Advice My Friends Ignored

Today, I will dive into how to regulate the nervous system by sharing my favorite (and most practical) ways to maintain a healthy nervous system. The autonomic nervous system is comprised of the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system. The sympathetic nervous system is a network of nerves that helps your body activate its "fight or flight" response during stressful situations whereas the parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for activating the "rest and digest" response to help calm the sympathetic nervous system. However, when the nervous system is dysregulated, it can lead us to operate full-time in fight or flight mode where we are putting our body in a high-alert, stressed out state of being, which can lead to a whole slew of additional health issues. So join me in today's episode as I dive into discussing how to navigate and regulate a healthy nervous system. 

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Today, I am speaking with my friend and fellow podcaster, Sarah Laux. Sarah is a full-time website designer and the host of the Your (Not So) Anonymous Journal podcast, which focuses on breaking the mental health stigma and giving people a safe space to tell their personal truths. Sarah and I dive into what sparked our self-improvement journeys, how your life experiences can lead you to your purpose, how to use astrology and human design to learn about your purpose and the direction of life you're meant to move towards, and we dive into goal setting and the importance of setting attainable goals. 

Where to Find Sarah:

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Website - https://sarahlaux.com/

Sarah's Podcast - Your (not so) Anonymous Journal - https://open.spotify.com/show/1oJw6ghWSJBt63FEbux641

Additional Resources:

Get Your Free Human Design Chart: https://www.mybodygraph.com/talking-bodygraph

Get Your Free Astrology Chart: https://horoscopes.astro-seek.com/birth-chart-horoscope-online

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xx, Audrey

Today, I will be diving into the concept of habits, how habits are formed, why they are so hard to break, and I'll be sharing 3 of my favorite science-backed tips when it comes to breaking and starting habits. Habits are an automatic, redundant set of unconscious of thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that are acquired through repetition. When we engage in an activity repeatedly, we condition our subconscious mind and our subconscious mind makes up 95% of who we are and how we feel in every moment. Years of thinking the same thoughts and then feeling the same way that matches those thoughts leads to a memorized state of being. Then we define ourselves by this state of being by saying, “I have always been a perfectionist”, “I have always been a smoker”, “I have always been short-tempered”, or whatever it may be. And when we continuously identify with these thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, we are continuously programming the subconscious mind. So in order to transcend our limiting behaviors and habits and create new habits, we must learn to remain present; the present moment is where all potentials exist in the quantum field of energy. We must harness the energy of the present moment and change our brain chemistry through changing ;our thoughts, feelings, and actions. For more information on today's topic, be sure to check out the additional resources below.

Timestamps:

00:29 – intro

2:39 – what is a habit?

3:03 – classical conditioning study

4:39 – diving into neuroscience

7:05 – the subconscious mind

7:48 – my relationship with weed

11:43 – transcending your current circumstances

14:21 – the two-minute rule

17:23 – why the two-minute rule works

18:34 – changing your brain chemistry

19:45 – understanding energy and consciousness

22:30 – changing your story

22:58 – visualize your way to a new reality

23:16 - Four elements of breaking habits

24:15 – visualize and meditate on your desired outcome

25:25 – your body cannot tell the difference between thoughts and reality

26:30 – the power of intentional gratitude

28:41 – affirmations and prayer

32:11 – outro

Additional Resources:

Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza 

The Power of the Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy 

Joe Dispenza Meditation 

Two-Minute Rule Breakdown

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Today, I will share a deeply inspiring and moving conversation I had with someone who experienced a series of traumatic and challenging events within his life that left him ungrateful, broken, and lost, but he found his way back to true, lasting happiness through the power of gratitude. Gratitude is one of the highest frequencies in the universe - it falls on the same level as love. The more time you can spend in gratitude and love, the more your body's frequency raises and the healthier your mind and body becomes. I encourage you to listen to the story that I share in today's episode because it is a story that carries tremendous weight as it is a beautiful perspective shift.

Timestamps:

00:25 – Intro

1:08 - The things we overlook when it comes to gratitude

1:28 - Information processing in the brain

4:20 - The benefits of gratitude

7:05 - An inspiring, motivating story about gratitude and the impacts it has on life

11:44 – Another story on gratitude

13:09 – Things to be grateful for

14:31 - The secret to life

15:04 - Chasing happiness

16:38 – How Dan practices gratitude and prayer

17:16 – Transforming a lack mindset into a grateful one

18:34 – Find things to be grateful for in every moment

20:18 - Incrementally add gratitude into your day

21:04 - Resources for gratitude

24:03 – Outro

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Today, I will share my five favorite tips for healthier, more mindful mornings to help you step into your day with more energy, awareness, and presence. These simple, practical, and free habits are powerful ways to help you maintain heightened awareness throughout your day, which therefore positively impact how you show up for yourself and how you show up for others. These tools have personally helped me connect with the stillness within and feel more in tune with my true self as I experience each day. 

