September 17, 2025 • 38 mins
Burnout isn’t just mental or physical — it’s also spiritual. In this episode, Dr. Mylaine Riobé explores how burnout is your body’s signal that you’ve drifted away from alignment with your deeper wisdom.
Drawing on HeartMath® research, Princeton’s global consciousness project, quantum physics, and ancient traditions, Dr. Riobé shows how intuition is not just mystical — it’s measurable and vital. You’ll also hear a powerful personal story where intuition made the difference between life and death.
Learn how coherence, lifestyle choices, and cultivating intuition can transform burnout into a gift that reconnects you with your soul’s intelligence.
👉 Begin your recovery today with the 7-Day Burnout Challenge
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Hey, Wellness Warriors.
Welcome to the Burnout Resolution Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr. Mylaine Riobéand today we're going to tackle
burnout as a spiritual wake up call.
Some people might consider this aradical concept, although I don't.
Spirituality has been around forprobably tens of thousands of years.
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And as far as we know, at leastseveral thousand years, just
based on archeological data.
And for me personally, havingcorroborated what many, many ancient
traditions have to say with modernstudies, in my personal opinion,
I also think that what ancienttraditions have to say about spirituality
is probably quite valid as well.
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So I wanted to dive into that today.
Burnout isn't just about stress.
It's not just mental.
It's not even just physical.
It's all of it.
And spiritual as well.
It's your soul knocking on your heart
asking you to wake up.
We'll look at what science andspirituality have to say about
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intuition, our heart and consciousness.
I'll share a couple personal storiesabout why I believe in intuition
and how science is showing usthat it's actually a real thing.
So in many, many ways.
Burnout is actually a gift.
It's a gift that your body sends you tohelp you transcend the chaos of physical
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reality so that you can see thingsfrom a higher or different perspective.
Burnout is your body's wisdom.
The body is a very small pieceof the soul or the spirit.
It's often said that we arespiritual beings having a human
experience in a human body.
Our bodies are this tiny, tiny, tinylittle piece of who we actually are.
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And because we're so focused onthe physical aspect of the body,
sometimes we lose perspectiveand think that's all we are.
So when we hyper focus on just thebody and pure survival, we inevitably
will burn out because burnout is a signthat you're not replenishing yourself
in some form or fashion, and that yourmetabolism is either stuck or depleted.
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If we are not looking from thathigher perspective and realizing
that we're more than just a body,we cut off that replenishment
and inevitably end up in burnout.
Your body has this spectacular waythat it will continuously remind
you that something is off, thatyou're off your path or off of the
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blueprint that it's designed to follow.
These are what we recognize assymptoms and it's a miracle when
we look at how the cells of thehuman body actually work together.
How do they know?
How does a liver cell know it's a livercell and not a heart cell when it has the
genetic code of the entire body in it?
So there's somethingmiraculous about the human body
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where it's self-aware in many ways.
We don't quite knowscientifically how that is.
We don't have the chemistry to explain it.
We don't have the biology to explain it.
We have to start drilling down intothe quantum level to really begin
to piece together how the human bodyactually functions in the world.
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When we start drilling down into thequantum level, we start scratching
the surface of spirituality.
When we rely only on logic, whichis what the biology tells us, the
chemistry tells us, when we startrelying just on that, we run into
trouble because quantum physics is verydifferent than biology and chemistry.
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When we start going into the quantumrealm, the biology and the chemistry
starts to not make a lot of senseanymore, which is mind blowing.
When we start to really drill deep downinto the body at the level of the cells,
there are certain functions inside thehuman body, inside of its cells that are
not explainable by biology, chemistry, orany known science that we currently have.
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They're only beginning to beexplained through quantum physics.
Quantum physics is that weird, spookyscience that nobody quite understands.
In fact, Niels Bohr made acomment, something to the effect
of, if quantum physics or quantummechanics has not completely shocked
you, you don't understand it.
And it's so true.
Every time we'd start drillinginto quantum physics, we get
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more and more and more confused.
But the funny thing about quantum physicsis it actually works and it functions.
Our cell phones actuallyrun on quantum physics.
Now we have quantum computersthat can do a near infinite number
of calculations at the same timeto get us answers a lot faster.
Not just AI but actual quantumcomputing is a whole other level
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of computer technology that we'rejust scratching the surface about.
The sense of smell in the human body isthought to be a quantum function, not
just a biological or chemical function.
Quantum physics is this weird kindof, almost nebulous science where
the observer becomes very important.
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Whether or not something collapsesinto being has to do with whether
or not it's being observed, whethersomething has focused on it.
Before something focuses on it, it'sjust this endless wave of possibility.
Even electrons and photons andthe components of the atoms that
we know make up physical matterare essentially probabilities and
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not actual physical structures.
So until something focuses on it to makeit into something, it exists as almost
anything that's possible, all at once.
That's really hard to wrapour minds around, and yet we
use the science all the time.
We use it in outerspace to launch rockets.
Our cell phones use this technology.
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We now have computers that use thistechnology and the results are repeatable.
They're not random results.
We know how to get somebody on themoon because of quantum physics.
We landed that, space probe onthe asteroid and got that sample
and brought it back to the earth.
That's all based in quantum physics.
That level of precision is verypossible using quantum physics.
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And yet we don'tunderstand quantum physics.
Quantum physics introduces a conceptthat we recognize as consciousness.
We used to think that consciousnessarose from the brain, but now we
actually have science to show usthat even when there is no brain
function, consciousness still exists.
In fact, Even when there's noheartbeat, consciousness still exists.
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We have scientific data now,repeatable scientific data to show
us that this is in fact a thing.
Consciousness is there beforephysical matter is there.
When we talk about the observerin quantum physics, we're
talking about consciousness.
Princeton University has done amind blowing experiment using random
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number generators in, I think 139different labs throughout the world.
What it's been able to show with over20 years, maybe even 30 years worth
of research, is that random numbergenerators are sometimes not random.
Not only are they sometimes notrandom, and they have the same numbers
replicating in huge spikes, butthey tend to correlate with events
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and things that go on in the world.
Princeton University stated thatSeptember 11th, 2001 was the largest
non-random spike that they had everseen in their random number generators
in all the years since they've beendoing this experiment where they had this
enormous, non-random spike in the randomnumber generators that occurred four hours
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before the event of 9- 11, and this hasbeen replicated with other world events.
For example, the election of PresidentObama was one such non-random spike.
There have been other non-randomspikes, so you can take a look at
that study at Princeton University.
It's available online and pretty mindblowing how there appears to be a
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collective consciousness that existsbeyond space and time where we have
a sense of what's happening, evenwhen our brain doesn't know it yet.
The Institute of Heart Math and otheracademic institutions and science
institutions have done research on
what they call coherence.
People who are in high coherencecan predict events multiple
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seconds before they actually occur.
These experiments show us that there'ssomething beyond the human body that
is not limited to space and timewhere we already know what's about
to happen before it actually happens.
A lot of moms have this intuitionwhere they're thinking of their
child and suddenly their childcalls them or you're thinking of
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someone and suddenly they text you.
Millions of people have hadthat experience, and that is
intuition, you know, ahead of time.
That something's about to happen.
Science is beginning to show us thattime isn't quite as linear as we think.
Quantum physics is showing us that quantumparticles like photons, exist in the past,
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present, and future, all at the same time.
Even though in physicalreality, we perceive time to
be going in just one direction.
In reality, time is not just linear, andso science tells us, and math, mathematics
also tells us that we can be aware ofpast and future events simultaneously.
