Episode 396: Low Energy? Here’s How to Get It Back
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Constant stimulation and social media algorithms are draining our life force every single day and keeping us stuck in cycles of nonstop scrolling and reactivity. So what does that mean for your energy, your focus, and your creativity? And how do we interrupt that pattern?
You’ll learn how boredom (yes, boredom!) is one of the most unglamorous, but powerful tools for resetting your nervous system, sparking creativity, and reclaiming your energy. Erin is also sharing the EXACT experiments she’s playing with right now, from morning phone boundaries to intentional mind-wandering, and how small shifts in attention can open up a totally different way of moving through your day
In this episode:
How social media and doomscrolling hijacks your dopamine and trains your brain to be reactive
Why constantly “optimizing” your health or habits can backfire when your nervous system is overloaded
How daydreaming and being bored on purpose can give you a creative edge
The worst thing you can do when you wake up in the morning, and how to interrupt the pattern
What types of accounts Erin has been intentionally unfollowing on social media
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Boredom is fertile ground for creativity. Pretty much any author or artist or true creator will tell you that. But it's also scientifically backed. When we're bored, it creates new ways of thinking about things. We get to see new possibilities. We get to create new connections.
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Hey, friends. I'm beaming in with a quickie introduction for this episode. Typically speaking, I record episodes weeks to even months in advance from when you're actually listening to them, when they're actually published. And this gives our amazing team all the time they need to edit, schedule, write show notes, update the website, all that jazz.
Today's episode is no exception. Meaning that it was recorded weeks ago. Meaning that it was recorded before things really started happening in Minneapolis, before things really hit a fever pitch and social media started popping off as direct response to what's happening in Minneapolis. I bring this up because I do mention social media on this episode, and I don't want you to think that I'm trying to intentionally be vague or bypass what is going on. If you've been here for a while, you know that I certainly don't shy away from hard conversations. However, that was just not the purpose or the intention of this particular episode. This is truly just a podcast that was on my heart to create about the things that are hijacking our attention, our minds, and our energy. My team and I really discussed whether or not this brief intro that you're hearing right now is even necessary.
But at the end of the day, I believe that we're all responsible for the words and the content and the energy that we put out into the world, myself included, how people interpret my words. Totally not my responsibility. But being impeccable with my word totally is my responsibility. And you know, as you're listening, some of today's conversation might feel really relevant to current affairs. You know, probably it might totally. So maybe just let that breathe a little bit. But I also want to be honest and straightforward and transparent about the fact that that was not my intention of the show. I did not create it in direct response to what was happening.
Again, I created it really, before things hit this fever pitch. I also know that people listen to these shows years into the future, which is a little trippy, a little while to think about, but totally true. So I don't know, maybe if you are listening to this a few years in the future, hopefully we have sorted this whole shit storm out or at least made some progress in the right direction. That would be my hope, my wish, and my prayer for all of us. As always, with every episode that I create and record, I hope that this brings some value into your life, whatever that looks like for you. I always appreciate your time, your attention, your energy. It is a gift and an honor to receive it. And now here is the actual show.
Hello, my buddies, my pals, my amigos. Do you have low energy? Here's how to get it back. Without a supplement, a diet change, a lab test, or a protocol, this is just a good old fashioned readjustment of your focus and that can help you reclaim your life force. Now it is truly as simple as that.
Is it easy? Not always, but it sure is simple. We're getting into all of it today. I set an intention for myself, to myself to create more of what feels good to me here on the podcast this year. And this is what's on my heart and my mind right now. It feels pressing and it feels important that I release this episode now. I just got the intuitive hit and I am leaning more and more into what I am intuitively guided to do. Rereading Rick Rubin's The Creative Act and he often talks about creating not for the audience first, but for yourself. The audience can receive it later, but you get the intuitive hit, you get the divine download, you get the inspiration, and then you create.
And not everything has to get released into the public hands, but this one will. So that's where I'm coming from. I also saw that Jenna Kutcher stepped away from her podcast. If you know business in the online space, she is a biggie. She had almost a thousand episodes of her podcast. It's a lot. And she recently decided to walk away. And I read her substack talking about it and we're going to get into that a little bit later.
