Transformative Adventure Experiences: How going out of your comfort zone can lead to personal growth. [Episode 930]

Topic: Transformative Adventure Experiences

Hello everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a lovely week so far.  And I’m very excited to share a topic with you that is very close to my heart. It’s about transformative adventure experiences, how going out of your comfort zone can lead to personal growth. And I will add to that sometimes Placing your body, yourself in a different environment is a way to break through a period of stagnancy. It’s a way to reinvigorate yourself in your health goals, in clarity, in inspiration. And it doesn’t have to be a big, huge trip to Bali or to Europe. It can even be as simple as going to a different museum in your town or your city. Or for me, I will share personally. Last weekend, my family and I went out to the desert where we live in California. You can go a couple hours and be in a completely different environment. And I will say that I am not someone who typically is called to the desert. I really love the lushness of Hawaii where we spend a lot of time. I love greenery, but there was a type of medicine. I will call it desert medicine that I very much took in to my body, into my being, being in such a different type of environment, the stillness, the starkness, it was incredible. And so I’m very excited to share with you today some of the research that shows that when we take these types of adventures, when we go into a different type of environment, it’s a way to break through plateaus, it’s a way to invigorate ourselves and our health, and it just feels wonderful at times.

Episode Summary

In this conversation, Kimberly Snyder discusses the transformative power of adventure and travel in fostering personal growth and breaking through comfort zones. She emphasizes that stepping out of familiar environments can lead to renewed clarity, inspiration, and emotional resilience. Through various studies, she highlights the mental health benefits of travel, the importance of cultural exposure, and how these experiences can enhance creativity and emotional intelligence. Snyder encourages listeners to embrace smaller adventures and gradually expand their comfort zones, ultimately leading to a deeper connection with themselves and the world around them.

 

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Episode Chapters

00:00 Transformative Adventures and Personal Growth
03:11 Breaking Through Comfort Zones
10:00 The Power of Travel for Mental Wellbeing
18:29 Cultural Exposure and Personal Development
25:41 The Heart’s Awakening Through Travel

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STUDIES AND RESEARCH

A 2013 Study in the Journal of Travel Research systematically reviews the literature on the psychological benefits of travel. It explores how travel experiences contribute to improved mental health and well-being. The findings suggest that travel can reduce stress, enhance creativity, improve mood, and promote overall life satisfaction.

The Study in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology highlights that immersive cultural experiences can increase cognitive flexibility, enabling individuals to think more creatively and solve problems more effectively.

A Study in the Journal of Travel Research (2018) found that travel experiences significantly contribute to personal development. They observed that exposure to new cultures and environments fosters self-awareness, adaptability, and emotional intelligence.

A Study in Tourism and Management 2018 says that travel enhances social bonds and emotional well-being. Travelers often report feeling more connected to others and experiencing a greater sense of community and empathy.

A Study in Tourism Recreation Research 2018, indicating that mindfulness practices during travel can significantly enhance mental well-being, reduce stress, and increase overall life satisfaction.

A Study in Social Psychological and Personality Science 2014 found that travelers often experience a boost in creativity and innovation, with many attributing their creative insights and breakthroughs to their travel experiences.

A Study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology by S. M. Wong (2016) indicates that travel experiences enhance resilience and coping skills, helping individuals manage stress and adversity more effectively.

 

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Kimberly Snyder (00:01.048)
Hello everyone and welcome back to our Thursday Q &A show. I hope you’re having a lovely week so far. And I’m very excited to share a topic with you that is very close to my heart. It’s about transformative adventure experiences, how going out of your comfort zone can lead to personal growth. And I will add to that sometimes

Placing your body, yourself in a different environment is a way to break through a period of stagnancy. It’s a way to reinvigorate yourself in your health goals, in clarity, in inspiration. And it doesn’t have to be a big, huge trip to Bali or to Europe. It can even be as simple as going to a different museum in your town or your city. Or for me, I will share personally.

Last weekend, my family and I went out to the desert where we live in California. You can go a couple hours and be in a completely different environment. And I will say that I am not someone who typically is called to the desert. I really love the lushness of Hawaii where we spend a lot of time. I love greenery, but there was a type of medicine. I will call it desert medicine that I very much took in.

to my body, into my being, being in such a different type of environment, the stillness, the starkness, it was incredible. And so I’m very excited to share with you today some of the research that shows that when we take these types of adventures, when we go into a different type of environment, it’s a way to break through plateaus, it’s a way to invigorate ourselves and our health, and it just feels wonderful at times.