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The Institute of HeartMath and otheracademic institutions showing us this
with the science and with the math iscorroborating what ancient traditions
and ancient spiritual teachings havetaught us for thousands of years.
So there is a science to intuition.
Intuition is something that youcultivate, and the biggest barrier to
cultivating intuition is being in yourown head and using your brain too much.
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This is where coherence comes in.
Intuition resides in the heart.
This is how the principleeven got the name HeartMath®.
The cells in the human heart thatform what we call the heart-brain are
little tiny brain cells that actuallylive in the human heart, that are
known to think independently fromthe brain that lives in the head.
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The brain in the human heart appearsto be independent of space and time and
not confined to it, whereas the brain inthe head is confined by space and time.
And so this is why ourbrain, the head brain.
Uses a lot of logic.
Things have to quote unquotemake sense to your brain.
But not so much to your heart.
There's no logical thing in the humanbrain that can explain how you can
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have an intuition about someone andthey text you after that because the
human brain works in linear fashion.
In other words, this happensfirst and then this happens.
There's no logic in your brain thatwill explain why you think of someone
first, then they text you to your brain.
It should be that they text you first,then you think of them in response
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to the text because it's linear.
That's not what happens to people.
Those types of computationsactually occur in the human heart.
There's an electromagnetic field inthe human heart that has been detected
that goes well outside of the humanbody, eight to 11 feet or more.
When this field is optimal, when it'sin high coherence, we tend to step out
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of the linearity of space and time,and this is where our intuition lives.
This is how we can think of someone,and then suddenly they text.
This is how we can have an intuition abouta world event that's about to happen.
And then it happened.
As the Princeton Universitystudies seem to suggest.
There's this idea of a dual process.
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There's a brain in the head.
There's a brain in the heart.
A 2008 study by Daniel Kahnemandescribed the brain as slow and
deliberate, and intuition as fast,holistic, and unconscious, or
subconscious, I guess we could say.
Another scientist called Gary Kleinincluded that emergency workers such as
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firefighters and doctors rely on patternrecognition and intuition to save lives.
A hypothesis put forth in1996 by Antonio Demasio called
The Somatic Marker Hypothesis
states that the body signals decisionsbefore the brain registers them.
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That's been duplicated in multiple studieswhere your body already knows something
before your brain figures it out.
Science is proving what wisdom traditionshave told us for thousands of years.
Intuition is real.
It's measurable, and it's essential.
If we're too much in our head, wemove too slowly, and we've all talked
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ourselves out of doing things thatour intuition has told us to do right?
By thinking too hard about it.
Years ago when I was training.
I had a client who came into ourclinic, super sweet, 42-year-old
female who was a dialysis patient,and she had huge fibroids and was
extremely anemic from her fibroids.
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She was experiencing dizziness,palpitations, and given that her kidneys
weren't working very well, that wasa very dangerous place for her to be.
We recommended to her thatshe have a hysterectomy.
Her fibroids were too largeto manage in any other way,
so we prepped her for surgery.
We optimized her for surgery, andshe had a flawless hysterectomy.
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She had a couple minorhiccups recovering dialysis.
Patients often have a very weak immunesystem, and so she had a little bit
of an infection in her incision,developed a fever, and so we managed
that and she recovered from that.
She was without a fever for overtwo days, and every indication
was that she was ready to go home.
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But something told me to holdonto her until the afternoon.
So that morning I was making my roundsand something just told me, do not send
her home, keep her until the afternoon.
I told her, you know what?
You're ready to go home, but let'sjust keep you to this afternoon and
then we'll get you home this evening.
And she agreed.
At 2:00 PM that afternoon.
I got a page that she was hemorrhagingin the bathroom, so I ran up to
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her floor and into her room, andshe was bleeding out of the blue.
We ended up stabilizing her, transferringher to the intensive care unit where
she ended up staying for over a week.
She ended up beinghospitalized for over 30 days.
We had to give her over 30 units ofblood and 40 units of what we call
fresh frozen plasma over that time.
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Had she gone home that morning,she probably would've died.
I don't know why I decided to keep her.
I just had this feeling.
And it wasn't logical, made no sense.
Today I would've gotten all typesof text messages from clinical
care coordinators asking me whyshe was still in the hospital.
But I know to this day that had I senther home, she would not have survived.
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She ended up recovering and we didsend her home where she continued
to recover and did quite well.
That wasn't logic.
That was intuition.
Now, logic came in when we had tostabilize her and do all the things
that we did to save her life.
Intuition is why she was stillin the hospital where she could
get that life-saving care.
So I've always felt that intuition was,a big part of my life, even as a kid.
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And so that was a big hint that itwas still part of my life as an adult.
What does this all haveto do with burnout?
Aristotle used to talk aboutsomething called the Ether, and
he got that concept from ancienttraditions that he learned from.
We took that out from science becausewe couldn't see it, touch it, smell it.
So we just decided it didn't exist.
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Well, it's back.
Lynn McTaggart has beencredited with a concept
she calls the field.
This has been duplicated inscientific experiments through
David Bohm and other scientists.
We're beginning to understandwhat the ancients understood
that they called ether, andthat is that space is not empty.
Space is full.
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In fact, it's infinitely full.
So what Lin McTaggart is callingthe field sounds eerily similar to
what we would call consciousness.
And then there's the HeartMath research.
The electromagnetic field of the humanheart is like an antenna and captures
data from the field or from consciousness.
There are scientific experiments doneto show that people that are in low
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coherence and low coherence happens whenwe're frustrated or angry or scared.
We get this erratic heart rhythmthat alters the electromagnetic field
of the human heart, and that causesour vibration, so to speak, to draw.
That kind of takes our intuition outof the equation, and then we start
relying on the head brainin, which againonly has a small piece of the picture.
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Intuition's a much bigger dealthan we give it credit for.
So when we take intuition outtathe picture and we leave everything
to our head, brainin, it goes intothese fear loops and loses its logic.
This can cause stress, hence burnout,which can even lead to physical diseases.
When the brain is chaotic and notfunctioning well, it will send
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stress hormones down into the body,which will alter its metabolism.
It will alter its actual function.
This is how burnout takes placewhen we are in high coherence or
engaging the heart, brain throughself-care, breath work, positive
affirmations, and many other strategiesthat are known to raise coherence.
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The brain is not chaotic andneither is the heart, brain chaotic.
In fact, the heart, brain, theelectromagnetic field gets a
lot, a lot stronger and cancontrol, if you will, the brain.
Remember that your brain relies ondata input through your five senses.
So the human heart also needs to bethere because if we're just relying on
the five senses, we're not going to knoweverything that's going on around us.
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So we have to also rely onintuition, which is where the
heart brain comes in The heart.
Brain is essentially the antennato the field or to consciousness.
When that antenna is up and gettingthe right signals from the field or
consciousness or whatever you wantto call it, the spirit, the soul,
then the brain can function better.
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And it's not relying just on fivesenses to try and operate in the world.
If you're relying on just your fivesenses, your brain doesn't understand
what's happening right now weneed our intuition for that piece.
Because your brain relies on whatyou hear, what you see, what you
smell, what you touch, what you taste
to know what's going on based on memories,it's always in the past because it has
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to collect that data first, remember whatit means, and then make sense out of it.
That means it's never in the present.
And this is where your heart comes in.
Your heart is always in the present.
The more that you're in highcoherence, the more perceptive it is.
It's the coherence betweenthe heart and the brain.
That's where the magic happens.
