This week’s topic: How Technology and Media Can Have An Adverse Effect in Life and What to do About it
Namaste loves and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show where this week we’re talking about technology and media and the adverse effects it can have on our bodies and on our lives and most importantly what we can do about it. This is a really important topic because we live in this world with so many advances. Some of them are really positive. Sometimes we can keep in better touch with people through messaging and our smartphones and social media. But in some ways we can be very much disrupted in our health, in our vitality and our basic human functions like sleeping well and our immune systems and our digestion and our endocrine systems and all these nervous systems, all these different parts of us can actually start to go out of whack and really…
Summary
In this episode, Kimberly explores the adverse effects of technology and media on our bodies and lives, and provides actionable solutions to mitigate these effects. It emphasizes the importance of setting boundaries and creating balance in our use of technology and media. The discussion also touches on the impact of technology on mental health, physical health, social skills, and relationships.
Chapters
00:00 The Impact of Technology and Media on Health and Vitality
07:05 Cognitive Overload and Physical Health Risks of Screen Time
14:09 The Influence of Technology on Sleep Quality and Social Skills
22:05 Smartphone Dependency and Its Psychological Effects
27:55 Balancing Technology with Moments of Connection and Presence
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STUDIES AND LINK ON TOPIC
Social Media and Mental Health:
Study: A study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior (2017) found a significant correlation between social media use and symptoms of depression and anxiety among young adults. The study found Higher usage of social media platforms was linked to increased feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, particularly due to the tendency to compare oneself to others online.
Information Overload:
Study: A study in the Journal of Business Research (2010) examined the impact of information overload on mental health. The results indicated that excessive consumption of information from various media sources can lead to stress and cognitive overload, impairing decision-making and increasing anxiety levels.
Sedentary Lifestyle:
Research published in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (2011) analyzed the effects of screen time on physical health. The study concluded that prolonged screen time is associated with a higher risk of obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic syndrome due to reduced physical activity Sleep Disruption:
A study in the journal Sleep of Medicine (2014)reviewed the impact of blue light exposure from screens on sleep quality. The study found exposure to blue light before bedtime was found to suppress melatonin production, leading to difficulties in falling asleep and reduced sleep quality.
Impact on Face-to-Face Interaction:
A study published in Computers in Human Behavior (2014) explored the effects of digital communication on social skills. The Study found a heavy reliance on digital communication was linked to a decline in face-to-face interaction skills, including reduced empathy and poorer communication abilities
Communication Barriers:
Study: Research in the Journal of Communication (2011) investigated how online communication affects understanding and relationship quality. The Study found the lack of non-verbal cues in online communication can lead to misunderstandings and conflicts, negatively impacting relationship quality.
Smartphone Dependency:
Research published in Computers in Human Behavior (2021) examined smartphone dependency and its psychological effects. The Study found High levels of smartphone dependency were associated with increased stress, anxiety, and reduced academic and work performance.
Transcript:
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Kimberly Snyder (00:00.526)
Namaste loves and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show where this week we’re talking about technology and media and the adverse effects it can have on our bodies and on our lives and most importantly what we can do about it. This is a really important topic because we live in this world with so many advances. Some of them are really positive. Sometimes we can keep in better touch with people through messaging and our smartphones and social media. But in some ways we can be very much disrupted in our health, in our vitality and our basic human functions like sleeping well and our immune systems and our digestion and our endocrine systems and all these nervous systems, all these different parts of us can actually start to go out of whack. We can start to decline in our health and our wellbeing and our quality of life, which we do not want to do. So this topic is also very much top of mind for me as a mother.
As I look into the world today and I think about what it’s like for our little ones growing up in such a fast paced world that we didn’t have growing up. It just continues to get more advanced generation after generation. And this week is a very special week where our new children’s book, my husband and I wrote a children’s book called Chilla Gorilla and like you, Leigh Moore Journey to the Heart, which is the number one new release on Amazon for children’s books.
Jazz hands, I’m very excited to share it with you. And this message of the book is about connecting back to the power inside of us, to the heart. And today we’re gonna talk about more other specific ways in which we can enjoy technology, but not let it disrupt our health, which is something that we wanna be very cognizant of in this modern world. Because as we’ll get into in a moment with the research.
If we start to let all these devices take over, our rhythms get out of whack. We, our bodies don’t really know how to get into a flow. So we can have irregular bowel movements. Our immune function starts to be, you know, go up and down. Our nervous system can be more reactive. We can go more easily into stress responses. And we don’t want any of this to happen. We don’t want to be adversely affected. So we want to put up careful.
