Oh my goshhhhhhhhhh welcome to my podcast!!! I'm so excited that you're here and I am honoured that you choose to place ME in your AirPods every week!!!
Here's a bit about me:
My name is Sandra. I'm a business coach for women, a feng shui practitioner and a 2x national leadership award winner. In saying all of that though, I feel like I'm just a girl from Saskatchewan, who is put on this earth to inspire you to step into your power ... right fuckin' now.
I think that all too often, we convince ourselves that there is nothing we can do ... that our life "is what it is" and that ONE DAY we might be able to have the life that we dreamed of.
Uhmmmm NO.
That's bullshit.
Sorry ... but it's true. In a split second, you can choose differently. In THIS moment, you can take that courageous step toward the life you desire. It's my job, my gift and my obsession to help you share your sparkle with the world and I'm excited to get started.
I'm so glad that you're here. You are listening to what the fuck did she just say with your host? That's me, sandra Priestly. I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in. I say random, crazy shit, which is why I called this podcast the way that I did, and I really hate long drawn out intros, so let's fucking go. I just got out of my second session for floating, my floating session, float tank session. I don't know what it's called, I think I think I booked it as a floating session If you have never gone into a float tank.
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It basically looks like this like a beautiful white bathtub with a lid on it, so it kind of looks like an egg and the lid is on hydraulics. You can pull it down if you choose to. There's lights colored lights in the inside, that sort of move from like one color to another. Or, if you'd like, you can turn the lights off. I chose to pull the lid down, lights off, so chose to pull the lid down, lights off. So it's basically like a desensitization tank. The water in there is so lovely. It's the same temperature as the air, so it's a little bit warm, it just feels beautiful, and there is a thousand pounds of Epsom salts in this water, so you just naturally float in that water. What happens is your body soaks up the magnesium from the water and it's extremely therapeutic.
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The very first time that I went in there, I thought that I really believed I was going to go in. I had this Zen music that they were going to play. I was going to go in. I had this Zen music that they were going to play. I was going to be in this completely dark tank and I was going to have the most beautiful meditative state. It would be like I don't know conversation straight with God. I believed that I was going to have the most incredible intuitive downloads. I mean the ideas and the knowingness that was going to come out of this pod, like I was going to go in and come out completely different person. That did not happen. The music that they were playing that time and I'd asked for it. But the music that they'd played reminded me of that movie, passengers, with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence. And then I'm in this pod and I started thinking about the damn movie.
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I did not experience any huge enlightenment that I was hoping for. I mean, I came out of that thing going okay, not entirely what I thought it was going to be. Now, that being said, I got home and I think I could have fallen asleep standing up. I was so relaxed and so exhausted that I literally could have fallen asleep standing up not joking and so I kind of knew when I went in today that I was probably not going to have a huge amount of enlightenment, that I was just going to lay there and just reap the benefits of the magnesium. To be honest with you, I have quite a magnesium deficiency, but I mean I looked this up there 80% of us 80% of us are magnesium deficient. Like and low amounts of magnesium results in anxiety and poor sleep, difficulty recovering. I mean it is no wonder, with 80% of us that are deficient in magnesium, it's no wonder we're a stressed out bunch of crazy people, anyway. So I just kind of went in and I thought that I was just going to benefit from the magnesium and I was going to get out.
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But when I got in there, they had forgotten to put the music on. So I was in this pod in the dark for an hour and with nothing to listen to, but my thoughts. You know what was really interesting about that. It was a beautiful place to be. There was a time where I couldn't have said that. There was a time where I didn't want to be alone with my thoughts. I would grab my phone, I had the TV on. I mean, I always needed the distraction because my thoughts were so toxic. I was constantly in either a state of worry or a state of regret or beating the shit out of myself for something that I hadn't achieved or that I didn't like. I know that so many women out there, so many people in general, have this talk track, this toxic talk track that's going on in the back of our minds and we can't seem to stop it. I got into this float tank, laid there in the dark, in the quiet, listening to absolutely nothing but my thoughts, and felt so much gratitude for being okay with my thoughts. I literally sat there and started going over the things that I was grateful for, and it started with I was happy to be alone with my thoughts, that it was a safe place, and then it went to a visualization practice that I've been doing since the beginning of January.
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In the work 90 day challenge that I'm running. We focus on three things every single day 90 day challenge that I'm running. We focus on three things every single day mindset, practices, energy and action towards our goal. And so, for me, one of the things in under the energy category that I've chosen everyone can choose their own thing, but one of the things that I've chosen for my energy category is visualization or meditation every day. And so I just naturally went to I'm going to do a visualization. And here's the thing that I thought was beautiful is that I've been visualizing achieving the goal, but quite past it, because if you know anything about manifestation, you'll know that you need to step into the person that has the thing that you want. So I'm visualizing not just achieving the goal, but I'm visualizing having achieved the goal. I'm visualizing after achieving the goal, and it just felt so lovely and so beautiful and rich in so many aspects. And again, I was just so thankful, so grateful that I was able to do that, because there was a point in time where I was not. There was a point in time where I would start visualizing and I would go to fear I would start visualizing and I couldn't keep up with it because my brain would go immediately to my thoughts and and the thoughts would be fear-based of the future.
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This podcast today is about gratitude, honestly, for how much I've progressed, how much I've come, just doing all of the personal development work that I've been doing and helping women go from where I was to where I am and beyond. And if you're listening here and you are identifying with the person that I was, you're identifying with this idea that being alone in the dark in a pod with no music and nothing to distract your thoughts by is a scary place. I want you to know that you can shift this. Start with gratitude. Start with just thinking the smallest thing that you're grateful for. If you hear yourself say the word but, or your brain start to shift to the negative, the word but, or your brain start to shift to the negative.
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Flip back again to gratitude.
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What else are you grateful for?
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You might be grateful for the feel of the water. You might be grateful for the fact that it's quiet. You might be grateful for the fact that you don't have to listen to the music that reminds you of the passenger's movie, no matter what it is. If you can start with gratitude and every time, you start to shift to the negative in the moment. Shift your thoughts. You kind of got to reprogram yourself to stop going to the negative. Shift your thoughts as quickly as you can, intentionally as you can, and eventually you'll be able to get out of that negative default and stay in the positive for a lot longer than you ever dreamed possible. You've got this. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you've had some laughs, maybe some ideas, and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed of. If you feel so called, I would love it if you would share with your besties and leave a review down below. I look forward to bringing you along on this journey and I will see you in the next episode.
