 Oh, no, I don't actually do this. Where else? I don't like that. I got stuck on the last page. Oh, well. My internet, I tell you, it has just been giving so many issues lately. I'm hanging in on what have you. Well, good evening, good morning, good afternoon, good beautiful day. Wherever in the world you are, it's evening. Yeah, as you can see. And it's wellness Wednesday with my beautiful guest, as always, Bryce Watson from Exoteric Atlanta. No, Esoteric Atlanta, I'm just kidding. So I'm so happy to have you. You've been away. Gallivanting as well. So firstly, where did you go? What did you do? Was it fun? Yes, I was down in Florida, family down there. So small little, I love Florida so much. It's just, I never thought here in the United States, Florida was always that state we made fun of, but it ended up being like the MVP of the United States, because thank you to Santas, because they basically have given the middle finger to Mr. B. And it's just nice. And it's nice to be just being in the sunshine and just being around the saltwater and just being able to hear the ocean. There's just such healing there. And just the calmness of the way it's a small town. So it's a very calm atmosphere. And people are kind of on beach time all the time. And so if the fruits and vegetables are grown on the property, and so you get fresh avocados and bananas, and it's my dog always in heaven, because that's more like India. And he's from India, so he's always trying to catch the lizards. But I'm happy to be back as well, back to filming again. Welcome back. And I am certainly happy to have you back, because we did miss you a lot. So today we have you with hand chakras. And I'm super excited, because I know a little bit about hand chakras, but not too much. So tonight, I am most definitely your student as well regarding this. And I'm very excited to hear about it, so. Well, speaking of the chakras, so the hand chakra actually guys connects to the heart chakra. They're like an extension. And I actually say this to my students a lot. I know we're going to talk about feet eventually as well. But when we're looking, when we think about the chakra system, we often think about the seven that we review, the seven chakras that are in the actual torso up into the head, this area. But the body actually holds 140 chakras, 140. And most of all, we don't really pay attention to, because if you think about, like as I say to my students a lot, when we think about the human body and the essence of life, you can cut your arms and your legs off, and you can still be alive. The control station of everything really happens in this vicinity, the whole head and torso. Don't want to cut your arms and legs off, but you can live without them. You would be able to live if your torso was cut in half or your head was cut off, right? So if we think about that aspect of these being their own energy cycles, but they're also power gritting from the main system, things get really, really interesting. And the fact that it's connected to Anahata makes more sense to me about how valuable the hands are. Now the color for Anahata is not the same color as the hand chakras. Like green is here. The hand chakras are rose quartz color, like a light pink color. That would be their color. So when we're looking at our hands, what we do with our hands often times signifies how we're feeling in the world, right? We pray with our hands. We cook with our hands. We also punch with our hands, slap with our hands, write with our hands, paint with our hands. And so every action we take with our hands is just an offshoot of what's happening here in the heart center, which makes sense because you also have chakras in your shoulders and your elbows. And if we're closing down, we're going to pull these together versus opening them back up. And it makes sense as well because if you look at the heart, it's kind of like your arms and your hands are in extension. So you either push away or you embrace, right? The hugging, yes. Yes, exactly. So you either bring it towards you close to the heart because when you hug, you're bringing something to the heart. So you're drawing it to this area. And if you're pushing it away, you're rejecting it. You don't want it, which is interesting. You got holding hands, the simple act of holding your lover's hand or your child's hand. That's an extension of caring for someone, which is coming from this heart center. And it's interesting when we go over chanting in my classes, I always explain when you chant, you don't smush your hands together. You keep them slightly open. And that's because the energy, the actual chakra is right in the middle of the palm. And so when you're chanting or praying and you've got that openness, you're allowing the energy to start to swirl and move through and, of course, move into the heart center. And so when I started to really look deeper into the handles, I was like, oh my gosh, that makes so much, so much sense, right? So now, again, just so you guys remember, chakras are energy centers that transform ethereal energy into physical energy. Just to remind you guys, I just want to put that disclaimer out that