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(00:01):
Hey. Hey, Yinning at Life Gang.
It's Kimberly Roberts of the Soulfully in Brand.
I'm here to dish out all things about traditional Chinese
medicine, yin yoga, reflexology.And of course, I'm here to
disrupt your mind. So thanks so much for pressing
play on today's episode. Let's do this.

(00:24):
Hello and welcome to another episode of the Yinning it Life
podcast. I'm really super glad you're
here. So today, what are we diving
into? We are diving into a topic that
has been on my mind for a while,but that people have been asking
for clarification on. And so I want to talk about a

(00:50):
little bit about yin yoga and mindset and how powerful the
pause is because people are like, what are you talking about
the pause? Like, we get that.
We pause and we hold a pose for a while.
Yeah, we get that part. But like, there's something that
I'm missing. What does that have to do with

(01:11):
my mindset? And more importantly, what does
that have to do with creating anextraordinary delulu life,
Right? Like that's really what people
are asking for. And if you've been watching or
you've been looking at any of myInstagram posts on, on Soulful
Yin Yoga, I'm talking a lot recently about mindset and

(01:35):
personal development and why? Because it's something that's
really big on my heart right nowwhere I am starting to see some
massive transformation in my ownlife and in my own businesses.
But now I'm even starting to seelike with my students, how it's

(01:57):
impacting and affecting them. In fact, one of my students
emailed me this morning and she said to me, she's like, I just
finished your five day mindset challenge.
And she said, I was blown away at what you brought forward.

(02:17):
And she's like, I've never done a mindset course like that
before. She said, it's one thing, you
know, she's like, I've been doing mindset work for a long
time. And, you know, I've taken all
these courses. And she said there was always
something that was kind of missing with it.
And I thought to myself, yeah, Iknow exactly what you mean.
The missing part was the nervoussystem regulation, the

(02:40):
embodiment, because it's one thing to tell yourself that you
desire a certain thing, and thenit's another thing for your
nervous system and your subconscious mind to go, oh, OK,
that's all right, that's safe. But you see, we're not taught
this. So we recite all these

(03:02):
affirmations over and over and over again, and then we wonder
why nothing in our life is changing.
And this is where the pause in ayen pose is really a massive
game changer for a number of reasons.
First and foremost, let's face it, we need to pause throughout
the day. I mean, you don't have to pause

(03:24):
for an hour several times a day.You could even pause for like 3
minutes in a day. But we all need to pause, OK?
We're not meant to live like robots on autopilot where we're
just like going round and aroundand around all over all the
time. We are meant to have some
stillness. And I say this in my yen classes

(03:46):
that I teach on my Soulful yen app.
I say this all the time. Without your awareness, nothing
changes. Nothing.
If you're not aware, nothing is going to change.
But when you pause, whether it'slike a 2 minute pose, a 5 minute
pose, there's opportunity there.And this is where a lot of

(04:11):
people sometimes just check out and they're like, yeah, I'm just
going to like hang out in this pose for two minutes.
And they don't really start to think or contemplate for
themselves what could be or whatam I thinking about?
And how are my thoughts making me feel?

(04:32):
And how are these feeling thoughts creating emotions in my
body that I know I'm storing, that I know with yen yoga, I can
release especially lower vibrational emotions, right?
Like fear and anger and worry. Like we have the ability in yen
yoga poses to release those emotions that we store in our

(04:54):
organs. But when you backtrack it and
you start with, OK, well, what Ithink makes me feel a certain
way and how I feel produces a certain emotion in my body that
I hold. But then it also creates a
specific belief, right? I keep thinking the same thing

(05:14):
over and over again. I am going to start to create a
belief around that. And it might be a good belief or
it might be a pretty crappy belief.
And with the pause, the awareness comes of like, oh, I
just thought that. Oh, I just thought that again.

(05:34):
And we're not taking it from a judgment or critical place, OK?
We're taking it from a curious, contemplative approach.
Oh, OK. I keep thinking this over and
over again. Is this thought really serving
me? Yes or no?

(05:55):
Right. And if it's a thought that's not
serving you, this is where you get to shift it with your
awareness. So with my my student, this is
what happened to her. So she took my five day
challenge and during it, she just had this moment where she
was like, I get it. I understand this.

(06:17):
I understand all the victim mindset, the creator mindset.
I understand the identity work that I have to do.
I understand like the decoding Ihave to do, the trusting I have
to do, The Who I need to become.And she was like, one day she
was like, I just decided, you know what?
I hate my job. I don't want to do it anymore

(06:41):
and I want to be happier doing something else.
So she took inspired aligned action.
This is a big part, right? She took inspired aligned action
and she decided to apply for three different jobs.
Now, all of these jobs she wasn't quote UN quote on paper
qualified for, but in her mind she had cultivated a mindset of,

(07:05):
you know what? I think I could pull these off.
So she applied, and two out of the three jobs that she applied
for, she was offered the position.
So where she was working before,she was working for a really
crappy organization. She had a boss that was just

