July 29, 2024 • 47 mins
Do you want to live more mindfully and be more present in your life? Do you want to reduce stress, anxiety, and negative thoughts? Do you want to tap into your inner wisdom and creativity?
If so, this episode is for you. I interviewed Adriana Chaves Gage, a well-being coach, meditation teacher, and hypnotherapist who shares her secrets to unlocking mindfulness. You will learn about the benefits of the stop technique, which helps you become more aware of your present moment without judgment. You will also learn about mindful eating, which helps you enjoy your food and listen to your body's signals. You will discover how gratitude, grounding, and meditation can help you connect with yourself, your environment, and your purpose. And you will find out how to be more kind to yourself and others, and how to access your true self and your superpowers.
Tune in and find out how you can experience more peace, happiness, and creativity in your everyday life.
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Hey. Hey, there. So, today I have a special
guest. Adriana is actually my
coach, and I have invited her here
to talk to you all about mindfulness.
But before we really dive in, I would love,
adriana, if you could introduce yourself and tell us
(01:29):
about what exactly you do, besides, because I know
you do more than mindfulness, and how you got into
it. So tell us a little bit about you. Great.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (01:37):
Thank you so much, jolene. First of all, I
want everyone to know that I am here.
Really, it's such an honor
to be here with you in your space.
And I want everyone to know that I'm here in loving
presence, always completely
present here with you.
So, again, my name is adriana
(02:00):
chavez gage, and, yes, I am, a
wellbeing. I work as a wellbeing coach.
I teach meditation,
and thus, why
mindfulness? Being
a mind coach, a
wellbeing coach, and learning
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the beauty, the wisdom of
ayurveda, and putting it all together
into these right here, right now. So,
mindfulness is one of my favorite
topics. And if you're just tuning
in and you're becoming more aware
of what's happening here right now,
you're practicing mindfulness. So, one of the
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many things I love about it, it's simple,
but yet powerful.
>> Jolene (02:47):
It's very powerful, especially when you can tap
in, each time you tap in a little bit, little bit more.
It's amazing how it opens
up. What might
be blocking you from achieving goals is being
mindful of what's going on inside your body,
as well as your surroundings and your mind.
(03:08):
I, also know that you're also a hypnotherapist.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (03:11):
Yes.
>> Jolene (03:11):
And I'd love for you to touch on that as well and
just give everybody, like, the full Adriana
experience so that we know what you do.
but the mindfulness will go in and out of that. It's
just, The hypnotherapy is also something
that some of my listeners might be m
interested in. So I'd love to hear a little bit more about that, because we
don't really talk about that when we're talking.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (03:34):
Yes, that's true. Thank you so much for
reminding me of that
huge aspect of what I do.
And hypnotherapy
is really
the science, the study
of the mind. And the
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mind is how we,
through the mind, we perceive
our internal and
external world. Right.
So, again, everything
is intertwined. This
month in my newsletter, I'm talking about
the power of being present, of
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being in
connection with nature, which also
reminds me of the part of the
hypnotherapy that connects
ourselves with
the universe, kind of this
conscious mind, the subconscious
(04:38):
mind, the universal mind. So it's
this connection. By going within,
by calming your mind, you
can reach what I so often call
your superpowers. So
the coaching, the hypnotherapy,
mindfulness, they are so
(04:59):
connected together.
>> Jolene (05:02):
They definitely, definitely are. And,
So let's tackle mindfulness a little bit and
how one
with the importance of mindfulness, because we all
know we rush through life
sometimes and we're not present. Like, when I think of
mindfulness, I think of being present in the moment
or being at least somewhat aware of it.
(05:24):
would you describe it as that or even deeper?
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.
If you are, again,
you know that race, right. It's almost like
we are in a race to get somewhere
and get there fast, and we get anxious
when we're not there yet.
So mindfulness is what you explain is
just to bring your awareness,
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your conscious,
to this moment.
But there is another
point of being mindful
that is part of mindfulness.
It's the part that we are doing
that being conscious of what we're doing while
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we're doing it without
judgment. And this is with
just curiosity. Here I
am, we, our body,
our nature. We are.
We judge. We judge for our
safety and we judge. We continue
doing that all the time. And
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oftentimes what we find right
here right now, we're judging as
nothing being good
enough. I don't want to accept what's
happening right now. So this part
of observing, hm,
what is with
acceptance without
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criticizing or judging
what is happening, it's just being.
>> Jolene (07:02):
I like that. And, just to tie it back into,
like, a nutritional or overall health, because
a lot of mindful work,
we don't realize that we need to do on the back
end. we focus on
food, but we don't focus on why we
struggle eating healthy
or moving on. When we
(07:24):
maybe went out to dinner with friends, like, going out to dinner with
friends is going out to dinner with friends. You enjoyed the
moment, but why is it a struggle to go back
to your normal pattern of eating? and
a lot of that does tie into
being aware or mindful of what's
going on inside.
tell me a little bit about how we
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can open up
and become more like, you
know, you and I have talked about. Maybe you can even bring it up again, the stop
method of, like, stopping for a second
beforehand, to become more mindful. Like, a lot
of that all has to do with opening this all
up on
being aware of why, but
(08:08):
no judgment. And that seems to be the human hard
part.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (08:11):
Yes, the human hard part. I love
that. Yeah, it's very human. It's very
common to judge
because, again, that's what we're conditioned
to. But this stop
technique, I'm so happy you mentioned that,
part of this
practice of becoming
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more aware of your present
moment is to
stop. When you notice
you're in a race with
yourself. There's no
winner there. It's just you raising yourself.
So when you stop, when you just say
even that word, stop. And, the stop
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technique is this acronym that,
asks for stop when you stop. And then the t is
to take a breath. So part of
becoming more and more mindful
of what you're doing while you're doing
it, you can take that
breath. Because the breath
is really a huge
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part of becoming more
present. And in addition to
that, perhaps even more
important is to calm your
nervous system. Because when we're in that
rat race, we are activating the
sympathetic nervous system, the stress
mode. We don't even need to go into
(09:41):
details how, we all know, and there's
so much research that tells us
it's okay to have a little bit of stress. But this continuous
stress is really harsh in our body, in our
mind, in our soul. So this
stopping and taking a breath calms your
nervous system, brings you here, because
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oftentimes the suffering is
attached to the past and the future.
Right here, right now, often
you're safe. Everything is okay. But we're
creating those stories from what
happened and what's yet to happen. And when
you stop and you breathe now you can
observe, you can notice.
(10:24):
And being the, observer
of what's happening detaches
us from what is happening. In other words,
I may be thinking about something,
but I'm not this thought. I'm just the thinker
of the thought. So I'm making it sort
of, exponentially larger
here by introducing this thought that
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you're not your thought, you're the thinker of the thought. And
when you stop and you breathe and you observe
what's happening, you can detach
from it and watch. And now,
peace to proceed. Now you can
proceed calmly, more
serenely, towards
where you're going or what is happening. But,
(11:09):
yeah, bringing it to the present moment and really
accepting what is
the radical acceptance. This top
technique is a huge part because it
connects the breath. And anytime you bring
conscious breathing, you can change
the way you are feeling,
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because just like how you
feel influences your breath,
when you connect with your breath, you can change
how you feel. And the stop technique delivers
that.
