Core Practices to Feeling More Abundant in Time, Clarity, Energy & Peace [Episode #1020]

 

Episode Summary:

In the November Solluna Power Hour episode, Kimberly discusses the theme of abundance, clarity, energy, and peace. She emphasizes the importance of harmonizing with our bodies and making conscious food choices to foster a sense of wholeness and expansion in our lives.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction to Abundance and Wholeness

00:13 Core Practices for Abundance

00:37 Food and Nourishment for Well-Being

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KIMBERLY’S BOOKS

• The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts 

• Chilla Gorilla & Lanky Lemur Journey to the Heart
• The Beauty Detox Solution
• Beauty Detox Foods
• Beauty Detox Power
• Radical Beauty
• Recipes For Your Perfectly Imperfect Life
• You Are More Than You Think You Are 

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• How to Raise Your Standards In Your Love Life with Matthew Hussey [Episode 883]
• How to Eat to Beat Your Diet with New York Times best selling author Dr. William Li [Epsiode 913]
• The issues with consuming vegetable and seed oils with Dr. Catherine Shanahan [Episode #899]
• How the Power Foods Diet helps with Weight Loss with Dr. Neal Barnard [Episode #877]
• How Not to Age with New York Times best-selling author Dr. Michael Greger [Episode #873]
• How to eat to reduce anxiety with Harvard nutritional psychiatrist Dr. Uma Naidoo [Episode #867]
• How to Optimize Your Metabolic Health with Dr. Casey Means [Episode 889]

TRANSCRIPT:

Solluna By Kimberly Snyder (00:01.262)
Hi everyone and welcome back to our November Power Hour Show where our theme this month is Core Practices to Feeling More Abundant in Time, Clarity, Energy and Peace. So this is the time of year where you may notice a lot more fullness in your calendar. There’s a lot of events. coming into the holiday season. There’s a lot of joyfulness.

and get-togethers and potentially fun times. But if we’re always feeling like we’re hurried, if we’re feeling a lot of anxiousness, we’re feeling sort of burned out, then it’s tough to really enjoy these moments. And so I really wanted the theme this month to be around this idea of wholeness and abundance because this is an amazing time to learn how to tap into it.

when times are feeling more full and we can really learn these core practices which is really deep self-care around food, body, emotional well-being and spiritual growth no matter if you’re starting to you know that frazzledness or it’s starting to get really cold where you live and you’re feeling like certain shifts have to be made in your schedule.

There is an opportunity to go even deeper into your heart, into your own innate wisdom. And again, in your dietary practices, your body care practices, your emotional wellbeing practices, and your spiritual practices to feel that abundance now. And this is something that I’ve been working on even more deeply in my own life. I’m really excited to share about this topic right now.

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on to others, which is really the intention of our show. Okay, so let’s get into this energy, our intention of the show. We’re talking about abundance in time, clarity, energy, and peace. And these are often topics where we feel like there’s a lack or a dearth of these qualities in our life, unfortunately. So we’re talking about as well stepping into more wholeness, more presence, more coherence, which is really

In a sense, idea of harmonizing. Can we harmonize with our bodies more and more in each moment, with our food choices, with what’s in front of us instead of resisting or judging or having expectations about how it’s not or how it should be? Can we really come into more expansion and wholeness in these micro moments? And then it starts to fill up and suddenly we start to embody this energy of abundance.

Now I think this word gets passed around a lot. We hear about manifesting, we hear about abundance, but it’s really something that we need to experience for ourselves on a moment to moment basis. And abundance means that there is no real lack. So part of this practice is choosing wholeness, choosing wholeness in our perspective, in the foods, the seasonal foods that come onto our plate. Choosing

daily routines and rituals that allow us to nurture ourselves, to feel our hearts, to feel the truth of our true self-being, which is that we’re not these limited broken, you know, humans that we often identify with where there’s we’re not doing enough or we don’t look good enough or whatever it is but really to tap into this deeper place. So this is a really exciting

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period, like I said, where there’s shifts happening in the outer world and shifts happening inside of our body. We’re moving towards winter solstice. There’s less light outside, but there’s actually an ability to tap more into the light within. I got to share about Diwali a couple last week, actually, with my son’s one of my son’s kindergarten class.

