What stories or beliefs do you hold on to? In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda talks about the five ways to free yourself from past conditioning and limiting beliefs or narratives. You’ll learn the power of the language you use and how to use language and expanded awareness to reprogram or rewrite the stories you tell.

“If you’re healing and getting out of past conditioning, whether it’s from work or a relationship or family or cultural… it doesn’t matter if the wounding happened when you were 5 or if the wounding happened when you were 50, where you are today, you’re not that person [that] you were then.” - Yedda

Yedda shares some of the ways she had been conditioned as a child, along with how she realized that your wounds can become your wisdom and a catalyst for immense growth.

“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” - Yedda

Resources:

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

Do you have feedback, questions, or comments? Leave a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shut-up-and-sit/id1561078547

Having a hard time letting go of something or letting go of control? In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda welcomes Malikah Karim, a wellness advocate and yoga instructor, to shut up and sit down with her to talk about the nine steps of letting go. Malikah also shares her story and sheds light on her passionate relationship with mindfulness while speaking about the philosophy behind her work, including her upcoming retreat in Morocco, Heal Grow Love Repeat.

“It’s not about knowing, on a logical level, every single thing. We could never read all the books, we could never know everything, but what I arrived at [was]… the letting go led me to a knowingness in my being and that knowingness literally talks to me now and says, “I know it’s all going to work out. I know that the best and highest good is happening for everyone involved.”” - Yedda

Yedda and Malikah exchange their wisdom and thoughts regarding the nine steps of letting go, highlighting the power acknowledging negative thoughts and emotions, prioritizing emotional clearing, and letting others voluntarily evolve.

“This is all circular, we’re all going to go back to where we started… that’s the cycle of life. So, I think that healing is not going to be separate from that, but we want to spend more time in the part of the circle that feels good and feels like upward motion than the one that feels like struggle and if you can do that, you are healing.” - Malikah Karim

Resources:

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

Heal Grow Love Repeat Retreat: www.healgrowloverepeat.com 

The Feeling Wheel: www.gottman.com/blog/printable-feeling-wheel 

Learn more about Malikah and Pure Wellness Coaching: www.purewellnesscoaching.com

Follow Malikah on Instagram: www.instagram.com/mkpurewellness 

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

Do you have feedback, questions, or comments? Leave a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shut-up-and-sit/id1561078547

Oftentimes, we have trouble letting go of our whirling emotions and seeing things as they truly are. In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda teaches you “the S.T.O.P. technique”, a powerfulmindfulness tool you can use to stop an emotion in its tracks so that you can decide where to go and what to do next with intention, logic, and an open-mind. You’ll also hear Yedda read a beautiful testimonial, a story of mindfulness featured in the Shut Up and Sit book, from a client of hers who has been liberated through the art of mindfulness and shutting up, sitting down, and letting go.

“The filter through which we see the world is in our own consciousness.”​- Yedda

Resources:

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel:www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook:www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

Do you have feedback, questions, or comments? Leave a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shut-up-and-sit/id1561078547

Do you find yourself in downward spirals of depression or negative thought? Have you ever wondered why you feel like crap when you think like crap? In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda talks about three ways we show emotion and what happens once we dive into the Emotional Guidance Scale. She describes where the Emotional Guidance Scale lives in our body, teaching you the science behind neuropeptides and how the body is affected by negative thoughts down to the cellular level. 

“You have the capacity in your own thought process to tell your cells of your body to produce chemicals that are gonna lift up your body literally and grow and expand it and create connection, or shut it down and eventually cause death and destruction. That’s exactly the power your thoughts have on the physical tissues in your body.” - Yedda

You’ll hear insights from research studies that illustrate the power of positive thinking, as well as the role of suppression/repression, expression, and escapism in your thinking and feeling processes. Yedda also lets you in on the secret to being able to contain and recover from negative thoughts, along with how thoughts and emotions are connected to addiction and substance abuse.

“What I’m teaching you might be the process, but the tools of how you can do mindfulness, how you can go within, and self-inquiry… there’s thousands of them... One of the ways I suggest is just getting the pen and paper out, getting really real with yourself… we’ve got to start to shut up and sit and start to look inside and figure out: What are we doing with our emotions and where are they coming from?” - Yedda

Remember, it’s all energy in motion.

Resources:

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

Do you have feedback, questions, or comments? Leave a review here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/shut-up-and-sit/id1561078547

Are you creating your own darkness, your own hell? In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda welcomes back her mother, Austine, to shut up and sit down with her to discuss what the Emotional Guidance Scale is and how to use it to increase vitality, improve your energy, and change your life.

