Today we explore how living away from the present moment slowly depletes our energy, clarity, and sense of wholeness.

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Quote from the Episode

“Suffering is guaranteed if you’re anywhere but now.”

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Description

When our attention is constantly pulled into the future or the past, we begin living at a distance from ourselves. That distance creates strain. Like holding weight at full arm extension, the farther our mind moves away from the body, the heavier everything feels. Over time, that strain shows up as exhaustion, overwhelm, disconnection, and a sense that life is slipping past us.

In this episode, I explore how presence acts like an energetic escrow account. When we stay here, aware and engaged, we build reserves. When we scatter ourselves, we start borrowing against our own well being. This isn’t about perfection or forcing mindfulness. It’s about noticing where your energy goes, reclaiming it gently, and learning how to live closer to yourself again.

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Show Notes

In This Episode, Nicholas Explores

• Why divided attention drains the nervous system

• How “living ahead” creates unnecessary suffering

• The concept of mental and energetic lever length

• Why presence is restorative, not passive

• How depletion builds slowly and repayment is inevitable

• What it means to live closer to yourself

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Highlights

• 🧠 A divided mind creates a divided body and spirit

• 🧘‍♂️ The farther your attention moves from the body, the heavier life feels

• ⏳ Living in the future spends energy you do not yet have

• 🌱 Presence builds reserves instead of debt

• 🔄 Restoration happens when resources are brought back home

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Reflection Prompt

Where in your life are you living ahead of yourself, and what might change if you came back to now?

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Practice Prompt

Today, choose one simple task and do it fully. No multitasking. No rushing. Let your attention stay with your body and breath until the task is complete.

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Attachment to outcomes often draws us out of the present moment and creates more suffering than we realize.

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Quote from the Episode

“If you are in appreciation, you cannot be lacking.”

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Description

So much of our stress comes from believing that life has to unfold a certain way in order for us to feel okay. We create internal checklists, earn our joy through effort, or delay peace until conditions are met. These beliefs are often formed early, reinforced through culture, media, and experience, and rarely questioned. When outcomes become right or wrong, success or failure, we suffer before anything has even happened.

In this episode, I share why presence is not something we force ourselves into, but something we return to by letting go of what pulls us away. Through mindfulness, embodied practice, and honest self observation, we can reconnect to the present moment where appreciation replaces lack. Healing happens not through performance, but through participation in what is actually here.

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Show Notes

In This Episode, Nicholas Explores

• How attachment to outcomes creates unnecessary suffering

• Why permission slips delay joy and fulfillment

• The difference between idealism, realism, and actualism

• How mindfulness brings us back to the present moment

• Why appreciation dissolves the feeling of lack

• Letting go of performance and trusting embodied practice

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Highlights

• 🧠 Beliefs formed early often run our adult lives unconsciously

• 🎬 Media and storytelling shape unrealistic expectations

• 🧘 Presence cannot coexist with lack

• 🌿 Healing happens through subtraction, not accumulation

• 🔄 Mindfulness looks different for each person

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Reflection Prompt

Where in your life are you waiting for conditions to be perfect before allowing yourself peace or appreciation?

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Practice Prompt

Today, notice one moment where you are focused on an outcome instead of the experience itself. Pause, breathe, and gently return your attention to what is happening right now.

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I’ve been reflecting on how often we miss meaningful moments by clinging to expectations instead of allowing ourselves to feel what’s actually happening.

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Quote from the Episode

“We’re never really chasing the details. We’re chasing the feeling.”

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Description

So many of us carry quiet expectations about how moments should look, especially birthdays, holidays, relationships, and life milestones. When reality does not match the story in our head, disappointment sets in. In this episode, I reflect on my own experience navigating expectations around my birthday and how easily we give our peace away when we attach our happiness to specific outcomes.

Through the lens of yoga and Ayurveda, I talk about presence as a practice of freedom. When we focus on the feeling rather than the form, we open ourselves to possibility, connection, and peace. This episode is an invitation to loosen control, meet the moment as it is, and allow life to show up in ways that may be different, but no less meaningful.

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Show Notes

In This Episode, Nicholas Explores

• Why expectations often create unnecessary suffering

• The difference between seeking details and seeking feeling

• How yoga and Ayurveda guide us toward presence

• Letting go of rigid outcomes without giving up desire

• Finding peace and fulfillment in what is actually happening

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Highlights

• 🎂 Celebrations don’t fail. Expectations do.

• 🧘 Presence creates clarity without effort.

