doing the laundry, just moving, and over time I learned to drive down those levels and I'm happy to say that I haven't had anxiety like I used to have probably I don't know in 10 years or so.

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But it took a while for me to figure out.

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It took a combination of things and sometimes in order to move forward on things.

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It takes a combination of things in your toolkit, and one of the things that I had to learn and you talk about this a lot was guarding my thoughts, in terms of how I let my thoughts influence how I was feeling, and my understanding is that your thoughts can make you sick.

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Why is that?

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Because the thoughts create chemicals right, and if you have happy thoughts, they're going to produce the good chemicals right the dopamine, the oxytocin, the serotonin.

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But knowing that we spend, statistically, 70 to 80% of our time producing the hormones of stress right, which are the cortisol, are the adrenaline, and when we have too much of that in our system, it knocks our system out of balance and that leads to dis-ease.

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So we, you know, it's just, it's that simple.

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We, something that was very adaptive as, as you know, human beings evolved, became, has, has become maladaptive in modern society because we can create stress by thought alone.

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Yeah, I totally believe that.

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So for someone who's trying to achieve self-mastery you know, having more control over what they're thinking, having more control over what, how their chemical imbalances or how their chemical balances are going on what's the first step?

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What kinds of things do they need to do?

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They have to love themselves enough first right.

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So we're talking self-love right To actually do any practice consistently every day.

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It sounds like you were able to do it because you were confronted right With severe anxiety.

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I was able to do it because I was confronted with the potential of becoming blind.

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So we both had an event that was like okay, now you got to do something, right.

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But why wait for an event like that, right?

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Why change in times of suffering?

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We can actually like change in times when things are going okay, because, like, we get these exogenous things like an election that doesn't go in the way that we were expecting, that knocks everybody for a loop, right.

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I mean, every single person I know was just, it's just like a zombie today, just like just besides themselves and, and you know, including myself but I you know yeah, you know what.

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What I did first is I wrote myself happy this morning, right Like I know that there are no accidents.

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You know that's a Taoist philosophy.

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I also know that you know things change.

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We live in a average.

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I mean we have no idea, like what it's going to be like next week.

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We have no idea what it's going to be like next week.

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We have no idea what it's going to be like in a minute, like right and that, and that the only thing that any of us have domain over is this right ourselves right and that it's all.

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It's all inner directed, not the outer but the inner.

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And you know, we as women have a tendency to be outer directed because we're always so busy doing things for others outside of ourselves.

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We're nurturers, we've got our children, our husbands, our family, our coworkers, our friends, the neighbor, I mean.

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We're always this way and what happens a lot of times is that we forget to stop and pour back in everything that we're pouring out.

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And one good thing about giving up that way is that hopefully it is clearing space more for you to receive.

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But that doesn't always.

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It doesn't always happen that way because we don't consciously work on the idea of clearing space.

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And I wanted to talk to you about that because you mentioned about the journaling and how you get stuff out.

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But why is that important to get it out, other than the chemical thing?

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Why else is it important to get it out?

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Well, it's the letting go, right, it's the.

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It's the letting go.

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It's so because we are 99.9999% energy and so, in the you know.

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So, if, if you think about it that way, then we're a vessel of energy.

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So, if we're always like expending energy right for to help to take care of our families, to do our work, or even expending energy and, you know, just with thoughts of anxiety or, like you know, frustration or anger, or sadness, those are energy sucking thoughts, so we are depleting our energy tank.

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And so, you know, you kind of have to think of it.

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It's like I always tell my clients to like create an assets and liabilities column, right, I kind of go back to my finance days and it's just like what's filling your tank, what's depleting your tank, and then see where those energy leaks are and figure out how can I, you know, change my behavior, change those energy leaks?

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It could be, you know, changing some of your thoughts.

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It could be changing some of your behaviors, changing some of your choices, getting rid of some people in your life, right, that are energy vampires, right, the ones that just suck the energy out of you.

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And then it could be finding those things that fill your tank, because sometimes we forget, like, what does fill my tank, right, like you spend so much time doing all this other stuff, but then you need to figure out, like, what fills my tank.

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And for me, you know, it's actual practices, right, it's like my qigong, and qigong is a chinese martial art.

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Qigong means the cultivation of energy.

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I have a good practice for you there's a flat-footed marching and I can share with you, maybe offline.

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You know, where you, basically you, you know do flat-footed marching.

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You know like boom, boom, but knee high, like sort of like you want to almost slap the floor with your foot and then hold prayer hands, and this part of our hand is the pericardium, which is the heart protector.

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So we, you know, and you, just you, just you know, start marching and you're tapping into mother earth, right, and so there you are, almost like a grounding exercise.

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Mother earth, right, and so there you are, grounding exercise, exactly so.

