Speaker 1: And everyone would say I was a thief if I
Speaker 1: stole something, but I don't get caught. I never get caught.
Speaker 1: Where's the karma and that? But for the rest of
Speaker 1: my life, I'm looking over my shoulder. Am I going
Speaker 1: to get caught? You know? I'm carrying that energy with me,
Speaker 1: and that energy suppresses what I could be the bigger
Speaker 1: person of what I could be, let's say, because I'm
Speaker 1: carrying that negative energy with me. So it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: that if you do something, karma comes along and smacks
Speaker 1: comes back and smacks you. It's the energy to carry
Speaker 1: with you. Pay attention to what you want to carry
Speaker 1: with you through life.
Speaker 2: What's up, everybody, and welcome back to NYYT where you
Speaker 2: are learning to level up your yoga teaching one masterful
Speaker 2: class at a time. This episode is called Karma, Forgiveness
Speaker 2: and the Four Great Passions. What if the hardest part
Speaker 2: isn't what happened, but what you're still carrying from it.
Speaker 2: Today's guest doctor Lynn, helps reframe karma beyond those cliches
Speaker 2: that are on mugs and T shirts, like what goes
Speaker 2: around comes around or karma is a bitch. We redefine karma.
Speaker 2: What it really is as a philosophy, how a candy
Speaker 2: bar reveals how you relate to yourself, craving in control,
Speaker 2: why some interactions stay with you longer than they should,
Speaker 2: the key to forgiveness that doesn't ask you to be fake,
Speaker 2: passive or pretend everything is fine, The four great passions
Speaker 2: that quietly run the show for most of us, and
Speaker 2: the depth behind the thought your health is your greatest wealth.
Speaker 2: And in one section, we went off on a tangent
Speaker 2: about karma, and it reminded me of a lecture that
Speaker 2: I heard in my three hundred hour yoga teacher training.
Speaker 2: So I actually pulled out my notes from my three
Speaker 2: hundred hour with one of my teachers, because you can
Speaker 2: hear me in this episode. I'm like reaching for the thought,
Speaker 2: stumbling for it. I almost get it. As I look
Speaker 2: back at the notes, I was like, Okay, I wasn't
Speaker 2: far off, but I wanted to read it to you here,
Speaker 2: just to educate you on karma a little bit and
Speaker 2: remind myself. So my teacher taught me the three types
Speaker 2: of karma. The first was your sanchita, which is the
Speaker 2: storehouse of karma, so that maybe the collection from the
Speaker 2: past lives and then Parubda is the karma that you're
Speaker 2: now dealing with because of Sanchita the storehouse. So this
Speaker 2: is like the manifested the things that are happening because
Speaker 2: of who you were in the past. And then Agami
Speaker 2: is the karma that you're creating because of Parubda, so
Speaker 2: because of what is manifested the things that you were
Speaker 2: manifesting for the future, which was just like a nice
Speaker 2: little refresh for me. And the next thing that my
Speaker 2: teacher taught me I'm still reading just from my notes
Speaker 2: of my three hundred hour just because it's interesting, was
Speaker 2: the three actions of karma. And this is like viewing
Speaker 2: karma and your actions as seeds. So there's v karma,
Speaker 2: which is the black seed. This is non virtuous actions
Speaker 2: when your motivation is to harm for your benefit. So
Speaker 2: karma which is a dirty gray seed. This is virtue
Speaker 2: virtuous acts but actually done with selfish intent. And then
Speaker 2: there's a karma, which is a pure white seed, virtuous
Speaker 2: actions without expectation, doing for reward of action like your
Speaker 2: reward is doing the action itself. It's selfless service. And
Speaker 2: then I wrote, we have the option to change the
Speaker 2: world instead of the world changing us, which is basically
Speaker 2: the golden rule. Do unto others as you would want
Speaker 2: to have done to you. And then something else interesting
Speaker 2: that I wrote at the bottom was to think of
Speaker 2: karma like trauma. You can feel its effects long after
Speaker 2: the event, but you are responsible with how you deal
Speaker 2: with it, like what you do with it. So if
Speaker 2: that at all interests you, this episode is going to
Speaker 2: be a treasure trove full of more gems on karma.
Speaker 2: I'm so excited for you to listen, Turn it up
Speaker 2: and let's dive in. Hey Yogi's Mackenzie fly Here Mom,
Speaker 2: yoga prineer, teacher, trainer, retreat leader, and your guide to
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Speaker 2: of actionable wisdom and candid chats with industry experts. Learn
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Speaker 2: one episode at a time. Doctor Lynn is a naturopath,
Speaker 2: yoga nutrition therapist, fitness professional, karma master and published author,
Speaker 2: international speaker, and video producer with over forty years experience
Speaker 2: in the fields of natural health and fitness. She has
Speaker 2: been featured on Redbook, Reader's Digest, Huffington Post, Shape Self,
Speaker 2: and various other national publications, TV networks and podcast She
Speaker 2: is the author and producer of the soul Walking series,
Speaker 2: Karma Prosperity, Vitality, and the Nature Apathic Wellness series, The
Speaker 2: Yoga of Nutrition and Recipes for Health, Sex, Happiness and
Speaker 2: Love and Doctor Lynn's Proactive Aging Workouts DVDs and TV
Speaker 2: with international distribution. We are so lucky to have you
Speaker 2: on the podcast. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Doctor Lynn. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for being here.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for inviting me. This is exciting. I
Speaker 1: love talking with yoga teachers.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, Well, where do we even begin with someone
Speaker 3: with your with all the receipts of the incredible work
Speaker 3: that you've done in your life and your career, and
Speaker 3: all the areas that you could go. I guess my
Speaker 3: first question for you is what exactly is a yoga
Speaker 3: nutrition therapist? How do you blend those two things together?
Speaker 1: Well, first off, I am a naturopathic doctor and as
Speaker 1: studying natureopathy, natureopathy is really has three pillars of health.
Speaker 1: That's well the foundation and it is nutrition, exercise and sleep. Rest.
Speaker 1: Those are the three pillars of health from a naturopathic standpoint.