And we talked about this idea of light. We talked about the symbolism of light. lit a candle and I played some music and we all closed our eyes and the kids put their hands on their heart and we could feel that inside. So sometimes even though many of us may prefer the sunny weather, I know I certainly do, there’s a different sort of opportunity that we can embrace, especially this month of November.

where it’s less of a transition month and more really starting to get into the fall and winter. Ayurveda calls this season the Vata season. So you notice the wind picking up, there’s more air. You may feel more dry in your skin, in your hair. We need a bit more nourishment, we need a bit more oils. And so this is naturally pulling us towards more grounding practices, which will get into soups, using some more healthy fats.

definitely applying more oil to the skin, to the hair. I know I definitely need to put some hair oil on my hair, which definitely gets dry here in California. It’s dry in Hawaii too because I’ve in and out of the ocean all the time. And this is in terms of traditional Chinese medicine this season that’s associated with lungs and large intestines, which has to do with release and letting go.

So we want to let go of our ideas of trying to hold on to sunnier weather or maybe a more carefree time a few months ago and really coming into this deep sense of groundedness within ourselves. This is an amazing time to also call on the anchor of our steady hearts, how we can be here and soothe ourselves and show up for ourselves in any sort of situation.

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the wholeness of our hearts will give us a deep sense of clarity. This is where intuitive power comes up. And also that abundance of love, of connection, of energy that we’re talking about. So much of getting stressed out has to do with buying into our own minds, thoughts and narratives and stories and keeping us caught up in these cycles of constantly.

thinking and worrying and being anxious. It’s like outside we’re seeing the wind pick up the leaves and tossing them around. And for many of us, that’s what’s happening with our thoughts. Why did this happen? What if this happens? How can I prevent this from happening? How can I make this person like me? It’s control, it’s strategy, it’s tactics. These are words that are used in military training, right? We want to be more heart led than military led or mind led.

We want to learn to create more softness and ease into the moment, not with force, not with trying to make our thoughts keep quiet, but just this continual shifting and feeling and experiencing and coming back, which we’ll get into more when we talk about the emotional well-being cornerstone. First though, I want to start with food. And when we talk about food, we talk about abundance, there is a fullness.

that can come into our plates and into our bellies when we’re focusing more on fiber. Now I want to address just for a moment how much of the hyper fixation there is right now on protein. And believe me, I see it too. I feel like almost like a deja vu because I was talking about protein a lot when I first started writing books over 11 years ago. And as a plant-based eater,

I was constantly asked, a teacher, you could say, an author, constantly being asked to explain where we get protein. And now we’re living in a time and there’s diets out there and there’s certain books and certain philosophies which are really promoting more, more, more. And of course, everybody’s body is different and everybody’s gonna respond to different sorts of food. So it’s up to us to discern and to feel what works best. But I will say,

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that based on thousands of research papers, based on following human populations, such as what the philosophy of the Blue Zones does, which tracks the eating patterns, the lifestyle patterns of certain groups of people for many generations to learn why their longevity levels are so high and their rates of neurodegenerative and other types of degenerative diseases is so low. And one of the factors is that they are 90 to 100%.

plant based and they are getting enough protein they’re getting enough amino acids to build proteins in their body and they’re also getting a lot of fiber which feeds the short chain fatty acids which helps to reduce inflammation in the body it helps to cleanse the blood cleanse the colon cleanse the overall system and it also this fiber rich diet allows us to eat in abundance so that we can I mean if you guys saw what I ate what I eat

Well, what I just ate for lunch and what I eat for dinner, there’s a huge, like a relatively large amount of food. Some people might be like, wow, you really eat a lot, but it’s full of fiber and it digests really well, which is the key to this. And what I was saying about the protein emphasis right now, it feels to me, there’s a bit of an energy of lack. My body needs more. If I don’t get more, more, more protein, then I’m not going to be strong enough.