And I’ll give some tips on how you can do this on a budget and with, if you have, you don’t have the space to travel or get on a plane or go anywhere, how you can do this pretty close to home as well. Before we go deeper into our show, a little reminder, the show notes are over at mysaluna.com. And over there, you can find the meditation tracks for the heart aligned meditation, which I’ve been sharing on many other podcasts lately. And I’ve been talking about here.

Kimberly Snyder (02:13.196)
The new book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts is out. Please be sure to check it out if you haven’t yet. You can get it wherever books are sold. This is my guidebook for you on navigating how to awaken your heart and the power of heart coherence or heart-brain communication to reach whole new levels of health, clarity, abundance, deepen your relationships, and more. I’ll also mention that our new Glowing Greens powder is also available at mysolluna.com. We are all about holistic wellness. So wakening your heart, living this lifestyle, creating more emotional resilience, stress resilience is all interwoven. So making sure that you’re eating these powerful plants, these incredible foods, such as the ones found in the glowing greens powder will elevate your health and your heart and it all works together. All right. All that being said, let’s get right into our question today, who comes from Jill in Idaho?

Hi Jill. It’s funny because we were thinking of doing a little trip over to Idaho, which is about two and a half hours away. In the end, we decided to stay local and make it more of a driving trip, but I definitely want to make it to your beautiful state. Thank you so much for being part of our community. And you write, I love the podcast, Kimberly. Thank you. I know you’ve done a lot of traveling all around the world. I have not traveled much due to fears and anxiety of leaving my comfort zone.

but I’m trying to build up the courage and resilience to experience other cultures. How can travel help me crack open and let go of it? So thank you again so much, Jill, for bringing this to our attention because as I was saying, energy affects everything else. So when we stay in what is comfortable with us, let’s say it’s a comfortable job or it’s a comfortable pattern of life or a comfortable living situation,

Sometimes we get to a point where it stagnates and we feel inside of us, this natural sponda, this natural inspiration that we need to shift, we need to change. And to your point, Jill, it can feel overwhelming or brings up fear to make a huge change right away. So the power of adventure, which can happen in bigger and smaller ways, allows us to experience what it’s like.

Kimberly Snyder (04:40.62)
to go beyond what is familiar. Now we’ll link in the show notes to a show that I did a few weeks ago, an interview with Dr. Roland McCready, where we talk about what’s going on with the brain and the heart and the heart-brain connection. And one of the things that we are wired for is our brain is trying to keep us safe. So our amygdala is recognizing what’s familiar, what’s not. In our nervous systems along the way, many of us

have started to take on these patterns, these beliefs, if you will, on a somatic, on a deep body level, that what is not familiar can be a threat. And it can bring up that fear response, and it can trigger us into fight or flight, and to then avoiding what is unfamiliar. Now, in order to expand into our highest potential, we need to go beyond what is known. This is the mind keeping us down. This is the ego keeping us small.

So the heart as it awakens, and as we awaken more into our true self, we start to become more comfortable with the unknown. Because what happens is we start to realize that true safety and security comes from within us. And as long as we are in our truth, as long as we are working with our internal guidance, which gets easier, the more we become still and coherent, and we’re able to find these pockets where we’re not overthinking which again, all these tools are in the hidden power of the five hearts to help you along this journey. I’m someone who has been a big over thinker a lot of my life, and it’s priceless to find more of these moments where you’re not thinking. Literally, I thought this was quite unattainable until you realize when we go to a different place to find the solution in the heart, we start to quiet the mind. It starts to shift our perceptions.

Now, what also can be helpful is to place yourself in different environments. And if you’re someone like Jill that has a lot of fear, I don’t suggest going straight away to China or Africa or some of these places that are more challenging and can feel, can bring up a lot of fear. We don’t want to push our nervous systems beyond what we are ready for. But what I would encourage you to do is to take some smaller steps.

Kimberly Snyder (07:06.06)
So maybe it’s going on a road trip in your area, maybe visiting a park that you’ve never visited before. It’s funny because I’ve lived here in LA now for years and I still haven’t been to the Getty Center. I still haven’t been to certain beaches. There are places here that I still have to explore. So wherever you happen to live, practice going beyond your comfort zone in baby steps.

