May 6, 2024 • 49 mins
In this enlightening episode of Demystifying Money, your host Misty and guest Dr. Kaye Brundidge explore the intersection of mental well-being and positive outcomes. Delve into methods that elevate mood, mind, and even financial strategies through holistic practices.
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- Discover practical steps to gradually enhance your mood and expectations with Dr. Kaye’s expert guidance.
- Learn about the power of appreciating small achievements and setting intentional thoughts and actions.
- Understand the benefits of integrating traditional medical treatments with ancient energetic practices like Reiki and acupuncture for pain management.
- Explore how mindset techniques from financial to medical fields can significantly impact results, emphasizing the importance of positivity.
- Gain insights into daily practices like breath work, visualization, and gratitude to maintain high vibrations and connect with your intuition.
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- LinkedIn: kaye-brundidge-md-45a70910
- Facebook: Dr. Kaye Brundidge
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Welcome to the Demistifying Money Podcast,where each week you will hear unforgettable conversations
with expert guests about success, money, business, and small steps you can
take to elevate your life and wealth. Now here's your host, Misty Lynch.
Hello friend, thank you so muchfor joining us for the Demistifying Money
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Podcast. I'm your host, MistyLynch, and today I am talking to
Kay Brundon. She is the founderof Oshoon Energy Medicine and she's a medical
provider with over thirty years of experiencewho discovered the power of human energy field
when she was interacting with patients andstaff in the operating room. This episode
of Demistifying Money with Misty Lynch isproudly sponsored by Soundview Financial Advisors. Visit
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www dot Soundview Financial Advisors dot comto learn more. Thank you for being
here, and I am so interestedto hear more about your business and what
it was that you discovered when youwere working with people in this realm.
So please tell us a little bitmore about you and how you got your
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start, and then we can kindof dive into the whole idea of the
human energy field and what it cando for us, not only for our
health and our well being, butalso for things like our finances and kind
of figure out how this can allwork together. Sure, sure, Well,
I'm an anesthesiologist. I've had overtwenty five years experience in anesthesiology,
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so I've had the opportunity to seepeople at fairly critical times of their lives.
And the one thing that sounds reallycorny, but the one thing that
I've noticed is that the people whohad this quote unquote premonition that things are
not going to do well or Ithink I'm going to die during this I
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mean I noticed it when I wasa resident. Those were the peace people
who had problems during their surgery,And initially I just kind of blew it
off, but then I started lookingand seeing, Wow, there's a big
correlation here. And even though Iwasn't always the one to make the decision
about whether or not the surgery wouldproceed, I got into the habit of
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pointing that out to a surgeon abouthis or her patient, that hey,
they said this, so you mightwant to maybe talk to them. And
I started thinking, so what canI do for these people who are undoubtedly
fearful, And so I started askingthem, you know, is there anything
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that you're really upset about that wecan talk about before you go to sleep.
And a lot of people said,yeah, I'm really upset about this.
And I'm like, okay, solet's do some breath work and we're
going to breathe in positive thoughts,positive energy, visualizing a positive outcome,
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and we're going to breathe out yourstress. And I would do just a
couple or three rounds of breath workand then I would have them imagine what
the most positive outcome of their surgerywould be. So A really was a
big focus to just put them ina good mindset before they went off to
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sleep, and for a lot ofthem on the way to the R when
we're pushing the cart into the Ror as they're getting settled, you know,
I feel better about this than Ihave about any surgery. Thank you
so much. And I really didstart to get the feedback from recovery room
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nurses. They said, you know, your patient X said that this was
the easiest and the best anesthetic andsurgery that they ever had. So that
was my first indie that the thoughtsthat people had right before they went off
to sleep super super powerful. Sothat's how it got started. It's so
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interesting because you know, both ofus work in environments where people might be
nervous, on edge, afraid maybeyou know, uncomfortable and thinking the worst
case scenario all of the time,you know, And so the fact that
you were focusing with people on whatis the best outcome, how could this
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go well? Even as a financialmy training when I was learning was find
out their biggest fear, find outtheir worst case scenario, what keeps them
up at night, and that's whatyou focus on. That is where you
go. And I always hated itbecause I would rather think about building wealth
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as what is the biggest, mostexciting thing that you could imagine, And
it was the opposite. And I'msure that you know in the medical field
and healthcare, it's it's, well, we want to let everyone know,
like this is what can happen.These are even the commercials you see on
TV for all the prescriptions or allthe downsides, all of the bad things,
and so it's really I think oneof those things that you know not
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I think with everything we do kindof extends that the way we think and
feel about it can impact the outcomes. So I think that you know,
it's it's really comforting to think thatyou were speaking to people about taking a
deep breath and focusing on things beforethey you know, maybe we're experiencing something.
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It might be one of the scariestthings that's ever happened to them in
their lives. So how is thatdifferent than your maybe your peers, or
maybe most of the medical profession whenit comes to focusing on mindset. Is
it really something that's becoming more oris it really still not necessarily part of
the big picture. It is notnecessarily always part of the big picture.
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It's very interesting because I'm pretty upfrontabout the fact that I believe that this
is an energetic world and we're justlittle bits of energy kind of bopping around.
And I get colleagues who say,you know, I like it that
you're so out there about what youbelieve. But I think that there are
a lot of people who are whoare definitely afraid because for many of them
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it falls into the quote unquote woowoo, and so a lot of people
are not very comfortable with the factthat energy has such a prominent part in
our life in medicine and is science. It's it's a science as well as
an art and so people are realconcentrated on the factual, fact driven part
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of it and not so much aboutthe energetic part of it. And I
think that's a big minus. Ithink the energy has always been where it
is, and I think that's what'sgoing to be in the future. I
think that's that is something that we'regoing to see moving forward. Yeah,
I completely agree. And I sawa tweet the other day that was somebody
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who's in my in my industry,financial services, and it said something like
our financial advisors expected to be likelife coaches, light is this the way
we're headed? And there was suchan aversion to the thought of coaching and
life coaching, and and as somebodywho is a financial planner and is served
by life coach, I was like, what is why is this so triggering
for these other advisors to think aboutusing things like mindset techniques or learning how
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you know everybody's thoughts and feelings impacttheir decision making. Why is everyone so
upset about this? It was justsuch an interesting thing for me to see,
but it basically was saying, thisis what clients are looking for.
They want support, they want moreguidance, they want more coaching that's a
little bit different than what's traditionally outthere, So I thought it was fascinating.
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But it's interesting to hear that you'reseeing the same things in your industry,
which is very much based in science, where mine is very much based
in that. And it's interesting.But I love that and I think being
a little wu is totally fine.I know my listeners don't mind it,
and I think it's really really coolto think about how that affects your body
and your health. And so I'dlove to talk about a few of the
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things that you specifically offer when itwith you know, in your business,
And the first is reiki. Tellme if I pronounced that wrong, But
I have had a few wonderful experienceswith this personally when it comes to having
somebody you know, actually work onmy energy and from relieving pain to also
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just like feeling better. So canyou describe what it is and what the
benefits are to people who might notbe familiar. Maybe they've heard of it,
but they haven't experienced themselves. Whatis this two for people? And
how can it be helpful? Itis? Reiki is an energetic treatment.
It's from a very very old traditionthat has its origin in Japanese culture as
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well as another some other cultures thatare very similar. But basically, it's
an energetic treatment whereby reiki practitioner directsthe energy into a client to interact with
the client's energy field. Because allof us basically have energetic fields. People
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have energetic fields. The size ofthe energetic field can vary, and a
reiki energetic treatment is one of thesethings that is targeted to providing energy input
to a client and having that energyinteract with the client's input with intention.
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So the intention of the reiki practitioner. It's much like a medical doctor in
that you just don't want to harmanyone. You just want the energy to
be used for the best in thehighest good. And that's always how I
start out with a reiki treatment,with that intention that I want this energy
to be used for my client forthe best and the highest good. It
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is interesting because much like other energeticinputs, you don't have to be in
the same room distance. Reiki treatmentscan be just as effective as in person
treatments. I after I receive myreiki training, I would do energetic treatments
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on my friends because that's how youlearn. You do treatments on friends,
and so people would call and you'relike, you know, my back is
killing me, my knees are killingme. Can you do a treatment?
