April 11, 2025 • 35 mins
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Gia-Raquel Rose, owner of Airs Above Yoga, LLC and a real estate sales associate in Tewksbury, New Jersey has had a love for horses stemming from early childhood. Growing up in “horse country” afforded her the privilege of beginning to ride from the tender age of four. It was a childhood illness, which brought her riding aspirations to an abrupt halt. It took twenty years before she was able to reunite with her long lost passion for horses and their ability to heal. In that time, she received a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communication from Arcadia University and became a twice two hundred hour certified yoga instructor in both Hatha and Vinyasa. It was the loss of her mother, Rose, to breast cancer, which ultimately shifted her trajectory from the corporate world to the internal work for which yoga, as a practice, is renowned.
• Understanding flow state as being "in the zone" – fully present and engaged
• How yoga poses and physical activities naturally bring us into present-moment awareness
• Animals as masters of living in the present moment without overthinking
• The energy we waste through mind chatter, worrying about the future and past
• Flow state as "the opposite of multitasking" – requiring complete focus
• Connection between flow state, manifestation, and receptivity to positive change
• The importance of putting down our phones and fully experiencing life's moments
• Using walking meditations to practice presence and positive affirmations
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Magical day to all.
Welcome to Divas that CareNetwork.
I am Joyce Benning and I willbe your host for this magical,
robust lifestyle show.
I want to thank each and everyone of our listeners today that
have tuned in to the numerousdifferent podcasts of this great
show that we are going to dotoday with my amazing, amazing
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diva, Gia Recall, and her and Iare going to chat about tapping
into the flow.
Oh my, is this going to be amagical show.
And with that, Gia, would youplease introduce yourself to our
listeners today.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hi Joyce, I'm so grateful to be back on.
Thank you again for having meand I'm just pleased as punch is
what's flowing to me in themoment.
So my name is Gia Raquel Rose,owner of Heirs Above Yoga, and
I've been a yoga instructor forover a decade now and a Reiki
master for a few years, and Ilove to try to use any type of
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energetic healing, whether it bephysical or literally energetic
to.
You know better anyone or anyliving being in or around my
vicinity, whether energetic orphysical oh, oh, how beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, that just ties into what we're going to talk
about, because into the flow.
I mean through yoga, throughReiki, with the animals, with
humans.
Either way, it's all tappinginto the flow of life.
So how would you like to startthis?
To chat with our, to chat todayand share with our listeners
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out there?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So I think that everyone, and I think the best
way to kind of create theparallel for everybody that
might be tuning in is to thinkabout I think people call it,
you know, especially with regardto like athletes, or I think
that you know we'll callmainstream media calls it like
in the zone right.
So the idea of being in thezone right, so when, if you
think about, I think everyonecan relate to the idea of you
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know, like a football playercatches the ball and runs and
makes the touchdown, somethinglike that, like about as male
centric, got no gender, like nozone of no judgment, but like
that, that being truly embodyingthe present moment.
And I always use yoga balanceposes as a way to get people
fully in the present moment.
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I know I've touched on thatbefore, where you know, if
you're balancing on one foot andyou're trying to not fall over,
you're probably not thinkingabout your grocery list, right,
like you're trying not to fallover.
So there's a lot of ways tostart to get yourself into that
state.
But I think when you're, there'sa couple layers, I believe, to
the state too, right, there'sthe truly being in the present
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moment, and the beauty of beingin the present moment is, you
know, in theory, a lack of fear,unless you know you're about to
get into a car accident orsomething to that effect.
But if you and I are justsitting here having this
conversation in this moment,right now, right that the
present is all we have, right?
So if we're both sitting herein the present moment together
and, you know, we have a roofover our head and we have the
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ability to communicate with eachother, this is our zone, this
is our flow state, this is ourpresent moment, this is our,
this is all we have at life isjust this moment.
And when you and I are done, wewill separate ways and we will
be in different moments, withyour, with your horses or with
my horses, you know.
And that is life.
Life is truly all about thepresent moment.
And when we tap into that moment, that is our flow state, that
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is where we are attuned to thepotentially guidance from your
higher self, potentially justbeing like, you know, air quotes
again in the zone, and I loved,you know, kind of like the
football metaphor, the athletemetaphor, because I think a lot
of people may put, you know,certain let's.
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Let's just say we put athletesup on a pedestal right, because
they happen to be able to, wesee the moment visually in like
professional athletic sports,right, and that's a great way, I
think, for people to haveunderstanding of it.
But for me, as a as a yogainstructor or Reiki, Reiki
practitioner, practitioner um,you know, for me to practice
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Reiki I have to be in ameditative state, in a flow
state, in a state of, ofchanneling, in a state of
intuition.
And while that is certainlymuch less glitzy and glamorous
than, you know, being aprofessional, uh, athlete of any
kind, um, you know, it's verymuch.
It's very much the same stateof flow, state of present moment
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, state of living in the presentmoment state of being.
And what's amazing about it isthat everyone has access to it
and it is for everyone to accessit in their own way, for their
own being, for their ownpurposes, for their own divine
mission, whatever you want tocall it, it's always there, we
just have to have been to it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, so true that is.
And how, how you said you haveto be in that present moment
through yoga and Reiki.
And yeah, you may not be in thespotlight, but look at the
feeling of being able to helpothers to get into that flow and
it's it's an inner feeling thatyou, you can experience
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yourself, of being in, thatyou're in the spotlight by
helping them, even though you'renot out there as an athlete
carrying the ball for atouchdown or making that final
basket to win the game orsomething.
The winning is by helpingothers to be able to come into
that present moment and feelthat flow in life.
So that was what came to mymind when you said that about
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maybe not being in the spotlightand really you are, because
it's the spotlight of helpingothers.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And there's no greater spotlight than one of
service, and I believe that tomy very core.
But I just think that that, Ihope, I hope that that metaphor
is is people can say, oh yeah,well, of course, like that, I
feel like, you know, people canlook at an athlete and they, you
see, it's very and you couldlook, and this is kind of the
opposite, um, kind of mentalityabout it.
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But do you remember the?
The picture I want to?
I believe it was a tibetan monk, but please don't hold me to
that where the monk wouldliterally set himself on fire in
a state of protest.
Do you remember that image?
I believe it was from way, way,way back.
Um, it's a black and whitephoto, but I think it was very.
It's a very, you know, poignantimage.
Um, and in order to, to do that,to sit and be on fire, like
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that, talk about a state of flow.
Let's talk about being, youknow, being able to, to do.
That is, you know, a level,like we talked about, like the
state of flow has layers, thatis like a layer above and beyond
, um, you know, the averagehuman bear, if you will.
Um, so you know, there thereare levels to it, but I I do
think you know the average humanbear, if you will.
So you know there there arelevels to it, but I do think
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that you know it's hard.
When you can, it's easy to seethe flow state in something like
watching sports online, I thinkthat's, or on the computer,
whatever.
However you're getting yourinformation, it's easy to see
that person in their state offlow, whereas maybe you don't
recognize, like you just said tome.
Well, you're healing others.
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Maybe you know you don'trecognize your own state of flow
when you're even in it.
But I think that I'm going toshare this because it's you and
we can have, we can have thisconversation when we talk about,
like horseback riding yeah,it's, it's probably.
