July Solluna Power Hour Tips Show – Embracing Creativity Over Hustle [Episode 998]

Episode Summary:

In the July Solluna Power Hour episode, Kimberly discusses the importance of embracing creativity over hustle, emphasizing that everyone has pure creative potential. She explores the concept of flow versus hustle, highlighting how a holistic lifestyle can enhance well-being and creativity. The conversation delves into the Four Cornerstones of well-being: food, body, emotional health, and spiritual growth, and how they contribute to a nourishing environment for creativity. Snyder shares practical tips for maintaining energy and creativity through mindful eating, movement, emotional regulation, and spiritual practices.

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• 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 (00:00.846)
Hello everyone and welcome back to our July Feel Good Podcast Power Hour, this very special show which only airs once a month on the first Thursday of the month. And July, here we are, we’re talking about flow over hustle and nourishing your creative core. Why does this matter? Because you are a creative being. No matter

what your job is or what you’re currently doing in your life. In your core, you are pure creative potential, your pure creativity. And when you really tap into that, you can create a much more continually elevated experience of life, I say, where there’s more vitality, more life flowing through you. You create your experience, you create your meals, you create in each moment. Are you elevating your joy and your bliss?

Or are you elevating suffering and ego? So the more we tap into our creativity, the more we realize that we really are the creators of our life. We can apply that creativity in our moment to moment experience or, and I should say and or, we apply that creativity to bigger projects. If we want to create something new, if we are creating a different type of project at our work, if we’re creating a different experience as a parent, we’re creating in our household.

There’s a million different ways that we create and we also create higher and higher levels of health, well-being, and energy and vitality at any stage of life and any age. Here in our Feel Good Saluna community, we go beyond numbers. We go right to that creative potential. We go right to energy, which is always creating. And we need not get fixated by the mind’s ideas of

certain stages or certain ages or limitations or lack. Instead, we go beyond and that is the power of this lifestyle. So today we’re going to be talking about the four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth. How when we live this highly intelligent, holistic lifestyle, we don’t have to get caught up in pushing and over pushing, pushing and hustle and trying to pack more and more into each day, which I’ve definitely tried in my past and realized that

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Burnout and getting depleted are not the space for the highest levels of creativity and your best ideas and your best outcomes. You do not manifest your best life when you are just pushing and pushing. That is not the way. All the spiritual texts as well, from the Bhagavad Gita to the Dao De Ching, right? Talk about this incredible energy, this

Whatever you want to talk about it that’s latent inside of you. And so when we live a lifestyle where we allow it to come up and out, there’s an easefulness and at the same time just this incredible building and building of energy. So I want to talk about all of this. I’m so excited. I do want to mention that the reason we talk about creativity, particularly in July, there’s so much light, there’s so much sun, there’s so much water. If you’re swimming more, you’re drinking more. So this is

very much in alignment with what’s happening this month. And as such, starting July 15th, we are also launching a brand new detox and nourish bundle, which is really exciting. It’s going to feature our detox 2.0 formula, our glowing greens powder, and our research-based heart aligned meditation as a bundle, along with a very powerful companion guide, a 30 day checklist to help to support you through this really powerful process. Because part of nourishing creativity is

this building up, this breaking down of the old, right, which is happening on a cellular level, anabolism and catabolism are constantly taking place. So you want to create a very fertile environment inside of you for creative potential, for health, for vitality to rise up and out. So please check out, be on the lookout for this. It’ll be on the front page of our website starting July 15th. Please also join our newsletter if you haven’t yet already so you can stay on top of all our different community happenings.

All right, let’s get right into our show today. First, let’s talk about it from a macro perspective. What does it mean to be in flow versus in hustling? So when we think about the natural processes that are happening in our body, when our body is in flow, when we are in tune with what our body needs and our natural processes, our day could go something like this. We wake up naturally, right? Closer to the rising sun.

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We have a bowel movement. Our digestion is functioning at optimal levels. We have great energy. We don’t need to drink excessive amounts of caffeine. We’re hydrating through the day. Our energy stays pretty steady through the day into the afternoon. And then there’s a natural wind down period where we start to rest and we start to become more inward. And then we prepare for sleep and then we sleep really well.