And a line really jumped out at me. She said she is enjoying Substack right now because it is creativity without strategy. And that line really jumped out, really stood out, really spoke to me as somebody who's been creating for a very long time, 15 years, just for my business, obviously there's a lot of strategy involved in that, and certainly not walking away from strategy. But the thought of getting just to create without a means to an end behind it feels interesting. It feels exciting to me. So I'm paying attention to that feeling. So today's episode is kind of like notes from my journal to your ears with some science and book quotes sprinkled in. And I've got one hip hop quote too, I guess, so I'll lead with that.
It's from Mobb Deep. “There's a war going on outside no man is safe from.” That's the line that kept playing in my head when I was writing this episode. There is this ongoing relentless fight going on right now. For your attention. For my attention too. For our awareness, for our energy. I've said before that
Our attention is the new currency in where we place our attention, we place our energy.
Where we place our energy, we place our life force. So wherever you are directing your attention, you are giving your life force to.
And I want you to maybe like hit that rewind button a couple of times and listen to that again, because it is so important. It's maybe the most important thing you'll hear all day, all week, all month. Lock it in.
Wherever you place your attention, that is where you are sending your energy and your life force.
So where is your attention going? If you have low energy, if you have a depleted life force, where's it going and how can you bring it back? So I've been thinking about this a lot lately for myself, particularly as it relates to the media that we take in, specifically social media. The Internet is a huge part of our lives.
Back in the 90s, we used to say we were going on the computer. Remember that? Now we never leave. We never leave the matrix. We stay plugged in. And algorithms really prioritize extreme and inflammatory content. We know this because extreme and inflammatory content keep people engaged. It keeps you locked in. It keeps your attention, it holds your attention hostage, and it keeps you coming back for more and more and more and more.
And speaking from a content creator perspective, the goal post keeps moving in terms of how we're supposed to get people's attention and interrupt the scroll hook is the most important thing. It's the first three seconds. If you don't grab somebody's attention in the first three seconds, your content's not gonna be seen. We need visual cues and transitions and we gotta change the font size, change the Color. Keep people engaged, keep their attention, keep it moving, keep it shaking, keep it exciting, keep it going. It's fucking overstimulation is what we're attuned to. That has become the new norm. Our brains are cranked up at the max all the time.
And creators, content creators, are just constantly looking for new and different ways and strategies to interrupt the scroll, which really just means strategies to interrupt your brain. And this is everyone from large corporations to huge media outlets and whoever controls those, to influencers to small businesses and creators, they're all vying for your attention and strategizing how to get it, how to interrupt your brain. And this isn't necessarily nefarious or necessarily bad. I do think a lot of it is and can be used that way. But, you know, I think about a small local business who happens to be on social media that just wants, you know, more eyes in their work. Is that a problem? In and of itself, no. But it's the volume and the magnitude in which we consume these things and take these things in.
So part of the reason I've been thinking about this a lot is this summer we brought on our first full time social media strategist, a social media person that's like fully part of the team.
And she came over from another company. And I'm going to be intentionally very, very vague because this is certainly not my story to tell. She had been able to get accounts very, very, very large growth, huge growth. And when we talked and unpacked a lot of this, what became really clear is a lot of that growth was through strategies that I do not feel good with employing here. Things like fear mongering, clickbaity stuff that kind of is like. It feels so cringe to me because it's so inauthentic. I just feel like, oh, this is awkward because it is, it's not who I am. Rage bait is a big one, just really triggered triggering people getting that amygdala hijack, getting that dopamine hijack, hijacking the brain, triggering the emotional brain to take over and then logic and reason take a back seat.
So the more we're taking in and bringing in this type of content, we kind of lose the ability to willfully direct our focus because we're just constantly in reaction mode all of the time. And these are the accounts that grow. Guys, this is the stuff that you're seeing. Like I said earlier, algorithms prioritize extreme and inflammatory content because that is what keeps people most engaged. You get that emotional reaction and then you're locked in, but it can start to make you, as the consumer, feel like everything is terrible and it will always be terrible. It can keep us spinning and looping in ruminating thoughts. There's an actual physiologic stress response, stress chemistry that happens when the amygdala takes over. And the more this pattern fires, the more that physiology feels like the norm to you.