>> Jolene (11:42):
Yes, it is a strong
technique. And, we've got, as
humans or as women especially, we need to
stop separating all these different aspects.
Our actions are
deeper than just the
actions. It's
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coming from our past. It's what we think
our future holds. It's
not what's happening right here and there and
right here and now. And a lot of women, a
lot of you have children and being
present while you're
with them, sometimes using this technique,
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you stop and you realize, I need to live in this
moment today and not worry
about the laundry. The laundry will get done.
My child needs me to play with them right now, and I haven't
played with them in weeks. Like, things. Like, things of those
natures that I think we often are
so wrapped up in.
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What we need to eat, what we should not eat,
what we need to do around the house, what we're not
supposed to do, what. What the shoulds and should. We're
shoulded to death, basically.
And mindfulness brings us back
into, rather than the should,
the. I am. I am here and I am
living. I mean, I
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I just, you know, we. I brought up in the past
mindful eating. That's being
aware. You brought up the parasympathetic
mode. Digestion thrives on
being at peace and
being mindful and being calm,
not being stressed, running
like, running ragged. And
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it's just for your whole body
health. we got to stop detaching all
these parts of ourselves. And it's one of the reasons why I wanted you
here is because we often
detach this part of us away from
the physical being, and we're one,
so how can we.
What are there besides the stop technique? Are there little
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teeny tips you can give somebody
to real or, to
start to get back
on? You know, just something small and tangible that
they could put into work, that they could just start
being more aware. It's easy to say, you just
have to live in the moment. You have to be more mindful.
But how? I think that's where a lot
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of people struggle is with that. How do we do that?
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (14:16):
Yes. Yes. And I love that
you remind us
of the mindful eating
because, yeah, mindfulness is
everywhere. Again, just any moment
that you take your wandering mind back
to work, what are you doing?
You are practicing mindfulness. And
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one of the many ways that you can
effectively practice
mindfulness is during eating time.
And often I mentioned the mindful eating.
What is mindful eating? Right.
It's when you actually put
your phone away. How many of us have been to
a restaurant and the whole table, everybody's on their
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phone. The food may
arrive, they might not. you know,
everything may just feel like less
real than a dream
afterwards or especially during it.
But, yes, one easy,
simple, and very
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powerful way to practice mindfulness
is to put your phone down during food,
during dinner time, anytime you
eating, and you're just concentrated,
it's really. And I. And I heard these,
actually, when my son was four years old, he
took karate, and his
teacher used to say to
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them, think of what you're doing while you're
doing it. So the simple way
to remind us to practice
mindfulness is to just
notice, play with. And we can start
by when we eat, because most of
us eat every day more than
once. And you can just take one
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time. This week, I'm going to take
one meal. This whole week, I'm going to be
mindful. I'm going to put my phone away, the tv's
off. I'm going to look at my food, and
you ignite all your
senses. I look at the food,
I notice where I'm
seated, I notice my body, how
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you feeling? And when you
eat, you taste the food.
You just whiff that
presence. And it's such
a powerful way not to overeat or
under eat, because when you are connected,
you are really igniting your insight, your
intuition. You allow time for
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your brain to process, hey,
I'm satisfied.
You know, maybe you put too much food in your plate. Maybe you
put too little food in your plate and your body,
when you are connected, when you're mindful of what you're
doing, while you're doing it,
you notice this thing. So the food
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is you're going to eat slower. You're going to process
that. You're going to feel
satisfied by the taste,
the texture, and
that's all you're doing. One meal
out of the entire week. We can start
there.
>> Jolene (17:30):
That, that's awesome that you brought it back to that,
because we're out of tune
with our body. Our body tells us, like you said,
it'll tell us when we've had enough or
know what? Tonight, you just didn't eat enough. Go get a little bit
more. Like, what? But we're so out of
tune because we're not mindful. We're
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eating too fast. We're not enjoying all the
flavors. We're not enjoying the
conversation of our family members, if they're there
with us or friends or whatever it is
there. and
we've lost that connection
to our body and our mind.
We override it, basically. We either are eating
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so fast that we just eat everything on the plate, and it might have
been too much till we're like, don't feel good after.
Or an hour later, we're like,
I'm starving. And you want to eat a whole nother meal because you didn't
enjoy the meal you had. There's so
much to that. And just
being thankful for the mood, the food that
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you were given as part of being mindful. It
doesn't matter what your faith or religion is. You can
thank the ground and the farmers for
growing the food like it's nothing.
It doesn't have to be as in depth as a religious
thanks. And if you're religious, more power to
you of, thanking God. But it's
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being thankful that there's food there, being.
Having a sense of gratitude
to having food. I mean, there's a lot of
people out there that don't have that privilege.
yeah, you know, and being mindful of
it is huge. And, what
are some other areas that you find people are not as
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mindful as you think they should be?
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (19:16):
Well, you touch something that
isn't.
one way of being
mindful is when you
mentioned the word gratitude. And, yes,
definitely for the food to just
extend your
appreciation. You know,
gratitude is linked to
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appreciation. And when you,
who has heard what you
appreciate, appreciates in
your life. So I am
grateful. I see the food and I.
Yes, there's so much that goes
into that for us. It's so easy nowadays,
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right? You go to the market, put in your card. I mean, you
have to pay. And I know the price has gone up,
but it's easier than it used
to be, right? But there's so much
into it. And when you pause
and you count
what you appreciate, all
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the things, the blessings in your life. So
practicing m
gratitude is huge.
Again, it connects the hypnosis, the
meditation, the well being,
coaching. Because when I,
appreciate what I already
have, I come back to the present,
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right? I'm not in the future, I'm not in the
past. I'm right here and right now. There's a quote
from Akrato that I love that says, realize
deeply that the present moment is all you
have. It's
tangible in a way.
So giving appreciation,
gratitude, journaling. I
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personally love to at the end of
the day, write down at least three things that I'm
grateful for. And I think that
single technique alone,
alone, which has been dated back
ayurveda, this is 5000 years ago
wisdom from 5000 years ago that now you can
(21:24):
read everywhere the benefits. But, yeah, just
stopping and saying, what am I grateful
for? What am I grateful for?
And putting down in a paper before you go to sleep
that, unloads and you go to
sleep with that gratitude in your
hormone, you know, all the cool hormones
get activated in your brain and then
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that just multiplies while you sleep.
So that's very powerful. Yeah. Gratitude
is a huge way to
get out of over there and come back to
here.
>> Jolene (21:59):
Yeah, gratitude. I find even
if there is some negativity I
run into the day if I can flip something
or at least I may not be
grateful for that situation or that energy
but if I can switch it to something I am
grateful for, changes my
energy, helps me be more positive
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and look out. And, I think in the
environment we've all lived in at some point
in time everybody's had that negative Nancy
boss or friend
or spouse or parent
and understanding that that's
them and you shouldn't be pulling that to
you. And how that affects
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your health is, you know, sometimes you're
just grateful that they're doing the best they can
and that you don't have to live with them anymore.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (22:55):
Yes.
>> Jolene (22:57):
sometimes there's little things like that but,
you know, finding the positive throughout
the day changes
your brain chemistry. It's been
known like the dopamine serotonin. It just
changes everything. And so if you can find something
outside of the situation, even will help you
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get through it unscathed or a little
bit happier at the end. I love a good
gratitude practice. Prayer, is a big one.
