E26: Feel Like You "Can't Meditate"? 3 Things To Know & Try!

Ever been frustrated by your busy brain that you can't seem to quiet down so you can meditate?

You aren't alone, that's actually super common for many entrepreneurs and creatives!

So rather than skipping this incredibly powerful, healing, and transformative practice all together listen to this inspirational episode instead.

Grab your headphones and let's jump into:

• Funny and fascinating reasons why you're brain bounces around like a ping pong ball
• Time tested and science backed things you can try to get the rich benefits of meditation easily
• What meditation does to your brain and why you and your future selves should care

And lots more!

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Please find the show notes below. Since it is a transcription there may be spelling errors and/or weird grammar. Ignore that and enjoy!

00:00:06:06 - 00:00:38:29
Speaker 1
Hello and welcome back to another episode of the Purposeful Powerhouse Podcast. Have you ever found yourself saying something like, Yeah, I've tried meditation, I just can't do it? Or Yeah, this doesn't really seem to work for me or getting frustrated when you sit down to meditate because your brain is bouncing all over the place like a ping pong flying back and forth at the world championships of ping pong or pacing mentally back and forth like a worried mother pacing, waiting for their child to get home late at night.

00:00:39:01 - 00:01:15:03
Speaker 1
And so if you've experienced that, A, you're not alone. B Most humans have. C It's really common for busy brained entrepreneur creative types to experience that. And I certainly have. And I'm going to tell you a little bit about that in a minute, but we're going to talk about some of the benefits of meditation and share three things that you should know that might really kind of shift this for you and help you as well as three things that you can try that might begin to expedite the journey into the amazing world of meditation.

00:01:15:06 - 00:01:41:15
Speaker 1
So first of all, what is meditation? Well, traditionally, meditation is learning to focus your mind on a one pointed focus. And so that can be done in a variety of ways and using a lot of different tools. So that's something that happens quite a bit, is that we have this sort of classic view of what meditation is and should look like, and that doesn't necessarily work for everyone.

00:01:41:17 - 00:02:19:18
Speaker 1
And although the practice of meditation is ancient and rich in tradition and is woven into many different wisdom traditions around the world and cultures around the world, you can do it in so many different ways. But the understanding that modern science, neuroscience, the evolution of how our brain develops as well as how it ages. So all of these different practices and studies are starting to really recognize the importance of meditation because of the beneficial effects that it has on our brain.

00:02:19:20 - 00:02:43:05
Speaker 1
And so that's actually how I came to shift my relationship with meditation. So let's talk about that and then we'll go back into the benefits and the tips and the tools and all those beautiful things. So I admittedly avoided meditation for a really long time because I quote unquote couldn't do it. I tried right, and my brain was just all over the place.

00:02:43:05 - 00:03:09:01
Speaker 1
I literally felt like I was just pacing from thought to thought. And the reality is, is that the human mind has anywhere between 60 to 70000 thoughts a day, which I did. The math is about 42 thoughts a minute. Okay. So and that's for the 60,000. So it's even more if you have the 70,000. That's that that's that's a it's a lot, right?

00:03:09:01 - 00:03:26:17
Speaker 1
It's like we don't have to even make you bigger. It's still a lot of 42 thoughts every minute. And so if we expect that we're going to go from, you know, that many miles an hour, that many thoughts a minute to absolutely none, it's just not going to happen. But for me, I was so frustrated by it, I just couldn't do it.

00:03:26:17 - 00:03:46:08
Speaker 1
You know, I was like, I don't know, whatever. I'm not going to do it. But then I had this this congruency. Not sure if that's the word, but I felt out of integrity because there I was a yoga teacher that wasn't practicing meditation. And the ultimate goal of yoga is to unify the mind, the body and the spirit so that we can meditate.

00:03:46:10 - 00:04:07:02
Speaker 1
The physical asana practices are tools to get us to that point. And yet I wasn't practicing that very essential component of the practice. And so I felt really out of alignment with all of it. And, you know, to be honest, my saboteurs were having a heyday. And I, you know, they they made me want to feel like a failure, although I knew that I was.

00:04:07:02 - 00:04:30:28
Speaker 1
And because we were always learning, we're always growing. There's always, you know, wins and losses, etc., etc.. But I just felt completely out of integrity. And so I just didn't do it right. I didn't do it. I avoided it. And and I beat myself up about it. And that's silly, but I did. And so no judgment around that until my grandmother, my maternal grandmother, developed Lewy body dementia.