Kimberly Snyder (02:20.814)
boundaries, we want to have this wisdom and this knowledge so that we can apply it to our life just as we have outlines of what we want to put into our body or not. Sometimes whilst we may want to eat treats, we have a general knowledge. We should have a general knowledge of what we really want to create in our bodies, how we want to feel, what the kinds of foods that we want to stock in our fridge week after week and the seasonal fresh foods. We want to have some ideas about how to set those
types of boundaries up around technology and media. So I’m really excited to talk about this show today because I think there is an increasing urgency for all of us to self advocate and to create these boundaries around technology and media for ourselves and for our children and our families. So our question comes from Gemma who lives in Utah. Hello Gemma, sending you much love to a state that I love and have been there part of my outward bound adventures.
At the end of high school, took me to Utah, where I was there for about a month. I absolutely love the beautiful land there. And you write, I feel like my life is overloaded with technology and I’m always being bombarded with information overload from the media. And it makes me feel down and depressed. How do I manage this and feel less stress and anxiety? So Gemma, thank you so much for highlighting this and bringing this to my, to our attention as a community.
I hadn’t spoken to a friend in a long time and I texted her to say, you know, how are you doing? How’s everything going in your life? She lives on the other side of Los Angeles, which could feel like the other side of the world because there’s so much traffic getting back and forth. And sometimes I don’t always get to see these friends that live a little bit further away. The first thing she said to me is I’m feeling really down about what I’m seeing on the news and what’s going on around the world. And it struck me that.
It was the first thing that she said to me about how she was doing. She was so embroiled in the news and all the negativity that can be there if we’re open to it and we go looking for it, that it was how she spoke to me about how she was doing. And I thought, my gosh, this is, she’s so, it’s so wrapped up in her life. And this is true, I think for many of us and.
Kimberly Snyder (04:46.094)
you know, people that we know, I have family members that spend a lot of time on the news. And I noticed that their happiness levels start to go down and people that are on social media a lot seem to get a little bit more frazzled. So there’s actually research to back this up. A study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior from 2017 found a significant correlation between social media use and the symptoms of depression and anxiety in young adults.
And what they found was a link to increased feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, particularly due to the tendency to compare oneself to others online. It is very hard not to fall into some sort of comparison unless you’re really grounded before you go on social media, very selective and you don’t spend too much time on there.
And this study was for young adults. And I can say my older son now is eight. He’s starting, he’s left early childhood. He’s starting to go towards the tween years. And I see how he’s more aware of what other kids are saying and their little sayings. He likes to say, that’s sus. You know, he’s starting to say trendy things. He’s starting to notice what other kids are playing with and wearing. And I think that.
Of course, this is an age where we’re extra vulnerable, right? Our, you know, young adults, the tweens in our life, the teenagers. But I think for all of us, if we spend a lot of time online, we could start to get into that mindset. It’s such a fast moving pace. You can scroll on TikTok and Instagram, and then you could start to really see things and compare them to ourselves. That’s how the mind, that’s how the ego works.
So when we get into tips and practices, we’ll talk about what we can do to help prevent that. But it’s just incredible how much research, this amassing body of research is showing that there’s this correlation between basically unhappiness and social media. A study in the Journal of Business Research from 2010 examined the impact of information overload on mental health. It found that excessive consumption of information from varying…
Kimberly Snyder (07:05.55)
Media sources can lead to cognitive overload, impairing decision -making, and increasing anxiety levels. Do you have someone in your life who lives on Google? There are so many people now that are constantly researching and researching, whether it’s just a piece of parenting advice or a diet or a particular food or any topic you can imagine.
It’s great to have information at our fingertips, but in a way what it does when there’s so much information is that it can move us further and further away from our own intuition, our own high intelligence that’s crafted around what’s best for us, that’s crafted around what is our internal guidance. And we don’t want to lose that. And that’s one of the most important things I think we can teach our children. So I’m a big fan of
Waldorf education, which is a type of education that’s less about memorizing and pumping the child with information versus allowing the wisdom to come up and out of the child so that they can really be in touch with how they feel, their expression, their creativity. So whatever kind of school system or whatever you believe in for education, what we can do with our children is we can start to foster that deep sense of self with them and with ourselves.
by continuously tuning into our hearts and getting out of the overthinking mind. And how do we do that? We do that by taking little pauses through the day, instead of rushing from one thing to the next, instead of rushing to read one article, then the next and the next, and then by the time dinner comes around, we have no idea what to eat. How about taking a pause before you go into the grocery store or while you’re even in the grocery store or before you open up the fridge?