Meditation. I know that you're
very, into helping people meditate just to
get that breath, work out so that
they're grounded. we talk a lot about being
grounded, and that could mean
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so many different things to different people. Like, people say, oh, you have to
go outside, put your feet in the dirt or the grass
and ground yourself. Well, it's more than just that. It's
just coming back. would you like to explain
a little bit of that? It's like grounding yourself a little bit
through mindfulness meditation
and all of it.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (23:58):
Yes, all of the above. I love
that. Yes. recently
actually read or heard a
podcast, something to do with. As
we get more wisdom behind
us, with more age, we
can tend to become
more distracted, more
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ungrounded.
And one of the many
things that it's so
effective and yet so simple, it's
just we can use colors to ground
ourselves. Yeah. You know, there's the
perfect world and there's the ideal world. In the perfect
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world, I'm going to take my shoes off and go outside
and put my feet on the grass and ground myself.
I don't do that as much in the winter time because
my feet are cold. But regardless,
you can practice. You can become grounded,
more grounded, more rooted, more
connected with the earth. Right. In
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ayurveda, we have these five great
elements, and earth is one element
that ground us. You can use colors,
for instance. I love crystals, I love stones. I
have, you know, the different colors here. So
red is a color that ground us.
By looking, by
visualizing the color red, you can
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go into your root
chakra, which is that energy
center at the base of your spine
by your sit bones. So you can just
visualize that area, visualize the
color red and become more
grounded. You can put a picture of,
mountains in your
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screen and look at that, too.
Mountains are very grounded, very earthing.
And the positive, the
benefit of becoming grounded
is becoming more
present or
less anxious. You know, there's a
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lot of qualities in the air, depending on
the season, depending on what age we
are. in the cycle of life, there
are so many things that can
create a little more
tendency of becoming anxious. I think all of
us can agree that we are anxious
people in general. We become
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anxious grounding yourself
through the breathwork, color,
visual visualizations, putting
your feet on the sand, on the grass
can help us become more present,
more right here, right now.
>> Jolene (26:44):
I love that. I love everything about that. And, I
was thinking, like when we were all little kids,
we were grounded. We didn't see the anxiousness
because we'd be outside playing. I mean, I don't know about kids
nowadays, but when we were younger, we'd be outside in the
dirt and the grass and
just getting that fresh air and
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connecting with whatever, making mud pies. I
mean, I know as dirty as that sounds, people,
we used to make mud pies, but
we wouldn't eat them, though.
but you know, just, we've lost so much
of that as more and more we came
inside,
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and connecting with the dirt.
Like, I know a lot of people have gotten back into
gardening of some sort, even, or house
plants, but just getting in with the nature
helps relax you as
well as ground you because you're bringing the outside in, if
nothing else, or you're being outside, in the sun.
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Sunlight is wonders for grounding
and getting your brain. And I know a lot of people are
afraid of sunlight, but get out there in the morning,
510 minutes, you're not going to get sunburned. Trust me on
this. Take your glasses off, get
some sunlight in the back of your eyes. it
does wonders for the body as a whole.
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and then, so we've gone over some
mindfulness, some grounding
gratitude.
Is there anything else you want to touch on,
before we close up a little bit, I just
like, what do you offer when
you coach through people? Because what you and I are doing is a little
different than maybe what you do on a day to day basis.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (28:31):
Yes. So the one thing that
I want to mention
is the practice of,
meditation, because
meditation is such
a powerful tool to
connect us with
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who we really are.
So this simple
practice, because it can.
I remember when I started back
in 2026, I made a
commitment to meditate every single
day. In
1999,
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I became exposed
to meditation and
it was love at first sight. So I
started meditating here and there. And then when
I made the commitment to myself,
to my self care, to
1 minute, I started as 1 minute,
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two minutes, three minutes. My children were
little. There was so much going on. But my
point is, meditation is
such an easy tool
to reconnect with who
you are, reconnect with that superpower,
reconnect with that, God. God is in,
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within you. And
we can talk about meditation, we can
read about meditation. But unless we
meditate, we're not
experiencing the peace, the
calmness. And the first thing that people
might be thinking already is, oh, meditation is not
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for me. I hear that a lot because I have too many
thoughts. Oh, when I sit down,
there's all these thoughts. Well, welcome,
everybody. We have thousands of thoughts
a day. And guess what happens when you sit to
meditate. They're going to come just like
the outside distractions. They don't
stop coming. Just so you can have a
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peaceful life. You make peace inside. So you connect,
you close your eyes, thoughts come,
you observe them. it's such a great
practice during meditation. You
practice your whole life how to
live a happier life. Right? Because
if I can just deal with what's coming from
the outside with some equanimity,
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with some kind of stability, not reacting.
And this is what you do when you practice meditation.
The thoughts come, the neighbor starts mowing their
lawn. There's all these teachers to
help us to stay focused,
and this is another area. So in
one practice, even if it's one, two,
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three minutes a day, you can
reconnect with your true self, who you really
are, and that experience comes
out on your everyday life. And
that is a huge benefit of meditation.
So, yes, if there's one thing that
I really, really want to
emphasize, is that the
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experience that we
have with the meditation
can really open up, that
silence, because we are hearing,
seeing. There's so much
going on. And when you stop and you go
within, there's a moment of silence. And
that silence is the
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birthplace of happiness, creativity,
and really an infinite field
of possibilities.
>> Jolene (32:12):
Absolutely. I strongly believe in
meditation, though I've been struggling with it a lot
lately. And, for those that are like me,
I kind of combine prayer and meditation
together so that, it's a
daily practice, because I think
too often people who even pray rush
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through that, and it's not the
connection it's supposed to be. So it depends on what
your belief systems are. And
everybody believes lots of different ways, even.
Even in the same religion, they will believe lots of different
ways. But that meditation and getting
still can be a time
of inward thoughts, of being a better
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person, relying on your
faith, whatever it is. As a Catholic, there is a
lot of prayers that people don't understand, but they're
a form of meditation because we're just focusing on those
words. as
well as in muslim prayers, the same thing. They're
focusing on just these set words of that
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prayer. They're not there.
Those are things that help kind of control the mind. And
when you have a mantra, when you meditate,
sometimes it helps the belief
system in you that you're going to be stronger, whatever it is. Like today,
I'm going to be stronger. I'm going to eat clean. That. You could say that
a hundred. But it helps get your
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mind set on something and,
helps get through the thoughts. But like you said, no,
meditation is not clearing the mind completely. You're not going
to. You're not. None of
us of this level are, you
know, those guru people
that can clear their mind for hours, and I don't even know if they
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do. I was always taught meditation is bringing
in the thoughts and then either dealing with them or
pushing them back out, and realizing that they're
not their thoughts, they're not real
actualities. Like,
you know, like a, thought comes in that, oh, I'm
gonna. Or this is gonna happen. We don't know what's gonna
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happen tomorrow or in ten minutes. Like, we don't
know. So, like, bringing it back to being
and paying attention to your body. Like, sometimes it's a good time
to assess what's going on in your body. Aches,
pains, acknowledging them,
acknowledging the fact that you can feel parts of your body.