your chakra system, at least not now in our 3D world, maybe when we get to 40, but don't go to your doctor and be like, I think my Anahata is broken. They won't know what you're talking about. This is all energetic body. It's not going to show up in MRI, guys. If you go to an Ayurvedic doctor, he would absolutely, or she would absolutely know what you're speaking about. But the Western doctor will be like, what? I think Anahata is smashed. I need a pill for this. No, you don't need a pill for this. But they would wrap you in a suit and send you to the St. Asylum, because this is all energetic body. Maybe in our new world, when we have a more evolved system, we'll be able to see these actual energy points. But right now, not going to happen. All right, so now again, hands, as we said, they're giving or receiving loves. Now there are two balls, as we talked about this with the other chakras as well. Your energetic essence, your soul, your spirit, your psyche, whatever you want to call it, it doesn't just exist within your physical body. It also, there's an energy field that also, it's almost like when you put a pair of blue jeans on that are way too tight and you got that muffin top that hangs out over those blue jeans, that's what your spirit is doing with your body. Cause your spirit is actually bigger than your physical body, right? So you basically, everybody's got muffin top, basically. No, that is just awful. Everybody knows what I'm talking about though. You've all, listen, especially females, we all have laid on the sofa. The muffin top. And pull those jeans up with a coat hanger just to get them off your legs. So your body is making them muffin top, right? It's hanging out past your physical. But that is when we talk about the quantum. We talk about the entanglement, like that's how you are connected. Like Shanti and I are in two different countries, miles apart, but I guarantee you, our souls are connected through any, any quantum. And that's how you have like that telepathy with people. You know, when the phone rings and you know who it is, you're thinking of someone and they call. It's like that's that outside of your body connection, what's an entanglement that you have with somebody else? So it's... Yeah, and it's really about being open also, right? Internally and you know, in that way. So it's your ESP is active, your intuition is active, you're meeting people on the same level who've got their intuition and their ESP active. So that's how we, and that's how we connect with each other sort of unexpectedly in an unexplained way. And it just happened in this way. And it's like, it fell into place. That's what happens when we obviously, yeah, open in that way and connecting with each other. It's actually quite beautiful. Yeah. It is beautiful. And you realize you're so much bigger. And that's with the hands. So if you think about the chakra center being in the center of the hand, there's actually two little balls of energy that live on the outside and the inside of the hand. And the symbol of the Visicapices, which is that kind of that eternal looping like that's also described with the divine feminine also comes through the hand center. We think about whether or not Jesus Christ was crucified or not, where do they put the nail? Wow, interesting. The hands, right? That connects to the heart, right? So now the right side of your hand is energetically seen as the giving side where the left side is seen as the receiving side. Now that doesn't mean they can't switch energy, but traditionally just like right side is masculine and left side is feminine. Traditionally they have their roles to play with giving and receiving energy, right? And that's why some people who know how to do Reiki or know how to self heal can't actually take their own hands and start to give and receive with themselves as well when they start to understand the way the energy functions through the body. Now for, they also talk about, and I kind of see this with, even though third chakra, I think it's more like with a solar plexus R that's the helio that's kind of the sun of the body. Anyway, I think all chakras kind of have this little essence of sun. Well, the hand does as well. They're seen as a big, big orb of sun right in the middle of the hand. Now something I've done in different workshops before too that people can do just very basic to start to understand the power of your hands is you sit and you've probably done this before Shaunty and you hold your hands together. Absolutely. Yeah, and you just, and you focus on that energy and it's not just lazily, if you have to actively hold it there and you'll start to feel, actually feel energy. Yeah. Here we go. Yeah. You can do it on, if you have a friend in your life that will let you kind of mess with their energy field in a positive way, don't do anything nefarious. You can actually do it to a friend, put one hand on one side of their heart and one side on the back not necessarily touching the skin but see if they have them close their eyes and see if they can actually start to feel that penetration of energy. You will start to feel it too and then you can trade