August Four Cornerstone Power Hour: Cool Your Mind: Tools for Anxiety & Burnout Relief [Episode #1004]

Episode Summary:

In this episode of the Feel Good Podcast, Kimberly Snyder discusses tools for anxiety and burnout relief, emphasizing the importance of cooling the body and mind as we transition from summer to fall. She explores the four cornerstones of wellness: food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, providing practical tips and insights to help listeners achieve balance and vitality. The conversation highlights the significance of ordinary moments, the impact of nutrition on stress levels, and the necessity of self-awareness and emotional regulation in fostering a fulfilling life.

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Episode Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Anxiety and Burnout Relief
03:09 Understanding the Ordinary vs. Extraordinary
06:01 The Role of Food in Managing Stress
08:51 Cooling Foods and Hydration Strategies
11:45 Body Care Practices for Hot Weather
17:51 Emotional Well-Being and Self-Awareness
24:00 Spiritual Growth and Inner Peace

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TRANSCRIPT:

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Hi everyone and welcome back to our Feel Good Podcast Power Hour for August. And for many of us now living in the Northern Hemisphere, we’re enjoying this summer, but we may feel a lot of heat building up in the body, which is natural. Maybe we’ve been outside more, hopefully. We’ve been out in the sun. So our topic this month is tools for anxiety and burnout relief.

And it’s very important, I think, to talk about this topic now, even before we get to September, October, November, where things start to really pick up in terms of school, getting back in session, work, right? We want to learn to quell and cool and create equilibrium through our bodies, our minds and our spirits now, before we start to get again that build up which happens. And Arya Veda talks about that quite a bit. There is a

predominant element in each month and each season. And August is known to have a lot of pitta energy, a lot of heat energy, just like we want to expel vata energy, excess wind energy as we move from winter to spring. As we move from summer into the fall, it’s really important to cool this heat, otherwise, burnout, stress, our body’s feeling overworked, our adrenal’s feeling shot, just…

feeling really dysregulated and in incoherence, which means we are, it’s harder for us to stay calm, to make the best decisions, to feel like we’re really living from our hearts. So I’m really excited about this month’s topic and to go deeper with you. As a reminder that we have this power hour show at the top of every month, the really relevant theme and we cover.

our four cornerstones, tips across our four cornerstones, which are food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth. So I’ll be going into each of these cornerstones with studies and research and tips and strategies that are accessible to really help you live in your fullest vitality and energy this month and each month. I also want to share before we go deeper into our show, because here at Saluna and our Feel Good Podcast, we care so deeply

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for your wholeness and well-being. And we really are sharing from our hearts what has helped so much, what we truly back and believe in. And along those lines, we have created for you a very special detox and nourish bundle, which you can learn more about on our website, mysaluna.com. So it’s packaging together how you can really deeply support your body right now.

detoxing and cleansing as well as building with really powerful nutrients and materials is key to feeling that equilibrium, is key to feeling in your fullest potential. And there’s an amazing companion guide that goes with this bundle that’s packed with information and has some wonderful recipes. So I can’t wait for you to check out this bundle and take advantage of this incredible offering. Once again, it’s available at mysaluna.com. All right.

Let’s get into our theme today. And one of the things that I want to talk about straight, straight off the bat is our society or the modern world will say this way of creating anxiety and burnout. If we start to go underneath underneath, what is driving this? And often what’s driving it is this desire for more better, right? I should be doing more.

I should be, you I need more attention. Let me spend more time putting out things, going on social media. I need more fun. I need more stimulation. I need to achieve more, right? And we live in this fast paced world where, you know, it’s easy to see how we can get swept up into these ideas with the media and with so much interconnectivity in terms of online. And of course there’s amazing benefits, but what it moves us away from.

