What If Healing Starts With One Breath

Your breath is doing more than keeping you alive. It might be the fastest way back to your body, your truth, and the parts of you that have been running the show from the shadows.

We sit down with Dr. Colleen Quinn, transpersonal psychologist and author of Essence Merging, to talk about conscious breathwork as a bridge between psychology and spiritual healing. We unpack the difference between simple breathing and using breath as a doorway into deeper awareness, including why so many “helpful” tools can still feel like band-aids when trauma and unprocessed emotion live in the nervous system. Dr. Quinn shares how breathwork can surface forgotten memories and patterns at a pace you can handle, creating enough safety to finally feel what was once overwhelming and to complete the body’s stuck survival responses.

We also dig into language and intention as real forces in mind-body health. Dr. Quinn explains why “I am” statements can quietly turn passing states into fixed identities, how hidden intentions shape outcomes like scarcity vs abundance, and why physical symptoms can reflect emotional energy that never got to move. Along the way, she offers grounded practices you can use immediately: returning to the breath, restoring genuine connection through eye contact and consensual touch, giving affirmations more freely, and using the mantra “sat nam” (“I am that which I gaze upon”) as a simple daily anchor for presence.

If you’re exploring breathwork for trauma healing, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, or spiritual growth, this conversation gives you language, stories, and practical next steps. Subscribe for more, share this with a friend who needs a calmer mind and a safer body, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway. What’s one belief you’re ready to stop calling “who you are”?

Transcript

Welcome And Big Breath Promise

SPEAKER_01 0:50

Welcome back to the Spiritual Spotlight series. Today I am so excited to welcome Dr. Colleen Quinn, a transpersonal psychologist and author of Essence Essence Merging. Dr. Quinn brings such a beautiful and thought-provoking perspective to the connection between breath, consciousness, energy, and healing. In today's conversation, we're going to talk about the difference between simply breathing and using breath as a doorway into deeper awareness, how our words and thoughts carry energy, and how breath work can help us bring what has been unconscious into the light of conscious healing. This conversation is for anyone who has felt that there is more happening beneath the surface, emotionally, energetically, or spiritually, and is ready to understand how the breath become a powerful bridge back to the truth of who they are. Thank you so much for coming on this virtual spotlight series. I'm so happy you're here.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Thank you for having me, Rachel. And what a perfect introduction to really the message that I think can uplevel the whole collective and save mankind, humankind on our planet. So thank you for that. I love that.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

I love that. Can you maybe share a little bit about your backstory and what first opened the door for you into transpersonal psychology, breath work, and spiritual healing?

SPEAKER_00 2:04

What a big question. You know, I I initially started as a religious studies major and undergrad, and I went to a secular university, and all of the classes were around how there is no God. And I was like, well, I can't teach this, so I can't align with this. But the first psychology class I took was parenting, and I had two young children, and I thought, wow, like, wouldn't it be so great if we all knew this before we brought people into this world? This is like just makes so much sense, but it's not intrinsic if you're not taught it. And I will just fast forward to say that one of the students that I mentored actually

From Religion Studies To Psychology

SPEAKER_00 2:53

heads up due to a private grant, mindfulness and parenting for every pregnant couple in the state of Wisconsin. Oh, that is amazing. I know, I love it. I can't, it's gotta be uh just elevating the whole consciousness of that state. And so, but you know, psychology teaches a lot of skills, and they're great band-aids, they're great coping band-aids, but very few treatments in psychology offer the promise of true healing. And the ones that I have found that do always have a component of conscious breath work. Why? Because breath work starts that conversation with your own soul, that's the opens the door to your inner landscape, 95% of which is unconscious. So you get to go in and survey the land. And I know that you're a nurse, Rachel. So, you know, these bodies hold about 70 trillion cells. The cells are coherent, and the cells in our bodies are so much more in tune than our heads are. Like one cell in the liver knows it's connected to every other cell in the entire liver, and they will do what needs to be done for the good of the whole. We don't operate like that, and so you know, spirituality is a path to wellness in all forms. I did have two near-death experiences, and that was love's way of squeezing me tighter and tighter to realize that my efforts did not work. Interestingly, the second one was a pneumonia. So I was that lasted for 10 months. I'm coughing up massive quantities of blood, I'm hospitalized. But that irony that I'm fighting to find a single breath. And that led me to going halfway around the world when I found out I would live. I think my husband was so grateful that I would be alive. And it was such a radical change to our marriage. And I said, listen, I found about this breathwork retreat, this embodiment. I didn't even know, actually, I'll back it up. I did not know breath work would be part of it. It was an embodiment retreat. And I said, it's halfway around the world in Costa Rica, and I'm gonna go. He's like, Yeah, do it, which was, you know, shocking to me. There, I was taught breath work, and from the very first time, as for most people, it's intoxicating. So that really uh changed everything. It changed my idea of who and what God really is. Prayer versus listening to your own soul, you know, that radically changed. I stopped making a list of demands and started listening, and and then really surrendering to let this higher power of love lead me from one healing to the next to the next, and you know, I'm still in that, far more awake than I ever was then, and far more attuned to what love actually is. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