When we’re in hustle mode, we’re pushing and pushing against our natural capacity. So it means we may wake up already feeling anxious. We have lots of caffeine. We have energy crashes through the day, which we fortify with sugar or caffeine. We have trouble sleeping at night. So we may take sleep aids, we may take melatonin or prescriptions. We don’t feel good.

in ourselves. don’t really feel worthy unless we’re achieving. We end up comparing ourselves, judging, looking on social media, feeling bad about ourselves. So hustle culture seems like it’s getting us ahead and we’re trying to be more productive and we’re trying to do more. But that’s really created from the mind’s idea. It’s created from ego. It’s that propelled heart energy that I talk about in The Hidden Power, the five hearts, always on, always running. And guess what?

Your body doesn’t respond well to that. So your body starts to shut down. You may notice symptoms like adrenal exhaustion, getting more dark circles under your eyes, your hair not growing in as well, just feeling like something is really off. I know for myself, because I’ve been in hustle culture, or the propelled heart, as I’ll call it, for a lot of my life, my best ideas never came from that place. When I look back and I was backpacking around the world, this is where

I felt so alive and expansive. And when I came back, even though some may say I was behind, a lot of my friends that graduated from Georgetown already had six figure jobs and they were doing all these fancy things. I just started to create from such a place of just pure creativity, right? Without all of mine’s ideas. And things came together fairly quickly. I started getting book deals. I started working with celebrity clients. And I’ll say now,

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I just got back from Hawaii yesterday. There’s so many ideas I get when I’m just sitting in the forest or I’m walking around with, you know, trimming the cacao trees or doing things that don’t necessarily seem productive from the outside world. But then I just, you know, create ideas. This whole nourish and detox bundle, for example, came about from really watching my trees and seeing they need the soil.

to build, they need the sunlight, they’re building up just like we build every day. And then they need all these scrub trees, which are so invasive and so pervasive at the same time and the beetles cleared away to be in their full potential. It’s sort of like that analogy of the lotus rising up out of the mud, right? In Buddhism, which has a lot to do with shedding, you know, mind’s ideas and ego and getting caught up in thoughts, right? We keep shedding and shedding.

This mud, we’re detoxing on so many different levels and yet we’re nourished deep, deep, deep below. We’re rooted in something deeper and then we come up into the sunlight. So the more we’re in flow, the more we’re in tune with our body. Our body is a very powerful tool for helping us to be more creative. We need more love. We need more self-care, real self-care, which isn’t, again, hustle culture means constantly scrolling on social media.

looking at a million different people’s ideas, getting more and more confused, thinking that we need a million different devices, we need a million different supplements. We don’t. We need to simplify again and get more in tune with our bodies and with nature. I just want to touch on self-esteem for a moment before we go into our cornerstones. There’s so much around being in hustle, being in noise, the world we live in with social media.

where it’s easy to place our self-worth and how much we’re doing, how much we’re achieving, how many likes we get in a day versus really sitting back and understanding that our worth is something that cannot be tampered with. It can’t really be taken away from us. Only our thoughts and our ideas create self-doubt and keep us away from really feeling that fullness and that wholeness, our birthright, which is in our hearts. It’s inside of us.

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Right? And so the more we tune into that and tune out these external ideas which are depleting us, the more we blossom in this creative potential and the more we shine and the more we radiate and the more energized we feel. So in practical terms, let’s get into our Four Cornerstones now. The Four Cornerstones serve us through every theme in our life because it roots us in the everyday. know, Swami Sri Yukteswar once said, and I’m paraphrasing here,

We need to have our feet firmly planted on the earth in this lifetime, in this moment. We are here on earth having an embodied experience. Yet at the same time, we’re spiritual beings. We have this soul, we have this, you know, eternalness, but we need to function in the place where God placed us, which is right here right now on earth. There’s a groundedness to the food and body cornerstones. And at the same time, to the emotional and spiritual

cornerstones, we’re able to create this holistic approach. Otherwise, a lot of wellness philosophies, so to speak, or health philosophies are incomplete. They’re missing this, all the aspects of self. So we start with the groundedness, we start with the food. And when it comes to our creativity, when it comes to being in flow, we need foods that are going to sustain us in very real ways through the day. And we need

whole foods, need fruit, need vegetables, we need hydration, we need lots and lots of fiber, we need the intelligence of plants to sustain us and to nourish us because there is an intelligence in everything we eat. And sometimes that intelligence is based on chemicals and man-made, you know, food dyes and preservatives and horrific seed oils which depletes

the intelligence in our body, is misguided and it takes us away from our goals. There’s a lot of research around this, for example, in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there was a study on whole foods and cognitive performance. And it was found that when we eat, getting back to basics, whole foods, our brains literally function better, we have more focus.