Speaker 1: So my background is really in you know, there's a
Speaker 1: heavy nutritional background there being a naturopathic doctor, but there's
Speaker 1: also there's a branch of yoga called on Amaya kosha
Speaker 1: and on a my kosha is it's the it's the
Speaker 1: yoga of eating and it's not any specific diet, but
Speaker 1: what it means is paying a paying very careful attention
Speaker 1: to what and how we eat and how important that
Speaker 1: is because it's not just the nutritions that we take in,
Speaker 1: because we do have to take nutrition in, but you know,
Speaker 1: we live in a society of go you know, we
Speaker 1: don't chew enough. So it's really about how to really
Speaker 1: appreciate this body and what you need to give this
Speaker 1: body to keep it healthy. So that's really weird in
Speaker 1: a nutshell.
Speaker 2: Oh amazing. And here we are. Here we are as
Speaker 2: I'm speaking with you, I'm eating because the appointments are
Speaker 2: back to back and sometimes that's just life. You know,
Speaker 2: we got to like squeeze it in where we can.
Speaker 2: And I was mentioning to you before we clicked record
Speaker 2: that as a breastfeeding and nursing mother, man the calorie
Speaker 2: expenditure just of keeping up with that. It's like I
Speaker 2: can't eat enough in a day, but one hundred percent
Speaker 2: noticing the difference of just the experience of eating where
Speaker 2: you don't have as much stimulation, you're not doing anything
Speaker 2: other than eating and giving this act all of your
Speaker 2: focus and slowing down and savoring the food and noticing
Speaker 2: the flavors changes the experience but also primes the body
Speaker 2: for better digestion. I've really noticed that in myself.
Speaker 1: So that's really kind of what it is. It's and
Speaker 1: it brings in, you know, the yoga and the nature apathy.
Speaker 1: That's really my background that I've and what I've done
Speaker 1: over forty years is weave the two together because they
Speaker 1: fit beautifully together.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So then how how specifically do you do this work?
Speaker 2: Is it through private clientele? And what does that look
Speaker 2: like if someone were to come to you and want
Speaker 2: to begin this process and practice.
Speaker 1: Well, I do have on my website people can get
Speaker 1: in touch with me because I do it online.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: When I first started my practice, it was, you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't have zoom and things like that. You know,
Speaker 1: I lived in Los Angeles and I had a small
Speaker 1: practice and That's really how I started with seeing clients
Speaker 1: one on one, but then it kind of mushroomed into
Speaker 1: more teaching. And when I say teaching, you know, I
Speaker 1: lectured at the City Loyola Marymont. There's one that they
Speaker 1: certified people in yoga therapy. So I was a destructor
Speaker 1: for yoga therapists there, you know. So I really began
Speaker 1: more lecturing and traveling. And then I became the corporate
Speaker 1: educator for an international aromatherapy company and I traveled all
Speaker 1: over the world lecturing on that. So it kind of
Speaker 1: went from seeing one on one clients to more of
Speaker 1: writing books and teaching actually teaching.
Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing. Congratulations, What a just lighthouse you are
Speaker 2: for all of us of thinking bigger. You know, I
Speaker 2: think sometimes yoga teachers they only see one path of
Speaker 2: what to do, and that's really expansive to see somebody
Speaker 2: doing it in that way. I had a tangent, I
Speaker 2: guess in my own career in education where I actually
Speaker 2: went through doctor Sears. Are you familiar with his work?
Speaker 2: His wellness? And I believe it was a nutrition program.
Speaker 2: It's been many years since I did at probably over
Speaker 2: ten years, but I remember the curriculum was all around
Speaker 2: inflammation and how to eat in a way that lowers inflammation,
Speaker 2: and how this is very arrvetic. Even of a lot
Speaker 2: of illnesses begin as inflammation or access heat in the body.
Speaker 2: So what do you have to say about that? And
Speaker 2: do you find that to be the case of where
Speaker 2: you might start when it comes to cleaning up somebody's nutrition.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I'm a big one, especially in teaching
Speaker 1: in my classes, on having people pay attention to their
Speaker 1: digestive system. And in my classes we call it the
Speaker 1: power channel and it goes from it goes all the
Speaker 1: way up through the digestive channel, and I have people
Speaker 1: do a lot of big deep breathing into that channel
Speaker 1: because what we do is and when I say we,
Speaker 1: you know, we're a society of eating foods that really
Speaker 1: aren't supplying the body with the nutrients that it needs.
Speaker 1: And you've got to think about your body as a machine.
Speaker 1: If I'm putting garbage in there, at some point, the
Speaker 1: body's going to go. I got to react to this,
Speaker 1: and that's where the inflammation and that's where the problems
Speaker 1: come in, is when we are not eating properly, you know,
Speaker 1: putting the right nutrients in there. And I always would
Speaker 1: say with my clients, you know, here's the nutrients. For example,
Speaker 1: you know you need vitamin B vitamins, and I would
Speaker 1: list out everything that you need and here's how you
Speaker 1: get them through this diet. And after you take care
Speaker 1: of that, eat all the cookies you want. And they
Speaker 1: would look at me, and I always say, you won't
Speaker 1: want cookies after that. You'll be full, but take care
Speaker 1: of the body first, and then go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 1: because life is not about being. I mean, we are
Speaker 1: wired for pleasure and part of enjoying life is enjoying
Speaker 1: the pleasures of life. And you know, it's okay to
Speaker 1: have that piece of birthday cake. It's okay to have
Speaker 1: a dessert once in a while. But it's about giving
Speaker 1: your body what it needs to take care of itself.
Speaker 1: And then that stuff is okay.
Speaker 2: Good, that's good to hear that it can that it
Speaker 2: can be more balanced and we can have our cake
Speaker 2: and eat it too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because most people, you know, when they think about it,
Speaker 1: oh my god. And you know, ninety five percent of
Speaker 1: diet's fail for this one reason, deprivation. If I tell
Speaker 1: you you can't have it, then you're going to be
Speaker 1: craving it and you're going to want it, and when
Speaker 1: you go off the diet, people go right back to
Speaker 1: those things. So in Korea yoga, which is what I
Speaker 1: really was the beginning of my yoga study, Korea is
Speaker 1: all about balance and it's moderation, and it just means
Speaker 1: you balance things out. So for example, if you're craving
Speaker 1: craving that candy bar, Krea says, go get the candy bar,
Speaker 1: take a chunk off, eat it, and throw the rest away.
Speaker 1: Moderation Can you throw the rest away?