It can even feel comfortable after a while in which the absence of that feeling, you start to feel like something is wrong. So you keep seeking that same feeling out. And this is rarely conscious, by the way, but it's happening nonetheless in this constant overstimulation really fries our nervous system. Not exactly a technical term, but I think you know what I mean when I say that. But unfortunately, this style of content works. This is how accounts are growing. So something that we've really been discussing internally here, we've been thinking about it and talking about it, because my social media person's like, I don't want to do it. Like, that feels gross.
I'm like, yeah, it feels gross to me too. It gives me the ick. Let's not. And so we're really trying to figure out how we can, quote, unquote, interrupt the feed with more presence and frequency rather than clickbait. You know, when people land on my content because it's not. I don't think the. The strategy is to just leave. It's like, I've always been like, be the change that you want to see in the world.
Rather than just complaining that everything's bad and not doing anything about it. Why don't you actively create the change that you want to see? So we've been talking about what that could look like. To be clear, we have not arrived at the answer, but it's a work in progress. But like I said, I want people to feel like, this content makes me feel seen, this makes me feel good. This stories me into possibility. This makes me feel like something that's not available to me could potentially be available to me. I don't want people to feel like, oh, this is making me fearful or angry. I don't want to.
You know, I want to put them in coherence, not more incoherence when they land on my page. And. And so we are really trying to explore new possibility of what marketing gets to look like and gets to feel like in this new chapter. And I'll talk about ways that I'm doing this in a little bit at the end of the show. It's not going to be social media strategy. So even if you're not a content creator or a business owner, you'll still benefit from the strategies that I will outline for you. These are things that I'm committing to. So this is kind of why I've been giving all of this a lot of thought lately.
And in order to do this, I've also had to step back and really observe my interaction with social media as a consumer rather than a creator, a consumer, and I do mean consumer, because consumption is the name of the game we are taking in more and more and more than ever before. I found myself shopping right from Instagram more and more. There's just like so many ads. I get sucked into them and then I leave being like, what just happened? And I feel completely, completely unsated by it. And that you guys, that feeling, that is all your dopamine system, babe. Dopamine causes you to want, to desire, to seek and to search for activities that will make you feel good. It keeps you locked into reward seeking behavior. When we find those behaviors, dopamine is the chemical, the neurotransmitter that will increase the likelihood of that behavior being repeated in the future.
Dopamine is responsible for anticipating a reward and then driving you toward it, because we know that pleasure is on the other side of reward. But dopamine is not the chemical that actually gives you pleasure. That's sometimes a little bit misunderstood. The pleasure comes from other chemicals. Serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins. Endopamine itself doesn't give you the feeling of satisfaction. It just keeps you on the hunt for more. So that's what can lead to that unsated feeling.
You never feel accomplished or satisfied after binging and scrolling on social media. Usually you feel worse. And that's because so much of what we're engaged with is instant gratification. It's immediate satisfaction and pleasure that comes from obtaining a reward without having to wait for it or put in any effort to receive it. So it, over time can lead us to prioritize short term satisfaction over like real substantial reward and satisfaction that requires patience and effort. And the problem with this is that instant gratification triggers a quick and intense release of dopamine. And when we repeat this over and over and over again, what happens is that our baseline dopamine levels drop and we actually need more and more and more dopamine to feel motivated to do something. I don't know if you guys have heard of second screen viewing, but evidently they're now writing shows.
Assuming that you are splitting your attention between two screens. So here's an example of us needing more and more and more stimulation. We now need two screens for the same stimulation that one used to bring us. Remember when we can just sit on a couch and watch tv? Now we sit on the couch and watch TV while simultaneously scrolling. I'm getting nauseous just talking about it. And I do this too. So this is not a soapbox moment. This is a what the fuck are we doing moment.
Is it time to maybe wake up? When brains become less responsive to dopamine, it becomes harder for us to do things that require more effort. So things like exercising or eating well, changing habits, leaving the house, being social, working on your goals so we can end up really unmotivated by life. We can get stuck in ruminating thoughts and repeat the same patterns and repeat the same stories. And it keeps you stuck exactly where you are.
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Now what I think is really, really cool and really fascinating is that boredom can reset this system. So we have this like pain pleasure system and boredom can help to reset that.
With boredom we get to access different parts of our brain. Now obviously the problem is that we're never bored. And without boredom, not only do we have this there's increased consumption, this over stimulation, this constant overstimulation, but there's also increased regurgitation. Nothing feels creative anymore. It's just the same stuff over and over and over again. And I'm like, why am I still scrolling? I've just seen six people do the same reel six different times. Why am I still here? Why am I still locked in? Get me out Mr. Mr.