(07:26):
basically a bully and treated her like crap and didn't value
or respect her input on anything.
She was always working overtime and on weekends.
She had no family life balance, work life balance at all.
There was not even any such discussion about that in her

(07:46):
office about work life balance. She was exhausted and burnt out.
The people she worked with were toxic and they were manipulative
and they were just not a good energy to be around.
And she was making $40,000 a year, which really for the
amount of work that she was doing in a year, she was

(08:06):
probably actually taking in about 20 K.
So working a lot and making no money.
The job that she got that she ended up taking, the minute she
spoke with the, with the, her boss, her future boss at that
point who interviewed here, she felt a connection.
She was like, Oh, my God, like, there's something here that I'm

(08:28):
like, this just feels good. They were on the same page about
work life balance. She got to meet some of the
other people so that she would be prospectively working with.
She got good vibes from them. She looked around the office.
People looked happy. They looked happy to be there.
And, you know, like, they believed in, like, OK, you work

(08:50):
Monday to Friday. You pick your hours.
But as long as you work, you're 37 1/2 hours a week, I don't
care what time you come in. Her boss was like, if you want
to start 6:00 AM one day and 9:00 at the other, I don't care
as long as you get your work done and in the amount of time
I'm happy. I don't micromanage.
And she was like, Oh my God, thank you.

(09:12):
And then she heard about their benefits plan and it was like
next level incredible compared to the benefits plan that she
currently had. And she was getting a $60,000
increase in salary. So she was going from making 40
KA year to 100 KA year in a job that she was going to love,

(09:34):
where she had a boss that was going to be cooperative,
respectful and supportive and working with other like minded
people. Like talk about a major yinning
at life opportunity for her. Now, I gave her all the theory
in these five days, but what really helped her was the

(09:58):
embodiment practices, the nervous system regulation.
That's what made the difference.That was the game changer for
her. That gave her the confidence and
the courage to be like, you knowwhat, I'm going to do this, I'm
going to try. And she is so excited and she
can't wait. She starts her job next week and
she's also joining my 21 day accelerator program that starts

(10:22):
on Monday as well. This is how to literally be
living your extraordinary delusional life in 21 days.
Now she's already over the moon that in five days she was able
to shift her mindset and use thepractice of yin yoga, breath
work, and meditation to just really anchor in and embody the

(10:44):
future version of herself that she believed in, that she wanted
to be. And when you take that time to
pause every single day, it doesn't have to be long.
Maybe it's only like 5 minutes aday, but that is your
invitation. That is an opportunity to be

(11:04):
able to go. You know what?
Maybe I can choose differently for myself because as I said
before, if you're not aware, then you don't know what to
change. But the moment you become aware,
then you have an option. You can go, oh, OK.
Well, yeah, I could still continue to, you know, be the

(11:25):
same person as I am. That's a choice.
Or I can go, you know what? I'm going to take a different
path. I'm going to choose differently
for myself and see where that takes me.
But without the awareness, there's no choice.
And without awareness, there's no growth, there's no expansion,
there's no possibility to reallythrive in your life.

(11:48):
And we're, we were put on this earth to thrive, not to survive,
to thrive. And you know, right from the
very first time that I did Yan yoga, I, you know, even before
when I was in that first class that I took that I thought was
an Ashtango class, but it wasn't.

(12:10):
And all of a sudden this teacherputs us in this pose and I'm
like, wait a minute, like, why aren't we standing up?
This is Ashtango level 1. And I'm like, OK, why are we in
like this childlike pose? And why are we here for so long?
When I finally realized I was not in an Ashtanga class, I
didn't know what I was in, but Iknew I wasn't in Ashtanga.
And I went, OK, you know what? I'm just going to soften into

(12:33):
this because it is what it is. Not going to get up and leave.
I'm going to just finish this practice.
About part way through into the class, I was like, there's like
something happening here. Like, yeah, I can feel like my
body is stretching out, which, yeah, OK, sure, it's great.

(12:53):
But I was very, very, very flexible back then.
So the stretch was not really that exciting to me.
But I was like, there's something going on here upstairs
in the mind. There's there's something
changing here. I'm becoming aware of things.
I was starting to have conversations in my head of
like, I don't like this part of my life.

(13:14):
I think that things are supposedto be different for me.
I wonder what I could do to shift.
And I knew nothing about mindsetand personal development back
then. I was just working in a
corporate job that, you know, what was very stressful?
And I started doing yoga becauseit was helping me with the

(13:36):
stress. And that's what I was there for.
But when I started all of a sudden having these inner
conversations, these inner dialogues with myself, I was
like, whoa, I'm like, this is kind of cool.
I never had time to think of these thoughts before.
I was just always too busy doingright, doing work, being

(14:01):
bothered, being, you know, like,interrupted.
Like there was just no time. And even when I was doing like,
like I was a hardcore Ashtangi for many years, you're, if
you've ever done ashtango, like it's a continuous moving,
flowing vinyasa type practice. You're not sitting around and

(14:22):
just like, you know, lying thereand breathing, you're moving.
And for me, that movement wasn'tcreating pause.
It was just this continuous cycle of I'm moving my body and
I'm breathing and I'm moving my body and I'm breathing and I'm
moving my body and I'm breathingand that's what I'm doing.
But there wasn't the opportunityto pause and to create

(14:45):
awareness, not until the end when you were lying in
Shavasana. And by then it was like, well,
you know, but it often wasn't a long enough Shavasana And I was
tired and I was sweaty and I wasjust like, oh, thank God, I'm
just lying here in Shavasana. And that's all I would think
about is, thank God I'm lying inShavasana, but with the end

(15:06):
whole other ball game, each timeyou pull, you pause, whether
it's you're pausing in the stillness of the pose or you're
pausing in between to rebound. There's an opportunity for
contemplation, introspection, awareness.