I’m not gonna be able to ward off aging, all these things pulling from the outside. And there’s this different energy when we say my body has so much intelligence. My body also knows how to use amino acids from plants. It knows how to recycle proteins. It knows how to detox. I need to give it the proper environment. And yes, of course we need protein, but do we need to overload more, more, more all the time?

Definitely not for my body and not for what I’ve seen in working with clients now for a while. Of course, if people are athletes or you’re pregnant, you do need more protein. And I’m not saying that we don’t need protein. But what I’m saying, when we’re talking about abundance and eating to satiation and getting a lot of fiber, you’re also going to get a lot of anti-inflammatory compounds, antioxidants, cleansing vegetables.

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Foods that will really support your vitality. So it’s like we’re pointing our North Star towards fiber towards abundance towards energy The emphasis in my opinion should not be on protein being number one, but rather whole foods and a lot if not entirely as I have chosen to do but you don’t have to be fully plant-based but a lot of plant foods

for the fiber and for the nutrient rich benefits. When your body is really nourished, you will feel more grounded, you will feel more clear. It’s really important to eat at regular meal times as well, especially as we go into November and the rest of the winter, because having regular meal times helps to regulate your body’s digestion. It helps to put you on a nice schedule so that you can feel more grounded. Now this is an Ayurvedic practice known as Dinacharya.

This regularity is something that your body will respond to very well. Something that we do in our family. We try to have dinner around the same time. I have my GGS this morning. I drank some on the way to school. Definitely when I get back from the school run. And then what happens is you end up going to the bathroom around the same time. I feel hungry in the middle of the day around the same time. Everything starts to regulate and it feels really good.

And there’s an energy that comes from this. And then this also starts to support groundedness, which leads to peace. When our schedule is very erratic and we’re sort of all over the place, it’s like we’re grasping for this and we’re trying to feel good here and there. It doesn’t lend itself to equanimity, right? It doesn’t lend itself to your mind starting to feel more settled for us living a heart led life. So all these practices really make a big difference. Now, some of the…

foods that I want to mention include apples, which are in season and they’re really great. They’re full of pectin, they’re fiber, a wonderful ingredient in our glowing green smoothies and sweet potatoes, which was just part of my lunch. I’m feeling a natural call to a lot of root vegetables. Just this feeling of eating deep from the earth and also nuts and pretty much any type of

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lentils or beans. I also had dahl for lunch with a lot of broccoli microgreens on top. I do that a lot when I’m having soup. I just load up the top with some raw greens. So you’re getting that raw warm food component as well, which feels really good this time of year. And pumpkin. We just put out a really great pumpkin curry recipe. I highly recommend you can search for it at mysalina.com. We made it the other day right before Halloween.

It just felt so good to see all the decorated pumpkins and to be eating pumpkin and to have these grounding foods. Now some of the kale and the hearty greens, which we just talked about recently, or you will hear in an upcoming episode on nitric oxide, how kale is one of the most important compounds for, or foods for getting this molecule, this gas to be functioning correctly in the body.

And we have the dharmas kale salad all the time. I’m happy to say my older son in particular eats an enormous bowl. He absolutely loves it. And there’s a hardiness to kale, which feels really good in November. Again, that abundance, that groundedness, that green vegetable energy is really, really great.

I want to call out a research study from 2019 in PubMed titled, Review of How the Stress Digestion Mindfulness Triad May Modulate and Improve Gastrointestinal and Digestive Functions. Function, and it found that mindful eating practices support digestive health by helping the autonomic nervous system move into parasympathetic dominance known as rest and digest. So on top of the foods we want to focus on, some of these

mindfulness practices can include coming together, well I’ll say what we do in our family, coming together, sitting, pausing, saying grace, and then we eat and we talk about our day, we talk about gratitude, we don’t have screens at the table, we don’t talk about heavy conversations, there’s a lot of lightness, there’s a lot of love and connection that’s brought into meal times. And I really do think