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It’s not about all the supplements. It’s not just about, you know, some of these fancy biohacking devices, but it’s about moment to moment, step by step, what are we choosing as we open the fridge, as we order what we’re having for lunch, or as we sit at the cutting board and we start to think about, what am I gonna put in my body today? These are the moments that create the building blocks of your life.

There was another research study in the journal Nutritional Neuroscience, and it found that blood sugar stability directly impacts our brain’s ability to function optimally. The study showed that people who maintain steady glucose levels through balanced, nutrient-dense foods experienced 23 % better cognitive performance and significantly less afternoon brain fog compared to those consuming high-sugar processed foods.

Again, it goes back to moment to moment choices and also making sure that we are preparing for these choices. So a little bit of food prep, a little bit of planning our food shopping, making sure that we’re sourcing food every week. For me, because I live in very remote places, very far from grocery stores, I tend to order food a lot.

I go to the farmer’s market and I’ll get fresh food. But staples I tend to order in advance so that I have enough chia seeds. I have enough organic almonds to make my almond milk. I have lentils to make my dal and my soups. I plan, and it doesn’t take a lot of planning, but it is a really essential part of creativity and wellness. So when we’re nourished,

And these are some of the benefits and the reasons that we do want to plan a little bit, whether it’s looking at a couple of recipes, thinking about getting certain ingredients or just stocking up. I do both. Sometimes I say, hey, really want to make that pesto this week. So I better get basil. And sometimes I just order very sort of what seems randomly, but what looks good, what looks fresh. And then I just create from that. So I do both.

Solluna By Kimberly Snyder (14:12.62)
Right? So think about if your body is craving a certain recipe, you do have to plan ahead, of course, and get certain ingredients, or you can just get what looks great and build your meals, substitute certain vegetables and certain recipes, make modifications, and play and plan and cook that way. When we are nourished, you will have more steady energy through the day. It’s like having the battery of your life force charged at all times.

It feels amazing. It means you can show up moment to moment and pivot and flow with life. You’re less reactive, both in your eating and in your emotional outbursts, because you can sit back and more of this steadiness, yogic quality of equanimity. You are more intuitive about what needs to be said, what you need to eat. And you can carry this through the afternoons. A lot of us can start to slump by three o’clock.

And so what are we doing in the morning to prevent that? What are we doing in the mid afternoon? What are we doing at lunch? How are we moving our bodies? How are we eating and hydrating to make sure that by three o’clock, there’s still a good chunk of the day, right? By three o’clock, I still have to pick up my kids from camp or in Hawaii. I’m with them all day, essentially. You know, we still have play, we still go to the playground or we may…

you know, go out in the field or feed the goats or play a game of soccer and then I have to get dinner ready and then there’s bedtime. There’s a big chunk of the day. So we want that sustained energy and we certainly do not want to rely on caffeine in the mid afternoon. So what do we do in practical terms? So it’s important how we start the day. I suggest starting the day with your glowing green smoothie, ideally with this incredible booster of the glowing greens powder.

which has ingredients that are not in your smoothie like amalaki and ashitaba and spirulina and cordyceps mushrooms. So you get fiber and you get deep nourishment to take you into the morning and afternoon. If you start the day just grabbing a random protein bar or skipping breakfast, you’re setting yourself up for not a great pattern throughout the day.

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It’s really important to start the day, take that extra time for yourself, or make the Glowing Green Smoothie for a couple days, it’ll stay in your fridge covered and fresh and cool. So you really give yourself that incredible nourishment. I can’t emphasize this enough. There are certain things in our lifestyle which don’t shift and change much, and this is one of the staples of our community. Fiber, greens, nourishment, lemon juice.

water. All of these things are in the glowing green smoothie and it’s something that is such an incredible gift for yourself. Throughout the day, one of the things that I’ve been doing is soaking almonds overnight. It’s one of the most incredible revered ingredients in our uvata for prana. So I make almond milk a couple times a week. I also save some of the soaked almonds and it’s a practice to peel them. The skin slips right off if you soak it.

and to just eat a couple of those soaked almonds throughout the day. It’s incredibly energizing. It feels great and it will give you energy. Another great food to make for snacks, so easy, is chia pudding. I was making some last night. I use chia pudding, actually it’s chia eggs, if I’m baking something for my kids. You can also snack on chia pudding. It’s really filling and these healthy fats feel great.

for your digestion, for your skin. It’s one of my favorite foods, honestly, in the summer as a snack, because it doesn’t take time away in making something really, you know, laborious. And at the same time, it feels like, you know, it’s great all time of year, but it feels like summer to me. There’s so much water, there’s so much hydration, there’s so much hardiness and resilience in those chia seeds. And you can check out the recipes that we have for different varieties if you’re interested.