And as I say this word, notice the reaction in your body is ordinary. The power of the ordinary, the extraordinary-ness of the ordinary. And what I mean by that is not plain or overly pared down, but the ordinary is where deep connection is with ourselves and others. It means

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And it is extraordinary in own way. Let me explain. When we’re in these ordinary, everyday moments, it means that when we’re really connected to our bodies, to our food, to ourselves, we start to feel such grounded, deep levels of peace and fulfillment and love and heart. And we’re less in this frazzled state of never really being present because we’re always on and we’re always striving. So I was just in Hawaii, for example,

And I was living a very farmer-ish life a lot of the times, a lot of the days I was there just out in the fields, working a lot with the trees, a lot with weeding. And I have a hand saw, so cutting away scrub trees, which destroy the roots of the native trees. And very ordinary, just in farm clothes and on my hands and knees a lot of the time, cutting away, working with the earth.

picking oranges with my kids or cacao, which of course is a sacred, just feeding the goats, which are our neighbor’s goats. We could say like these ordinary little moments feel really extraordinary. I’m able to breathe really deeply. I’m not in my head with my mind racing and feeling that pressure of getting more more done in a day, right? So.

What I mean by ordinary is when we can start and we can all do this in our life and we start to scale back, what are we adding on top? What is driving this burnout? And again, it’s multi-layered. We’re gonna really approach it from this holistic standpoint, which is the four cornerstones. We start to feel so incredibly empowered in this very now moment. And suddenly instead of just

filling every moment or getting agitated if the road is you know there’s a roadblock or traffic we see an opportunity to take an ordinary moment and breathe or maybe do some of our heart aligned meditation or their first few steps doing some heart focused breathing or just you know noticing what’s going on in our body it just starts to become a very different type of existence so when we’re talking about calming anxiety here

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We are not talking about making these big outward life changes. You don’t have to, you know, move out of the city. You don’t have to move to a farm or do anything that feels really dramatic. You can just start to cool and create a lot more easefulness in your present day existence, in your life as it is right now. Whether you are a student, a busy working mama like me, or a…

you know, working in an office or working at nights or taking care of a loved one or an elderly parent or whatever it is, right? I mean, finding coolness, easefulness, calmness, more coherence, more health right here, right now. And it’s very powerful when we start to shift our lens, our perspective. And as we come into our hearts more, we really do create a different perspective.

And then it means that everything around us can start to shift, including our why. Why are we pushing ourselves so much? Why are we doing emails at 10 o’clock at night? Why do we feel this need to compare? Why do we feel the need to say yes to everything? And as we start to come into this, you know, I call the extraordinary of the ordinary, right? This ordinary existence. What happens is we start to feel so connected, so creative, so inspired.

so much love, so much natural vitality that it really starts to take us deeper down this path. So let’s now go into some more specifics with our cornerstones. And of course we like to start with food. It doesn’t mean it’s the most important, but it’s the most tangible and many of us in the community start our wellness pathway with food and it always is a very important anchor to us, including myself.

So one of the things that we want to realize is that what we are eating directly transfers energy into our body. It’s not just about calories. I talked about this for so long or making sure that we’re getting enough protein or fat. That’s all great. But really understanding that foods have a bio-energetic effect and the ancient medicines like Ayurveda really recognized this. So there are certain foods that create that Pitta energy, that heating up, that jitteriness.

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there’s certain foods that calm us. And one of the ones that we want to focus on to calm us is green veggies. Green veggies are particularly, they have many amazing properties, but they are particularly rich in magnesium. And I’m talking about some of the ones that are in our glowing green smoothie, like spinach, kale, you know, the cilantro, if you like to put microgreens. Also some of the greens in our glowing greens powder, like ashitaba, and also

Moringa, right? There’s really powerful greens that I suggest also adding in as a booster to up your nutrient density. And there was a 2016 study published in the journal Nutrients called Magnesium Status and Stress. The vicious circle revisited. What a name for a study. And what it found is that when we undergo chronic stress our magnesiums tend to drop and when we drop, when they drop we become even more sensitive to stress.

So chronic stress lowers the magnesium, we become more vulnerable to anxiety and our nervous system dysregulation. So it’s really important to keep our magnesium levels up so that we feel more resilient. This is something so powerful and simple that we can do with food. So again, keep having your Glow-in-Green smoothie with your Glow-in-Green powder, Glow-in-Greens powder added in, simple add. Keep microgreens and sprouts in your fridge as I do. Add them on top of whatever you’re eating.