We are obviously so blessed tohave that experience.
It's probably one of thesimilarly to yoga, and again,
there's that physical element ofputting you in the moment, in
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your body.
That's one, one kind of gatewayto get to it.
But when you're, when you're ona horse, you're, you're pretty
much in that present momentbecause you have to be.
There's an element of alertnesswhen you're on a horse that you
know.
You're not, generally speaking,and not everybody.
You can obviously getdistracted, but there's an
element of connection with theanimal, connection with the
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present moment and connectionwith that kind of intuitive
extrasensory, you know,interpretation of that point in
time, that existence of thatpoint in time, that existence,
oh yes, so true, because you, tome, the animals live in the
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present moment.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They're that step above where they don't even
think about it.
It just comes natural.
Because I know my one olderhorse has always that's been one
of his sayings live in thepresent moment.
Live in the present moment andenjoy it, and enjoy the beauty
that surrounds you in thatpresent moment and I'm like
isn't that the truth?
It's just like walking outsidefirst thing in the morning or
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anytime, and you hear the birdssinging.
You have to be in that presentmoment to hear those birds
singing, because if your mind isgoing that I got to do this, I
got to do that today, I got tobe here, I got to be there, you
can just totally tune it out andyou're to me.
That's For myself personally.
That is something that I haveto come back to reality and go.
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I'm really not in the presentmoment right now, or even when
I'm out feeding the horses.
Am I really there feeding thehorses or is it just emotion?
I'm going through where my mindis somewhere else and I can
tell it on my horses.
They're much more in tune withme and much more lovable when
I'm in that present moment andnot just going through the
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motions of what I need to bedoing.
So that's something that cameto my mind when I think about
the animals and the flow and theanimals are.
They're just amazing becausethey just live in it.
They're loving the presentmoment right now.
They're not worried about whatthe next hour is going to bring
to them.
They're enjoying, they'reenjoying you being right there
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in the moment.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So yeah, and I think that I think there is.
You know again, I, I, when Isay this, I will admit to you
know, knowing nothing like right, Like I know nothing.
However, I do believe thatthere's an element of you know
we'll call it evolution, right,Because animals still, even our
deer horses, who are relativelysafe in their barns and their
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corrals and their fenced inareas, they are safe but they're
still flight animals andthey're still, even though they
know they're safe, they're still.
If they hear a rustle they'renot safe and their ears perk up
and off they go.
It's just that's them, Right.
And I think you know we canlook at domesticated dogs and
kind of look at ourselves ashumans, as being domesticated
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humans, Right, Like we, we allcome from that original survival
state and that flow state isthe elevation of the flow state
comes from, I think, the basicsurvival state.
Right, Because when humans didnot have cities and jobs and
currency and money and you knowand responsibilities and you
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know when it was about, you knowhunting and gathering and that
type of thing, you know we werebasically, you know animals too.
We are animals too, and so whenyou're talking about that, that
state of flow was more thanlikely.
Everyone probably lived there.
It wasn't until we socializedourselves again with the air
quotations that, that our mindsstarted to take over.
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Maybe we got comfortable, maybewe got complacent and we
started to have these, thesethoughts with.
You know, yoga calls it themonkey mind right, or the mind
shatter, and that's when we kindof delve into the meditative
aspect of focusing the mind toquiet the chatter, to achieve
that flow state.
So you know, when we talk abouteither being in it right, there
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are different ways to meditate.
There are different ways tobring yourself into that flow
state.
Walking in nature, right, thereare different ways to meditate.
There are different ways tobring yourself into that flow
state.
Walking in nature, right, Likeyou can, if you're, as long as
you're not thinking about yourgrocery list, or you know the
chores that you didn't do, right, Like even the chores with the
animals, being with your animals, like those are all perfect
examples of places where you canbe in a state of flow.
But if you're not payingattention, you can.
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You, your mind will goelsewhere and you're no longer
focusing on filling that waterbucket.
You're filling that waterbucket and thinking about the
next thing that you're going toneed to do, right, and that is?
It's almost like adisassociation.
As soon as you begin to thinkor overthink, you take yourself
out of the flow state, and theflow state is where the magic
happens.
Right, the water bucket, iswhere the magic is actually
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happening.
Whether we think that that'smagical, finding the magical and
the mundane right Like that'sit, that's where the true magic
lies.
And I think that the main, themain aspect, no matter what flow
state you're achieving, right,Whether you're a pro athlete,
whether you are a Reikipractitioner, whether you're a
yoga practitioner, whetheryou're achieving right, Whether
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you're a pro athlete, whetheryou are a Reiki practitioner,
whether you're a yogapractitioner, whether you're an
equestrian, no matter where,where you are, even if you're
just working, you know, workingat a nine to five, whatever it
is, it's about focus.
The flow state is about yourfocus and it is that's where the
the training to to I don't wantto say force, but to attain
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that state of flow.
Meditation is a great way totrain, because meditation is
about focusing the mind.
Whether you're focusing on thebreath, whether you're focusing
on a mantra, whether you'refocused, it is.
It is clearing all of that mindchatter, clearing that monkey
mind and focusing on the moment,the breath, the mantra,
whatever it may be.
If you are like a yogainstructor, it's.
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It's being in that balance pose, or being in that vinyasa
sequence flow where you know youare totally in your body.
You can use your body as a wayto bring yourself into the
present moment.
I don't know if you're familiarwith people that have, you know
, anxiety or panic attacks,where they, the people tell them
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, you know, find five things.
You can see, three things youcan smell right in the room to
bring them.
That active practice isliterally bringing them out of
their panic, out of their stateof mind and into their body.
Um, and that that's just.
These are just different ways,different modalities of how to
start to.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The more you stay in the state of flow, the the
hopefully, the more things flowto you right, yeah, right, well,
and I think the more beauty youwill find when you stay in that
present moment and in that flow, because there's there's so
much beauty that just liesaround you that to me, when you
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get into that busy body, chatter, mind, the beauty seems to kind
of fall away and you're kind oflike, oh man, I got this, this
and this to do and I gotta gohere, gotta go there, and you
fail to see any of the beautythat surrounds any of it.
And yeah, when you can stay inthat just kind of flow, flow
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along with it all, it's amazinghow much more beautiful life can
be.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Absolutely.
And you know, I think you're so.
You're so right, because rarelyis that mind chatter positive,
right, right, rarely if ever Iwon't blanket statement, but
rarely if ever is whatever isspiraling around in that brand
Beautiful mind of ours, right,rarely is that.
Is that not negative?
(15:54):
Is that?
Sorry to use double negative,but you know it's.
It's generally worry or fearbased, it's generally future or
past oriented Right.
So you're either.
You know, I know, like a lot of.
I had a, I had an ex-boyfriendof mine who had social anxiety
and you know he he would saythat after social interactions
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he would start to replay thingsin his mind over and, over and
over again.
And I know I'm, I've done it, Iknow all of us have probably
done it.
You said something and then,like later that night, you're
like oh God, and then youoverthink it and you play it and
you play it in your mind, andthen you analyze it and you make
a story around it, and thestory is never accurate.
And you're putting all of thisstuff on this other random poor
person.
Right, you're not in a state offlow, you're in a state of
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driving yourself.
Crazy is really what you'redoing.