Speaker 2: And I feel like I can, And I'm very blessed
Speaker 2: that I am that type of person. My mother in
Speaker 2: law is like, and my husband a little bit is
Speaker 2: that type of person that's like, I can't have it
Speaker 2: in the house because once I start, I can't stop.
Speaker 2: And do you feel like some people really are wired
Speaker 2: that way that it's harder for them to cut themselves off.
Speaker 2: And I just count myself so lucky to be one
Speaker 2: of those people that really can I just want like
Speaker 2: my one little bite of chocolate after my lunch. And
Speaker 2: I'm a very moderate person. So yeah, for those people
Speaker 2: that can resonate or relate to being more of an
Speaker 2: extremist and this not only showing up in the way
Speaker 2: that they eat, the way they do everything. What would
Speaker 2: you say to those types of teachers or those types
Speaker 2: of people.
Speaker 1: Well, again, it all comes back to moderation, and we're
Speaker 1: all different, and we're all you know, it's so hard
Speaker 1: to give a specific when we live in a general world,
Speaker 1: and it's just like when I teach or anything. It's
Speaker 1: you know, people have if they're really stressed. You know,
Speaker 1: some people, if I'm really stressed, I'm one of those
Speaker 1: people that don't eat, you know, my appetite, my stomach
Speaker 1: type and self really stressed, where other people when they're stressed,
Speaker 1: they just they eat. So we you know, everybody's circumstances
Speaker 1: are very different. But it's really coming back to yourself
Speaker 1: and loving and taking care of yourself and understanding that
Speaker 1: if you live life and balanced and everything in your
Speaker 1: life is balanced, you have perfect health. Anytime anything in
Speaker 1: the body, mind, and soul is out of balance, and
Speaker 1: that again is nature apathy. It all three come together,
Speaker 1: then we have health. So it really comes back to
Speaker 1: reflecting upon yourself.
Speaker 2: What were the three again that you said, was it nutrition, sleep,
Speaker 2: and exercise? Exercise? Okay, those are the three pillars. Yeah, beautiful.
Speaker 2: I feel like in this season of motherhood and sleep
Speaker 2: being sleep being just absolutely obliterated, so broken. You know that,
Speaker 2: I do notice when sleep is lacking, I feel hungrier
Speaker 2: and also feel like I need more water, but I
Speaker 2: want less exercise because I'm so tired. So it's interesting
Speaker 2: how you know one of these pillars will really affect
Speaker 2: and knock the other one off its equilibrium.
Speaker 1: Which we'll think about it. If you eat it, if
Speaker 1: you eat a trashy diet and not a good diet,
Speaker 1: you don't sleep well, so you're right, it knocks that
Speaker 1: one off. And if you don't exercise, if you're kind
Speaker 1: of lethargic, you know, So the three pillars, it's all
Speaker 1: about balancing those out. Now that's easy to say in theory,
Speaker 1: now to practice it. You know, we all we live
Speaker 1: in a very chaotic world, and we live in a
Speaker 1: world that comes is just bombarding us with information and stuff.
Speaker 1: So it's very difficult to balance those out. And it's
Speaker 1: also difficult sometimes to find people who are authentic and
Speaker 1: who really you know, there's so much information out there
Speaker 1: that is not really good information. And I always tell
Speaker 1: people seek out people who are you know, have the
Speaker 1: bad ground seek how people who are really trying to help,
Speaker 1: but not somebody who's trying to make a lot of money.
Speaker 2: So it's so important. And even just with these pillars,
Speaker 2: it's like so accessible, you know, it's so simple and
Speaker 2: always back to the basics, which is the best thing
Speaker 2: to be reminded of. And it's just it's works, you know,
Speaker 2: it just works. Where does the karma come into play?
Speaker 2: And when you say, like, karma master, what is this
Speaker 2: kind of work that you do here within this field?
Speaker 1: Well, to master anything, you have to read about it,
Speaker 1: you have to practice it, you have to write about it,
Speaker 1: and you have to teach it. That's a master. A
Speaker 1: master goes through all of those different things. And over
Speaker 1: the course of forty years, I've practiced, I've written books,
Speaker 1: I've teached, I've lectured. So that puts me in that
Speaker 1: that is how you move along that category. And karma
Speaker 1: is a philosophy, and you know it is a branch
Speaker 1: of yoga, but it's a philosophy and it's and that's
Speaker 1: primarily what I teach is the philosophy of karma, which
Speaker 1: is simply comes right down to cause and effect.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people are really familiar with the phrase
Speaker 2: of what comes around goes around, or karma is a bitch.
Speaker 1: And I like to tell people because that is it's
Speaker 1: very pop culture of good karma, bad karma. That's not karma.
Speaker 1: Karma doesn't have judgment that infers judgment, and karma's not
Speaker 1: about judgment, just says, you know, if I do this,
Speaker 1: this happens. That's so pay attention, be aware. And I'd
Speaker 1: like to use this as an example. Let's say I
Speaker 1: go out and I steal something, and everyone would say
Speaker 1: I was a thief if I stole something, but I
Speaker 1: don't get caught. I never get caught. Where's the karma
Speaker 1: that But for the rest of my life, I'm looking
Speaker 1: over my shoulder. Am I going to get caught? You know?
Speaker 1: I'm carrying that energy with me, and that energy is
Speaker 1: what I could be the bigger person of what I
Speaker 1: could be, let's say, because I'm carrying that negative energy
Speaker 1: with me. So it's not necessarily that if you do something,
Speaker 1: karma comes along as smacks, comes back and smacks you.
Speaker 1: It's the energy to carry with you. Pay attention to
Speaker 1: what you want to carry with you through life.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is so good. That's a really great analogy,
Speaker 2: and thank you for that. I remember in my three
Speaker 2: hundred hour yett we went in a deep dive. My
Speaker 2: teacher was telling me about the storehouse of karma, your sarma.