This morning I was having an avocado wrap. I throw it on top. Sometimes it was gonna sound funny, but if I’m having oatmeal, I’ll throw micro greens on top. If we’re having soup, as my family does a lot, or sweet potatoes, I’m thinking what I’m gonna make for dinner later. Probably some tacos. My kids love black beans. Micro greens everywhere. It’s such an easy add and very powerful for your calmness. Now another

Another group of foods that is really important right now are cooling veggies. And in particular, Ayurveda favors zucchini, cucumber, and also celery is really great to help calm inflammation. So energetically, the ancient wisdom teaches us these very watery veggies are cooling. And it makes sense if you’ve seen in the spa, sometimes you get cucumber slices put in water or put over your eyes. There’s an anti-inflammatory effect.

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And also there was a study from 2006 in the Journal of Applied Physiology which found that hydration status impacts our hormonal stress response. And so when we are dehydrated, our cortisol tends to go up which makes us feel that overwhelm, that burnout and that anxiety far more easily. So what we wanna do is increase our hydration which we can do every day with drinking room temperature water as I’ve always talked about.

Also, by the way, incorporating electrolytes. You may have heard me talk about the brand Element, which I love. I drink it every single morning, so does my husband. like the, I like, I’m a, you know, I stick with my favorites, which are raspberry and watermelon. But you can learn more about the brand as well. I I, you know, I read some ads here. I talk about it. It’s something that I organically drink and use.

So that’s really important. And also these cooling veggies and salads and raw, just raw veggies in general is another really powerful way to get hydration in your body and fruit. See that slip was meant to be there. I can’t not talk about raw fruit when we’re talking about deep hydration. Okay, so then another thing I wanna talk about, another group of foods is Omega-3s. And you can get these from Super Seeds.

like chia seeds and flax seeds which support brain health and reduce stress. There’s something really powerful about seeds. They have this potential to become, to grow into something. And so I’ve always been really fascinated when I started really looking at food from an energetic perspective about the makeup of seeds. And we really want to respect the seeds. So for example, if you are eating chia seeds,

It’s really important to soak them and to make them into a gel that you can add into smoothies. I use chia eggs, which is basically chia seeds mixed with water as a replacement when I’m baking, when I’m making birthday cakes for my kids or my husband, or different recipes. You can check out, I have different muffin recipes. We have so many recipes online on our website. So chia seeds are really great to keep around for that reason. People also make flax eggs, but I’m always more

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drawn to chia seeds myself, but of course it’s personal, it could depend on the recipe. So there was a 2011 study published in Brain Behavior and Immunity, and what it found was there is a connection between omega-3 fatty acids and stress. So what it means is omega-3s help to reduce inflammation, which is linked to anxiety and depression, and helps to regulate stress responses in the brain. So we want to eat these super seeds and also to…

make sure that you’re getting omega-3s as well from other other wonderful foods besides just the seeds. You can also have nuts of course. You can have lots of different veggies. I don’t recommend just having if it came across that way just a bunch of flax seeds together. Hold on.

Sorry, let’s just edit this part out. It came out a little garbled. Thank you, Eric. Thank you, John. Just gonna edit this part out a little bit. I’m gonna go back. Okay. So you can have Omega-3, amazing Omega-3 foods and seeds that you keep in your cabinet and just to keep around. It’s really good practice. And also to supplement with an Omega-3 supplement, an algae-based one is great.

or now there’s an amazing new finding which is C15, which you can find from this amazing brand called Fatty 15, which is a really new essential fat that they just discovered, the first essential fat that they discovered in 90 years. again, fats are important to just feel that groundedness as is hydration, as is wonderful greens, such as in the Glowing Green Smoothie.