So, and that's focusing on thatpast, right, because you can't
control, it's beyond you now,but your mind is trying to make
sense and control and that'swhat the mind does.
And then if you're worriedabout the future, well, it's
doing the same thing.
It's creating.
You know, I have to do x, y andz.
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Well, you're not doing it rightnow, but you know that you need
to do it.
So now you're focusing on thatand out of where you are and out
of what you're doing and like,think about.
Think about someone who maybehas a, has an occupation
operating heavy machinery.
Well, I hope you're certainlyin a flow state when you're
focusing on on like, have youseen any of those like forklift
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fail videos on on like theinternet where it's like, you
know what that person gotdistracted for a second and now
an entire palette of you know,soda is all over some sort of
warehouse floor, right, like.
So think about, like, thinkabout that as a metaphor.
Right, it's not just about topathletes, it's not just about
you know people meditate.
You know Tibetan monks orBuddhist monks meditating.
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You know it's, it's everybody,it's, it's the magic and the
mundane, and it's really theability to, to be completely
present in what you're doing, nomatter what it is.
And and then you know that listof things that you need to do.
I'm not telling you not to stayorganized and not to.
You know, take some form ofcontrol, air quotes around,
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control over your life.
And you know I'm not sayingplanning, it's a bad thing, but
it is an element of well.
If I'm not, if I know I'm notgoing to do that right now, then
let me focus on what I'm doingnow.
It's like the opposite ofmultitasking.
The flow state is the oppositeof multitasking.
Essentially, I think, if we canleave no other nugget than that
, it is the opposite ofmultitasking.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh, I so agree with you, because yeah is so many
thoughts come to my mind,because I usually do something
stupid when I'm in that chattermind and trying to do something
else and I'm like, why didn't Ijust focus on what I was doing?
And that with the forklift wasa prime example.
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Or even the other day I wastrying to do a hundred different
things and turned around andhit my head on the door.
I'm like, well, if I would havebeen paying attention and had
my mind at where I was at, thiswould not have happened.
And it was kind of a messagecame to me just slow down and
enjoy the beauty around you.
And I'm like, oh, how true thatis.
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So then I stepped outside andthe birds were singing and I'm
going okay, this is what I wassupposed to be enjoying rather
than thinking of everything elsethat I thought I had to be
doing at that moment.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, yeah, and again , it's that, it's that you know,
I think there's an element of,there's an element of relaxing
into the fact that you know,hopefully, thankfully, you know,
you and I are safe in the spacethat we're in, in the present.
You have to, you have to besafe right Right.
Right, like that, like basicneeds need to be met for you to
achieve a flow state.
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But or, you know, let mecontradict myself immediately or
the opposite is true, the veryextreme opposite.
If you do think about, let's say, a football player who is
getting chased by a 350 poundlinebacker, and safety is the
opposite, but that person is ina state of flow simply because
they know that if they stoprunning, they're going to be
tackled.
So you know, I think, I thinkit's a clear duality of it's
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either you know, you know you'resafe enough to be in that
meditative state, in that, inthat sacred space or flight
space, where it is pureadrenaline and pure, you're
still flow, but that that flowis is potentially, you know, for
your own protection, yeah,that's what I will say,
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definitely, but it's still fullyattuned to the present moment,
that is, the.
The thread of commonalitybetween between them is is fully
immersed in exactly what it isthat you are doing in the, in
this moment.
Because, again, like we don't,we have this illusion of of the
future and the past and, at andin any given moment, the future
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and the past are solelyconstructs of our mind.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, yeah and we overthink them, just like the
example you gave earlier.
I'll do that sometime.
I was like, well, why did I saythat?
Or I should have said this Well, you know what?
It don't matter.
Now it's done, it's over with.
And the other person probablydidn't think it the way you're
thinking it anyway, becauseeverybody takes everything and
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you can say something to 10different people and they're
going to understand it in 10different ways.
So when we turn our mind intostart thinking, I truly believe
we overthink so many things.
And how much energy do we wasteon doing that or overthinking
what's going to happen in thefuture?
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We spend so much energy on thatand think what we could
accomplish in the present momentif we just kept that energy
right there where it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So you know, we're going to take a little bit of a
detour from where, just becauseof what you just said, because
it's going to.
You know, we're talking aboutmeditation, we're talking about
tapping into the flow.
But I also, you know, when wetalk about and I'll let this be
for those people who believe inthis, which I happen to, but for
the people who believe in itand the state in like
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manifestation and the ability tocreate your reality or co-cre,
create with the source, you know, because I don't want to take,
you know, I am a, I am a, I will, I guess I'm somewhat religious
, I'm spiritual, definitely, I'mall about a higher power than
myself, without naming, puttingnames to it.
But to that end, I think thatwhen you talk about the energy
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that you waste, worrying or theenergy that you waste, I had
another friend of mine who, whoyou know, and I do this too we
all worry about the future,worry about, you know, like.
We just do.
It's natural, it's human natureto do that.
But I said to her exactly whatyou just said and I said, well,
think about like.
To her exactly what you justsaid and I said, well, think
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about like, instead of worryingabout this particular thing
happening.
Why don't you consciously, whenyou start to have that thought,
redirect the thought into whatyou want to happen and have that
thought instead?
Right, and I think that'sthat's a meditative practice,
right?
That, like just acknowledgingthe thought and redirecting the
thought, is an exercise inmeditation.
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We've had that conversationbefore.
And if you want to take it tothe next level, to that idea of
manifestation and I'm not goingto say that it's going to, you
know, miraculously happen foryou tomorrow, but it certainly
isn't going to happen any lessif you do that- Do you know what
I mean?
Like it's not, you're not goingto ruin your chances by taking a
negative thought and flippingit into a positive thought, or
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taking an outcome you fear andfocusing your energy on an
outcome you would you want tohave happen to occur.
So I think that you know, andwhen we're talking about the
flow state, I think there's astate of I always kind of get
this and this is my own, my ownkind of back and forth within my
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own mind, but you know, I'llshare it.
There's an element and we'vetalked about, you know,
receptivity.
Well, being in the flow stateis essentially being in a
receptive state.
Right, when I'm practicing Reiki, I am a channel for that energy
.
I'm not really doing anythingother than, you know, directing
it.
It's not when I heal and againI'll use my air quotes but when
I'm healing, I'm not actuallydoing the healing.
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Your body, your horse's body,the person that I'm working on,
their body, is healingthemselves and the energy that
is flowing through me is iscreating that catalyst of
healing in their body.
Essentially, right, I'm just,I'm just the channel, I'm just.
That's all I'm doing.
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Think of it as, like you know,like a magnet coming in and
flowing out and you know,hopefully I'm I'm directing it
in ways that are helpful.
But you know that is I'm in astate of receptivity, the person
is, or the being, the animal isin a state of receptivity, and
so we are in that, in that flowstate.
Together we're sharing thatflow state.
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And then when you talk about,you know, manifestation, you
know that, just like when we'retalking about meditation,
whereas you you receive certain,you know some people go into
meditation to receive answers,receive certain, you know some
people go into meditation toreceive answers, to receive
guidance, and then some peoplego into meditation to you know,
to create, to use a mantra, toattract right.
