Emotional Biohacking - Transforming Your Mind and Mood (with Akary Busto)
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Hi, psychic listeners. What if the key to unlocking your deepest wisdom wasn't outside of you but coded within your very being? Our guest for this episode of A Psychic Story is an emotional biohacker and spiritual guide weaving together human design, ancestral healing, and somatic practices to help people remember who they truly are. This is the story of Akari Busto. Welcome to A Psychic Story.

Thank you for having me. Yeah, so we are here today to talk about energetic imprints and emotional biohacking, what it is and more. But first, what was your first spiritual, supernatural, paranormal, or psychic experience? Gosh, you know, I must have been really young, probably about eight or nine years old when I

I just suffered of chronic insomnia. I used to call myself the guardian of everyone's sleep. Wow. So insomnia you had at such an early age. It was very, you know, when I look back, I'm thinking that is kind of crazy to experience something like that. And so with the insomnia, what would you categorize that as? Was that...

more health and wellness? Was it actually supernatural and paranormal? Explain that a little bit more. You know, when I look back, I think it was definitely something intuitively coming at me and I just didn't know how to deal with it because I was so young and there was no one I can speak to about it. So there was no middle person who could walk me

through the whole process. And so it was a little freaky. And what was the insomnia like? Was it that you couldn't fall asleep or as you were mentioning, so many things were coming at you and that was what was keeping you up? What were some of the

the experiences themselves like? I feel like I would fall asleep and something would come and wake me. So it was more kind of like mediumship or spirit guides or something on the other side? I think more of a psychic attack of some sort where, you know, just the disturbance. And I've heard this from other people who have experienced this in their own childhood where they've had just a lot of external things coming at you at the same time. Yeah.

and not having a midwife per se, right? Someone who could say, it's okay, you just need to shut it all down. And so at that point, I made a decision that it was too scary and that it was just not in my best interest. And I shut it down automatically without really knowing that I could. And it took me a very long time to step back into that realm because I was convinced that

that the woo was not for me. Now, so you were around nine when this shutdown kind of happened. So still early on that you were having it. And then was it that you were, you said to yourself, I'm fed up and I don't want to experience, how, how was it that you think you shut it down? I was just tired, right? Because it was keeping me up at night and I would go to school in the morning, really exhausted. And, you know, you're at that age where

sleep is very important and you're growing and you're developing and your brain's going.

And I remember just being tired of it, just wanting to have normal sleep and rest. And just so much was happening throughout my day. I just really needed to rest. And it was, I think I must have been at my wits end. And I was just like, okay, that's it. I'm not doing this anymore. Yeah. And it just disappeared. Yeah. And then when did it kind of come back? What was that catalyst? Or when did you, because you said the woo wasn't for you. Because you also mentioned that you were raised Catholic. Yeah.

So there was that piece of it as well. So it's an irony. I'm born in Mexico City, which is kind of the Mecca of a lot of indigenous and paranormal stuff, right? I must have been probably about 20 when through chats, I met a woman from England who was very much interested in the

Oh my gosh, I just had someone that was asking me, we'll have to have a sidebar, but she said she's looking for experts in that. And I got chills because I said, I have no idea who to ask for this. And I was like, I don't know.

And then when I saw your bio and I said, we'll ask for this teacher to come along. Anyway, just, you can't make this up, the synchronicities. But yeah, please continue. Yes. Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Okay. So she wanted to learn about this dark deity, Descatlipoca. And I've been in and out of those pyramids since I was a child. But because of that Catholic upbringing,

nobody really wanted to talk about it. It was really bizarre. So this woman was very interested. And so her and I started talking and I said, you know what, here's an opportunity for me to dig deeper into this. And so I

One of my relatives, an aunt, she's an anthropologist, a cultural anthropologist who was very much into a lot of the indigenous tribes in Mexico. And I said, hey, I'm going to be going to Mexico City. I want to understand a little bit more. And early 20s, very, very excited. Her and I were going back and forth how to meet because she had a

shaman exorcist person who worked with the indigenous tribes. So we are going back and forth trying to figure out where we're going to meet. And we end up meeting at one of the subway stops, which was probably one subway stop for my grandparents' home. So I end up getting there. As soon as I get out, it is, like you say, you can't make these things up. I look up and all of the deities of the Aztecs are all there.