And here’s some of the foods that we want to avoid. We want to avoid spicy heating foods. Now these are known as pitta inducing foods in Ayurveda. So I’m really talking about chilies, chili powder, onions, garlic, hot sauce, especially when we’re on the edge of our nervous system, feeling really calm and regulated. These pitta inducing foods can really take us over. Also foods that are really heavy, fried, greasy are not

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going to help us feel more calm as is excess alcohol and gasoline. Now I remember Dr. Suhas, who is another Ayurvedic doctor who which came here on our podcast talked about compared excess caffeine to pitta like throwing you know gasoline on a fire it just exacerbates and another thing I want to mention about excess fire in this pitta

is it’s considered to be extremely aging in Ayurveda. Everything breaks down. Now we know this from a Western scientific perspective when we’re in stress and we’re in heart incoherence. Our system is discordant. We waste energy. We tend to produce more cortisol. Precursor hormones, DHEA, tend to reduce. We tend to have impaired digestion, our immunity drops. Many different things from this broad term of aging come into effect.

So it’s really important to stay in this equilibrium where we are our most energy efficient, we feel our most calm and clear, we enjoy our lives more, and we don’t have to feel this on-on, this running, which we’ll talk about more in some of the other cornerstones. So I also want to call out some specific recipes at mysaluna.com, which would lend itself very well to this month’s theme. We have a summer burst zucchini pasta salad, which is made of zucchini noodles.

Again, zucchini is one of the premier veggies featured in Ayurveda for this time of year. We also have a cucumber sesame salad, which is really wonderful to help boost hydration, lower cortisol. We have more carrot zucchini zoodles, another different zucchini salad, which is great for your nervous system. So we have lots to feature these foods. Once again, if you go to the show notes at mysaluna.com, you can…

click through to these recipes or you can just search the recipe bar on our website. We have hundreds, probably thousands of recipes that you guys can check out as well. Okay, so our next cornerstone is body and how we take care of our bodies is meant to shift and move and adapt as we move through the different seasons of the year. So it’s really important when we think about this tension that can rise as it starts to get really hot outside.

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This isn’t the ideal time of year to do hot yoga or heated practices or even to go into saunas. This is a time where we realize in the external environment, there is a lot of heat and our bodies are already working to cool themselves down. So lots of gentle movement. When I say gentle, it doesn’t mean that you aren’t using your body. It’s really important to move the body. But you know, being mindful of

walking outside, stretching, maybe doing more of a yin yoga practice or swimming, hiking, but trying if you’re going to be hiking in the middle of the day, maybe picking walks or hikes where there’s quite a bit of shading so you’re not getting beat down by the sun the whole time. And really just listening to your body more and being aware, especially for us women with our menstrual cycles, the combination of the heat and the sun being very high in the sky.

and going through certain moments in our cycle can be a lot on the body. So we want to make sure that we are being intuitive and resting and creating more stillness when we need to. Yesterday, just had or two days ago, I just had so many calls and I had a salooner shoot and I could have packed in a walk, but instead I just got my yoga mat out and I came down here in my office, which is more cool because we all know heat rises and I just.

did a little bit of movement and stretching and free flow and it felt really good and nourishing in the body. I also am called to doing, to be clear, I come in and out and I have to come back in, but just doing some gentle strength training more. And for me, it’s never gonna be super heavy, it’s never gonna be super strenuous, but just to bring that in a little bit. And I wouldn’t do it when I’m feeling super hot, which could feel exacerbating, but times when it’s…

you cooler outside and I have some space in my schedule, that feels really natural for me to incorporate. And I think, you know, for me, when my body feels strong and I can build up my muscles a little bit, it makes me feel more resilient in my life to get through some of the projects and the ups and downs and things that aren’t expected, that throw a wrench in our plans, like our kids’ moodiness, or, you know, I keep talking about these road closures because

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You know, we go back and forth between the island and the mainland and now that we’re back on the mainland, this sort of reminder that there’s quite a bit that’s still being repaired from the fires, which were, you know, all the way back last winter. But there’s this aftermath and they’re repairing the roads and they’re also putting the power lines underneath the ground. So there’s just a lot of patience that’s required. It could really trigger our pizza, our fire if we aren’t prepared.