• 🌱 The feeling matters more than the form.

• 🔄 Flexibility opens the door to connection.

• ✨ Peace comes from meeting the moment as it is.

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Reflection Prompt

Where in your life are you holding onto an expectation that is preventing you from fully experiencing what’s already here?

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Practice Prompt

Today, pause during one meaningful moment and ask yourself, “What feeling am I really looking for right now?” Let that guide your response instead of the details.

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Sometimes the hardest part of being human is feeling like you do not quite belong, and learning how to stay the course anyway.

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Quote from the Episode

“The more I am identified with the camouflage, the more distorted I become about who and what I truly am.”

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Description

There are moments when life feels unfamiliar, even when everything around you looks normal. I talk about what it is like to feel human but not fully at home in the world, how oversharing, misunderstanding, and survival patterns can shape identity, and why many of us feel distorted by the roles we are trying to live inside of.

I also explore how yoga, Ayurveda, and awareness help clarify the signal beneath the noise. Staying the course does not mean pushing harder or climbing higher. It means honoring where you are in the process, caring for the part that is yours to tend, and learning how to live well inside the reality you are in.

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Show Notes

In This Episode, Nicholas Explores

• What it means to feel out of place while still living a human life

• Identity, ego, and distortion through survival

• The idea of camouflage and local reality

• Why clarity matters more than understanding everything

• Staying the course without forcing outcomes

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Highlights

• 🌌 Feeling human does not always mean feeling at home

• 🧠 Ego is part of survival, not something to eliminate

• 🧘‍♂️ Yoga and Ayurveda help clear distortion, not escape reality

• 🔍 Your job is your part, not the whole

• 🌱 Staying the course requires honesty, not force

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Reflection Prompt

Where in your life are you trying to understand the whole instead of caring for the part that is actually yours?

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Practice Prompt

Today, pause once and ask yourself, what is truly my responsibility right now, and gently release the rest.

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Sometimes life slows us down not to stop us, but to help us see more clearly.

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Quote from the Episode

"Feeling low is not the problem. Staying there is where things begin to go awry."

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Description

Lately, I have been sitting with some heavier experiences, both personal and professional, that have required me to pause and look honestly at what is working and what is quietly draining me. When things pile up, it becomes easy to keep pushing forward out of habit or idealism, rather than discernment.

In this episode, I share how life often creates course correction when we avoid making necessary changes ourselves. Through the lens of yoga and Ayurveda, I explore how consistency does not prevent difficulty, but it creates stability, clears perception, and allows us to move forward with less resistance and more truth.

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Show Notes

In This Episode, Nicholas Explores

• How difficult experiences bring clarity rather than punishment

• The difference between ideals and what is sustainable right now

• Why discernment requires data, reflection, and honesty

• How consistency creates stability during uncertainty

• The role of yoga and Ayurveda in clearing perception

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Highlights

• 🌱 Feeling down is human. Staying stuck is optional.

• 🧭 Life often redirects us before we are ready to choose change ourselves.

• 🔍 Clarity comes from honest evaluation, not pressure.

• 🧘 Consistent practice creates stability, not avoidance.

• 🪶 Letting go is sometimes the most supportive action.

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Reflection Prompt

What are you holding onto because of who you hoped it would become, rather than how it is actually supporting you right now?

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Practice Prompt

Today, notice one commitment, expense, or habit that feels quietly draining. Pause, breathe, and simply acknowledge it without judgment. Let awareness come before action.

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A DIVOted Talk on perception, AI, spiritual bypassing, embodiment & honoring your place in the whole

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Quote from the Episode:

“There is one truth — but there are many paths to it, and many lived experiences of it.”

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Description:

In this thoughtful and timely episode of DIVOted Talks, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores truth, perception, and discernment in an era of AI, misinformation, and deep societal division. As technology rapidly reshapes how reality is presented and consumed, Nicholas returns to yoga and Ayurveda as grounding frameworks for navigating complexity without losing clarity or self-trust.

He reflects on how spiritual bypassing can disconnect us from embodiment, why uniqueness is not a flaw but a function of the whole, and how chasing unity too soon can cause us to abandon the wisdom of our current position. Using the metaphor of a pyramid, Nicholas invites listeners to honor where they stand, transmute what they carry, and contribute authentically rather than striving to escape human complexity altogether.