Get me out of here. Boredom is fertile ground for creativity. Pretty much any author or artist or true creator will tell you that. But it's also scientifically backed. When we're bored it creates new ways of thinking about things. We get to see new possibilities. We get to create new connections. I love reading research in papers about mind wandering in daydreaming.
I'm a Pisces, so daydreaming is my jam. I am a forever daydreamer. I have been doing this since I was a little kid. Another way that daydreaming or mind wandering is written in the research is spontaneous cognition, which I just love. I love that term. But whatever we want to call it, it's really our tendency for the mind to periodically decouple from physical reality. And there's indication that this tendency, because we all have this tendency of our mind to do this to varying degrees for sure, but. But if our minds have the capacity to do this, then it probably fulfills some function.
And that function is most probably creativity, the process of generating new novel ideas. There is overlap between the neurocognitive processes involved in mind wandering in those involved in idea generation. So when we are bored and we allow our minds to drift, allow our minds to wander, it creates new insights for solving problems. It has a specific benefit of getting unstuck when initial attempts to solve a problem have failed. It just puts us into a different frame of mind. You know, is it Einstein that said, I know it's Einstein that said, there's no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it. It's kind the same vibe here. And that's why Rick Rubin says in his book the Creative act, sometimes disengaging is the best way to engage.
By the way, two of my favorite books on the creative process are Big Magic by Liz Gilbert, that was published in 2015, and The Creative Act by Rick Rubin, which was published in 2023. I like to return to them often because I oftentimes need the reminders that are in both books. And I return to them a different person each time. So I feel like I receive new and different insights and perspectives in medicine each time I return to those books. But strong recommend on both of those books, in both of them really emphasize the importance of creative space. We have to create space to feel, to listen, to see, to receive. You know what? I should back that up. We should create space to be bored so then we can listen, we can see, we can receive, we can see things in new ways.
And it is really, really, really hard to have that space when our minds are constantly cluttered up and hijacked by constant stimulus. And so part of the work here, part of our job, if we want to Change this is to choose response over immediate default action. We all know that. Viktor Frankl quote, between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. So if we want the freedom to step out of this program, this matrix that's like we're all plugged into and running and running and running that we've given our power to, we do have to introduce that little bit of space every time we have a stimulus. And we consciously change the response that rewires us.
It compounds, it builds over time. The more we do that, the more that becomes the new pathway. So we get to start making different choices. This is intentional direction, direction of your mind, your focus in even your body. Rather than being ruled by your impulses, it puts the locus of control back to you. And this, by the way, is a way to set a boundary. I've said it before, I'll say it again. Boundary setting is the number one antidote to burnout.
So if you've got low energy, you gotta shore up your energy leaks. Where are you leaking? Where is your energy leaking? And boundary setting becomes a huge problem solved for this. I do think the boundary conversation has gone a little bit too far over the years. And it's. In some places and spaces, it seems like it has sort of become synonymous with a smaller life, like saying no to everyone and everything, cutting people out, being unwilling to engage with people if they're different than you. Just like hard, fierce boundaries. Sometimes that's super duper necessary. But what if boundary setting actually looked like saying no and protecting yourself from bigger entities that are siphoning your energy, like the things that are trying to hijack your attention.
Your dopamine system, your brain, your energy, your life force. A pattern interrupt like this can actually serve as a boundary. You protect your own energy. That's your job. This is one way to do that. Kind of like create your own force field. Another Rick Rubin quote that feels relevant here. He says, “because there's an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.”
This is a boundary. This is energy preservation. This is saying, yeah, I'm not going to engage with every available thing there is to engage with because that is
A, frying my nervous system.
B, creating a brain that makes it harder for me to enjoy my life.
C, robbing me of all of my creativity, indeed, draining me of my life force and my energy.
Like, no thanks.
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So what do we do to reclaim that energy, to reclaim our life force? These are the exact strategies that I am using right now. First we have to ask ourselves, where do I want my attention and my energy and my life force to go.
