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Welcome to Rooted in Wellness with me, Wellness Advocate and Holistic Nutritionist,
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Mona Sharma.
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Together we will take a journey to discover natural healing practices from imbalance to balance,
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guided by ancient wisdom and modern scientific insights.
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I was raised living summers on an ashram, so I learned early on that food is medicine,
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and your kitchen is your greatest source of health care and prevention.
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After facing two heart surgeries, anxiety and weight challenges, I discovered that just
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because your symptoms are common doesn't mean that they are normal.
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Together with some incredible guests, we will explore the power of our mind, body and
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soul connection, returning to our roots to rediscover our greatest well-being.
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Welcome to Day 1 of the Rooted Reboot.
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I'm Mona Sharma, and this isn't just another wellness challenge.
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This is remembering, today we're starting with where all healing begins, with awareness,
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because the truth is most of us are living on autopilot.
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We are reacting instead of responding, we're surviving instead of thriving, but healing
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requires us to pause and to notice and to reconnect with our inner intelligence.
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In today's episode, we'll explore how to drop back into the body through our breath,
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through movement and simple rituals that awaken our nervous system to safety.
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You'll learn how stress and trauma disconnect us from our healing potential, and how daily
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awareness practices can really help you reclaim it.
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Let's begin this journey together by remembering who you are underneath the noise.
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Hello and welcome, welcome to Rooted Reboot, I'm Paige, so I want to go through just what
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you can expect.
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Today, we're on Day 1, today is all about setting the stage for healing.
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We're going to explore awareness, nervous system tools, the truth that your symptoms
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are not your identity, so that's all today.
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Day 2, which is not until Wednesday, day 2 is all about food as medicine.
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This is near and dear to my heart.
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I have a master's degree in nutrition and food as medicine is so true, so powerful, so
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Mona is going to share all the nutrition guidelines that she's been using with her clients,
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so to eat, what to avoid, how do you eat an alignment with healing, and then day 3,
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day 3 is on Friday, this is all about creating your healing blueprint.
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So day 3, we're going to integrate everything that you've learned to help you reclaim
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your power and start to move forward from any of your past limitations.
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We want to encourage you to be taking a few moments each day to journal and reflect and
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jot down your questions.
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It's really important that once you start to hear this information that you actually
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apply it.
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This is just bits of information until you actually go and apply it, and Mona's team has been
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amazing at putting together these resources for you guys to apply it.
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So get your notebook ready, get your companion workbook bet ready, let's get cozy, let's
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get this journey started.
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I do want to just briefly have Mona come up, I want to share my experience with Mona
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before she, she starts taking the floor, but I've gotten the pleasure to know Mona for
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several months now and Mona's story is one that is very empowering.
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Her healing story is one of my favorites to listen to because I've been in the space
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for several years.
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I've heard a lot of pain to purpose stories and Mona's really speaks very loud and clear
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to me.
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It's really what drives her passion and her purpose.
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And I find that she is just a wealth of knowledge.
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She has so much wisdom.
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She walks the walk, she talks the talk and just being in her presence is so grounding.
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And you will notice that just being on this call, you're going to feel more at peace.
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I find there is so much information out there with health.
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I call it information overload.
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And so many of us we have lost the art of knowing what do we do with that information.
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So like I said, it's just information until you know how to integrate it.
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And it's with it's with Mona's wisdom that we have the opportunity to integrate it.
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And that's what we will be doing today.
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There's some pretty cool things that we're going to be introducing as well like Mona has
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an AI, a Mona AI that I've been playing.
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I've been talking to this weekend and I'll share more of my experience at the end today.
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But it was really, really neat to see that.
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So it's just an honor to be with Mona today.
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I know you guys are going to learn a lot.
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And Mona, tell us a little bit about your your healing story and why you're here.
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Thank you, Paige for that amazing introduction for everyone here.
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My team is amazing.
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I don't think I'd be able to do this with them.
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So it's also just more fun to do this with friends.
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So thank you for that.
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I guess first I'm seeing all of you.
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I'm going through all the pages.
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I'm so grateful that so many of you showed up to me.
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Thank you so much for your time.
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It just needs so much.
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Drop in the comments.
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I want to see what city are you in?
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What part of the world are you joining from?
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I'm so curious.
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I see so many familiar places.
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I see some family.
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I see so many of my previous clients amazing from the Netherlands.
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Wow.
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Wow.
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Ireland.
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Good.
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Callie.
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Denmark.
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I see my family.