(15:28):
And with all of that comes the opportunity to change anything
that you want to change. And that's what happened with my
client and now she's moving intoher dream job and she's so
excited about her life and this,you know, $60,000 increase in

(15:50):
salary. She's actually going to be
working less than she was when she was in her 40K salary.
And she's like, now she's like, I have extra money to be able to
invest and pour more into my ownpersonal self development, you
know, to maybe pay off some, some debt that I was carrying
around and just live a higher quality of life for myself and

(16:12):
for my family. And she's like, in five days, I
did that. So she's like, I can't even
imagine what journey you're going to take me through in the
21 days. And I'm like, you just wait and
see because scientifically, theysay that it takes a minimum of
21 days for our brain to really rewire its neural pathways.

(16:36):
It can certainly be done in a shorter period of time, but it
requires a lot more effort, a lot more conscious effort and
awareness. So I often say at the beginning
of doing this mindset work, you know, you might be pausing a lot
more often in order to reframe, reset, reframe, reset.

(17:01):
But for me, this has been an embodied way of living for
almost, I've been practicing yetso almost like 25 years.
I've been teaching yin yoga for 25 years.
I've been practicing for probably about, I was practicing
for probably about 27 years. It was about two years before I
did my yin yoga teacher trainingand it's completely changed my

(17:28):
life. And I always thought back then
there was so much more that was happening than just the physical
stretch. I knew there was something
deeper. And so this is your invitation
to start to look at your own life and be like, if there's
something that you want to shift, just know that you know

(17:51):
what? With the right amount of pausing
and awareness and compassion foryourself and patience, you can
rewire your brain and start to create an extraordinary delulu
life and live that extraordinarylife like not just for a few

(18:15):
days, but like for the rest of your life, even when life is
quote UN quote life in you, right?
Because this is the reality. If we were living just in a soul
being and we had no human experience, then life would be a
real bore because we would just be living out everything and we
wouldn't actually be learning anything.

(18:38):
There would be no growth, no expansion.
But every time that you get hit with something that you're like,
you know what? I really don't want to deal with
this or oh, I didn't ask for that.
It's an opportunity to grow. Or maybe it's.
An opportunity to learn a lesson, OK, if I'm in this

(18:59):
situation again, I'm sure is notgoing to turn and do the same
thing over. I already learned that I'm here
to do something else. And The thing is, is that we are
not here to keep living the sameexperiences over and over and
over again, especially the ones.That weren't so.
Great. That didn't serve us.

(19:22):
That really lowered our vibe andour frequency.
You know, like once you've done it once, it's like, yeah, OK, I
don't really want to relive thatagain.
But the sad thing is, is that weoften do We.
Just keep. Repeating the same patterns over
and over again because we are not aware that we're even

(19:46):
repeating them in the first place.
That's what often happens. We're not even aware.
And so the. Power of the pause is key.
It is the game changer to manifesting an incredibly
extraordinary Dululu life. And when you?

(20:08):
Can add awareness, introspectionand then layer on top of that
how to collapse the time. Accelerate.
The time between where you're atnow to where you desire to be,

(20:28):
to who you are now, to who you desire to be.
When you can. Learn to navigate that.
Then you are. Literally unshakable and
unstoppable in what you can create for yourself.
So my. Invitation for you is to join

(20:49):
the Soulful Yin app, come and practice and be given the
opportunity to pause. Or you can.
Come and join me in the five Setthe Five day mindset challenge
that is now on demand. So you can just download it and
get instant access to it right away.
Or you can join my 21 day accelerator, the Art of

(21:13):
Collapsing Time program that starts on Monday, May 19th.
OK, it's still on pre sale rightnow and you can join that and
you will get lifetime access to that.
So I'm going to link all of thatup in the show notes for you.
You can take a look at it. And you can.
Start creating your extraordinary delulu life.
You can start creating a massiveawareness and I will tell you

(21:38):
when you take time to pause. You are going.
To be blown away at some of the thoughts that you've been
thinking that have been creatingyour belief systems and your
reality and you're going to be going, Oh my God, I cannot
believe I was thinking that way.Well, no wonder my life is like

(21:58):
this. So.
When you get. Deliberate.
Can you imagine what is available to you?
Because you could be, you could do and you can have it all.
So thanks SO. Much for pressing play on
today's episode. I will see you next week on the

(22:20):
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