And lo and behold, I meet my aunt, I meet this shaman guy, and he's explaining the energies, especially in the subway, the way the, you know, the kind of material that they have chosen. It's just really, really bizarre at that point for me because I wasn't raised in the culture. I was raised outside of it. So all of this is just new information. And it was the second time since the moment I was nine years old and I shut myself down

It was the second time I just felt that intuitive hit of just shut it down, like bring all your chakras in. And so he was explaining something to me when he says to me, all evil things must come down. And a woman just fell, kind of like slipped on her butt and just came down, but first down every step. And the most bizarre thing was that she just got up like nothing and just went on with her day.

Like there was no hesitation, no pause. And I don't know if maybe she was embarrassed that she had slipped, but she slipped from way up there all the way down, got up and left. And I mean, I was just in shock. So real quick, when you felt this intuitive hit to shut down your chakras, and then he said that, and then this woman fell, what was it like?

Was it that he was picking up that there was something around you that you were also trying to protect yourself? And did you get any explanation or understanding of that later? I think more than anything else, he was trying to show his power to me. Okay. You know, he was trying to really explain the indigenous, the obscure, all of the different energies out there. And it was a very interesting exchange. I've never seen the man ever again.

Before I even went to Mexico City, I was barely starting to understand crystals and the metaphysics. And a woman friend of mine gave me a quartz. And I would lose that quartz. I would find that quartz. I would lose it and find it all the time. And all of a sudden, that day, I lost my quartz and I've never encountered it again. Wow. Okay.

Okay. Yeah, super crazy. So you went from nine to this moment where you were starting to get a little bit more into the woo. You met this shaman and he was helping you understand that. But at the point of you kind of getting together was to meet this person from England too. Yes? It was to get a lot of information because I, you know, she actually, maybe she was my initiator because...

I never had any questions around it. It just seemed like folklore, right? Like just another story. But she started talking to me of the smoking mirror. And this deity actually had a obsidian disc, which is what we call the black mirror.

And what you do is that you typically look into this obsidian disc and you're able to see your face shifting and changing. And you're supposed to be able to see through it and understand yourself in a different space. So it's the smoking mirror. I think I am this, but really I am this. And through her initiation, I got much more curious about who these people were, what the symbols were, what...

You know, what was this all about? And I ended up going back and doing a tour of the pyramids. And the most outstanding thing happened. Here I was with the indigenous people whom society looks down upon. And this gentleman who had never been to school spoke English, Spanish, German, and his native tongue of Nahuatl. I mean, how? Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

So going through all that process, back then you could climb the pyramids. Back then you were, there's a very special pyramid. It's called the Pyramid of the Quetzalcoatl, which is the serpent bird. And you could get really close to the pyramid. And so there's a Quetzalcoatl face that you could actually stick your hand in.

And you can feel just the energy pulsing through you. Isn't it amazing when you go to these ancient sites and you're in awe, first of all, of how they're built? I haven't been to the ones where you were at, only in Egypt and Cairo, but other places as well. And there's this vibration, this frequency, this energy that you can't... It's almost as if you come home and you're connected back to source. At least for me, I can't speak for you, but...

There's the energy aspect and then the physical. It's so beautiful. I've had the most majestic experiences there. I've been to other ruins and the message I get is, yeah, this is great, but this is not home. And so just digging deeper into the history, I ended up really focusing my time in university in Mexican art history, Mexican history.

and doing a lot of deep dive into the indigenous, it really was the initiation of something very special because in 2016, I went back on a retreat and just the amazing energy that you felt. We were in the, there's a woman's space. It's not a pyramid. It's just a space. And in that space, there was a kind of like a well, right?

because there was water underneath back in the day, which on the sidebar of that is, this is why I believe a lot of them left that area was because climate change, right? So there used to be water and then there wasn't, and there used to be water and there wasn't. So there was a well in that space. And in this retreat, we connected to the energy of the well. Then we went to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the city.

And in that area, there's a small little chapel that's dedicated to her. And blowing my mind at that point is there's another well in there. And one of the miracles of the Virgin of Guadalupe to the people was water. So you come to this well, you connect to the energy, and lo and behold, it feels the same as the well at the pyramid.

And so I'm thinking there's such a connection of this divine feminine energy teaching us that she's everywhere. And then to make things even more expansive, there is the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. And in that museum, there's a huge piece and her name is Coatlicue, which is the mother of gods. And she's this huge woman

piece of rock all put together. And she's got like her hands and she's got all kinds of skulls on her.