and you settle into your body and you start to see and discern what you’re naturally drawn to. Yes, there’s information about carbs and you know exactly how much protein you should be getting and all these different facts. But at the end of the day, everybody’s body is different. Everybody’s journey, everybody’s life path, everybody’s spiritual unfolding is going to look different than anyone, everyone else’s. So if we continue just following the paths of others,
Kimberly Snyder (09:28.366)
we tend to get even more disconnected from ourselves. And that’s where I believe all the disconnect, anxiety and depression are coming from. It’s a lack of self -connection. So keep coming back to your heart, first of all, which is a place of high emotional intelligence. I just, I touch my heart a lot. I’m doing it right now for any of you guys watching this on YouTube, or if you’re listening to this, you can just touch your heart for a moment.
This is one of the things that Chilla Gorilla teaches Lanky in our children’s book. You don’t have to touch your heart, but it’s a nice way to connect. You just shift your focus there, back to here, back to inside, because there’s so much out there that we can definitely get overloaded and it’s not that hard to do. Now, let’s talk about physically our second cornerstone, which is body. What happens when we’re on all these technology devices and we’re on all the media all the time?
We tend to live more of a sedentary life. I was actually emailing today with my friend, Dan Buettner, who is embodying his lifestyle of the Blue Zones. He was emailing me today, he was on a boat on the Bahamas. The last time I talked to him last week, he was on some amazing adventure, right? If we are here, if we are living life, we are present, we are happy, we are pivoting with life. If we’re on a device.
all the time watching endless Netflix or Macs, all these streaming channels. What happens to our bodies is we’re sinking deeper and deeper onto the bed, onto the couch, and this isn’t great for our bodies. Research in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity from 2011 found that screen time had an adverse effect on physical health. Prolonged screen time was associated with a higher risk of obesity, cardiovascular diseases,
and metabolic syndrome due to reduced physical activity, sleep disruption. So we wanna be aware, especially for our children who didn’t have these devices and would play outside most of the time, and I played outside most of the time, how much are we allowing our children to be on devices? And we have to make very clear lines as parents. So my child loves chess. One of my children.
Kimberly Snyder (11:48.526)
And we are in a chess club. We play chess a lot as a family and he wants to play chess .com. And we have, these are the kinds of decisions we have to make as parents. I am a fan of delaying all of that as much as possible. So I had a conversation with his teacher and we, you know, we talked about the pros and cons. Of course he can play different people and there’s some strategy and different, you know, ways in which his skills can build. But on the other hand, it starts to get.
into a slippery slope of screen time and how do you contain that? And there’s different neuron pathways that are worked, that are being activated where we’re on screens. So we made a decision as a family that there will not be any chess .com for a while, for years, I think. And so we want to make, and now we play chess and his attention span after we play a game, he runs around, we play soccer at the yard, he gets up and it’s a natural form of balance.
between sitting and doing activity like playing chess or coloring or craft and getting up and moving your body. Whereas we all know that if kids love to their own devices and having unlimited screen time, they love it. They’ll just watch movie after movie. They’ll be there for quite a long time. And that is the same thing with adults. We want to be cognizant. It’s very easy to get into a pattern. Let’s say I understand long work days. We’ve been commuting, getting home, long meetings, lots of Zooms.
Whatever it is. So you come home and you turn on the TV and that could be a pattern and suddenly you’re in it and you’re in it and you’re watching and you’re watching. So we want to disrupt some of these patterns. Maybe instead of going into multiple shows or prolonging the first show, you make a pattern of taking a walk after dinner with your dog and your loved one or your children, going to see the sunset or playing a little game of basketball in the yard or whatever it is. We start to create new patterns.
So there’s less of this sedentary lifestyle, less technology, more living, more life. It doesn’t mean we’re cutting it out all the time, but we start to be more in sync with this Blue Zones lifestyle that Dan Buettner so eloquently was able to lay out for us, which is natural movement, which is being naturally active, which is moving our bodies, which is running after our kids, gardening, squatting to get up and down and.
Kimberly Snyder (14:09.998)
moving things in the yard and cooking and sweeping and walking to the post office and doing all these things that our ancestors used to do. A study in the journal Sleep of Medicine from 2014 reviewed the impact of blue light exposure from screens on sleep quality. The study found exposure to blue light before bedtime was found to suppress melatonin production, leading to difficulties in falling asleep and reducing sleep quality.
