Reflections of 2021 [Episode #640]

This week’s topic is: Reflections of 2021

Reflection and introspection creates more awareness and when we have more awareness, we’re able to better let go of habits, patterns, actions, triggers that don’t serve us anymore. Whether it’s reaching for the same foods, having the same food cravings, not being aware of what creates emotional upset and drama. This is a really powerful time of year to do this.

We just crossed the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year and there’s plenty of darkness around, which helps to drive us inward and to reflect in a deeper way. And of course, we’re coming up on Christmas which is a nice little pocket of space where we can really reflect as we go in.

Before we go into the new year, this allows us to shine this light of awareness into ourselves, into our lives, into different aspects, through all four cornerstones, food, body emotions and spiritual growth. And just to see how we can continue to let go and expand the light into 2022.

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[Questions Answered]

Denise – Wyoming  

Hi Kimberly! Love your podcast! ;) Can you share any tips on what you do to move past goals that maybe you didn’t meet in the past year and how to stay positive for the new year?

Maxine – Louisiana 

Would love to hear how you’ve stayed positive despite what we’ve all been through over the past 1-2 years with the virus? Any positive takeaways as we head into 2022?

Trish – Arizona 

When I look back on this past year and the goals I set, I’m not feeling great about my body image and the weight I was hoping to lose. I’m feeling stuck. Any thoughts on how to get past the past and get my butt moving?

Louissa – Colorado

I’m one of those people that when the new year gets closer I get more stressed about what I need to do “this time” around. Do you think this is pretty normal for a lot of people and what kind of meditations can help?

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Kimberly: 00:00 Hey Beauties. Welcome back to our Thursday, Q&A podcast where our topic today is Reflections of 2021 and ending the year on a strong note. So I’m very excited about this show today. This is a very important topic because reflection and introspection creates more awareness. And when we have more awareness, we are able to better let go of habits, patterns, actions, triggers that don’t serve us anymore. Whether it’s reaching for the same foods, having the same food cravings, not being aware of, um, you know, what creates emotional upset and drama. This is a really powerful time of year to do this. We just crossed winter solstice the darkest day of the year. So there’s certainly plenty of darkness around, which helps to drive us inward actually, and to reflect in a deeper way. And of course, we’re coming up on Christmas. So this is a nice little pocket of space where we can go in really reflect as we go in.

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Kimberly: 01:04 Before we go into the new year, this allows us again to just shine this light of awareness into ourselves, into our lives, into different aspects, through all four cornerstones, food, body emotions and spiritual growth. And just to see how we can continue to let go and expand the light into 2022. So I’m very excited for our show today, but before we get into it, just want to remind you to please be sure to leave us a review on iTunes, which is free and easy. It’s a great way to support the show. If you screenshot your review and send it over to reviews@mysaluna.com, we will also send you our seven self love affirmation series, which is very powerful, uh, tool to help you overcome limiting beliefs and negative blocks. And particularly this time of year as we go into new year, I highly recommend starting to use this tool on a regular basis to just allow for were the most abundant, positive, inspiring year ahead, please be sure to also subscribe to our show that way you don’t miss out on any of these Q&A shows.

Kimberly: 02:14 Our Monday interview podcasts, where we have wonderful guests sharing their wisdom on a whole variety of topics related to our lifestyle. And my last little announcement here is to remind you that my new book, you are more than you think you are practical enlightenment for everyday life is now pre-selling so you can get your copy today, and the reason you wanna get it today versus in one month, when it is officially released, is that you will still be able to access the presale bonuses today only for the next few weeks. So this includes access to our beyond fear video course with practices and exercises that I teach partly with my husband, John, for the first time, there is also access to a live looped event with Q&A and meditation. That’s gonna be amazing and you can start to pre-read the book right now, the first few chapters.

Kimberly: 03:08 So you can be one of the first people to read it, which is also super exciting. So be sure to head over to my SA luna.com to get the information you can get the books where our books are sold, Amazon Barnes and Nobles and so on, and then upload your receipts there and get instant access. So do not wait because there’s only a few more weeks left. So this is really the best time to get the book. And I cannot wait to share it with you. It is my full playbook of how to really create your best life across all. Yes, vitality, abundance, confidence, and more. So all that being said, I am excited to reflect back on the past year and to see where we can fine tune things a bit. And again, just shine that light of awareness awareness, the simple act of awareness of bringing something from the shadow into the light allows us to see it.