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Show Notes:

In this episode, Nicholas explores:

• The paradox of fast-moving time and seasonal slowing

• Navigating feedback without confusing it for identity

• AI, perception, and the fragility of shared reality

• Why discernment matters more than certainty

• The difference between unity and bypassing

• How individuality serves the greater whole

• Transmutation vs. spiritual escape

• Embodiment as a prerequisite for integration

• Finding common ground by naming agreement before conflict

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Highlights:

• 🔺 Truth is singular — experience is not.

• 🧠 Discernment anchors wisdom in uncertain times.

• 🧘‍♂️ Spiritual growth requires embodiment, not escape.

• 🔥 Transmuted pain becomes purpose, not burden.

• 🌍 Unity emerges through participation, not abandonment.

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Reflection Prompt:

Where might you be bypassing your current position in life instead of fully inhabiting it — and what wisdom is waiting there?

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Practice Prompt:

Today, notice where you are trying to transcend instead of engage. Choose one moment to stay present with what’s real and grounded instead.

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In this episode, I reflect on why the world often feels confusing, overwhelming, and heavy and what we can actually do about it.

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“When the world stops making sense, practice is how I stay rooted in myself instead of getting lost in it.”

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Description:

Many of us are walking around with a quiet sense that things feel off. Systems feel broken. People feel divided. What once seemed stable no longer does. I share why I believe the world never truly made sense and how our minds create the illusion that it should. When that illusion breaks, it can feel disorienting, but it can also become an opening for deeper understanding and self work.

The world is always going to do what it does. People will act from fear, power, or self interest. Waiting for external change is exhausting. In this episode, I talk about why practice is not about escape or avoidance. It is about learning how to respond instead of react. Practice helps us stay centered, grounded, and clear so we can live with intention even in uncertain times.

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Show Notes:

What We Explore In This Episode:

• Why the world often feels confusing and overwhelming

• How systems create separation and power imbalance

• The difference between reacting and practicing

• Why changing yourself matters more than changing others

• How living in harmony starts with personal responsibility

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Highlights:

• 🌍 The world has never truly made sense. We just believed it did.

• 🧠 Systems can be understood. Human behavior often cannot.

• 🌱 Practice is not about fixing the world. It is about stabilizing yourself within it.

• 🧘‍♂️ You can only choose for yourself, but that choice still serves the whole.

• 🔄 Grounded living comes from harmony with nature, not resistance to reality.

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Reflection Prompt:

Where in your life are you waiting for the world or other people to change before you allow yourself to feel steady, and what might shift if you focused instead on your own practice?

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Practice Prompt:

Today, notice one moment when the world feels overwhelming or confusing. Pause. Feel your body. Breathe slowly. Remind yourself that steadiness begins inside, then respond from that place instead of reacting.

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Life can feel heavy sometimes, especially when everything seems to pile up at once. In this episode, I share openly about exhaustion, awareness, and how our relationship to life influences what we experience.

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Quote from the Episode:

“Nothing is going to destroy you unless you let it. Practice is what steadies you.”

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Description:

When life feels exhausting, it is easy to believe it is just happening to us. In this episode, I talk about recognizing how our thoughts, beliefs, and expectations shape our experience. Awareness is not about blame. It is about noticing patterns and understanding how what we put out into the world often comes back to us. That awareness is what creates the space for change.

Stress and emotions do not just live in the mind. They show up as tightness, fatigue, and discomfort in the body. Yoga, exercise, and stretching help release stored tension so the nervous system can settle. Movement prepares the body for meditation by clearing mental noise and creating a steadier emotional state. This combination allows new perspectives and possibilities to emerge.

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Show Notes:

What We Explore In This Episode:

• Why feeling exhausted by life is often about relationship, not circumstance

• How unconscious beliefs shape what we experience day to day

• The role of movement in releasing stress stored in the body

• Why meditation becomes more effective after physical practice

• How consistent practice helps you feel steadier, not fixed but supported

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Highlights:

• 🌱 Awareness is not about blame. It is the doorway to change.

• 🧠 Exhaustion is often a relationship to life, not just a schedule problem.

• 🧘‍♂️ The body holds what the mind does not finish processing.

• 🌬️ Movement helps release patterns before the mind can reset.

• 🔄 You are not separate from what you are experiencing. You are part of how it unfolds.

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Reflection Prompt:

Where in your life are you feeling worn down not because of what is happening, but because of how you are relating to it? What might shift if you met that moment with awareness instead of judgment?

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Practice Prompt:

Today, notice one moment where you feel tight, rushed, or overwhelmed. Move your body gently for a few minutes, then pause and breathe before moving on. Let the body lead the reset instead of the mind.