So this is a tough one because the evening is when a lot of people like to relax and watch shows. I know this is true, especially for my husband. Sometimes I’m trying to get him to stretch with me on the mat and he’s tired. He’s on the phone a lot during the day and he wants to relax. So the band -aid is to wear the blue light blocking glasses and to suppress some of that blue light, but also new patterns. Something that we love to do in our family in the evening, which is really relaxing.
is we take a long bath time together. I’ll be in the shower and the kids and Papa are in the bath. And this is really relaxing for the whole family. And it’s a way that we talk, we laugh, we have a little basketball in our bath and we play games. And sometimes I have to admit there’s water balloons with recycled plastic and we make a ritual out of it. And then we’ve been going to the library.
weekly and getting fresh bedtime books. And that’s really fun. The four of us pile in the bed together. We read the books together. It’s relaxing for the children. It’s less screen time for adults. So whatever, and we play chess again in the evenings. We meditate. Whatever sort of rituals that are really fun for you, instead of doing them once in a while, whether that’s the board games or if you have children.
or stretching with your partner, exchanging a massage, making a warm tea together. That’s something my husband and I like to do as well. It’s really nice to practice these moments of connection in the evening where we can come back to self, come back to connecting with our loved ones, light a candle, make a ritual out of it, make it really special. Because the other thing that happens with technology and screen time is it goes by.
Kimberly Snyder (16:35.534)
And we don’t really feel like we’ve enjoyed that time. We don’t really feel like we’ve lived life. It’s a little bit, feels like a wasted moment. Sometimes, you know, we want to be careful and mindful when we do want to watch something. We do want to enjoy something. We actually watched as a family, not Moses, who’s too young. He’s four. He doesn’t watch movies yet, but with older son and,
Hubby and I, we watched Wonka, which was a big treat. We don’t always watch movies. It was so fun and such a beautiful, I think, creative movie. And so when we did, we watched it, it was something we talked about afterwards. We had that moment, but then it’s very carefully chosen and enjoyed. And then there’s lots of other activities. So it’s creating that balance and being really mindful when you do want to watch something. Research in the Journal of Communication from 2011.
Hold on, there’s another one that I skipped over here. Computers. Computers and human behavior from 2014 explored the effects of digital communication on social skills. This is an interesting one in this day and age where so many kids and tweens and teenagers are growing up so much with phones. And the study found that a heavy reliance on digital communication was linked to a decline in face -to -face interaction skills.
including reduced empathy and poor communication skills. As humans, we’re meant to be together in communion and community. And yes, online communities are wonderful. And this was a saving grace for many of us during COVID. But there has to be this balance with neighbors, with community, with school members, with family. And it’s so powerful to create those circles and those times when you can come together with other.
humans and it doesn’t have to be a big deal. For me, I find that it’s a bit easier to plan things last minute. Some people are planners. I have friends that like to plan way ahead and they’ll say, you know, can you hang out in two weekends or whatever it is? And I don’t know how I’m going to feel honestly in a few weekends. So we put things on the calendar like kids birthdays and kids birthday parties, of course, but sometimes I’ll just, you know, drop a
Kimberly Snyder (18:53.678)
quick text to a friend, hey, you know, do you want to get together? Do you want to do a quick play date? Do you want to make a tea real quick? Luckily, I have some great neighbors and friends around, so it’s a little bit more in flow. But it’s important to have those human connections. Otherwise, you start to feel a little bit socially awkward. And we don’t want to lose that vital connection of being in the presence, being in the energy of other humans and family members and to express that.
real connection in person. Again, it’s all a balance. And finally, the last piece of, I mean, there’s so much research here. There’s actually two more things I want to mention. Research in the Journal of Communication from 2011 found that there was a reduction in relationship quality with online communication leads to misunderstandings and conflicts negatively impacting relationship quality. We all know that tone can get misinterpreted over
emails and texts and it can be convenient but sometimes it’s so much more powerful to get on the phone to talk to a loved one to call someone and just to explain express what is going on your perspective to come at across it in a loving way and I know this from our saloon a team and sometimes
I’m busy, I’m making the kids lunch and there’s something that has to get done and I’ll write a text. And I don’t mean for it to come across short or in a certain tone, but sometimes it can be interpreted as such. So we give each other a lot of leeway on the team. We’ve talked about this and how there is an acknowledgement of how much misinterpretation that can be over online, but there’s a lot more.
voice texts, which for us is the next best thing, I think, because you can hear what someone’s saying. I try not to make them super long because it can be hard to listen to really long voice texts, but there’s at least a human quality when you’re leaving a message for someone and they can hear the softness of your voice. They can hear what you’re trying to communicate. And at least there’s a little bit of you can feel that Vashuta, that beautiful throat chakra, that energy, that vibration that comes through the voice.