Speaker 2: I want to say that it was perubda, but I
Speaker 2: think that's wrong. I might be butchering it. But it
Speaker 2: was basically where all of your karmaic actions are stored,
Speaker 2: that storehouse of karma, and through like crea yoga and
Speaker 2: taking action, trying to burn up those karma seeds, and
Speaker 2: that the karma was like seeds, and it was either
Speaker 2: like a black seed or a gray seed or a
Speaker 2: white seed, and that the actions that you're taking your eye,
Speaker 2: they're in the black seed being like negative action or
Speaker 2: hold holding ill will, and then the gray seed being
Speaker 2: one of neutral, and then the white seed being one
Speaker 2: of obviously like high vibe. So is that in your
Speaker 2: methodology or does this sound very different? Or if you
Speaker 2: were to go about like teaching somebody about karma the
Speaker 2: basics and how your actions are being stored and how
Speaker 2: they play out, how would you describe it?
Speaker 1: Well? I would come back to again, we go cause
Speaker 1: and effect. Everything's cause and effect. We are nothing more
Speaker 1: than a shield of energy. And as I teach my students,
Speaker 1: I mean, the reason that you and I can see
Speaker 1: each other is because the molecules that make up our
Speaker 1: energy are moving at a much slower pace and that
Speaker 1: creates the material world. But energy, if you speed it up,
Speaker 1: it's just like water. If you take water, it pours.
Speaker 1: If you slow down the molecules of water they freeze.
Speaker 1: If you heat up the molecules they turn into steam,
Speaker 1: you know they and you can't see it. You know,
Speaker 1: it disappears, but it's still there. So we are all
Speaker 1: of those things moving around in the world, all three
Speaker 1: of those things at once. And so karma really is
Speaker 1: about the energy that you absorb. We absorb energy every
Speaker 1: single day. You and I are absorbing energy. Now just
Speaker 1: by communicating, we you know, we are meeting each other
Speaker 1: and our energy fields are coming together. It's just like
Speaker 1: if you walk into a room and there's someone that
Speaker 1: you just get a bad vibe about, you know, or
Speaker 1: you get a good vibe. That's energy, it's oral, that's
Speaker 1: energy coming off of us. And that's really what I
Speaker 1: teach people is we are nothing but balls of energy. Now,
Speaker 1: how do you want your energy to move through this
Speaker 1: world chaotic out here, Do you want to bring it
Speaker 1: in and balance it? You know? And bringing in and
Speaker 1: balancing it again is very easy in theory, but we
Speaker 1: live in a crazy, crazy world and it is very difficult,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's not something that people should feel
Speaker 1: guilty about if you lose your temper, you know, because
Speaker 1: we all do, because we're humans. We all make mistakes.
Speaker 1: But are you aware of them? If I lose my
Speaker 1: temper and let's say I yell at my husband for something,
Speaker 1: do I stop and catch my breath and say, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, what is this energy I'm giving off? And
Speaker 1: come back and balance myself and then approach the problem,
Speaker 1: We're probably going to have a better chance of a solution.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of like that well said, and I
Speaker 2: appreciate all of it, of just becoming aware of it
Speaker 2: to change the experience of life. And I think that
Speaker 2: if I were to really distill it down or boil
Speaker 2: it down to the practice of yoga and the benefits
Speaker 2: of it, is like same situations and same circumstances, but
Speaker 2: is different relation to it, And that in and of
Speaker 2: itself is the most profound part about it, is that
Speaker 2: it's changing the experience of it for the better.
Speaker 1: You're a yoga teacher, and I'm sure your audience can
Speaker 1: relate to this. I mean, you know, I can go
Speaker 1: in and I can teach and teach, and same people
Speaker 1: come to the class and teach and teach and teach,
Speaker 1: and then one day there's just something I say and
Speaker 1: the lesson that resonates with somebody. And they've been to
Speaker 1: every class I've had, you know, and they've liked the
Speaker 1: class and everything, but that day, and I can't tell
Speaker 1: you the people that have come up to me and say,
Speaker 1: how did you know I needed that today? And I
Speaker 1: always say, you know, when you're ready, the teacher will appear,
Speaker 1: you know, and I didn't know, but you've practiced yoga
Speaker 1: today because it resonated with you, you know. And we can
Speaker 1: teach class after class after class, and it's always a
Speaker 1: good class. But then there are those moments, and those
Speaker 1: are the ones that really touch me.
Speaker 2: Yes, I call those receipts of resonance. Anytime like a
Speaker 2: student comes up and they just let you know that
Speaker 2: it really lands today or they really heard it today,
Speaker 2: and that like you're mentioning, you've been saying this day
Speaker 2: after day year after year, but for whatever reason, it
Speaker 2: really struck a chord with them that day. It's so
Speaker 2: profound and powerful, and it feels so good to receive
Speaker 2: that as a teacher, that your work is landing and
Speaker 2: then it's meaningful, it's making an impression, or it's changing
Speaker 2: behavior for the better. It's awesome when that happens. Hey,
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Speaker 2: karma yogi's it's this yoga of action or doing good
Speaker 2: deeds out in the world from this perspective of we
Speaker 2: are all energy balls and beings. How do you then,
Speaker 2: how does this translate to people changing their lives guess
Speaker 2: these concepts, How does it like translate into their daily
Speaker 2: living and how do you encourage that? Or is it
Speaker 2: something different?
Speaker 1: Well, it's there's a compassion and understanding are two very
Speaker 1: big things that have to do with common Understanding is
Speaker 1: understanding that we are all human beings and that we
Speaker 1: are all subject to fault, you know, and we all
Speaker 1: have these Everybody wants love, everybody has felt hate and anger.
Speaker 1: These are emotions, they're human emotions and they're part of
Speaker 1: human life. So it's what you do with those. Do
Speaker 1: you take that moment to step back and if somebody
Speaker 1: is very angry around you and they're yelling and screared.
Speaker 1: Can you step back for a moment and observe what's
Speaker 1: going on and understand that they're acting out in a
Speaker 1: human nature and have some compassion because you've been there too,
Speaker 1: you know, and that is the important thing is to
Speaker 1: be able to go, well, yeah, I've had moments where
Speaker 1: I've lost my temper. I've had moments where I've you know,
Speaker 1: done things like that, and you know that's working your
Speaker 1: karma and every time you work that, you get a
Speaker 1: little closer and closer to that purity.