So was there a specific moment in your life when you realized healing had to go deeper than the mind alone?

SPEAKER_00 6:46

Oh, for sure. You know, for many years I was doing psychology and, you know, with the constraints of managed care, I knew I was basically giving band-aids to

Near-Death Illness And Costa Rica

SPEAKER_00 6:58

people, and they did get better, and they would, you know, send me emails. Towards the end of my career, I was working in a residential treatment facility for adolescents. Cool. It was intense. And we taught mindfulness, dialectical behavioral therapy. One of the main components of that is being present and all of the all of the wisdom that goes along with that. And so we taught that whether you had a conduct disorder or depression, it didn't matter. And the effect sizes were so strong. You get out of your head and into this moment, and life opens up for you. Now, having said that, I was the chief psychologist and I felt like a fraud because I couldn't stay out of my head for more than three or five minutes. I'm like, I'm teaching this, I can't do it. There was such a diatribe in my head. And so that awareness that the ego was controlling my experiences, and I was a floating head. I was totally detached from my body. I needed that retreat to come into my body, to come into my breath, to thaw my heart out, which was very defended and guarded.

SPEAKER_01 8:17

Yeah. So, how does breath work help make the unconscious conscious so that we can recognize the condition patterns that have been causing us so much distress?

SPEAKER_00 8:27

That's a great question, Rachel. The best thing that it does is when you're fully surrendered in breath, you have a subtle energy body that's your psyche. It's really your soul. It's your soul, and that's going to loosen from your physical form, from your psyche, from your body. Initially, those trips are kind of cosmic bliss. You're gonna blend with the universe, it's gonna be a total love fest, and you'll be intoxicated. And that's sort of a gift that the soul gives us. But at your ego's pace of readiness, and this is the difference between breath work and perhaps psychedelics, which are gonna thrust you into your soul, no holds barred, and everything that you have in there, whether you've dealt with it or not, it's coming, you're gonna see it. Well, breath work works at your ego's pace of readiness. So when that happens, you're out of your body, you're kind of hovering over your body, and up comes like popcorn, a memory that you maybe never thought of or you have not thought of in years and years and years. And it's now ready to be worked with. Well, you're up here and you're floating in peace and relaxation, looking through the eyes of love. And from that safety place, you can now finally feel it for the first time. So there's two components to healing trauma. You have to feel the feelings that you did you felt too overwhelmed to feel, and then you have to complete the action that did not get completed at the time that left you feeling like a victim. So you're finally fully feeling it, and you're in the place that you can listen to the impulses of your body. So, for instance, Rachel, I had pretty severe womb trauma. My mother, when she was pregnant with me, was beaten severely by her husband. And she was hospitalized twice for concern of my welfare. Well, I could tell that story like it was last night's sitcom, and I can sit here and tell it now without the emotional charge because I, but before it was because I was detached. Right. Going through that again in breath work, and that was an experience of the retreat. We all did a rebirthing, but I don't want to give the illusion that healing is one and done. So at the retreat, when I didn't even know what was going to be happening, but because everything is energy, my heart started pounding. My body knew before it was ever said what we were gonna do. Oh wow, yeah. So we're having um this birthing experience, and when you're in breath work, it kind of feels like you're underwater. Sounds from this dimension are not really there. You're fully

Breathwork Vs Band-Aid Coping

SPEAKER_00 11:53

in the experience. You see it, you hear it, you're there. So I hear like I'm underwater, the sounds of an animal with their hand caught in a trap. It was like moaning from the toes, and I came up out of the experience just enough to go, wow, somebody's having a hard time with this. And then I realized it was me. Wow. Yeah, and my face was soaked with tears, but that impulse to be rebirthed happened. And so over the years, I went back into that many, many times, and I would birth off of the side of the cot. I needed to come out on my terms with my autonomy, with my power to rewrite my nervous system. It's like the software in our bodies, for to transmute that experience for a more harmonious one.