Kimberly: 04:03 And when we see it, it starts to lose the, the power it has over us in terms of being in the darkness, these disowned parts of us, or the parts of us that we don’t really understand. We push down, we, um, distract away from, or we pretend it’s not, or we eat on top of or whatever it is. All of this can become that can come up to be healed. And we can just start to go forward into aligning our actions and our words in the world with our true self, with the real, um, unlimited kind, loving creative part of, of us, which feels deeply fulfilling when we are embodied in our truth. And there will be more, uh, power behind your actions, more power behind your words. It’s more magnetic, it’s more, um, attractive. There’s a different frequency when you show up in the world.

Question #1 around the topic of: Reflections of 2021: Hi Kimberly! Love your podcast! ;) Can you share any tips on what you do to move past goals that maybe you didn’t meet in the past year and how to stay positive for the new year?

Kimberly: 04:57 So it’s very practical for helping you create what wants, and also just to have that peace and joy in your heart that we all want. So let’s get into our questions today. Our first one comes from Denise who lives in Wyoming. Hello, Denise, sending a big warm hug out there in beautiful Wyoming. I’m sure it’s lovely. I’m sure you have some snow. Maybe you’re a skier. I have not been to Wyoming, but I would like to go one day. So sending a big warm hum hug. My love. Thank you for being part of our community. And your question is, hi, Kimberly, love your podcast. Thank you. Can you share any tips on what you do to move past goals that maybe you didn’t meet in the past year and how to stay positive for the new year? So I love this. Um, I love this question, Denise.

Kimberly: 05:52 I think that we are where we are at any given moment in time and we create goals. We create resolutions. Sometimes we meet them, sometimes we don’t. And so it’s really important that as we’re reflecting back, we want to take lessons with us and we want to go in, it’s like extracting the diamonds and leaving behind the mud. We wanna take those jewels of understanding more self understanding, which will then create more self realization eventually, which is really, truly being anchored to the true self. So one of the most powerful things we can do Denise is to look at those goals and to, to really, um, take a peek at why didn’t those goals happen. Now we do this to understand more, not to create any sort of guilt or shame. We do not wanna take guilt and shame with us into the new year.

Kimberly: 06:51 We want to show up fresh and new in this moment. Even if we are setting the same goal, we are at a different point in time in our lives, in our growth, in our evolution. So there’s nothing wrong with that. I certainly had the same goal a couple years in a row, and sometimes it’s the timing. Sometimes it just didn’t line up. Sometimes we didn’t take right effort. So what you wanna do, Denise is just see, okay. My goal was, um, let’s say it was to eat a healthier diet, you know, whatever iteration that looks like for you didn’t happen. So we say, okay, um, I didn’t create consistency. I didn’t learn these new recipes. I didn’t prioritize food shopping every week. So I was relegated to take out out, um, you know, we just look at what happened in a factual way without the narrative, without all the stories, without the beating yourself up like, oh gosh, I, I was so lazy.

Kimberly: 07:50 I can’t believe I didn’t do more food shopping or whatever it is. Take out all of that extraneous, you know, chatter focus on the facts. Oh, I, I had this, you know, these two really big work projects and I could see for these months, and of this past year, it took up so much time that I just didn’t get ahead with my food planning or whatever it was. So in 2022, I do wanna create a really healthy, uh, food program for myself. So one way I’m gonna get past that barrier that happened last year is I’m actually going to schedule in my calendar, you know, every Sunday, whatever I’m gonna prioritize food, shopping and batch cooking and you know, whatever it is. So we learn, we analyze without the guilt, without the stories, without the emotions. And then we set ourselves up for the best chance of success in 2022, Denise.

Kimberly: 08:45 So encourage you to look at all of your goals in 2021, before you start creating the ones for this year. I like to think in terms of goals versus resolutions, um, but you know, whatever language works for, you look at them all and, and pat yourself on the back for the ones that you did create, you know, maybe it was, I wanna learn how to bowl this year. And that was something you were able to, to achieve, or I wanna start a meditation practice bra. Amazing, wonderful. We wanna celebrate the wins as well. And then the list of things that didn’t happen, you know, maybe your diet didn’t change too much, or maybe you didn’t exercise as much as you wanted to. Maybe you didn’t, um, meet your soul partner and you wanted to this year, whatever it is, we look again, not emotional. Take the lessons, write out, you know, what happened and what can be different for 2022.