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And so I think that when you'retalking about the idea of
manifestation, or you're talkingabout the idea of attracting,
you're still, or you're talkingabout the idea of attracting,
you're still, even in thatmanifestation, talking about
receptivity.
Even though you're trying toco-create, you're still
attracting and being in areceiving energy.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And I think that that flow state is imperative to
receiving that energy and beingable to receive the gifts,
blessings, manifestations, thething that you want versus the
thing that you fear oh, I soagree, because what comes to my
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mind in when you're out inmeditation or for me it's going
out in meditation, or for meit's going out in nature it's
almost like it's releasing someof that stress and receiving
that positive that you need toreceive to let go of the
stressful day maybe you've hador some stressful thoughts, but
(26:27):
you've got to be open to receivethe good that will come in and
let go of all that negativity orfear or stress that's built up
inside of you and receive thegood that the universe, god,
spirits, whoever you want tocall it, that higher power is
(26:48):
trying to bring into your lifeand help you to let go of the
stress.
So it's kind of like it'sgiving and taking.
You have to let go and take inthe good.
So, yep, that's absolutely cameto my mind when we were talking
about that.
But yeah, it's just, it is suchan amazing experience when you
(27:13):
can experience being in thatflow, and I think people are in
it.
They just don't realize that'swhat they're in.
When they're, maybe, at theirkids' ball game and they're so
excited because their child,their grandchild, is playing
ball and maybe they made thatpoint or something.
(27:34):
They're living in that momentright then, but they're not even
thinking about it.
And we're in a lot of timeswhere it kind of just goes by us
.
We don't even realize we werein that present moment.
So some people think, oh, Idon't know if I can do this,
this is too hard.
Well, no, you're probably doingit already.
It's just realizing it.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No, I think you're, and I think that is what you
said is so perfect because it's,it's if.
It's one of those things whereyou know if, if you don't
realize it, then maybe you knowthat you did it right Like
you're.
You're so in it that you're notrealizing it right.
And you know, one of the thingsI think a great again, because I
, like I don't know why at mylife I operate in metaphors,
(28:17):
because I feel like it helpspeople to kind of understand
where my mind's at.
But I think of it, as you know,taking a picture, let's say
you're at a party, let's sayit's your grandchild's party, or
let's say it's that same, thatsame baseball game that your
grandchild, whatever it is, assoon as you are taking a picture
of it, you are no longerexperiencing it.
(28:40):
Why?
Because now your focus is onyour phone, your focus is on
setting up the shot.
The organic nature of themoment has been constructed into
something of your mind'screation.
I'm not saying there's anythingwrong with taking photos, but
talk about not being in a stateof flow, right, unless you're
like you know again aphotographer.
That's like a sportsphotographer and that's your job
.
That's a different thing, right, if you're catching a present
(29:01):
moment, it's different thanconstruction, constructing one.
But you yourself, potentially,if you you're not celebrating
that victory, if you you're notcelebrating that victory if
you're focused on taking apicture of it, yeah, yeah, and I
think that's just such a greatmetaphor for the flow state
versus not being being present,but not fully being present yeah
, yeah, I, I hear you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I I find that, even out in nature, if I would think,
oh my, I need to take a pictureof that, well, my mind went to
taking that picture and thatphone, rather than this present
moment that I'm enjoying thebeauty of it.
So, yeah, I guess that's whyhalf the time I forget to take a
picture, because I'm toofocused in the moment.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I think that's a good thing.
I think it's a good thing, Ithink it's good for us, and I
think more people should takeless.
I think people should take lessphotos.
Yeah, um, because Because I doyou know, like and for me,
generally nine times out of 10,the photo, unless they're photos
of your animals or yourchildren, then you know, have
that and take all the photos,because I will say that you know
, at some point in time,especially with your animals,
(30:02):
you will want to have thosephotos.
Yes, right, we all know youneed those photos.
So this is in no wayphotography shaming, but you
know, like, I think I didn'tcatch this weekend's eclipse,
but you know, I remember tryingto take a photo of the lunar
eclipse we had, like a few weeksback.
It was terrible, the photo wasawful Like, and it was just, it
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doesn't look like anything.
It looks like, you know, light,literally light years away, and
I'm like, what I'm like?
What I'm like, why am I even?
What am I gonna do?
Am I gonna post the photo likeit looks terrible?
no, yeah, so, like, just standthere, look up and appreciate
the eclipse, uh-huh yeah, rightlike just be there, be there
with the eclipse and be in thatmoment and fully be present and
(30:45):
put your phone down yeah, that'sright.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's right.
Majority of the time when I goout in nature, I don't even have
my phone.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm like I leave mine at home too.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I'm like yeah, I don't need it, I'm gonna go out
and just enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
So I don't want to be bothered, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I don't either.
Oh, I need the picture.
Here's my phone no-transcript.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You know, put positivity manifest.
Like you know, create co create, right.
So I started, you know,basically using them as my and
now I I say things.
I probably like a crazy personwalking around saying things out
loud, but I say these positivethings that I, you know, want to
create in my life out loud, asI walk my dogs, um, and I and I
(32:04):
refuse to bring my phone and Irefuse to like I'll actually
think, oh, I have to call thatperson back.
Oh well, this is my time withmy dogs and my, my creation, and
I'm not.
You don't get this time, I willcall you back when I'm done.
But that was a huge like ahamoment for me was after I
started doing those walkingmeditations.
I was like I'm just like I'mlistening to music and same
music I always listen to.
(32:25):
That I love.
You know what I mean, but I'mnot.
I mean, look at thisopportunity.
That's that's in my face.
That I'm just not.
I'm not going to say I'mwasting it, but it certainly
isn't my best use of the presentmoment, right, right.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Well, gia, we are down to just a few minutes left
in this beautiful show thatwe've been doing.
Would you please tell, sharewith our listeners the best ways
to connect with you before weend this show?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I would love to do it , thank you.
So again, my name is Gia RaquelRose, owner of heirs above yoga
, and you can find me at heirsabove yoga on all of the socials
except for one I'm notcurrently on TikTok and you can
also find me at airs above yoga,at gmailcom and airs above
yogacom.
For any ways to connect with me, and hopefully you will, joyce
(33:17):
and I will be doing this againin the future.
I'm sure and definitely we can.
We can absolutely dive deeperinto this, but I do thank you so
much for having me, becauseit's always it's.
I truly believe that you and Ienter a flow state together
every time that we do this, andthat's why you know I few things
give me as great pleasure.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So, oh, well, thank you, and yes, you just answered
my question too, because we'redefinitely going to do this some
more, because I feel the sameway.
We just we flow together off ofone another, and I love it too.
We flow together off of oneanother and I love it, me too.
Me too, I want to wish you andall your animal families a
(33:56):
magical, magical time till youand I connect again on Robust
Lifestyles.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Thank you, and to you and yours as well.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thank you so much, and with that, I want to thank
all of our listeners forlistening to this magical show
with our amazing diva, giaRaquel.
Please share the show with yourfamily and friends.
Check out all the other hostsand their shows on divasacarecom
and remember beauty is in thepresent moment and it's really
all we have is this presentmoment and embody this present
(34:23):
moment.
Clear all that mind chatterfrom your mind and enjoy the
moment, and with that, I want towish each of you a magical day.
Be kind to all, including youranimals, and give your animals a
great big extra hug and shareall your love with them, as they
so deserve it.