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as the study supports that these practices really do help. You don’t want to be reading the news or watching the news while you’re eating. You don’t want to be trying to read an article scrolling on your iPhone. Even if you’re eating by yourself, we want to honor the sacredness of coming to eat. And there’s an abundance in that. will feel, we’re talking about…

juggling and multitasking all the time. And I think that’s why a lot of us feel nothing’s really fully done. Everything’s sort of half done or a third done. And that doesn’t feel abundant and that certainly doesn’t feel peaceful. watching how you eat as well. Also a 2017 Cambridge University study published in Nutrition Research Reviews found that slowing down during meals.

significantly improves eating behaviors and reduces emotional eating. It also helps to support digestion and regulate your appetite. So one of the things that we want to do is to chew more and again not to over schedule yourself so you only have a few minutes to eat dinner, you’ll have a few minutes to eat lunch then you’re racing to something else. It’s better to schedule less.

I’ve definitely found this in my life. It’s better to space out meetings. It’s better to honor your meal times. It’s better to have less after school activities. Honestly, we don’t stack them up. Okay, on Thursdays, there’s a couple for my kids. It’s because I have to juggle their schedules. We have swim class and then we have chess. But the other days, there’s really just one or none. There’s lots of time for free play. I just am a big believer in

enjoyment, slowing down, being present where you are, instead of trying to do too much. That is the mindset that leads to, again, this feeling of we’re running ourselves on empty all the time. So more and more we can heartfully, I will say, instead of just thoughtfully, come into our hearts and really choose what foods are going to serve us.

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as well as what practices really call to us right now. Now, I named a few that really speak to me and my family, but what practices would help to make your meal times more sacred? How can you make sure that you’re chewing well and slowing down? And also, I wanna mention, and it could be, used to light a candle and we used to make it more of a ritual, but it still feels like a ritual without the candle.

it and like I said we say grace and yeah it’s just really amazing how these everyday moments can really be magical moments. And I also wanted to mention that we have some really great recipes that I wanted to call out specifically for you. One is the roasted kabocha squash with sauteed greens, one is the fall harvest hot apple cider, and another recipe is the pumpkin smoothie bowl.

So we will link to these in the show notes as well, or you can just search for them on our mysalina.com website. Now let’s talk about our body. Now we want to make sure that we are honoring our body through these shifts and to feel the abundance in our body. So often we look at our bodies and we think, you know, this isn’t working as well, or I wish I had more muscle, or why this or…

this instead, that is a lack based mindset. And what we want to do is we want to start to bring this idea of wholeness into our body care practices. It’s really wonderful to move our bodies in more gentle ways, stretching, walking. I’m also a big fan of rocking if you know what that is, which is carrying some.

a weighted backpack or vest to feel that strength, but you’re still walking outside. To really prioritize consistency over beating yourself up or being overly intense, like sporadic workouts. Wholeness means this deep connection with our bodies. So we want to make sure that there is this

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say that this this approach which is more loving and more caring versus coming from hey your body’s not good enough I’m not doing enough so let me you know push it some more. The longevity protocols reviewed 38 studies and found that morning exposure to natural light positively influences sleep quality mood and circadian rhythms. So one of the ways in which we can really feel this

Abundance which is all around is to get into some sunlight get outside. I do this in my morning meditations I bring my meditation pillow out into the sunlight and it feels so good and I of course I live in Fairly sunny places. There’s definitely bleak days, but I know I’m lucky to do this Maybe for you it’s more just walking and getting outside for a couple minutes But just anything you can do to really feel the light

and feel the light on your body is such a wonderful way to remember that we are full of energy. We’re part of the greater cosmos. I also think for groundedness, and I’ve talked about this for years, it’s a really great time to oil the body. Warm oils, Abhyanga massage, we have information about this on the website, as well as in the Radical Beauty book that I wrote with Deepak Chopra about how to oil the body.

and to make sure to oil the hair as well, a little bit of scalp massage can feel really great. And to eat deeper, I know we just talked about food, but I wanted to also mention our Glowing Greens powder, which is full of chlorella and spirulina and amalachee and really nourishing foods for all parts of your body, including your hair. That’s why I was just thinking about it, as well as for your heart health. All these…

practices and just remembering to treat the body with reverence I think are really important this time of year.