Kimberly Snyder (21:08.014)
And if you drop into your heart consciously before you send a message and you’re speaking from your heart, people feel that. They can feel that you are being sincere. And that’s a great way to communicate. I think in a world that’s very technology based for all ages, we can teach that to our children and our family members and relatives. We don’t get to see a lot. It’s nice to hear someone’s voice, even though it may not be the most convenient time to get onto a long phone call.
And finally, this is a big one, I think, for all of us to be aware of. They’re actually starting to measure the effect of smartphone addiction and dependency. Research published in the Computers and Human Behavior from 2021 examined smartphone dependency in adults and its psychological effects. And they found that smartphone dependency was associated with increased stress, anxiety, reduced academic and work performance.
There’s no surprise here, but the more attached we are to our phones, this gripping, this holding, I need this. And we’ve all been guilty of it, the checking over and over again, as if something’s new, you know, in five seconds, or as if we have to answer every single text back immediately. It’s good to take breaks and not be so dependent on our phones all the time. Again, it starts to build a different sort of
connection to your nervous system. And it starts to shift things in the ways in which we live our lives. And what we don’t want to do is to have everything, of course, this is varying levels depending on how much online you are and if you consider yourself to be an influencer or not, but you want to enjoy the moments and not document everything to…
and miss out on moments. What I mean by that is to be there and to really enjoy the sunset or this meal with your child or this beautiful food that you’re about to eat. Maybe take some quick pics or whatever if you want to. But I notice walking around how many people I see, and I say this without judgment because I think it’s easy to fall into this. I say with compassion, I see how many people on the beach just here locally in LA or in Hawaii.
Kimberly Snyder (23:35.182)
aren’t really there. They’re taking the picture over and over and over again, or just having their friends. You film them and I, there’s nothing wrong with it, but I think to myself, are they really enjoying this gorgeous beach and this moment? Right? Because, because there’s so much media, because there’s so much technology, it can be really easy to slip away and miss those moments. And we don’t want to do that. So what do we do about all of this?
I think one of the most important things to do is to be aware and to create those healthy boundaries just as we would with food. So we know, for instance, especially here in our beauty detox salina community, that we don’t have refined sugar all the time, that we may be more cognizant of drinking the Glow -in -Green smoothie and now the Glow -in -Green powder on a daily basis getting these powerful greens in. So how does that work with technology?
I will say first of all for myself, I have very strict boundaries about technology and media. I stay largely off the news. I don’t watch the news. We don’t have news in the house. If I’m going to get my news, it’s through one source and that’s the written word. I’ll read articles versus watching the news, which for me in my nervous system is very jarring. The lights, the noises, the sirens that are often played with the local news.
It doesn’t feel good to me. So I’ve created that boundary. I only read the news. I do not watch it. So I encourage you to see what feels good for you. Do you want to wake up to the news or can you delay a few hours? Can you look at headlines on your phone a few hours after you wake up? Does it have to be first thing? Does it have to be the last thing in the evening? I do not recommend that because these messages and these imagery, the images go into the brain and they can start to create different…
changes overnight while your neural pathways are rewiring and forming. So be mindful of when and what you are watching. The other thing is to have times when you’re not on your smartphone and this requires training. I like to check my phone in the mornings to make sure that there’s no emergencies, everyone’s okay. And then I play music while I’m making my children’s breakfast and their lunches. But I’m trying, you know, I try not to…
Kimberly Snyder (26:00.974)
answer texts and emails, I delay all of that. As far as social media for me personally, I batch it. I’m not on it all the time, but I’ll go in in the morning and mid morning for brief periods and then later in the afternoon, I don’t go on all day long. So it’s very set moments and I try to be really present with my work and what I’m doing or what I’m writing or what I’m speaking about or whatever it is.
because for me, social media also feels like chaotic energy. There’s so much moving, there’s scrolling all the time and everything. So it just doesn’t feel very good to me. And so I encourage you to think about turning off alerts and instead take more of a proactive approach to when you’re going to be on social media and when you’re not, and to limit those times and to create very strict boundaries with yourself. Otherwise, again, remember this research we talked about today.