I always start there. It's rather than what do I not want, what do I actually want? Where do I want things to go? So it's a great question to ask yourself, but this is specifically what I'm doing. You can use one or all of these if they feel right. The first thing is, phone is in airplane mode in the morning. So I put it on airplane mode to sleep, and then I just leave it in airplane mode in the morning. I think picking up your phone first thing in the morning, upon waking is one of the worst things you can do. As it relates to this conversation today, when we first wake up, our brain is in a theta state, which is a very programmable, a very hypnotizable state. So you are essentially, when you pick up your phone, you are essentially trancing yourself with someone, someone else's agenda.
You're basically like, yep, totally, take my focus, take my energy, take my attention, take all my life force. It's yours, have it. So you can interrupt the pattern by just leaving your phone off or in airplane mode first thing in the morning, tend to yourself first. Tend to your own field, tend to your own body, tend to your own creativity. I do that by having a morning ritual. I call it my morning ritual. And. And it looks different every morning.
Sometimes it's sitting and pulling cards, sometimes it's a movement practice, sometimes it's a meditation. Sometimes it's letting my mind wander. Oftentimes it's journaling. The act of writing, especially writing without structure, writing without an agenda, writing without strategy, without it needing to go anywhere. Writing just for me is extremely cathartic for me and probably for you too. There's like actually a lot of research to back this up, but I've always loved to put pen to paper and write things down, barf out my thoughts. Sometimes I write to process, like stuff that's coming up or limiting beliefs, kind of all that jazz. And sometimes I write to create.
Many of my podcasts, my workshops, my programs, even meeting notes start in my journal. It's a way to process through my thoughts about something. It's also self exploration. It helps me understand how I feel about something, how I see something, how I'm weak, weaving things together, writing things down. Journaling is a really good way to interrupt the loop because our brains really like to kind of know the end. So when it starts something, it's going to keep looping and looping and looping until you have conclusion. In writing things down on paper, getting it out of the mind and onto the paper can help to give you some conclusion to that thought. So if you ever catch yourself in rumination, in looping thoughts, writing things down can be really helpful.
I do very specific meditation. There is a lot of these in Manifest Your Health, a membership that will be coming out soon, where I am intentionally directing my life force into my own body, into my own energy centers. I'm calling back my energy from any places and spaces that I've left it. I have a practice of calling my energy back from my phone, calling my energy back from social media. And so my energy can exist in me. Where your attention goes, your energy goes. And I want my energy with me, in my body, in my energy field. So like I said, there's specific meditations and guided practices that I do.
Another thing that I've been doing is spending less time on social. Fairly obvious for all the reasons that we discussed why I'm doing this. When I ask myself, where do I want my attention, my energy and my life force to go? There are some aspects of social media that I do want to direct my attention toward. So like I said, the solution for, for me is not to completely come off of social media. We use it for visibility. A lot of people find a lot of value off of what we share on social media. That's important to me. Like, I enjoy that.
Connecting with my audience, with you guys is also nice to be able to do on social media. There's a lot of aspects. I love stories, like I do love creating for stories. It's just like such low pressure. I can just kind of show up as a slob kebab and I, I feel fine about it. It's very not curated. So there are places that I still enjoy social media and that's why I say I'm spending less time on it, not zero time on it. But what I have done is I've unfollowed all social media, quote, unquote experts.
The reason for it is twofold. One, as a content creator, I do not want regurgitation of strategy. So I don't wanna be like, oh, everyone's saying, do this, I'm gonna do this now. Like, no gross barf. No thank you. Number two, this is a big one. A lot of these accounts, what I have noticed, they've gotten a lot louder. And it feels to me that they are fighting for relevancy.
And the way they do that is to make you feel like you don't know enough, you're not doing enough. The strategy is always changing, ever evolving, and you're always behind. And that feeling really keeps me locked into a level of hyper vigilance that I'm just honestly all set with. So. So for me, it felt good to disengage and unfollow social media experts. For you that might look a little different. But really think about the accounts that you follow and if anybody keeps you locked into a level of hypervigilance, it's probably not the best account to follow. Unless you want to stay locked into a level of hypervigilance and have your nervous system fried and stay in all the loops that we've been talking about.