00:04:31:05 - 00:05:01:02
Speaker 1
So that's a type of dementia where the there's protein deposits in the brain and affects the structure and function of the brain. And she started to lose her memory, her personality shifted. You know, there was a lot of significant changes and so it was really scary. But it was really scary. And I mean, being me, of course, lifelong learner, I started to do research and look into what we can do to help our brain as we age.

00:05:01:06 - 00:05:16:15
Speaker 1
I mean, I don't know if you know this from other episodes, but my background was in gerontology. So that's the study of aging. And so this is always something that I've been curious about, is how can we boost the quality of our life as we are aging because we're all right, no one's getting out alive. It's the reality of life.

00:05:16:18 - 00:05:44:09
Speaker 1
And so what can we do to either, you know, reduce the structural changes to the brain to ideally prevent, you know, age related decline and other cognitive issues like Alzheimer's, dementia, etc.. So I started to do research and it turns out. Are you going to be surprised by this? Probably not, considering the topic of this episode, but meditation and actually the combination of cardiovascular exercise.

00:05:44:09 - 00:06:12:18
Speaker 1
Yeah, cardio and meditation is the best combination because cardiovascular exercise actually stimulates the growth of brain cells and then meditation helps them to mature. So as we age different parts of our brain, specifically the hippocampus is affected by age related decline. And so we start to see a reduction in the function of the neurons in that part of the brain.

00:06:12:18 - 00:06:48:17
Speaker 1
They start to kind of the age and they they start to essentially deteriorate and die off. But if we're doing cardio and we're growing new brain cells and we're practicing meditation, i.e. we are challenging those brain cells, then we actually see beneficial changes in a very short amount of time to that area of the brain, the hippocampus, as well as the whole brain, because we see whole brain communication, we start to develop new neural pathways, and especially in the parts of the brain associated with memory, emotion, personality, they are benefited significantly by meditation.

00:06:48:19 - 00:07:17:18
Speaker 1
So of course, me highly motivated now, like, all right, well, meditation is up, up and away, but yet I still come up against that challenge of I just can't do it, quote unquote, I can't meditate. It's just insane in there. I don't know. You know, I've been to Thailand and unfortunately, this kind of random story, but in Thailand, we went to this island and when we arrived on the island there, a bunch of monkeys ran out to the beach.

00:07:17:19 - 00:07:39:24
Speaker 1
I was like little monkeys. And then the guys on the boat saw crack in Pepsis and they started handing out cans of Pepsi to these monkeys. And all of a sudden you could see that the monkeys were like, Give me the gimme, gimme it. You know how when you're waiting at a coffee shop and you can see people first thing in the morning getting a bit edgy because they haven't had their caffeine, these monkeys were addicted to the caffeine and and the sugar.

00:07:39:24 - 00:08:01:13
Speaker 1
And so they start chugging the Pepsi and then all of a sudden they got all crazy, right? They're going all crazy and they're running all over the place. They're all jacked up on sugar and caffeine. And that's when my brain it was rather sad and it was, you know, sad to observe and it was sad to think that they were addicted to, you know, sugar and caffeine and that anyway, that's side note, I tell you that because that's what it felt like in my brain when I would try to meditate.

00:08:01:13 - 00:08:25:00
Speaker 1
It was like caffeinated monkeys all over the place, screaming and leaping and all the and so I was still having that issue. And so I went to my teacher and I asked her, I said, you know, I can't seem to really quiet and focus my mind and meditate. And she said, Well, maybe you haven't found your stick. And I said, Perhaps I haven't.

00:08:25:02 - 00:08:52:15
Speaker 1
And for those of you that have read my book, The Warrior's Journey, I share this story in a book about finding your stick. And I said, No, I don't know that I have found my stick. And she said, Well, you know, the mind is like an elephant. It needs to be given tools in order to stay focused. So if you think of of when you've seen pictures of elephants or maybe in the wild or in captivity, you often see elephants holding on to something.

00:08:52:15 - 00:09:14:29
Speaker 1
It's often they're holding onto a stick or the trunk. I mean, so their trunk is holding the tail of the elephant in front of them because elephants are extremely intelligent animals by nature. They're very curious. And so their handlers often will give them something to hold on to. So they're not using their trunks to grab at things. And so she said, Your mind is like the elephant.

00:09:15:01 - 00:09:51:16
Speaker 1
And in order for you to focus your mind, you need to give it something to do, something to hold on to. And I thought, Well, that's a beautiful analogy. And so perhaps I haven't found the stick yet. And so my point is that if you've tried to just sit down and watch the breath and your mind is like crazy monkeys on caffeine like mine is, then maybe you haven't found your stick yet because this is one of the things to know about meditate in and about the mind is that it's the nature of our mind to be busy.