“When you’re in the downward spiral, it’s a heavy, dense feeling… Upward is just a higher, more vibrant, light, energetic feeling. My life just got better, it got better on every level.” - Austine

You’ll gain insight into Austine’s powerful journey to discovering the Emotional Guidance Scale and creating the viral graphic that goes along with the concept. She also shares how she uses it with clients to help them change their mindset, remove unhelpful habits, let go of the victim mentality, and be the best version of themselves they can be. Then, Yedda talks about poetry as a potent way to shut up, sit down, and be mindful, followed by a reading of a lovely poem by Portia Nelson.

“The whole journey is about becoming independent, taking your power back, and realizing there’s a connection between your thoughts and that you can feel the energy shift… if you can just think a different thought and create a different energy, you will feel it in your body and then you will know: I did that. Mom didn’t do that.” - Austine

Resources:

Watch Episode 2 with Austine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9_XuNkbbtk 

Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins: www.goodreads.com/book/show/19795.Power_vs_Force 

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning 

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Portia Nelson: https://palousemindfulness.com/docs/autobio_5chapters.pdf 

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

First comes thought… then comes emotion… In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda welcomes Karrie Southall, a dear client and friend, to shut up and sit down with her to discuss the power of this movement and the work they’ve done together. Now that we’ve moved past the bulk of our discussion on thoughts, the duo dives into emotions, where they come from, and how they relate to behavioral changes in a corporate workplace, especially for women. 

Karrie was struggling with her career when she discovered Yedda and her work. She shares with you her experience with this unconventional method of self-development and how it has impacted her role as a leader, a COO, and a mother. 

You’ll learn how Karrie’s relationship to her thoughts has changed since practicing introspective mindfulness, as well as aher candid thoughts on the power of sitting in silence compared to structured mindfulness and meditation practices. Plus, Yedda and Karrie share a practical mindfulness technique you can use at any time, even at work, to increase focus and decrease anxiety. 

“My mind was so busy with so much going on and the amount of responsibility that I had that I wasn’t present in conversations. I wasn’t present in my job. I wasn’t present as a mom. So I was constantly anxious about the next thing that was going to come up, the next issue that was going to come up, whether that be at home or at work. Really, the introspective work that I did with you, along with practicing mindfulness on a regular basis, allowed me to really kind of calm my mind and be able to be present in the moment.” - Karrie Southall 

Resources:

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

To learn more about Karrie Southall and to connect with her, visit: www.linkedin.com/in/karrie-southall-359216bb 

“If you go within, you can find silence and stillness.” - Yedda Stancil

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

Want to know how to rewire your brain? In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda breaks down The Ladder of Inference, a concept that describes our thinking process, from observation to action. You’ll learn the different stages of thinking, along with their impact on our beliefs, actions, and how we show up and connect with others. Yedda shares the best way to change behaviors and a simple mindfulness practice you can use to rewire or reprogram your unconscious beliefs.

“Everything is just a big ol’ mountain of data. Experiences are being filtered and then we’re climbing that Ladder of Inference in our own psyche, in our own mind… that’s a meaning-making system that all human beings use.” - Yedda Stancil

95% of your day is driven by your unconscious mind, so if your unconsciously programmed belief systems are holding you back, it’s going to feel as if you’re not moving forward towards where you want to be in life. With thousands of ways to meditate and be mindful, there are thousands of ways you can tap into your subconscious mind, identify what’s going on inside of yourself, and reprogram your beliefs. 

“There’s a divinity and a dignity to shutting up and sitting down that is really personal to you and it is so personal that when you walk out into the world, nobody climbs the Ladder the way you’re climbing the Ladder.” - Yedda Stancil

Resources:

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Do your “truths” define you? What beliefs are holding you back? In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda welcomes Chase Chewning, a health coach turned podcaster, Creator and Host of Ever Forward Radio, and Yedda’s beloved client, to shut up and sit down with her to talk about what it looks like to challenge limiting beliefs and negative thoughts. 

Listen in as Chase shares his beautiful story, detailing how he learned to interrupt negative thought patterns, question his belief systems, and choose thoughts that help him realize his inner power. Yedda and Chase speak their minds on how to work with the ego and how they work with clients to solve their problems by trusting their own inner wisdom. You’ll learn the powerful effects of becoming aware of your narratives and belief systems, how health coaching is becoming more integrative, and the ultimate goal of this work. 

