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21: Moments in Advice

2022/3/14
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主播分享了如何应对感觉不像自己、迷茫时的建议,核心在于重新连接自己热爱的事物,例如童年爱好或独处,找回自我。她还建议尝试新的事物,并花时间与自己相处,这有助于重新认识自己。 主播谈到改变视角的重要性,认为开放心态、愿意学习新事物是关键。她以自身学习瑜伽和接触印度教的经历为例,说明了开放心态如何帮助她拓宽视野,改变对世界的看法。 主播分享了应对压力的方法,强调要给自己留出时间去做自己喜欢的事情,避免过度劳累,给自己喘息的机会,并建议避免将压力定义为自身特质。 主播就如何处理被排斥的经历给出了建议,她认为被排斥是对方的损失,而非自身的,并鼓励利用这段时间重新评估人际关系,专注于与自己相处,发现真正想要陪伴的人。 主播分享了如何爱那些让你感到不被爱的人,她认为这些人可能也在疗伤,并需要时间去爱自己,建议以同理心对待他们,但也要保护好自己,避免受到伤害。 主播谈到如何应对感觉每个人都讨厌自己的情绪,她认为这是一种常见的自我认知偏差,实际上人们通常不会过多关注你,并鼓励相信自己很棒,并且有人需要你的能量。 主播分享了如何避免自我破坏,接纳快乐,不要害怕快乐被夺走,要相信自己值得拥有快乐,并专注于积极的事物。 主播就如何接受体重增加给出了建议,她认为每个人都会经历不同的阶段,外貌和感受都会变化,这都是成长的一部分,不必过度在意他人的评价,并强调食物的美好和享受美食的权利。 主播分享了应对嫉妒的方法,建议将嫉妒转化为动力,避免比较,认识到每个人都是独一无二的,拥有不同的东西。 主播谈到如何摆脱思绪困扰,建议意识到自己并非自己的想法,可以通过积极的活动,例如运动、与人交流等,来转移注意力。 主播分享了如何开始写日记,建议顺其自然,当有写作冲动时就写,不必强求每天都写,也不必追求完美的文笔。 主播就如何在友谊和关系中保持真实的关键是先了解自己,做真实的自己,不要为了迎合他人而失去个性。 主播就如何与异性相处给出了建议:先建立友谊,再发展感情。 主播就如何面对被突然分手的痛苦给出了建议,要相信自己值得被爱,这段经历是疗伤和成长的机会,未来会遇到更合适的人。

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The host discusses her recent mental breakdown and physical illness, emphasizing the importance of rest and self-care during tough times.

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Hello, my beautiful people. Welcome back to the Moments Podcast. I am surprisingly in a very, very good mood right now considering the fact that I'm pretty sick. Basically, yesterday morning, well, two nights ago, I went to bed and that whole day I just decided that

I wanted to have a mental breakdown. Well, you, I mean, you guys know how it goes. It's not like I decided I wanted to have a mental breakdown. The mental breakdown kind of just came to me and I went to bed and then I woke up the next morning. I could not breathe through my nose. My throat hurts so badly. I couldn't think a full thought. Like I just felt so foggy. My body was tired.

And on top of that, I had a fever. I get a fever like maybe once a year. And I was like, this is just not okay right now. I have friends flying into town on Sunday, which I'm so excited for. You guys have no idea how excited I am for my friends to come to Florida. And I had so much stuff to do. I was supposed to record the podcast, well, two days ago. And then I was supposed to record it yesterday because I didn't record it two days ago. And I couldn't do it. Like I could not even keep my eyes open. I

Was dead tired and I had to let myself just rest all day And I am not one who can usually do that because I just feel so guilty but it was weird because that whole day I was having my Mental breakdown. I just wanted a break like I needed something where I could just relax and

Even though it feels like some days I am relaxing, I also feel like I'm constantly working. And I think that this was God just telling me, dude, I'm not giving you an option this time, but you're going to do nothing today and you're going to be okay with it. And I took my feeling like absolute crap as such a blessing. And then today...

I feel so much better. I woke up in the middle of the night last night with like an almost 102 fever. So that was killer. If you guys know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a fever, freezing cold, can't move, worst thing ever. But then I woke up again this morning and my fever was gone. I woke up all sweaty, which means I broke my fever, but I did get my period. So God was like, here's it all. Here's all of it all at once. So I had a migraine this morning and I took an Excedrin and I'm still super stuffy, but

Overall, I feel so much better and capable of recording. Thank goodness because I have to record today because again, my friends come tomorrow.