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Burnout is essentially if you'recutting off the heart and not
allowing it to command, the brainwhen you're cutting off the antenna
to consciousness or spirit or soul.
This is where burnout can take place.
Real life examples of that are you'rein a job you don't like or you're
in a relationship you don't like,or you have circumstances that are
not ideal going on around you, oryou feel powerless to change them.
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Very often if you're in a job youdon't like or something's going wrong
with your career, or you have otherstressors, it's hard to know like,
how do I get myself out of this?
How do I break the cycle?
Very often we keep suppressing ourintuition and falling back into our
heads, trying to logically figureout how to find another job or
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do whatever you think the fix is.
The ultimate fix is to engage the heartso that you have your antenna out there
communicating with your soul and spirit.
The soul is not confinedto space and time.
Consciousness is not confinedto space and time again.
We don't even need the body to be alivefor consciousness to exist, right?
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That's what studies are beginning to show.
We've, there are studies on peoplewho are in full cardiac arrest.
When they're resuscitated, they canverbalize things that they were clinically
dead while those things were happening sothey, they can remember conversations that
took place when they were clinically dead.
They can remember being incertain places and situations
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when they were clinically dead.
And so this is being corroboratedby multiple studies all around the
world now and simply cannot be denied.
So the human heart is more thanjust a pump that pumps blood around.
And yes, that's important,but it carries something else.
It carries consciousness, it carriesthe, we don't know what they are.
We don't know necessarily what thewaves are or how the electromagnetic
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field of the human heart engages withthe spirit or consciousness to transmit
the data, that comes into the brain.
But it does it somehow, right?
Albert Einstein, famously talkedabout this when he came up
with his e equals mc squared.
He said he was sitting on a busand it just downloaded into his
head, he then had the idea andhe went out and worked the math.
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So he engaged his brain afterhe got the intuitive hit.
He had this perfect way of using hisintuition to come up with ideas and
the theories, and then he would workthem out logically with the math.
A lot of his principles are stillvalid to this day and formed the
very foundation of our science.
These studies on these neardeath experiences, right?
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Or I don't even know if we cancall 'em near death if they were
in actual cardiac arrest, right?
But they, they've beenpublished in medical journals.
So The Lancet, which is apeer reviewed medical journal,
published one such study in 2001.
What these studies suggest is thatthe human body is the receiver of
consciousness and that consciousnessdoes not originate in the human body.
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Which makes sense spiritually, right?
The human body is just a teeny weeniepiece of the soul, and so it makes
perfect sense in the spiritual worldas well as in the scientific world.
Where does intuition come in with businesssuccess and, you know, life success as
we might define it, A paper publishedby the Harvard Business Review in 2010.
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Stated that business executives useintuition to make high stakes business
decisions as much as they use data.
The Journal of Management Development.
Published a paper in 2014 stating thatleaders who in their intuition and
logic are more effective and innovative.
And I love this one.
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The University of London published apaper in 2016 stating that trusting
your intuition correlates with higherwellbeing and life satisfaction.
This is what we like to hearin burnout conversations.
Using your intuition, engaging yourheart in your entire life, not just
your career, gets you out of burnout.
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When you engage your heart, youbegin to engage in self-care because
that's the inevitable conclusion.
When we sit still enough and we allowthe heart to speak, we inevitably
begin to understand that, yeah,I gotta take care of me first
before I can take care of anyone else.
We hear this on airplanes all the time,put your own oxygen mask on before you
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help children, if you're busy passingout, nobody's going to be there to
put the oxygen mask on your child.
This is a life lesson, not justa lesson we learn on airplanes.
The conclusion based on all thesestudies is that the most successful
and fulfilled people use theirintuition and don't suppress it.
In fact, they cultivate it.
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We'll talk about how to dothat later in the podcast.
Let's talk about lifestyleas a foundation or intuition.
because if the human body is notin a healthy space, it's very
difficult to cultivate intuition.
We have to get both aspects up and runningfor the human body and the spirit, the
mind and the body to function togetherto get out of burnout for good REM sleep
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boosts intuition and insight that waspublished in Nature Magazine in 2004.
The microbiome is extremelyimportant for intuition.
Also, influences mood, decision making,and many, many, many other body functions.
As we've talked about multiple timeson this podcast, some of these studies
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were done by, Dr. Mayer in 2015.
Exercise enhances neuroplasticity, inother words, helps to change your brain
structure and physiology and the structureand physiology of your entire nervous
system, as well as enhancing intuition.
This was a study by Colcomb andKramer in 2003 on stress recovery
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done by the Institute of HeartMath.
Dr. McCrady in 2009 showed thatcoherence practices lower cortisol
and improve heart rate variability.
So what are coherence practices?
Breath work.
How you breathe determines whether ornot your heart, brain, or your heart's
electromagnetic field fully engaged withthe field or consciousness, or your soul,
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or spirit, however you want to call it.
So every breath you take, you'reeither putting the antenna up
or you're shutting it down.
When the antenna's up,your intuition is high.
When your antenna's down, you'rerelying on your head too much.
So lifestyle is not justabout your physical health.
It's a whole mind, body, spirit thing.
Let's talk about another controversialthing, synchronicities, those coincidences
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things that we would attribute to justsome weird coincidence that might happen.
You might see a set of numbersthat keep repeating, or you might
see the same person over andover again that you barely know.
You know, there's lots of differentexamples of synchronicities.
Carl Young called them evidence ofan underlying connection between
the interstate and outer events.
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I think the synchronicityis like breadcrumbs.
They show you if you're on the rightpath, listening to your intuition.
You don't get the whole map, right?
Intuition doesn't just give you thiswhole roadmap of your entire life.
It just gives you the next thingHey, I think I should turn left
at this corner instead of right.
Or, I think I should take thebus today instead of walking
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That's an intuitive hit.
Sometimes that intuition comes witha feeling, some type of engagement of
a feeling with that thought that justpops into your mind, you don't get the
whole map, you just get the next step.
They're reminding you,
hey, stay awake.
Don't live life on autopilot, oryou'll miss the intuitive hits.
They're not instructions tofollow blindly, they're signals
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to be fully engaged in your life.
Being still cultivates.
Intuition, being still while youbreathe is extremely important.
So every breath you take, you're eitherengaging or you're not engaging, right?
If you take a shallow breath.
Say you're busy doing somethingand you're not thinking about your
breathing, you're just shallowbreathing, or you're holding your breath.
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I'll catch myself doing this too.
Like, you're so busy doing something andnext thing you know, you're like, wait, I
haven't taken a breath in like 30 seconds.
Let me take a breath.
It happens to all of us, right?
We don't have to breatheperfectly all day, but we do
need to be prompted to be still.
Occasionally throughout the day, theInstitute of HeartMath recommends three
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times a day for three minutes where wesit and take some nice, deep, slow breaths
again through the nostril, not throughthe mouth, and not holding your breath.
You want to take a nicefive second inhale.
You don't want to hear the airmoving through your nostrils.
It's just very slow.
Five seconds in, very slow, five secondsback out again through your nostrils.
That immediately engages the heart'selectromagnetic field, which then
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immediately prompts your brain to relax,and then the brain sends down all of the
calming neurotransmitters and hormonesfor what we call the parasympathetic
side of the nervous system.
Sympathetic side's the opposite.
So when we're holding our breath or we'retaking shallow breaths, that's what we're
engaging the brain to do because theelectromagnetic field of the heart or
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the heart- brain is not fully engaged.
In that case, your brain is going tosend down the stress hormones instead
of the feel good, happy hormones.