spaces. So that's a kind of a, these are fun little exercises you can play with to start to figure out your own energy. We see it in the movies and the comic books a lot where they throw light out of their hand or throw a ball of light, like that's real. That's real. You know, I have the propensity to want to like do this a lot and part of me thinks in a past life I was able to like light out because I keep wanting to do that. And I'm like, nothing's coming out. Nothing's coming out, but um. We haven't reclaimed our toys back yet. That is exactly how hard it works with these toys of mine. And I haven't reclaimed it yet. I think that's when I think I definitely came back down because I feel like I can't, like I feel like that can happen and it's just not yet. So we just got to work with those light bodies to like reactivate again in order to have that power, that special power. Well, there's ways you can do. Well, first of all, let's talk about like signs that your hand chakra is blocked. Sometimes a lack of creativity. So if you're feeling like you have a lack of creativity, that means that there's a blockage here, which again could connect back to the heart center, but there also could be, you know, like when you have a hose, a water hose and part of it's bent, the water won't go through it. Sometimes we can kind of start to unravel that and start with the hands. You can have a disbelief and your own power to heal yourself. Whoa, like how many people in our timeline right now don't think they can heal themselves, therefore they run off to the doctor. Well, hello, hello, zip, zap, zapity do. Isn't this just the most telling times for that, right? Right, so there you go. And I shared something on Twitter of this woman talking about how much she distrusts now all these institutions. And I shared, I said, girl, same. I said, if I break my leg, I'm just gonna sprinkle glitter on it and wish for the best because I'm not going back to any of these institutions. Like I'm gonna, I'm gonna work without myself. You can also experience swollen joints. That's a sign of a blocked hand chakra if you experienced swollen joints arthritis. That's something I've struggled with in the past. I haven't, nothing would. Haven't had any flare ups since lockdown. So that tells you something. And also tennis elbow. So that is, my mother used to struggle with that. If you have, they call it's tendonitis in the elbow. They call it tennis elbow. That's big. That's a big one. So if you're struggling with tennis elbow, don't go running to the doctor. Well, my advice is not to go running to the doctor for steroids or whatever. Let's work on the hand chakras because something is blocked. And- For the heart chakra, right? For the heart chakra. Because the source of the hand chakras are literally the heart. So what are you, where are your feelings and your emotions blocked up? Where are you not following your heart? Where are you in denial of your own power? What are you doing that you don't wanna be doing? What are you drawing into yourself that you should be saying no to? What are you saying no to that you should be drawing into yourself? Yeah. These are the questions, yes, that how you start healing that. And isn't it interesting because a lot, there's a lot of therapies out there that deal with like art therapy, stuff involved drawing. Drawing into Las is a big one. And isn't that interesting, you're using the work of the hands in order to heal. So they work together, right? They work out, they shoot out together. To heal the heart, exactly. And it's sorry to interrupt your breath, but it's just makes so much sense because when we're looking at kids, for example, doing art therapy after traumas, or just trying to understand a child, the way they're communicating if they can't speak, or adults, how many times? I mean, you talk about the mandalas, that's part of the mentorship programs we do. Mandalas, drawing, mandalas is a big order of the day. Creating, and it's so true because through that you're getting the energy flowing from your heart. And allowing the love to flow in the way you express because your hands are symbols of expression, really. So how are you expressing, or exactly writing, drawing, creating, painting, pottering, anything, anything, cooking, planting, anything. I'm a huge believer in automatic writing and what that basically, in my mind, if you just sit down with a pen and a piece of paper and you just start writing, don't let yourself stop. Even if it's just gibberish and it makes no sense, all of a sudden, things are gonna start to come out that you've been suppressing. And it's gonna come out. It's like you've had this block on that, you've not taken off. Yeah, oh my gosh. And then it starts flowing, yeah. Yeah, and no one has to see it. It's not like somebody's gonna grade your automatic writing. You don't have to show anybody. It's just that it doesn't have to be neat. The words don't have to be spelled right. You just keep writing and just see, but it's gonna, if you don't give yourself a chance to stop, so if you don't stop, you just keep going, then you're not giving your mind that chance to slip in