It's unexplainable. It's pretty amazing how the connections happened. And I mean, that whole area is very mystical. In downtown Mexico City, they have found so many things underground under all of the beautiful Spanish cathedrals and all of the buildings that they have built.

Very, very interesting. On top of it, yeah. It's like you're living in three different times in one space. There's ruins and you're in the ruins and then you can see the Baroque cathedral and all of these beautiful buildings. And then all of a sudden you see the big, tall structures.

Yeah, it's surreal. Oh, I would love to go someday, for sure. And so you were raised Catholic. You had these experiences. You went there first and then back on a retreat. And then what got you into the work that you do now? Walk us a little bit through that. Well, you know, corporate work. I did international business banking. That led me to offshore banking, being the only woman there.

at the table, so much stress, travel, then being a parent to add to the mix. And so all that stress was just so overwhelming. And I remember all the talks about 2012 and the Mayan calendar. And I was just like, whatever, that doesn't mean anything. So it meant everything. That end of the year, my office closed and I had two choices.

stay here or move to London. Two choices. And I said, I don't want to go to London. I like the sunshine. So I stayed and that's when my body started to break apart because there was no body awareness. You don't have time to really take care of yourself or to think about what it is that I need and the movement, high pace. So I had to do a really deep dive into taking care of me.

And so that started this journey of inner healing because I guess that was just intuitively what I was searching and looking for. And I ended up finding breathwork. And so the first time I had a breathwork session, I remember just going, what just happened? There was a huge disconnect from my type A personality brain that's just moving, moving, moving to all of a sudden just disconnected. And I just...

got up and I just knew exactly where I needed to go. So I started doing a lot of work with the facilitating and learning and expanding. And I got really curious of how it was that my nervous system reset. But then I got even more curious about it because I kept having to come back for more.

Like there was nothing that I could just go to one session and be like, all right, I'm feeling great. I can move on with my life. It was more like, okay, I have to keep this going in order to feel at my best. So that's how the curiosity really started. And interestingly enough, here in the U S we don't have a structured way of training facilitators and breath work. And so

half the people don't even understand about the nervous system or that they're doing nervous system work. And so that was very frustrating for me. So I had to do my own research, dig deep into it. I did a six month intensive trauma, not training, it was more my own healing. And that was just amazing because then you started to understand really how the nervous system works and how everything comes to play.

And I would love to talk more about that here in a moment. But before we do, I feel like we need to talk about our authentic design because you do a lot of that work with the breathwork. So can you explain a little bit authentic design and our energetic imprints and everything, and then we can get into the nervous system? So it's human design, what it really is. And so it's based off of the time you were born, where you were born,

And it's interesting because there's five different systems that come to create this human design. It is the I Ching, which is the ancient book for the Chinese, the Kabbalah, which is the tree of life. Then we have Eastern and Western astrology. We have the chakra system. And then to make things even more complex, we have quantum physics. This chart gives us five different types. You can be a manifester.

a generator. You can be a hybrid, which is a manifesting generator, a projector, or a reflector. The manifestors are about 9% of the population. The generators are about 38% of the population. The hybrid manifesting generators are roughly 35% of the population.

projectors are 20% of the population and reflectors are just 1% of the population. Yeah. And I'm a manifesting generator and we did do, so if this is your first episode, we do do a little bit of a deeper dive with Leah McLeod and I do want to keep, have you continue. But that was literally my first foray into human design. So I again, wanted to ask, because I know that this is part of your practice and how you work. So please continue.

The reason I love human design with this work is because it gives me an idea of energetically where you're at. So as a manifesting generator, I understand that you do not like being told what to do. True. Very true. Yes. You love finding shortcuts. When they exist. Yes. Mm hmm.

And you're really fast paced. You want to keep moving, moving, moving, moving. There's a lot of busyness in there. So I honor that energy. I can meet you where you're at. And I'm a sacral generator. So there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of great ways that I can compliment that. So it gives me an opportunity to work with every type, however it is that they need to be received.