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It’s more energizing to walk consistently, like I said, than to just sporadically do something or to constantly be picking on your body. And again, just don’t listen to all the fads out there, which are on social media and the media and all around. There’s some crazy stuff being passed around and you don’t have to do every fad. You don’t have to follow every single new exercise routine. You don’t have to punish yourself. You want to listen especially.

For us women on our moon cycles, there’s different times of the month where you may feel more active and where you want to sit back and stretch and have a nice cup of herbal tea. And that is so abundant and so energizing in the long run. Now, this next cornerstone is a really, really big one for our topic this month. And this is emotional well-being. Now, when we talk about abundance,

One of the things that qualifies or exemplifies abundance is spaciousness, expansiveness, okay? This feeling where we’re moving out of constriction, out of lack, of not thinking we have enough, out of trying to force control into expansiveness. Now, how does this relate to emotional well-being? What it means is that we want to allow space to

feel and process our emotions. And if we’re so jammed up in our schedule that we’re just running from one thing to the next, we’re not able to really have that spaciousness or we’re not able to really experience it, right? We push our emotions down. We do this as a collective. We tend to do this. Many of us didn’t really feel our emotions fully as children. So we learn these coping tools, these habits. But what we want to do is have this spaciousness to feel

to be really connected to what’s going on inside of us. Now this is wholeness embodied inside of us where we snap or we project out stress or anger because we’re not really aware that there’s a sense of overwhelm or fear or sadness alive in us. So how do we start to do that? Well, in the Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, the latest book that I wrote, there’s a practice.

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the steady in life practice and it’s about how we have a sense of groundedness first. We want to hold space for ourselves. There’s part of us in our hearts that can be there and that can breathe and then there’s part of us that is going to be aware and alive and to feel the feelings and there’s more step, there’s more description in the book of that practice but I can’t tell you how life-changing this has been for me and what I realize is for the years

there has been a level of, just be positive or it’s fine, don’t worry about it and just pushing down. And then it does manifest in things like constipation or stress or anxiety or tightness, achiness in the body. And so this abundance means I have an abundance of room as well.

for my emotions and this just lets so much more energy come up over time. There may be quite a bit to process and go through as they come up, it’s okay. But the more we do this, the more energy, the more clarity arises. And the more we can feel really present, and this is about the time abundance. When we’re stuck in the past and past emotional experiences, we can just feel.

rushed or there’s these huge emotional responses which don’t really align to what the situation is in front of us. Have you ever noticed that? You’re like, wow, I feel so angry. It really isn’t just about, you know, my husband leaving the towel on the ground. There’s more going on here. There’s more that hasn’t been recognized and validated. So it’s really important to…

First of all, one of the things we can do is we can start to connect on a deeper level with inside of us. We can do coherence breathing, right? We can focus on our hearts and take some nice deep slow breaths. And what this does is it starts to lead us deeper inside our bodies and to create more emotional awareness. Instead of getting out of our head, out of our thoughts where we tend to rush,

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And again, we’re up in our heads all the time and that’s where those are the days where you’re like, it went by so fast or wow, where did the school year go? Or I can’t believe it’s, you know, November, like what happened to my fall? Because we’re not really there. So we want to take the time to breathe into the spaciousness in our hearts. And so we’re more present and we’re grounded in our bodies in here. And this is also the beginning of making more space.

to feel our emotions like the steady in life practice. We need space as well to do this. So it means that when we start to feel emotions or we feel discomfort, we don’t wanna just feel every single second with scrolling on our phones or calling or texting a friend or maybe blasting music in the car. Maybe there are moments where we could just be and feel.

and create that space. And it’s really powerful the more we do this. It doesn’t have to be all the time. But I have found in my work is that emotional well-being is one of the cornerstones that most all of us need to work on quite a bit, including myself. That emotional capacity, that emotional resilience, which starts with recognizing the emotions, the awareness in the first place, and what’s really alive with us, inside of us, and working with that.