Make sure you focus three times aday on your breathing and also engage
your feelings when you breathe.
Think of things that make you happy.
So if you're in a job that youdon't like, for example, think
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of being in the one you do like.
Think of just make one up, right?
What would I be doing if therewere no restrictions to what
I could be doing right now?
What would I be doing instead?
If it's being on a beach, walking throughthe forest hanging out with friends or
someone you love whatever it would be.
If I were doing what I want to do righthere, right now, and if there were no
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restrictions, what would I be doing?
So that's a way to engage your intuition.
Your intuition knows how toget you where you want to be.
Your brain doesn't withoutthe intuition guiding it.
Because your intuition is notconfined by space and time.
It already knows your future, so to speak.
If you let it keep guiding you, it'llkeep giving you breadcrumbs with ideas and
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you know the next step and the next step.
You have to keep engaging it and beas present as you can be in your life.
That means fully engaged with youremotions, fully engaged with your
experiences, even your five senses, right?
You don't want to ignore your fivesenses and just use intuition.
They need to be flawlesslymoving together.
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It's the coherence betweenthe heart and the brain.
That's the magic.
It's not shutting the brain completelyoff and ignoring your five senses,
it's merging the two together so thatintuition is leading your brain so
you're fully present and engaged.
As much as you can be throughout the day.
Burnout numbs us to our intuition, andit just fuels the fire because when
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you're burnt out, you tend to try toengage your brain and try and logically
get yourself out of the burnout.
But unless you engage your intuition thatalready knows how it gets you out of that
burnout, you're going to stay trapped.
So engage your intuition.
In order to get these little invitationsthat will keep reminding you that
you're on the right path and thatyou're taking the correct next step.
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Engaging with your feelings isextremely important because that
tells you if you're listening tointuition or if your brain took over,
it's trying to trick you, right?
They're not always aligned in moving downthe same path when your brain starts to
feel like it's not in control anymore.
It rebels a little bit.
So you want to be very mindful ofwhether or not you're listening to
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intuition or if your brain took over.
That's where your feelings come in.
And also timing, right?
When you think of something,the first feeling that you
get is usually your intuition.
Then the subsequent feelings are usuallyyour brain, because remember, your
intuition is fast, whereas logic is slow.
If you're really fully present andyou get a thought that comes into your
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head, the very first feeling is goingto tell you whether you're on the right
path or whether your brain is in fear.
So if you feel good aboutthinking about something.
Then all of a sudden youdon't feel so great about it.
Intuition told you, yeah, go for it, andthen your brain is trying to stop you.
Those are very subtlesigns that you cultivate.
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This is why intuition is something thatyou cultivate, and it's not necessarily
something that just comes to you out ofthe blue, although sometimes it does, but
being still is the way to cultivate it.
Making sure that you take three minutes,three times a day at bare minimum, to
just be with yourself, to just breathe.
To think of things that bring you joy,and if you can't think of anything
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that brings you joy right away, justthink about the air moving through your
nostrils and just keep refocusing on theair moving in and out of your lungs so
that your brain doesn't take over andtake you somewhere you don't want to be.
As you continue to do that, as youpractice you will start to feel the
heart being more engaged and you'llfeel your brain stepping back a bit
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more and allowing the heart to lead.
This is what we callheart-centered living.
Burnout is essentially unengagedintuition, overthinking with the
head brainin, and not having theproper coherence between the two that
translates into physical symptoms.
Exhaustion, brain fog, stress,anxiety, palpitations, sleep
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disturbances, gastrointestinal symptoms.
When you're out of coherence andthe brain is sending down all those
stress responses, it's going tohijack your body into fight or flight
reactions and essentially suppressother body functions that are not
essential for fight or flight.
So your thyroid's going to get suppressed.
Your immune system will be suppressed.
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Your musculoskeletal system even getssuppressed, especially the muscles
that use oxygen because we don'tuse oxygen during fight or flight.
A good bit of your musclefiber require oxygen.
So they're what we call thewhite fibers instead of the red
fibers that don't require oxygen.
So those white fibers get suppressed.
Your gut gets suppressed.
Parts of your brain even get suppressed.
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So the parts of your brain thatare responsible for executive
functioning and memory, they'renot important for survival.
So they get suppressed too.
When you're in fight or flight,you'll have your intuition engaged
or you're not in high coherence.
That means a good portion of your body isbeing suppressed and not functioning well.
This is what leads us downthis slippery slope to burnout.
So recovering from burnout includesgetting your mind in the game, right?
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The mind is the heart.
The brain is the head brain.
That mind body connectionis really, really important.
Mind and brain are notexactly the same thing.
So mind is beyond space and time.
In traditional Chinese medicine,they teach us that the heart is
the commander of the body and theydistinguish the mind from the brain.
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So when we say mind,body, we're talking about.
Heart, mind or intuition and body orspirituality and body, soul and body,
making sure that you're maintainingthat is a huge part of burnout.
Recovery.
In addition to making thoselifestyle changes, the four
pillars of wellness, right?
So eat, move, rest and detox.
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Knowing your dynamic metabolic type orwhere your metabolism is stuck, where
your body is kind of stuck, helps youto make those lifestyle decisions.
That boosts your metabolism, soyou're flowing with your body.
Not against your body is criticalfor burnout, recovery as well.
Your soul already knows the wayintuition already knows the way
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burnout is, just the signal tellingyou that you've strayed away from it.
Five actionable tips to startengaging your intuition today.
Number one, HeartMath breathing.
Putting your hand on your heart toremind yourself to be heart-focused
while you're breathing is a great tip.
So remember, five seconds in slow.
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Five seconds out.
Slow through the nostrils only, andyou don't hold your breath at all.
Gratitude, no matter how deep intoburnout we are, there are always
things we can be grateful for.
Part of getting out of burnout isfinding our blessings, like what
is it that we're grateful for?
Whether it's friends, family, a sunnyday, warm weather, a pet, a food, you
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love to eat your coffee in the morning.
Like me, one of the manythings I'm grateful for, right?
Whatever it is, writeit down in a journal.
The act of writing it down isreally important, so don't just
like whiz through it in your head.
Literally write it down physicallyon something, or even if it's a
note on your phone, at least that'sa physical thing you're doing.
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To really ingrain thatgratitude with your senses.
So even if it's just three thingsevery single day, sleep, make
sure you protect your sleep.
And again, if you know your dynamicmetabolic type, that helps you
know how much sleep you need.
You need anywhere from seven to nine hoursof sleep, depending on your biological
sex and your dynamic metabolic type.
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Preserving your REM sleepis really important.
If you have a wearable, they usually willlet you know how much REM sleep you got.
Make sure you are protecting your REMsleep because that boosts your intuition.
Watch those gut checks your body oftenknows before your brain figures it out.
And daily movement, especially ifyou're sedentary, doing a desk job for
hours and hours, make sure you get upperiodically every 90 minutes, even if
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it's just a walk around your office.
Do a couple jumping jacks, stretch out,and if you can, at least 20 minutes
of gentle exercise every day, whetherit's yoga, tai chi, qigong, Pilates,
biking, swimming, anything that you love.
So remember that burnout is justthe signal that you've strayed
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from your body's natural rhythm,and that you're not engaging your
intuition as much as you could.
It's your body's wisdom.
It's your soul's wake up call to reconnectwith the greatest intelligence of
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consciousness that flows in and through you every moment of the day.
When you raise your coherence, youhonor your body's natural rhythms.
Life becomes much more meaningful, andyou start to feel better as a sign that
you're moving in the right direction.