Speaker 2: That was a great answer, well done. Yes, I always
Speaker 2: I mean even in yoga classes. I think I said
Speaker 2: something to the effect of that this morning, of helping
Speaker 2: practitioners and students understand, like, if there's any measuring stick
Speaker 2: or any barometer to take score of your advancement on
Speaker 2: the path, it's not in your nailing of the handstand
Speaker 2: or whatever the poscat may be, but in the moments
Speaker 2: in your life when you encounter discomfort or suffering, like
Speaker 2: not liking it, and being able to have this moment
Speaker 2: of awareness within that stimulation and then to to your
Speaker 2: point of receive it more from a place of understanding
Speaker 2: of like, yeah, I've I've had moments like this too
Speaker 2: where I've I've lost my temper, And to think of
Speaker 2: karma in that way, because that's a very like Monday
Speaker 2: and seemingly unextraordinary way of practicing. Yet at the same time,
Speaker 2: that's it. That's the most important one that we can
Speaker 2: all do.
Speaker 1: Well. You know my students, you know, they'll come to me, Chris,
Speaker 1: when you teach yoga, you come in and you have
Speaker 1: the lesson and everything else that come up to and
Speaker 1: I say, doctor Lynn, You're just you're so balanced and
Speaker 1: you're so spiritual. Da da da, And I say to them, yes,
Speaker 1: and I'm teaching, But do remember I have a husband,
Speaker 1: I have children, I have grandchildren, I have things in
Speaker 1: my life, and my life can get you know, and
Speaker 1: I just have to remind myself to come back to
Speaker 1: this place. I'm human, just like all of you, and
Speaker 1: we all I mean, I still make mistakes, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's part of life. Nobody has all the answers.
Speaker 1: I will say, as you're mature, and I can say
Speaker 1: that because I'm seventy three, so I've been down the road.
Speaker 1: As you mature and in life, you do take a
Speaker 1: different perspective on things, and wisdom is about and wisdom
Speaker 1: doesn't come without experience. You have to have experience in
Speaker 1: like both the good in the band can't be all
Speaker 1: yeah yeah wow.
Speaker 2: Well even when you went back to the and it's
Speaker 2: interesting with the title of the podcast, even having the
Speaker 2: word master this idea of like mastery of something, of anything,
Speaker 2: that there are certain qualifications or things that you need
Speaker 2: to move through, like you listed to get there, but
Speaker 2: also this idea that it's almost unattainable in some ways,
Speaker 2: you know, if like it's a constant pursuit and it's
Speaker 2: a passion and a daily discipline and a devotion, an
Speaker 2: aim target that you can be going for, but one
Speaker 2: that maybe you'll never truly hit. And I like this
Speaker 2: idea of karma yoga being in the daily living, the
Speaker 2: daily actions and interactions that we have with ourselves and
Speaker 2: other people of any circumstance or situation that's happening. It's like,
Speaker 2: what are you going to do with this cause the
Speaker 2: thing that's happening to you and your effect being either
Speaker 2: your reaction or your response one without awareness or one
Speaker 2: with awareness. I think it's just making it really practical
Speaker 2: and just in the live everyday living well.
Speaker 1: We have tremendous power and we give our power away
Speaker 1: all the time. You know. We have power over what
Speaker 1: we think and what we say and what we do.
Speaker 1: And that's really the whole thing. Be aware of what
Speaker 1: you think, what you say, and what you do because
Speaker 1: it defines you. That's who you are, you are, that
Speaker 1: is what you know. And so it's very important to
Speaker 1: pay attention to those things. And it's not easy. I mean,
Speaker 1: we all have mouths that things fly out of, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, that's life, you know, and then
Speaker 1: you're like, ohs, why did I you know, but it's
Speaker 1: are you aware, are you able to pull back and
Speaker 1: are you to work on it within yourself or do
Speaker 1: you take that little index finger out and point point
Speaker 1: point point point. That's the you go pointing out you know,
Speaker 1: well you did this and you did that, you know,
Speaker 1: and rather than coming back and taking responsibility for yourself.
Speaker 2: Okay, So then with the idea of inadvertently or in
Speaker 2: seasons where you were really triggered or reacting or super
Speaker 2: stressed out, and you respond or you react to your
Speaker 2: life in a way that quote unquote was uncarmic or
Speaker 2: not not from your most highest self, not from your
Speaker 2: most enlightened being. What is is there a process of
Speaker 2: getting redemption for that? Or is there a way that
Speaker 2: you can like burn up the bad karma so to speak,
Speaker 2: and wipe your slate clean in some ways? Or what is?
Speaker 2: Is there is there is that? Does that process exist? Or?
Speaker 2: From your perspective?
Speaker 1: No, Well, if if I'm angry and I'm I'm charged
Speaker 1: with anger and I'm shooting that anger out at someone,
Speaker 1: I'm carrying the anger. I'm carrying the emotion. And we
Speaker 1: all know what anger feels like. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: charges you up inside and everything goes, you know, the
Speaker 1: higher you let it go. It's awareness of that and
Speaker 1: awareness of what it's doing to me at the moment.
Speaker 1: And do I really want to carry that energy? And
Speaker 1: can I pull that energy back? And every time I
Speaker 1: pull that energy back and I bring it back to
Speaker 1: a balance place, I'm working my karma. And it's like
Speaker 1: cleansing every time, you know, I cleanse myself a little bit,
Speaker 1: and then maybe the anger comes up again and I
Speaker 1: temper it, and I keep tempering it and tempering it,
Speaker 1: and eventually it isn't there now you know that takes
Speaker 1: tremendous work to do that, but it all comes back
Speaker 1: to it's all about you and how you are moving
Speaker 1: through this world. You can't control anybody else, you can't
Speaker 1: make anybody else aware, but you can do your work,
Speaker 1: and that's karma.
Speaker 2: It actually makes me think a lot of meta meditation
Speaker 2: in the sense of I'm sure you're somewhat familiar with it,
Speaker 2: but if maybe listeners who aren't familiar with it, these
Speaker 2: stages of trying to generate feelings of loving kindness, even
Speaker 2: compassion and forgiveness for yourself of any deeds that you've
Speaker 2: done for strangers, maybe just people that you don't know,
Speaker 2: and then also for people who have wronged you. And
Speaker 2: it's that phase of meta meditation of sending loving kindness, compassion,
Speaker 2: forgiveness to people who have wronged you that is really challenging.
Speaker 2: But it's also recognizing in some of the or I
Speaker 2: guess to your point that you're the one that's sitting
Speaker 2: there feeling the feelings of wrong, of hurt, of anger,
Speaker 2: And it's that cliche of like, are you wanting to
Speaker 2: continue to take that poison or is there a cliche?