Until we connect again onrobust lifestyles, stay strong
(34:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Magical day to all.
Welcome to Divas that CareNetwork.
I am Joyce Benning and I willbe your host for this magical,
robust lifestyle show.
I want to thank each and everyone of our listeners today that
have tuned in to the numerousdifferent podcasts of this great
show that we are going to dotoday with my amazing, amazing
(00:56):
diva, Gia Recall, and her and Iare going to chat about tapping
into the flow.
Oh my, is this going to be amagical show.
And with that, Gia, would youplease introduce yourself to our
listeners today.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Hi Joyce, I'm so grateful to be back on.
Thank you again for having meand I'm just pleased as punch is
what's flowing to me in themoment.
So my name is Gia Raquel Rose,owner of Heirs Above Yoga, and
I've been a yoga instructor forover a decade now and a Reiki
master for a few years, and Ilove to try to use any type of
(01:36):
energetic healing, whether it bephysical or literally energetic
to.
You know better anyone or anyliving being in or around my
vicinity, whether energetic orphysical oh, oh, how beautiful.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Well, that just ties into what we're going to talk
about, because into the flow.
I mean through yoga, throughReiki, with the animals, with
humans.
Either way, it's all tappinginto the flow of life.
So how would you like to startthis?
To chat with our, to chat todayand share with our listeners
(02:12):
out there?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
So I think that everyone, and I think the best
way to kind of create theparallel for everybody that
might be tuning in is to thinkabout I think people call it,
you know, especially with regardto like athletes, or I think
that you know we'll callmainstream media calls it like
in the zone right.
So the idea of being in thezone right, so when, if you
think about, I think everyonecan relate to the idea of you
(02:35):
know, like a football playercatches the ball and runs and
makes the touchdown, somethinglike that, like about as male
centric, got no gender, like nozone of no judgment, but like
that, that being truly embodyingthe present moment.
And I always use yoga balanceposes as a way to get people
fully in the present moment.
(02:56):
I know I've touched on thatbefore, where you know, if
you're balancing on one foot andyou're trying to not fall over,
you're probably not thinkingabout your grocery list, right,
like you're trying not to fallover.
So there's a lot of ways tostart to get yourself into that
state.
But I think when you're, there'sa couple layers, I believe, to
the state too, right, there'sthe truly being in the present
(03:18):
moment, and the beauty of beingin the present moment is, you
know, in theory, a lack of fear,unless you know you're about to
get into a car accident orsomething to that effect.
But if you and I are justsitting here having this
conversation in this moment,right now, right that the
present is all we have, right?
So if we're both sitting herein the present moment together
and, you know, we have a roofover our head and we have the
(03:41):
ability to communicate with eachother, this is our zone, this
is our flow state, this is ourpresent moment, this is our,
this is all we have at life isjust this moment.
And when you and I are done, wewill separate ways and we will
be in different moments, withyour, with your horses or with
my horses, you know.
And that is life.
Life is truly all about thepresent moment.
And when we tap into that moment, that is our flow state, that
(04:06):
is where we are attuned to thepotentially guidance from your
higher self, potentially justbeing like, you know, air quotes
again in the zone, and I loved,you know, kind of like the
football metaphor, the athletemetaphor, because I think a lot
of people may put, you know,certain let's.
(04:26):
Let's just say we put athletesup on a pedestal right, because
they happen to be able to, wesee the moment visually in like
professional athletic sports,right, and that's a great way, I
think, for people to haveunderstanding of it.
But for me, as a as a yogainstructor or Reiki, Reiki
practitioner, practitioner um,you know, for me to practice
(04:47):
Reiki I have to be in ameditative state, in a flow
state, in a state of, ofchanneling, in a state of
intuition.
And while that is certainlymuch less glitzy and glamorous
than, you know, being aprofessional, uh, athlete of any
kind, um, you know, it's verymuch.
It's very much the same stateof flow, state of present moment
(05:08):
, state of living in the presentmoment state of being.
And what's amazing about it isthat everyone has access to it
and it is for everyone to accessit in their own way, for their
own being, for their ownpurposes, for their own divine
mission, whatever you want tocall it, it's always there, we
just have to have been to it.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Oh, so true that is.
And how, how you said you haveto be in that present moment
through yoga and Reiki.
And yeah, you may not be in thespotlight, but look at the
feeling of being able to helpothers to get into that flow and
it's it's an inner feeling thatyou, you can experience
(05:51):
yourself, of being in, thatyou're in the spotlight by
helping them, even though you'renot out there as an athlete
carrying the ball for atouchdown or making that final
basket to win the game orsomething.
The winning is by helpingothers to be able to come into
that present moment and feelthat flow in life.
So that was what came to mymind when you said that about
(06:14):
maybe not being in the spotlightand really you are, because
it's the spotlight of helpingothers.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
And there's no greater spotlight than one of
service, and I believe that tomy very core.
But I just think that that, Ihope, I hope that that metaphor
is is people can say, oh yeah,well, of course, like that, I
feel like, you know, people canlook at an athlete and they, you
see, it's very and you couldlook, and this is kind of the
opposite, um, kind of mentalityabout it.
(06:42):
But do you remember the?
The picture I want to?
I believe it was a tibetan monk, but please don't hold me to
that where the monk wouldliterally set himself on fire in
a state of protest.
Do you remember that image?
I believe it was from way, way,way back.
Um, it's a black and whitephoto, but I think it was very.
It's a very, you know, poignantimage.
Um, and in order to, to do that,to sit and be on fire, like
(07:07):
that, talk about a state of flow.
Let's talk about being, youknow, being able to, to do.
That is, you know, a level,like we talked about, like the
state of flow has layers, thatis like a layer above and beyond
, um, you know, the averagehuman bear, if you will.
Um, so you know, there thereare levels to it, but I I do
think you know the average humanbear, if you will.
So you know there there arelevels to it, but I do think
(07:29):
that you know it's hard.
When you can, it's easy to seethe flow state in something like
watching sports online, I thinkthat's, or on the computer,
whatever.
However you're getting yourinformation, it's easy to see
that person in their state offlow, whereas maybe you don't
recognize, like you just said tome.
Well, you're healing others.
(07:49):
Maybe you know you don'trecognize your own state of flow
when you're even in it.
But I think that I'm going toshare this because it's you and
we can have, we can have thisconversation when we talk about,
like horseback riding yeah,it's, it's probably.
We are obviously so blessed tohave that experience.
It's probably one of thesimilarly to yoga, and again,
there's that physical element ofputting you in the moment, in
(08:10):
your body.
That's one, one kind of gatewayto get to it.
But when you're, when you're ona horse, you're, you're pretty
much in that present momentbecause you have to be.
There's an element of alertnesswhen you're on a horse that you
know.
You're not, generally speaking,and not everybody.
You can obviously getdistracted, but there's an
element of connection with theanimal, connection with the
(08:31):
present moment and connectionwith that kind of intuitive
extrasensory, you know,interpretation of that point in
time, that existence of thatpoint in time, that existence,
oh yes, so true, because you, tome, the animals live in the
(08:52):
present moment.
Speaker 2 (08:52):
They're that step above where they don't even
think about it.
It just comes natural.
Because I know my one olderhorse has always that's been one
of his sayings live in thepresent moment.