and block again, right? So you're allowing that energy to flow out. With a well-balanced, then you're gonna basically have the opposite. You're gonna have your creative flow. You're gonna have pretty limber joints in the hand. You're also gonna have an expression of desire and passion. You're gonna want that desire. You're gonna want that passion. So if you're feeling like passion less, whether that's an art in the bedroom, whatever it is, then look and see what's again blocked, what's blocked. But if you're feeling that desire for passion, then obviously there's something free-flowing, perfectly well-balanced within your whole system. Now we can also start to heal this too. I thought this was really interesting. I listened to somebody talk about this because I knew some of the other healing modalities, but this one I thought, oh, this is good. And I had never heard this before. Start working with textiles. So go out during the day and actually start to feel different fabrics. Make a point to feel, I've got some of my cards. You'll feel the cards and register what you're actually feeling. Feel the rocks. If you have crystals and rocks, feel them and really take note of what's happening within that sensation of feeling. Feel foods. Touch a banana. Touch, don't stick your hand in somebody else's food. Yeah, be conscious. And it's like, I love what you're saying there. Sorry to interrupt you. It's like, you know, Titch Not Hun says, like every step, just walk love into the earth. So be conscious of every step. I, for example, have done a lot of barefoot hiking. Like Taggle Mountain and stuff. And it's amazing. People go, ugh. But it really is, it's like, doesn't matter as long as it's not too cold, but you know, it's about putting your foot one step ahead of the other and consciously treading and lightly treading. Think if you were in trainers or something, you just walk in crunch, crunch, crunch on the ground. You know, and now it's like you're putting your foot down consciously and you're stepping lightly. You're treading lightly on the earth. You're leaving a light footprint. And I think it's very much the same thing as well with your hands to touch because what is more tactile than your hands every moment of every day? We're touching our baby's face. We touch our lover. We touch our mother. We touch our father. We touch our kids. We hold, there are such appendages of joy, right? So it's just, yeah. Yeah, and it's, I was, yeah, it's even your animals. Like when you go to pet your animals, like you're not going to aggressively, you're very lovingly and that's coming from, from the heart. My dog, my dog, if you stop petting him, he gets pissed off. It comes, mops you to keep petting him. You know, so, you know, he wants, and we feel that like, think about when you get a really nice massage or a really nice Reiki session and you actually feel some shifting happening, not just the sensation of the massage, but you actually can feel whether the person's energy that's touching you is coming through pure or not. You can feel that. You can register that. You know, these are our tentacles of power and they can be used. I mean, that's kind of the thing. I mean, they say once we grew thumbs, that's when this planet turned gangster, because then we learned how to shoot guns. We learned how to, you know, but that's your, that's your choice, your free will, right? Either you can use these tentacles. I like this. I know. Well, in Venus, that says in Venus, they have apparently just four fingers, which I'm really super curious about. So, just the four. I like it. I like myself. I'm like myself. So, I'm like, how does it actually be without thumbs? But, but- I'll come back to earth, I'll come back to earth just to get my thumbs. Well, but how powerful is that, right? So, we came to a planet where we have thumbs, which means we can make these things. We can do damage, but we can also do love. You can take your thumb and wipe a tear away from somebody's face. You can take your thumbs and need into somebody's back or maybe they have a bit of a, so that's your power, that's your choice. Like, what are you gonna do with these? What are you gonna do with these? Like, that comes from your own free will, you know? And so, that's where the power is. So, also, your fingers have different sensations, different elements attached to them. So, the thumb is attached with worry. And so, we can end digestion and a headache. Now, I don't know all the pressure points on the thumb. I know from meditation, different energy cycles, but that means that if you've got a headache, we're gonna talk about whether it's the feet as well, when next time we talk about the feet. There are places you can press on your thumb. I know that you can stick your thumb under cold or hot water to create a different sensation in the body, right? Like, for me, if I get really, really, really cold, which I get cold very easily because it's always hot here, so when it gets a little cold, I turn into a baby, I can go stick my thumb under hot water, just my thumb, and it will immediately start to warm the body up, right? Digestion, so, index finger is fear. So, and