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Portland likes it.
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My goodness.
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This is incredible.
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So I guess this is a perfect segue, you know, I have a full confession for you all.
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I feel like I've kind of been in hiding since COVID.
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And this is because if you guys remember what was happening at that time, the internet just
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got really, really loud of what you should be doing, how you should be eating, what the
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perfect wellness protocol was, your supplement protocol, even as a practitioner, I would
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just show up online and just feel completely overwhelmed and as a nutritionist, I really
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questioned, where is the ethics in this?
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How do we show up to heal and God, when did healing get so complicated and loud, say
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when I'll feel that way?
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Show of hands.
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Yeah.
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Like even as a practitioner today, that's how you feel now.
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I just, I feel a little bit overwhelmed and I find myself drifting.
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And this is the beauty behind my story.
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I launched this podcast called Routed and Wellness where I wanted to merge these ancient
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healing rituals that helped me survive and live with modern medicine.
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There's so much beauty, but when I drift too far into modern medicine, I get kind of crushed
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overwhelmed and I and set back that I go back into my ancient roots.
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So a lot of you know my story already, but I think it's worth sharing again.
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So I've been a holistic nutritionist and I'm going to point out in Canada, we do things
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a little bit differently.
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I'm a registered holistic nutritionist.
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We have to write board exams and get a registration number.
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And I say that because there's a lot of schools in the US that give you this designation
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and as a result, we have a lot of people going online with, you know, a certificate program
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giving some pretty major health advice, which we're not allowed to do.
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I will give you recommendations and of course guide you towards the things that I know
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that have worked over this past 15 years.
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But prior to that, some of you might share my story, I worked in the corporate world.
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I happened to have come from the luxury cosmetic world, so I worked for and full of luxury
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cosmetic companies.
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Sounds amazing on paper.
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And I'm sure if my purpose was in a different light, I'm sure I could have had a lot more
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fun with it.
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I was traveling the world, doing makeup for celebrities and for fashion shows and training
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everybody.
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That's in the retailers that you guys go to buy your cosmetics from.
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But I think of the day was a sales job and it got to the point where I was waking up
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in cities, not knowing what city I was in, constantly airplanes, the fashion industry.
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Some of you might know this is a very cutthroat industry.
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So I felt no sense of friendships with the people that I work with and I suffered from
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debilitating anxiety.
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At that time, I was working at Hardcore.
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I was dieting Hardcore.
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I was on the Atkins diet, restricting everything.
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My girlfriend's called my house, the house of free, gluten free, fat free, carb free, everything
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free, probably very much so fun and free.
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But that's who I was.
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And still I would wake up with anxiety, still I would wake up with sadness and these
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hard palpitations started out of the blue.
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I would bend down to pick up a pair of socks and all of a sudden my heart rate would go
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up to about 210 beats per minute.
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It was really scary and it made no sense.
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I was really healthy on the outside, but my heart was just not having it.
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It got to the point where I went for one one day and I almost hit the deck as completely
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almost blacked out.
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And I went to the doctors and they said, well, let's put you on this beta blocker medication.
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Like I said, I wasn't interested in root cause healing.
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So I took the beta blocker prescription and it caused everything to slow down.
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So in a sense, it did work.
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My heart rate did slow down, but I became completely lethargic.
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I didn't want to move.
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I became such a hardcore introvert.
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I had a hard time having a social life and I ended up gaining 45 pounds, 45 pounds
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later.
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I went to the doctor and it's like, okay, hey, this isn't working for me.
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None of my clothes fit.
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I feel completely sad, overwhelmed and lethargic and they said, well, let's take you
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in for heart surgery.
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So it was in my 20s when I had my very first heart surgery.
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And imagine this, like, I was awake for the whole thing.
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Imagine being in an operating room by yourself in your 20s.
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You can see your heart on a big monitor.
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There's wires that are going through your groin and through your neck.
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They were inducing me with adrenaline, with caffeine to induce these palpitations that
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I knew, like I said, would only happen if I was up and moving my body.
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And what they ended up doing was two ablations.
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Ablations mean they go in with something that's incredibly cold.
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They feel like fire going off in your chest and they burn off an electrical node within
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my heart.
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They did two of those that procedure and unfortunately I woke up the next morning and
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my heart was sure enough, pounding all over again.
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It didn't work.
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And so I said, well, I guess we got to go back in for around two.
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So it was just a couple of months later I went in for my second heart surgery.
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I was 24 years old and they did two more ablations without even wondering, like, why?