Kimberly: 09:42 This is a fresh time. This is new. This is here right now. This does not have to be compared to anything in the past. So exciting. So we take those lessons. We bolster ourselves up. We benefit from that information and that is dumb that we can teach ourselves and we can extract. And then we can go forward in this freshness and newness. So congratulations, Denise, I’m so excited for the new year head for you, sending you so much love. Let me know how you do with your goals this year. Let me know all the ways in which we can continue to support you as always. I mentioned this at least once a show, but if you have not yet joined our Solluna Circle and you are looking for a powerful tool of support to help you in all aspects of your life, please join the circle where we have daily chats, daily support group, a monthly live call, where everybody gets to speak and to participate, and it really is magical.

Question #2 around the topic of:  Reflections of 2021: Would love to hear how you’ve stayed positive despite what we’ve all been through over the past 1-2 years with the virus? Any positive takeaways as we head into 2022? 

Kimberly: 10:41 And so, um, that’s something that I encourage you to consider if you are looking to get really serious about creating your best 2022. All right, Denise, thank you so much. My love. And can’t wait to connect more. Let’s get into our next question now, which comes from Maxine, who lives in Louisiana. Hello, Maxine. Thank you so much for being part of our community, sending you lots of love this December and you write, I would love to hear how you’ve stayed positive despite what we’ve all been through over the past one to two years with the virus, any positive of takeaways as we head into 2022 Maxine, thank you so much for your question. And I really appreciate this because I think on a collective scale, we’ve been through a lot of challenge. We’ve been, um, challenged to really drastically change our lives and the patterns and the rituals and the day to day scheduling of our lives for me.

Kimberly: 11:47 Um, I will say Maxine that, of course I, along with everyone else has experienced a lot of these shifts and these changes and these transitions that we’ve all been sort of corralled into making, but what’s felt really positive for me over the past few years is a deeper and deeper, um, inward connection that happens in times where there’s more darkness outside. I think that’s why winter is a really potent opportunity for stillness and journaling and meditation because when there’s more darkness, um, outside, it’s, you know, there’s less shiny things for us to be not just distracted with, but caught up in there’s less sunlight. We’re not playing outside as much, right? So we seek the light inside and with COVID, there’s been a lot of darkness. There’s been a lot of people suffering, unfortunately in families and people getting sick and there’s scariness on the news and in the uncertainty and you can feel it in the air.

Kimberly: 12:50 So what that does is it gives us an opportunity to seek the real source of safety and security, which is, can only be found inside of us. And that’s what I have personally experienced in the midst of the anxiety and the unknown. The past two years have been monumental for me in going deeper into my meditation and to my connection, to, to the true self, to spirit and this new book that I wrote you are more than you think you are emerged from this COVID period. I do not have any idea how I wrote this book because B was not in preschool. Moses was just born. So I had these two little babies, you know, know, trying to figure out balancing this podcast and work in Solluna and writing this book. Um, but somehow it just flowed out it channeled. And it was from this inward connection.

Kimberly: 13:46 It was from this deepening that this came. Um, I really do feel like this book is different than other books. It feels not. It feels like it just channeled through, wants to be here. These teachings belong to everybody. And so I will say Maxine that even though on the outset, if we focus on what’s going on out here, it can feel really uncertain and then scary. So the way to, the way to que that anxiety, the way to benefit is to spend more time in your interstate, go deeper in your meditations, prioritize them morning and evening and go longer. You know, in our practical enlightment meditations that are guided, I often say, you know, keep going. I will close for us here around seven, eight minutes. But if you have the time to sit, please stay in this potent space, this inner connection. And what that does is it allows you to feel secure and safe because you know, you have this steady resource, you have the strength inside of you, that you will be able to rise up and meet any moment as it comes.

Kimberly: 14:55 No matter what that moment contains. It comes this, the strength that we’re seeking, the steadiness, this equanimity, the peace, the inner peace does come from inside of us. Nothing from the outside world can take that away. If we a anchor into it more and more, and this comes from energy directed toward, toward it every day, regular, regularly, ideally every day it builds the energy over time. So it’s not something that we just intellectually understand. Yes, peace comes from the inside <laugh> of course we know that and it sounds nice, but we need to experience it actually experience it through meditation, through feeling and being anchored to this deep, deep place of connection inside of us. And then, you know, so the positive takeaway vaccine is that it was this opportu to find that, and if we didn’t find it yet, that’s okay, because now we’re in winter.