00:09:51:18 - 00:10:19:12
Speaker 1
And when we sit down to focus our mind instantly, it's going to want to rebel against that. And the challenge is to choose a stick or choose a point of focus, right? So for example, if you're using that classical example of following the breath, we're focusing on the breath. We observe that. And any time we notice that we that we see a thought coming.

00:10:19:15 - 00:10:40:27
Speaker 1
So that we've already started thinking is we we let that go and we keep coming back to the breath. I equate it to training a puppy, right? You tell the puppy to sit and stay and then you walk away and you look back and sometimes it's still sitting there. Sometimes you look back and it's like chewing on the wall, you know?

00:10:41:00 - 00:11:12:03
Speaker 1
So maybe you go back and you tell it to sit and you give it a toy, right? And so now you give it something to play with or to do. And then, you know, it might so be playing with it when you check on it again or now it might be too, and on its tail, you know. And so it's a matter of recognizing that that's the nature of the mind and the nature of the mind, both of the ego mind and the actual mind of its survival based focus is that it wants to keep us exactly where we are in our zone of familiarity in our quote unquote, comfort zone.

00:11:12:06 - 00:11:44:01
Speaker 1
And so any time we are challenging ourselves, stretching ourself, expanding ourselves like we are doing in meditation, then it will resist that because it's unfamiliar and because it's allowing you to shift these patterns. Right, and shift these old ways of being of getting caught in the cycles of of self-defeating talk or whatever it is that you get tripped up in, or the anxiety or the worry or whatever that that's tripping you up in that particular moment is that we are now getting to begin to shift those patterns.

00:11:44:03 - 00:12:07:07
Speaker 1
And structurally we are shifting those patterns because when we catch the mind in that busy thought and we pause, we're coming back to a place of centered awareness. We're breathing, and we're actually, as you learned before, we're activating different parts of our brain and we're simulating those parts of our brain. So we are developing other neural pathways and we're really, truly shifting yourself at the deepest level.

00:12:07:09 - 00:12:32:07
Speaker 1
And so that's actually where the benefit of meditation comes from is the observation of the distraction and then reining your mind back in. This is called effortful learning in that you're learning something through efforts, i.e. it might be difficult sometimes, and if you have a rather busy brain that's bunga bunga bunga all over the place, you'll get to practice that frequently.

00:12:32:10 - 00:12:51:03
Speaker 1
Okay, So that's where we get to just visualize your mind like a puppy, and we're going to train it over and over and over. Sometimes it will sit and stay quietly. Sometimes, you know, you might get so relaxed that you actually fall asleep, you know? So it's just like a puppy in that sense. So one that's the first thing to know is that's the nature of our mind to be busy.

00:12:51:05 - 00:13:17:16
Speaker 1
And so we, we just know going in that it's not going we're not going to go from six 60,000 thoughts every minute to none. And that's you know, if we're not thinking, then maybe we've reached that somebody in the Enlightenment and, you know, the Buddha like tendencies, but probably not going to happen. So don't worry about that. So the thing is, is that we we want to just acknowledge that that's the nature of the mind.

00:13:17:16 - 00:13:50:25
Speaker 1
Right. And that when we when we hear ourselves saying things like, oh, I just can't do it, I'm no good at this, that that's the saboteurs. And that's a self-protective mechanism kicking in to keep you from stretching yourself to keep you from growing, to keep you from tapping into your unlimited potential that's available to you when you are in that place of connected awareness and when you're able to focus in on that inner guidance, that inner stillness, the the essence of who you truly are, that is what we are accessing through meditation and through the yoga practice.

00:13:50:27 - 00:14:15:09
Speaker 1
So those are the first two things I really wanted you to know, because that's the mind will become very active when you are are really centering because it's feeling threatened, right? And so it's important that we give it a tool just like the elephant, right? We give it a tool so that when we drop the stick, metaphorically, we go and we pick it back up again and we're cultivating presence and we do that compassionately, right?

00:14:15:09 - 00:14:36:14
Speaker 1
And we're not in there judging ourselves for dropping the stick over and over. It's just that the effortful learning is we're constantly we're training the mind just like we do a puppy. And that really teaches us to be compassionate and be patient and and to keep trying. Because that's the third thing that I wanted to share, is that small steps will lead to big shifts.