and able to be more resilient. And so for me, these foods and these practices are so essential. Otherwise, we’re already dysregulated and we can start to feel that sharpness moving through our life, which none of us wants. So I encourage you to consider shifts in your body care. And if you do albionga or self massage, now is the time, as I mentioned in the radical beauty book, which I wrote with Deepak Chopra,

to switch to cooling oils like coconut oil versus warming oils like sesame oil and maybe a time for swimming or great if you like to do those cold showers and end on a cold shower versus saunas, heat. Right now, it’s a great time to think about your exercise routine, both in the timing of it and also how are you moving your body right now and maybe there’s ways to be more cooling and to be more intuitive with your body and what it needs.

in this moment and try to incorporate more stretching and walking and strength training but not in ways that are agitating to your system. So I want to call out this study from 2010 published in the Environmental Health and Preventative Medicine that found that walking in a forest called forest bathing lowered cortisol, reduced your pulse rate and decreased blood pressure compared to walking in an urban setting.

So anytime you can get more in nature, I am so grateful to say that we do have a forested area on our land in Hawaii. And it’s part of my practice to go in the forest every day. I put both of my hands on the ground, on the bare ground. I have so much gratitude. I say prayers. And then I walk through the forest for a while. And I can tell you how enlivening this feels and how much…

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much I get from it to be honest and it’s really hard to put it into words. So next time you’re planning a you know time with a friend or time with a child you might want to consider a picnic or going out in the woods maybe it’s a little bit of a drive or if you live in the city maybe getting to a bigger park if possible. When we were in New York we did a lot of exploration in Central Park we were there in June and it was really really fun. So

Another thing that I want to talk about is HRV, which I talked about in my last book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, which I hope you’ve read or listened to at this point. You can get it anywhere it’s available, or anywhere books are sold, I should say. And this was from the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. And it found that yoga reduced anxiety and helped to improve HRV, meaning better resilience to stress and nervous system balance.

So this is no surprise, right? We know this self-awareness connecting your breath to moving the body. And also what I like about yoga so much is that we are moving in ways that we don’t normally move. And what I mean by that is it’s easy to get, know, bike, walk, swim front to back. But I really like this circular, you know, ways in which we move the body. So if you’re interested, and I haven’t put one up in quite a while, but if you go to our YouTube channel,

I have some series and some practices that you might like very much. And there’s a lot of yoga and movement woven into a lot of our courses. So check that out. It’s, you know, the ways in which we move our body can really release energy and help us towards reducing that burnout, which is of course is the subject of our show today.

Also, this is really interesting. There is a study from 2022 in scientific reports around cooling the face. So so funny, my son does this intuitively. He gets home from chess or an activity and he splashes cold water on his face. And maybe you do this as well. It’s called the cold face test. This is shown to significantly reduce acute psychological stress. there’s research about it. It’s been shown to lower cortisol levels.

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And it showed again to slow the heart rate and so simple and it’s free basically you can just go and splash water on your face. And I love that my son did it. It shows just how intuitive we can be with our bodies. A really quick way to just cool down and to feel hey, heat’s building up and his body type by the way is definitely more Pitta. As is my husband, I have two Pitta types and then my younger son is more.

kafa is definitely more earthy and I’m definitely more vata. So we have a nice mix of elements in our family and my son can learn to know cool himself more naturally with these simple practices which no one taught him he just started doing it himself. So back to this incredible self-awareness and self-wisdom which we can connect to inside of all of us. So let’s talk about emotional well-being staying centered in a world that’s can feel chaotic and swirling and moving.

So, and can create a lot of tension. And then we can start to, if we don’t really soothe ourselves and find calmness, what happens is our emotions start to continue to swirl and it creates lots of feelings. It also starts to create lots of thoughts and the thoughts start to weave themselves into narratives and stories. And then we keep ourselves locked into these narratives, which then continue to keep our stress levels high.

So what we wanna do is to stay centered, is to be more aware of what is alive in us at any given moment. And I like to do this at periods of time, especially when I’m doing my walk in the middle of the day, I check in, I do it in the morning, especially like this morning when I can sneak into meditation before my kids are really busy, we get eye to get them off and drop ready and dropped off at camps today. We just start to say, hey, what’s alive in us?

