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Breathe Into Abundance · The MODERN YIN Podcast

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  Hey, hey, Yinning at Life Gang. It's Kimberly Roberts, your host
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  here, and I'm so excited to deliver little bits of insight
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  on living your best, most extraordinary life with, of
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  course, yin yoga, traditional Chinese medicine, reflexology,
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  and even mindset acts. So thank you so much for
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  pressing play on today's episode.
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  Let's do this. Hello there, friend.
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  Welcome back to the Yinning at Life podcast.
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  Today I want to talk about something that is so simple, so
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  undervalued, yet so potent and so powerful.
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  Your breath. Yeah, we're going to talk about
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  breathing and how your breath can actually help you expand
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  into abundance. Might sound a little crazy or a
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  little woo woo for you, but you know what?
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  Stick with me. Listen in.
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  And you know what? We're even going to do a little
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  practice together. So grab your favorite bevy, get
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  onto the couch, grab a blanket, get super comfortable and let's
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  start talking about this, shall we?
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  So of course, you know, we all breathe every single day and we
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  don't think about it much, right?
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  Like unless we're in a yen practice or, you know, maybe
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  we're exercising or we're, you know, like maybe we've had a
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  cold and so our breath is restricted.
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  Then we think about it. But honestly, the truth is the
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  way we breathe can actually expand us into abundance, into
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  an abundant way of living and being, but also attracting
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  abundance of all kinds. Yeah, just by breathing
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  differently, you can open yourself up to receive more with
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  ease. So I want to bring a little
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  personal context into this because I believe that if I just
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  give you information without any kind of integration, it's just a
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  whole whack of noise and you're not going to get it.
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  So I'm sure you've heard me talk about and you've even
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  experienced yourself how yin yoga helps you to feel grounded
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  and open, right? Like it certainly does for me
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  when I do a yin practice. It doesn't matter what poses I
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  do, I always feel grounded, open, relaxed, at peace.
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  But the reality is the exact same thing happens with breath
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  work. Yeah.
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  So I'll be in a be in practice and maybe I've had like a super
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  busy day. My mind is spinning a lot like I
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  tend to, you know, have a very analytical, analytical, logical
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  brain. So I can hold a lot of that
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  heavy pressure and tension in my head.
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  And of course, you know, that is connected to our bodies, so you
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  feel it in your body too. But then as I start to breathe
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  deeper, slower, and more intentionally, all of a sudden
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  it's like my whole body softens and my mind quiets.
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  I don't feel like I'm spiraling down the rabbit hole.
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  And I feel this sense of peace and possibility, like space just
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  opened up inside of me. And then this was the light bulb
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  moment for me. That's when I realized, oh, this
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  is the place from where abundance flows.
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  Abundance doesn't flow from restriction, contraction,
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  resistance. Abundance flows from ease, from
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  groundedness, from calming. That's a receiving energy.
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  When we're expanded, when we're breathing deeply, we are in an
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  energy to receive. And that's when abundance starts
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  to flow. So let's get a little sciency
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  about it and let's talk about this.
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  And how does your breath work actually help you attracting
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  abundance? And then we're going to do a
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  little practice together so that you can really kind of land this
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  in your own body and experience it for yourself.
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  So why is it that when we breathe deeply, we're more open
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  to abundance? So how does this actually
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  happen? Well, think about it.
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  When you're stressed out, your breath is very shallow, right?
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  Like I know I am. When I'm stressed, I can barely
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  even notice that I'm breathing, and I know it's all coming from
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  my chest. There's no diaphragmatic
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  breathing happening at all. So my body thinks I'm in
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  survival mode. And if I'm in survival mode,
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  right? Flight or fright.
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  Remember caveman days? Then we're not open to new
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  ideas, opportunities, expansion, abundance, right?
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  We can't be. We're in survival mode.
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  But the moment you start to consciously breathe deeply, like
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  you're really filling up your lungs and then letting it all
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  go, that's the key, letting it all go.
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  You're sending your body this signal.
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  It's safe, I'm OK. And from there, the magic
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  happens. Things start to shift.
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  Your nervous system calms down. You let go of tension, you let
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  go of all the stories, the spiraling, all of that gripping.
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  And what are you left with after that?
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  Spaciousness, openness, presence.
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  That's where the energy of abundance lives.
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  It doesn't live in the forcing. It doesn't live in the chasing.
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  It doesn't live in the controlling.
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  It only lives in an expanded, peaceful space inside of you.
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  So who wants to actually try this right now, just for a
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  moment? OK, we're going to do a little
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  breath work now. If you're not driving, you can
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  do this. If you are, then please come
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  back to this portion of the podcast and join in then.
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  OK, So come to a comfortable seated position.