More social media, less happiness. More social media, less mental health. And I would say emotional well -being and spiritual growth, because if we’re on the media all the time and we’re being pulled outside ourselves, we don’t really get to connect to our hearts and to our true self. Which leads me to the next point about connecting to the heart. Connecting in our intuition, what’s best for us. So we wanna take those sacred pauses instead of show after show,
You know, mom all the time, sacred pauses before we eat, sacred pauses in the middle of the day, after we take a shower, just enjoying the moment. It doesn’t have to be so prescripted and so rigid, but just taking a moment as you step into the sunshine, put on your shoes, you walk outside, breathe down into your heart. Our heart aligned meditation is based on a lot of science and research. And there’s a heart aligned meditation for children in the Chilla book, which just published.
about shifting to your heart starts to rewire your nervous system. It starts to bring us into this more smooth, harmonious flow. This is where we enjoy life. This is where we feel peaceful and calm. This is where life is. Not in the fast paced, you know, really frenetic scrolling or all the loud movies and all the shows that are streaming. We can enjoy these things, but we want to balance.
Kimberly Snyder (28:24.782)
Feel what it’s like when you walk into a forest.
or you come into your favorite place in nature next to the beach or next to a river. There’s this calmness, right? So the way that we balance, we’re on technology, we’re mindful what we wanna watch or what we wanna see. And then we have these moments where we syncopate, we come back into this natural rhythm of the heart, syncs up the brain, the nervous system or digestion. We wanna enjoy, we wanna have times with no noise, not even music, not…
listening to a podcast, although I still want to be part of your daily walk if you are with me for that. But times maybe when you’re cooking or times when you’re, you know, on a walk with your loved one, you don’t even have to speak all the time. You can just be present with each other. Or you’re sitting on the couch, just having a quiet moment. I think these are really important parts of our wellbeing and our vitality because they help us reset the rhythm and the pace of our life.
Otherwise, everything starts to get really, really fast. Otherwise, if we don’t intentionally create these pauses, we’re just constantly rechecking our text messages or checking to see if anyone else emailed us or there’s a new message in WhatsApp or whatever else that we’re looking for. And so another thing is to create more patterns around physical activity. So as I mentioned before, sometimes it’s easy to fall into just relaxing in front of the TV at the end of the day.
But what if we create a new pathway, a new pattern, getting outside, spending 10 extra minutes, maybe weeding or gardening now that summer’s here, or grounding a little bit, or playing with your dog outside, throwing a ball or with your child, going for a walk. We start to create a new beautiful pattern. It starts to feel really enlivening and exciting and fulfilling. And it’s something that’s not on screens.
Kimberly Snyder (30:20.846)
So I really encourage you to do that, and especially as a family together.
And so let’s see what else I wanted to say. We talked about limiting news and limiting content creation. Being mindful of who you’re following on social media, maybe doing a bit of a detox or just seeing, making sure that there’s not excess, there’s not channels or things coming into your life that don’t really feel good or supportive of what you’re trying to create in yourself and in your health right now.
So we wanna be mindful, we wanna be conscious, we wanna balance our natural power, our natural health, our natural vitality with all the amazing technology and media out there. We’re not gonna avoid it, we’re not gonna cover our ears and pretend that we live in the Stone Age because we don’t. But at the same time, we don’t wanna get swept up into everything that’s out there. We don’t wanna go into information overload and decision paralysis. We wanna take this information, whether it’s about health, wellness, or, you know,
any aspect of our lives. We want to digest it through our bodies. We want to use and focus on the intuition inside of our hearts and allow these intuitive messages to rise up to guide us through our daily life, through our relationships, through our interactions. So I am very excited to be with you on this journey, which continues to unfold. Those of you that have been with me since the Beauty DeSauk Solution, the green book behind me.
We’re still into food. We’re still into nutrition. We just launched our Glowing Green Powder, all about smoothies, but we’re all about the four cornerstones. Again, food, body, emotional well -being, spiritual growth. This is it. This is how we really live a beautiful life, feel great, have youthful energy, have high vitality, and create a beautiful family life. So be sure to pick up your copy of Chilla Gorilla and like your Limer journey to the heart as well, wherever books are sold. So excited to birth this into the world this week.
Kimberly Snyder (32:19.022)
Thank you for being with me here today. I look forward to seeing you back here Monday for our next interview show. And remember to keep your questions coming always. We have a whole section on our website, mysaloona .com with a tab where you can ask podcast questions. So see you soon, sending you much, much love. Take great care of yourself. Namaste.
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