fear can relate to back pain. Yes, problems with your teeth, too, thanks. And so, you can work with, and I would suggest that that's something you guys are interested in finding a Reiki healer near you that can actually teach you how to work with that modality with just the fingers. And they're also in the feet, too, which again, we're gonna talk about next week, is the feet. Middle finger, the middle finger is anger, which makes sense, right? We give the bird, that's anger, right? So, that can also be fatigue, eye strain, dry cough, right? So, that makes perfectly, that makes perfect, somebody at some point knew that that meant anger, and that's why this happened, right? So, somebody knew this, right? Exactly. Now, here's the interesting thing that I was like, holy crap, when I saw this, the ring finger, so here's my left finger, which we always put the rings when we get married on our left finger. Well, the ring finger is associated with brief. And also, letting go and breathing, this is the finger that's associated with your respiratory system. Your lungs, yes, absolutely. How interesting is that, that's where they put the wedding band on, is the finger that's associated with breathing, letting go, grief, it's almost like they knew. It's almost like they knew. And it's like, in fact, I remember that, who I know that from a long time ago, with especially the left the ring finger, because it really, it's the lungs, the respiratory system, as you say, grief, so it's your freedom, breathing, grief. And how many people don't feel trapped, claustrophobic, caged in, grief, grief stricken in a marriage, right? Yeah, see, I don't ever wear rings. And I stopped wearing rings when I started, when I became a Mysore teacher, because I don't wear rings when I practice, because it pinches in different, but when I started teaching Mysore, I didn't wear rings either, because I didn't want to accidentally cut a student with a ring. And now I have a really hard time putting rings on. Every time I put a ring on, like it bothers me, it bothers my hands, so I just never really wear them anymore. But it's interesting when you start to look at, you know, I know people who have been in bad marriages, they're all of a sudden, their left ring will, fingers will sort of swell around the ring, and they can't get the ring off. The body is always, we lie to ourselves all the time. We all, we're always lying to ourselves, but our body isn't. Our body is, yeah, it's telling you. But he always keeps the score. Absolutely. He talks to us all the time. We've got to learn to speak the lingo of the body, and it's so true. And I mean, I also know a friend who ended his engagement with his long-term partner, and two days later, he broke his ring finger. I was back, this big blue sausage fingers took it out there, and I know how you're feeling. You know, it's so clear as well, Shane, yeah. So clear, so clear. I have a tend to upper-pent city to have sensation in my left arm a lot in my practice. And that's something I have to work on, is my left, is that, and I know it's coming from a specific, particular, actually, I think it is actually coming from this finger, because it travels up through the hand. And so every time, it doesn't happen all the time, but every time I feel it, I go, okay. All right, I have to figure, I have to release something. Something is telling me that there's a misalignment within, if there's a misalignment in your body, then there's a misalignment in the energetic field. And so why? That's my domain. That's where I, that's the power move, is I get to figure this out. And the body's just the GPS, and just saying, hey, hey, something's off, because your mind's gonna lie to you all the time. Well, the pinky is associated with trying, or trying to do something, trying. And that is also connected to the nervous system, and it's also connected to the throat. So a lot of times sore throats associated with the pinky, which think about that, guys, trying to communicate. Yeah. I was gonna say for me, I also know the pinky to be communication, which makes a lot of sense if it's connected to the throat. Yeah. Yeah. And when we're trying to, how many people do we know, including ourselves, who are trying to stand up for ourselves, trying to speak our truths? But it's hard, it's not, you don't just do it overnight, and that throat, that that inner depth, that fifth, that fifth chakra there, right? It's kind of, it's always, they're working together. We talked about that with the, one over the seven chakras. These kind of, they all work together, but there's a very close relationship between these two. Yeah. And think about the energy that's closest to, that's coming to this, this system. Well, now, obviously, since the palm is a huge source of energy, where we can control our energy, and I mean, really, like I would, even in my advice to people would be, think about yourself, like being that, that comic book character that can put lights at. Like, feel that, like feel that, because that's real, that's your energy source. Well, something too to open up a little exercise you can do, and I do this almost daily. I'll start