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I often do that in the morning when I'm waiting for the coffee, right, or I'm letting the dogs out and and just and it, you could feel like the, the heat coming up through mother earth into your feet, and then, you know, it just energizes me and five minutes is all I need, right, and that's just.

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You know, that's not even a technical practice of mine, right, it's like it's just that I know that while I'm just waiting around for the dogs and all this other stuff at 5.30 in the morning, I could, I could give myself five minutes of a good start.

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Right, yes, I totally believe in grounding.

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I have a little spot right outside my office.

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In fact you can see where my two feet are.

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I've kind of I've been doing it for a long time, so there's no grass growing there anymore.

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But first of all, from a wellness perspective, it's good for you because it can help to replace some of those minerals that you're just not getting anymore, because so much of our food is depleted because of the way it's processed, the way it's grown or whatever.

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But also your feet are very absorptive and so you're in that mud and it's absorbing the feet.

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But it's a great way to connect with mother nature and I always find myself getting more Zen and getting out of my head in terms of all that stuff.

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And all of a sudden there's a calming effect.

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I don't know if it's because of the minerals in the ground, but it does electromagnetic, you know frequencies.

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Oh okay, that could be it yeah, all right, carol, you're right about that.

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You know we talked, before we got started talking about all this, about you know, how it's so important for us to be able to take care of ourselves in terms of our emotional health, our mental health, because of the energies we put out there in the world.

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And we talked about how it could start with you, just one person at a time, each person, for instance, were to take some of the tips we talked about here on the podcast, it could make a difference, inevitably the people around you.

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They might even ask well, you're different, your aura is different, you look brighter, you seem, you know, like in a good mood and you never are.

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What's going on?

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And then you share your practice with them and then they do it, and you know one person at a time and next thing, you know you have a happy world.

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I don't know, is that?

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possible?

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It is possible, it's absolutely possible.

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And if I don't know if you've read this book by Dr David Hawkins, it's called Tower Versus Force.

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No, no, no, he is an MD, he's.

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He passed away a few years ago, but he he over 30 years and his book came out in 2009.

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He decided he was going to map consciousness and he used the scientific method of inquiry, and what he did was he used muscle testing to evaluate the different emotional states and what he did and I don't really understand, like his scientific part but he was able to create a log scale of our emotional states, with shame being lowest and then enlightenment being the highest, and then he was able to look at each of the emotional states and what type of frequency they created.

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And as you go up the frequency scale, he was able then to measure the impact that you know just you as a person was putting out there in terms of like the frequency, the aura, whatever you want to call it that we were putting out.

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So, as you might imagine, the very low density frequencies are, you know, shame and hate and fear, and as you move up, you know you get to like courage and then, and eventually, you get to joy and love and peace, but as you move towards those positive emotions, he was able to prove that they have an exponential impact on the frequency of the planet.

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Exponential impact on the frequency of of the planet, of, of.

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So you know, I move into love that could have an electromagnetic, you know, effect on like maybe a few hundred people.

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Wow, right.

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So he was able to measure the enlightened people on the planet at the time and I think there were nine at the time and he was able to conclude that one enlightened being offset 70 million people in low vibing emotions.

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Right, so that for me, has become my reason for being right.

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I love that.

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So that for me has become my reason for being right.

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Just, that little nugget is just like, if I can just keep myself here, you know, heart and up right as much as I can, we're human Like we're gonna be sad, we're gonna be frustrated, we're gonna have, but we just don't stay there, right, like because we have emotions, we have to experience them, but we don't need to like wallow, right.

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And that's a conscious choice.

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I mean you really can't pull yourself out and I mean I feel better just already talking to you, carol, better than I was when we first started this conversation.

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That was so wonderful and it's interesting too, because we really do have an impact on the world, both positive and negative.

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And who wants to have a negative impact?

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I don't think anybody starts the day saying, hmm, I want to have a negative impact on the world today.

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It's usually when you want to do something good and kind and uplift at least your family members or your coworkers or whatever, or be uplifting yourself.

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So this information is invaluable.

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I am so glad that you were here and thank you so much.

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You know it's interesting because the name of my podcast is Vibe Living, and VIBE actually is an acronym that stands for being vibrant, intuitive, beautiful and empowered, and that's why I believe that all women in particular can be.

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But sometimes it takes a conscious effort and the things you shared with us today, I think, really help people to get on the road to vibe living.

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So thank you so much for being on the podcast.

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It's been wonderful having you.

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Thank you so much.

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It was really gosh.

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We've exchanged really positive energy, because I feel elated and in a better place as well, so thank you.

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And listen everybody.

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Carol's bio is there and all of her social media is there.

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Check her out and find out more about what she does and how she can help you raise your vibration and begin to have different kinds of thoughts.

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And she does this wonderful thing with food too.

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You just got to go and check her out so you can find out how she can help you as well.

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And thank you to all of you for listening to this podcast.

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