Kimberly: 15:56 Another potent time, you know, the virus continues to go on. Our world is still different. So this is a great time to deepen into that self connection. You know, with our cornerstones, the food and the body ones are more physical and tangible. We’re working with the physical form, the physical food, and then the other 50% of our cornerstones, the other two emotional wellbeing, mental health, and then spiritual growth, which focuses on spirit inside of us are formless energy that cannot be seen with the physical eyes, but can be felt in. So we wanna spend time on the outside and then we wanna spend time in the interstate.

Kimberly: 16:42 So this is something that, um, is very, very important and really exciting as we go into, um, 20, 22 to remember that it’s not something we even try to have to get. We don’t have to, of course we wanna know what’s going on in the world, but this helplessness that comes because we can’t change a lot on the outside world. The antidote for that is realizing that we control the interstate. We can nourish it and work with it and benefit our whole lives. So it’s, it’s really exciting to tune into that more and more. Thank you so much, Maxine sending you so much. Love, keep in touch with me. Let me know how your 2022 starts off and I can’t wait to connect more.

Break

Kimberly:  All right. My loves. We have a short break for you here. And when we get back, we have two more questions for you on this topic of reflections of 2221.

Question #3 around the topic of: Reflections of 2021: When I look back on this past year and the goals I set, I’m not feeling great about my body image and the weight I was hoping to lose. I’m feeling stuck. Any thoughts on how to get past the past and get my butt moving?  

Kimberly: 18:09 All right, here we go. All right. Be we are back from our break and we have two more questions for you on this topic. Here we go. Reflections of 2021 processing the past year, learning, taking the gems, taking the jewels, and then moving forward. But we don’t wanna skip this step because we can learn so much. We don’t have to try to reinvent the wheel. We don’t have to put more energy into things that we can already learn from. So I love this topic. And our first question back from the break comes from Trish who lives in Arizona. And she writes, when I look back on this past year and the goals I set, I’m not feeling great about my body image and the weight. I was hoping to lose. I’m feeling stuck. Any thoughts on how to get past the past and get my butt moving?

Kimberly: 19:10 Oh, Trish. My love, I love the, can the candidness of your question. I send you a big hug out there to Arizona. You are not so far away physically from me. <laugh> um, but it doesn’t really matter anyway, because love and connection transcends time and space. Don’t you guys feel that when we’re on this podcast, it feels very intimate. And I love that. <laugh> no matter where we are are so thank you my love for being part of the community. And I understand this, um, feeling that comes up for a lot of us at the end of the year, like, oh, I didn’t do enough. Um, you know, and, and then it’s coupled with the fact that it’s holiday time. So then there’s parties and get togethers, and then maybe we’re not eating as well as we usually do. So then we continue to feel a little bit more bloated and stagnant in the body.

Kimberly: 19:59 So I will say, first of all, the advice that I gave, um, Denise is I think it’s a great idea to look at what happened this past year, Trish with an eye of, um, just curiosity that, of placing any sort of guilt and shame on yourself, just seeing, okay, what happened, um, with my weight this year, what happened with my goals? You know, oh, I can see that I wasn’t focused for a while. Um, you know, again, I go back to the food shopping and the prep because so much of our food goals and our weight goals are not being fulfilled because we’re simply not preparing ourselves. So we get stuck and environment is actually the subject of Dan Buettner’s new book called blue zones challenge. And if you haven’t yet already, please go back and listen to the podcast that I did with him a few weeks ago, because it’s really wonderful about just the importance of environment.

Kimberly: 21:00 So we really wanna create a great environment as we go into the new year. Trish. So even looking around your kitchen, one of the things Dan mentioned on the podcast is research shows that people that keep a toaster of and out on their counter tend to have, you know, a bigger issue with weight or however exactly he put it because you see this device and you’re like, oh, so easy. Let me just stick the pop tarts in here or the, you know, the sliced white bread or whatever it is. And so we just wanna, you know, one of the most, um, one wonderful thing you can do, Trish is reflect back. Like I said, first of all, see where the blocks were and take that in. Really take that in and say, okay, this is, you know, with an honest eye, the line of being honest versus guilting or shaming yourself and note that.

Kimberly: 21:50 And then secondly, what we wanna do is feel freshness throughout your home, in your kitchen. Go look very closely. I gotta share with you guys. I, um, I think I know my kitchen pretty well because I’m in there every day, but I did notice that at the farmer’s market and I noticed at my friend’s house, there was these like dried flowers. Um, there were like these yellow balls and I thought they looked really cool. And I put them in a couple of the VAs around my kitchen and, you know, some dried, um, lavender to, and so I was thinking about, oh, 20, 22 and just the energy of it and how I wanna feel going into the new year with the book coming out and all this newness, we’re launching some really cool products this year, including our exciting, um, GGS booster. We’re gonna have some amazing things coming for you guys, but I was looking around and I just felt, ah, these dried flowers they’re pretty, but they kind of collect dust and they’re dead.