If you're ready to answer your wake upcall, I invite you to join our seven
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day burnout resolution Challenge.
In just one week, you'll learn how toreconnect to your intuition, raise your
coherence, recharge your energy, andleave burnout in the rear view mirror.
That's all the time wehave for today's episode.
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Thank you.
Hey, Wellness Warriors.
Welcome to the Burnout Resolution Podcast.
I'm your host, Dr. Mylaine Riobéand today we're going to tackle
burnout as a spiritual wake up call.
Some people might consider this aradical concept, although I don't.
Spirituality has been around forprobably tens of thousands of years.
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And as far as we know, at leastseveral thousand years, just
based on archeological data.
And for me personally, havingcorroborated what many, many ancient
traditions have to say with modernstudies, in my personal opinion,
I also think that what ancienttraditions have to say about spirituality
is probably quite valid as well.
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So I wanted to dive into that today.
Burnout isn't just about stress.
It's not just mental.
It's not even just physical.
It's all of it.
And spiritual as well.
It's your soul knocking on your heart
asking you to wake up.
We'll look at what science andspirituality have to say about
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intuition, our heart and consciousness.
I'll share a couple personal storiesabout why I believe in intuition
and how science is showing usthat it's actually a real thing.
So in many, many ways.
Burnout is actually a gift.
It's a gift that your body sends you tohelp you transcend the chaos of physical
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reality so that you can see thingsfrom a higher or different perspective.
Burnout is your body's wisdom.
The body is a very small pieceof the soul or the spirit.
It's often said that we arespiritual beings having a human
experience in a human body.
Our bodies are this tiny, tiny, tinylittle piece of who we actually are.
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And because we're so focused onthe physical aspect of the body,
sometimes we lose perspectiveand think that's all we are.
So when we hyper focus on just thebody and pure survival, we inevitably
will burn out because burnout is a signthat you're not replenishing yourself
in some form or fashion, and that yourmetabolism is either stuck or depleted.
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If we are not looking from thathigher perspective and realizing
that we're more than just a body,we cut off that replenishment
and inevitably end up in burnout.
Your body has this spectacular waythat it will continuously remind
you that something is off, thatyou're off your path or off of the
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blueprint that it's designed to follow.
These are what we recognize assymptoms and it's a miracle when
we look at how the cells of thehuman body actually work together.
How do they know?
How does a liver cell know it's a livercell and not a heart cell when it has the
genetic code of the entire body in it?
So there's somethingmiraculous about the human body
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where it's self-aware in many ways.
We don't quite knowscientifically how that is.
We don't have the chemistry to explain it.
We don't have the biology to explain it.
We have to start drilling down intothe quantum level to really begin
to piece together how the human bodyactually functions in the world.
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When we start drilling down into thequantum level, we start scratching
the surface of spirituality.
When we rely only on logic, whichis what the biology tells us, the
chemistry tells us, when we startrelying just on that, we run into
trouble because quantum physics is verydifferent than biology and chemistry.
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When we start going into the quantumrealm, the biology and the chemistry
starts to not make a lot of senseanymore, which is mind blowing.
When we start to really drill deep downinto the body at the level of the cells,
there are certain functions inside thehuman body, inside of its cells that are
not explainable by biology, chemistry, orany known science that we currently have.
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They're only beginning to beexplained through quantum physics.
Quantum physics is that weird, spookyscience that nobody quite understands.
In fact, Niels Bohr made acomment, something to the effect
of, if quantum physics or quantummechanics has not completely shocked
you, you don't understand it.
And it's so true.
Every time we'd start drillinginto quantum physics, we get
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more and more and more confused.
But the funny thing about quantum physicsis it actually works and it functions.
Our cell phones actuallyrun on quantum physics.
Now we have quantum computersthat can do a near infinite number
of calculations at the same timeto get us answers a lot faster.
Not just AI but actual quantumcomputing is a whole other level
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of computer technology that we'rejust scratching the surface about.
The sense of smell in the human body isthought to be a quantum function, not
just a biological or chemical function.
Quantum physics is this weird kindof, almost nebulous science where
the observer becomes very important.
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Whether or not something collapsesinto being has to do with whether
or not it's being observed, whethersomething has focused on it.
Before something focuses on it, it'sjust this endless wave of possibility.
Even electrons and photons andthe components of the atoms that
we know make up physical matterare essentially probabilities and
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not actual physical structures.
So until something focuses on it to makeit into something, it exists as almost
anything that's possible, all at once.
That's really hard to wrapour minds around, and yet we
use the science all the time.
We use it in outerspace to launch rockets.
Our cell phones use this technology.
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We now have computers that use thistechnology and the results are repeatable.
They're not random results.
We know how to get somebody on themoon because of quantum physics.
We landed that, space probe onthe asteroid and got that sample
and brought it back to the earth.
That's all based in quantum physics.
That level of precision is verypossible using quantum physics.
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And yet we don'tunderstand quantum physics.
Quantum physics introduces a conceptthat we recognize as consciousness.
We used to think that consciousnessarose from the brain, but now we
actually have science to show usthat even when there is no brain
function, consciousness still exists.
In fact, Even when there's noheartbeat, consciousness still exists.
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We have scientific data now,repeatable scientific data to show
us that this is in fact a thing.
Consciousness is there beforephysical matter is there.
When we talk about the observerin quantum physics, we're
talking about consciousness.
Princeton University has done amind blowing experiment using random
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number generators in, I think 139different labs throughout the world.
What it's been able to show with over20 years, maybe even 30 years worth
of research, is that random numbergenerators are sometimes not random.
Not only are they sometimes notrandom, and they have the same numbers
replicating in huge spikes, butthey tend to correlate with events
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and things that go on in the world.
Princeton University stated thatSeptember 11th, 2001 was the largest
non-random spike that they had everseen in their random number generators
in all the years since they've beendoing this experiment where they had this
enormous, non-random spike in the randomnumber generators that occurred four hours
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before the event of 9- 11, and this hasbeen replicated with other world events.
For example, the election of PresidentObama was one such non-random spike.
There have been other non-randomspikes, so you can take a look at
that study at Princeton University.
It's available online and pretty mindblowing how there appears to be a
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collective consciousness that existsbeyond space and time where we have
a sense of what's happening, evenwhen our brain doesn't know it yet.
The Institute of Heart Math and otheracademic institutions and science
institutions have done research on
what they call coherence.
People who are in high coherencecan predict events multiple
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seconds before they actually occur.
These experiments show us that there'ssomething beyond the human body that
is not limited to space and timewhere we already know what's about
to happen before it actually happens.
A lot of moms have this intuitionwhere they're thinking of their
child and suddenly their childcalls them or you're thinking of
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someone and suddenly they text you.
Millions of people have hadthat experience, and that is
intuition, you know, ahead of time.
That something's about to happen.
Science is beginning to show us thattime isn't quite as linear as we think.
Quantum physics is showing us that quantumparticles like photons, exist in the past,
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present, and future, all at the same time.
Even though in physicalreality, we perceive time to
be going in just one direction.
In reality, time is not just linear, andso science tells us, and math, mathematics
also tells us that we can be aware ofpast and future events simultaneously.
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The Institute of HeartMath and otheracademic institutions showing us this
with the science and with the math iscorroborating what ancient traditions
and ancient spiritual teachings havetaught us for thousands of years.
So there is a science to intuition.
Intuition is something that youcultivate, and the biggest barrier to
cultivating intuition is being in yourown head and using your brain too much.
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This is where coherence comes in.
Intuition resides in the heart.