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A DIVOted Talk on kleshas, energetic digestion, staying centered in a dense world & learning how to recover faster

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Quote from the Episode:

“Suffering is always waiting — but practice determines how long it stays.”

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Description:

In this grounded and contemplative episode of DIVOted Talks, Nicholas Wade Kimps reflects on the density of modern life, the inevitability of suffering, and the yogic practices that help us meet difficulty without being overwhelmed by it. While ancient humans lived closer to natural cycles, today’s world asks us to digest an unrelenting firehose of experiences, emotions, information, and energetic input — often without realizing how much it’s costing us.

Drawing from Yoga, Ayurveda, and Buddhist thought, Nicholas explores suffering as a klesha — a latent seed that can take root if left unattended — and why the goal isn’t to eliminate hardship, but to relate to it more skillfully. This episode invites listeners to shift from “fixing” life to practicing relationship with it, so challenges no longer knock us out, but strengthen our capacity to return to center.

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Show Notes:

In this episode, Nicholas explores:

• Why life feels so dense, heavy, and energetically taxing

• Suffering as a klesha — a dormant seed rather than a personal failure

• How modern living disconnects us from natural cycles while still subjecting us to them

• The unseen energetic digestion happening beneath exhaustion and brain fog

• Ayurveda’s view on accumulation, influence, and imbalance

• Why practice matters more than avoidance

• Learning to recover faster instead of demanding perfection

• How perspective shapes experience as much as circumstance

• Asking better questions about how you relate to life — not just what’s happening

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Highlights:

• 🌱 Suffering isn’t optional — how long it stays is.

• 🌬️ Energetic digestion happens whether you notice it or not.

• 🧘‍♂️ Practice doesn’t prevent impact — it shortens recovery time.

• 🪴 Weeding early prevents deeper entanglement later.

• 🔄 Resilience is measured by return, not avoidance.

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Reflection Prompt:

Where in your life are you reacting to difficulty instead of relating to it — and what would change if you practiced recovery instead of resistance?

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Practice Prompt:

Today, pause once before reacting to something challenging. Breathe, notice your center, and choose your response instead of defaulting to habit.

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A DIVOted Talk on discernment, cyclical wisdom, spiritual grounding & staying awake in an age of distortion

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Quote from the Episode:

“Maybe the only truth you can verify is this: I am. And sometimes that’s enough to anchor a whole life.”

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Description:

In this reflective and philosophically rich DIVOted Talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps takes a deep look at illusion, truth, ego, and the strange spiritual terrain of the Kali Yuga — the yogic age defined by distortion, confusion, and the elevation of shadows over substance. Using modern examples from everyday life, holiday chaos, and cultural tribalism, Nicholas explores how humans cling to narratives that feel safe, even when they contradict reality.

Through yogic psychology, Ayurveda, and the wisdom of cyclical time, he unpacks how illusion forms, why people double down on beliefs even when faced with truth, and how to maintain clarity when the world seems to reward delusion. This episode offers a grounded invitation to tether yourself to what is undeniably real — breath, presence, self-awareness — and to let that truth carry you through confusion, fear, and collective unraveling.

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Show Notes:

In this episode, Nicholas explores:

• Why the Kali Yuga is called the age of illusion, confusion, and inverted values

• How tribal identity overrides objective truth

• Why humans cling to narratives that confirm their belonging

• The role of ahamkara (ego) in creating separation and suffering

• Sneha — the Ayurvedic teaching that “oil” and “love” share the same word

• Ayurveda’s approach to restoring balance when the world feels destabilizing

• How routine, breath, and self-honoring practices anchor the mind

• Why sitting with difficult truth is a spiritual discipline

• The power of “I am” as the simplest and most reliable refuge

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Highlights:

• 🔥 In the Kali Yuga, illusion is persuasive because it feels familiar — not because it’s true.

• 🌫️ Ego (ahamkara) creates separation, but awareness dissolves it.

• 🧘‍♂️ Tethering to truth begins with what is verifiable in the present moment.

• 💛 Sneha reminds us that love is the oil that softens hardness — internally and collectively.

• 🌱 Even painful truths must be digested, not avoided, if we want clarity.

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Reflection Prompt:

What truth can you confidently tether yourself to today — even if everything else around you feels uncertain or distorted?

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Practice Prompt:

Sit for 60 seconds and repeat internally: “I am.”

Let every other thought, belief, or story fall away. Notice what remains.

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