I mean, I know that sounds like a weird gratitude, but sometimes,
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you know, all my knees hurt. Oh. I'm grateful that I can actually
feel my knees, because there might be a time where you
can't. Exactly, I just always like to bring
it around to know that
meditation, prayer, they all go
hand in hand, depending on
what you want to focus on in
your quiet time. And I don't think
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most people take
five minutes a day
to truly meditate, even if it's in their
prayers. Like, it's. Very few people in this
world actually do that.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (35:14):
Yeah.
>> Jolene (35:14):
And five, five minutes isn't very long. And
the connection you make and what
it does for your well being, your
energy, everything, it changes
everything. I can't stress that enough. So I'm really glad you
brought up the meditation because it's. It's a
huge thing, and there's guided meditation. If
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you want to keep it separate and do guided
meditation, sometimes they'll just help you get started.
music is a great for me sometimes
having meditative music in the background,
because it just. My brain sometimes
needs two things going on. So if I can hear the music, I can kick
the thoughts out better.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (35:55):
Yeah. Like you said, the word, the mantra,
right? So the mad m. You can use music as a
mantra. You can use a mantra.
when I teach meditation, I give
you your primordial
sound. Mantra is the vibration the
universe was making at the time and place of your
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birth. It's all connected with the
moon's cycle. And anyways,
so there's this sound. So
we've all probably heard
about sound healing,
the healing powers
of sound. Yeah. So using
music, using a mantra,
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so you can focus on that.
And when the thoughts come, the sensations
in the body, the sounds in your environment,
you observe them back to that stop
technique that we can use everywhere,
all the time. You observe what's
happening. And when you notice, you
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drift away from the mantra, whatever it
is, whether it's your breath, a, mantra,
a word or music,
you go, oh, with kindness. Loving
kindness. That's huge. Part of
mindfulness is loving kindness,
and it begins with us. I'm
having, I'm drifting away.
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So feel the difference. I'm upset because I
drifted away again or,
oh, I drifted away. I'll go back to my mantra,
I'll go back to the music, I'll go back to the breath. so
loving kindness is such a
huge piece of mindfulness,
especially towards a, life
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that's happier, healthier,
more joyful.
>> Jolene (37:46):
And I think the
kindness piece is huge because we're
often kind to others when we speak, when
we think, when we say what we do,
and we're so unkind to ourselves.
You know,
if there's one thing I can suggest people to do
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is when you find yourself saying,
my arms are too fat, I'm too fat. I'm
not, I don't have any willpower. Take a step
back and would you say that to somebody else?
That that's the whole stop. Would you say
that to somebody else?
The answer probably is no. You're not going
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to go around and say, oh, gosh, man, your arms are too
big. Like, you're not going to do that. Yeah. Ah.
So it's time to take a step back and find
that when you do these
techniques of being mindful, of
meditating, stopping before you
go on a rampage, of eating whatever
it is and
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start liking yourself. I like to say
loving yourself, but you got to start liking yourself before you can actually
love yourself. You will be amazed by using this
technique, how much better you start
feeling, how your energy
shifts in a positive manner
to be better for yourself, for
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your family, for your job, whatever it is.
Taking all of these techniques a little at a time
gets you healthy. It's mind, body and
soul, spirit, soul. They're kind of
intertwined at that point. But we have to have a
purpose outside of ourselves. That's your soul.
Some sort of purpose outside of yourself. You are not
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the center of the universe. And then our mind
needs to be healthy and our body needs to be healthy. And when we get
all three, we are in
a better situation. But we always seem to be
one third off somewhere, sometimes two thirds
off. you know, so it's a strive to
get those three things that three parts of
you all holistically held.
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Healthy. Hell no.
Healthy. Wow. so you
know, that that's our goal by
exploring. Exploring things that make you
uncomfortable. Meditation might make
you incredibly uncomfortable, but it could be just what you
need.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (40:13):
Yes.
>> Jolene (40:14):
You know, it. Living in the
uncomfortable at times is what we
need to be a better version of
ourselves.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (40:23):
Yeah, I love that. And I heard something
recently, not too long ago, that
doing the
uncomfortable, doing hard things.
Right. Because it's easier to just stay the same,
you know, same as yesterday, last
year, ten years ago. But when
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I do what's
hard, get out of my comfort
zone, my life becomes
easier.
You know, because the opposite
also comes to mind. If I
only do what's easy and
comfortable,
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then look around.
Your life is harder on you.
So just getting out of your comfort zone, I
love that. It's with confidence,
you know, with love, kindness to yourself. It
all begins with us.
So many of us are struggling right
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now because there's people struggling.
Right. We're in a
country that, compared to the whole
world, we have so much
here, but we suffer. Some
of us are suffering because other people are suffering.
They don't have homes. And that comes really close to
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home here. We're seeing that. But
here's the thing. It begins
with you. It begins with me. People
say, oh, I wish I could help. Well,
you can work on yourself. Right.
It begins with me. If I'm comfortable
with, I'm peaceful. I
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now existed. Exude that
and I can offer comfort and peace.
Maybe for someone that really needs it.
If. Whether it's a smile, a
comforting word, a
hug, or. Or
just answering a phone call and having a
conversation, just being.
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Start to work on ourselves and
look and feel
good, better, so you can
help others. And I think by
just working on yourself, you are
contributing tremendously
for the whole
world. Energy for
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you're helping, you're helping somebody, you're helping
yourself and you're helping the world.
>> Jolene (42:57):
Absolutely. you know, it goes back to
that thing that we like to say is when you're on an airplane, they
always tell you to put your oxygen, your mask on
first, because you're no help to anybody
else if you die. you're no help to anybody
else if you're ill. So we do
have to take care of us to be able to take care
of others, and we've got
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to get out of the mindset that it's selfish
to take care of us. It's actually one of the
least selfish things you can do, because you can't
take care of anybody else. And, if
you're sick, that means somebody else has to take care of you mentally,
physically, whatever it is, that means somebody else is taking care
of you. so the more we
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can do to better
ourselves, betters the world, because we're capable
of helping where help is needed.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (43:50):
Yes, absolutely.
>> Jolene (43:54):
So, okay, so let's, You've been
very, very gracious with your time, and I would love to
tell people where they can find you.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (44:03):
Thank you. You can find me
on Instagram. That's one
easy way. I think everyone has
an Instagram nowadays, and that is
adri sigage, just
the beginning of my name, ad r I c
for my middle name, engage, or my
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website, www.
Acg wellness.
>> Jolene (44:30):
Awesome. And of course, they will be linked in the show
notes.
Adriana, is there anything you want to close out with?
I really appreciate you spending
this time with me and sharing all of
the lovely tips on mindfulness and grounding and
meditation. And, I feel very relaxed
every time I talk to you. I get more and more relaxed.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (44:52):
Oh, perhaps because we
go from everywhere then to right here.
Yeah. So I love. I just want, first of
all, to share my
gratitude for you for
doing what you're doing and
sharing your wisdom, sharing
the wisdom traditions of
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the past with people so they
can be more in power. So I really
admire you for doing that, for inviting me
to your podcast, for being here for
everybody. And, yes, I think the
one thing that I want to close
with is to remind ourselves
that self care is not
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selfish. Yeah, absolutely. Be.
Be kind to yourself, be
kind to your body,
to your mind, and to your soul by
just taking a little time and being
more present, more grounded, and right here, right
now. Awesome.