This is how the principleeven got the name HeartMath®.
The cells in the human heart thatform what we call the heart-brain are
little tiny brain cells that actuallylive in the human heart, that are
known to think independently fromthe brain that lives in the head.
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The brain in the human heart appearsto be independent of space and time and
not confined to it, whereas the brain inthe head is confined by space and time.
And so this is why ourbrain, the head brain.
Uses a lot of logic.
Things have to quote unquotemake sense to your brain.
But not so much to your heart.
There's no logical thing in the humanbrain that can explain how you can
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have an intuition about someone andthey text you after that because the
human brain works in linear fashion.
In other words, this happensfirst and then this happens.
There's no logic in your brain thatwill explain why you think of someone
first, then they text you to your brain.
It should be that they text you first,then you think of them in response
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to the text because it's linear.
That's not what happens to people.
Those types of computationsactually occur in the human heart.
There's an electromagnetic field inthe human heart that has been detected
that goes well outside of the humanbody, eight to 11 feet or more.
When this field is optimal, when it'sin high coherence, we tend to step out
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of the linearity of space and time,and this is where our intuition lives.
This is how we can think of someone,and then suddenly they text.
This is how we can have an intuition abouta world event that's about to happen.
And then it happened.
As the Princeton Universitystudies seem to suggest.
There's this idea of a dual process.
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There's a brain in the head.
There's a brain in the heart.
A 2008 study by Daniel Kahnemandescribed the brain as slow and
deliberate, and intuition as fast,holistic, and unconscious, or
subconscious, I guess we could say.
Another scientist called Gary Kleinincluded that emergency workers such as
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firefighters and doctors rely on patternrecognition and intuition to save lives.
A hypothesis put forth in1996 by Antonio Demasio called
The Somatic Marker Hypothesis
states that the body signals decisionsbefore the brain registers them.
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That's been duplicated in multiple studieswhere your body already knows something
before your brain figures it out.
Science is proving what wisdom traditionshave told us for thousands of years.
Intuition is real.
It's measurable, and it's essential.
If we're too much in our head, wemove too slowly, and we've all talked
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ourselves out of doing things thatour intuition has told us to do right?
By thinking too hard about it.
Years ago when I was training.
I had a client who came into ourclinic, super sweet, 42-year-old
female who was a dialysis patient,and she had huge fibroids and was
extremely anemic from her fibroids.
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She was experiencing dizziness,palpitations, and given that her kidneys
weren't working very well, that wasa very dangerous place for her to be.
We recommended to her thatshe have a hysterectomy.
Her fibroids were too largeto manage in any other way,
so we prepped her for surgery.
We optimized her for surgery, andshe had a flawless hysterectomy.
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She had a couple minorhiccups recovering dialysis.
Patients often have a very weak immunesystem, and so she had a little bit
of an infection in her incision,developed a fever, and so we managed
that and she recovered from that.
She was without a fever for overtwo days, and every indication
was that she was ready to go home.
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But something told me to holdonto her until the afternoon.
So that morning I was making my roundsand something just told me, do not send
her home, keep her until the afternoon.
I told her, you know what?
You're ready to go home, but let'sjust keep you to this afternoon and
then we'll get you home this evening.
And she agreed.
At 2:00 PM that afternoon.
I got a page that she was hemorrhagingin the bathroom, so I ran up to
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her floor and into her room, andshe was bleeding out of the blue.
We ended up stabilizing her, transferringher to the intensive care unit where
she ended up staying for over a week.
She ended up beinghospitalized for over 30 days.
We had to give her over 30 units ofblood and 40 units of what we call
fresh frozen plasma over that time.
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Had she gone home that morning,she probably would've died.
I don't know why I decided to keep her.
I just had this feeling.
And it wasn't logical, made no sense.
Today I would've gotten all typesof text messages from clinical
care coordinators asking me whyshe was still in the hospital.
But I know to this day that had I senther home, she would not have survived.
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She ended up recovering and we didsend her home where she continued
to recover and did quite well.
That wasn't logic.
That was intuition.
Now, logic came in when we had tostabilize her and do all the things
that we did to save her life.
Intuition is why she was stillin the hospital where she could
get that life-saving care.
So I've always felt that intuition was,a big part of my life, even as a kid.
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And so that was a big hint that itwas still part of my life as an adult.
What does this all haveto do with burnout?
Aristotle used to talk aboutsomething called the Ether, and
he got that concept from ancienttraditions that he learned from.
We took that out from science becausewe couldn't see it, touch it, smell it.
So we just decided it didn't exist.
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Well, it's back.
Lynn McTaggart has beencredited with a concept
she calls the field.
This has been duplicated inscientific experiments through
David Bohm and other scientists.
We're beginning to understandwhat the ancients understood
that they called ether, andthat is that space is not empty.
Space is full.
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In fact, it's infinitely full.
So what Lin McTaggart is callingthe field sounds eerily similar to
what we would call consciousness.
And then there's the HeartMath research.
The electromagnetic field of the humanheart is like an antenna and captures
data from the field or from consciousness.
There are scientific experiments doneto show that people that are in low
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coherence and low coherence happens whenwe're frustrated or angry or scared.
We get this erratic heart rhythmthat alters the electromagnetic field
of the human heart, and that causesour vibration, so to speak, to draw.
That kind of takes our intuition outof the equation, and then we start
relying on the head brainin, which againonly has a small piece of the picture.
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Intuition's a much bigger dealthan we give it credit for.
So when we take intuition outtathe picture and we leave everything
to our head, brainin, it goes intothese fear loops and loses its logic.
This can cause stress, hence burnout,which can even lead to physical diseases.
When the brain is chaotic and notfunctioning well, it will send
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stress hormones down into the body,which will alter its metabolism.
It will alter its actual function.
This is how burnout takes placewhen we are in high coherence or
engaging the heart, brain throughself-care, breath work, positive
affirmations, and many other strategiesthat are known to raise coherence.
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The brain is not chaotic andneither is the heart, brain chaotic.
In fact, the heart, brain, theelectromagnetic field gets a
lot, a lot stronger and cancontrol, if you will, the brain.
Remember that your brain relies ondata input through your five senses.
So the human heart also needs to bethere because if we're just relying on
the five senses, we're not going to knoweverything that's going on around us.
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So we have to also rely onintuition, which is where the
heart brain comes in The heart.
Brain is essentially the antennato the field or to consciousness.
When that antenna is up and gettingthe right signals from the field or
consciousness or whatever you wantto call it, the spirit, the soul,
then the brain can function better.
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And it's not relying just on fivesenses to try and operate in the world.
If you're relying on just your fivesenses, your brain doesn't understand
what's happening right now weneed our intuition for that piece.
Because your brain relies on whatyou hear, what you see, what you
smell, what you touch, what you taste
to know what's going on based on memories,it's always in the past because it has
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to collect that data first, remember whatit means, and then make sense out of it.
That means it's never in the present.
And this is where your heart comes in.
Your heart is always in the present.
The more that you're in highcoherence, the more perceptive it is.
It's the coherence betweenthe heart and the brain.
That's where the magic happens.
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Burnout is essentially if you'recutting off the heart and not
allowing it to command, the brainwhen you're cutting off the antenna
to consciousness or spirit or soul.
This is where burnout can take place.
Real life examples of that are you'rein a job you don't like or you're
in a relationship you don't like,or you have circumstances that are
not ideal going on around you, oryou feel powerless to change them.
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Very often if you're in a job youdon't like or something's going wrong
with your career, or you have otherstressors, it's hard to know like,
how do I get myself out of this?