Maybe it’s even going to a different cultural part of the city and experiencing a different type of cuisine. So for example, I remember one thing I did do when I first got here was I went to Little Ethiopia and there’s an amazing plant-based vegan restaurant known as Rahels and it’s delicious. And I remember feeling like I was, and I still go, not as often because I don’t go to that part of town too much, but

When you go, you feel like you’re stepping into Ethiopia, the decor, the people working there, the artwork, it’s immersive, it’s incredible. And so there are ways to create these types of adventures where you don’t have to spend a lot of money or lot of time. And what’s amazing, there’s research around this, the Journal of Frontiers in Science in 2023 found that going into these different sorts of environments,

was found to create a greater sense of general connectedness, positive life direction, has a positive influence on psychological wellbeing. Now this was specifically studying tourists who were going to the Buddhist mountains of China. So this was an example of yes, going to a completely different culture and environment to be fair. But I believe that the implications of this doesn’t have to be

Like I said, doesn’t have to be so extreme. You don’t have to travel across the world. You can start to experience this like little breadcrumbs taking you maybe to a larger journey or to even have the inspiration or the aspiration to go a little bit further beyond. Another study in the Journal of Religion found that pilgrimages as a form of travel undertaken for spiritual reasons can help foster spiritual growth.

Kimberly Snyder (09:31.818)
and deepen our commitment. So when we’re talking about spiritual transformation here in our community, because a spiritual growth is one of our cornerstones, we don’t have to define it in terms of religion per se, although that will speak to some of us. It can also be anything that inspires awe and expansion and wonder. So a spiritual pilgrimage for you may be going to a national park.

or to a place where there is, you feel deep natural reverence. The Redwood Forest for me is one of those places that inspires that type of awe, or maybe it’s going to the ocean, or it could be to a temple or a spiritual site or, you know, whatever resonates with you personally. Now, another piece of research that I found was really interesting was a study in the Journal of Travel Research, which found that travel

was found to improve mental health and wellbeing. It’s found to enhance creativity, reduce stress, improve mood, and promote overall life satisfaction. So let me speak to that personally for a moment, because I think when we share our stories and experiences, we can start to contextualize this in our own lives. So here I am, or here we are in September, the end of September, and I once again have gone through my eighth book launch.

It’s just a lot of movement, a lot of focus, a lot of activity. And you can relate to this in your own life, whether it’s, you know, school starting back up for your family or a project or some sort of, you know, bigger event happening at work or certain times of year. If you work in retail, maybe there’s periods where you’re getting ready for a big sale or there’s inventory days or whatever it is. following this period, you’ll see there’s natural cycles where we feel called

to shift, to take that type of, we’ll call it pilgrimage, or the words that came from me this past weekend, being in the desert, was a vision quest. And I’m someone, as you know, I follow routines, I have my morning practice, I meditate regularly, but still, we feel this call inside of us to sometimes shift, to sometimes go somewhere new. And so I don’t go to the desert a lot. As I mentioned, I really like

Kimberly Snyder (11:59.132)
what feels to me the nourishment of greenery and I feel very abundant in Hawaii. I feel very creative. But there was something inside of me that really felt called to the desert. And if you follow me on Instagram at underscore Kimberly Snyder, I’m going to be sharing amazing pictures today. If you’re watching this in real time or by the time you listen to this or watch this on YouTube.

And also Friday, the next day, it’s, I love to share these images and these videos with you where to me was a medicine of stillness and starkness and clarity. And sometimes we need this medicine to get out of our comfort zone. So I had some questions in myself about the path going forward, integrating, you know, the heart, the work with this, the heart, this incredible heart awakening, integrating it.

into saloonah and the work that I do here on the podcast in my day to day life. And I had some incredible answers come up. So even though I was in the desert with the family, I like to get up really early. And so I had these moments where I was by myself in this land and also during nap time, I would just wander out into the desert. Sounds like, you know, Moses or something, but there is

some cover, there was these big rocks. It got up to 112 degrees, 117 degrees. Some of the days we were there, but I would sit in the shade and let me tell you, there is a stillness that comes in the desert. And I would meditate out there and I had some incredible answers. I had this message of my mission come forward, for instance, awakening more hearts and health on the planet.