Speaker 2: I feel like there's a quote in there that's like
Speaker 2: anger is just drinking poison something like that, and that
Speaker 2: you're the one who's constantly living with that in your body,
Speaker 2: and so you're the one that's getting consistently hurt by it.
Speaker 2: And so it's like you understand it in your mind,
Speaker 2: but to actually do it sometimes, like you said, it's
Speaker 2: much harder to actually do because in some ways, I'm
Speaker 2: sure a lot of people feel like to forgive or
Speaker 2: to really let that go would mean letting the other
Speaker 2: person off the hook. So do you have anything to
Speaker 2: say to that of like, in instances when you have
Speaker 2: been really wronged or when you feel really hurt and
Speaker 2: you theoretically understand, like I'm the one that's taking my
Speaker 2: own poison, what do you do in those moments?
Speaker 1: I choose not to. There are four great passions in
Speaker 1: the world, Yoga teaches us, and everything comes from these
Speaker 1: four great passions, and they are deceit, greed, anger, and pride.
Speaker 1: And if you really take one step back, you will
Speaker 1: see that everything comes from those. So let's take anger
Speaker 1: for example. I don't choose to want to carry around
Speaker 1: the emotional passion of anger. It's not something I want
Speaker 1: my life to carry through with my life. So if
Speaker 1: a person makes brings that to me, my role is
Speaker 1: to work on it within myself. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I have to acknowledge that other person. I am free
Speaker 1: to remove myself from their toxic energy because it is toxic.
Speaker 1: It's coming. If someone is coming at me and they're
Speaker 1: coming at me and they're jabbing at me and they're
Speaker 1: trying to get under my skin, you know that's a
Speaker 1: toxic person and I don't need to be in that.
Speaker 1: I bless them and wish them silently to myself, you
Speaker 1: know a good path in life. But then I remove
Speaker 1: myself because I don't. You don't keep yourself in situations
Speaker 1: that keep bringing that up if you're not going to
Speaker 1: deal with it yourself.
Speaker 2: I think the fine line too, of in instances when
Speaker 2: somebody has wronged you, of forgiving and moving on, but
Speaker 2: at the same time establishing certain boundaries so that there
Speaker 2: is new protocols moving forward. I'm thinking of a very personal,
Speaker 2: intimate and like vulnerable thing that I feel like I'm
Speaker 2: still dealing with and navigating in family relationships where there
Speaker 2: has been deceit and tremendous anger and lots of scarring
Speaker 2: in the family and wanting to continue on with life,
Speaker 2: you know, wanting there to still somewhat be a relationship,
Speaker 2: but knowing that that relationship needs to have boundaries to
Speaker 2: keep everybody safe. And how difficult that can be because
Speaker 2: it doesn't feel like you forgive and forget because you
Speaker 2: need to remember but proceed with these new boundaries and
Speaker 2: these new actions. So yeah, I do you have anything
Speaker 2: to say about that of forgiving yet also installing new
Speaker 2: boundaries and what that is that really forgiving if you
Speaker 2: have to have these certain new rules in place.
Speaker 1: Well, you just said it. You don't forget. It's not
Speaker 1: about forgetting. There's a big difference between forgetting and forgiving.
Speaker 1: And when you forgive a person, you're really freeing yourself
Speaker 1: up because you're really not carrying that energy with you.
Speaker 1: But you don't forget, you know, because that person can.
Speaker 1: You know, you have to draw those boundaries and in
Speaker 1: not forgetting, you also have to look at that person
Speaker 1: in what we call and I use this term and
Speaker 1: I don't mean it derogatory, but we call it ignorance
Speaker 1: and we call it that this person is you have
Speaker 1: to look at them and say, this person hasn't a
Speaker 1: clue and most people who are living a very negative path,
Speaker 1: who are very angry. Most people haven't a clue they're
Speaker 1: the ones that's causing the problem. They don't, and so
Speaker 1: they're ignorant to their own energy, their own things. So
Speaker 1: you can't change that someone's ignorance. They have to do
Speaker 1: that themselves. They have to become aware themselves. And so
Speaker 1: it's not my job to do that. My job, according
Speaker 1: to Karma, is to do what I can for myself,
Speaker 1: to walk my karmic path, and everyone that I encounter
Speaker 1: on my karmic path to see if I can make
Speaker 1: their life a little better, make the world a little better,
Speaker 1: even if it's only just a tiny, tiny, one little
Speaker 1: thing I said in class that made one person feel
Speaker 1: better or made someone become aware that day. I've done
Speaker 1: my work. So it's not grandiose. It's really very very simple.
Speaker 2: Yes, And I like how you're bringing it back to
Speaker 2: what's our responsibility and what's our role, what's our job?
Speaker 2: And too. There was this video that I saw years
Speaker 2: ago that was a cartoon and it's kind of about
Speaker 2: somebody maneuvering through their life and giving hugs. And when
Speaker 2: this person gives hugs to different people, they're absorbing somebody's
Speaker 2: like energy and turning colors. And I remember thinking that
Speaker 2: there was something wrong with that imagery of It's like,
Speaker 2: it's not our responsibility to fix somebody else or you know,
Speaker 2: change or alter their timeline, do their work for them.
Speaker 2: And I just really I'm grateful for your reminder that
Speaker 2: we can really it's our responsibility to take care of
Speaker 2: our own karma, and that that is often whenever we
Speaker 2: notice ourselves caught up in a lot of suffering, that
Speaker 2: maybe it's an indication or feedback that we are making.
Speaker 2: We're taking on that responsibility of trying to fix or
Speaker 2: manage or handle somebody else's karma instead of our own.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, we're all individuals and we're all on
Speaker 1: our own karmic path and sometimes you don't necessarily have
Speaker 1: to solve it in this lifetime. Maybe you're going to
Speaker 1: go through this lifetime and you're going to have it's
Speaker 1: going to be a really rough life that you're going
Speaker 1: to go through. But according to karma reincarnation, you get
Speaker 1: to come back and do it again. You keep coming
Speaker 1: back at a different level. That is what reincarnation means.