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Why did I have all this electrical issue with my heart?
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And they said, well, I'm on a good news.
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We found or we can do another ablation.
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But the bad news is that it's right next to your sinus node.
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And there was a chance that if they burned it off, that I might have to wear a
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pacemaker for the rest of my life.
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So I have a sudden I'm visualizing, okay, what is happening?
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I'm in my 20s.
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I'm identifying somebody who's sick, who has a heart condition, who's on prescription
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medication and now I'm going to have a battery pack under my skin, keeping me alive.
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Like, what is happening?
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And it was one of those moments when my life flashed before my eyes.
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I knew that there was a better way to heal.
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Growing up, the irony of all of this story is that I understood Eastern medicine.
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My father, who's Indian and my mother, who's Danish.
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Some of you know, we've heard me talk about my amazing mom.
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I'm only known to suffer from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis.
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I hope no one in your family has rheumatoid arthritis or their hands and their
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feet are just completely deformed.
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And as a result of my mom, she's a Scandinavian woman.
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She come hell or high water.
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This woman was going to try to slow the progression of her disease.
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So the motto in her house growing up was, eat it.
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It's good for you.
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Drink it.
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It's good for you.
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And my mom found an ashram for my dad and all of us to go to.
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I highly, I say this all the time.
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I wish all of you can go and experience an ashram one day.
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These are spiritual centers where you go and you practice yoga and meditation and breath
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work every day.
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You're eating so many foods that come from the earth.
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You're living in community.
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You're living outside in nature connecting with others who are going through similar struggles.
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So imagine on the surgery table, I'm thinking back to this time of my life and it was just
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this aha moment.
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I knew what I needed to do to heal.
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I needed to go back to my roots at the ashram.
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And that's exactly what I did.
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I threw in a towel in the corporate world temporarily.
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I went back and I became a yoga teacher and a meditation teacher only for my own
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personal healing, but when it was there, the weight fell off my body.
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My heart palpitations started to completely go away to the point where there were none
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existent.
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I started eating more carbs than ever before in the past like five years, but it came
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from the earth sweet potatoes and rice and swashes and stuff like that.
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I wasn't exercising hardcore.
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I stopped dieting.
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I stopped doing everything hardcore.
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My body came back into balance and part of my journey with my clients and seeing
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their success over the years is I teach them how to do the same thing, shut down all
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of the hundred or 200 running open tabs that are happening within our mind so that we
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can actually listen to the body and tune in.
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You know, some I call this nervous system regulation, but the point is is that if your
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body doesn't feel like it's like it's safe, it doesn't know how to heal.
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And going back in time and I wonder how many of you have had experiences where you go
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to your doctor and there's no investigation.
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Do they ask about your personal life?
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Do they ask about your struggles?
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Do they ask about your stress?
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Do they ask about how long you've had anxiety?
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For me, anxiety was my blueprint.
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I've been anxious since I was a little girl and it wasn't by fault of anyone in my family.
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It's just like witness something that happened and it caused me to relax.
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So from that moment growing up, whenever there was a stress response in my life, my body,
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stress training was to go back into that residual fight or flight or freeze mode and hold
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everything in.
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Anyone else here repressed their emotions?
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San familiar?
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Do we stuff everything down?
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We show that everything's great on the outside.
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Yeah, one of the best experiences of my life I met with a spiritual teacher and she
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said, Mona, you're so calming and soothing on the outside.
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But tell me, why are you a ticking time bomb on the inside?
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And for the first time in my life, I felt seen.
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And this was the instigation to the journey and learning everything that I had to do.
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So yes, Western medicine saved me, but Eastern medicine really guided the way and something
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that you should know as well.
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You know, when in terms of my heart surgery, I don't know if anyone here has had an
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ablation.
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Over 350,000 ablations are performed in the US.
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Young adults are getting it.
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And yes, it's saving people's lives, especially people who have a fib.
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But why are so many people developing electrical dysfunction in their heart to begin with?
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We have to ask the deeper questions and understand why.
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So my mission ultimately is to guide you to the same healing.
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So today, if you don't have one already, but grab a pen and paper, you can grab a phone
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and in your note section on your phone, I want you to create a personal health section,
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my health.
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And then that, I want you to answer this question.
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What concerns you most about your health?
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And if something comes to mind, think about it now.
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This is all available in your workbook today, but just ask yourself, tune in.
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What concerns me most about my health?