>> Jolene (45:55):
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Hey. Hey, there. So, today I have a special
guest. Adriana is actually my
coach, and I have invited her here
to talk to you all about mindfulness.
But before we really dive in, I would love,
adriana, if you could introduce yourself and tell us
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about what exactly you do, besides, because I know
you do more than mindfulness, and how you got into
it. So tell us a little bit about you. Great.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (01:37):
Thank you so much, jolene. First of all, I
want everyone to know that I am here.
Really, it's such an honor
to be here with you in your space.
And I want everyone to know that I'm here in loving
presence, always completely
present here with you.
So, again, my name is adriana
(02:00):
chavez gage, and, yes, I am, a
wellbeing. I work as a wellbeing coach.
I teach meditation,
and thus, why
mindfulness? Being
a mind coach, a
wellbeing coach, and learning
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the beauty, the wisdom of
ayurveda, and putting it all together
into these right here, right now. So,
mindfulness is one of my favorite
topics. And if you're just tuning
in and you're becoming more aware
of what's happening here right now,
you're practicing mindfulness. So, one of the
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many things I love about it, it's simple,
but yet powerful.
>> Jolene (02:47):
It's very powerful, especially when you can tap
in, each time you tap in a little bit, little bit more.
It's amazing how it opens
up. What might
be blocking you from achieving goals is being
mindful of what's going on inside your body,
as well as your surroundings and your mind.
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I, also know that you're also a hypnotherapist.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (03:11):
Yes.
>> Jolene (03:11):
And I'd love for you to touch on that as well and
just give everybody, like, the full Adriana
experience so that we know what you do.
but the mindfulness will go in and out of that. It's
just, The hypnotherapy is also something
that some of my listeners might be m
interested in. So I'd love to hear a little bit more about that, because we
don't really talk about that when we're talking.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (03:34):
Yes, that's true. Thank you so much for
reminding me of that
huge aspect of what I do.
And hypnotherapy
is really
the science, the study
of the mind. And the
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mind is how we,
through the mind, we perceive
our internal and
external world. Right.
So, again, everything
is intertwined. This
month in my newsletter, I'm talking about
the power of being present, of
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being in
connection with nature, which also
reminds me of the part of the
hypnotherapy that connects
ourselves with
the universe, kind of this
conscious mind, the subconscious
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mind, the universal mind. So it's
this connection. By going within,
by calming your mind, you
can reach what I so often call
your superpowers. So
the coaching, the hypnotherapy,
mindfulness, they are so
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connected together.
>> Jolene (05:02):
They definitely, definitely are. And,
So let's tackle mindfulness a little bit and
how one
with the importance of mindfulness, because we all
know we rush through life
sometimes and we're not present. Like, when I think of
mindfulness, I think of being present in the moment
or being at least somewhat aware of it.
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would you describe it as that or even deeper?
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (05:28):
Yeah. Yeah, pretty much.
If you are, again,
you know that race, right. It's almost like
we are in a race to get somewhere
and get there fast, and we get anxious
when we're not there yet.
So mindfulness is what you explain is
just to bring your awareness,
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your conscious,
to this moment.
But there is another
point of being mindful
that is part of mindfulness.
It's the part that we are doing
that being conscious of what we're doing while
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we're doing it without
judgment. And this is with
just curiosity. Here I
am, we, our body,
our nature. We are.
We judge. We judge for our
safety and we judge. We continue
doing that all the time. And
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oftentimes what we find right
here right now, we're judging as
nothing being good
enough. I don't want to accept what's
happening right now. So this part
of observing, hm,
what is with
acceptance without
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criticizing or judging
what is happening, it's just being.
>> Jolene (07:02):
I like that. And, just to tie it back into,
like, a nutritional or overall health, because
a lot of mindful work,
we don't realize that we need to do on the back
end. we focus on
food, but we don't focus on why we
struggle eating healthy
or moving on. When we
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maybe went out to dinner with friends, like, going out to dinner with
friends is going out to dinner with friends. You enjoyed the
moment, but why is it a struggle to go back
to your normal pattern of eating? and
a lot of that does tie into
being aware or mindful of what's
going on inside.
tell me a little bit about how we
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can open up
and become more like, you
know, you and I have talked about. Maybe you can even bring it up again, the stop
method of, like, stopping for a second
beforehand, to become more mindful. Like, a lot
of that all has to do with opening this all
up on
being aware of why, but
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no judgment. And that seems to be the human hard
part.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (08:11):
Yes, the human hard part. I love
that. Yeah, it's very human. It's very
common to judge
because, again, that's what we're conditioned
to. But this stop
technique, I'm so happy you mentioned that,
part of this
practice of becoming
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more aware of your present
moment is to
stop. When you notice
you're in a race with
yourself. There's no
winner there. It's just you raising yourself.
So when you stop, when you just say
even that word, stop. And, the stop
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technique is this acronym that,
asks for stop when you stop. And then the t is
to take a breath. So part of
becoming more and more mindful
of what you're doing while you're doing
it, you can take that
breath. Because the breath
is really a huge
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part of becoming more
present. And in addition to
that, perhaps even more
important is to calm your
nervous system. Because when we're in that
rat race, we are activating the
sympathetic nervous system, the stress
mode. We don't even need to go into
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details how, we all know, and there's
so much research that tells us
it's okay to have a little bit of stress. But this continuous
stress is really harsh in our body, in our
mind, in our soul. So this
stopping and taking a breath calms your
nervous system, brings you here, because
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oftentimes the suffering is
attached to the past and the future.
Right here, right now, often
you're safe. Everything is okay. But we're
creating those stories from what
happened and what's yet to happen. And when
you stop and you breathe now you can
observe, you can notice.
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And being the, observer
of what's happening detaches
us from what is happening. In other words,
I may be thinking about something,
but I'm not this thought. I'm just the thinker
of the thought. So I'm making it sort
of, exponentially larger
here by introducing this thought that
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you're not your thought, you're the thinker of the thought. And
when you stop and you breathe and you observe
what's happening, you can detach
from it and watch. And now,
peace to proceed. Now you can
proceed calmly, more
serenely, towards
where you're going or what is happening. But,
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yeah, bringing it to the present moment and really
accepting what is
the radical acceptance. This top
technique is a huge part because it
connects the breath. And anytime you bring
conscious breathing, you can change
the way you are feeling,
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because just like how you
feel influences your breath,
when you connect with your breath, you can change
how you feel. And the stop technique delivers
that.
>> Jolene (11:42):
Yes, it is a strong
technique. And, we've got, as
humans or as women especially, we need to
stop separating all these different aspects.
Our actions are
deeper than just the
actions. It's
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coming from our past. It's what we think
our future holds. It's
not what's happening right here and there and
right here and now. And a lot of women, a
lot of you have children and being
present while you're
with them, sometimes using this technique,
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you stop and you realize, I need to live in this
moment today and not worry
about the laundry. The laundry will get done.
My child needs me to play with them right now, and I haven't
played with them in weeks. Like, things. Like, things of those
natures that I think we often are
so wrapped up in.
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What we need to eat, what we should not eat,
what we need to do around the house, what we're not
supposed to do, what. What the shoulds and should. We're
shoulded to death, basically.