Also, hydration is really important. I drink a lot of coconut water in Hawaii. We have a lot of different coconut trees. And if we’re at the little store, as we call it, or the little, you know, stores around, I get the coconut water, which comes from Hawaii, locally. Of course, not all of us live where there’s coconuts. So choose coconut water that is, you know, the most fresh and

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feels like it’s harvested sustainably. I like Harmless Harvest a lot as one of the brands that I choose. And there’s different smaller ones as well. But also drinking lots of room temperature water during the day. You can put lemon, can infuse it with strawberries or coconut or cucumber rather. And then planning these meals. So I wanna call out a couple of recipes that are really alive in me right now and

I just want to say that all year round I eat soup and sometimes people only call for it in the sun in the winter. But I think soup is so hydrating. And if you look at countries like Thailand, they’re having their soups all year round. When you’re having hot soup, sometimes it can cool your body. I don’t necessarily recommend having a lot of chilies and super spicy soup in the summer, which can aggravate your pitta, the fiery qualities inside of you. But we have lots of different recipes for, you know,

doll, even kitchery is great in the summer, my everyday awesome soup which came from the Perfectly Imperfect book. I had that last night for dinner with squash and lentils and carrots and kale and we usually have rice made in our home, very Filipino, how I grew up or quinoa and so it becomes very easy to just make a soup you know while you’re you know for us we play we do a lot of puzzles in the kitchen

So while you’re doing something with your kids and then come back and the soup is ready, the flavors enhance over time. There’s also our amazing zucchini pasta salad where you spiralize the zucchinis. Zucchini in Ayurveda is considered one of the best cooling foods. It tastes really delicious with a nice sauce on top. We also have a great summer strawberry beet mescaline salad, which is so great for digestion and circulation. It’s got lots of antioxidants. It feels like summer.

and our cucumber water elixir, which again, feels like pure nourishment to put in your body this time of year. So I really recommend that you check out some of these incredible recipes that we have at mysalina.com. There are literally hundreds and hundreds of recipes on there and see what your body’s calling for right now. But what an amazing time to nourish your body with intention, with wholeness.

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And with this idea that every day you’re building more and more creative potential inside of you. Okay, so let’s talk about the body cornerstone. This is a time for circulation and gentle movement. Hustle Culture says, keep doing those high intensity workouts, do two back to back. I remember when I was teaching at Wanderlust in Mexico, I think a year and a half ago now, they had all these different classes, including mine. My classes were lectures.

but there was yoga classes and there was breathing classes and there was pretty much everything you can imagine. And I met this woman and she was going from, you know, the class, which is, you know, we’ve had Taran Tumi on here, which is a very high intensity sort of free form movement to the, you know, the most intense yoga class that was taught there by my friend Skylar Grant and then another class. And I just looked at this woman who was, you know,

felt like she was really wanting to be in shape and she was wanting more and more and more. And I just wanted to hug her heart to heart and say, you know, it’s great to do some of these classes, but also don’t forget to breathe and enjoy and just, you know, walk around and maybe take a walk on the beach and be here in the moment, right? So it’s okay to have, sometimes your body calls for intense cardio.

but there’s also lots of space for walking and stretching and going on a hike with a friend and playing with your kids outside. You know, this past trip to Hawaii, my kids’ activities constantly shift and change. I used to walk a lot. We hike, we go to the waterfalls, but my older son has gotten into tennis recently. So I found myself playing tennis every day. We would play mini a lot, so just half court, but it was, you know,

fun and not so intense, you know, just, you know, having those moments with my kids and my little son would be, my younger son would be sort of circling around the court in his tricycle. It’s just these moments that are really, you you feel alive, you’re pivoting and you’re flowing with life. Things shift and things change and your interests can change and your family life can change. What’s really important though is getting that cerebral

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blood flow, which enhances circulation, it enhances your thinking. So there’s research as well from PLOS1, we’ll link to all these research studies by the way at mysalina.com, that when we are in movement and circulation, it enhances and supports our creativity and intelligence by showing greater blood flow to brain regions associated with functions relevant to the creative process.