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And I want to also ask, and you guys can throw this into the chat as well, on a scale of
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one to 10, 10 being really high levels of stress.
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When you wake up, or typically what's your standard on a scale of one to 10, what level
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of stress do you live with every single day?
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And if I were to step into your body, for those people here, those very few who might say
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you're at like a level two or three, how do you adapt it to living to high levels of stress
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that if I were to step into your body, it would probably feel like a six or seven or 10.
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Some stress is really good.
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It's great for us.
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It actually builds our body's resilience.
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But as we're going to get to today, it's chronic, consistent, daily stress that fuels
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inflammation, which is the instigation of disease.
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Look at these numbers.
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6, 8, 9, 5, 10, 8.
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So pretty high numbers.
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Another 10.
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All right, we're going to fix that.
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We're going to fix that on this call.
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So before I hand it back to you, Paige, I just want to say like, if there's any questions
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throughout this journey over the next three days, you might feel overwhelmed or intimidated
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to ask, feel free to set like an anonymous setting.
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You can send the question to my team and they'll take care of it.
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And I just want you to know in these next three days, my intention is to pour into
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you, pour everything that I can into you.
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That's why I started this academy.
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I recognize that there's so much work that's that has like just paid off for my clients
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in terms of their healing journey and I see the transformation.
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I wish I could give that to you in three days, but I'm certainly going to give you a glimpse
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of what that entails.
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Amazing.
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Absolutely amazing.
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Can you tell us a little bit about why regulating the nervous system is the most vital
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first step that you used with clients?
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And maybe you could walk us through a tool to get us regulated.
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You got it.
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Has anyone heard of yoga?
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Maybe you feel that yoga is too hard for you.
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I can't do it.
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Yoga is too hard.
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I can't be still for that long.
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Oh, that's exactly why you should be doing yoga.
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And this isn't a talk about yoga or to preach about it, but it's about one of the longest
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standing ancient healing rituals known.
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And we focus so much on just the us in our practice where we show up and do poses.
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But if you were to go to India today and do yoga class, and if you were to go to the
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ashram that I grew up with, the Shivananda ashram, you spent 45 minutes sitting with your
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breath.
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Your breath is yoga.
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Your breath is the driver of your nervous system.
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And I want you all to hear this.
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Your breath, which no one is trained you had to use properly, it's actually the remote
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control to your mind, okay, because no matter what your diagnosis has been, what your
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lab results have been, or what your personal health goal is, you cannot heal your body
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in a state of stress.
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Remember my story?
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I was hardcore everything, doing everything to the T, but I was on the fast track to inflammation.
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And the way that I'm going to teach you today is how to shift your breath so that you
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can get a sense of returning home and home is your body.
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It's within your body.
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So we've got to really integrate the mind to the body instead of keeping them separate.
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Okay.
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What we're going to do next is I know, I'm going to get you into an embodiment practice,
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okay.
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Breathwork is the fastest, most accessible tool that we have.
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You can do it in any environment.
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You can do it with your eyes open, with your eyes closed.
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You can do it in traffic.
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You can do it in line at the bank.
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You can do it when someone like your boss is pissing you off.
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You can just embody it, okay, but it's going to take some practice, okay.
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A lot of us, we haven't built that resilience muscle, okay.
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So what are we doing in breathwork?
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We're lowering our stress hormone.
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So cortisol is a big buzzword these days, lowering our cortisol.
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What activating our vagus nerve, which I'm going to talk to you about next call, it tells
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your body that you're safe.
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When your body's safe, guess what happens?
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Your digestion improves, your metabolism for fat loss improves, mental clarity improves,
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and you're creating this biochemical space for healing to just begin.
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So it's no longer woo woo, all right.
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So over the next three days, I'm going to give you a few different options.
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And beer with me for some of you who are waiting for the food protocol or the healing
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protocol, I promise we'll get there, but I really just can't stress enough.
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The most important thing that we're doing today is teaching you how to come home into
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your body, all right.
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So wherever you are, I want you to sit back and get comfortable.
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And I want you to notice just your posture to begin with.
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So often in our life, we're moving forward.
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What about your posture?
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Do you notice that your neck is constantly creeping forward into action and activation?
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Or are you resting back into your parasympathetic so that your body can feel a sense of ease?
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So notice your posture, squeeze your shoulders all the way up to your ears, squeeze them
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all the way back and down, take a long deep breath in and side out of your mouth.
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Some of you might want to close your eyes at this point.
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You can look around and just tell yourself, I'm safe, I'm just being guided by Mona.