I'm honestly so nervous for them to come because, I don't know, it's weird showing people your hometown. But it's exciting, and I think it's going to be great. And we're going to Universal on Monday and Tuesday, so that's going to be awesome. Anyways, I don't think you guys really care about that stuff that much, but if you do, obviously stay up to date on the Instagram and the TikTok, all that stuff. But today's episode...

I wanted to do another moments and advice because last time I did this, I got awesome feedback and I don't think I'm good at advice, but I have experienced a lot of this stuff. So I like to give my two cents and just kind of share my thoughts on it. So what I did was post on my Instagram story that.

I'm doing an episode on advice, like what do you guys need to hear? And then I took some of those responses and I wrote them down in my journal and we're just going to talk about them together because some of them are deep, some of them are slightly less deep. And I don't know, you never know what you might need or what you could take away from this, but...

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And listen, I just wanted to share with you guys all of that right in the beginning because I am super excited about it. And it's something that I've wanted to talk about more, but obviously hard to do that in this day and age. But there's my little intro. Anyways, let's go ahead and get into this advice.

What to do when I don't feel like myself or when I need help finding myself. I actually have a whole episode on this and it was the second episode I've ever recorded, which was also the most listened to and most downloaded episode ever. So if you're listening to this, you probably listened to that one. But that was back in October.

And obviously a lot has happened since then. A lot of time has gone on. So if you want to give that a re-listen, totally go for it. Honestly, I probably should too. But when you don't feel like yourself, it's one of the worst things, one of the worst feelings ever. Trust me, I know that all too well. Because it's like you want to get back to who you are, but then it's been so long that you kind of forget who you are. And one thing that I do when I find myself in this situation, which is more than I think

Want to admit that it is. I think it's all part of the way that social media works with what I do. I'm constantly posting on social media, which means I'm also constantly scrolling through social media and I'm being sucked into different trends and different things going on.

that it's super easy for me to get caught up on what's trending instead of just doing what's authentic to myself. And now it's super cool because I can be super aware of when it's happening and I won't allow myself to do it, but it just causes these identity crises sometimes. And I know that that's something we all feel because we're all constantly scrolling on social media. We're all being pulled in different directions of what we should be like or what we should act like and what kind of people we should hang out with. But

When you find yourself losing yourself, you have to get back into touch with the things that you love. And I mean thinking way back to your childhood and growing up and the things that you did before you were ever scrolling on social media.

Get back in touch with that. And one of those things for me is doing yoga. Before I ever did social media, I was always practicing yoga. And that's why now when I do find myself having these identity crises or I'm feeling like imposter syndrome, I get back into yoga to really get back in touch with myself. And now that activity might not be yoga for you, but maybe it's dance or maybe it's riding your bike or skateboarding or hanging out with your younger siblings.

Do more of that and you'll find yourself getting back in touch with yourself. And if you feel like you don't have any of those things that you love, I want you to try more new things alone. Spend more time with yourself when you feel like you're losing yourself. And I know that this can be a super hard thing to do because you almost don't want to be alone when you don't really know who you are. But it's one of the most powerful things that you can do. So take that. Take that advice.

Those are probably my top two when it comes to that. But also just know that you are an ever-changing human and you're going to change. Your personality is going to change. You're growing up and that's okay. Just make sure you're doing it for the right reasons and that you're doing it naturally, not to please someone else. The next one is how do I change my perspective?

And I wasn't really going to answer this one because, I mean, you guys know I kind of talk about this all the time and how it is the most powerful thing. But it really got me thinking back to when did I first change my perspective? When did I really, really get in touch with this other set of thoughts, this mindfulness? And it brought me all the way back to...

When I first started doing my yoga teacher training when I was 13. So if you guys don't know, I grew up pretty Christian. I still am Christian. But when I did my yoga teacher training...

It was a 200-hour course, so I was constantly learning about yoga for 200 hours. And they teach a lot about Hinduism because Hinduism is something that's very aligned with the practice of yoga. And at first, when I was first learning about it, I was like, what is this? Like, why would I learn about a different religion when I already have mine and Jesus this, Jesus that? And I was just super anti, just closed-minded towards learning about a different religion.

But obviously for my training, I was quizzed and tested and I had to learn about Hinduism. And as that training went on, it was seven months long and I was 13 at the time. So it's really hard to have an open mind at 13. I was young. I was naive. I didn't know any better. But I ultimately came to the realization that Hinduism is a beautiful. There's so much beauty in different cultures. And I was absolutely fascinated by Hinduism and everything that I learned about it.