SPEAKER_01 13:00

So many people they separate physical health from spiritual growth. Why do you believe that they're so deeply connected?

SPEAKER_00 13:09

Well, everything is connected, but but more than that, I mean, just from a physiological standpoint, every cell is made up of 99.999% space. That space is an electromagnetic field that runs through every animate and inanimate object. It's highly intelligent, it's a high frequency, it's coherent. Coherent and love are basically the same thing: harmony, coherence, love. That is God. God is in every cell of our beings, and our cells get disintegrated, dis-ease when we don't have harmony in the in our psyches. When we anything I reject in here is gonna cause a splitting off, a disintegration, a disease, and it shows up as physical illnesses. Fascinating, Rachel. When I was in graduate school back in the day, we knew that stress was at the root of all disease. A plethora of new research is coming out saying more specific than stress, it is unprocessed emotion. That makes sense. And what's really interesting is the word emotion is really a mathematical formula, it's energy in motion. Yeah, all feelings are designed to be like the wave caps on our heart. They're supposed to be felt and moved through. And that deep part of our heart is that still peace. But those feelings are the wave caps, they're supposed to be felt and moved through. Well, what we don't feel, we push down into our subconscious and it becomes like a a stagnant pond, you know, that's all yucky and green with moss because there's no movement, it's stuck in there. So, yes, they're 100% connected. Science supports that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 15:27

Took us a long time to get there, it feels like though. Yeah. So you mentioned word energy, thought energy, and energy from intentions. Can you maybe explain what you mean by that? Which I think is so cool.

SPEAKER_00 15:41

Yeah, you know, I

Making Trauma Conscious Through Breath

SPEAKER_00 15:43

I love that practically the first sentence in the Bible, and I follow all religions, is that God said, Let there be light, and there was light. That he that's to give us a blueprint of how to do it. We know from quantum physics where your energy goes, your thoughts flow. They they they're one and the same, and what we thoughts become things, what we focus on materializes. It's all the time words have power. And so if you say, I am tired, you're taking a transient situation, making it permanent. I am sad. That's how depression happens. I am a diabetic, takes a condition and makes it who you are. I am is probably the most powerful word energy and go figure when Moses asked God what he should call God, God said Yahweh, which means I am. But if you say I am limitless, well, you've now tapped into your full power. I am resilient, thoughts become things, and where you put your focus materializes, we see it all the time. There's a great experiment in quantum physics called particle wave theory. Have you heard of it? Yes. Can I show you? Go ahead. Okay, go ahead. So in particle wave theory, it's been replicated thousands of times under a microscope at the smallest level, below a nanoparticle is a quark. A quark can either appear solid or it can appear as an energy wave. If the scientist thinks they're going to see a particle, they see a particle. If they think they're going to see a wave, they see a wave. And you see this like in real life. Go into the grocery store, you're all swimming in the same fishbowl, but nobody's having the same experience. Oh true. So true. It's it's like I love watching people. And it's everything is what we bring to it. And to go back to the trauma healing, what we routinely see when people go in through their breath work and a trauma is exposed is the story that they wrapped around that experience for years. I was abandoned, God left me. This wasn't fair. I didn't deserve this, I was a victim. That story gets flipped like a coin because the experience is so powerful. And you hear, oh my God, I was never alone. Love was with me. Right, you're never alone, and I needed that to become who I am. Well, that changes everything. If I call an experience pain, I'm gonna bring a very different energy than if I call it a challenge, and I like to call it a love squeeze because yeah, they're necessary to get me to move beyond my own self-perceived limits, but it's love. I need that to push me out to say, yes, you can do and be so much more than you thought.

SPEAKER_01 19:44

Absolutely. So many intentions are subconscious. How do hidden intentions influence the choices that we make?