How do I break the cycle?
Very often we keep suppressing ourintuition and falling back into our
heads, trying to logically figureout how to find another job or
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do whatever you think the fix is.
The ultimate fix is to engage the heartso that you have your antenna out there
communicating with your soul and spirit.
The soul is not confinedto space and time.
Consciousness is not confinedto space and time again.
We don't even need the body to be alivefor consciousness to exist, right?
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That's what studies are beginning to show.
We've, there are studies on peoplewho are in full cardiac arrest.
When they're resuscitated, they canverbalize things that they were clinically
dead while those things were happening sothey, they can remember conversations that
took place when they were clinically dead.
They can remember being incertain places and situations
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when they were clinically dead.
And so this is being corroboratedby multiple studies all around the
world now and simply cannot be denied.
So the human heart is more thanjust a pump that pumps blood around.
And yes, that's important,but it carries something else.
It carries consciousness, it carriesthe, we don't know what they are.
We don't know necessarily what thewaves are or how the electromagnetic
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field of the human heart engages withthe spirit or consciousness to transmit
the data, that comes into the brain.
But it does it somehow, right?
Albert Einstein, famously talkedabout this when he came up
with his e equals mc squared.
He said he was sitting on a busand it just downloaded into his
head, he then had the idea andhe went out and worked the math.
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So he engaged his brain afterhe got the intuitive hit.
He had this perfect way of using hisintuition to come up with ideas and
the theories, and then he would workthem out logically with the math.
A lot of his principles are stillvalid to this day and formed the
very foundation of our science.
These studies on these neardeath experiences, right?
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Or I don't even know if we cancall 'em near death if they were
in actual cardiac arrest, right?
But they, they've beenpublished in medical journals.
So The Lancet, which is apeer reviewed medical journal,
published one such study in 2001.
What these studies suggest is thatthe human body is the receiver of
consciousness and that consciousnessdoes not originate in the human body.
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Which makes sense spiritually, right?
The human body is just a teeny weeniepiece of the soul, and so it makes
perfect sense in the spiritual worldas well as in the scientific world.
Where does intuition come in with businesssuccess and, you know, life success as
we might define it, A paper publishedby the Harvard Business Review in 2010.
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Stated that business executives useintuition to make high stakes business
decisions as much as they use data.
The Journal of Management Development.
Published a paper in 2014 stating thatleaders who in their intuition and
logic are more effective and innovative.
And I love this one.
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The University of London published apaper in 2016 stating that trusting
your intuition correlates with higherwellbeing and life satisfaction.
This is what we like to hearin burnout conversations.
Using your intuition, engaging yourheart in your entire life, not just
your career, gets you out of burnout.
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When you engage your heart, youbegin to engage in self-care because
that's the inevitable conclusion.
When we sit still enough and we allowthe heart to speak, we inevitably
begin to understand that, yeah,I gotta take care of me first
before I can take care of anyone else.
We hear this on airplanes all the time,put your own oxygen mask on before you
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help children, if you're busy passingout, nobody's going to be there to
put the oxygen mask on your child.
This is a life lesson, not justa lesson we learn on airplanes.
The conclusion based on all thesestudies is that the most successful
and fulfilled people use theirintuition and don't suppress it.
In fact, they cultivate it.
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We'll talk about how to dothat later in the podcast.
Let's talk about lifestyleas a foundation or intuition.
because if the human body is notin a healthy space, it's very
difficult to cultivate intuition.
We have to get both aspects up and runningfor the human body and the spirit, the
mind and the body to function togetherto get out of burnout for good REM sleep
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boosts intuition and insight that waspublished in Nature Magazine in 2004.
The microbiome is extremelyimportant for intuition.
Also, influences mood, decision making,and many, many, many other body functions.
As we've talked about multiple timeson this podcast, some of these studies
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were done by, Dr. Mayer in 2015.
Exercise enhances neuroplasticity, inother words, helps to change your brain
structure and physiology and the structureand physiology of your entire nervous
system, as well as enhancing intuition.
This was a study by Colcomb andKramer in 2003 on stress recovery
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done by the Institute of HeartMath.
Dr. McCrady in 2009 showed thatcoherence practices lower cortisol
and improve heart rate variability.
So what are coherence practices?
Breath work.
How you breathe determines whether ornot your heart, brain, or your heart's
electromagnetic field fully engaged withthe field or consciousness, or your soul,
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or spirit, however you want to call it.
So every breath you take, you'reeither putting the antenna up
or you're shutting it down.
When the antenna's up,your intuition is high.
When your antenna's down, you'rerelying on your head too much.
So lifestyle is not justabout your physical health.
It's a whole mind, body, spirit thing.
Let's talk about another controversialthing, synchronicities, those coincidences
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things that we would attribute to justsome weird coincidence that might happen.
You might see a set of numbersthat keep repeating, or you might
see the same person over andover again that you barely know.
You know, there's lots of differentexamples of synchronicities.
Carl Young called them evidence ofan underlying connection between
the interstate and outer events.
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I think the synchronicityis like breadcrumbs.
They show you if you're on the rightpath, listening to your intuition.
You don't get the whole map, right?
Intuition doesn't just give you thiswhole roadmap of your entire life.
It just gives you the next thingHey, I think I should turn left
at this corner instead of right.
Or, I think I should take thebus today instead of walking
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That's an intuitive hit.
Sometimes that intuition comes witha feeling, some type of engagement of
a feeling with that thought that justpops into your mind, you don't get the
whole map, you just get the next step.
They're reminding you,
hey, stay awake.
Don't live life on autopilot, oryou'll miss the intuitive hits.
They're not instructions tofollow blindly, they're signals
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to be fully engaged in your life.
Being still cultivates.
Intuition, being still while youbreathe is extremely important.
So every breath you take, you're eitherengaging or you're not engaging, right?
If you take a shallow breath.
Say you're busy doing somethingand you're not thinking about your
breathing, you're just shallowbreathing, or you're holding your breath.
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I'll catch myself doing this too.
Like, you're so busy doing something andnext thing you know, you're like, wait, I
haven't taken a breath in like 30 seconds.
Let me take a breath.
It happens to all of us, right?
We don't have to breatheperfectly all day, but we do
need to be prompted to be still.
Occasionally throughout the day, theInstitute of HeartMath recommends three
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times a day for three minutes where wesit and take some nice, deep, slow breaths
again through the nostril, not throughthe mouth, and not holding your breath.
You want to take a nicefive second inhale.
You don't want to hear the airmoving through your nostrils.
It's just very slow.
Five seconds in, very slow, five secondsback out again through your nostrils.
That immediately engages the heart'selectromagnetic field, which then
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immediately prompts your brain to relax,and then the brain sends down all of the
calming neurotransmitters and hormonesfor what we call the parasympathetic
side of the nervous system.
Sympathetic side's the opposite.
So when we're holding our breath or we'retaking shallow breaths, that's what we're
engaging the brain to do because theelectromagnetic field of the heart or
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the heart- brain is not fully engaged.
In that case, your brain is going tosend down the stress hormones instead
of the feel good, happy hormones.
Make sure you focus three times aday on your breathing and also engage
your feelings when you breathe.
Think of things that make you happy.
So if you're in a job that youdon't like, for example, think
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of being in the one you do like.
Think of just make one up, right?
What would I be doing if therewere no restrictions to what
I could be doing right now?
What would I be doing instead?
If it's being on a beach, walking throughthe forest hanging out with friends or
someone you love whatever it would be.