And it’s really great to do at the end of the day before we try to go to sleep and decompress. And what it is is really, well, I start by, and there’s a lot more I say about this in the Hidden Power of the Five Hearts. We can just start to tune into our hearts, which helps to get out of our heads, take some nice deep breaths in and out. And for me, a lot of feelings and energies is down in the lower tummy area. We could say the sacral chakra. And I just connect to…

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What’s really going on here? And if there’s anything that needs to be felt, because I have the anchor of my heart, I can feel it, I can lean into it, I can remind myself that this is something I can breathe through, and letting the life and emotions pass through, instead of, once again, as we talked about in the beginning of the show, things build and build and build, and accrue and accrue, and suddenly, you know, somebody says something that’s so little, and we start crying, or our child is…

know, misbehaving and we just feel overwhelmed or something happens at work and we feel like we’re gonna lose our minds, right? It’s because all these energies are building, building, building all the time. So there’s a really great practice in the book that I talk about as well called the Heart Aligned Study in Life practice. And it’s one that I use all the time. You wanna find that anchor of the heart and then do your heart focused breaths. And then you can start to really feel emotions.

and feelings and energies which are moving through us all the time instead of pretending they’re not there, pretending that we’re okay, pushing things down. So I highly recommend that you do these practices, learn about them more, learn these tools, use these tools because otherwise what happens is we start to feel disconnected from our feelings or we judge ourselves. And then it starts, this energy starts to go outward in judging others.

feeling like we’re not doing enough, not feeling good about ourselves. So we have to achieve more or do more to show for ourselves or to validate ourselves or to show that we have this worth. Instead of really acknowledging that as humans, we’re meant to have this full range of emotions. And the more we feel, the more we process, we heal, we let things move through. We don’t have to feel stuck in anything. And emotional well-being,

directly impacts, by the way, our hormones, our digestion. There’s again, there’s so much research about this in the book. We can eat perfectly and we can eat really wonderful foods, but it really, our stress levels have so much to do with our emotional wellbeing and our emotional intelligence. And the more we increase our heart coherence, which we can do from our research-based heart aligned meditation, by the way, heart coherence went up 28 % in…

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four weeks just by doing this eight minute practice. The free tracks are on our website as well. We find that we can be more emotionally resilient and we can show up more for ourselves and the more connected we are to ourselves, the more we can respond in life instead of react. So I really don’t like to use the word mindfulness, but I want to call out this study from 2010. The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology found that mindfulness practices reduce emotional reactivity, improves

improve well-being and strengthen resilience to stress. So the essence of what mindfulness of is of course being present in this moment. So for me I don’t like mindfulness because I don’t want to be full of mind. I want to be full of heart. I want to be deeply connected. So you can use whatever word you want but it’s anything that takes us back into deeper connection with wholeness, with self, with this moment, with our hearts, with our feelings, with our emotions.

The more connected we are, the more stable we are, the more we can sink into the extraordinariness of this ordinary moment and to feel such incredible fulfillment in this ordinary life, which we’re all living in essence, right? We can look at it that way. We’re all connected. We’re all equal to our brothers and sisters. And we can see this incredibleness of going to the grocery store.

or the feeling of the water running through our fingers when we wash our car or we wash the dishes. There’s so much amazingness in the ordinary. And we deprive ourselves of that when our emotions are not connected to. And so they’re starting to run the system, which means that they’re running our thoughts, changing our perspective, keeping us in stories and narratives.

So there’s so much power in starting to harness our emotions more, not suppressing them, not forcing them, not feeling them, but doing our heart aligned meditation, our steady life practices and really being able to live more from our hearts, to feel, to let go, to surrender. And there’s some other research studies that I will…

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us. Link to, there’s so much in the book as I mentioned but there’s one in particular from Frontiers in Psychology, finding that heart-focused practices like our Heart Aligned Meditation help to improve emotional regulation and mood, emotional intelligence and also reduce anxiety. Okay, so finally getting to our fourth cornerstone here which is spiritual growth and when it comes to our topic today when we’re talking about

the anxiety and the stress and we’re talking about the burnout. This is so relevant because we want to create awareness whether that’s introspection, sitting with yourself after you listen to this podcast, journaling. What is driving the pushing? Because the soulful self, know, the heart, the energy, the wholeness, the soul inside of us.