SPEAKER_00 19:52

Yeah, I have two great stories from my book, Essence Merging, that uh uh that really illustrate different parts of this. So the first story was when uh with a series of events, the natural world was converging to sh to illustrate what was going on in my spiritual life, and my ego was really taking a backseat to my experience. A lot of people call that an ego death. Your ego doesn't really die, but interestingly, I had all these miraculous butterfly experiences within the week before, butterflies flying rotations around me, and now I'm in the woods, and I see the same species of butterfly on her back dying. Oh, I had never seen any living being die, and as much as I tried to get into my conscious breath, I couldn't do it. I was overwhelmed, I was overwhelmed,

Unprocessed Emotion And Physical Disease

SPEAKER_00 20:54

and so my ego sold me that if I she was on her back, if I flip her over, it would be an act of kindness, she would be suffering less. So I gently flip her over. Rachel, what do you think happened almost within 30 seconds? She flew away, she didn't fly away because she was dying, but I love I love that, I love the optimism in a Herculean effort. She flipped back to her back. Wow. She knew who she was, she knew what she needed to do in the moment, and I got in touch with the abuser side of me. That you know, my subconscious is saying, no, this is an act of kindness for the butterfly. What it really was was that I could not handle the distress, I was trying to alleviate my distress, not hers, but it wasn't conscious. And that's a great example of really taking a moment to go underneath and look at what is the fueling that intention.

SPEAKER_01 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:13

Another example, when I was a young girl, I was 13, my mother remarried, and my stepfather said, Listen, you're 13 now, you have to get a job, you need to buy all your own clothes, all your own food, your school lunches. I got a job. My future sister in law was 13. Her father loved saving money, and she went out and got a job. Now, Rachel, out of the two of us, we have different Tensions going into our jobs. Who do you think ended up with a better relationship with money initially?

SPEAKER_01 22:57

I'm going back and forth. I think the latter, not you.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

That's right. Because my sister-in-law was trained in abundance.

SPEAKER_01 23:08

Right.

SPEAKER_00 23:09

I'm gonna make my dad proud. I'm gonna save money like him, and I'm gonna be abundant because we value abundance. I was working from scarcity, and lack, lack, this is all on my shoulders, and I'm a kid. So much pressure at 13. And these are the kinds of intentions that where you can do the same action with different intentions, you'll get radically different results. And so knowing your own intentions, but also looking beyond people's words, underneath their words, what is their intention? The intention is that powerful and one of those powerful energies that we transfer back and forth. Yeah, that's fascinating.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

Why do you think so many people say tracked and conditional patterns, even when those patterns continue to cause them so much distress?

SPEAKER_00 24:08

Because they're subconscious. And so they don't even realize they're they're looking. How am I in another unfulfilling relationship? How has this come around again? How have I lost my job again? Why am I sick again? They can't put the pieces together that there is something that they are bringing that's magnetizing it to them. And it takes making the unconscious conscious. The only way I have found to do that is going inward. And whether you use meditation, psychedelics, or breath work, all of those modalities use breath work as the means to open up the conversation with your own soul.

SPEAKER_01 24:57

So, how can someone set an intention before breath work without trying to control the outcome?

SPEAKER_00 25:03

Well, that's a great question, Rachel. And what I say to people, and I even have a breath work sort of step-by-step on YouTube video. So I ask my client what's your intention, and he goes, I don't really have one. And I said, Well, Nick, that's great because even if you did have one, it's great to put the intention out there. Thoughts become things, but then you have to surrender to what the soul has for you that day. And it may be that, often it is that, but not always. And so it might, your soul might have some different message that you need to hear.

SPEAKER_01 25:43

So I want to shift a little bit and just talk about your book, Essence Merging, which I love that name of that of your book. So your book is Essence Merging, is described as a spiritual memoir. What inspired you to write this?

SPEAKER_00 25:57

Yeah, so I I mean, I was having all of these miraculous experiences. They're like love gifts. I would I would meditate and breath do breath work sometimes five

Words Thoughts And Reality Shaping

SPEAKER_00 26:08

times a day. And I'm like, this is so great and luscious, but I know how you know the universe works. I know that these plans are never just for one person. I said, so what's your plan here, love? Well, you know, what's what's the big plan? I got a resounding auditory downwork load, inspire. And I love that because inspire shares the same root as inspiration, right? And love said, you know, shine the flashlight for others. There are many ancient cultures and astrology that all predict this time in our human history as the a great collective awakening. It's going to take 50 to 55 years, and lots of people are shining lights, saying, hey, there's a better way. And I believe that essence merging is a light. It's a primer of what you can expect on when letting go of the ego's control of your experience and surrendering to this higher power and this free fall. And it's woven into stories. I think stories engage people, but it's sometimes maddening, often exhilarating, and always unexpected, never what we would cook up. So that's all interwoven.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

I love that. So in the book, you explore, like you just said, you explore releasing the ego's control and allowing the heart to lead. What did that process look like for you?