Kimberly: 22:59 Like they’re just have the life. It doesn’t match the energy that I want in my kitchen. So I took them all out. I put them in a bag I’m probably gonna give them away or whatever. And then, um, just like little bamboo sticks or just like moving my house plants around, oh, now there’s life in all the different areas in my kitchen and it feels supportive. And so sometimes we gloss over things that we’ve had a long time or a pattern like, oh, I just had this here for a long time. I tell you this Trish because environment supports us in change. So, you know, if losing weight is a big goal for you, look around your kitchen, do it deep clean. Before we go into 2022, look at which bowls, um, appliances, which support you the most. You wanna have your blender, your vitamin X, front and center shined up already to make your GGS, you know, some fresh fruit in a bowl, some in the fridge, if you get a lot, because we don’t wanna deplete the vitamin C, but some out looking beautiful and fresh things tucked away like treats.

Kimberly: 24:03 Um, you know, when you open your fridge, you want the healthy food in the front. You wanna throw out anything that doesn’t serve anymore, just half eaten bags of, of stuff you wanna freshen up, prepare your environment for the new energy that you’re bringing in and same thing in your bathroom and your bedroom all throughout your house. I do believe of environment is really, really powerful. And so if you’re feeling stuck, um, change your physical environment so that you go into the year feeling really fresh. And then from a four cornerstone perspective, remember that we are here now. So the past is the past as you. So aply said so right here, right? How can I support my goals? So create something around the cornerstones, even now before new year’s, you know, this potent space before doesn’t have to be like, oh right on, um, January 1st, I’m going do this turnaround to me.

Kimberly: 25:00 It’s like here right here, right now we just crossed winter solstice. So there’s a big, energetic shift that is just, it can play place on a planetary scale. So food wise, what do wanna, what do I wanna bring in? What do I wanna let go of what serves me and what doesn’t. Okay. Some stuff’s a little bit in between. I limit my amount of, you know, eating these foods. I have more vegetables. I start my dinner with a salad. I go back to basics. I learned three beauty detox slash Luna recipes really well that I can mention mix and match like one of the, the veggie casserole, um, a veggie Curry, a Kitie dish, whatever it is, body wise, I’m gonna commit to walking every day or doing a yoga practice or whatever it is also, I would include for everybody. And this is something that my husband, Justin stated a few months ago, but everybody should take this Luna, SBO probiotics, two of them every day.

Kimberly: 26:01 It is my supplement. I say, it’s across the board. So my hubby is finally now taking it regularly without fail. He’s doing great. His belly is flattening and he already has a flat belly, but we all pick on ourselves, but he’s just noticed just more like better digestion all around. So he’s really happy about that. You know, I’m just giving you guys suggestions, but just how we see how we can freshen up for 2020 to, um, if you’re feeling stagnant and then emotionally go into the feeling, how do we wanna feel? What keeps me from feeling that if you wanna feel light, you wanna feel excited? Well, what drags me down, right? These are some journaling prompts. Ah, you know, I get dragged down when I start to judge too much. I judge myself, I judge others. So a big goal for 2022 is to catch myself judging, to come back over and over again, this is a big pattern that I’ve become aware of, right?

Kimberly: 26:57 I’m just again, making this up. Um, but giving suggestions and then spiritual growth wise, Ooh, this one, Trish, please, please really put some extra energy around this to get to know ourselves, to really understand what the biggest root blocks are to easefulness in our diet, in food. We do wanna meditate. We do wanna go into stillness morning and evening. We wanna sit for at least seven, 10 minutes are longer and connect inside. And when we, when we do that, we become more self-reliant. We find that we need less and less from the outside, including from foods and so on and so forth. So really powerful to do that and to work on that. So I encourage you to try, um, taking things from this perspective, including working on your space and your environment and looking at the four cornerstones, not with guilt or shame, but with freshness and newness and reminding yourself that was the past, you know, must have, you know, derailed a little bit. It wasn’t perfect. That’s okay, here I am now. And this is the energy I’m gonna bring in. I’m gonna call in right here right now. So it’s a wonderful, um, way to go about things. And, um, yeah. So let me know how you do keep in touch with me, my love and I can’t wait to hear more as we go into 2022, sending you so much love right now as we head in.