This integration of where I’ve been working for over a decade, almost a decade and a half around holistic wellness, but really seeing the heart as this central place that connects everything. So I share this with you to say that a new invigoration came in me, a new type of clarity, motivation, inspiration. It was amazing. So if you can consider what you would feel called to, to break up

Kimberly Snyder (14:17.816)
some of the busy-ness, some of the, sometimes monotony that we get into in daily life, you know, going to work, cleaning the house, picking up the kids from school, bringing them to activities, watching screens, going to bed, whatever our patterns start to fall into and think, you know, how can I revitalize a little bit today? And it can be in micro ways. So we’re having a Gabrielle Ansar on our podcast next week. And one of the things she said was,

She likes to take different drives to her kid’s school and driving back. It just makes her feel like she’s doing something different to break up her routine. Sometimes it may be that you sit in your garden and meditate instead of sitting in your usual meditation seat, or you eat outside, or like I said, you decide to go to a different park. You decide to go on a hike instead of going to the gym. So I’d like you to consider

in a microwave or microwaves, how you can reinvigorate your day, your routine and break out of a comfort zone. Now, this is very organic. This can happen, like I said, as you move through your day, as you move through your week. But just notice how with intention, you can start to carve this out for yourself.

Routine is important, but there are times where we can feel inside of us, something is calling us. We want to shift, we want to break out. And sometimes this new environment can provide the clarity. And just as I mentioned, I really felt it in the desert. I just felt so clear. And there was this settling down. Sometimes, you know, even when we’re working on our heart coherence, going into a different space can allow those thoughts and the ego to quiet even more.

And then what starts to rise up is this incredible clarity and our intuition can speak to us. Now this happens to me in different ways in Hawaii. I get really creative in Hawaii. I’m not going to Hawaii for a little while more. There’s a lot going on. My dad’s coming to visit us, right? We don’t always get to do these big bigger trips, but around our home space, even in different places in your home. Like I said, maybe you eat at a different seat or you go to

Kimberly Snyder (16:44.608)
a different restaurant in your part of town, or you go on a picnic, or you take your kids on a different type of hike or walk, just thinking about how we move through into different environments. And then we feel this rejuvenation. We experience that, yes, we’re more than okay. We can be safe and secure and feel expanded beyond the smallness of how we keep ourselves down, whether that’s in small thoughts.

I’m keeping safe to only hanging out with a small group of people, the small circle, know, smallness, smallness. So adventure and travel is a way to go into bigger spaces. Now you may start to think about in a larger way as well, if this is possible for you. Maybe it’s not right now. That’s okay. You can think about it down the road. If it calls to you is going into a different culture.

in a different land. So you may think about this for next summer or next vacation. And a study from 2022 in the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology found how individuals adapt to new cultural environments and how this process enhances cognitive flexibility. It’s found that those who adapt well to culturally distant environments

have greater flexibility as they learn to navigate and integrate different cultural norms and practices. I’ll give one more study and then let’s talk about this. Another study from 2018 in the Journal of Travel Research found that travel experiences significantly contribute to personal development. They observed that exposure to new cultures and environments fosters self-awareness, adaptability, and emotional intelligence.

So those of you who have been with me long-term know how much I talk about the impact of my backpacking years and subsequent travel. did go back to India. went back to Africa for extended periods of time after my big three-year chunk. But I want to share how impactful that was and how I wouldn’t be doing what I doing today if I didn’t travel. So you can imagine that coming from

Kimberly Snyder (18:57.152)
a quite contained environment. grew up in Connecticut. then I went to Georgetown and I was starting to break out of the mindset, which felt constricting to me in times, you know, career path has to be like this diet has to be like this body type has to look like this was wanting to be more skinny. And when I started to go, the first place that blew my mind was Bali. I went to Indonesia and then I saw how different life could be.

And then I started going, spending a lot of time in Southeast Asia and particularly Thailand, where I was island hopping, was doing full moon parties. These were my, I would say baby steps in travel where I started to just feel like my mind was blowing every day because life was so different. And to the point of the study, the flexibility, the emotional resilience and intelligence.

and learning to communicate with different people. I kept going further and further. I went to Africa where I would play Bob Marley as a form of communication when I would get to certain villages to let people know that I was okay and I was non-threatening and I wondered if I could sleep in their village because they had certain experiences with animals. I was chased by a wild elephant a few times and I learned that whilst I still camped in the middle of the bush,

When there was a village nearby, it was safer for me to be in a group setting. And I still was living in my tent. There was a cracking of my ego and patterns and a rebirth that happened from my travel. When I was in India and I started to find out about yoga and meditation and particularly in Rishikesh where I learned about Paramahansa Yogananda from a bookstore who brought yoga to the West.

ultimately has had a tremendous impact on my spiritual beliefs and my practice. And this last book, The Hidden Power of the Five Hearts, is based on these five heart stages written about by Swami Sri Yukteswar, who was Yogananda’s guru, who wrote about these Vedic teachings. Of course, it’s combined with the science of heart coherence, but you are more than you think you are. My prior book was based on Yogananda’s teachings for modern life.