So meeting them for me is really important, especially when we're doing nervous system work, because it has to be a very gentle approach. We have a lot of conditioning, right, through our parents, through our genetics and so on. So it is important for me to kind of understand your essence through the centers, through the channels and the gates. So I get a lot of information from that.

which makes my work much more satisfying for me because there's so many aha moments. Well, thank you for explaining that because when I started to really get into this work, now I've been, I would say, in the woo and the spiritual pretty much my whole life when I was little itty bitty and then growing up. But as far as really diving in and

Talking more and speaking more with my guides and angels and connecting with source, I kept hearing this, we all have what's called the spiritual DNA and this blueprint. It's almost like our fingerprint of our soul's essence and our spirit.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it just sounded so, like speaking of shortcuts, I didn't have time to dive in deep. So then when I heard about human design and that piqued my interest more, I do eventually want to get into it, you know, on my own side, on the personal side. But this is why it's resonating with me because I do feel like we have, again, this energetic balance.

you call it more of an imprint, but I feel like it's almost kind of like the blueprint of our soul to some extent and where we go and how we operate and how we show up, not just in this lifetime, but then think of the records and the information that we keep, the wisdom that

you can call it Akashic Harvest, you can call it whatever you'd like, but that's what we take with us from lifetime, from lifetime, from lifetime. So that's how it's been explained to me from my spirit team, but I don't know if that's how you've experienced it as well. I know there's different terms or definitions, but... It is so fascinating because I feel like it's peeling the layers of a lot of onions. That's how I explain it. And you go down this rabbit hole

And it's just fascinating to recognize that it has so much information, almost too much information. And, you know, I always explain this because people say, oh, you're a human design reader. And it's kind of funny. It's like, well, yeah, technically I can read your chart. But then what are you going to do with all this information? How are you going to embody and experiment with it? So it's much more than just...

reading a chart. Yeah. No, thank you for that. And so before, again, we move more on to the emotional biohacking and everything else, you talk about how our ancestors have the soul lineage and then there's these codes waiting to be unlocked. Is that also part of human design or a piece of it? How does that work into the mix? Well, there's a life and soul purpose, right? And you have a personality and you have a design piece to human design.

Some things you can see that you show up that way and it's by design. And a lot of that design, I guess we can call it epigenetics. And now that we understand epigenetics a lot more, we also understand that trauma travels through our DNA. And sometimes this energy that we're carrying isn't ours to process. It just comes from, even from the womb. And so for me, the way I look at it is,

Since trauma travels, since the womb has no filter and whatever mom is experiencing, you get to experience as well. There's so much that just comes from that. And it's unraveling and it's understanding and it's having the grace and the compassion for self to know that there are certain things that you can just

who try and just let it go because it's not even yours to carry. I call it the hot potato. I'm going to borrow. I'm going to borrow that. The hot potato. Okay. The hot potato just keeps being passed on and you don't even know what to do with this hot potato. And it's understanding that sometimes the best thing that you can do is just let that hot potato go. You know what? We kind of came back full circle to when you were nine and your insomnia.

Because you were getting some hot potatoes. Maybe it wasn't ancestral. It could also have been from other people. Because a lot of the work I do with people is, and I say this a lot on the podcast, is if you're feeling that, and when I say feel, it doesn't have to be emotional. Is it yours? Is it someone or something else's? And if you can start to discern that and become more aware as this is happening in your day-to-day life, that is huge because you can, speaking of shortcuts, make these leaps and bounds in terms of understanding that. Yeah.

that hot potato. So now that you hit that, it makes a lot more sense because my mother is an emotional manifesting generator with eight out of nine centers defined. Oh gosh. And I am by design, I am a splenic projector. And then by, by my personality, it is the sacral that is lit up. That makes me a generator. So a lot of openness.

feeling her emotional waves, I'm sure that that is what really kept me

kept me up. I was carrying her emotions and amplifying them and taking care of the family, basically. And in simple terms, some people may even filter that more, distill it more and say an empath, but there's so many more layers like you were saying from an onion. So I do want to move on because if somebody wants to work with you to understand the human design aspects and things, obviously they can do that. I definitely want to start to talk about emotional biohacking. So what that is,

How does it work? And what are those main principles behind it? I coined that term because this is my observation. Mainstream, we're having issues. We don't understand ourselves. We're trying to connect. They send us to therapy. We go to therapy, talk therapy. It works a little bit, but there is no real embodiment of the work. So

My pet peeve is that 50-minute session, and you're in the middle of an ugly cry, and the therapist looks at her watch, and she says, okay, sweetie, I'll see you back this time next week or next month. Oh, and here's your prescription that you ran out of. And basically, it's like every two weeks, right? And by the time those two weeks go by, nothing really got done. So...