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If closing your eyes never feels good, then just gently soften your gaze and look down
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towards the ground.
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Give yourself permission to be here with me right now.
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I've got you, all right.
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Your breath is the gateway.
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So we're going to do a couple of rounds of the 478 breathwork technique.
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You're going to inhale for the count of four, holding for the count of seven,
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and exhaling for the count of eight.
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If you fall out of this, don't even worry.
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You just hop back in.
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Some of this might be new for some of you.
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You're just remembering.
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So whenever you're ready, take a nice exhale, just let everything go.
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And then we're going to begin.
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When you're ready, inhale a 1, 2, 3, 4, hold the breath, a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, good job.
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Keep going, inhale, 2, 3, 4, hold the breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, relax the shoulders, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
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release any control just for a moment.
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Notice what's come up in the mind.
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Did your egoic mind take over, telling you to be distracted?
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What is she doing?
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I don't want to do this.
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When is this going to be over?
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Or can you come back into the body, all right?
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Try out the attitude of, let's just see what happens.
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Let's go for another round, relax the body, exhale when you're ready.
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And we begin on 1, on 2, on 3, on 4, hold the breath, 1, on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, one more, inhale, 1, on 2,
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on 3, on 4, hold the breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, one more, inhale,
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on 1, on 2, on 3, on 4, hold the breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, on 1, on 2, on 3, on 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, release all control of the breath.
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Let your breath regulate and come back to whatever feels good for you, if it feels
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good to yawn, let it go, just notice the state of your body, is there resistance, was
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it hard to breathe at certain points, was there some tension on the holds, what we're
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doing is we're shifting your system into chasing, into tuning in.
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So just remember that breath is the gateway, without any judgment of what happened, just
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take note of how it felt, whenever you're ready, you can open your eyes and come on back.
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If you haven't already, feel okay, some emotions coming up, 4, 7, 8, exactly what I do
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at night, Carol, also to follow sleep, if I have a monkey mind, it's incredibly powerful.
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So this is an ancient healing tradition that Dr. Andrew Wilde brought to the table
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and he kind of made popular and it's just highly powerful for learning how to shift
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your state.
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Welcome to Rooted in Wellness with me, Wellness Advocate and Holistic Nutritionist,
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Mona Sharma.
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Together we will take a journey to discover natural healing practices from imbalance to balance,
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guided by ancient wisdom and modern scientific insights.
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I was raised living summers on an ashram, so I learned early on that food is medicine,
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and your kitchen is your greatest source of health care and prevention.
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After facing two heart surgeries, anxiety and weight challenges, I discovered that just
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because your symptoms are common doesn't mean that they are normal.
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Together with some incredible guests, we will explore the power of our mind, body and
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soul connection, returning to our roots to rediscover our greatest well-being.
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Welcome to Day 1 of the Rooted Reboot.
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I'm Mona Sharma, and this isn't just another wellness challenge.
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This is remembering, today we're starting with where all healing begins, with awareness,
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because the truth is most of us are living on autopilot.
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We are reacting instead of responding, we're surviving instead of thriving, but healing
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requires us to pause and to notice and to reconnect with our inner intelligence.
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In today's episode, we'll explore how to drop back into the body through our breath,
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through movement and simple rituals that awaken our nervous system to safety.
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You'll learn how stress and trauma disconnect us from our healing potential, and how daily
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awareness practices can really help you reclaim it.
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Let's begin this journey together by remembering who you are underneath the noise.
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Hello and welcome, welcome to Rooted Reboot, I'm Paige, so I want to go through just what
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you can expect.
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Today, we're on Day 1, today is all about setting the stage for healing.
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We're going to explore awareness, nervous system tools, the truth that your symptoms
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are not your identity, so that's all today.
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Day 2, which is not until Wednesday, day 2 is all about food as medicine.
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This is near and dear to my heart.
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I have a master's degree in nutrition and food as medicine is so true, so powerful, so
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Mona is going to share all the nutrition guidelines that she's been using with her clients,
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so to eat, what to avoid, how do you eat an alignment with healing, and then day 3,
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day 3 is on Friday, this is all about creating your healing blueprint.
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So day 3, we're going to integrate everything that you've learned to help you reclaim
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your power and start to move forward from any of your past limitations.
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We want to encourage you to be taking a few moments each day to journal and reflect and
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jot down your questions.
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It's really important that once you start to hear this information that you actually
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apply it.