with the right hand. You can take your left thumb, place it right in the middle of the right palm, and then go in a clockwise position. So just kind of go in that clockwise position, moving the energy, and you can do it for however long you feel like you need to do it, right? To go in that clockwise position. And then after that's done, you take and press the pads of the fingers together to open up those sources of energy. Like I tell my students all the time in the end of the ashtanga practice, we do yoga mudra, which is this, you see it done a lot like this, this is not the mudra guys, that's the bad symbol, that's what they do. It's this, because it's the pads of the thumbs, it's like a duck bill. My teacher in India is very strict about that, it's like it's a duck bill. And I always want my students to spread the fingers out, make sure that energy is coming out. The arms are straight, so there's a pathway coming straight through, and of course that cycle is working there. And when you find that intention, the devil is in the details, we'll say Krishna is in the details, you find the power, and then you wanna go to the left hand. In the left hand you take that right thumb, and you go in that clockwise position again, always clockwise into that left thumb. Yeah, and then you do the same with the tips of the fingers, and really start to work and get that pressure point going. But I find doing this with my hands, ooh, that really wakes things up, right? I find myself doing that, because for all my research, I know I've said this before, I never take notes on the computer, I always take them in notebooks. So I write a lot. And so even just doing that, after writing for a long time, I feel like it moves energy and sand. Yeah, that's maybe a little bit stuck. Now if we think about, and of course Shanti and I both use exercise in a way for spirituality, right? That's kind of the yoga. Also in the practice is using the physical body to awaken the spiritual. And I believe in my heart of hearts that any exercise can have the element of yoga in it, where you're using it to discover things about yourself. But right now in the world of yoga, people are very obsessed with handstands. And so let's use a handstand as an example. You know, when you are powering up from the ground floor, if you watch people do handstand, a lot of times they're coming, I'll show you guys, a lot of you look at their hands, a lot of times they're doing this with their fingertips, right? They're powering, they're gripping from the fingertips. There's a reason for that. Those are power centers and they're pushing, right? You're not gonna go up into a handstand and just hang out there lazily. It's not gonna be good news for you. If you do that, you're gonna fall, right? There's that power, that energy of that. And it's a protraction, right? It's that protraction. Same in like the posture downward facing dog. I tell my students all the time, downward facing dog is a variation of a handstand. And when you're in downward facing dog is one of the most common of the yoga poses. Even somebody who has never practiced yoga in their life knows what downward dog looks like. And I tell my students all the time, especially after multiple sun citations when their body is a little bit warm, instead of just hanging out there and just kind of being there for five breaths, really press into the hands. See if you can feel the energy coming up through the arms into the ribs because this whole section, this whole area is part of that cycle. And children, you look at children, their ribs move. Adults? Yeah, they do. Stuck. Your ribs are supposed to move. And so downward dog is a great stabilizing posture where you can start to connect mentally and activate. And then press into the heels and really see if you can feel that energy moving through the hands into the central body. Yeah, it's powerful. It's powerful. And it's not a heavy thing. And because the minute you actually activate those, as you say, the power centers in the hand, you lift, you become lighter, actually. And you can literally feel the energy moving through the body then. When you actually talk to you sucking in the navel, I've gone on freeze again. Yeah, we got you back. No one wants to talk about this. Oh, dear, yeah. They don't want us spreading the good news about yoga, right? Yeah, I know. So it's so true what you're saying. And it's so amazing because the hands are so powerful. And as you say, just with that by placement, adjustment, and really just focus, focusing on and trusting your body, right? Yeah. Oh, yeah, your body knows how to do that. Your mind is the dumb one. Your body knows how to do this. And so if you just, and that's the thing about, the beautiful thing about energy work is, we can sit here until we're blue in the face and talk about this, but nothing's going to happen until you do it yourself. You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. You think about dancers. Like, if you look at the way dancers move their arms, they're not just haphazardly like moving their arms. There's control. There's a control. And so, and what is dance? It's an element of