I started shifting just the way I do my work. I do one and a half to two hour sessions because I want completion. I want the person who I'm working with to feel complete and their nervous system ready to go and just take over and be embodied and empowered. So when you go through therapy, there is no framework and nobody asks you,

Did you have breakfast today? What was it that you had for breakfast? Let's talk about that for a minute. And so biohacking, emotional biohacking for me is to take the body, the mind, and the soul and integrate it all into one and recognize that

Sometimes you're experiencing things in your body that if maybe there was a tweak in your diet, maybe adding some healthy fats, maybe adding a little bit more protein, then you hear people saying, I don't eat red meat. It's okay. You can have fish if you're having fish or eat eggs if you eat eggs. But there has to be a wholesome balance in your diet so that whatever work that you are doing, whether you're going to therapy,

whether you're, you know, journaling, whatever it is, that there's a foundation. And that is where the emotional biohacking came for me is there was a, you know, connection and a download around. Yeah, you can do all of this work, but if you're not eating well, it's like getting in your car, turning it on and wondering why it's not going. And you realize there's no gas in there. It is learning how to effectively bring that

energy for the brain, right? The brain needs, it demands so much food and resources. What are we feeding our brain? And in our American diet, unfortunately, we have so many different types of processed foods that are disguised as healthy. Learning how to read labels is- Anyone's guess. It's another language, basically. And so-

To me, teaching people how to get in touch with that part of themselves and to be an advocate for their own health is very important. And that's where the emotional biohacking came for me is that I think and I truly believe that if we don't have that foundation with nutrition and movement,

And sleep. Everything else. I'm assuming too. Yeah, it all correlates. If you're moving, if you're eating well, you're going to sleep well. And I love the data. I love the aura ring. It just, there's just so much information that it gives you. And I think the feedback is so important because it allows us to be held accountable. So I love that.

Well, thank you for sharing because you answered my question then about how emotional biohacking differs from traditional emotional intelligence or mental health practices. So what are some of the additional principles or the things that encapsulate emotional biohacking? And you may have gone through all of them, but is there anything else that we're missing there? Well, you know, one of the pieces that I use that I think is very important and that is

not spoken about in our mainstream society is the heart. And so studying the heart, the electromagnetic field of the heart, the heart brain. Isn't it that the heart actually tells the brain what to do? They finally found with that study versus the other way around what we thought for so long. The way I explain it is if you're sitting and there's a door behind you, your electromagnetic field

is the one that gets the signal that someone's behind you and it lets the brain know. So 80%, it's an 80-20, 80% of what you feel, that information goes to the brain and the brain only sends 20% of information back down to the body. So there's definitely a disconnect. There's definitely a disconnect. And it's really interesting when you start to think about just how powerful the heart is and how many of our ancestors...

really revered the heart. And to me, there was a, you know, in this being raised Catholic, that you are to the image of God. And I used to think, oh my God, he has lots of faces. Didn't make any sense. But I was very young when I made that connection of the heart and the electricity that goes through our heart and the connection of that to the ever so powerful son.

So the heart, the sun, yes, of course, we're all connected through that. I love that. I want to talk a little bit more about that if we have time. I want to move on to the next question, though, which is what's the role of intuition and also subconscious healing and emotional biohacking? Because we're getting into that a little bit. You're talking about the electromagnetic field and all of that. But is there a role for intuition and also our subconscious? Yeah.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Intuition is something that we're not taught to tap into. And as we start to evolve, we start to connect deeper into our intuition or giving ourselves permission really. And that's what it is, is giving permission slips to be able to understand what it is and going back to human design, what is your authority, right? Like,

For you and I as generator types, we have that sacral authority, which is a uh-huh or uh-uh. If someone has an emotional wave, it's to recognize that you are not here to make decisions on the fly, that you can sit and wait for your emotional waves to come into a balance. So there's a lot of different ways of connecting to that intuition using human design.