And mindfulness brings us back
into, rather than the should,
the. I am. I am here and I am
living. I mean, I
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I just, you know, we. I brought up in the past
mindful eating. That's being
aware. You brought up the parasympathetic
mode. Digestion thrives on
being at peace and
being mindful and being calm,
not being stressed, running
like, running ragged. And
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it's just for your whole body
health. we got to stop detaching all
these parts of ourselves. And it's one of the reasons why I wanted you
here is because we often
detach this part of us away from
the physical being, and we're one,
so how can we.
What are there besides the stop technique? Are there little
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teeny tips you can give somebody
to real or, to
start to get back
on? You know, just something small and tangible that
they could put into work, that they could just start
being more aware. It's easy to say, you just
have to live in the moment. You have to be more mindful.
But how? I think that's where a lot
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of people struggle is with that. How do we do that?
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (14:16):
Yes. Yes. And I love that
you remind us
of the mindful eating
because, yeah, mindfulness is
everywhere. Again, just any moment
that you take your wandering mind back
to work, what are you doing?
You are practicing mindfulness. And
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one of the many ways that you can
effectively practice
mindfulness is during eating time.
And often I mentioned the mindful eating.
What is mindful eating? Right.
It's when you actually put
your phone away. How many of us have been to
a restaurant and the whole table, everybody's on their
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phone. The food may
arrive, they might not. you know,
everything may just feel like less
real than a dream
afterwards or especially during it.
But, yes, one easy,
simple, and very
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powerful way to practice mindfulness
is to put your phone down during food,
during dinner time, anytime you
eating, and you're just concentrated,
it's really. And I. And I heard these,
actually, when my son was four years old, he
took karate, and his
teacher used to say to
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them, think of what you're doing while you're
doing it. So the simple way
to remind us to practice
mindfulness is to just
notice, play with. And we can start
by when we eat, because most of
us eat every day more than
once. And you can just take one
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time. This week, I'm going to take
one meal. This whole week, I'm going to be
mindful. I'm going to put my phone away, the tv's
off. I'm going to look at my food, and
you ignite all your
senses. I look at the food,
I notice where I'm
seated, I notice my body, how
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you feeling? And when you
eat, you taste the food.
You just whiff that
presence. And it's such
a powerful way not to overeat or
under eat, because when you are connected,
you are really igniting your insight, your
intuition. You allow time for
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your brain to process, hey,
I'm satisfied.
You know, maybe you put too much food in your plate. Maybe you
put too little food in your plate and your body,
when you are connected, when you're mindful of what you're
doing, while you're doing it,
you notice this thing. So the food
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is you're going to eat slower. You're going to process
that. You're going to feel
satisfied by the taste,
the texture, and
that's all you're doing. One meal
out of the entire week. We can start
there.
>> Jolene (17:30):
That, that's awesome that you brought it back to that,
because we're out of tune
with our body. Our body tells us, like you said,
it'll tell us when we've had enough or
know what? Tonight, you just didn't eat enough. Go get a little bit
more. Like, what? But we're so out of
tune because we're not mindful. We're
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eating too fast. We're not enjoying all the
flavors. We're not enjoying the
conversation of our family members, if they're there
with us or friends or whatever it is
there. and
we've lost that connection
to our body and our mind.
We override it, basically. We either are eating
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so fast that we just eat everything on the plate, and it might have
been too much till we're like, don't feel good after.
Or an hour later, we're like,
I'm starving. And you want to eat a whole nother meal because you didn't
enjoy the meal you had. There's so
much to that. And just
being thankful for the mood, the food that
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you were given as part of being mindful. It
doesn't matter what your faith or religion is. You can
thank the ground and the farmers for
growing the food like it's nothing.
It doesn't have to be as in depth as a religious
thanks. And if you're religious, more power to
you of, thanking God. But it's
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being thankful that there's food there, being.
Having a sense of gratitude
to having food. I mean, there's a lot of
people out there that don't have that privilege.
yeah, you know, and being mindful of
it is huge. And, what
are some other areas that you find people are not as
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mindful as you think they should be?
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (19:16):
Well, you touch something that
isn't.
one way of being
mindful is when you
mentioned the word gratitude. And, yes,
definitely for the food to just
extend your
appreciation. You know,
gratitude is linked to
(19:38):
appreciation. And when you,
who has heard what you
appreciate, appreciates in
your life. So I am
grateful. I see the food and I.
Yes, there's so much that goes
into that for us. It's so easy nowadays,
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right? You go to the market, put in your card. I mean, you
have to pay. And I know the price has gone up,
but it's easier than it used
to be, right? But there's so much
into it. And when you pause
and you count
what you appreciate, all
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the things, the blessings in your life. So
practicing m
gratitude is huge.
Again, it connects the hypnosis, the
meditation, the well being,
coaching. Because when I,
appreciate what I already
have, I come back to the present,
(20:41):
right? I'm not in the future, I'm not in the
past. I'm right here and right now. There's a quote
from Akrato that I love that says, realize
deeply that the present moment is all you
have. It's
tangible in a way.
So giving appreciation,
gratitude, journaling. I
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personally love to at the end of
the day, write down at least three things that I'm
grateful for. And I think that
single technique alone,
alone, which has been dated back
ayurveda, this is 5000 years ago
wisdom from 5000 years ago that now you can
(21:24):
read everywhere the benefits. But, yeah, just
stopping and saying, what am I grateful
for? What am I grateful for?
And putting down in a paper before you go to sleep
that, unloads and you go to
sleep with that gratitude in your
hormone, you know, all the cool hormones
get activated in your brain and then
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that just multiplies while you sleep.
So that's very powerful. Yeah. Gratitude
is a huge way to
get out of over there and come back to
here.
>> Jolene (21:59):
Yeah, gratitude. I find even
if there is some negativity I
run into the day if I can flip something
or at least I may not be
grateful for that situation or that energy
but if I can switch it to something I am
grateful for, changes my
energy, helps me be more positive
(22:22):
and look out. And, I think in the
environment we've all lived in at some point
in time everybody's had that negative Nancy
boss or friend
or spouse or parent
and understanding that that's
them and you shouldn't be pulling that to
you. And how that affects
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your health is, you know, sometimes you're
just grateful that they're doing the best they can
and that you don't have to live with them anymore.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (22:55):
Yes.
>> Jolene (22:57):
sometimes there's little things like that but,
you know, finding the positive throughout
the day changes
your brain chemistry. It's been
known like the dopamine serotonin. It just
changes everything. And so if you can find something
outside of the situation, even will help you
(23:17):
get through it unscathed or a little
bit happier at the end. I love a good
gratitude practice. Prayer, is a big one.
Meditation. I know that you're
very, into helping people meditate just to
get that breath, work out so that
they're grounded. we talk a lot about being
grounded, and that could mean
(23:39):
so many different things to different people. Like, people say, oh, you have to
go outside, put your feet in the dirt or the grass
and ground yourself. Well, it's more than just that. It's
just coming back. would you like to explain
a little bit of that? It's like grounding yourself a little bit
through mindfulness meditation
and all of it.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (23:58):
Yes, all of the above. I love
that. Yes. recently
actually read or heard a
podcast, something to do with. As
we get more wisdom behind
us, with more age, we
can tend to become
more distracted, more
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ungrounded.