And I'm like sure, And Iwould have an image of that person in
my brain and I would go throughmy process accessing universal energy because pretty much
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with reiki, you're a big oldstraw. You're not just moving your energy,
You're serving as a straw for universaland divine energy to interact with this
person. And I have to saythat I've gotten some really amazing results,
and that's true for friends of minewho are Ricky practitioners as well. Yeah,
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it's one of those I can't explainit. I couldn't, I haven't
studied it, and I don't knowhow it works, but I do know
that I have felt different before andafter, and like in some ways from
physical pain. I remember going inwith a shoulder that was bothering, and
like I did feel different, likephysically, which I couldn't explain. But
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then also there were times when Idid that I think I don't know what
was you know, maybe where Iwas, you know, crying for the
first time in maybe months or possiblyyears actually at the first time, and
this was even this was one ofa distance, you know, with a
friend who practices, and it isreally interesting to think about the whole idea
of the energy field and being ableto use it or to adjust it and
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to actually cause a reaction in yourclients. Because one of the things that
I wanted to talk with you about, specifically because of your industry is pain
and this is something that has abig impact on finances. Pain management industry
is seventy point one billion dollar industryin twenty twenty two, and it's expected
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to reach one hundred and eight pointnine billion dollars in twenty thirty two.
Pain is big business. It isbig business in this country. And I
think that with the rise of chronicdisease and an aging population and a favorable
regulatory environment, we're only going tosee more in the pain management space.
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How could something like focusing on energyor your work with this help those people
who are in pain but maybe arevery afraid of the traditional pain management techniques
that are out there in medicine thatmaybe they've seen harm their friends or they've
seen the documentaries. And I'm somebodywho is afraid of taking anything like that
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myself. How can energy work helpwith this? You know, humans do
not want to be in pain.It's one of our most most natural instincts
is to avoid pain. How cansomething like this help us? Well?
First of all, the concept,the energetic concept of pain is a little
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bit different in most of my studies. Basically, pain is correlated with stuck
energy. There's some kind of energythat's stuck if there's a painful area,
all right, So there are avariety of reasons for that energy to be
stuck. And as much as thereare a variety of different types of pain,
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there's the pain that you get frombreaking your leg, which is a
lot different from chronic pain, whichis a lot different from the type of
pain that you get if you haveappendicitis. But basically, and this is
where another aspect of my training camein because I'm also acupuncture trained, I
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came to understand that basically, thereare energy channels that are throughout the body
and access points throughout the body andthe trick, and this is what I
tell people who are having pain.The trick is to get the painful signals
interrupted by some modality and reset.You can do that with acupuncture very effectively.
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You can do it with acupressure,which involves no needles, and you
can do it with reiki, whichis also an energy intervention. But the
fact that three thousand years ago peoplefigured out there are energy channels that they
could access and affect pain in thebody is it's just mind boggling. And
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unfortunately, a lot of the modalitiesthat are more rooted in energy traditions,
such as reiki and acupuncture, arenot exactly very profitable. That is frequently
the problem that you run into.You run into insurance companies that will not
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pay for these interventions. There arescientific studies that have looked at the effectiveness
of energetic interventions and found that theyare effective, but they are just harder
to market. I'm not saying thattraditional medical pain modalities are worthless. I'm
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saying that the time has come wherewe need to integrate both the traditional medical
and ancient energetic treatment such as reikiand acupuncture, because I think that's where
we get the best results. Idon't think it's either one or the other.
I think it's the synergy. Andright now, unfortunately, there's a
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lot of emphasis on narcotics and narcoticsare weird medications. I think sometimes the
side effects can be equal to oreven outweigh the benefit effects. So it's
really a dance to figure out whattype of painful input can be best treated
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with medication modalities as opposed to energeticmodalities. I think it's definitely important not
to yeah, to ignore one O. Right, That's what I'm seeing too,
because I think back to even whenI was when I was trying to
get pregnant and I wasn't having success, I did go to acupuncture and then
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I don't I can't necessarily say thatwas what changed things, but I do
know that soon after I was pregnant, so it was interesting to see.
To me, I was more comfortableexploring that path first or any other traditional,
you know, interventions as far asthat's concerned. And it was something
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that was very helpful for me,and I would recommend it to anybody who
is feeling it. Also with mygrain head makes other things that I've gone
to acupuncture for have have helped tremendously. And I am not a person who
likes needles. I am terrified ofgetting a shot, but it didn't it
Actually, it really was very differentthan what I anticipated when I first experienced
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it. It was much much easierand very comfortable. And also recently some
listeners now I lost my father andone of my friends was saying that that
can be very helpful with trauma aswell working, you know, And so
that was just interesting to me becausewhen you talk about energy fields and things
feeling stuck, I think there issomething when people do experience a traumatic event,
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a loss, where we say wefeel stuck and can't move on.
So how can you you know ifsomebody is maybe in that point where they're
not quite sure you know what's wrong, or they're dealing with something that's been
very hard. Is there any waysthat this kind of work maybe doesn't have
to be for an acute treatment,but can it be something that's maybe increp
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breed it into your lifestyle more.Is like the self care that people are
talking about wanting to do more forthemselves. Yes, it can, And
I think the biggest way that Iemploy energetic input on a daily basis is
with intention setting and breath work topre plan my day. I am a
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big proponent of getting out into natureearly in the day and getting a little
bit of exercise that's actually what Idid before I got on the podcast with
you. I take a walk andthe first part of the walk is about
gratitude, gratitude for my surroundings,gratitude for being able to get up early
in the morning where it's quiet andtake a walk and appreciate my surroundings and
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what's going on. And the secondpart of the walk is about setting the
intention for how I want my dayto be. How do I do that.
I visualize, Okay, this isgoing to have happen, this is
my event. This is how Iwant this event to play out. And
so I am putting my energy outthere into the world in a very positive
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way because I start it with gratitude, which is huge towards opening up the
doors to the universe. It's justexpressions of gratitude. And then I pre
plan, preplay my day in termsof this is how I want this to
turn out. I have this event, this is the outcome that I'm going
to visualize, and just solidly stickingto what that outcome is. I include
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my commute in that nice commute,no problems, no issues, and I
try to sense everything is energy andmusic and radio energy, podcasts, streaming
energy. I try to have somethingpositive. So for me, that's nice
music or a nice book that Ilike to listen to on audiobooks. So
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it's a lot about being intentional andwith your with making a plan for the
day and with your focus once youmade that intention. I think that's something
that's important for people to think about. These are not these these types this
costs nothing to set intention, towalk outside to journal. These are absolutely
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free. Even if you are struggling, like with your finances, and you
might say gratitude, there is nothingI could feel grateful for. There usually
is, and maybe it's appreciation beingable to wake up and take a walk.
You know, maybe there's a lotof things that we can still do
that we might be so focused onthe negative we might not be intentional with
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what we're consuming. So that couldmean that we're listening to the news that
upsets us or or triggers us beforewe get our day started, or we're
starting our day by looking at ouremails, not because we're expecting somebody to
be like, hey, you're amazing. Just wanted to let you know.
We're looking for danger. We're lookingfor the person who's upset or the client
who's upset or or some email aboutsomething that's gone wrong, Like we are
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constantly on the lookout for that.So I think that intentionality it flips that,
Yes, you're in control, you'resetting the temperature, you're figuring this
out, and then going about yourday in the way that you feel will
be the you know, the best, the best possible alchemy, which is
very different than most of our habits, which are reactive and responsive and waiting
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for somebody to yell at us orsomething to go wrong. So I like
that. So how do we youknow, if we if we started with
a practice of say breath work,where some people might say, what does
that mean? I just breathe?I don't think about it much. How
can we is that just taking deepbreast? Are there things that you recommend
people do, like those patients thatwe're about to go into surgery, or
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somebody who's about to go into ameeting where they're anticipating maybe it's going to
be confrontational, maybe they're not,you know, they're nervous. What are
some techniques that we could do asfar as like breath works, concerned to
quickly maybe give ourselves a little reset. Sure, one of the easiest ways
that I found to work with breathand calming people down is something called box
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breathing. Just visualize a box andon the upper limb of the box,
you're gonna take a nice deep breathin to a count of three, and
then for the horizontal part of thebox, you're gonna hold that breath in
for a count of three, andthen again for the vertical leg, you're
gonna breathe out to a count ofthree, and then for the last horizontal
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leg to complete the box, you'regonna hold your breath out for a count
of three. Now, all ofthat concentrating on your breath, it's gonna
slow down your heart rate, it'sgonna calm you down, it's going to
get you focused on something other thanwhatever you're anticipating is going to happen.