Live in the present moment andenjoy it, and enjoy the beauty
that surrounds you in thatpresent moment and I'm like
isn't that the truth?
It's just like walking outsidefirst thing in the morning or
(09:14):
anytime, and you hear the birdssinging.
You have to be in that presentmoment to hear those birds
singing, because if your mind isgoing that I got to do this, I
got to do that today, I got tobe here, I got to be there, you
can just totally tune it out andyou're to me.
That's For myself personally.
That is something that I haveto come back to reality and go.
(09:38):
I'm really not in the presentmoment right now, or even when
I'm out feeding the horses.
Am I really there feeding thehorses or is it just emotion?
I'm going through where my mindis somewhere else and I can
tell it on my horses.
They're much more in tune withme and much more lovable when
I'm in that present moment andnot just going through the
(10:01):
motions of what I need to bedoing.
So that's something that cameto my mind when I think about
the animals and the flow and theanimals are.
They're just amazing becausethey just live in it.
They're loving the presentmoment right now.
They're not worried about whatthe next hour is going to bring
to them.
They're enjoying, they'reenjoying you being right there
(10:22):
in the moment.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
So yeah, and I think that I think there is.
You know again, I, I, when Isay this, I will admit to you
know, knowing nothing like right, Like I know nothing.
However, I do believe thatthere's an element of you know
we'll call it evolution, right,Because animals still, even our
deer horses, who are relativelysafe in their barns and their
(10:45):
corrals and their fenced inareas, they are safe but they're
still flight animals andthey're still, even though they
know they're safe, they're still.
If they hear a rustle they'renot safe and their ears perk up
and off they go.
It's just that's them, Right.
And I think you know we canlook at domesticated dogs and
kind of look at ourselves ashumans, as being domesticated
(11:05):
humans, Right, Like we, we allcome from that original survival
state and that flow state isthe elevation of the flow state
comes from, I think, the basicsurvival state.
Right, Because when humans didnot have cities and jobs and
currency and money and you knowand responsibilities and you
(11:26):
know when it was about, you knowhunting and gathering and that
type of thing, you know we werebasically, you know animals too.
We are animals too, and so whenyou're talking about that, that
state of flow was more thanlikely.
Everyone probably lived there.
It wasn't until we socializedourselves again with the air
quotations that, that our mindsstarted to take over.
(11:49):
Maybe we got comfortable, maybewe got complacent and we
started to have these, thesethoughts with.
You know, yoga calls it themonkey mind right, or the mind
shatter, and that's when we kindof delve into the meditative
aspect of focusing the mind toquiet the chatter, to achieve
that flow state.
So you know, when we talk abouteither being in it right, there
(12:13):
are different ways to meditate.
There are different ways tobring yourself into that flow
state.
Walking in nature, right, thereare different ways to meditate.
There are different ways tobring yourself into that flow
state.
Walking in nature, right, Likeyou can, if you're, as long as
you're not thinking about yourgrocery list, or you know the
chores that you didn't do, right, Like even the chores with the
animals, being with your animals, like those are all perfect
examples of places where you canbe in a state of flow.
But if you're not payingattention, you can.
(12:36):
You, your mind will goelsewhere and you're no longer
focusing on filling that waterbucket.
You're filling that waterbucket and thinking about the
next thing that you're going toneed to do, right, and that is?
It's almost like adisassociation.
As soon as you begin to thinkor overthink, you take yourself
out of the flow state, and theflow state is where the magic
happens.
Right, the water bucket, iswhere the magic is actually
(12:57):
happening.
Whether we think that that'smagical, finding the magical and
the mundane right Like that'sit, that's where the true magic
lies.
And I think that the main, themain aspect, no matter what flow
state you're achieving, right,Whether you're a pro athlete,
whether you are a Reikipractitioner, whether you're a
yoga practitioner, whetheryou're achieving right, Whether
(13:17):
you're a pro athlete, whetheryou are a Reiki practitioner,
whether you're a yogapractitioner, whether you're an
equestrian, no matter where,where you are, even if you're
just working, you know, workingat a nine to five, whatever it
is, it's about focus.
The flow state is about yourfocus and it is that's where the
the training to to I don't wantto say force, but to attain
(13:37):
that state of flow.
Meditation is a great way totrain, because meditation is
about focusing the mind.
Whether you're focusing on thebreath, whether you're focusing
on a mantra, whether you'refocused, it is.
It is clearing all of that mindchatter, clearing that monkey
mind and focusing on the moment,the breath, the mantra,
whatever it may be.
If you are like a yogainstructor, it's.
(13:58):
It's being in that balance pose, or being in that vinyasa
sequence flow where you know youare totally in your body.
You can use your body as a wayto bring yourself into the
present moment.
I don't know if you're familiarwith people that have, you know
, anxiety or panic attacks,where they, the people tell them
(14:20):
, you know, find five things.
You can see, three things youcan smell right in the room to
bring them.
That active practice isliterally bringing them out of
their panic, out of their stateof mind and into their body.
Um, and that that's just.
These are just different ways,different modalities of how to
start to.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
The more you stay in the state of flow, the the
hopefully, the more things flowto you right, yeah, right, well,
and I think the more beauty youwill find when you stay in that
present moment and in that flow, because there's there's so
much beauty that just liesaround you that to me, when you
(15:03):
get into that busy body, chatter, mind, the beauty seems to kind
of fall away and you're kind oflike, oh man, I got this, this
and this to do and I gotta gohere, gotta go there, and you
fail to see any of the beautythat surrounds any of it.
And yeah, when you can stay inthat just kind of flow, flow
(15:26):
along with it all, it's amazinghow much more beautiful life can
be.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Absolutely.
And you know, I think you're so.
You're so right, because rarelyis that mind chatter positive,
right, right, rarely if ever Iwon't blanket statement, but
rarely if ever is whatever isspiraling around in that brand
Beautiful mind of ours, right,rarely is that.
Is that not negative?
(15:54):
Is that?
Sorry to use double negative,but you know it's.
It's generally worry or fearbased, it's generally future or
past oriented Right.
So you're either.
You know, I know, like a lot of.
I had a, I had an ex-boyfriendof mine who had social anxiety
and you know he he would saythat after social interactions
(16:16):
he would start to replay thingsin his mind over and, over and
over again.
And I know I'm, I've done it, Iknow all of us have probably
done it.
You said something and then,like later that night, you're
like oh God, and then youoverthink it and you play it and
you play it in your mind, andthen you analyze it and you make
a story around it, and thestory is never accurate.
And you're putting all of thisstuff on this other random poor
person.
Right, you're not in a state offlow, you're in a state of
(16:39):
driving yourself.
Crazy is really what you'redoing.
So, and that's focusing on thatpast, right, because you can't
control, it's beyond you now,but your mind is trying to make
sense and control and that'swhat the mind does.
And then if you're worriedabout the future, well, it's
doing the same thing.
It's creating.
You know, I have to do x, y andz.
(17:01):
Well, you're not doing it rightnow, but you know that you need
to do it.
So now you're focusing on thatand out of where you are and out
of what you're doing and like,think about.
Think about someone who maybehas a, has an occupation
operating heavy machinery.