Kimberly Snyder (21:19.724)
So was when I was in India, I started to really question my own identity and what I thought of as who I really was. And I started to go beyond identifying with myself as, you know, a certain level of achievement, of intelligence, of, you know, body shape, what I thought of myself from a looks perspective. And I started to really realize that we all have this true self as potential inside of us.

And now every soul is on a different journey. And maybe I would have, you know, come to this realization or, you know, these, inspirations in another way. But I will say it directly did come from my travel for me on the journey. And then when I came back, and I had so many different inspirations, my, you guiding, my guiding, desire was, want to share this. And so was from the travel that I started my free blog.

Back then was kimberleysteiner.net. And there was a lot of travel stories mixed in with nutrition and ideas of expansion and spirituality. And then it just took me to where I am today in this organic sort of lots of hard work along the way, but from inspiration of sharing and, you know, really my own framework for holistic wellbeing and beauty. And where it takes us today, where it’s so much about this awakening of the heart and the heart brain and our true potential.

So I can say for myself that travel was an incredible way to crack open my preconceived ideas and expand. So I would encourage you where and when it’s possible to consider doing a different type of trip. Now, maybe it’s, say you love Mexico and you always go to the same resort. Maybe it’s going to a different part or trying something new or something expansive. I went with

my younger son, just the two of us, when I was teaching at Wanderlust last year to the Palmaia Resort in the Yucatan Peninsula, which was incredible. I’d never been to that type of environment where there were monkeys and there was a lot of plant-based restaurants. It was just incredible and amazing and beautiful. Okay, one sec here.

Kimberly Snyder (23:50.991)
Okay, okay now don’t come back in till I come in okay, I go back in there close the door, okay? All right, well I let this whole part out

Kimberly Snyder (24:02.348)
Thanks, honey.

Alright, where was I? what was I talking about?

Kimberly Snyder (24:15.21)
so I loved this new resort. And so I would encourage you to just think about all the different ways maybe, and there are places that are more inexpensive to travel. you know, within any budget, you know, there’s places in, you know, Central America, depending where you live, of course, places in South America, I every continent really. And then there’s, you know, there’s a

obviously a more expensive plane ticket to get across to Asia or Southeast Asia, but there are places that are favorable in terms of a daily budget, food budget. So I would encourage you to do your research and also to go into your heart and to feel where you are called. If you were to take a larger adventure and to go with that inspiration, because as I mentioned in my example with the desert, there are certain places

where the land is like medicine. And if you feel organically called to, and you know, I’m just throwing this out there, Greece or Guatemala or Utah or Canada or the Caribbean, there may be something that, you know, very intuitively your body feels it would create a type of growth or a breakthrough or some type of inspiration in that particular land. So I encourage you

to consider it before you just automatically go to the same place you might usually go. Now, another study in the Journal of Tourism and Management found that from 2018, when we travel, it increases and enhances our social bonds and emotional well-being, experiencing a greater sense of community and empathy. So it’s amazing when we go beyond, and this is one of the things I talk about in the book, as our heart awakens, these incredible feelings of connectedness, love,

care, compassion become more non-specific. So what I mean by that instead of just caring about our family of four and my relatives, this is all I care about, my ethnic group, we realize as we expand out, and this happened to me when I was traveling, you realize how we really are all brothers and sisters. And I would immediately start to feel a connection with

Kimberly Snyder (26:37.292)
people I was meeting for the first time, whether it was travelers in a cafe in Southeast Asia, or it was people I was meeting on a farm in Zimbabwe. And so it breaks through ego’s false senses of identity, me, separation, and we feel this expansion. And the more we feel expansion, the more we feel connection, which revitalizes us. It’s so healthy to be connected to ourself and others and also

This is the energy of abundance. The more whole we are within ourselves and with the greater universe, the greater world, the oneness that we can feel with our brothers and sisters, it brings in more abundance. And what’s amazing about this is this is the very attributes that characterize the clear heart, the fifth heart stage that I talk about in the five hearts book. And when we are in this expansive, not just our heart, but our heart starts to meld,

with all other hearts, the greater heart, the universal heart, what happens is that we start to step into a different type of energetic reality. All fields, all these magnetic, electromagnetic fields intersect. So we’re in this harmony, this harmoniousness fosters synchronicities. It fosters things working out more easefully because now we’re tapped in. We’re not isolated. We’re not keeping ourselves small.