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This is just bits of information until you actually go and apply it, and Mona's team has been
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amazing at putting together these resources for you guys to apply it.
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So get your notebook ready, get your companion workbook bet ready, let's get cozy, let's
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get this journey started.
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I do want to just briefly have Mona come up, I want to share my experience with Mona
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before she, she starts taking the floor, but I've gotten the pleasure to know Mona for
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several months now and Mona's story is one that is very empowering.
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Her healing story is one of my favorites to listen to because I've been in the space
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for several years.
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I've heard a lot of pain to purpose stories and Mona's really speaks very loud and clear
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She walks the walk, she talks the talk and just being in her presence is so grounding.
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I find there is so much information out there with health.
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So like I said, it's just information until you know how to integrate it.
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There's some pretty cool things that we're going to be introducing as well like Mona has
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an AI, a Mona AI that I've been playing.
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I've been talking to this weekend and I'll share more of my experience at the end today.
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But it was really, really neat to see that.
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I know you guys are going to learn a lot.
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Thank you, Paige for that amazing introduction for everyone here.
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My team is amazing.
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I don't think I'd be able to do this with them.
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So it's also just more fun to do this with friends.
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So thank you for that.
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I guess first I'm seeing all of you.
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I'm going through all the pages.
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I'm so grateful that so many of you showed up to me.
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Thank you so much for your time.
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It just needs so much.
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Drop in the comments.
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I want to see what city are you in?
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I see so many familiar places.
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This is incredible.
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So I guess this is a perfect segue, you know, I have a full confession for you all.
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I feel like I've kind of been in hiding since COVID.
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got really, really loud of what you should be doing, how you should be eating, what the
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perfect wellness protocol was, your supplement protocol, even as a practitioner, I would
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just show up online and just feel completely overwhelmed and as a nutritionist, I really
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questioned, where is the ethics in this?
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How do we show up to heal and God, when did healing get so complicated and loud, say
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when I'll feel that way?
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Show of hands.
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I just, I feel a little bit overwhelmed and I find myself drifting.
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I launched this podcast called Routed and Wellness where I wanted to merge these ancient
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healing rituals that helped me survive and live with modern medicine.
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There's so much beauty, but when I drift too far into modern medicine, I get kind of crushed
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overwhelmed and I and set back that I go back into my ancient roots.
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So a lot of you know my story already, but I think it's worth sharing again.
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So I've been a holistic nutritionist and I'm going to point out in Canada, we do things
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a little bit differently.
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I'm a registered holistic nutritionist.
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We have to write board exams and get a registration number.
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and as a result, we have a lot of people going online with, you know, a certificate program
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giving some pretty major health advice, which we're not allowed to do.
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I will give you recommendations and of course guide you towards the things that I know
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that have worked over this past 15 years.
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cosmetic companies.
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fun with it.
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I was traveling the world, doing makeup for celebrities and for fashion shows and training
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everybody.
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That's in the retailers that you guys go to buy your cosmetics from.
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in cities, not knowing what city I was in, constantly airplanes, the fashion industry.
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debilitating anxiety.
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I was on the Atkins diet, restricting everything.
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free, probably very much so fun and free.
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hard palpitations started out of the blue.
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up to about 210 beats per minute.
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almost blacked out.
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I feel completely sad, overwhelmed and lethargic and they said, well, let's take you
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in for heart surgery.
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I knew, like I said, would only happen if I was up and moving my body.
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Ablations mean they go in with something that's incredibly cold.
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my heart.
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my heart was sure enough, pounding all over again.
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It didn't work.
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I was 24 years old and they did two more ablations without even wondering, like, why?
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Why did I have all this electrical issue with my heart?
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pacemaker for the rest of my life.
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So I have a sudden I'm visualizing, okay, what is happening?
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I'm in my 20s.
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I'm identifying somebody who's sick, who has a heart condition, who's on prescription
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medication and now I'm going to have a battery pack under my skin, keeping me alive.
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Like, what is happening?
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I knew that there was a better way to heal.
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Growing up, the irony of all of this story is that I understood Eastern medicine.
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My father, who's Indian and my mother, who's Danish.
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I'm only known to suffer from debilitating rheumatoid arthritis.
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I hope no one in your family has rheumatoid arthritis or their hands and their
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feet are just completely deformed.
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She come hell or high water.
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This woman was going to try to slow the progression of her disease.
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So the motto in her house growing up was, eat it.
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It's good for you.
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Drink it.
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It's good for you.