Well, I hope you're certainlyin a flow state when you're
focusing on on like, have youseen any of those like forklift
(17:22):
fail videos on on like theinternet where it's like, you
know what that person gotdistracted for a second and now
an entire palette of you know,soda is all over some sort of
warehouse floor, right, like.
So think about, like, thinkabout that as a metaphor.
Right, it's not just about topathletes, it's not just about
you know people meditate.
You know Tibetan monks orBuddhist monks meditating.
(17:43):
You know it's, it's everybody,it's, it's the magic and the
mundane, and it's really theability to, to be completely
present in what you're doing, nomatter what it is.
And and then you know that listof things that you need to do.
I'm not telling you not to stayorganized and not to.
You know, take some form ofcontrol, air quotes around,
(18:05):
control over your life.
And you know I'm not sayingplanning, it's a bad thing, but
it is an element of well.
If I'm not, if I know I'm notgoing to do that right now, then
let me focus on what I'm doingnow.
It's like the opposite ofmultitasking.
The flow state is the oppositeof multitasking.
Essentially, I think, if we canleave no other nugget than that
, it is the opposite ofmultitasking.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Oh, I so agree with you, because yeah is so many
thoughts come to my mind,because I usually do something
stupid when I'm in that chattermind and trying to do something
else and I'm like, why didn't Ijust focus on what I was doing?
And that with the forklift wasa prime example.
(18:46):
Or even the other day I wastrying to do a hundred different
things and turned around andhit my head on the door.
I'm like, well, if I would havebeen paying attention and had
my mind at where I was at, thiswould not have happened.
And it was kind of a messagecame to me just slow down and
enjoy the beauty around you.
And I'm like, oh, how true thatis.
(19:07):
So then I stepped outside andthe birds were singing and I'm
going okay, this is what I wassupposed to be enjoying rather
than thinking of everything elsethat I thought I had to be
doing at that moment.
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Yeah, yeah, and again , it's that, it's that you know,
I think there's an element of,there's an element of relaxing
into the fact that you know,hopefully, thankfully, you know,
you and I are safe in the spacethat we're in, in the present.
You have to, you have to besafe right Right.
Right, like that, like basicneeds need to be met for you to
achieve a flow state.
(19:39):
But or, you know, let mecontradict myself immediately or
the opposite is true, the veryextreme opposite.
If you do think about, let's say, a football player who is
getting chased by a 350 poundlinebacker, and safety is the
opposite, but that person is ina state of flow simply because
they know that if they stoprunning, they're going to be
tackled.
So you know, I think, I thinkit's a clear duality of it's
(20:03):
either you know, you know you'resafe enough to be in that
meditative state, in that, inthat sacred space or flight
space, where it is pureadrenaline and pure, you're
still flow, but that that flowis is potentially, you know, for
your own protection, yeah,that's what I will say,
(20:25):
definitely, but it's still fullyattuned to the present moment,
that is, the.
The thread of commonalitybetween between them is is fully
immersed in exactly what it isthat you are doing in the, in
this moment.
Because, again, like we don't,we have this illusion of of the
future and the past and, at andin any given moment, the future
(20:48):
and the past are solelyconstructs of our mind.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, yeah and we overthink them, just like the
example you gave earlier.
I'll do that sometime.
I was like, well, why did I saythat?
Or I should have said this Well, you know what?
It don't matter.
Now it's done, it's over with.
And the other person probablydidn't think it the way you're
thinking it anyway, becauseeverybody takes everything and
(21:14):
you can say something to 10different people and they're
going to understand it in 10different ways.
So when we turn our mind intostart thinking, I truly believe
we overthink so many things.
And how much energy do we wasteon doing that or overthinking
what's going to happen in thefuture?
(21:34):
We spend so much energy on thatand think what we could
accomplish in the present momentif we just kept that energy
right there where it needs to be.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
So you know, we're going to take a little bit of a
detour from where, just becauseof what you just said, because
it's going to.
You know, we're talking aboutmeditation, we're talking about
tapping into the flow.
But I also, you know, when wetalk about and I'll let this be
for those people who believe inthis, which I happen to, but for
the people who believe in itand the state in like
(22:06):
manifestation and the ability tocreate your reality or co-cre,
create with the source, you know, because I don't want to take,
you know, I am a, I am a, I will, I guess I'm somewhat religious
, I'm spiritual, definitely, I'mall about a higher power than
myself, without naming, puttingnames to it.
But to that end, I think thatwhen you talk about the energy
(22:28):
that you waste, worrying or theenergy that you waste, I had
another friend of mine who, whoyou know, and I do this too we
all worry about the future,worry about, you know, like.
We just do.
It's natural, it's human natureto do that.
But I said to her exactly whatyou just said and I said, well,
think about like.
To her exactly what you justsaid and I said, well, think
(22:51):
about like, instead of worryingabout this particular thing
happening.
Why don't you consciously, whenyou start to have that thought,
redirect the thought into whatyou want to happen and have that
thought instead?
Right, and I think that'sthat's a meditative practice,
right?
That, like just acknowledgingthe thought and redirecting the
thought, is an exercise inmeditation.
(23:13):
We've had that conversationbefore.
And if you want to take it tothe next level, to that idea of
manifestation and I'm not goingto say that it's going to, you
know, miraculously happen foryou tomorrow, but it certainly
isn't going to happen any lessif you do that- Do you know what
I mean?
Like it's not, you're not goingto ruin your chances by taking a
negative thought and flippingit into a positive thought, or
(23:34):
taking an outcome you fear andfocusing your energy on an
outcome you would you want tohave happen to occur.
So I think that you know, andwhen we're talking about the
flow state, I think there's astate of I always kind of get
this and this is my own, my ownkind of back and forth within my
(23:55):
own mind, but you know, I'llshare it.
There's an element and we'vetalked about, you know,
receptivity.
Well, being in the flow stateis essentially being in a
receptive state.
Right, when I'm practicing Reiki, I am a channel for that energy
.
I'm not really doing anythingother than, you know, directing
it.
It's not when I heal and againI'll use my air quotes but when
I'm healing, I'm not actuallydoing the healing.
(24:16):
Your body, your horse's body,the person that I'm working on,
their body, is healingthemselves and the energy that
is flowing through me is iscreating that catalyst of
healing in their body.
Essentially, right, I'm just,I'm just the channel, I'm just.
That's all I'm doing.
(24:37):
Think of it as, like you know,like a magnet coming in and
flowing out and you know,hopefully I'm I'm directing it
in ways that are helpful.
But you know that is I'm in astate of receptivity, the person
is, or the being, the animal isin a state of receptivity, and
so we are in that, in that flowstate.
Together we're sharing thatflow state.
(24:59):
And then when you talk about,you know, manifestation, you
know that, just like when we'retalking about meditation,
whereas you you receive certain,you know some people go into
meditation to receive answers,receive certain, you know some
people go into meditation toreceive answers, to receive
guidance, and then some peoplego into meditation to you know,
to create, to use a mantra, toattract right.
(25:19):
And so I think that when you'retalking about the idea of
manifestation, or you're talkingabout the idea of attracting,
you're still, or you're talkingabout the idea of attracting,
you're still, even in thatmanifestation, talking about
receptivity.