That's where the validating also comes in, right? Because people say, I've always thought about this or I've always felt this and I just didn't know how to express it. Okay, that totally makes sense. And then what about the subconscious? I think we know things that we don't know how we know. And it's trusting that, it's understanding that if you are thinking it,

And again, we go back to human design. When your head is open, you're receiving from the collective. That openness in your chart is what allows you to taste so many different things on energy that obviously it's not consistent energy, but that you're able to experiment with. So yeah, I love, love, love telling people that if you're thinking it, either it already exists

Right? That's the quantum field, right? The manifestation of something. If it doesn't exist, why would you be thinking it? I'm going to have to ponder that later. But you're absolutely right. Yeah. It's kind of as if...

I'm struggling for the words here, but when I've tapped into this before, because I believe that time doesn't exist for the most part. So one of the examples that my guides and angels have given me is that if you get an idea about doing something, part of your purpose, your direction, but we get in our heads about not doing that thing, oh, I don't have enough time or I'm not good enough or all these other things, kind

Kind of goes back to what you're saying is that you're not going to get that thought or that idea if it doesn't already exist or if you're not meant to do it. It's the stories we tell ourselves or that programming that holds us back from it. And that's one of maybe many examples. And then from a subconscious perspective, we may call it an intuitive hit or that knowing, but we already know these things. It's kind of coming up to the forefront of our consciousness and our conscious awareness. So we're kind of behind if you think about it. Yeah.

Meaning the consciousness sometimes can be behind from the subconscious. The way I guide people is higher self, whether it is in a different timeline. I call it my future self, connecting to my future self. The way I put it into words is do something today that your future self is going to be thankful for. And that's the seed, right? Do something today.

that in the future, you're going to be so glad that you did it. That is such a great practical tip, but also a tip that has so much power and empowerment in the future. I read a story about a man who had a seasonal job. And in the winter, he had no job because it was snowing. And there was just obviously, right, it's cold, it's snowy, there are days off. So what he would do when spring would come and he would put his jackets away,

He would put $100 bills in different jackets in the pockets so that when winter came, his future self was always so excited to find money in his pockets. That is always the best when you find a $20 or a $5 bill. A $100 bill would be even better. Smart man. Yes. But that is really what gave me that idea of, yeah, if I do something today,

that my future self is going to thank me for. And then you get to that point and then you're like, God, that was such a great idea. It just saved me. I know someone else who they talk about sending themselves little gifts in the future. So flowers or maybe knowing that they have a really busy travel. And then when they get home, they're going to be tired. So maybe they had hired somebody to clean the house before they got there or the fridge

Bridge is already stocked. It doesn't have to always necessarily equate to money. It could also be I'm going to take better care of myself or sleep because I know I have a big day the next day or whatever that is. But yeah, you can kind of make it your own.

Okay. So before we move on, is there anything you can share a little bit about the science behind emotions and the impact on our physical health? I think for the most part, anyone listening to this episode is going to know that and understand it, but I really am feeling led to ask a little bit more and then the benefits kind of of, so if there's a science behind the emotions and the impact on our physical health, what are the benefits that we would receive from something like emotional biohacking? I'm happy that you're asking this because it is...

essential, especially for women to understand that there's not enough research for cardiovascular health in women. So that's the first thing. When we talk about emotions, the interesting thing about the heart is that regardless of whether you're feeling a negative emotion or a positive emotion, the heart beats the same. There's no difference. The difference is the emotion. And when we are stuck in negative emotions,

we are literally giving a pounding to our heart. So our heart is getting hit when these emotions are negative and they're consistent, and it's just not sustainable. It is not sustainable. So when we're talking about how do I want to be in the future, how do I want to live my life in the future, it is really taking heart rate variability seriously.

and finding ways to monitor it. And the technology is kind of catching up to it. It's just not quite there yet. When people want to work with me, I give them a biofeedback sensor. And it's a smaller version of what Joe Dispenza uses for his work. We're not connecting your whole brain to this monitor, but we do have a biofeedback sensor that allows you to track your nervous system.

in real time. And that's what I was also going to ask about too, is about the nervous system as a whole. So how do we better understand our nervous system? So there's definitely tools that we can use that are technology or technologically advanced to help us with that. But from an awareness perspective, how can we pay more attention to that? Yeah, that's a difficult piece because self-awareness is something that

can come very easily or can come really difficult, right? And I will go back to the human design chart. When you have a lot of definition in your chart, that energy is consistent and not always very flexible. It's almost like a fixed air sign or a fixed fire sign. It's just not very flexible. And what we're trying to achieve here is

is nervous system flexibility. And by achieving nervous system flexibility, we know that we can feel these emotions, but they don't need to take us down a rabbit hole of loops, right? The trauma loop, the shame loop, all of these different things. I read recently somewhere, and this is also backed by science, I'll see if I can find that study and include it in the show notes, but that