00:14:36:17 - 00:14:56:15
Speaker 1
And sometimes, you know, if you're like me and you're an all in certain sort of personality, you like to, you know, go for it and you're like, All right, well, I've heard meditation is really good for my brain. I did my cardio. Now I'm going to do my meditation and I'm going to do this for an hour, and then we can do it and we get frustrated and we give it up completely, which is what I did right.

00:14:56:17 - 00:15:25:18
Speaker 1
And so what we want to look at here is that it's the nature of our mind to continually wander. And so it's going to wander approximately half of the time. And so and that's on a good day. And so just knowing that and recognizing that. And so when you catch the mind, you're cultivating self command, right? Which is one of the muscles of mental fitness that we talk about inside mental fitness or positive intelligence, which is one of the tools I use.

00:15:25:20 - 00:15:50:23
Speaker 1
And so we want to just observe it, catch it, come on back and then try again. Try again, try again. And so it's more about the consistency of our practice than the duration. And so it's just like in with yoga and exercise, it's better for you to do a little bit more often than to do a lot. Rarely.

00:15:50:25 - 00:16:16:27
Speaker 1
Okay. And so think about that. You know, it can be as simple as, okay, I want to get into a meditation habit then. That's what we do in mental fitness, is we take little two minute breaks throughout the day, two minute power pauses and focus on something, focus on something in our body. So maybe it's the breath, maybe it's movement, maybe it's rubbing your fingertips together and you're really intently focusing on that sensation.

00:16:16:27 - 00:16:48:09
Speaker 1
So your meditating on that sensation so that when your mind is distracted, you can recognize it and gently bring it back. Right? So cultivating self command, so that's a very important thing to think about is small changes lead to bigger results. Consistency is better than a long duration practice. So then now that you have those things in mind and more of an understanding of how you can be a little more compassionate with yourself because ultimately that's the end goal of yoga, right?

00:16:48:09 - 00:17:10:17
Speaker 1
Is self-compassion and self-love. Rather than cracking the whip about how good you should be at meditating. So then that was one of my other stories, you know, and maybe it's year two of like and it's out of this. I just can't do it. Maybe you haven't found your stick yet. And for people that are used to being very active in that, you're, you know, you've got a lot going on.

00:17:10:17 - 00:17:28:26
Speaker 1
You got your phone, you got your computer, you've got like 20 different windows. I mean, on one browser. I mean, that's an interesting thing in the entrepreneur community is having like who has the most windows, who has the most tabs open on their computer, And it's not necessarily a prize for the most, but we tend to open a lot of taps.

00:17:28:28 - 00:17:49:27
Speaker 1
And so maybe it's that you haven't found something that gives you enough to do so that you are very present because your mind's used to kind of being involved in a lot of projects simultaneously. Although multitasking is not really a thing because actually uses more time and energy from the brain than if we just focus on one task.

00:17:49:29 - 00:18:18:11
Speaker 1
But anyways, that's a side note. I got distracted there. So coming back, maybe you haven't found something that allows you to have enough that you're focusing on to be able to quiet your mind, to be able to bring it to a one pointed focus of meditation. So perhaps you want to try something different, right? There's many different ways to meditate, many paths as this up the mountain, as my teacher likes to say.

00:18:18:13 - 00:18:52:06
Speaker 1
So for many of my clients and my community members, it's challenging for us to sit still, especially if you like me, are neurodivergent and you have a lot of energy and you know why not try to stay present through movement? So in my program that's called Rise and Vibe, we often will combine our power statements. So for example, I am powerful while we're doing our squats, so there's a lot of intricacies to performing a squat exercise properly.

00:18:52:06 - 00:19:20:04
Speaker 1
So we're working those those layers to the movement, you know, pressing into your heels, engaging your belly, coming up, squeezing your glutes, opening your chest, lengthening through the crown of your head. So there's a lot of layers to the squat itself. But once you're familiar with those details, then we add in an empowering statement. And that's what a power statement is, is as you're coming up to the top of the squat and you're squeezing your bum and you're opening your chest and you're engaging your abs, squeezing you like you're saying, powerful.

00:19:20:04 - 00:19:49:04
Speaker 1
So we come down, we say, I am and then powerful. I am powerful. So as we inhale, we're saying it to ourself I am. And as we exhale or either saying it mentally or out loud, powerful, right? So we breathe. Then we breathe out. We add the power statement so that you're really getting that sensation. And it really keeps your mind focused, because a lot of times, you know, when you're doing a long duration exercise like a plank or something, yes, there's a physical challenge to it, but a lot of times it's mental.