Speaker 1: So it you know, who are we to judge, and
Speaker 1: that's where Karma says, you're not to judge. Who are
Speaker 1: we to judge a person's path in life? You know
Speaker 1: we are you know, there's enough work to pay attention
Speaker 1: to your own path. You know, come back and pay
Speaker 1: attention to this this one because it's a lot of
Speaker 1: work being a human being. There's a lot of vulnerability
Speaker 1: out there. It takes a lot to walk the human path.
Speaker 1: And so that's what I try to remind my students is,
Speaker 1: you know, come back to yourself and realize that everybody
Speaker 1: is on their own path, and you might not agree
Speaker 1: with the path that's person is, but that's not about you.
Speaker 2: That was really powerful what you shared about the four
Speaker 2: what did you call them? The four desires?
Speaker 1: Now for great passions?
Speaker 2: For great passions? Amazing. Thank you for teaching all of
Speaker 2: us that, are there any other rules within this karma
Speaker 2: conversation that would be a value or useful for yoga
Speaker 2: teachers to hear, because I don't think I'd ever heard
Speaker 2: it presented in that way. So is there any other
Speaker 2: like law of karma within it that would be helpful?
Speaker 1: Well? Karma teaches us that when we get into trouble,
Speaker 1: especially when we're dealing with the passions. Is when we
Speaker 1: there are four things that we block. When we block knowledge,
Speaker 1: we stop learning, we stop being open, and that has
Speaker 1: to do with flexibility and openness, you know, and so
Speaker 1: we get prejudice, we get biased, we stop right there
Speaker 1: rather than being open and flowing. So that's one thing
Speaker 1: when we block our vittality. It's very important to stay
Speaker 1: vital and strong, and we do that. That is going
Speaker 1: to that's going to make your karmic walk very difficult
Speaker 1: if you're not taking care of your health. So don't
Speaker 1: block that. We should not block feelings because feelings are real,
Speaker 1: and feelings are in order to be a human being,
Speaker 1: you have to be willing to experience all of the
Speaker 1: emotions and all the experiences of life that is human life.
Speaker 1: So if you want to have happiness, you have to
Speaker 1: have sadness. You have to experience both of those. And
Speaker 1: so it's not blocking feelings and then finally not blocking
Speaker 1: your sense of free will and understanding that we have
Speaker 1: the free will to choose. I can choose the path
Speaker 1: I want to take in life, and it's very important
Speaker 1: to be able to not block those things. You'll get
Speaker 1: into trouble every time you block them.
Speaker 2: Yes, And it's so such a great reminder and it's
Speaker 2: also very empowering that you have, like you're saying power
Speaker 2: in all of this power of choice. And just this
Speaker 2: morning in my class, I'll share this imagery just because
Speaker 2: it's relevant for me, and it also seems reflective, maybe
Speaker 2: just a different lens of this conversation, looking through a
Speaker 2: different way. But I shared the parable of I believe
Speaker 2: it was a Chinese parable where there's this man who's
Speaker 2: running from his shadow because he's so unnerved by the
Speaker 2: image of the shadow and also by the sound of
Speaker 2: his own footsteps. So he thinks his solution is to
Speaker 2: just keep running faster, longer, harder, But at the end
Speaker 2: of his life, he just crashes and dies of exhaustion
Speaker 2: because he just kept running away from himself, never really
Speaker 2: thinking that the truer solution is to just sit down
Speaker 2: under the shade and then the shadow and the sound
Speaker 2: of the footsteps go away. And it's just this powerful
Speaker 2: imagery that helps us recognize that really our work is
Speaker 2: becoming more comfortable with sitting with ourselves, you know, turning
Speaker 2: around and facing the darkness, the shadow, the thing that
Speaker 2: gives us so much fear and anxiety and learning to
Speaker 2: grow our capacity to sit in that discomfort that then
Speaker 2: we free ourselves. Do you have anything that you want
Speaker 2: to tack onto that, because that imagery just is coming
Speaker 2: through with everything that we're talking about.
Speaker 1: For me, well, I would say we all, none of
Speaker 1: us get through life without some obstacles and challenges. That's life,
Speaker 1: you know, And you know what you see sometimes, you know,
Speaker 1: if you if people don't know me, for example, you know,
Speaker 1: they see where I live in my life and they
Speaker 1: would think, wow, Lin's had a really you know, and
Speaker 1: I do. I love a very wonderful life. But you know,
Speaker 1: I was a single mother with two children, broke, had
Speaker 1: no money. I mean, I put myself through school as
Speaker 1: a single I struggled terribly. I went through a lot
Speaker 1: of difficult times. I was, you know, adopted as a child.
Speaker 1: You know, I could go on and on about things
Speaker 1: like that. And you have those challenges and then it's
Speaker 1: what you do with those. You know, you can sit
Speaker 1: and oh, sorry me, or you can look at them
Speaker 1: and they're all opportunities to learn and grow when you
Speaker 1: switch your mind to whatever comes to me is an
Speaker 1: opportunity to learn and grow and I'm going to look
Speaker 1: for that in it. I'm going to look for that seed.
Speaker 1: We want to go back to the seeds in there,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to learn from that. That's when your
Speaker 1: life changes completely. And that's you know, that's the whole,
Speaker 1: it's the whole.
Speaker 2: Key Yeah, am men. Amen. Well, just congratulations for doing that,
Speaker 2: for facing all of that mess. And there's that cliche
Speaker 2: of like turning the mess into your message, and it
Speaker 2: really seems like you've done that and that through this embodied,
Speaker 2: embodied work that you've done first in your life and
Speaker 2: now sharing with other people, I'm sure that it's really profound, potent,
Speaker 2: powerful because you've locked the walk.
Speaker 1: And that is the thing, you know, It's where I'm
Speaker 1: coming from is if I can share, you know, with
Speaker 1: other people, if I can enlighten one person, if I
Speaker 1: can take a little load off a person, if I
Speaker 1: can give them something, then that's my karma, that's my
Speaker 1: path And the rewards are far more than any money.
Speaker 2: You will ever get.
Speaker 1: And I know you know this if you're really you know,
Speaker 1: as a yoga teacher, really sincere yoga teacher, and you're
Speaker 1: really teaching yoga, those moments when someone comes and throws
Speaker 1: their arms around you. And I've had people cry. I've
Speaker 1: had to I've sat after class and held someone while
Speaker 1: they were sobbing. You know, those are the moments that
Speaker 1: you go, this is why I do this, This is
Speaker 1: why I do this. It's not because yoga teachers don't
Speaker 1: make money. You don't make money be a yoga teacher,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're not in it to make money.