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So that's the easiest type of breathwork that I do. Sometimes it takes
a nice deep breath in and thenjust blow out all of the tension.
And the other thing that I tryto tell people is to be aware of
the tendency of our society to baseeverything on fear. Four letter words are
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very interesting. Fear is a fourletter word, but also love, so
if you find yourself trapped in fear, sometimes you can flip that around and
say, what is the most positiveand loving viewpoint that I can take towards
this situation, And that also getyou out of fight and flight, which
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is kind of what fear leads toin anticipation and breathing in the top of
your lungs and holding your breath andall of this tension in your upper body,
if you can just take a nicedeep breath, so focus on your
breath and slowing things down and thinkof the most loving outcome to whatever issue
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you have that faces you. It'sa good tip. And I think that
both of those the box breathing andthinking of that, and this just makes
me think of like, that's somethingthat you could teach your children. This
is this is something that you couldtalk to with people who are younger,
You could talk to people who anyonereally can do this. And so I
think that's a lot a lot oftimes something that I feel like I need
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to do as a parent and sometimesstop re think of the most loving thing
that I could do right, evenin like a very stressful situation, something
where I'm like upset, I can'tyou know, I can't believe something happened.
And also I have seen times wheremy children who are nine and eleven
get extremely worked up and like mightnot will sometimes be like, you know,
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you can't tell them to stop crying. That doesn't work. It just
makes them cry harder, and solike we've kind of tried to interrupt it
with something like breathing and doing somethinglike that technique just to see if you
could just kind of reset where youwere at to get control, because it
can be so stressful and frustrating thatthese are things that they can hopefully learn
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and do in school or do itanywhere where you might not be right.
And I think the coolest thing thatI've been seeing is that there are a
lot of schools that are teaching kidsmeditation, not get yogis or meditators,
but to get the kids more centeredand focused to what they're doing. And
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every every time I hear about theresults of schools and programs where they're using
meditation and breath work with kids,they've got amazingly positive results. Yeah,
no, it is. I thinkit's just it's so smart. I'm excited.
You know, when I go intomy kids' school and I see you
know, they I saw a bulletinboard once when they were in kindergarten that
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was a growth mindset and a fixedmindset. These four things I did not
talk about in kindergarten. Yeah,these are things that I learned when I
was like much muchuli. But I'mlike, if you could actually go about
your whole life understanding and recognizing whenyou are in a certain you know,
mindset that you maybe would like to, you know, challenge or you're thinking
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certain thoughts that you need to question. It's so interesting to see that being
introduced earlier, and I feel likeit's like, I just I think it
could be so helpful for the kidsand the staff just to be able to
use different techniques that aren't just punishmentto get control of a classroom. So
that's definitely something I found to becool. I wanted to I wanted to
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ask you because this is something thatwe talked about. And I talk to
people all the time too who maybecome to me needing to make big financial
decisions or big decisions and they justdon't know and they've stopped being able to
use their intuition or trust their gut, or sometimes they've just gotten to the
point where they feel like they theythey can't do it anymore, And so
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I wanted to talk about, youknow, what do you recommend for people
who want to improve their intuition,who want to be able to, you
know, maybe start, you know, maybe they want to make a change
in their life, but they feelyou know, they feel stuck, they
feel like they're not able to doso how can some of the things like
energy awareness and coaching help people bemore self reliant or be able to trust
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themselves. Because with energy we're lookingat what already within all of us,
and that's I think the beauty ofit. I mean, you get coaching
about tuning out and tuning in,and when I say tuning in, it's
tuning into what is within you.I think one of the dangers as well
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as one of the wonders of ourworld, is how connected we are to
everything and how easy it is toget information, but also how easy it
is to get incorrect or misleading information. And what I tell people is,
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when you're looking to connect with yourselfand your intuition, the best thing you
can do is disconnect from everything else. And that means go five to ten
minutes without the Internet or social mediaor the news. And that's why I
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put the emphasis on getting outside becauseif I'm inside, yeah, I'm looking
at my house, it's like,oh, gosh, I gotta do this,
gotta do that. But if Ican just get outside and take a
walk and be in absolute quiet,we're talking, no earbuds, nothing else,
then you start to hear your thoughtsand then you go, oh,
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I'm thinking, let me just maybecount my breath as I'm walking and count
my steps, And that is thebiggest way that I can find to start
to get to that journey within.To listen to your body. Your body
gives you all kinds of wonderful messageswhen there's trouble ahead. When you see
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a dog and you don't know ifthe dog is friendly or not. Sometimes
you just listen to your body.It's like, yeah, this one's all
right, or this one takes alittle more caution. Maybe you can walk
across the street, but it doestake quieting yourself and quieting your environment,
because it's really hard to hear anythingclearly in a noisy environment. That's it's
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so true. There's so many notifications, there's so many things that are beeping
and buzzing, and competing for ourattention all the time that I do think
the more the more success that peoplehave usually has a lot to do with
if they are reactive in their environmentor if they are, like you said,
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setting the stage for how the dayis going to go, what is
going to happen, What do Iwant to do? Getting outside, listening,
you know, connecting with you knowthemselves. And I do feel like
that is it's it's so important.The days that I don't walk because I'm
in New England and there is justice, like the sheet eyes outside,
I don't I feel better the daysthat I'm able to go for the few
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walks even just around the block justto leave the office much better that I
kind of just come back in andreset, like like I'll be able to
do that and say, okay,now I'm ready to come back and engage
in this meeting or do something,you know, whatever I have on my
schedule. So I do think thatthose things are important. How about something
like yoga? Is that something thatyou recommend to people who are you know,
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connecting or trying to feel healthier oryou know physically, you know,
for those benefits as well. Yes, it's it's interesting you say that that
was the start of kind of myjourney within. I started with a pretty
vigorous yoga practice and then started exploringnot just the osenas or the postures.
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I started exploring all of the eightlambs of yoga, which include meditation,
and actually took yoga teacher training,and really that practice in one form or
another, has stayed with me prettymuch for over thinking of time frame,
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Yeah, over twenty years, easilyall over twenty years, and it was
the source of my yoga practice wasthe source of a lot of peace at
the time. My medical practice wasthe source of a lot of stress and
anxiety, and yoga really kind ofopened the doors for me to find out
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a little bit more about myself andto be able to generate that peace within
no matter what was going on outside. And it also enabled me to step
back and make some choices that werenot necessarily the choices that the majority of
people in my profession were making.But I felt confident because I knew that
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the choices were right for me.So that was a lot of intuition,
breath work, the auso know work. Let let it let me have an
easier way to go within and feelcalm and settled as I was doing my
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air work, and then that ledme to look at, Okay, what's
working, what's not working, Let'smaybe do something different. But yeah,
yoga is the best. Yeah,no, I am that's interesting. I
think it's it's something that I youknow, I feel like I know some
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people that you know practice and thatit just becomes a part of their life
and everything. You know. I'mcurious too, based on your your expertise.
When I think about the things thatmy clients feel like they're spending the
most money on lately it has beenlately it's been food, dining out,
convenience and things like that. Whatwould you say when it comes to nutrition
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is important for people to to thinkabout when it comes to their overall health,
even their their energy. Is thereis there a connection in there that
you know that you think when itcomes to how people are actually nourishing their
bodies. Yes, Because all ofthis is intake, food, water,
media, it's intake, and youhave to look at the quality of your
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intake. And I'm not saying,you know, you have to go out
and get you know, fifty differentkinds of organic everything, but you have
to look at the energetic environment ofthe food that you're consuming. And I'm
gonna probably make people a little testybecause I'm going to go with fast food.