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And my mom found an ashram for my dad and all of us to go to.
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I highly, I say this all the time.
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I wish all of you can go and experience an ashram one day.
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These are spiritual centers where you go and you practice yoga and meditation and breath
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work every day.
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You're eating so many foods that come from the earth.
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You're living outside in nature connecting with others who are going through similar struggles.
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this aha moment.
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I knew what I needed to do to heal.
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I needed to go back to my roots at the ashram.
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I threw in a towel in the corporate world temporarily.
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I went back and I became a yoga teacher and a meditation teacher only for my own
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personal healing, but when it was there, the weight fell off my body.
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My heart palpitations started to completely go away to the point where there were none
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I started eating more carbs than ever before in the past like five years, but it came
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from the earth sweet potatoes and rice and swashes and stuff like that.
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their success over the years is I teach them how to do the same thing, shut down all
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of the hundred or 200 running open tabs that are happening within our mind so that we
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can actually listen to the body and tune in.
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body doesn't feel like it's like it's safe, it doesn't know how to heal.
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to your doctor and there's no investigation.
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Do they ask about your stress?
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For me, anxiety was my blueprint.
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I've been anxious since I was a little girl and it wasn't by fault of anyone in my family.
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stress training was to go back into that residual fight or flight or freeze mode and hold
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everything in.
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Anyone else here repressed their emotions?
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San familiar?
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Do we stuff everything down?
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We show that everything's great on the outside.
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Yeah, one of the best experiences of my life I met with a spiritual teacher and she
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said, Mona, you're so calming and soothing on the outside.
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But tell me, why are you a ticking time bomb on the inside?
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And for the first time in my life, I felt seen.
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And this was the instigation to the journey and learning everything that I had to do.
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So yes, Western medicine saved me, but Eastern medicine really guided the way and something
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that you should know as well.
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ablation.
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Over 350,000 ablations are performed in the US.
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Young adults are getting it.
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And yes, it's saving people's lives, especially people who have a fib.
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But why are so many people developing electrical dysfunction in their heart to begin with?
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We have to ask the deeper questions and understand why.
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So my mission ultimately is to guide you to the same healing.
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So today, if you don't have one already, but grab a pen and paper, you can grab a phone
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and in your note section on your phone, I want you to create a personal health section,
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my health.
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What concerns you most about your health?
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This is all available in your workbook today, but just ask yourself, tune in.
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What concerns me most about my health?
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And I want to also ask, and you guys can throw this into the chat as well, on a scale of
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one to 10, 10 being really high levels of stress.
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When you wake up, or typically what's your standard on a scale of one to 10, what level
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of stress do you live with every single day?
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you're at like a level two or three, how do you adapt it to living to high levels of stress
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that if I were to step into your body, it would probably feel like a six or seven or 10.
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Some stress is really good.
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It actually builds our body's resilience.
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inflammation, which is the instigation of disease.
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Look at these numbers.
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6, 8, 9, 5, 10, 8.
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So pretty high numbers.
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Another 10.
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All right, we're going to fix that.
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We're going to fix that on this call.
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So before I hand it back to you, Paige, I just want to say like, if there's any questions
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throughout this journey over the next three days, you might feel overwhelmed or intimidated
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to ask, feel free to set like an anonymous setting.
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You can send the question to my team and they'll take care of it.
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And I just want you to know in these next three days, my intention is to pour into
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you, pour everything that I can into you.
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That's why I started this academy.
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I recognize that there's so much work that's that has like just paid off for my clients
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in terms of their healing journey and I see the transformation.
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I wish I could give that to you in three days, but I'm certainly going to give you a glimpse
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of what that entails.
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Amazing.
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Absolutely amazing.
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Can you tell us a little bit about why regulating the nervous system is the most vital
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first step that you used with clients?
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And maybe you could walk us through a tool to get us regulated.
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You got it.
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Has anyone heard of yoga?
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Maybe you feel that yoga is too hard for you.
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I can't do it.
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Yoga is too hard.
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I can't be still for that long.
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Oh, that's exactly why you should be doing yoga.
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And this isn't a talk about yoga or to preach about it, but it's about one of the longest
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standing ancient healing rituals known.
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And we focus so much on just the us in our practice where we show up and do poses.
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But if you were to go to India today and do yoga class, and if you were to go to the
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ashram that I grew up with, the Shivananda ashram, you spent 45 minutes sitting with your
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breath.
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Your breath is yoga.
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Your breath is the driver of your nervous system.