Another great aspect of emotional well-being, which we could certainly bring into this month’s theme with abundance, is gratitude. So again, when we’re thinking in lack, we’re just feeling all the things that we still need, that are still missing in order for us to be okay, happy, beautiful, smart, you you name it. It’s all this stuff that our mind tells us that we need. But gratitude and appreciation are about pulling back into the now moment of what’s here now.

So even as I’m speaking this to you, if you can just, wherever you’re listening to this, driving the car, doing the dishes, you know, picking up your kids’ toys, just pull the energy back into your heart and feel this thankfulness, this opening. And you may naturally feel a few things that you are grateful for. It could be a loved one, a pet, you know, a place.

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anything at all really small things you could be really grateful for you know having a really cozy pillow to sit on or just to get a beautiful connection with your neighbor just feel how that shifts your energy and a 2014 study published in Frontiers in Psychology found that coherence heart coherence

which is a state where the heart, brain, and nervous system are in sync, improves emotional regulation, reduces stress, and enhances overall well-being. So when we’re in gratitude, when we’re in appreciation, as I talk about in the book, we are coherent and we can feel more emotionally regulated. Now it doesn’t mean that we want to bypass negative emotions, but it means that we have the capacity to feel them.

and to let them go. Heart-based emotions are appreciation, kindness, compassion, care. Imagine what it feels like to be in the heart. And these are all the qualities which are our natural state. When we start to get separated from our hearts, when we’re up in our heads, we start to feel that lack creep in. So more and more practices that reinforce this wholeness.

are going to keep you on track for feeling abundance and energy and clarity throughout your life. Right? So this could include doing your heart aligned meditation in the mornings or pausing in the evenings to journal. You can also include gratitude journaling, what you’re grateful for. A 2015 study published in Frontiers, also in Frontiers in Psychology, found that neural correlates of gratitude the more we…

experience experience a big word here experience gratitude it is correlated with increased activity in brain regions linked to moral cognition reward and social perspective taking meaning in layman’s terms that there is an activation in the brain you know you can feel gratitude in your heart and it changes your brain it activates it changes your thoughts because it’s changing your perspective right

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So we want to have these practices. We want to make support. We want to say no more often. So we have spaciousness. We want to literally look at our schedules and consider what is the most important and what we can say no to. We want to gratitude about, know, journal about what we’re grateful for the other way around.

And we want to also maybe take more of these sacred pauses where we check inside our bodies and we say, hey, what’s alive in me right now? Is there any emotions I need to process? A little bit more space, letting things come up instead of constantly scrolling, constantly talking, constantly texting. So that it’s not just when we’re doing our meditation that we feel some space, but even if it’s one or two minutes, we start to work these sacred breaks in between tasks, between emailing, between…

you know, working and then going to go to the gym, just any micro moments. You know, for me, it’s, there’s a real pause after I dropped the kids off at school. And then I really need that space for a little bit before I start working. I’d like to have that quiet time in the car when I’m driving back from the school run. And I also need that sacred pause in the middle of the day when I do my walk, which is mostly in silence.

It’s really nice to have those moments and it helps to keep us more emotionally regulated. Overwhelm builds when we don’t have enough time to process. So the last cornerstone is spiritual growth. And here I want to talk about specifically this abundance and this expansion, which we can really feel with time. Now time is a really funny thing and people, I believe, experience time very differently.

You may hear people always say, Oh, I can’t believe how quickly my kids grew up. I can’t believe how fast the summer went or, know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I never have enough time, time, time, time. I have found for myself as I’ve been working on my spiritual health, my spiritual life, which part of it is meditation, but part of it is just my overall, um, moment to moment.