Even though you're trying toco-create, you're still
attracting and being in areceiving energy.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
And I think that that flow state is imperative to
receiving that energy and beingable to receive the gifts,
blessings, manifestations, thething that you want versus the
thing that you fear oh, I soagree, because what comes to my
(26:02):
mind in when you're out inmeditation or for me it's going
out in meditation, or for meit's going out in nature it's
almost like it's releasing someof that stress and receiving
that positive that you need toreceive to let go of the
stressful day maybe you've hador some stressful thoughts, but
(26:27):
you've got to be open to receivethe good that will come in and
let go of all that negativity orfear or stress that's built up
inside of you and receive thegood that the universe, god,
spirits, whoever you want tocall it, that higher power is
(26:48):
trying to bring into your lifeand help you to let go of the
stress.
So it's kind of like it'sgiving and taking.
You have to let go and take inthe good.
So, yep, that's absolutely cameto my mind when we were talking
about that.
But yeah, it's just, it is suchan amazing experience when you
(27:13):
can experience being in thatflow, and I think people are in
it.
They just don't realize that'swhat they're in.
When they're, maybe, at theirkids' ball game and they're so
excited because their child,their grandchild, is playing
ball and maybe they made thatpoint or something.
(27:34):
They're living in that momentright then, but they're not even
thinking about it.
And we're in a lot of timeswhere it kind of just goes by us
.
We don't even realize we werein that present moment.
So some people think, oh, Idon't know if I can do this,
this is too hard.
Well, no, you're probably doingit already.
It's just realizing it.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
No, I think you're, and I think that is what you
said is so perfect because it's,it's if.
It's one of those things whereyou know if, if you don't
realize it, then maybe you knowthat you did it right Like
you're.
You're so in it that you're notrealizing it right.
And you know, one of the thingsI think a great again, because I
, like I don't know why at mylife I operate in metaphors,
(28:17):
because I feel like it helpspeople to kind of understand
where my mind's at.
But I think of it, as you know,taking a picture, let's say
you're at a party, let's sayit's your grandchild's party, or
let's say it's that same, thatsame baseball game that your
grandchild, whatever it is, assoon as you are taking a picture
of it, you are no longerexperiencing it.
(28:40):
Why?
Because now your focus is onyour phone, your focus is on
setting up the shot.
The organic nature of themoment has been constructed into
something of your mind'screation.
I'm not saying there's anythingwrong with taking photos, but
talk about not being in a stateof flow, right, unless you're
like you know again aphotographer.
That's like a sportsphotographer and that's your job
.
That's a different thing, right, if you're catching a present
(29:01):
moment, it's different thanconstruction, constructing one.
But you yourself, potentially,if you you're not celebrating
that victory, if you you're notcelebrating that victory if
you're focused on taking apicture of it, yeah, yeah, and I
think that's just such a greatmetaphor for the flow state
versus not being being present,but not fully being present yeah
, yeah, I, I hear you so much.
Speaker 2 (29:23):
I I find that, even out in nature, if I would think,
oh my, I need to take a pictureof that, well, my mind went to
taking that picture and thatphone, rather than this present
moment that I'm enjoying thebeauty of it.
So, yeah, I guess that's whyhalf the time I forget to take a
picture, because I'm toofocused in the moment.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
I think that's a good thing.
I think it's a good thing, Ithink it's good for us, and I
think more people should takeless.
I think people should take lessphotos.
Yeah, um, because Because I doyou know, like and for me,
generally nine times out of 10,the photo, unless they're photos
of your animals or yourchildren, then you know, have
that and take all the photos,because I will say that you know
, at some point in time,especially with your animals,
(30:02):
you will want to have thosephotos.
Yes, right, we all know youneed those photos.
So this is in no wayphotography shaming, but you
know, like, I think I didn'tcatch this weekend's eclipse,
but you know, I remember tryingto take a photo of the lunar
eclipse we had, like a few weeksback.
It was terrible, the photo wasawful Like, and it was just, it
(30:24):
doesn't look like anything.
It looks like, you know, light,literally light years away, and
I'm like, what I'm like?
What I'm like, why am I even?
What am I gonna do?
Am I gonna post the photo likeit looks terrible?
no, yeah, so, like, just standthere, look up and appreciate
the eclipse, uh-huh yeah, rightlike just be there, be there
with the eclipse and be in thatmoment and fully be present and
(30:45):
put your phone down yeah, that'sright.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
That's right.
Majority of the time when I goout in nature, I don't even have
my phone.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
I'm like I leave mine at home too.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
I'm like yeah, I don't need it, I'm gonna go out
and just enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
So I don't want to be bothered, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
I don't either.
Oh, I need the picture.
Here's my phone no-transcript.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
You know, put positivity manifest.
Like you know, create co create, right.
So I started, you know,basically using them as my and
now I I say things.
I probably like a crazy personwalking around saying things out
loud, but I say these positivethings that I, you know, want to
create in my life out loud, asI walk my dogs, um, and I and I
(32:04):
refuse to bring my phone and Irefuse to like I'll actually
think, oh, I have to call thatperson back.
Oh well, this is my time withmy dogs and my, my creation, and
I'm not.
You don't get this time, I willcall you back when I'm done.
But that was a huge like ahamoment for me was after I
started doing those walkingmeditations.
I was like I'm just like I'mlistening to music and same
music I always listen to.
(32:25):
That I love.
You know what I mean, but I'mnot.
I mean, look at thisopportunity.
That's that's in my face.
That I'm just not.
I'm not going to say I'mwasting it, but it certainly
isn't my best use of the presentmoment, right, right.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Well, gia, we are down to just a few minutes left
in this beautiful show thatwe've been doing.
Would you please tell, sharewith our listeners the best ways
to connect with you before weend this show?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
I would love to do it , thank you.
So again, my name is Gia RaquelRose, owner of heirs above yoga
, and you can find me at heirsabove yoga on all of the socials
except for one I'm notcurrently on TikTok and you can
also find me at airs above yoga,at gmailcom and airs above
yogacom.
For any ways to connect with me, and hopefully you will, joyce
(33:17):
and I will be doing this againin the future.
I'm sure and definitely we can.
We can absolutely dive deeperinto this, but I do thank you so
much for having me, becauseit's always it's.
I truly believe that you and Ienter a flow state together
every time that we do this, andthat's why you know I few things
give me as great pleasure.
Speaker 2 (33:36):
So, oh, well, thank you, and yes, you just answered
my question too, because we'redefinitely going to do this some
more, because I feel the sameway.
We just we flow together off ofone another, and I love it too.
We flow together off of oneanother and I love it, me too.
Me too, I want to wish you andall your animal families a
(33:56):
magical, magical time till youand I connect again on Robust
Lifestyles.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
Thank you, and to you and yours as well.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
Thank you so much, and with that, I want to thank
all of our listeners forlistening to this magical show
with our amazing diva, giaRaquel.
Please share the show with yourfamily and friends.
Check out all the other hostsand their shows on divasacarecom
and remember beauty is in thepresent moment and it's really
all we have is this presentmoment and embody this present
(34:23):
moment.
Clear all that mind chatterfrom your mind and enjoy the
moment, and with that, I want towish each of you a magical day.
Be kind to all, including youranimals, and give your animals a
great big extra hug and shareall your love with them, as they
so deserve it.
Until we connect again onrobust lifestyles, stay strong
(34:45):
and healthy.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
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