expression. So how they move are expressing what's coming from that emotional connection to the art form. And when you start to connect all the dots, it's like, holy crap, how powerful are you? You know, we talk a lot about, there's a posture in the fundamental sequence of ashtanga yoga where you take, I won't say a Sanskrit, but I'll confuse people. In English, it's the hand-to-foot pose. And you're literally taking your hand and you're placing it on the ball of the foot, standing up and pulling up. And what's happening with the, of course you're standing up the leg is straight. What's happening here is this cycle. Now a lot of people teach it wrong like this. It's like this, because that cycle of energy that's coming from the foot into the arm, there's a cycle happening here. Yeah. So you start to actually feel that when you're standing up, it feels even different, that sensation feels different. It's like when you see postures like Lutita Hastapada and Gurshthasana, a posture in yoga where people stand up. You know, sometimes they'll hook their toe like this. No, you hook it by touching the index finger and then you point the toe and it locks all of that energy. You know, we'll talk about the feet next week, but it locks it. And so you can start to really play with this stuff and start to figure out how powerful you are. Once you start to feel that, then the realization that you can heal yourself settles in as fact, not as just- Absolutely. You know. And you know, it's little bits every day. I think a lot of people don't realize how simple it is. You know, just to cultivate good habits every day, drink two liters of water every day, go for a walk around the block or do half an hour of yoga or exercise three or four times a week. You know, if you just start little habits, you will see how amazing that becomes. Yeah, it just leads you into other things. It makes you really understand and feel the benefit of doing these things. It's amazing. Yeah, it's totally amazing. And that's what I, I know we've talked about this before with the body dysmorphic stuff, going into this new timeline. That's one thing I really want to push forward is exercise is not something that's meant to punish you. It's an experience and an opportunity. Yeah, to figure your body out and to understand. And I believe in my opinion, of course, I don't have a way of proving this, but in my opinion, I believe that the controllers, the powers that be knew that there was no way they were going to stop us from actually moving because the body does crave movement. The body craves movement. People get antsy, they want to move. So they couldn't stop us from moving. And so they manipulated the way we saw movement. Yo, exercise should never be a punishment. It's always- I agree. I agree. Don't weigh yourself with this. About the way- Exactly. But I've always said when we look at people, for example, who will go to the gym and take their steroids and proteins, I don't even know what they're doing, versus people generally who do yoga. And I'm not talking about this new commercial wave that's taken over, because there's also this commercial wave of yoga that's taken over. That's all about what outfit you're wearing and how hot your backside is or whatever. That's not what yoga is about at all. Actually, it's the opposite. But often people go to gym because they don't like themselves. They're not liking what they're seeing in the mirror. They don't like that they've picked up weight over December or their belly is too big or they don't like themselves on a physical level, particularly. You see, and that's the difference. So you're fighting against yourself all the time and you're not getting the results you want. Now, people generally who understand the essence of yoga, we love ourselves. We do yoga because we love ourselves, because we want to give our body that stretching, twisting, breathing, delicious experience. It's a very different mindset. And again, this is just, this is really, I'm speaking about this because it's important, I think that we can explain how the mindset affects us. So you often gonna find people will do yoga and yoga, you don't mean to sweat by the way. It's not like this pump, pump, pump, pump thing. Yoga is really about building strength, building flexibility, connecting to the mind and understanding the whole universe on a much deeper level. The physical postures is really just one aspect of yoga. And do you know how many people actually lose weight like that? Oh, man. And not because, yeah, not because they're running and jumping and sweating and doing whatever. They are at ease with themselves and they're relaxing and then the weight just falls off and the body just finds its natural way it wants to be. We have a joke in Ashutanga when people first start and they usually drop a lot of weight and we call it Ashutanga rexic where all of a sudden people start to get like, and that's happened to me before in the past, especially in second series where I had a hard time keeping weight on. And it's because you're also flushing out that lymphatic system as well. And stress can cause the harm of the, cortisone can cause