For more healing resources, be sure to check out my 4 No-Fail Secrets to Manifestation eBook, which includes detailed steps on the manifestation process, templates, affirmations, and a guided audio meditation, as well as my Chakra Healing Journal, which is complete with done for you journal prompts, healing exercises and tips, affirmations, and more.

Timestamps:

00:25 - intro

1:50 - first healing tip

5:33 - second healing tip

8:36 - third healing tip

12:22 - fourth healing tip

13:50 - fifth healing tip

15:40 - first tip for caffeine consumption

16:14 - second tip for caffeine consumption

17:13 - third tip for caffeine consumption

19:03 - recap

20:20 - outro

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Today, I will share insights on the third chakra, the solar plexus chakra, sharing what emotional, physical, and mental areas it governs, what an imbalance might manifest as, and the best healing methods for this chakra. The chakras are focal points of energy within the body that play a major role in our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. The solar plexus governs our feelings of self-esteem, self-worth, confidence, shame, vitality, willpower, courage, and it governs our ego and sense of personal identity. It is the chakra that is our personal powerhouse that helps us go after our goals and dreams with a healthy sense of confidence and authentic sense of self.

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For more information on the chakras and methods to heal them, check out my Chakra Healing Journal that is complete with chakra-specific journal prompts, exercises, affirmations, healing tips, and more to help bring alignment to your energy centers.

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I appreciate you being here and for not ignoring my advice!

xx, Audrey

Today, I will share the 3 things I recommend to stop doing when on a healing and mental health journey. These 3 things are things I caught myself engaging in quite frequently in my own life and they did not serve me in the slightest. This episode is focused on bringing light to these three commonly made "mistakes" and providing you with more insight on how to avoid these habits and thought processes so that you can speed up your own healing process with a heightened sense of self-awareness.

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If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a loved one, message me on social media @audreyannab @alignwithaudreyb, share it on your Instagram/Tiktok story, or write a review on Apple Podcasts or leave a rating here on Spotify!

I appreciate you for being here and for not ignoring my advice!

xx, Audrey

In today’s episode, I am speaking with Mike St. Cyr, a fellow entrepreneur and high-performing real estate agent, who has faced his fears in numerous areas of his life ranging from his finances, his career, his education, and his relationships. Mike opens up about his experiences with fear over the course of his professional and financial journey and how those experiences have reframed his mindset towards how he shows up for himself and his responsibilities each day. We discuss how fear shows up in each of our lives differently; whether it shows up in the form of failure, rejection, judgment, or comparison, and how to recognize that it’s fear and how to remain present in those moments of uncertainty. Mike shares that self-reflection and remaining connected to the present moment have been major catalysts in his journey to facing and overcoming his fears.

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In this episode, I will share insights on the two lower chakras, the root and sacral chakras, sharing what they govern, what an imbalance might look like, and the best healing methods for each. The chakras are focal points of energy within the body that play a major part in our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. The root chakra governs our feelings of safety, security, stability, grounding, and our connection to this physical, material world whereas the sacral chakra governs our feelings of creativity, sensuality, pleasure, joy, and it governs the realm of our emotions. 

For more information on the chakras and ways to heal them, check out my Chakra Healing Journal that is complete with chakra-specific journal prompts, exercises, affirmations, and more to help bring balance to your energy centers. 

Also, be sure to check out my 4 No-Fail Secrets to Manifestation eBook that is complete with the 4 no-fail secrets to manifest your dream life, a guided audio meditation, manifestation templates, and more. You can find the eBook linked here.

Today, I will dive into how our perceptions alter the experiences of life that unfold in front of us. The meaning of life is to experience life, but when we are fostering a lot stored trauma, emotions, or thoughts from our past that no longer serve us, it leads us to chase the experiences in life that we think will make us feel good while simultaneously avoiding the experiences in life that we think will make us feel bad. But when we do this, we aren't allowing ourselves to experience life exactly as it is due to projecting our warped perception onto it and we end up trying to manipulate the moments in front of us.

Be sure to check out my 4 No-Fail Secrets to Manifestation eBook (on sale now!), which is complete with detailed information on manifestation, guided exercises and manifesting templates, as well as a guided audio meditation to listen to daily to help you embody your next level self.

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