00:19:49:06 - 00:20:11:29
Speaker 1
And so when you can bring that element of decision and clarity and intentionality into your movement and you're really focused on it, A, you increase the mind muscle connection, so you increase the firing levels of the muscle fibers. So they are really a lot more active because you're sending your prana, your energy into them and you're squeezing them, activating them even more.

00:20:12:01 - 00:20:34:02
Speaker 1
That becomes a moving meditation. So that's our tip. Number one. Maybe you can try that. Maybe you can try and move in meditation to see if that feels any different for you. If you can really get to that experience of, you know, there's things that you're doing to focus on so that you can experience the stillness of the present moment and so you can be still mentally, but moving physically.

00:20:34:05 - 00:21:03:13
Speaker 1
So that's our tip number one. The second tip is have you tried using some mantras? So mantras are sacred sounds that we repeat, right, that have been repeated for thousands of years, that are infused with vibrational energy and sound and sacred intent. And so a mantra can be really any sacred word. So it doesn't have to be necessarily a Sanskrit word or a word from another language.

00:21:03:16 - 00:21:29:14
Speaker 1
It can be something that's powerful to you as long as you're using it with intention. So, you know, when people sing hymns in church and they're using sacred words that are from their religion, that's a mantra, right? And so a mantra is a tool for the mind. And so it's repeating something over and over. And so maybe it's a sacred sound like OM or Mend or your Yahweh or whatever it is for you.

00:21:29:16 - 00:21:55:05
Speaker 1
So breathing in and out and repeating that to yourself mentally or even chanting it, singing it, because there's when we emit sound, whether we're humming or we're singing, we actually stimulate the vagus nerve. And so that's the the highway between the mind and the body, the mind body connection. But the main highway of your nervous system. So it's very regulating and soothing for your nervous system.

00:21:55:07 - 00:22:30:14
Speaker 1
So have you tried repetition of mantra? And so that one is very powerful for me because I like the element of singing it to myself or humming it to myself. And so I use that daily. That's my morning. Meditation is I use mantras because it really just I feel that it's really tuning me in to the sound and the energy and the vibration of that, but also really supporting me at the nervous system level, which is so important as you know, and maybe have learned in other episodes.

00:22:30:17 - 00:22:51:12
Speaker 1
So that's tip number two, maybe try some chanting or syncing. And again, you choose whatever language you choose, whatever sacred words are really potent to you, and it helps you to quiet the mental chatter because you're you're again, you're you're doing something. You're actively focusing on the mantra so that you're still breathing, you're still feeling yourself sitting up tall.

00:22:51:19 - 00:23:18:04
Speaker 1
And that's another side notice when you're doing it, we want to make sure we're really upright. We want to keep our central channel open, i.e. your spine or in yoga, we call it the Chashu now. So it's the main energy channel for the the naughties, which are the pathways through the body that the prana your energy flows through, which actually almost consistently throughout the body mirrored the pathway of the nerves that you have in your body.

00:23:18:04 - 00:23:52:02
Speaker 1
Right? So modern Western understanding of the body and the ancient eastern understanding of the body are very, very similar, just using different words. Right? So nerves and knots. But they're essentially talking about the same thing, which is really cool. So quieting the mental chatter, making sure you're upright, you're lengthening through the crown of your head, you know, I like to visualize a beautiful golden orb over top of me, which to me represents the the creative power of the universe, all loving and compassionate and joyful and abundant and all of the beautiful aspects to the universe.

00:23:52:02 - 00:24:26:27
Speaker 1
And so for you, that could be, you know, the same maybe a picture of Buddha or some sort of sacred imagery that you like, or the universe or God, whatever that is for you. Right? And so we're just we're we're using our senses to really become very present. We're coming to our senses, if you will. Okay. And then the last thing that I would really invite for you to try that has been really powerful for me and for many of my students and my clients is to try some breathwork before meditation.

00:24:27:00 - 00:24:56:18
Speaker 1
So because of its impact on the vagus nerve, which we just chatted a little bit about, it really helps to calm your mind and your body, which brings you to a place of clarity and also really allows you to enter into the present moment because you've essentially dialed down the activation of the nervous system, right? You're you're down regulating the nervous system so that you can bring yourself to a state of stillness right?