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Fast food has a lot of negativeenergetic components. I'm not saying that
all fast food is bad. I'mjust seeing that there's a lot of negative
input from the time that the foodis processed to the time that it's put
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on your plate. The other time, the other thing to remember is nutritional
value. There have been all kindsof studies that show that the more of
food is processed, the less overallnutritional value that you have, and also
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the amount of preservatives goes up.So there's anytime you're looking at a food
item and there's a word that's,you know, fifteen sixteen letters in above,
probably not a natural product. Andif at all you can limit the
number of items like that that youput in your mouth, you're going to
be a lot better off. Andfood, yes, food is very much
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an item that's used for social gatheringsas well as nutritional gatherings, because people
gather for meals and to have fun. It is one of those things that
have Being aware of the emotional overlaythat you may attach to food is also
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something that you have to do becausesometimes for those people who are emotional eaters,
meaning I'm upset, so I'm goingto go out and eat food until
food X until I feel better.Yeah, that can have some negative nutritional
impact. I think that much likeother things in our society where everything is
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moving so fast, the simplicity andbeauty of being able to sit down and
enjoy a meal is huge. It'ssomething I've noticed in my business, which
is typically very early morning getting rollingat times when most people are not out
of bed, and the days thatI manage the best, or the days
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that I managed to carve out evenfive or six minutes of peace to have
a nice bowl of oatmeal as opposedto you know, cramming something in my
face in the car is like alot. So yeah, it's about intent
again. Intention My teachers have said, intention is how the universe goes down,
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goes around. Uh. Intentional eatingis really something to strikes worth to
be aware appreciate what your intate is. Yeah, and I think even you
know and for those you know clientsI've talked to you about that, they
say I want to do this andthen I just end up ordering this because
I'm tired or because I have astressful job. And so I think that
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even if you know, even ifyou can delay one day, you know,
say you're like, I'm really cravingthat that glass of wine or the
ice cream, you know, likeif you could plan for it tomorrow,
even just setting a little bit ofspace in between that a little intentionality,
you might see that maybe that thatcraving or that feeling goes away and it
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wasn't necessarily that you needed the foodto do it. So it's interesting though
it is it does seem to allkind of come back to, you know,
intake and being intentional about like whatis what is coming in from any
source. So another thing I wantedto talk about, and this is something
that I talked to somebody who islike she was a photographer, and she
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said that she works with you know, high vibe entrepreneurs and so it's just
vibes and being a high vibrational ora low vibrational person. It's something that
I've kind of heard a little bitmore lately. And I'm just curious from
your perspective because of the energy fields, like what you know, if somebody
maybe feels like nothing good ever happensto them and they're kind of in that,
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you know, feeling that that way. How much does you know vibration
impact that when you know in apositive or a negative way? And how
is how can we start to maybeadjust that if we don't like our currentelbook?
Okay, vibration is huge. Andthe thing that I tell people is
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that the universe is very giving andthe universe will give you exactly what you're
asking for. The Universe doesn't understand. Oh, I don't want this to
happen. I don't want this tohappen. I don't The universe doesn't hear
the don't They just hear what you'reangsting about and they give you more of
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that, you know. So whatI tell people, especially people who feel
that things are just not happening,the way that they would choose for them
to happen is to get one thought. We're not trying to get you all
the way up to the best possibleday. We're going to get you to
one step above where you are,which is ten minutes are going to be
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the best ten minutes that I canimagine. And this is what I'm gonna
imagine, and just go for fiveor ten minutes and then slowly gradually increase
your expectations. It's very hard togo from zero to one hundred. It's
a lot easier to go from zeroto two or three, and then from
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three to six and then incrementally increaseyour expectations and increase your vibration. So
it is hard to go from highvibration positive energy one hundred percent of the
time. Little steps at the timeis how it's how it's done. I
think that's really smart because I talkto some people that feel like they're so
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behind. They should have done thisyears ago. They're very upset themselves,
and so they feel like if theycan't, you know, have one hundred
thousand dollars or a million dollars inthe bank tomorrow, there's no point.
And so I think that is wherethose little steps can come in, because
I think like, your brain won'tbelieve it if you're like, I am
a you know, I am amillionaire. If it's not true, they're
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looking, you know, your brain'slooking for proof. But if you could
say like, well, you know, I have enough money to get through
the day, or I have enoughtoday to support my needs, or you
know, or even just to saylike that you appreciate that you have what
you have today. I mean it'sa step. Yes, I hate this,
I hate where I'm at right now, and we that all or none
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thinking really holds back for me eventrying just feeling like, well, if
I don't weigh my goal weight orwhat I wait in college, then what's
the point where everybody who's made anysuccess at all has had that first you
know dollar that they saved, oryou know, maybe they ate that first
good healthy meal that put them onthe right pres Because we always look at
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the end or somebody else's end andthink, oh, I should be there,
and it's too that because I'm not, then I it's not worth it.
But I think it's it's such agood point to just kind of maybe
the next in maybe the next tenminutes will be the best part of the
day. And maybe that means thatyou went for a walk or and then
you can just go execute it andthen your brain gets that proof like oh,
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okay, what you say kind ofmakes sense happen. So and it's
a little backwards sometimes to how weare trained to think. You have to
offer the positive emotion and the intentionbefore you see the results. We are
very a results oriented society and wewant to see the proof and then we
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believe. You actually have to believefirst that the positivity is that it's possible,
and then you see the manifestation ofthat. It does seem to be
backwards sometimes, but it is truethat if you you can't you can't get
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the proof unless you believe that it'spossible that things could happen. So it's
been super interesting talking with you today. I wanted to mention another part of
your about your career. You're alsoan author. Can you tell us about
the books that you write and howmaybe writing has become a part of your
your process in the day, becauseI know for some people who you know
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who are writing is very therapeutic orcalming or just a part of something that
they're they're naturally able to do.Tell me about your writing. I am
a medical thriller writer. Now I'mgonna make everybody laugh because I write under
a pen name, because who wantsto have their antithesiologists know that they're anesthesiologists.
Is writing about horrible medical related scenes, nay him and disaster? So
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I write under a pen name.And again, you know my wonderful friends
are like, I give them storiesabout what happened at work and they're like,
Wow, you should write a bookabout that, And about years ago
I said, I think I will. And knew nothing about book writing,
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had always loved writing, and wentthrough this whole process of learning about how
you write a novel, how youwrite a thriller, what you do,
went to a lot of conferences andended up putting out a book and gonna
do some revising, and I didself publishing just because it's very hard for
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first time authors. And I've gottena lot of encouragement from people who've read
the book, some of whom arekind of connected in the industry. So
we're gonna probably do it edit anda re release and try to go through
an agent and get a figure readershipthis time. But it was fun.
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It was fun taking facts that Iknew and then applying fantasy to it.
So it was it was a lotof fun. I love that. I
love like thrillers are like one ofmy favorite genres to read, and it's
it's I think it's cool. Ithink that that's something that a lot of
people maybe have in their minds,is something that they want to do.
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But again it's like, oh,well, if I can't get an agent,
what's the no. I think there'sa lot to be said about actually
going through the process of self publishingand putting something out there that you said
you're going to do, and it'sexciting that you'll be working, you know,
I can't. I think it's verycool, and I understand the thought
of putting up that. I thinkif I was writing about like financial crime
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or something like that, I don'tknow if people would want to see my
name on it either. That wouldbe something interesting. But I love the
idea of kind of using your imaginationand creativity and kind of blending in that
experience with some sort of you know, fantasy world that you could create.
Super cool. Well, thank youso much, K for joining me today.
How can listeners find out more aboutyou, about your your practice and
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follow you if they're looking forward tolearning more? I am on all so
I'm on social media. I'm onFacebook, Instagram as well as LinkedIn again.
My business is Oshoon Energy Medicine andwebsite is www dot Oshoonenergymedicine dot com.
We're kind of revamping the website withinthe next couple of weeks or so.
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But basically, what I like todo is help we're busy working women
get through the perioperative period. Somy coaching is centered on that because I've
seen way too many women who comeinto a surgery and they've taken care of
everyone else and they get into theoperating room and they fall apart because they've
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been taking care of everyone except them. So I really feel called to really
kind of focus on busy workingwomen becausethey are the people that are holding the
glue to this country, holding itall together. I think that it's vonlnerbul.
