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Lose Anxiety and Gain your Life · Lavender Mind

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  Hey. Welcome to Lavender Mine podcast,
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  a podcast to help anyone remember.
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  How to live only in this moment because,
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  you know what? It's the only 1 we
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  have. Hey. Welcome to Lavender Mind. I'm your
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  host. Katie Bo blanc. If you're new here,
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  welcome to the show. And if you've been
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  here before, welcome back. As always, it helps
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  my show to grow if awesome people like
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  you. Hit that subscribe button or share with
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  a friend or leave a review. Have you
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  ever driven somewhere and realize that you have
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  been in another world mentally. You don't even
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  realize
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  how many that you passed, like, where you
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  been? Like, your mind has just been
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  in outer space. I know I drive a
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  lot, and sometimes
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  my mind will just wander. I drove really
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  late. The other night, I was really tired
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  and my mind was in complete la la
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  land, and that is not safe, but sometimes
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  it happens, our minds tend to sometimes wander,
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  and that's very normal
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  When we become aware of it, when we
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  become aware of what present moment awareness is,
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  it really helps to reduce
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  anxiety, and that's what I wanna talk about
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  today, cultivating awareness
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  of our mind and body and really living
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  in the here and now
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  That is what present awareness is. It's not
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  stressing over the future, not
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  rem
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  and being sad about the past,
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  but just really being in the moment that
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  you're in, really being where you are,
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  because that's really the only thing that we
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  have control over,
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  we can't go back and do things over.
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  It doesn't really help to stress about things
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  that happened in the past, and it doesn't
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  really help to stress about things in the
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  future because we don't even know if they're
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  gonna happen the way that we're playing them
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  out in our minds. So when we really
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  cultivate this present moment awareness of just really
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  being in just the moment that we're in.
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  1 moment at a time. It reduces so
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  much stress and anxiety.
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  I was in the car the other day
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  with my husband, and he really... I've known
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  this before, but he really laid it out
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  there about what present moment awareness has done
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  to change his life. And he was telling
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  me how much anxiety he had before he
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  knew how to bring his mind back to
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  the present moment. Then he had no idea
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  about how bad it was until he learned
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  to do this and learn to have complete
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  control over his stress and anxiety through his
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  thoughts because we have so much control with
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  the way that we show up and how
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  to reduce anxiety with present moment awareness. And
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  he was saying that he uses it so
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  often at work, and he has a really
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  up high stress job. He works
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  very long hours, weekends,
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  non nonstop. He's in charge of so many
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  people, and his job is a very stressful
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  1. You know, we have 4 kids. There's
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  a lot to be responsible for even when
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  he gets home. So stress is definitely a
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  part of his life, but re Present moment
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  awareness has really helped him to manage it,
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  and he just was telling me how he
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  will just remind himself. That he cannot control
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  the things in the future and when he's
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  thinking about it, he'll just remind himself that
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  it may not even happen and to just
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  bring himself back
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  to the moment he's in and not to
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  rum over all the past things. He said,
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  it's helped him sleep at night,
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  because that rum nation over things about the
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  past,
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  he doesn't do that as much anymore because
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  he now
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  Well, just remind himself that All he has
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  is this present moment. And so I say
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  that because it just really made me realize,
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  how powerful present moment awareness is. And I
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  I feel like I've talked about it. I
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  know that I've talked about it in previous
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  episodes,
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  and I talk about it a lot with
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  clients
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  because it's so powerful.
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  This 1
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  mindful tip can really change your life and
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  it... Can completely
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  take that blanket of anxiety off so that
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  you can show up without all the anxiety
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  and stress. It just really be in the
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  moment you're in because when we're in the
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  moment we're in, we're fully present with our
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  loved ones, we're fully present with the people
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  that we work with, and we're fully present
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  for our yourselves.
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  If you're by yourself, and maybe you're just
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  cooking a meal,
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  you're really
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  enjoying the moment that you're in,
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  because life has so much joy to bring
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  to us, but when our minds are not
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  where we are, if our minds are, on
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  the meeting for tomorrow or stressing over whether
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  we're gonna make that flight or whatever, it
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  is.
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  We're not where we are, and we're not
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  showing up fully. And oftentimes all the time,
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  we're just missing our own lives, and I
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  think it really stinks to live your life
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  but not really live your life to miss
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  out on the life that you've been given,
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  and I just don't want that for you.
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  I guess, this whole podcast and really ever
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  since I was little with having Leukemia, I
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  think I just always wanted to share present
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  moment awareness because I learned it then, and
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  I've kinda relearn it through the years, but
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  it's definitely a very powerful tool to get
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  rid of the stress and anxiety that comes
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  when...
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  We are in our minds and not really
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  where we are. Being present has so many
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  benefits,
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  our focus,
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  the reduction of stress and anxiety. The list
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  goes on and on. So
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  I'm not gonna list all the things. Today's
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  focus is just
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  the fact that present moment awareness really reduces
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  anxiety and stress, and it's it's like a
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  blanket lifted. A few tips or takeaways,
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  to be able to practice present moment awareness
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  is to set time to just be if
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  you can, even if it's just on your
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  way home or before a bed to have
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  some quiet mindful time.
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  Another idea or tip is When you eat
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  your food, don't gobble it down and watch
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  tv or scroll to your phone, maybe you
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  can do that sometimes.
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  But try to really taste your food and
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  take your time and eat. This is a
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  great way to practice
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  present moment awareness and really...
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  Taste your food and practice this type of
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  mindfulness while you eat. Another thing is just
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  your breath. You can always come back to
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  your breath, and that you out of your
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  mind and into your body and your present
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  moment awareness. And thinking of your life as
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  1 moment to the next, get and not
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  wasting it. Time is so precious.
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  Live fully. If you're struggling with your thoughts,
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  just be gentle on yourself,
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  Again, follow your breath and remember how amazing
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  you are because you are amazing, and I
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  don't want you to miss out on the
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  life that you're living. It's so easy to
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  just go through the motions and not really
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  live your life to the fullest. And present
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  moment awareness, it's just a great tool to
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  bring you back to the life that you're
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  in. So I hope this helps. I hope
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  together we can plant some seeds of resilience,
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  and joy, have an amazing day.