SPEAKER_00 27:43

Well, so I remember distinctly the first time that it was totally quiet in my head. I was emptying the dishwasher and I noticed that there was nothing going on. And I was like, wow, this is so peaceful and so luscious. And it lasted for 45 minutes. And then my ego's like, what is going on?

unknown 28:05

I love that.

SPEAKER_00 28:07

We can't handle it. And that's always the way it is on the path. Like you, you get it's a it's a spiral path, you know. You you get some taste, and then you it's like two steps forward. They're not there, really are no steps backward because every experience is necessary, but it's not a straight line. And so, you know, there would be many times where I'd be like, oh, I I think I really understand what love is all about. And then I I didn't. I I still there was still so much to learn. And I think that's a big part of uh it's there's a couple things. Our ego is made up of a conglomeration of all the wounded children from our youth. Anything our parents or caregivers judged, rejected, were punished, we rejected because we needed to stay aligned with them. They were feeding us and clothing us, and that was in our best interest at the time. And those, so we pushed those children into our subconscious, and they took all the pain to keep our true nature pristine and protected and pure love. And there's a lot of them. And I don't know if you've ever seen the movie Inside Out or Inside Out. I love that movie, and and that was all based on Dick Schwartz's work with internal family systems. How do you get to know these psyches, these children inside of us? And they have managers to protect you from getting to them because you know they're wounded. And so it's a lot of allowing the breath to take you in little by little to get to know those children. Love is the only true healer. I mean, it when it comes down to it, Western medicine is gonna mask symptoms and give you side effects. But if you want to be healed, it's love and coherence. And so so going in to get to know those children actually does that and finally gets them to relax, to uh to trust your true nature because you abandon them for so many years. So when you develop that relationship, they can relax and and let your true nature lead. Now, they're not gonna fully go anywhere, like they still come up for me, but when they come up, I'm in the place of my true nature, and I can say, okay, you're activated. What are you here to show me? And they always have wisdom. The coping mechanisms are immature and really mostly don't work, but they they have my best interest at heart. So I can I can internally talk with them, thank them for the wisdom, and tell them I'm gonna hold you and we're gonna walk forward. I will walk forward and I will carry you. And if I and if they're really activated, I tell them, I ask them if they'll hold a campfire for me and I'm gonna do this challenging thing, but I'll come to them in breath

Hidden Intentions That Drive Choices

SPEAKER_00 31:33

work later and I will spend some time with them. And then you have to keep that promise. You cannot break keep breaking promises to these children. So, so that's that's a biggie is going in to get to know those children, yeah, bring the love to them, heal them.

SPEAKER_01 31:52

I love that. I love that. That's I just like that. I'm sitting with that for a second. So, in your book, you mention when you've you've kind of touched on this quite a bit, stuck trauma energies. How do you describe that to someone who may be new to body-based healing?

SPEAKER_00 32:09

When you have a lot of pain in your body screaming at you, pain, pain, pain, that is stuck trauma energy. That that's a big clue. You or you have some kind of chronic uh condition, some autoimmune disease. That's all stuck energy, and so it requires a gentle exploration. Uh, you know, it's amazing to me. I've worked with somebody who had pain in his knee, and going in through breast, he remembered that his neighbor's dog bit him on his knee when he was young.

unknown 32:53

Goodness.

SPEAKER_00 32:54

Like, and he was finally able to go in, feel that experience, rewire what needed to happen. You know, his leg did a lot of shaking because he wanted to run away. He wanted to run away from the dog and be the victor. So, enough of that shaking and his body accepted he felt it, he had compassion for the dog, he felt that the dog was scared, he got to forgiveness, that's a big healer, and then he rewired his nervous system, he ran away. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

How's he now? Yeah, no, he's never had pain again. I love that. I love that. So, what do you hope that readers feel or understand after reading Essence Emerging?