It's interesting that you say that becauseI think a lot of us can
picture that being like making sure everyone'sokay, that this is going to happen
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while I'm having stay this is here, this is there, and no one
is actually looking out for them.So I love that that's what you do.
And definitely we will add all ofthose links to the show notes.
Thank you so much for joining metoday, and thank you everyone for listening.
I hope that you I hope youlearned something about this and maybe we'll
use some of these techniques to improveyour own life. Thank you so much,
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Welcome to the Demistifying Money Podcast,where each week you will hear unforgettable conversations
with expert guests about success, money, business, and small steps you can
take to elevate your life and wealth. Now here's your host, Misty Lynch.
Hello friend, thank you so muchfor joining us for the Demistifying Money
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Podcast. I'm your host, MistyLynch, and today I am talking to
Kay Brundon. She is the founderof Oshoon Energy Medicine and she's a medical
provider with over thirty years of experiencewho discovered the power of human energy field
when she was interacting with patients andstaff in the operating room. This episode
of Demistifying Money with Misty Lynch isproudly sponsored by Soundview Financial Advisors. Visit
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www dot Soundview Financial Advisors dot comto learn more. Thank you for being
here, and I am so interestedto hear more about your business and what
it was that you discovered when youwere working with people in this realm.
So please tell us a little bitmore about you and how you got your
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start, and then we can kindof dive into the whole idea of the
human energy field and what it cando for us, not only for our
health and our well being, butalso for things like our finances and kind
of figure out how this can allwork together. Sure, sure, Well,
I'm an anesthesiologist. I've had overtwenty five years experience in anesthesiology,
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so I've had the opportunity to seepeople at fairly critical times of their lives.
And the one thing that sounds reallycorny, but the one thing that
I've noticed is that the people whohad this quote unquote premonition that things are
not going to do well or Ithink I'm going to die during this I
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mean I noticed it when I wasa resident. Those were the peace people
who had problems during their surgery,And initially I just kind of blew it
off, but then I started lookingand seeing, Wow, there's a big
correlation here. And even though Iwasn't always the one to make the decision
about whether or not the surgery wouldproceed, I got into the habit of
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pointing that out to a surgeon abouthis or her patient, that hey,
they said this, so you mightwant to maybe talk to them. And
I started thinking, so what canI do for these people who are undoubtedly
fearful, And so I started askingthem, you know, is there anything
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that you're really upset about that wecan talk about before you go to sleep.
And a lot of people said,yeah, I'm really upset about this.
And I'm like, okay, solet's do some breath work and we're
going to breathe in positive thoughts,positive energy, visualizing a positive outcome,
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and we're going to breathe out yourstress. And I would do just a
couple or three rounds of breath workand then I would have them imagine what
the most positive outcome of their surgerywould be. So A really was a
big focus to just put them ina good mindset before they went off to
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sleep, and for a lot ofthem on the way to the R when
we're pushing the cart into the Ror as they're getting settled, you know,
I feel better about this than Ihave about any surgery. Thank you
so much. And I really didstart to get the feedback from recovery room
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nurses. They said, you know, your patient X said that this was
the easiest and the best anesthetic andsurgery that they ever had. So that
was my first indie that the thoughtsthat people had right before they went off
to sleep super super powerful. Sothat's how it got started. It's so
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interesting because you know, both ofus work in environments where people might be
nervous, on edge, afraid maybeyou know, uncomfortable and thinking the worst
case scenario all of the time,you know, And so the fact that
you were focusing with people on whatis the best outcome, how could this
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go well? Even as a financialmy training when I was learning was find
out their biggest fear, find outtheir worst case scenario, what keeps them
up at night, and that's whatyou focus on. That is where you
go. And I always hated itbecause I would rather think about building wealth
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as what is the biggest, mostexciting thing that you could imagine, And
it was the opposite. And I'msure that you know in the medical field
and healthcare, it's it's, well, we want to let everyone know,
like this is what can happen.These are even the commercials you see on
TV for all the prescriptions or allthe downsides, all of the bad things,
and so it's really I think oneof those things that you know not
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I think with everything we do kindof extends that the way we think and
feel about it can impact the outcomes. So I think that you know,
it's it's really comforting to think thatyou were speaking to people about taking a
deep breath and focusing on things beforethey you know, maybe we're experiencing something.
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It might be one of the scariestthings that's ever happened to them in
their lives. So how is thatdifferent than your maybe your peers, or
maybe most of the medical profession whenit comes to focusing on mindset. Is
it really something that's becoming more oris it really still not necessarily part of
the big picture. It is notnecessarily always part of the big picture.
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It's very interesting because I'm pretty upfrontabout the fact that I believe that this
is an energetic world and we're justlittle bits of energy kind of bopping around.
And I get colleagues who say,you know, I like it that
you're so out there about what youbelieve. But I think that there are
a lot of people who are whoare definitely afraid because for many of them
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it falls into the quote unquote woowoo, and so a lot of people
are not very comfortable with the factthat energy has such a prominent part in
our life in medicine and is science. It's it's a science as well as
an art and so people are realconcentrated on the factual, fact driven part
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of it and not so much aboutthe energetic part of it. And I
think that's a big minus. Ithink the energy has always been where it
is, and I think that's what'sgoing to be in the future. I
think that's that is something that we'regoing to see moving forward. Yeah,
I completely agree. And I sawa tweet the other day that was somebody
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who's in my in my industry,financial services, and it said something like
our financial advisors expected to be likelife coaches, light is this the way
we're headed? And there was suchan aversion to the thought of coaching and
life coaching, and and as somebodywho is a financial planner and is served
by life coach, I was like, what is why is this so triggering
for these other advisors to think aboutusing things like mindset techniques or learning how
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you know everybody's thoughts and feelings impacttheir decision making. Why is everyone so
upset about this? It was justsuch an interesting thing for me to see,
but it basically was saying, thisis what clients are looking for.
They want support, they want moreguidance, they want more coaching that's a
little bit different than what's traditionally outthere, So I thought it was fascinating.
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But it's interesting to hear that you'reseeing the same things in your industry,
which is very much based in science, where mine is very much based
in that. And it's interesting.But I love that and I think being
a little wu is totally fine.I know my listeners don't mind it,
and I think it's really really coolto think about how that affects your body
and your health. And so I'dlove to talk about a few of the
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things that you specifically offer when itwith you know, in your business,
And the first is reiki. Tellme if I pronounced that wrong, But
I have had a few wonderful experienceswith this personally when it comes to having
somebody you know, actually work onmy energy and from relieving pain to also
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just like feeling better. So canyou describe what it is and what the
benefits are to people who might notbe familiar. Maybe they've heard of it,
but they haven't experienced themselves. Whatis this two for people? And
how can it be helpful? Itis? Reiki is an energetic treatment.
It's from a very very old traditionthat has its origin in Japanese culture as
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well as another some other cultures thatare very similar. But basically, it's
an energetic treatment whereby reiki practitioner directsthe energy into a client to interact with
the client's energy field. Because allof us basically have energetic fields. People
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have energetic fields. The size ofthe energetic field can vary, and a
reiki energetic treatment is one of thesethings that is targeted to providing energy input
to a client and having that energyinteract with the client's input with intention.
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So the intention of the reiki practitioner. It's much like a medical doctor in
that you just don't want to harmanyone. You just want the energy to
be used for the best in thehighest good. And that's always how I
start out with a reiki treatment,with that intention that I want this energy
to be used for my client forthe best and the highest good. It
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is interesting because much like other energeticinputs, you don't have to be in
the same room distance. Reiki treatmentscan be just as effective as in person
treatments. I after I receive myreiki training, I would do energetic treatments
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on my friends because that's how youlearn. You do treatments on friends,
and so people would call and you'relike, you know, my back is
killing me, my knees are killingme. Can you do a treatment?