I really hope I don't butcher this, that we tend to think that our emotions that we're constantly in an emotional state, but in reality, it's only 90 seconds that the emotion is with us, 60 to 90 minutes, or sorry, 60 to 90 seconds, not 90 minutes. So when we recognize that we're experiencing emotion, whether it's negative or positive, and then we're able to, probably why breath work also helps us,

breathe through it and take that as a physical opportunity to release it from our energetic field and our energetic state. That's why that transmutation or that healing happens, I don't want to say so quickly, but it allows it to move out. Now, if people are saying, no, I'm in a constant emotional state,

It's because you're either continuing to think about it and or narrate it and or there's the programming and the trauma from it. This is the way I like to explain it. And this is the science part of it. We have neural pathways all over, right? Connections. So I take it back to if you learned how to ride a bike or how to skate, it wasn't easy.

And you fell, but you got up and you kept going, you kept going. You did it so much that now you can hop on a bike and just ride off without even thinking. So those neural pathways are so strong that they go into autopilot. And it's the same thing with this negative thinking. What do they say? Energy flows where attention goes. So the more attention that you're putting into this feeling, you're just...

taking those neural pathways to the gym and they're becoming so strong that it becomes a pattern and that pattern needs to be disrupted and it's not going to happen in just one breathwork session. And that's what I'm talking about when I was saying like, you go to this breathwork session, you release all of the things that you're holding on to subconsciously that you're not aware of and you're having these amazing experiences, but the pattern is still there.

Because the whole thing about this emotional biohacking is coming in and disrupting these patterns. And it has to happen very subtly because the brain is very powerful and it's not going to let go very easily. It sounds a little bit as if it is...

what I call more spiritual hygiene, the routine of things and the practice of it, because I use the bike example a lot too, and more or less when it's applicable to our intuition and our psychic abilities. When we're not used to it at first, we really need to hone in on it and focus on it. But then over time, it becomes so natural. It is like breathing. So there's the focus and the intention on it.

And maybe if you can share a little bit of what can people do on their own that are the practical tips or the techniques or ways, obviously working with you, but then are there some things that they can do on a daily basis that would help them work on this? My favorite thing to do is really just place your hand in your heart and just connect here. Breathe into it. Pretend that there's like

Maybe, you know, like a breathing space here where it just connects and just starts to breathe in and breathe out. I tend to imagine that with every inhale, my heart grows outside of my body. And with every exhale, my body starts to soften. And doing that wherever I'm at just releases whatever it is that I'm carrying, the tension, the trigger energy.

And it really does become a habit because your body wants to be in alignment. And when you start to align yourself more and more, I mean, your whole body's happy. You're happy. Mm-hmm.

Someone also once told me almost hugging yourself is another way of doing it. I think that's why there's the rocking back and forth thing. But when you also want to be more grounded or in your body, my guides angel said to put one hand on your forehead and one hand behind your neck and do the same thing. So the heart part works, but then also that as well, that physical connection, that presence, and then the breath. So I love that. Are there any other tips or things people can do?

I think the biggest one is really breathing, right? And it is so hard. People say, just pause, just take a breath. If there is no neural pathway created, it's not going to happen. It's just not. And the more you start to connect to your heart, the best thing that ever happened to me was having that pause and the thought, should I really be saying this? Or am I just saying this to make myself feel better?

And that self-awareness was amazing. And so when I'm working with people, that is what we're aiming for. We're aiming for that moment where they can pause and ask themselves, is this necessary? So there are so many different techniques that you can do, whether it is tapping, right? Tapping into your...

So many different points that you can tap on. It's also called emotional freedom technique or EFT for people. Yes. And I do have an episode on that as well. So, you know, there's a lot of things that can be disruptors for you. Everyone is so unique. The situation can be very different. So just adapting and being open to being curious, right? That curiosity really helps. Okay, well, I heard about this. Let me see if this is going to help.