all this stuff to happen to the body and once you start to move that it starts to flush itself out. And absolutely. And it does, you know, and I noticed too, with, and I'm the type of person that when I get really stressed out, I actually won't eat. I kind of forget that's the vata in me, but I find with people who have the propensity to eat when they're stressed, when they start to work on that in yoga, they find they don't even, they don't have the need to snack anymore. And so their body is finding that equilibrium within the energy they're bringing in as well versus what they're putting out in the practice. Cause it's all energy. It's all an energy exchange with yourself or sure. And that's why, yeah, yoga people and dancers too, always tend to have very long lean muscles. And it's because you're actually pulling and strengthening at the same time. And that blood, that flat, that flush of blood is coming through. And it's, I know it, I had somebody ask me once when I was director of yoga for wellness centers of America, they were like, the guy who was in a yoga, he was like, so how do I get a yoga body? And I like, look to the guy, I was like, well, you do yoga. Like, there's no like, come to a class. You do yoga. Hello. Like, wait, there's some secret thing I can tell you to do at the gym to give you, no, if you want a long, if you're somebody who wants a long lean like body, then do yoga. Like that's what you do. And I love the fact that if you don't use weights or anything you work according to your own body weights, you're building muscles according to your body. You're building strength according to your body. You're not over pumping things up. Yeah. That's amazing. Think about that too. My teacher in India did a conference on this actually where he spoke about weightlifting. And he talked about how that weightlifting isn't actually real strength. You're not really that strong, but a yoga person, like if I was having to be rescued from a burning building, I would rather have a yoga student come get me than a weightlifter because the yoga student, the weight they're lifting is their body weight, but they're doing it in a way that's moving. They're constantly moving with the weight. So they have that mobility. They know how to control it and find the equilibrium. So if I need someone to carry me out of a burning building, I'm gonna want a yoga person to do it because they're gonna be able to lift up and find the mobility, the equilibrium that the body wants. And it's super, I mean, when you start to realize how magical human beings are, you also start to get that sovereignty back. And you stop, you're like, no, we're so special. We're so special. And the good thing with the hands I think too, especially for people who are super new to the chakras, this is something that I think is actually a pretty good place to start because your hands are so relatable. We use our hands all day. And so to start in paying attention to like thoughts behind your actions with your hands, you know, and how to flush that energy. And then of course, that will bring you into even deeper work within that. Yeah, beautiful, I love it. It's so beautiful. Yeah, and it kind of- Yay, turn it off to your hands, everybody, love them. Be kind to them, be nice. You see the expressions of everything here. Yes. Oh, I see. So awesome to have you on again. I miss you crazy girl. I know. And it's great to have you back. And thank you for an awesome topic again tonight. It's so interesting and it's just wonderful. Yeah. Are we gonna do feet next? Cause I know you know- We are doing the feet, honey. These feet were made for walking. Oh yeah. The feet are, oh, I love the feet. They are, even they are super powerful. So yeah, for sure, for sure. Yeah, so, I'm always barefoot, Shanti. So I've never had shoes on. I'm the same, I'm the same, except now in winter when it's chilly, no, then I'll definitely make my compromises. But any other time that I can walk around barefoot or slip-slops, you know, just normal slip-slops, I am so happy and I just love it. But we look forward to that because if you think their hands are powerful, hmm, wait for the feet. Yep. So which we will be talking about next week on Wellness Wednesday with our beautiful Bryce Watson from Esoteric Atlanta. Thank you, Lovely, so much once again. Really appreciate you being an amazing show. Thank you. Thank you. Love you guys. Yeah. Thank you so much guys for watching. I really love having Bryce on and all her interesting chats and it's such a lovely soul sister talking things that we both enjoy. Really cool. And I hope you guys enjoy it too. So if you haven't already, please give us a like, a share, and subscribe. We are on solutions with Aquarius Rising Africa tonight. Please give Aquarius Rising Africa 2 like and a subscribe as well, as well as our Rumble channel because we're going to be moving more onto Rumble now because we've had another two strikes on our new channel that's gone up less than a month ago. But clearly they've got the eye on us all good. We're doing something right. So follow us on Rumble. Take good care of yourselves. God bless you all. Bye-bye.