And I'm like sure, And Iwould have an image of that person in
my brain and I would go throughmy process accessing universal energy because pretty much
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with reiki, you're a big oldstraw. You're not just moving your energy,
You're serving as a straw for universaland divine energy to interact with this
person. And I have to saythat I've gotten some really amazing results,
and that's true for friends of minewho are Ricky practitioners as well. Yeah,
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it's one of those I can't explainit. I couldn't, I haven't
studied it, and I don't knowhow it works, but I do know
that I have felt different before andafter, and like in some ways from
physical pain. I remember going inwith a shoulder that was bothering, and
like I did feel different, likephysically, which I couldn't explain. But
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then also there were times when Idid that I think I don't know what
was you know, maybe where Iwas, you know, crying for the
first time in maybe months or possiblyyears actually at the first time, and
this was even this was one ofa distance, you know, with a
friend who practices, and it isreally interesting to think about the whole idea
of the energy field and being ableto use it or to adjust it and
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to actually cause a reaction in yourclients. Because one of the things that
I wanted to talk with you about, specifically because of your industry is pain
and this is something that has abig impact on finances. Pain management industry
is seventy point one billion dollar industryin twenty twenty two, and it's expected
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to reach one hundred and eight pointnine billion dollars in twenty thirty two.
Pain is big business. It isbig business in this country. And I
think that with the rise of chronicdisease and an aging population and a favorable
regulatory environment, we're only going tosee more in the pain management space.
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How could something like focusing on energyor your work with this help those people
who are in pain but maybe arevery afraid of the traditional pain management techniques
that are out there in medicine thatmaybe they've seen harm their friends or they've
seen the documentaries. And I'm somebodywho is afraid of taking anything like that
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myself. How can energy work helpwith this? You know, humans do
not want to be in pain.It's one of our most most natural instincts
is to avoid pain. How cansomething like this help us? Well?
First of all, the concept,the energetic concept of pain is a little
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bit different in most of my studies. Basically, pain is correlated with stuck
energy. There's some kind of energythat's stuck if there's a painful area,
all right, So there are avariety of reasons for that energy to be
stuck. And as much as thereare a variety of different types of pain,
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there's the pain that you get frombreaking your leg, which is a
lot different from chronic pain, whichis a lot different from the type of
pain that you get if you haveappendicitis. But basically, and this is
where another aspect of my training camein because I'm also acupuncture trained, I
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came to understand that basically, thereare energy channels that are throughout the body
and access points throughout the body andthe trick, and this is what I
tell people who are having pain.The trick is to get the painful signals
interrupted by some modality and reset.You can do that with acupuncture very effectively.
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You can do it with acupressure,which involves no needles, and you
can do it with reiki, whichis also an energy intervention. But the
fact that three thousand years ago peoplefigured out there are energy channels that they
could access and affect pain in thebody is it's just mind boggling. And
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unfortunately, a lot of the modalitiesthat are more rooted in energy traditions,
such as reiki and acupuncture, arenot exactly very profitable. That is frequently
the problem that you run into.You run into insurance companies that will not
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pay for these interventions. There arescientific studies that have looked at the effectiveness
of energetic interventions and found that theyare effective, but they are just harder
to market. I'm not saying thattraditional medical pain modalities are worthless. I'm
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saying that the time has come wherewe need to integrate both the traditional medical
and ancient energetic treatment such as reikiand acupuncture, because I think that's where
we get the best results. Idon't think it's either one or the other.
I think it's the synergy. Andright now, unfortunately, there's a
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lot of emphasis on narcotics and narcoticsare weird medications. I think sometimes the
side effects can be equal to oreven outweigh the benefit effects. So it's
really a dance to figure out whattype of painful input can be best treated
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with medication modalities as opposed to energeticmodalities. I think it's definitely important not
to yeah, to ignore one O. Right, That's what I'm seeing too,
because I think back to even whenI was when I was trying to
get pregnant and I wasn't having success, I did go to acupuncture and then
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I don't I can't necessarily say thatwas what changed things, but I do
know that soon after I was pregnant, so it was interesting to see.
To me, I was more comfortableexploring that path first or any other traditional,
you know, interventions as far asthat's concerned. And it was something
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that was very helpful for me,and I would recommend it to anybody who
is feeling it. Also with mygrain head makes other things that I've gone
to acupuncture for have have helped tremendously. And I am not a person who
likes needles. I am terrified ofgetting a shot, but it didn't it
Actually, it really was very differentthan what I anticipated when I first experienced
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it. It was much much easierand very comfortable. And also recently some
listeners now I lost my father andone of my friends was saying that that
can be very helpful with trauma aswell working, you know, And so
that was just interesting to me becausewhen you talk about energy fields and things
feeling stuck, I think there issomething when people do experience a traumatic event,
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a loss, where we say wefeel stuck and can't move on.
So how can you you know ifsomebody is maybe in that point where they're
not quite sure you know what's wrong, or they're dealing with something that's been
very hard. Is there any waysthat this kind of work maybe doesn't have
to be for an acute treatment,but can it be something that's maybe increp
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breed it into your lifestyle more.Is like the self care that people are
talking about wanting to do more forthemselves. Yes, it can, And
I think the biggest way that Iemploy energetic input on a daily basis is
with intention setting and breath work topre plan my day. I am a
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big proponent of getting out into natureearly in the day and getting a little
bit of exercise that's actually what Idid before I got on the podcast with
you. I take a walk andthe first part of the walk is about
gratitude, gratitude for my surroundings,gratitude for being able to get up early
in the morning where it's quiet andtake a walk and appreciate my surroundings and
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what's going on. And the secondpart of the walk is about setting the
intention for how I want my dayto be. How do I do that.
I visualize, Okay, this isgoing to have happen, this is
my event. This is how Iwant this event to play out. And
so I am putting my energy outthere into the world in a very positive
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way because I start it with gratitude, which is huge towards opening up the
doors to the universe. It's justexpressions of gratitude. And then I pre
plan, preplay my day in termsof this is how I want this to
turn out. I have this event, this is the outcome that I'm going
to visualize, and just solidly stickingto what that outcome is. I include
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my commute in that nice commute,no problems, no issues, and I
try to sense everything is energy andmusic and radio energy, podcasts, streaming
energy. I try to have somethingpositive. So for me, that's nice
music or a nice book that Ilike to listen to on audiobooks. So
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it's a lot about being intentional andwith your with making a plan for the
day and with your focus once youmade that intention. I think that's something
that's important for people to think about. These are not these these types this
costs nothing to set intention, towalk outside to journal. These are absolutely
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free. Even if you are struggling, like with your finances, and you
might say gratitude, there is nothingI could feel grateful for. There usually
is, and maybe it's appreciation beingable to wake up and take a walk.
You know, maybe there's a lotof things that we can still do
that we might be so focused onthe negative we might not be intentional with
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what we're consuming. So that couldmean that we're listening to the news that
upsets us or or triggers us beforewe get our day started, or we're
starting our day by looking at ouremails, not because we're expecting somebody to
be like, hey, you're amazing. Just wanted to let you know.
We're looking for danger. We're lookingfor the person who's upset or the client
who's upset or or some email aboutsomething that's gone wrong, Like we are
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constantly on the lookout for that.So I think that intentionality it flips that,
Yes, you're in control, you'resetting the temperature, you're figuring this
out, and then going about yourday in the way that you feel will
be the you know, the best, the best possible alchemy, which is
very different than most of our habits, which are reactive and responsive and waiting
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for somebody to yell at us orsomething to go wrong. So I like
that. So how do we youknow, if we if we started with
a practice of say breath work,where some people might say, what does
that mean? I just breathe?I don't think about it much. How
can we is that just taking deepbreast? Are there things that you recommend
people do, like those patients thatwe're about to go into surgery, or
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somebody who's about to go into ameeting where they're anticipating maybe it's going to
be confrontational, maybe they're not,you know, they're nervous. What are
some techniques that we could do asfar as like breath works, concerned to
quickly maybe give ourselves a little reset. Sure, one of the easiest ways
that I found to work with breathand calming people down is something called box
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breathing. Just visualize a box andon the upper limb of the box,
you're gonna take a nice deep breathin to a count of three, and
then for the horizontal part of thebox, you're gonna hold that breath in
for a count of three, andthen again for the vertical leg, you're
gonna breathe out to a count ofthree, and then for the last horizontal
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leg to complete the box, you'regonna hold your breath out for a count
of three. Now, all ofthat concentrating on your breath, it's gonna
slow down your heart rate, it'sgonna calm you down, it's going to
get you focused on something other thanwhatever you're anticipating is going to happen.