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perspective where we start to flow more with life and be with what is and here instead of always in future based goals or what it should be always up in our heads with expectations. So the more present I naturally have felt, it’s really amazing how

I feel an abundance of time, which, you people ask me, well, how do you do so much? And I can honestly say, you know, I don’t feel so rushed and so full. Now, I used to, and I know what that feels like. And there was a real shift, I think, for me. You know, it was after my first son was born. And that was sort of the height of it, probably, when I was editing a book, right, a few days after he was born. I was trying to do all these things and…

A lot of different things happened in my life, personally, and it was around then when I started to go really deeper and deeper. And there’s a groundedness that will come through your being the more you pierce the outer layers of getting so caught up in your mind’s ideas and timelines and thoughts and just your identity being what you put on paper and what you look like. There’s a piercing that happens as you start to really

And we all have this ability, right? Deeply, more deeply connect with the true self, with your heart. And so for me, that’s included all the things I talk about with you guys, the doing the heart aligned meditation, doing the steady in life practice, journaling, slowing down when I eat, eating these grounding foods, know, oiling my body, just walking. All of these start to add up until we start to feel the truth.

that wholeness and expansiveness is inside of us. And the more we feel it, the more deeply we connect with others, the more deeply we connect with life, the more we enjoy the micro moments and joyfulness isn’t just, I’m looking forward to seeing my brother I see once a year on Thanksgiving. That’s great. But also there’s a joy in just looking out at some clouds going by or there’s a joyfulness in being able to cook dinner.

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And, you know, even just have a little bit of a snuggle time or stretch. I mean, there’s just so much joy that comes the more wholeness we feel inside. And this also takes away time scarcity because time scarcity is partially linked to always chasing the thing that’s going to make us feel okay. You know, I need to do all this stuff, but, know, I don’t even enjoy any of it. I wasn’t there. I didn’t really watch my…

Sun’s basketball game because I had to plan what I was going to buy later to eat for dinner. So I wasn’t there. And then during dinner, I kept worrying about da da. We’re never there. We’re not enjoying things. The more we can get out of the head and into the heart, the more we come into, even feeling your feet, exhaling down through your feet into the earth, the ground below you. really in the words of the wise Ram Dass,

be here now, there is a very different relationship with time that you will experience. I’ve noticed it in a huge difference in how I write books. I remember from my first book, The Beauty Detox Solution, just feeling like, like this takes so long and this is so challenging and finding all research and doing all these things. And now writing a book is always going to be challenging and I’m someone who will always write my own books. I will not.

I mean, I say not, but you know, maybe in some ways AI can help, but I’m someone who really does like to write the words. I don’t have a research assistant. I don’t have a ghostwriter. I like to write. I really do. And I just noticed the more I’ve come into this presence, the times that I do have to write, which are now in the early mornings, there is a spaciousness that comes in because I’m more there, I’m more focused and less distracted.

That’s the other thing, I think that when we are living in the material world so deeply, it’s easy to get distracted. And so our energy starts to feel scattered all the time. And so we really want to ground in, do our regular heart aligned meditations, but I encourage you to, yes, please do read the Hidden Power of the Five Hearts book if you haven’t yet already. It’s in soft cover now, audio hard cover.

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to learn more about daily living from a heart-based, heart-led perspective versus a mind-led perspective, because I think that’s a huge part of being in the expansiveness of time means getting out of the head and out of your thoughts. A 2023 study published in PMC entitled, The Relationship of Spirituality and Resilience and Well-being, found that those who reported higher levels of spirituality

defined through meaning, connection, and transcendence reported better mental and physical health and higher life satisfaction. So just to wrap up how integrated and interrelated all of our cornerstones really are. So, and also in the show notes, we will have direct links for the free tracks of the Heart Aligned Meditation. You can do the meditation with me. There’s coherence building music. There’s also…

me guiding you through the track. So it’s a really beautiful place to get started and I encourage you to check that out as well. So I hope that this show inspired you for this beautiful month of November coming up to live in the fullness of the day with how you eat, how you take care of your body and exercise and connect with your emotions and your spirituality to find more of that abundance within.

which will allow you to experience the abundance of life everywhere, including in your energy and time. Yes, in time and clarity. Once again, please go to mysaloonah.com to check out the show notes, to join our newsletter. Please send this episode to anyone that you think would benefit from learning about any of this. It’s so wonderful to pass things on, to share the love.

and thank you in advance for leaving us a review for our Feel Good podcast. I will see you back here in a few days for our next interview. Till then, take great care. Reach out to me on socials as well, at underscore Kimberly Snyder, and sending you so much love.