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  Somewhere where you can sit up really tall, where it feels
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  effortless yet you feel supported.
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  Your shoulders can drop down away from your ears. close your
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  eyes down now. Don't change your breath, just
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  notice it in this moment. Just notice your breath.
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  Notice where you feel it. Notice the depth, the length.
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  Notice where it gets stuck, where it feels maybe a little
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  bit sticky or resistant. And don't judge, just notice.
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  Now start to take a deep breath in through your nose, fill up
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  your body, feel it expand, then start to bring the breath up
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  into your ribs. Feel your ribs expand out,
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  almost like you're playing an accordion through your rib cage,
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  and then feel your chest begin to inflate and expand and fill
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  up and hold that for just a moment.
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  Hold that breath in that beat, and then slowly exhale through
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  an open mouth just like this. Let's do that two more times.
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  Inhale, fill yourself all the way up, not forcing it, just
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  slowly drawing the breath up. Hold it for just a second.
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  Exhale out your mouth. Let it all go, and one more
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  time, slow, deep breath in. Fill the belly, fill the rib
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  cage, fill the chest. Hold it for a beat and through
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  an open mouth, exhale like you're sending out all that
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  heavy energy, that heavy resistance.
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  Now let your breath come back to an unmeasured state.
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  Just let it flow naturally in and out through your nose and
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  notice. How do you feel?
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  I mean, that was only three breaths.
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  But notice, how does your physical body feel?
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  How does your mind feel? Even just those 3 breaths can
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  shift your energy completely. Like how wild is that?
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  And how so cool is that? And you know what?
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  We all have this available within us, everyone.
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  It's just about creating conscious awareness of your
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  breath. So the next time that you're
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  feeling stuck or maybe you're worrying about your health or
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  your job or money or a loved one, or you're just in that I
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  don't have enough space that you know that energy, right?
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  Like it's just, I'm not enough. I don't have enough.
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  Just pause, come back to your breath, maybe even come back to
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  this portion in the podcast and do that simple breathing
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  exercise. And I will tell you that the
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  exhale through the mouth, for me anyway, it's always so powerful,
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  especially when I feel really contracted and heavy, like
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  there's a literally like a weight on my chest, right?
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  And maybe I even got a little bit of like nervous anxiety in
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  my body. And I just find that the exhale
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  through the mouth is almost like it's purifying.
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  It's clearing out, right? It feels like it's creating
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  space for something new. And the reality is because every
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  single inhale expands you, every single exhale creates that space
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  for something new. That's the energy of abundance.
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  Remember, abundance only vibes, is only attracted to the energy
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  of expansion, of light, of spaciousness, of feeling
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  grounded, calm, relaxed. When you're resistant, when
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  you're controlling, when you're forcing, when you're gripping,
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  when you're grasping, you're not in an abundant state.
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  The universe only matches your frequency, so if you want to
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  attract abundance, start to breathe in an abundant way.
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  Doesn't that make so much sense to you?
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  I hope it makes sense to you. If it does, leave a comment here
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  in the podcast episode and just let me know.
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  Like I will tell you I've been playing with my breath a lot
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  lately. I've been doing different ratios
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  like, you know, inhaling through the nose for four counts and
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  exhaling for six and then like inhaling for seven and exhaling
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  for 11. And I will tell you, I've been
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  incorporating it more and more into my own yin yoga practice
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  and it is so much more powerful for me anyway, when I exhale
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  through an open mouth now, if I'm already kind of feeling in a
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  calm, kind of chill vibe, then I might not necessarily exhale
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  through the mouth. I might exhale through the nose
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  because I don't feel that heavy contracted energy in my body.
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  When I exhale through the mouth, it's like I'm sending out that
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  contraction out of me, right? And that's making the space for
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  abundance. So if this is like sparking
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  something in you, you're like, oh, like I want to practice way
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  more like this. I want ways to be able to move,
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  to breathe and to soften into that grounded, abundant version,
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  the one that attracts easily and effortlessly.
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  Who trusts? Then come and join me inside the
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  Soulful Yin app. It is full of yin yoga
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  practices, breath work, meditation, I've even got
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  acupressure and reflexology practices in there to help you
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  come back home to yourself. So I'll pop that link in the
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  show notes for you. And remember, you're only a few
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  breaths away from abundant. And you know what?
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  Abundance is your natural birthright.
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  You are worthy of abundance, and nothing about you has to change
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  that. So take the time every day to
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  breathe into abundance so that you are living the most
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  extraordinary life for yourself in a flexible body, in a calm
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  mind, and certainly in an abundant vibe.
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  So thanks so much again for pressing play on today's
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  episode. Leave a review, a comment,
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  follow the podcast if it aligns with you.
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  And I will see you next week for another Yinning at Life podcast
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  episode.