And one of the many
things that it's so
effective and yet so simple, it's
just we can use colors to ground
ourselves. Yeah. You know, there's the
perfect world and there's the ideal world. In the perfect
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world, I'm going to take my shoes off and go outside
and put my feet on the grass and ground myself.
I don't do that as much in the winter time because
my feet are cold. But regardless,
you can practice. You can become grounded,
more grounded, more rooted, more
connected with the earth. Right. In
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ayurveda, we have these five great
elements, and earth is one element
that ground us. You can use colors,
for instance. I love crystals, I love stones. I
have, you know, the different colors here. So
red is a color that ground us.
By looking, by
visualizing the color red, you can
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go into your root
chakra, which is that energy
center at the base of your spine
by your sit bones. So you can just
visualize that area, visualize the
color red and become more
grounded. You can put a picture of,
mountains in your
(25:44):
screen and look at that, too.
Mountains are very grounded, very earthing.
And the positive, the
benefit of becoming grounded
is becoming more
present or
less anxious. You know, there's a
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lot of qualities in the air, depending on
the season, depending on what age we
are. in the cycle of life, there
are so many things that can
create a little more
tendency of becoming anxious. I think all of
us can agree that we are anxious
people in general. We become
(26:27):
anxious grounding yourself
through the breathwork, color,
visual visualizations, putting
your feet on the sand, on the grass
can help us become more present,
more right here, right now.
>> Jolene (26:44):
I love that. I love everything about that. And, I
was thinking, like when we were all little kids,
we were grounded. We didn't see the anxiousness
because we'd be outside playing. I mean, I don't know about kids
nowadays, but when we were younger, we'd be outside in the
dirt and the grass and
just getting that fresh air and
(27:06):
connecting with whatever, making mud pies. I
mean, I know as dirty as that sounds, people,
we used to make mud pies, but
we wouldn't eat them, though.
but you know, just, we've lost so much
of that as more and more we came
inside,
(27:26):
and connecting with the dirt.
Like, I know a lot of people have gotten back into
gardening of some sort, even, or house
plants, but just getting in with the nature
helps relax you as
well as ground you because you're bringing the outside in, if
nothing else, or you're being outside, in the sun.
(27:47):
Sunlight is wonders for grounding
and getting your brain. And I know a lot of people are
afraid of sunlight, but get out there in the morning,
510 minutes, you're not going to get sunburned. Trust me on
this. Take your glasses off, get
some sunlight in the back of your eyes. it
does wonders for the body as a whole.
(28:08):
and then, so we've gone over some
mindfulness, some grounding
gratitude.
Is there anything else you want to touch on,
before we close up a little bit, I just
like, what do you offer when
you coach through people? Because what you and I are doing is a little
different than maybe what you do on a day to day basis.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (28:31):
Yes. So the one thing that
I want to mention
is the practice of,
meditation, because
meditation is such
a powerful tool to
connect us with
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who we really are.
So this simple
practice, because it can.
I remember when I started back
in 2026, I made a
commitment to meditate every single
day. In
1999,
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I became exposed
to meditation and
it was love at first sight. So I
started meditating here and there. And then when
I made the commitment to myself,
to my self care, to
1 minute, I started as 1 minute,
(29:34):
two minutes, three minutes. My children were
little. There was so much going on. But my
point is, meditation is
such an easy tool
to reconnect with who
you are, reconnect with that superpower,
reconnect with that, God. God is in,
(29:54):
within you. And
we can talk about meditation, we can
read about meditation. But unless we
meditate, we're not
experiencing the peace, the
calmness. And the first thing that people
might be thinking already is, oh, meditation is not
(30:15):
for me. I hear that a lot because I have too many
thoughts. Oh, when I sit down,
there's all these thoughts. Well, welcome,
everybody. We have thousands of thoughts
a day. And guess what happens when you sit to
meditate. They're going to come just like
the outside distractions. They don't
stop coming. Just so you can have a
(30:37):
peaceful life. You make peace inside. So you connect,
you close your eyes, thoughts come,
you observe them. it's such a great
practice during meditation. You
practice your whole life how to
live a happier life. Right? Because
if I can just deal with what's coming from
the outside with some equanimity,
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with some kind of stability, not reacting.
And this is what you do when you practice meditation.
The thoughts come, the neighbor starts mowing their
lawn. There's all these teachers to
help us to stay focused,
and this is another area. So in
one practice, even if it's one, two,
(31:20):
three minutes a day, you can
reconnect with your true self, who you really
are, and that experience comes
out on your everyday life. And
that is a huge benefit of meditation.
So, yes, if there's one thing that
I really, really want to
emphasize, is that the
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experience that we
have with the meditation
can really open up, that
silence, because we are hearing,
seeing. There's so much
going on. And when you stop and you go
within, there's a moment of silence. And
that silence is the
(32:04):
birthplace of happiness, creativity,
and really an infinite field
of possibilities.
>> Jolene (32:12):
Absolutely. I strongly believe in
meditation, though I've been struggling with it a lot
lately. And, for those that are like me,
I kind of combine prayer and meditation
together so that, it's a
daily practice, because I think
too often people who even pray rush
(32:32):
through that, and it's not the
connection it's supposed to be. So it depends on what
your belief systems are. And
everybody believes lots of different ways, even.
Even in the same religion, they will believe lots of different
ways. But that meditation and getting
still can be a time
of inward thoughts, of being a better
(32:54):
person, relying on your
faith, whatever it is. As a Catholic, there is a
lot of prayers that people don't understand, but they're
a form of meditation because we're just focusing on those
words. as
well as in muslim prayers, the same thing. They're
focusing on just these set words of that
(33:15):
prayer. They're not there.
Those are things that help kind of control the mind. And
when you have a mantra, when you meditate,
sometimes it helps the belief
system in you that you're going to be stronger, whatever it is. Like today,
I'm going to be stronger. I'm going to eat clean. That. You could say that
a hundred. But it helps get your
(33:36):
mind set on something and,
helps get through the thoughts. But like you said, no,
meditation is not clearing the mind completely. You're not going
to. You're not. None of
us of this level are, you
know, those guru people
that can clear their mind for hours, and I don't even know if they
(33:56):
do. I was always taught meditation is bringing
in the thoughts and then either dealing with them or
pushing them back out, and realizing that they're
not their thoughts, they're not real
actualities. Like,
you know, like a, thought comes in that, oh, I'm
gonna. Or this is gonna happen. We don't know what's gonna
(34:18):
happen tomorrow or in ten minutes. Like, we don't
know. So, like, bringing it back to being
and paying attention to your body. Like, sometimes it's a good time
to assess what's going on in your body. Aches,
pains, acknowledging them,
acknowledging the fact that you can feel parts of your body.
I mean, I know that sounds like a weird gratitude, but sometimes,
(34:39):
you know, all my knees hurt. Oh. I'm grateful that I can actually
feel my knees, because there might be a time where you
can't. Exactly, I just always like to bring
it around to know that
meditation, prayer, they all go
hand in hand, depending on
what you want to focus on in
your quiet time. And I don't think
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most people take
five minutes a day
to truly meditate, even if it's in their
prayers. Like, it's. Very few people in this
world actually do that.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (35:14):
Yeah.