So we don’t want to sit on our couch or at our desk or in our cars all day and start to feel stagnant. I know that as a mom, there can be a lot of driving kids around. Now, one thing that I do for my older son’s chess classes is I will walk the neighborhood with my younger son while he’s in chess class. And I noticed some of the other moms are doing that as well. There’s one mom in particular, and she puts her headphones on.

And she’s power walking around while our kids are playing chess. So if we think about natural ways to weave movement into our lifestyle, maybe if your kid plays baseball, you can watch part of the time or you can go out in the grass and do a little bit of stretching, right? Or instead of just scrolling on your phone, you can find ways to utilize that time to allow that circulation to move through your body and your life.

And you can find creative ways to connect with your partner instead of just sitting at a coffee shop. Maybe you go for a walk in a different part of town or you explore a new park or you do a walking tour. I remember being in London and doing a million walking tours, right? So there’s so many ways to support your body’s natural movement. When we’re in burnout and hustle, we feel like our body is just hurting all the time. Our body may be begging for rest and we’re just

pushing and pushing and doing the same sorts of classes all the time. We feel stiffness in our jaw and our neck and our hips. Our body is suffering. This is not normal. Sometimes we may feel a little bit of natural soreness, but the chronic pain that comes from hustling is not serving our bodies. And also for dreading movement rather than craving it. I used to dread running, but I still ran all the time because I felt like

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This is how I’m gonna burn calories. This is how I’m going to stay thin. And it never worked very well. So one of the things that, again, our body can help to unlock creativity is just, and I’ve been putting on Instagram some of my favorite movements, stretching and opening the hearts, doing twists.

very simple movements that I do sometimes in the middle of my work day to just get energy flowing through my body and again stimulate my brain and my heart brain and just these feelings of potential is you can just take a 10 minute break, five minutes even, go outside. Sometimes I wander around in the garden and it really resets my mind and just walking down there I ground a little bit, I go barefoot, I’m alone. In Hawaii I’m out in the fields all the time with the cacao.

You can stretch, get out in the sunlight, just take mini breaks as well. And then also try different types of movement in the summer, especially this month. Maybe Pilates or yoga or just biking by yourself or with your partner, with your kids, instead of just being inside doing these same workout classes. Sometimes that may feel good, but sometimes you may want to break out and try something different.

It’s also really great to get some morning sunlight in. This morning, even before shooting this podcast, before my kids were up, I got outside and just had a couple moments breathing in the sunlight and it felt so good. And not exercising so late at night because we don’t want to over-stimulate ourselves and start to wake ourselves up when our body should be resting and going down into more of a rest cycle. We also want to try dry brushing.

and some Epsom salt baths to clear energy, to get circulation going. I have to admit that I go in and out of my brushing. Sometimes I just move away from it and I just don’t do it, if I’m totally honest. But this time of year, that invigoration feels really good. So I’ve gotten the brushes back out and it doesn’t take very long, but there’s a lot of power in moving the lymph.

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through your body, moving stagnation back to the detoxing part. We can think about the movement as nourishing circulation, nourishing prana to move through you, and then helping the detoxification process with the dry brushing. And of course, taking detoxi, check out that Nourish and Detox Bundle. It’s going to be really powerful to support you in these anchors and just moving waste out through your body. Now let’s talk about emotional well-being.

And I feel, I have a lot to say about this. And I, you know, I think about running Saluna, which has spanned now the birth of both my sons, writing all these books and having this podcast and being a mom full time. When my first son was born, I was in hustle mode still quite a bit. And I remember, you know, the days after he was born, lying in bed and doing the page proofs for