“I’ve discovered that I have something so much bigger than myself inside of me and by not sharing it with others, by not helping it manifest, by not working continuously for it, I’m doing so many people a disservice, including myself. That’s my truth. At my company, [Ever Forward,] we believe to live a good life is to be continuously leaning into discomfort, to continuously be reflecting on limiting beliefs that might hold us back.” - From a testimonial by Chase Chewning

Everything in your life is determined by a belief system. Remember, you are enough. You are worthy. You are strong. You are imperfectly perfect and you are the master of your life. 

“None of us are perfect. The secret for success is not to become perfect, it’s to become more aware of: Who am I? What am I thinking? What am I feeling? What am I doing?” - Yedda Stancil

Resources:

Listen to Ever Forward Radio: www.chasechewning.com/podcasts 

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

To learn more about Chase Chewning and to connect with him, visit: https://www.instagram.com/chase_chewning/ 

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

Which comes first: thinking, feeling, or behaving? Most people guess emotions or feelings... In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda breaks down the top ten cognitive distortions we experience and how our thoughts become distorted. Cognitive distortions often cause us to spiral into a vortex of negative emotions and behaviors, though there are ways to avoid that. Listen in as Yedda integrates modern psychology research with ancient mindfulness practices to bring you practical ways to improve your quality of life. 

What are negative thoughts and what power do they have? You’ll learn how the ten cognitive distortions impact your life and your wellbeing, along with how to shift your mindset and continue your evolution with simple mindfulness techniques.

“Thoughts are mental units of energy that come first. Thoughts create emotions… These thoughts that we create literally go down into every cell in our body.” - Yedda Stancil

It takes five positive thoughts just to outweigh one negative thought. Don’t be intimidated by this. Lean into the discomfort, stop discounting positive thoughts and experiences, and focus on implementing positive affirmations. Let’s start cultivating an environment that nurtures shared positivity and love. Remember, the brain is only one part of who you are. 

“You can’t think your way… into constant positivity… Silence and presence with a thought can completely and radically change your entire experience.” - Yedda Stancil

Resources:

Books by Rick Hanson: www.rickhanson.net/books 

Buy the book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around lovingkindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil

In this episode of Shut Up and Sit, Yedda explores the five basic human needs and tells a powerful story of one human’s connection during her travels to Morocco that illustrates the beauty of humanity and the basic need of safety and security. Yedda takes a deep dive into the role of mindfulness in connecting with one another and making change in the world, as well as the five crippling habits that people have developed to accommodate for or put in place of the basic human needs. 

“I believe that we can all hold different truths at the same time. I believe that mindfulness is way more than putting yourself in a pretzel on a cushion somewhere with some cool music and disappearing from the world.” - Yedda Stancil

Are your needs being met? If so, how are they being met? How can these insights into our basic human needs help you connect to your own humanity and to the humanity of the world? Going deeper into the silence of awareness helps us radically love and accept ourselves so that we can radiate that same love into the world to make a meaningful impact. 

“I know that this silence, this ability to shut up and sit down, actually cultivates an ability for me to show up in the world differently and to accept all human beings.” - Yedda Stancil

Resources:

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning 

Buy Yedda’s book: www.yeddastancil.com/buy-the-book

Take the course: www.yeddastancil.com/take-the-course 

About Yedda:

As a consciousness coach and consultant, Yedda strives to be present with everyone she meets, aspiring to pay total attention without judgement. She is open-minded and lives life with an open heart, offering others a sacred safe space to grow and evolve, free from suffering and shame.

Yedda’s ultimate desire is to live in a world where every person feels awakened and deeply connected to their authentic self—a world centered around loving, kindness and equanimity, where all humans feel safe to communicate soul-to-soul. Dedicated to serving something greater than herself, Yedda defines her life’s work as “walking others home to the truth that we are ALL the highest and grandest expression of Source.”

Yedda offers a unique blend of leadership, mindfulness, and personal development skills to clients, helping them to integrate mind, body, and soul.

Connect with Yedda:

Visit her website: www.yeddastancil.com 

Subscribe to her YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCeQIBSs2arYxgbqkbfOHs9g 

Follow her on Instagram: www.instagram.com/yeddastancil 

Connect with her on Facebook: www.facebook.com/yeddastancil 

Connect with her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/yeddastancil 

Follow her on Twitter: www.twitter.com/yeddastancil