If I were doing what I want to do righthere, right now, and if there were no
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restrictions, what would I be doing?
So that's a way to engage your intuition.
Your intuition knows how toget you where you want to be.
Your brain doesn't withoutthe intuition guiding it.
Because your intuition is notconfined by space and time.
It already knows your future, so to speak.
If you let it keep guiding you, it'llkeep giving you breadcrumbs with ideas and
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you know the next step and the next step.
You have to keep engaging it and beas present as you can be in your life.
That means fully engaged with youremotions, fully engaged with your
experiences, even your five senses, right?
You don't want to ignore your fivesenses and just use intuition.
They need to be flawlesslymoving together.
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It's the coherence betweenthe heart and the brain.
That's the magic.
It's not shutting the brain completelyoff and ignoring your five senses,
it's merging the two together so thatintuition is leading your brain so
you're fully present and engaged.
As much as you can be throughout the day.
Burnout numbs us to our intuition, andit just fuels the fire because when
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you're burnt out, you tend to try toengage your brain and try and logically
get yourself out of the burnout.
But unless you engage your intuition thatalready knows how it gets you out of that
burnout, you're going to stay trapped.
So engage your intuition.
In order to get these little invitationsthat will keep reminding you that
you're on the right path and thatyou're taking the correct next step.
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Engaging with your feelings isextremely important because that
tells you if you're listening tointuition or if your brain took over,
it's trying to trick you, right?
They're not always aligned in moving downthe same path when your brain starts to
feel like it's not in control anymore.
It rebels a little bit.
So you want to be very mindful ofwhether or not you're listening to
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intuition or if your brain took over.
That's where your feelings come in.
And also timing, right?
When you think of something,the first feeling that you
get is usually your intuition.
Then the subsequent feelings are usuallyyour brain, because remember, your
intuition is fast, whereas logic is slow.
If you're really fully present andyou get a thought that comes into your
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head, the very first feeling is goingto tell you whether you're on the right
path or whether your brain is in fear.
So if you feel good aboutthinking about something.
Then all of a sudden youdon't feel so great about it.
Intuition told you, yeah, go for it, andthen your brain is trying to stop you.
Those are very subtlesigns that you cultivate.
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This is why intuition is something thatyou cultivate, and it's not necessarily
something that just comes to you out ofthe blue, although sometimes it does, but
being still is the way to cultivate it.
Making sure that you take three minutes,three times a day at bare minimum, to
just be with yourself, to just breathe.
To think of things that bring you joy,and if you can't think of anything
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that brings you joy right away, justthink about the air moving through your
nostrils and just keep refocusing on theair moving in and out of your lungs so
that your brain doesn't take over andtake you somewhere you don't want to be.
As you continue to do that, as youpractice you will start to feel the
heart being more engaged and you'llfeel your brain stepping back a bit
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more and allowing the heart to lead.
This is what we callheart-centered living.
Burnout is essentially unengagedintuition, overthinking with the
head brainin, and not having theproper coherence between the two that
translates into physical symptoms.
Exhaustion, brain fog, stress,anxiety, palpitations, sleep
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disturbances, gastrointestinal symptoms.
When you're out of coherence andthe brain is sending down all those
stress responses, it's going tohijack your body into fight or flight
reactions and essentially suppressother body functions that are not
essential for fight or flight.
So your thyroid's going to get suppressed.
Your immune system will be suppressed.
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Your musculoskeletal system even getssuppressed, especially the muscles
that use oxygen because we don'tuse oxygen during fight or flight.
A good bit of your musclefiber require oxygen.
So they're what we call thewhite fibers instead of the red
fibers that don't require oxygen.
So those white fibers get suppressed.
Your gut gets suppressed.
Parts of your brain even get suppressed.
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So the parts of your brain thatare responsible for executive
functioning and memory, they'renot important for survival.
So they get suppressed too.
When you're in fight or flight,you'll have your intuition engaged
or you're not in high coherence.
That means a good portion of your body isbeing suppressed and not functioning well.
This is what leads us downthis slippery slope to burnout.
So recovering from burnout includesgetting your mind in the game, right?
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The mind is the heart.
The brain is the head brain.
That mind body connectionis really, really important.
Mind and brain are notexactly the same thing.
So mind is beyond space and time.
In traditional Chinese medicine,they teach us that the heart is
the commander of the body and theydistinguish the mind from the brain.
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So when we say mind,body, we're talking about.
Heart, mind or intuition and body orspirituality and body, soul and body,
making sure that you're maintainingthat is a huge part of burnout.
Recovery.
In addition to making thoselifestyle changes, the four
pillars of wellness, right?
So eat, move, rest and detox.
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Knowing your dynamic metabolic type orwhere your metabolism is stuck, where
your body is kind of stuck, helps youto make those lifestyle decisions.
That boosts your metabolism, soyou're flowing with your body.
Not against your body is criticalfor burnout, recovery as well.
Your soul already knows the wayintuition already knows the way
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burnout is, just the signal tellingyou that you've strayed away from it.
Five actionable tips to startengaging your intuition today.
Number one, HeartMath breathing.
Putting your hand on your heart toremind yourself to be heart-focused
while you're breathing is a great tip.
So remember, five seconds in slow.
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Five seconds out.
Slow through the nostrils only, andyou don't hold your breath at all.
Gratitude, no matter how deep intoburnout we are, there are always
things we can be grateful for.
Part of getting out of burnout isfinding our blessings, like what
is it that we're grateful for?
Whether it's friends, family, a sunnyday, warm weather, a pet, a food, you
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love to eat your coffee in the morning.
Like me, one of the manythings I'm grateful for, right?
Whatever it is, writeit down in a journal.
The act of writing it down isreally important, so don't just
like whiz through it in your head.
Literally write it down physicallyon something, or even if it's a
note on your phone, at least that'sa physical thing you're doing.
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To really ingrain thatgratitude with your senses.
So even if it's just three thingsevery single day, sleep, make
sure you protect your sleep.
And again, if you know your dynamicmetabolic type, that helps you
know how much sleep you need.
You need anywhere from seven to nine hoursof sleep, depending on your biological
sex and your dynamic metabolic type.
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Preserving your REM sleepis really important.
If you have a wearable, they usually willlet you know how much REM sleep you got.
Make sure you are protecting your REMsleep because that boosts your intuition.
Watch those gut checks your body oftenknows before your brain figures it out.
And daily movement, especially ifyou're sedentary, doing a desk job for
hours and hours, make sure you get upperiodically every 90 minutes, even if
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it's just a walk around your office.
Do a couple jumping jacks, stretch out,and if you can, at least 20 minutes
of gentle exercise every day, whetherit's yoga, tai chi, qigong, Pilates,
biking, swimming, anything that you love.
So remember that burnout is justthe signal that you've strayed
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from your body's natural rhythm,and that you're not engaging your
intuition as much as you could.
It's your body's wisdom.
It's your soul's wake up call to reconnectwith the greatest intelligence of
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consciousness that flows in and through you every moment of the day.
When you raise your coherence, youhonor your body's natural rhythms.
Life becomes much more meaningful, andyou start to feel better as a sign that
you're moving in the right direction.
If you're ready to answer your wake upcall, I invite you to join our seven
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day burnout resolution Challenge.
In just one week, you'll learn how toreconnect to your intuition, raise your
coherence, recharge your energy, andleave burnout in the rear view mirror.
That's all the time wehave for today's episode.
I hope you found this helpful.
If so, please like andsubscribe to our channel.
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Thanks for listening and watching, anduntil next time, many, many blessings.
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