doesn’t need to be more. It doesn’t need to prove its worth, right? Of course we live in a world where, you know, many of us we have to function and many of us work and many of us have very full lives but it’s all the add-ons on top. The need to go go go, the self-criticism, the critical voice in our head, the always on

Always online, online the first thing the second our eyes open up. What is driving this? And I had to do this for myself and I got some really interesting feedback and answers when I started to go back and down and deep into, you know, this little girl metaphorically and literally, you know, wanting to be loved and wanting to be seen and finding achievements and

competing and being the top was a way to get that attention. And then eventually it started to segue into more controlling because that felt safe, that felt good. So controlling my food, controlling my calories. There are so many ways in which it manifests and it does lead to that anxiety because there’s so much control that’s linked up into anxiety versus

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when we’re in our wholeness, which we can feel in meditation, which we can feel in other spiritual practices like prayer or just walking in nature, stillness, reading spiritual teachings. And I just reread the Tao once again last week, the Tao Te Ching, my favorite translation and commentary is by Stephen Mitchell, by the way, if you’re interested in reading that. We start to feel again this wholeness.

and that we are all equal, so in a way we’re all ordinary, but we’re also all extraordinary, we’re all unique beings. But to not feel like, have to be more, I have to be special, but that being ordinary is enough. I can be whole and loved and lovable and incredibly creative and authentic and connected and kind and compassionate and all these things.

sinking into this ordinariness, right? Which again is the opposite message of, you you go online, it’s like, you know, more products, have more shiny hair, you know, wear tighter Lycra, have more amazing nails, like get more attention, da da da da. And there’s nothing wrong with having fun with all of these things, but it’s not where we wanna get our self-worth from. It’s not where we’re going to feel that.

and that calmness and that clarity that has to come from wholeness. It comes from living this lifestyle, right? It comes from the four cornerstones, food, body, emotional, well-being, and spiritual growth. That’s why we talk about them always on our Power Hour show, in our lifestyle, all our offerings from our products to our courses incorporate this. That’s why it’s in that companion guide in the detox and nourish bundle, which I’m really excited to offer to you.

It’s in everything, it runs through everything because we’re not gonna get there from just having a perfect diet or just doing emotional regulation or just fitness or body care. It’s the combination that really gets us there. So in conclusion, and so with the spiritual growth, I just wanna call out the offerings we have, the Hidden Power, the Five Hearts book, the Heart Aligned Meditation Tracks.

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that are on the website. We also have some of our older practical enlightenment meditations, which may also speak to you. They’re mantra based. So sometimes it feels like if you need an affirmation or a mantra to just help to realign and you can really open your heart and get behind it, you can check that out as well. Also, my, a couple books ago, You Are More Than You Think You Are is a really distilled teachings from ancient wisdom.

yogic wisdom, particularly from Paramahansa Yogananda for getting past fear, for tapping into your creative power, your true self. And that book may really speak to you as well. But overall, when we realize that we are already whole and complete, we just need to realize that more and more. That also starts to soothe this always on the burnout, the anxiety, because we start to realize more and more what’s driving it underneath.

and then we heal that wound and then everything in our life starts to balance more and take shape. So thank you so much for tuning in with me today. I hope you enjoyed our Power Hour show. Feel free to leave comments. If you wanna leave a review for the show, that would be really amazing and it helps others to find the show. It’s a wonderful way to support. Please go to our website, mysaloonah.com. Join our newsletter if you haven’t already. Check out the detox and nourish bundle.

And I will see you also online at underscore Kimberly Snyder. Till next time, I’ll be back in a few days for our next interview show, sending you so much love and so much gratitude for being connected to me and the community. And I look forward to connecting with you more. Namaste.

August Four Cornerstone Power Hour: Cool Your Mind: Tools for Anxiety & Burnout Relief [Episode #1004]

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