And magically it works and boom, there you found your technique that you can use. And I'm feeling led to share this too, and then we'll move on. But that for me, it sounds like we were kind of similar or are similar in a lot of ways that for me, the type A was I get on a table, I would be healed, healed. And then the moment the practitioner would leave the room, I would jump up and I'd be putting my clothes on. I just, my nervous system was so wired to go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

that I recognized and realized I need to slow down. I need to start to take some present moments. So if you're like, well, there's so many options out there, where do I start? What you said is very valuable is that because every person is different, you're going to need to do an assessment of how am I feeling emotionally, physically, spiritually, mentally? What are some things I can try at least for a while to see if it works being almost as if you're Goldilocks and

And then incorporating them. And if it doesn't work for you, as you said, be curious and maybe go into something else. The other one of my favorite things is when people say, I'm interested in all of these things and I'm overwhelmed. Where do I start? Just start somewhere. If you're curious and interested in a lot of different things, that's great. But also take away what it is that you want to experience. How do you want to feel?

And that should give you more of an indication of maybe where to get started a little bit and where to go. We didn't talk about, before we end here too, some of the benefits of emotional biohacking and how obviously it can help with someone's well-being. The benefits are very personal. It really depends on what it is that you're trying to achieve. But for me, the most important piece is up-leveling that baseline. If your baseline has been reacting for so long,

learning how to respond and really unwind your nervous system, that is a huge plus because once you learn how to become more resilient and have that nervous system flexibility, you can do anything, anything, because it all to me boils down to your nervous system. If you're having a challenge, and I work with a lot of women who have a challenge in very male dominated areas,

Creating your own bubble of joy and moving on with your life, when you learn how to do that, it doesn't matter where you're at. You realize my energy is mine and I'm in control of it. And I'm not giving that control to anybody else around me.

So that is a big takeaway from doing emotional biohacking, learning how to eat properly, learning that movement is very important for you, the quality of your life, right? It's a holistic perspective. And that's, I think, the biggest issue that I have with healthcare. We're not looking at the full picture. And so I...

My human design, my profiles are a one and a three. The researcher and the person who does all the trial and error tries everything. I have to experience things myself. And because of that, I have learned so much about blood work and what I'm looking for from a metabolic perspective. I practice ketosis and fasting regularly.

and strength training. And I mean, I do a lot of different things to see what works for me, because I have a lot of curiosity on what it is that brings me alignment, which then allows me to be in my bubble of joy. And that is really the biggest takeaway is experimenting to see what is out there for you, because it is out there.

It is out there. It's just figuring it out. And that's part of life. Part of the one of the many reasons we're here on this earth plane for sure. Yes. The process. Yes. Okay. So I think that's it. I had a bunch more questions, but I can ask some of these over on Patreon. But before we break, I wanted to ask you, what does psychic mean to you?

Psychic means the connection to so many different things outside of myself that exist in a different dimension at the same time around me, which I absolutely love. I feel like it is a place where not enough of us get to tap into. And I just came across

There was a podcast on children with autism that are nonverbal and their telepathic ability. The telepathy tapes, yes. I am in love. I am so in love about the whole thing, the whole process of the human brain and connection and how what we see is not what really is there. There's so much more there.

That's what really gets me about the word psychic. And it's almost like an invitation to go beyond the 3D mundane

We have come such a long way. I'm excited. I mean, from when I started this podcast six years ago and it was such a taboo, it wasn't such a taboo. It was still a taboo topic to where we are now. It gives me hope. And there's so many realities in one reality. Yeah. And that's what is really fascinating to me is that our timelines connect.

And then they separate. And then maybe they connect later. But it's just on all of these different timelines. We're all in a different timeline. I know it hurts my brain sometimes to think about it. Now, how can people reach you? Or what are the ways that you like to work with people?

My favorite place is Instagram. It's easy. It doesn't have to go deep unless you want to go deep. Instagram is my favorite place. Connecting on my website is also a favorite place of mine just because human design lives there and a lot of my work lives there. Okay. And what is that website? I'll include it in the show notes too. It's akari.com, U-H-K-A-R-E.com.

Okay, great. Well, I will definitely include that. Well, thank you so much for being here and being on A Psychic Story. I've really enjoyed this conversation. It could have gone on a lot longer. I have literally 20 more questions to ask, but I feel like we got a really good baseline for everyone in Foundation. So thank you so much. Thank you for having me.

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