Radical Beauty, the book I wrote with Deepak Chopra. And then there was a picture I posted online and I got some sort of negative feedback, which I was defensive to at the time, but it was a picture of me typing on my computer, nursing my son on one breast and pumping the other breast. And at the time I was like, look at how much I can do. I’m not slowing down. I’m able to keep creating and creating. And some people were like,

you know, why don’t you just take the time to nurse your child? And it didn’t resonate with me at the time, if I’m totally honest. I had such strong ideas. And then as time went on and my heart started to open more and more, started to grow a lot spiritually and so much of this heart led work has helped me see, opens up the third eye, right? The third eye in the heart. We can say I really relate it. And I started to see…

that there was so much of that perfectionism still in there, that over ambition, that more, more, more, I’m not gonna slow down, I’ll show everybody how much I can do. And by the time Moses came along, there was a lot more resting and spaciousness in my day. But in that spaciousness come the best ideas, right? So having an idea for a project or a course or…

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you know, really aligning with this new branding. of you that are watching this on YouTube can see our new Feel Good podcast sign behind. If you look on Spotify or Apple, you see we have a whole new vibe that we’re rolling out and it’ll take, you know, eight, nine months to get the new packaging and the new website up. But all of this has come from stillness and feeling this rebirth energy coming and not trying to pack more in the day, flowing.

letting some people flow in and out. We have some new team members at Saluna. It just feels more up-leveled, more easeful, better communication, more professional. mean, things just keep growing, but out of this flow and out of a lot more stillness. So there’s a lot of research now around perfectionism and burnout. Sometimes we talk about this on the podcast and certain guests. Burnout…

does not facilitate great creativity. There’s research showing that in the field of neuroscientists showed that unlocking cognitive processes and creativity come when we are feeling more spacious, when we have less of this, you know, feeling like we have to pack things in all the time. There’s also studies on emotional reappraisal and creativity.

showing that when we are more centered in our emotions and emotional intelligence, there’s more creativity that comes from that. And there’s a lot of research in the new book around, you know, heart intelligence and heart coherence. The heart aligned meditation shows as well, we researched it and we showed just a higher level of heart coherence in as little as four weeks. So creativity, I just wanna remind us all, doesn’t mean I’m just…

churning out this project, it also means what am I creating in my relationships? Am I creating a peaceful experience and a really connected dinner? Or is there a lot of drama? My emotions are out of whack. I’m exhausted. I’m reactive. I’m pushing. I’m angry. There’s resentment underneath. I haven’t cleaned up a mistake. I haven’t said sorry. I haven’t accepted someone else’s apology. There’s so much energy in emotions.

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that can really deplete our creativity. When we’re caught in drama, we’re in that heaviness and circular thinking and we’re not in expansion and outward listening to our intuition and our ideas. There’s a great dark cloud that comes from that. There’s also lot more self-doubt and overwhelm that comes when we’re in that pushing mode. So to be really confident and to move and to transcend

There’s a lot of confidence that comes from being more peaceful and spaciousness and listening to ourselves more and really feeling into what kind of person do I want to be and how can I live that more in the world. So daily journaling is a really great way to reflect, to really process what’s going on in the life inside of us. And at the same time to then read back what we were going through even a few days ago or a day ago or a couple hours ago.

and to create insight and wisdom and realizations, to regularly have time for breathing and some of these simple practices like the heart holding technique. The first thing I talk about, first practice in the Five Hearts book is to just touch our hearts and to remind ourselves that we’re more than our thoughts. We don’t have to identify with our emotional experiences that we do.

There’s a steadiness in us beyond the ups and downs and the emotions of life. So it’s very powerful to just take a couple moments to breathe into our hearts, to let the emotions start to sink down and settle, to let ourselves get centered and calm before we react, speak, send an email. I remember we live again, a very remote part in Hawaii, and this big truck came onto our lands and sort of, you know,

for my nervous system felt this, you abrasive sort of angry, scary man was in this truck. And I just had to settle in, you know, Aloha, what were you looking for? And just sort of meet that moment without letting the fear get overwhelmed and calmly say, okay, you’re in the wrong place. You know, that’s our neighbor’s house, you know, mile up the road. Right. Sometimes we don’t have time to just say, I’m going to, you know, chill out here for half an hour or five minutes or 20 minutes.

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But these practices have really helped me stay centered more and more in the moment so that, again, the more coherent we are, don’t waste energy, we don’t deplete ourselves, which can take, again, in the book there’s a research study that shows five minutes of anger can deplete our immunity for up to six hours. So we wanna just stay as centered and centered as we can in our emotions.