Question #4 around the topic of: Reflections of 2021: I’m one of those people that when the new year gets closer I get more stressed about what I need to do “this time” around. Do you think this is pretty normal for a lot of people and what kind of meditations can help? 

Kimberly: 28:15 : All right. And our next and final questions comes from Louissa who lives in Colorado. Hello, my love. Thank you for writing in. Thank you for your question. You’re right. I’m one of those people that when the new year gets closer, I get more stressed about what I need to do, quote, this time around. Do you think it’s pretty normal for a lot of people and what kind of meditations can help? I love this question. So I do think it’s normal. I think that we are programmed to look for lack and failure in many different ways. So it’s natural to be like, oh, look at what I didn’t do.

Kimberly: 29:05 Instead of look at how I grew this year, it was pretty funky year with COVID and I was resilient and I got through, instead we say, oh man, look at this and look at this, what happened? And didn’t do it, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yes, I absolutely do think it’s normal. I think our mind goes there. And so what we wanna do is we wanna to train the mind, this monkey mind our ego, which is again, attune to lack into instead attuning it to presence, presence, not presence like material things, right? So being present, and this is where all the power is when we are obsessed about the past, when we’re obsessed about the future, we are not here fully. So energy is somewhere else. So we aren’t able to show up with the full mm, the oomph, the power, the, the, the real, um, fullness of right here right now.

Kimberly: 30:01 So meditation is the way very most. I think it’s the most powerful tool for get PA to get past. This is it’s calling us into this center. And not only is it calling us into this moment, but the practical enlightenment meditations that we do, which are inspired by Korea, yoga, which is what the great guru Paramahansa yoga Nanda, who brought yoga to the west, teaches through the self realization fellowship. This is the basis of all the teachings in the new book. You are more than you think you are. This is the super highway to the divine. These are the most potent practical, amazing teachings of yoga that I have synthesized in the look. And so, um, when we do these meditations, we are not just relaxing. We’re not just relaxing, which is basically relaxing, the peripheral nervous system, all the sensing out here, we are actually pulling in our energy into, through Prya horror, the senses group word for withdraw energy, from the senses in to the spine, into the main energy channel and the way that we can, um, be here now.

Kimberly: 31:10 And so we bring this freshness of showing up, not this time again, but this moment is potent. We will never have this moment back. This moment has never been here before. So what do I wanna feel in this moment? What do I wanna bring into this moment and into this year? So I would try the, um, I just did a, created a meditation called, um, the winter grounding meditation. So it’s about finding the light right here right now that it’s a really powerful one. And then I’m gonna be putting out some new meditations in January, which I think will align to, you know, um, the freshness of new year’s. So check out that winter one for now, Luisa, and know that another one, um, that I think will resonate with you very much. It’s coming out in the next few weeks, but of course, now we have a whole library of optical enlightenment meditations that you can check out over on the Solluna app.

Thought of the Week

Kimberly: 32:08 And also, um, on our website, mysolluna.com, they’re all free. They’re all, you know, anyone can access them. So let me know how you do, and I can’t wait to hear more about your meditations and how things are progressing for you. So thank you so much. My love, and thank you so much Beauties for tuning in before we, um, sign out here. I want to leave you with our quote of the week. This comes from the new book. I’ve been reading quotes for the last few weeks. This is on page 74. This is in chapter six, You Are Whole, and this is from Swami Sri Yukteswar, the guru of Paramahansa Yogananda. And he writes, “Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men [and women] are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.” So I love the power of these words because we all get so bogged down by the past. And in this case, we get bogged down by the things that we didn’t do in the past year. But listen, listen to these wise words. One more time, forget it, move forward, make the spiritual effort meditate. So I make sure we show our rights, forget the past. The vanished lives of all men and women are dark with many shames human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now, so forget the past, we analyze it and then we let it go.

Kimberly: 33:58 We step forward into the year ahead with full and the abundance of our energy coming in. It’s gonna be a beautiful bright year ahead. I cannot wait to be here with you every step of the year, supporting you, loving you, connecting. Keep the questions coming. We’ll be back here Monday for our next interview podcast to then take great care. Be sure to pre-order the new book. You are more than you think you are practical enlightenment for everyday life. I cannot wait for you to start reading it. I’ll also see you on social at underscore Kimberly Snyder to then take care and so much love.

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