If you feel good there, definitely follow those accounts. But that might be something for you to consider. Consider the other thing that I'm going to be a lot more intentional about is adding bored daydream creative time on my calendar. Like legitimately scheduling mind wandering time on my work schedule during my workday and prioritizing this without guilt. I feel like I always have to add without guilt to so many things that I want to do. Three of my mentors, my guides, my healers, my witches, my shamans, all of them over the past two to three months, three independent of one another, all told me how important this is. And like, basically like this is your primary job. And so I need to permission myself to really see it as part of my job as the visionary, as the CEO, as the creator.
It's like literally my job. And so I really just have to own it, own that truth. And I would encourage you to think about where you can work more daydreaming time into your day to day life. Even if you're not the CEO and visionary of a company or a creator, this daydreaming time can give you a creative edge, a competitive edge in any role that you're in. Even if it's just the role of living your life as we discussed, it allows you to see things in a new way and come up with new solutions. And in case you're like, okay, well, how do I be bored? You know, how do I let my mind wander? Here are ways that I let my mind drift and wander. You have to put down the phone first and foremost. Sorry, you have to put down your phone.
And this is not an exhaustive list. It's just the stuff that I happen to do regularly. I'm a big bird girl. I don't know if you know that about me, but I love birds. I love to watch birds. So I will just look out a window and watch birds, woods, simple as that, I will also stare into the woods in the back of my house through my window. I will sit down when I'm out walking in the woods. I love woods.
Can you tell? We have two houses and we are surrounded by woods. Both of them. It's. I love it, I love it, I love it, I love it. I will go for a walk and not have my headphones and not listen to a podcast or if I'm listening to a podcast and I catch my mind, mind wandering, I will turn on the podcast and let my mind go do its thing. So that's actually something I do quite often. Something they say in the podcast gets me thinking and then I turn the podcast off and allow my mind to just like kind of follow its own connections. Another thing to do is you can stare at a fireplace.
Like the crackle of the fire is really, really good. And if you don't have a fireplace, you can do the same thing. Staring at the flame of a candle and just like letting your mind drift and wander. Shower is a really good place for mind wandering. I mean, don't you just get your best ideas in the shower? Sometimes, yeah. It's because your mind isn't engaged in something else. So those are the things that I'm doing. Less scrolling and more daydreaming.
So I can be more creative and I can take my energy back. The truth is there is pretty much an infinite amount of sources that can shape and model our minds and what we see and what we perceive and the filters through which we see the world. We are being programmed every single second of every single day. And the amazing thing about you is that you have such an incredible ability and capacity to redirect your focus, to redirect your attention, your energy, your life force, your life, the story of your life. This is no joke, you guys. We are talking about your life lived here. This is your time on earth. This is it.
Here we are. How you spend your days is how you spend your life. So how are you spending your life? Be honest with yourself. Where's your life force being directed day by day? How is your mind being shaped and modeled? How is your experience of life being shaped and modeled? Know that you and only you have the power to change that.
So listen, Manifest Your Health is coming soon. It is a brain body membership and it blends systems, biology and neuroscience and you're gonna love it. It's gonna be available in the spring, so be sure to get yourself on the waitlist now. We'll link it up in the show notes. We were going to release the app sooner, but I really wanted to give it a little bit more time, space, breathing room, and intentionality.
I'm creating so much new material. Abby is building the app. We have our own branded app, which is so cool. Scott is designing our own graphics. So it's really all hands on deck and we just wanted it to be like, fully charged, fully ready before we open it up. So it's coming to you this spring. For now, anyone currently enrolled as a one to one client will get complimentary access to it as soon as it's ready, probably sometime this month. That way you can really help us beta test the app.
The program itself is super tested. We've had over 200 people go through it with great results and great success. But the app itself is new, so it would be wonderful to have beta testers. And our clients are going to be that beta test. So you can work with us one on one if you want immediate access to manifest your health. Otherwise, you can wait into the spring. In the meantime, really practice what we talked about today. Today, this pattern interrupt.
Really pay attention to this and offer yourself this pattern interrupt. Because the reality is it's going to be really hard to make changes in your brain, in your body. Yes, your body and your brain have the incredible ability to change, but it's going to be really, really hard. If you are locked in this loop, if you're locked in the dopamine hijack, if you're locked in the amygdala hijack, if you're numbing out, if you're comatose, if all of your life forces are being sent to places that are not filling you back up, that is an energy drain. That is energy depletion. So this is a way to start reclaiming your energy now. Reclaiming your life force, reclaiming your power. Let's do it.
Let's go. I'll check you next week.
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