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So that's the easiest type of breathwork that I do. Sometimes it takes
a nice deep breath in and thenjust blow out all of the tension.
And the other thing that I tryto tell people is to be aware of
the tendency of our society to baseeverything on fear. Four letter words are
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very interesting. Fear is a fourletter word, but also love, so
if you find yourself trapped in fear, sometimes you can flip that around and
say, what is the most positiveand loving viewpoint that I can take towards
this situation, And that also getyou out of fight and flight, which
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is kind of what fear leads toin anticipation and breathing in the top of
your lungs and holding your breath andall of this tension in your upper body,
if you can just take a nicedeep breath, so focus on your
breath and slowing things down and thinkof the most loving outcome to whatever issue
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you have that faces you. It'sa good tip. And I think that
both of those the box breathing andthinking of that, and this just makes
me think of like, that's somethingthat you could teach your children. This
is this is something that you couldtalk to with people who are younger,
You could talk to people who anyonereally can do this. And so I
think that's a lot a lot oftimes something that I feel like I need
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to do as a parent and sometimesstop re think of the most loving thing
that I could do right, evenin like a very stressful situation, something
where I'm like upset, I can'tyou know, I can't believe something happened.
And also I have seen times wheremy children who are nine and eleven
get extremely worked up and like mightnot will sometimes be like, you know,
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you can't tell them to stop crying. That doesn't work. It just
makes them cry harder, and solike we've kind of tried to interrupt it
with something like breathing and doing somethinglike that technique just to see if you
could just kind of reset where youwere at to get control, because it
can be so stressful and frustrating thatthese are things that they can hopefully learn
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and do in school or do itanywhere where you might not be right.
And I think the coolest thing thatI've been seeing is that there are a
lot of schools that are teaching kidsmeditation, not get yogis or meditators,
but to get the kids more centeredand focused to what they're doing. And
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every every time I hear about theresults of schools and programs where they're using
meditation and breath work with kids,they've got amazingly positive results. Yeah,
no, it is. I thinkit's just it's so smart. I'm excited.
You know, when I go intomy kids' school and I see you
know, they I saw a bulletinboard once when they were in kindergarten that
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was a growth mindset and a fixedmindset. These four things I did not
talk about in kindergarten. Yeah,these are things that I learned when I
was like much muchuli. But I'mlike, if you could actually go about
your whole life understanding and recognizing whenyou are in a certain you know,
mindset that you maybe would like to, you know, challenge or you're thinking
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certain thoughts that you need to question. It's so interesting to see that being
introduced earlier, and I feel likeit's like, I just I think it
could be so helpful for the kidsand the staff just to be able to
use different techniques that aren't just punishmentto get control of a classroom. So
that's definitely something I found to becool. I wanted to I wanted to
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ask you because this is something thatwe talked about. And I talk to
people all the time too who maybecome to me needing to make big financial
decisions or big decisions and they justdon't know and they've stopped being able to
use their intuition or trust their gut, or sometimes they've just gotten to the
point where they feel like they theythey can't do it anymore, And so
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I wanted to talk about, youknow, what do you recommend for people
who want to improve their intuition,who want to be able to, you
know, maybe start, you know, maybe they want to make a change
in their life, but they feelyou know, they feel stuck, they
feel like they're not able to doso how can some of the things like
energy awareness and coaching help people bemore self reliant or be able to trust
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themselves. Because with energy we're lookingat what already within all of us,
and that's I think the beauty ofit. I mean, you get coaching
about tuning out and tuning in,and when I say tuning in, it's
tuning into what is within you.I think one of the dangers as well
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as one of the wonders of ourworld, is how connected we are to
everything and how easy it is toget information, but also how easy it
is to get incorrect or misleading information. And what I tell people is,
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when you're looking to connect with yourselfand your intuition, the best thing you
can do is disconnect from everything else. And that means go five to ten
minutes without the Internet or social mediaor the news. And that's why I
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put the emphasis on getting outside becauseif I'm inside, yeah, I'm looking
at my house, it's like,oh, gosh, I gotta do this,
gotta do that. But if Ican just get outside and take a
walk and be in absolute quiet,we're talking, no earbuds, nothing else,
then you start to hear your thoughtsand then you go, oh,
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I'm thinking, let me just maybecount my breath as I'm walking and count
my steps, And that is thebiggest way that I can find to start
to get to that journey within.To listen to your body. Your body
gives you all kinds of wonderful messageswhen there's trouble ahead. When you see
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a dog and you don't know ifthe dog is friendly or not. Sometimes
you just listen to your body.It's like, yeah, this one's all
right, or this one takes alittle more caution. Maybe you can walk
across the street, but it doestake quieting yourself and quieting your environment,
because it's really hard to hear anythingclearly in a noisy environment. That's it's
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so true. There's so many notifications, there's so many things that are beeping
and buzzing, and competing for ourattention all the time that I do think
the more the more success that peoplehave usually has a lot to do with
if they are reactive in their environmentor if they are, like you said,
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setting the stage for how the dayis going to go, what is
going to happen, What do Iwant to do? Getting outside, listening,
you know, connecting with you knowthemselves. And I do feel like
that is it's it's so important.The days that I don't walk because I'm
in New England and there is justice, like the sheet eyes outside,
I don't I feel better the daysthat I'm able to go for the few
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walks even just around the block justto leave the office much better that I
kind of just come back in andreset, like like I'll be able to
do that and say, okay,now I'm ready to come back and engage
in this meeting or do something,you know, whatever I have on my
schedule. So I do think thatthose things are important. How about something
like yoga? Is that something thatyou recommend to people who are you know,
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connecting or trying to feel healthier oryou know physically, you know,
for those benefits as well. Yes, it's it's interesting you say that that
was the start of kind of myjourney within. I started with a pretty
vigorous yoga practice and then started exploringnot just the osenas or the postures.
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I started exploring all of the eightlambs of yoga, which include meditation,
and actually took yoga teacher training,and really that practice in one form or
another, has stayed with me prettymuch for over thinking of time frame,
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Yeah, over twenty years, easilyall over twenty years, and it was
the source of my yoga practice wasthe source of a lot of peace at
the time. My medical practice wasthe source of a lot of stress and
anxiety, and yoga really kind ofopened the doors for me to find out
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a little bit more about myself andto be able to generate that peace within
no matter what was going on outside. And it also enabled me to step
back and make some choices that werenot necessarily the choices that the majority of
people in my profession were making.But I felt confident because I knew that
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the choices were right for me.So that was a lot of intuition,
breath work, the auso know work. Let let it let me have an
easier way to go within and feelcalm and settled as I was doing my
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air work, and then that ledme to look at, Okay, what's
working, what's not working, Let'smaybe do something different. But yeah,
yoga is the best. Yeah,no, I am that's interesting. I
think it's it's something that I youknow, I feel like I know some
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people that you know practice and thatit just becomes a part of their life
and everything. You know. I'mcurious too, based on your your expertise.
When I think about the things thatmy clients feel like they're spending the
most money on lately it has beenlately it's been food, dining out,
convenience and things like that. Whatwould you say when it comes to nutrition
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is important for people to to thinkabout when it comes to their overall health,
even their their energy. Is thereis there a connection in there that
you know that you think when itcomes to how people are actually nourishing their
bodies. Yes, Because all ofthis is intake, food, water,
media, it's intake, and youhave to look at the quality of your
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intake. And I'm not saying,you know, you have to go out
and get you know, fifty differentkinds of organic everything, but you have
to look at the energetic environment ofthe food that you're consuming. And I'm
gonna probably make people a little testybecause I'm going to go with fast food.