So I can say for myself, this easefulness from where I felt this incredible connection on the road. I brought it back with me to New York when I moved there and I felt this instant connectability with my yoga students as I was starting to teach yoga. And I started to be very easeful as I started to put out, know, I’m taking clients now for my nutrition work. There was this easefulness and I really believe it was connected to

the connection that I had started to really foster in my travels and expanded upon. Because when I was growing up, I didn’t feel that type of connection. I did feel very isolated. I felt different. I felt like the other because I was not fully Caucasian in a Caucasian town. you know, half Filipina mixed. So I didn’t feel that. So when I started to tap into it, and I will say, you know, on my journey, once again, travel was a big part of that.

Kimberly Snyder (29:02.294)
Wow, did it expand not only my feelings in that particular travel experience, but far beyond. And this is echoed in a study in the Journal of Social Psychology, Psychological and Personality Science from 2014, that found that travelers often experience a boost in creativity and innovation. So when we move out of smallness, small thoughts, small ideas, now we’re tapping into this wholeness.

And this is where creative potential lies. So once again, the benefits of putting yourself in an environment, whether it’s a different part of town, a different park or larger culture experience, will start to revivify your creative power. So you would get out of stagnant blocks. You know, for me, this is really important in the writing process. This is really important as I’m thinking through creating things for the larger community.

working through week by week this Heart Reset program, four week Heart Reset program, which is so incredible. We have thousands of people in it to really hold the space, not from a linear mind perspective, you what am I supposed to say? What am I supposed to write? But from this deeper, integrated, connected, this is what’s rising up. This is what I feel will really inspire others. This is what inspires me. We’re all one, right?

So the last study that I want to reference here is from 2016, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that travel experiences also enhance resilience, allowing us to deal with adversity more effectively. So when we’re in daily life, we start to get really in certain patterns, which breeds attachments. And this is what I talk about in the steady heart. Attachments. I’m attached to

My coffee shop is always open. It always has my favorite stuff in it. know, subway, if you live in New York City, subway is always going to arrive on time or this road is always going to be open. And so thing life becomes very familiar. And again, the problem was that is that we stay small. So when you’re traveling, you got to figure things out sometimes you have to figure out how to communicate to get on the bus, to get to this place. You have to figure out which restaurants to go to or how to get healthy food.

Kimberly Snyder (31:24.086)
You have to figure out how to get to some of those sites, right? So there’s this expansiveness where, okay, this is late or I have to figure this out. And that comes into your home life. If you’ve never left your comfort zone, if you’ve always gone to the same places, you can be more stressed out when bigger challenges come or when something shifts or changes, whether that’s in your workplace or something with your child’s school. So this flexibility, this resilience.

from travel will allow you to just flow more and harmonize and be in your heart more, allowing you to pivot. And coupled with utilizing the harmonize in life, the heart align harmonize in life tool, which I teach about in the propelled heart chapter of the new book. These are practices and ways to just move through life so we don’t get stuck, we don’t get rigid, we don’t get inflexible. And we know the inflexible, rigid tree branches are the ones that break in the storm.

These are the ones that break down, stress response breaks us down. So instead we keep moving and flowing with life and then everything just keeps expanding and flowing and unfolding. So I hope that you enjoyed hearing about some of these research studies as well as some of my personal stories. I would inspire you, Jill, your wonderful question, to take the baby steps to see how you can start to create more adventures on a regular basis or a semi-regular basis in your

surrounding environment and then to use that to move your comfort zone, to push back more and more and expand more and more into perhaps some of a bigger trip or travel adventure as you feel called using your heart’s intuition every step of the way. So thank you so much for tuning in. I would really appreciate hearing your feedback. I would love a review for the show.

anytime that you get a moment to do so, it just takes a moment or two. And it’s a wonderful way to support on iTunes or Spotify, wherever you listen to our show. The information I mentioned, the studies, all our offerings, the meditation tracks are once again on mysaloon.com where you can also submit questions for future shows. So thank you so much for tuning in with me. Thank you so much for being part of our community. I send you much love.

Kimberly Snyder (33:50.296)
from my heart to yours, and I look forward to connecting with you more, including on our next show on Monday. Till then, take great care and sending you much love.