And I think that that was the first moment that my mind really opened and I was able to instead of view Hinduism as something that I don't want to know about it, I don't really care to wow, I might not believe in this religion, but I find it fascinating and intriguing and it doesn't hurt me at all to know more about it.

And I think that that made me capable of changing my whole perspective on the world. It's like we don't have to be closed minded. We can be open minded. We have the power to control our own thoughts and the way that we see things and the way that we react to things and treat things. And yeah, so I don't know exactly where I was going with that, but.

The way to change your perspective is to be open-minded and be willing to learn more. And even if you have to force yourself to learn more to fully understand it, do that. But you have so much more power than you realize that you have. I think a lot of us will say, well, like, I don't get to choose why I think like this because I did that for a long time. But when you realize that you can, you can just shift a lot because perspective really is everything.

If 10 good things happen in a day and one terrible thing happens in a day, you could choose to focus on the one terrible thing and talk about how bad your day was. Or you can choose to focus on those 10 good things and vice versa. If 10 bad things happen in a day and one good thing happens, you can focus on the good thing. I promise you that.

And it's on you if you don't. I mean, look at it how I was talking about yesterday. I hated how much I was sick. I had so much stuff to do. I could have focused on the fact that I wasn't able to get anything done. But instead, I chose to focus on how much of a blessing it was and how much it benefited me mentally and physically to finally get caught up on rest and actually relax for once, even though I felt like total shit. Excuse my language, but seriously.

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The next one is dealing with stress. Guys, I'm still working on this one just as much, so I don't really know how good my advice here is. But be willing to take that time for yourself because I think that if I had been willing to focus on the rest by myself and taking time for myself, I wouldn't have gotten sick, but...

At some point, God or the universe was just like, here, you have to get sick because you're not doing it for yourself. But I think that when it comes to being stressed, you have to make sure that you're taking time to do the things that you actually enjoy. Because if you're only doing things that stress you out and you're constantly overwhelming yourself, you're not going to have the motivation to finish those things. You need breaks. You need a pause.

And that's kind of how... That's all I got on dealing with stress. But if you guys have more, please feel free to share with me because I am a stressed little human being all the time. And I've kind of made it one of my personality traits, which is something I'm working on changing. Because when you...

classify yourself as something, obviously that's what you're going to be. And I've talked about this in other episodes, but I'll like call myself irresponsible or always stressed all the time. And my therapist will be like, dude, well, if you keep identifying with it, you're going to keep feeling it. Like, oh crap, you're right. Anyways, moving on. The next one is how to deal with being left out. So I've felt this before one too many times in my life. It's not a fun thing to feel or to go through, but here's how I see it.

If there's people who don't want you around, that is their loss. It's not yours. And you get to take this time to really reevaluate who it is that you're spending your time with and who you're keeping close to you. And also give yourself a chance to get closer with yourself. Discover more about yourself so that you can discover who you actually want around you. And obviously it's easier said than done. Nobody wants to feel unwanted or like people don't want you around or

But it really just is an opportunity for you to figure out all of those things and become really aware that it is not your loss. You don't want people around you who don't want you around. And I know it's a hard pill to swallow, but that's all I got on that because there's no like there's no loopholes. It really just is that simple. And that's

It's hard to accept it. Every time I've been in that situation, it gets harder every time. But once I do finally accept it, I find a whole lot of healing and a whole lot of growth and a whole lot of new awesome friends who actually care about me. And this kind of leads into the next one. Not really, but sort of. How do I love people that make me feel unlovable? This one was really deep and I almost didn't write it down because I didn't really know how to answer it. But...

When someone makes you feel unlovable, I think that the best thing that you can do is just love them. And by that, I don't mean like spend all your time trying to make them love you. But I mean, love them in all of their healing, because anyone who makes you feel unlovable is someone who is still healing on their own. And they haven't found a way to fully love themselves. So they just treat people that same hatred that they have for themselves. They put out onto other people.

And it's really sad, honestly. You just have to learn to sympathize for the people who make you feel that way because they're healing and they're hurting and they're not going to realize it. So it's not really something you can just bring up and be like, you're hurting. That's why you're hurting me. People who are going through that aren't aware of that at the time. So just be patient with them and don't lose yourself trying to love them.