SPEAKER_00 33:44

A lot of things. Probably primarily that there are these two worlds going on. This energy world coexists alongside of this material one. And when you're aware of the energy world, when you're conscious of it, everything has profound meaning. So there is no mundane because everything becomes a conversation with God and becomes a sacred moment and a teachable moment and an abundant moment, a trust moment. You know, we take our relationships of the love we felt from our human parents, and we transfer that onto God. And our our all of our parents did their best. And but human love is flawed love. When you can get to the place where you can trust no matter what, and I I truly believe this, Rachel, this isn't in my book, but growth is always happening, that we're in the second labor pain of this great awakening. And I think that independent of the circumstances, what I see in myself and and everyone in my spiritual tribe is that we're being asked to trust beyond the scene more than we ever have. Trust is needed for manifesting, but trust is needed for safety to feel safe in this very toxic world. So if you're looking just at the material, it can look very dark and despairing. But but we know that miracles are happening regularly. It's you know, one of the things that amazes me, I get so bowled over by the research. I don't know if you're familiar with Joe Dispenza. Yeah. So he has a team of researchers that used to work for NASA. They work at

Essence Merging And Ego Release

SPEAKER_00 35:43

UC Berkeley, I think. And so they get all, you know, saliva, blood, urine, stool, all kinds of measures for people who want to sign up at the retreats. They'll have a couple of thousand people. And they're not told to focus on anything. Well, one of the early research findings, they weren't focusing on anything in their physical bodies, but they found that there's a protein that wraps around the cell wall. It's called serpentine A. And I love that name because serpentine is the kundalini energy that goes up the spine, right? But that protein becomes the protector of the cell wall. These people weren't ever told about serpentine A or to think about their cells or anything. There was such a dramatic increase in that protein after one week of meditations at his retreat, and they took cells from some of the saliva or whatever, and they tried to inject COVID into those cells in a petri dish, it would not go in. That's fascinating. It's fascinating because it's all connected. What we do in the spiritual realm informs the material realm, and what we do in the material realm has an influence on the spiritual realm. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 37:13

I completely agree. What do you wish more people understood about breath, energy, and the body's ability to heal?

SPEAKER_00 37:24

Well, probably the first thing is that breath is the only function in our bodies that can be done consciously or unconsciously. That is not random. Consciously, well, unconsciously, it's involuntary, we're not thinking about it, and we're getting that oxygen that's going to sustain our physical cells, and it's a great gift. Consciously, we're not only taking in the oxygen, we're taking in the energy along with it. So it actually raises our interstitial fluid in our cells, and we can carry a higher frequency along with activating our parasympathetic nervous system. And if we take a moment to think about it, that essence that's in the oxygen has been passed from the tree to the frog to the person to the dolphin. It is the essence of all life, that when you breathe it in consciously, you're becoming more whole. You're taking in the wholeness of all life. So that and it and it lights up our frontal cortex, it wraps us in the presence, it lights up our pre-frontal cortex on the left side to emphasize our positive emotions, a whole host of things. So conscious breath is the gateway to presence, and you can come back to it at any moment.

SPEAKER_01 38:59

I love that. That is so true. Before I ask you the last question, if anyone is interested in learning more about you, what is the best place for them to go to?

SPEAKER_00 39:08

My website is essence.com. I do offer a free download, nine simple steps to awakening, and they're not things you add to your day, but you do them while you're going through your day. No surprise that the first one is breathe consciously. And you can come back to that at any moment, and it's gonna elevate everything.

SPEAKER_01 39:33

Absolutely. I love that. So, what is one message you feel called to leave our audience with today?

SPEAKER_00 39:41

Come back to your breath

Stuck Energy Proof And Healing Stories

SPEAKER_00 39:43

and let's meet here, and let's really, really meet. So that means looking into someone's eyes, daring to look into their eyes because there's a major energy transfer with that. That means consensual touch, like on a shoulder. We're all touch deprived. A gesture of touch is so healing, and it means affirmations. We're all affirmation deprived, we're stingy in our affirmations. I don't know why, because it lifts the frequency. So let's come into our conscious breath, and along with that, we'll return the gaze and the touch and the affirmations, and our frequencies will rise and we can all dance together.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

I love that. And I'm gonna ask you one more question then. What is an affirmation you would like to leave the audience with today?

SPEAKER_00 40:38

One of my favorite affirmations, I do it when I'm breathing silently in my head. So the in-breath, I say sat, and the out breath I say nam. Sat nam is a mantra that means I am that which I gaze upon. And when I'm saying that all day, I'm I'm infusing that intention. This is a conversation with God. You are God, Rachel, and and it's a privilege and precious that we get to connect in this moment. And if I bring that sacred energy to folding the laundry or walking in the woods, or slicing a lemon, they all elevate. And there's lessons on every yeah, I'm being taught, I'm being showered with gifts. They're all it's everything is sweeter. So satnam.

SPEAKER_01 41:35

I love that. Thank you so much for coming on this virtual spotlight series. It's truly been amazing to connect with you today. Thank you, Rachel.