Speaker 1: But you're in it because it's a path that is
Speaker 1: so so fulfilling in life, and you're doing something that's
Speaker 1: helping other people.
Speaker 2: It's karma, yes, one hundred percent back to service. And
Speaker 2: it's so interesting. I mean, how much hang ups yoga
Speaker 2: teachers have around receiving money and also how there is
Speaker 2: this narrative of doing this work that you won't make money,
Speaker 2: and learning how to how to do it in a
Speaker 2: way where you can is also a huge message that
Speaker 2: I try to inspire teachers with that it can be done,
Speaker 2: but just not in the traditional model, and that when
Speaker 2: it comes to the eightfold path, even prescribed by the
Speaker 2: boot of like right living, of doing something in the
Speaker 2: world that's right living, where it's advancing society and human
Speaker 2: beings and human nature and drawing up are frequency and
Speaker 2: energy as a collective. It's like yoga, teaching is where
Speaker 2: it's at. This is this is right living and right work.
Speaker 2: There could be a more better thing to be paid
Speaker 2: for that's in service of greater humanity. So yeah, I
Speaker 2: just had to say.
Speaker 1: That, and I will tell you that things so you know,
Speaker 1: things have always come to me. That's what I you know,
Speaker 1: things always come. I mean, I'm a very fortunate woman,
Speaker 1: a woman, I have beautiful people in my life. I've
Speaker 1: traveled the world, I live, you know. It just you
Speaker 1: go out there and it's just amazing to me the
Speaker 1: energy You'll come along and there's an opportunity and things happen,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's not that I'm setting out to
Speaker 1: try to you know, make money. That that's the goal,
Speaker 1: you know, that dollar. It's that you put the energy
Speaker 1: out and it comes back to you and it comes
Speaker 1: back a hundred times over, you know, And that's to me,
Speaker 1: is the most important thing in life. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's a passion and I feel so I
Speaker 1: feel like I tell my students, I'm the luckiest woman
Speaker 1: in the world. Is I get to go and I
Speaker 1: get to teach people, and I get to help people
Speaker 1: stay healthy. What a great profession, right, agree?
Speaker 2: And I completely agree, and just thank you so much
Speaker 2: for everything that you've shared here. We haven't had an
Speaker 2: episode I wanted to, really, it just was interesting and fascinating,
Speaker 2: but zeroing and on this idea of karmix. We haven't
Speaker 2: talked too much about it on the podcast yet, So
Speaker 2: I hope everybody learned something new from this conversation.
Speaker 1: I know that I have.
Speaker 2: Is there anything else that you wanted to say in
Speaker 2: this realm or in this field, like if there was
Speaker 2: a way to put a nice little bow on it
Speaker 2: or a button around karma and energy and how you're
Speaker 2: maneuvering through life. What else would you say just to
Speaker 2: close us up here?
Speaker 1: Well, I would say that the most important thing in
Speaker 1: your life is your health. It is truly your wealth,
Speaker 1: and that is by mind and soul. You can't ignore
Speaker 1: one nature. Opathy teaches us that all three must come
Speaker 1: together and balance to have perfect health. So I would
Speaker 1: say to people that your health is the most important
Speaker 1: thing to focus on, and then if you can spread
Speaker 1: that out and send that message to other people's that's
Speaker 1: really what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Yes, health is your greatest wealth.
Speaker 1: It is. Lose it for a moment, you know. I
Speaker 1: I teach my students, I say, okay, you got the
Speaker 1: common cold. You lose you get a common cold, what happens?
Speaker 1: Oh you can't wait to get healthy? And oh, I
Speaker 1: just you know, you really appreciate your health. Then you
Speaker 1: get it and retake it for granted. Don't take it
Speaker 1: for granted. Get up every day and bless that your
Speaker 1: feet touched the floor, that you got up, that you
Speaker 1: have the ability to do these things. There are many
Speaker 1: people in the world. And I'll kind of finish with this.
Speaker 1: I have my students, do you know a relaxation and
Speaker 1: they're relaxing, and I will remind them that there are
Speaker 1: people in the world that don't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: these few minutes to just lay down and relax. There
Speaker 1: are people that are living horrible lives in this world.
Speaker 1: Appreciate that you have moments. Appreciate that you live in
Speaker 1: a world where you can take this five minutes to
Speaker 1: lay down on a map and breathe.
Speaker 2: Amen that attitude of gratitude and what you appreciate, appreciate
Speaker 2: she ates, and just changing changing the person that's looking
Speaker 2: you know, it's like it's all about this self identity.
Speaker 2: Identifying as someone who is blessed and grateful then changes everything,
Speaker 2: you know it all that's the first domino to tip,
Speaker 2: and it all just tumbles from there, like your beliefs
Speaker 2: about your life and all that you've received and all
Speaker 2: the blessings that you have, even those challenging moments, those
Speaker 2: pains were actually the portal to take you to this
Speaker 2: new learning and choosing that mentality changes the thoughts that
Speaker 2: you have, which then changes the actions that you take,
Speaker 2: which then changes the life that you have. You know,
Speaker 2: it all kind of tumbles from there. So thank you
Speaker 2: so much, doctor Lynne. Yeah, that's karma, that's karma. You
Speaker 2: are amazing. This conversation has been so life bringing for me.
Speaker 2: I feel so grateful to have exchanged our energy here virtually,
Speaker 2: and I'm so happy that the listeners were able to
Speaker 2: have some of that too. If they're loving everything that
Speaker 2: you're saying, or they want to plug into you and
Speaker 2: your community, your books, your website, and your work, where
Speaker 2: can they find you give them a little information about
Speaker 2: how to plug in.
Speaker 1: Okay, all they have to do is go to my
Speaker 1: website and it's spelled out, doctor Lynn dot com. So
Speaker 1: it's a d O C t O R L y
Speaker 1: n n dot com. If you go there, there's a
Speaker 1: history on me. There's my books, there's my classes, there's
Speaker 1: my consultations. Everything is there. I'm an open book.
Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome, Well, we will link everything in the show
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