>> Jolene (35:14):
And five, five minutes isn't very long. And
the connection you make and what
it does for your well being, your
energy, everything, it changes
everything. I can't stress that enough. So I'm really glad you
brought up the meditation because it's. It's a
huge thing, and there's guided meditation. If
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you want to keep it separate and do guided
meditation, sometimes they'll just help you get started.
music is a great for me sometimes
having meditative music in the background,
because it just. My brain sometimes
needs two things going on. So if I can hear the music, I can kick
the thoughts out better.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (35:55):
Yeah. Like you said, the word, the mantra,
right? So the mad m. You can use music as a
mantra. You can use a mantra.
when I teach meditation, I give
you your primordial
sound. Mantra is the vibration the
universe was making at the time and place of your
(36:15):
birth. It's all connected with the
moon's cycle. And anyways,
so there's this sound. So
we've all probably heard
about sound healing,
the healing powers
of sound. Yeah. So using
music, using a mantra,
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so you can focus on that.
And when the thoughts come, the sensations
in the body, the sounds in your environment,
you observe them back to that stop
technique that we can use everywhere,
all the time. You observe what's
happening. And when you notice, you
(36:59):
drift away from the mantra, whatever it
is, whether it's your breath, a, mantra,
a word or music,
you go, oh, with kindness. Loving
kindness. That's huge. Part of
mindfulness is loving kindness,
and it begins with us. I'm
having, I'm drifting away.
(37:21):
So feel the difference. I'm upset because I
drifted away again or,
oh, I drifted away. I'll go back to my mantra,
I'll go back to the music, I'll go back to the breath. so
loving kindness is such a
huge piece of mindfulness,
especially towards a, life
(37:41):
that's happier, healthier,
more joyful.
>> Jolene (37:46):
And I think the
kindness piece is huge because we're
often kind to others when we speak, when
we think, when we say what we do,
and we're so unkind to ourselves.
You know,
if there's one thing I can suggest people to do
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is when you find yourself saying,
my arms are too fat, I'm too fat. I'm
not, I don't have any willpower. Take a step
back and would you say that to somebody else?
That that's the whole stop. Would you say
that to somebody else?
The answer probably is no. You're not going
(38:30):
to go around and say, oh, gosh, man, your arms are too
big. Like, you're not going to do that. Yeah. Ah.
So it's time to take a step back and find
that when you do these
techniques of being mindful, of
meditating, stopping before you
go on a rampage, of eating whatever
it is and
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start liking yourself. I like to say
loving yourself, but you got to start liking yourself before you can actually
love yourself. You will be amazed by using this
technique, how much better you start
feeling, how your energy
shifts in a positive manner
to be better for yourself, for
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your family, for your job, whatever it is.
Taking all of these techniques a little at a time
gets you healthy. It's mind, body and
soul, spirit, soul. They're kind of
intertwined at that point. But we have to have a
purpose outside of ourselves. That's your soul.
Some sort of purpose outside of yourself. You are not
(39:34):
the center of the universe. And then our mind
needs to be healthy and our body needs to be healthy. And when we get
all three, we are in
a better situation. But we always seem to be
one third off somewhere, sometimes two thirds
off. you know, so it's a strive to
get those three things that three parts of
you all holistically held.
(39:56):
Healthy. Hell no.
Healthy. Wow. so you
know, that that's our goal by
exploring. Exploring things that make you
uncomfortable. Meditation might make
you incredibly uncomfortable, but it could be just what you
need.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (40:13):
Yes.
>> Jolene (40:14):
You know, it. Living in the
uncomfortable at times is what we
need to be a better version of
ourselves.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (40:23):
Yeah, I love that. And I heard something
recently, not too long ago, that
doing the
uncomfortable, doing hard things.
Right. Because it's easier to just stay the same,
you know, same as yesterday, last
year, ten years ago. But when
(40:44):
I do what's
hard, get out of my comfort
zone, my life becomes
easier.
You know, because the opposite
also comes to mind. If I
only do what's easy and
comfortable,
(41:04):
then look around.
Your life is harder on you.
So just getting out of your comfort zone, I
love that. It's with confidence,
you know, with love, kindness to yourself. It
all begins with us.
So many of us are struggling right
(41:25):
now because there's people struggling.
Right. We're in a
country that, compared to the whole
world, we have so much
here, but we suffer. Some
of us are suffering because other people are suffering.
They don't have homes. And that comes really close to
(41:47):
home here. We're seeing that. But
here's the thing. It begins
with you. It begins with me. People
say, oh, I wish I could help. Well,
you can work on yourself. Right.
It begins with me. If I'm comfortable
with, I'm peaceful. I
(42:07):
now existed. Exude that
and I can offer comfort and peace.
Maybe for someone that really needs it.
If. Whether it's a smile, a
comforting word, a
hug, or. Or
just answering a phone call and having a
conversation, just being.
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Start to work on ourselves and
look and feel
good, better, so you can
help others. And I think by
just working on yourself, you are
contributing tremendously
for the whole
world. Energy for
(42:52):
you're helping, you're helping somebody, you're helping
yourself and you're helping the world.
>> Jolene (42:57):
Absolutely. you know, it goes back to
that thing that we like to say is when you're on an airplane, they
always tell you to put your oxygen, your mask on
first, because you're no help to anybody
else if you die. you're no help to anybody
else if you're ill. So we do
have to take care of us to be able to take care
of others, and we've got
(43:20):
to get out of the mindset that it's selfish
to take care of us. It's actually one of the
least selfish things you can do, because you can't
take care of anybody else. And, if
you're sick, that means somebody else has to take care of you mentally,
physically, whatever it is, that means somebody else is taking care
of you. so the more we
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can do to better
ourselves, betters the world, because we're capable
of helping where help is needed.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (43:50):
Yes, absolutely.
>> Jolene (43:54):
So, okay, so let's, You've been
very, very gracious with your time, and I would love to
tell people where they can find you.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (44:03):
Thank you. You can find me
on Instagram. That's one
easy way. I think everyone has
an Instagram nowadays, and that is
adri sigage, just
the beginning of my name, ad r I c
for my middle name, engage, or my
(44:24):
website, www.
Acg wellness.
>> Jolene (44:30):
Awesome. And of course, they will be linked in the show
notes.
Adriana, is there anything you want to close out with?
I really appreciate you spending
this time with me and sharing all of
the lovely tips on mindfulness and grounding and
meditation. And, I feel very relaxed
every time I talk to you. I get more and more relaxed.
>> Adriana Chavez Gage (44:52):
Oh, perhaps because we
go from everywhere then to right here.
Yeah. So I love. I just want, first of
all, to share my
gratitude for you for
doing what you're doing and
sharing your wisdom, sharing
the wisdom traditions of
(45:14):
the past with people so they
can be more in power. So I really
admire you for doing that, for inviting me
to your podcast, for being here for
everybody. And, yes, I think the
one thing that I want to close
with is to remind ourselves
that self care is not
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selfish. Yeah, absolutely. Be.
Be kind to yourself, be
kind to your body,
to your mind, and to your soul by
just taking a little time and being
more present, more grounded, and right here, right
now. Awesome.
>> Jolene (45:55):
thank you so much for joining us, and, we will
all see you next time. Thanks, friends.
Bye. Thanks for
listening in today. I hope you got some nuggets to take on your health
journey. Remember, this podcast is for educational
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