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Fast food has a lot of negativeenergetic components. I'm not saying that
all fast food is bad. I'mjust seeing that there's a lot of negative
input from the time that the foodis processed to the time that it's put
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on your plate. The other time, the other thing to remember is nutritional
value. There have been all kindsof studies that show that the more of
food is processed, the less overallnutritional value that you have, and also
(36:21):
the amount of preservatives goes up.So there's anytime you're looking at a food
item and there's a word that's,you know, fifteen sixteen letters in above,
probably not a natural product. Andif at all you can limit the
number of items like that that youput in your mouth, you're going to
be a lot better off. Andfood, yes, food is very much
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an item that's used for social gatheringsas well as nutritional gatherings, because people
gather for meals and to have fun. It is one of those things that
have Being aware of the emotional overlaythat you may attach to food is also
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something that you have to do becausesometimes for those people who are emotional eaters,
meaning I'm upset, so I'm goingto go out and eat food until
food X until I feel better.Yeah, that can have some negative nutritional
impact. I think that much likeother things in our society where everything is
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moving so fast, the simplicity andbeauty of being able to sit down and
enjoy a meal is huge. It'ssomething I've noticed in my business, which
is typically very early morning getting rollingat times when most people are not out
of bed, and the days thatI manage the best, or the days
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that I managed to carve out evenfive or six minutes of peace to have
a nice bowl of oatmeal as opposedto you know, cramming something in my
face in the car is like alot. So yeah, it's about intent
again. Intention My teachers have said, intention is how the universe goes down,
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goes around. Uh. Intentional eatingis really something to strikes worth to
be aware appreciate what your intate is. Yeah, and I think even you
know and for those you know clientsI've talked to you about that, they
say I want to do this andthen I just end up ordering this because
I'm tired or because I have astressful job. And so I think that
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even if you know, even ifyou can delay one day, you know,
say you're like, I'm really cravingthat that glass of wine or the
ice cream, you know, likeif you could plan for it tomorrow,
even just setting a little bit ofspace in between that a little intentionality,
you might see that maybe that thatcraving or that feeling goes away and it
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wasn't necessarily that you needed the foodto do it. So it's interesting though
it is it does seem to allkind of come back to, you know,
intake and being intentional about like whatis what is coming in from any
source. So another thing I wantedto talk about, and this is something
that I talked to somebody who islike she was a photographer, and she
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said that she works with you know, high vibe entrepreneurs and so it's just
vibes and being a high vibrational ora low vibrational person. It's something that
I've kind of heard a little bitmore lately. And I'm just curious from
your perspective because of the energy fields, like what you know, if somebody
maybe feels like nothing good ever happensto them and they're kind of in that,
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you know, feeling that that way. How much does you know vibration
impact that when you know in apositive or a negative way? And how
is how can we start to maybeadjust that if we don't like our currentelbook?
Okay, vibration is huge. Andthe thing that I tell people is
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that the universe is very giving andthe universe will give you exactly what you're
asking for. The Universe doesn't understand. Oh, I don't want this to
happen. I don't want this tohappen. I don't The universe doesn't hear
the don't They just hear what you'reangsting about and they give you more of
(40:35):
that, you know. So whatI tell people, especially people who feel
that things are just not happening,the way that they would choose for them
to happen is to get one thought. We're not trying to get you all
the way up to the best possibleday. We're going to get you to
one step above where you are,which is ten minutes are going to be
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the best ten minutes that I canimagine. And this is what I'm gonna
imagine, and just go for fiveor ten minutes and then slowly gradually increase
your expectations. It's very hard togo from zero to one hundred. It's
a lot easier to go from zeroto two or three, and then from
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three to six and then incrementally increaseyour expectations and increase your vibration. So
it is hard to go from highvibration positive energy one hundred percent of the
time. Little steps at the timeis how it's how it's done. I
think that's really smart because I talkto some people that feel like they're so
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behind. They should have done thisyears ago. They're very upset themselves,
and so they feel like if theycan't, you know, have one hundred
thousand dollars or a million dollars inthe bank tomorrow, there's no point.
And so I think that is wherethose little steps can come in, because
I think like, your brain won'tbelieve it if you're like, I am
a you know, I am amillionaire. If it's not true, they're
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looking, you know, your brain'slooking for proof. But if you could
say like, well, you know, I have enough money to get through
the day, or I have enoughtoday to support my needs, or you
know, or even just to saylike that you appreciate that you have what
you have today. I mean it'sa step. Yes, I hate this,
I hate where I'm at right now, and we that all or none
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thinking really holds back for me eventrying just feeling like, well, if
I don't weigh my goal weight orwhat I wait in college, then what's
the point where everybody who's made anysuccess at all has had that first you
know dollar that they saved, oryou know, maybe they ate that first
good healthy meal that put them onthe right pres Because we always look at
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the end or somebody else's end andthink, oh, I should be there,
and it's too that because I'm not, then I it's not worth it.
But I think it's it's such agood point to just kind of maybe
the next in maybe the next tenminutes will be the best part of the
day. And maybe that means thatyou went for a walk or and then
you can just go execute it andthen your brain gets that proof like oh,
(43:13):
okay, what you say kind ofmakes sense happen. So and it's
a little backwards sometimes to how weare trained to think. You have to
offer the positive emotion and the intentionbefore you see the results. We are
very a results oriented society and wewant to see the proof and then we
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believe. You actually have to believefirst that the positivity is that it's possible,
and then you see the manifestation ofthat. It does seem to be
backwards sometimes, but it is truethat if you you can't you can't get
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the proof unless you believe that it'spossible that things could happen. So it's
been super interesting talking with you today. I wanted to mention another part of
your about your career. You're alsoan author. Can you tell us about
the books that you write and howmaybe writing has become a part of your
your process in the day, becauseI know for some people who you know
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who are writing is very therapeutic orcalming or just a part of something that
they're they're naturally able to do.Tell me about your writing. I am
a medical thriller writer. Now I'mgonna make everybody laugh because I write under
a pen name, because who wantsto have their antithesiologists know that they're anesthesiologists.
Is writing about horrible medical related scenes, nay him and disaster? So
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I write under a pen name.And again, you know my wonderful friends
are like, I give them storiesabout what happened at work and they're like,
Wow, you should write a bookabout that, And about years ago
I said, I think I will. And knew nothing about book writing,
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had always loved writing, and wentthrough this whole process of learning about how
you write a novel, how youwrite a thriller, what you do,
went to a lot of conferences andended up putting out a book and gonna
do some revising, and I didself publishing just because it's very hard for
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first time authors. And I've gottena lot of encouragement from people who've read
the book, some of whom arekind of connected in the industry. So
we're gonna probably do it edit anda re release and try to go through
an agent and get a figure readershipthis time. But it was fun.
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It was fun taking facts that Iknew and then applying fantasy to it.
So it was it was a lotof fun. I love that. I
love like thrillers are like one ofmy favorite genres to read, and it's
it's I think it's cool. Ithink that that's something that a lot of
people maybe have in their minds,is something that they want to do.
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But again it's like, oh,well, if I can't get an agent,
what's the no. I think there'sa lot to be said about actually
going through the process of self publishingand putting something out there that you said
you're going to do, and it'sexciting that you'll be working, you know,
I can't. I think it's verycool, and I understand the thought
of putting up that. I thinkif I was writing about like financial crime
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or something like that, I don'tknow if people would want to see my
name on it either. That wouldbe something interesting. But I love the
idea of kind of using your imaginationand creativity and kind of blending in that
experience with some sort of you know, fantasy world that you could create.
Super cool. Well, thank youso much, K for joining me today.
How can listeners find out more aboutyou, about your your practice and
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follow you if they're looking forward tolearning more? I am on all so
I'm on social media. I'm onFacebook, Instagram as well as LinkedIn again.
My business is Oshoon Energy Medicine andwebsite is www dot Oshoonenergymedicine dot com.
We're kind of revamping the website withinthe next couple of weeks or so.
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But basically, what I like todo is help we're busy working women
get through the perioperative period. Somy coaching is centered on that because I've
seen way too many women who comeinto a surgery and they've taken care of
everyone else and they get into theoperating room and they fall apart because they've
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been taking care of everyone except them. So I really feel called to really
kind of focus on busy workingwomen becausethey are the people that are holding the
glue to this country, holding itall together. I think that it's vonlnerbul.
It's interesting that you say that becauseI think a lot of us can
picture that being like making sure everyone'sokay, that this is going to happen
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while I'm having stay this is here, this is there, and no one
is actually looking out for them.So I love that that's what you do.
And definitely we will add all ofthose links to the show notes.
Thank you so much for joining metoday, and thank you everyone for listening.
I hope that you I hope youlearned something about this and maybe we'll
use some of these techniques to improveyour own life. Thank you so much,
(48:29):
and we'll talk again next week.Thank you for joining us on another
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