Again, The Hidden Power, the Five Hearts book can really support you in this process. So I highly recommend you read it or listen to it if you haven’t yet. And if you have and you love it, please leave a review. I appreciate reviews so much. It helps other hearts find this work. And finally, spiritual growth, our fourth cornerstone. What really matters with creativity is the inner guidance. And this is the ultimate way to tune in to

the best, most unique ideas for you, which no one else can bring to this planet. No one else can bring to this earth. Right? So when we are in tune with our hearts, with the messages inside, what it feels like is not having to get bogged down in judgment, fear, being overly competitive, but really feeling into a new approach.

or a way that we can bring this idea to life. This is the creative power that God, Spirit, Universe, however we like to think of it, gave us. It’s inside, but we don’t access it unless we carve out the space for spaciousness. When we’re in hustle culture and every minute is filled with packing and meetings, phone calls, we’re constantly texting, we’re in line at the grocery store, and we’re scrolling,

instead of maybe taking a moment to breathe and to be present to life and to look around, right? We can fill our time endlessly with screens or maybe we just take five minutes to sit in the sunlight, to watch the birds. know, practice Eckhart Tolle talks about just being alive and present in nature. We start to feel this incredible joy in the very little moments.

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Not in these big achievements, look at how much of my to-do list I crossed off today, or look how many likes I got on this post, which is great too, I’m not minimizing that. But to not feel so tied to all these external happenings, which can bring us up and down, depleted and elated dopamine hits, but then also down in the dumps. There’s a steadiness and a consistency which can come from the inside.

And this also relates very much to your creative power, prana. You start to get more and more energy from the inner world. Food, yes. Exercise, sunlight, yes. Healthy relationships, yes. Community, but also from being in touch from the inner light. So how do we do this? Practice and consistency. Taking eight minutes to do your heart aligned meditation.

or another meditation that really resonates with you. Making sure to have some spaciousness in your day. I promise you as someone who is a very full life, I have created more spaciousness. Say I’m only recording this amount of podcasts a week, said no to a lot of things, and yet more and more is naturally coming to me. More and more is being created in easefulness and spaciousness. And it seems so ironic, it almost seems impossible from the egoic mind.

But it is the truth of, I think, the nature and the way that God created us to have that stillness of quality over quantity. When you have the best ideas coming from inside, it doesn’t mean if, it doesn’t matter if you have 20 ideas that you’ve sussed out, rather the one quality one that you act on. Whether it’s a way that you approach your family life or the meal you’re gonna create, or again, what you bring into an idea, how you’re gonna get that.

project to completion, what you’re going to put out in the world that day. So allowing more space, saying no to more things that don’t really matter, that you don’t really want to say yes to, simplifying how you cook, simplifying your life. It’s funny because in Hawaii, we have no furniture practically. We sleep on a mattress on the floor and we don’t have a couch. We have this huge pillow and

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you know, a couple chairs on the porch and it’s so amazing. And we come back here to our home in California, which I think is pretty cleansed of clutter, but it feels like there’s a lot of stuff and you know, it’s beautiful too. And I love it here, but the more simple, I do get my best ideas. I do feel my most creative in Hawaii, to be honest. And I think it’s because there’s just way less added on top.

Right? So think about what are we adding on top? I start to notice that I’m adding on top when I’m scrolling, excessively my favorite stores and I’m online shopping and why I don’t do that. There’s something about the nature and just being so raw. And we can create that no matter if you’re living in an apartment, you’re listening to this in the middle Chicago or New York city, thinking about scaling back, thinking about more space, just sitting.

We talked about journaling, doing your meditations, and how you can create that because that is where creativity lives. It’s not gonna live in pushing more and more and more. So as we close out, I just wanna remind you of this incredible creative potential which is inside you. It’s different to everyone else’s expression in the world. how creative you, how much you tap into this creativity will really impact your experience, your vitality, your health, and your day-to-day moments. So with this intention,

Please review, contemplate all these four cornerstone ideas and think about implementing them in your life in practical ways. Movement, whole foods, emotional regulation, more time for spaciousness and spirituality and stillness. And reminder that our amazing Nourish and Detox Bundle is coming your way July 15th. Look out for it. It’s directly tied to supporting you in your creativity, in your health. It’s going to be amazing. Again, it will include a companion guide.

checklist, our detoxi 2.0, Glow in Greens powder, Heart Align Meditation, so much support. I send you so much love and I will be back here in just a few days with our guest. So till then, sending you all the best. Remember how unique and creative you are and sending you so much love. Take great care.