00:24:56:18 - 00:25:31:17
Speaker 1
Instead of it being like, you know, really loud, like the volume is up really high on a on whatever on your stereo and you turn it down and it gets quieter and quieter. That's what's happening when we do breathwork. And so because of the activation of the vagus nerve and so perhaps doing some breathwork and so that can be as simple as an even breath inhaling for fun, exhaling for five or doing a box breath, which is inhaling for five, holding four or five, exhaling for five, hold the empty for five.

00:25:31:17 - 00:26:00:26
Speaker 1
If that feels safe and comfortable to you, you know, or belly breathing, whatever. And any sort of breath technique that you are familiar with or that you want to experiment with so that you can center yourself and essentially that's what the the awesome opposes the asana practice, the poses of yoga help us to do is to dial everything down so that we can get the mind, we relax the body so much that the mind is still as well.

00:26:00:28 - 00:26:21:28
Speaker 1
So breath work can do that. Maybe you do yoga and then so traditionally that's what happens is, is we do an asana practice, we do a pranayama practice, and then we do a meditation practice. And so it really is, is knowing that it's the nature of the mind to be really beginning swimming all over the place is we use these tools to prime and prep ourself to be able to focus.

00:26:22:00 - 00:26:49:13
Speaker 1
So maybe some breath work for us. So I really hope that that was insightful for you because there is so much incredible research that is done. You know, the the Alzheimer's Association is constantly doing studies on the benefits of meditation, as well as how it is really impactful on our mood and our ability to quiet the negative chatter in the mind.

00:26:49:13 - 00:27:15:17
Speaker 1
And and as you learn, you know, taking command of the mind, bringing it back over and over allows you to be in control of the mind rather than having it just run in circles all over the place. Right? And so if you're practicing that, then you're able to catch yourself in the patterns of self-sabotage. You'll be able to catch your saboteurs or the characters in your head, the negative committee in your head that's trying to derail your evolution and your growth and your expansion.

00:27:15:19 - 00:27:36:08
Speaker 1
You'll be able to catch them and keep coming back to that in your guidance so that you can live from that place of intentionality. And really, meditation is one of the most powerful tools you can have to learn to think on purpose because you're you're reining in that chatter so that you can be the one that is the creator of your thoughts because you are you're the creator of your thoughts.

00:27:36:10 - 00:27:57:08
Speaker 1
But if we're just going back on these hardwired patterns of these 60,000 thoughts, most of which you had yesterday, most of which are negative because they are attempting to be self-protective, then we are just going to be living by default. And so you want to live on purpose because you're a purposeful powerhouse. So meditation is a tool that can help you to do that.

00:27:57:09 - 00:28:36:28
Speaker 1
Right. And as we just discussed, having some movement beforehand through cardio, but also through yoga asana, that can be really helpful as well to prime and prep yourself. So that will help you to keep your body strong and powerful as well so that you can show up from that place of groundedness and centeredness and presence and as your favorite set of deeply aligned, truly aligned and knowing that you are doing the most important thing of all, taking care of yourself now so that you can continue to live in a happy and healthy life for as many years as possible by because we don't think about our brain very often.

00:28:37:00 - 00:28:58:12
Speaker 1
If you get that pun and it's going to poke a little finger in every because it's kind of funny, we don't think about the brain very often. Okay, Anyway, sorry, I got to laugh because I don't know if you're laughing or not, so it's one of those things that, you know, we sort of take for granted. It's up there doing its thing and it's doing a damn lot for us every day.

00:28:58:18 - 00:29:19:20
Speaker 1
And so if we can do a little bit every day or as often as you think about it, or as often as it fits into your schedule to really support it at the foundational structural level, doing things like meditation, exercise, cardio, all of those things, eating well, eating your know, getting a balanced nutrition, all of that stuff, getting sleep.

00:29:19:27 - 00:29:41:27
Speaker 1
Then you're really supporting yourself at the deepest level. And so hopefully that will inspire you to explore meditation or breathwork because it is so incredibly impactful, as are you. Right. And so thank you for being part of this community. Thank you for going out and sharing your gifts with the world. I would love to be able to support you.

00:29:41:27 - 00:30:02:14
Speaker 1
And so if you haven't already, grab the free five minute workout that will help you to move your body and get some cardio, get some strengthening, some toning, some boosting, all those things in there. Make sure to grab that because it's in the show notes, because that's a really simple way for you to get in your body. Move your body, quiet things down a little bit so you can focus your mind.

00:30:02:21 - 00:30:14:05
Speaker 1
So that's in the show notes. I would love for you to grab that and check that out. And until next time, have a beautiful rest every day and take good care of yourself. Bye bye. Thanks for being here.