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And I want you all to hear this.
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Your breath, which no one is trained you had to use properly, it's actually the remote
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control to your mind, okay, because no matter what your diagnosis has been, what your
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lab results have been, or what your personal health goal is, you cannot heal your body
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in a state of stress.
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Remember my story?
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I was hardcore everything, doing everything to the T, but I was on the fast track to inflammation.
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And the way that I'm going to teach you today is how to shift your breath so that you
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can get a sense of returning home and home is your body.
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It's within your body.
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So we've got to really integrate the mind to the body instead of keeping them separate.
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Okay.
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What we're going to do next is I know, I'm going to get you into an embodiment practice,
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okay.
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Breathwork is the fastest, most accessible tool that we have.
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You can do it in any environment.
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You can do it with your eyes open, with your eyes closed.
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You can do it in traffic.
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You can do it in line at the bank.
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You can do it when someone like your boss is pissing you off.
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You can just embody it, okay, but it's going to take some practice, okay.
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A lot of us, we haven't built that resilience muscle, okay.
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So what are we doing in breathwork?
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We're lowering our stress hormone.
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So cortisol is a big buzzword these days, lowering our cortisol.
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What activating our vagus nerve, which I'm going to talk to you about next call, it tells
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your body that you're safe.
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When your body's safe, guess what happens?
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Your digestion improves, your metabolism for fat loss improves, mental clarity improves,
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and you're creating this biochemical space for healing to just begin.
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So it's no longer woo woo, all right.
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So over the next three days, I'm going to give you a few different options.
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And beer with me for some of you who are waiting for the food protocol or the healing
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protocol, I promise we'll get there, but I really just can't stress enough.
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The most important thing that we're doing today is teaching you how to come home into
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your body, all right.
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So wherever you are, I want you to sit back and get comfortable.
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And I want you to notice just your posture to begin with.
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So often in our life, we're moving forward.
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What about your posture?
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Do you notice that your neck is constantly creeping forward into action and activation?
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Or are you resting back into your parasympathetic so that your body can feel a sense of ease?
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So notice your posture, squeeze your shoulders all the way up to your ears, squeeze them
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all the way back and down, take a long deep breath in and side out of your mouth.
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Some of you might want to close your eyes at this point.
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You can look around and just tell yourself, I'm safe, I'm just being guided by Mona.
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If closing your eyes never feels good, then just gently soften your gaze and look down
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towards the ground.
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Give yourself permission to be here with me right now.
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I've got you, all right.
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Your breath is the gateway.
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So we're going to do a couple of rounds of the 478 breathwork technique.
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You're going to inhale for the count of four, holding for the count of seven,
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and exhaling for the count of eight.
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If you fall out of this, don't even worry.
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You just hop back in.
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Some of this might be new for some of you.
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You're just remembering.
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So whenever you're ready, take a nice exhale, just let everything go.
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And then we're going to begin.
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When you're ready, inhale a 1, 2, 3, 4, hold the breath, a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, good job.
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Keep going, inhale, 2, 3, 4, hold the breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, relax the shoulders, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
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release any control just for a moment.
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Notice what's come up in the mind.
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Did your egoic mind take over, telling you to be distracted?
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What is she doing?
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I don't want to do this.
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When is this going to be over?
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Or can you come back into the body, all right?
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Try out the attitude of, let's just see what happens.
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Let's go for another round, relax the body, exhale when you're ready.
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And we begin on 1, on 2, on 3, on 4, hold the breath, 1, on 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, one more, inhale, 1, on 2,
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on 3, on 4, hold the breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, one more, inhale,
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on 1, on 2, on 3, on 4, hold the breath, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,
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exhale, on 1, on 2, on 3, on 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, release all control of the breath.
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Let your breath regulate and come back to whatever feels good for you, if it feels
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good to yawn, let it go, just notice the state of your body, is there resistance, was
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it hard to breathe at certain points, was there some tension on the holds, what we're
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doing is we're shifting your system into chasing, into tuning in.
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So just remember that breath is the gateway, without any judgment of what happened, just
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take note of how it felt, whenever you're ready, you can open your eyes and come on back.
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If you haven't already, feel okay, some emotions coming up, 4, 7, 8, exactly what I do
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at night, Carol, also to follow sleep, if I have a monkey mind, it's incredibly powerful.
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So this is an ancient healing tradition that Dr. Andrew Wilde brought to the table
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and he kind of made popular and it's just highly powerful for learning how to shift
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your state.