Just be there for them. And if it gets unbearable and you're being treated really wrong, just walk away from it because, again, you don't deserve people who make you feel that way.

And the next one is how to deal with feeling like everyone hates you. Oh, I know this feeling. I know this feeling and it freaking sucks. But here's the thing. I promise no one hates you. We get so in our heads and we do this to ourselves and we think that people are actually paying attention to us. But no one is. Literally no one is. I mean, think about the times that you're out in public and

Do you ever see someone and you're like, oh, I do not like that person. I hate them, blah, blah, blah. And you're paying attention to everyone else. Because I know for me, that's not the case. When I'm out in public, I'm constantly just worried about what people think of me, what I look like, how I'm acting. I'm really only paying attention to myself. And it just kind of puts things into perspective.

No one's really paying attention to you, I promise. And everyone doesn't hate you because you're awesome. And you are made to be the way that you are. And there are people out there who need your energy. And I promise, everyone doesn't hate you. And I know that that's not really advice. It's more just like telling you. But I just needed to remind you that everyone does not hate you. But I know this feeling. And I think the one thing to take away from this is just to understand that

that in more cases than not no one's paying attention to you which means they don't hate you and I mean that in a good way not a bad way not like no one cares about you you guys get what I'm saying I'm not going to elaborate on that one anymore the next one is how to let good things happen without self-sabotaging so this one's interesting because I was actually two nights ago that night at

I was not feeling well mentally, was like super mentally exhausted and had that breakdown. I was watching this Brene Brown video on Netflix. It was called The Call to Courage. If you haven't watched it, I literally love her with my whole entire heart. And I am manifesting that one day I'm going to meet her and we're going to share like the coolest things because she has an older audience. And it's not like she talks about mental health, but she talks a lot about vulnerability and shame and how courageous it is and how brave it is. And that

That's something I've always kind of aligned with when it comes to talking to my platform because I talk about the stuff that no one wants to talk about because it's hard to talk about. And I don't know, I just think we have this really, there could be a really cool connection. There's a lot of cool stuff we could do because I've got the younger audience, she's got the older. Anyways, manifesting one day I meet her and we create something awesome. But moving on.

In this little video that I was watching, she talks about how as humans, we are so much more likely to sit in our discomfort and sit in our pain because we're so afraid to accept joy.

And the reason that we're so afraid to accept joy is because we're so worried that something is going to come rip that joy away from us. It's like the saying, it's too good to be true, right? When everything seems to be working out, something always comes in and ruins it. So we're afraid to sit in it because we don't want to feel it because we don't want it to be taken away. And this was a hard thing for me to understand because no one wants to admit that this is true.

But it is. We all self-sabotage. We take away our own happiness in so many cases because we're like, oh, I'm not supposed to be this happy. But we should. We should allow ourselves to be happy. And this isn't really advice again. This is me just kind of telling you that it's okay to be happy. It's okay to be content. It's okay to feel like things are actually working out in your favor because there's a lot of power in that when you do. When you do finally accept joy and happiness, more is handed to you.

And again, this goes into perspective. You could choose to focus on what isn't going right or you can choose to focus on what is going right. And then you find a lot more joy and a lot more happiness. And the self-sabotaging just kind of deletes itself slowly because instead of focusing on what's not working and self-sabotaging, you're focusing on what is working and you're self-building.

I don't know. Self-building is not a thing. I don't know what I was going for, but you get the point. Next one. How to accept weight gain. I felt this one pretty heavy because growing up, I don't know if you guys know this, but in high school, I was like a total twig.

And all of my childhood, I was just really, really skinny. Like I had the metabolism of, I don't even know, I could eat 10 million things and it would just go right through me. So I always just grew up like that. I never thought anything about it. I didn't really pay attention to body image or what I ate because I just naturally was very, very, very small. And I got to college and I was, I started gaining weight and then

That that that cycle where I actually paid attention to my body image kind of started and it was hard for me because people on TikTok when I got to Hawaii would comment on it. And that was the first time I really noticed it. And it is not easy to have people commenting on weight gain. And I acted like it was like I pretended that the comments didn't affect me. And it's not like they affected me physically. I still ate what I wanted. I believe in having a good relationship with food and eating what makes you happy and

And that never changed physically, but mentally I could not look at myself in the mirror. And I just, I just tried not to think about it, but I was always thinking about it. I cared about what I looked like too much. And I think the one thing that really helps me get over it

was truly just understanding. This kind of goes back to one of the other things that I talked about, but no one's really paying attention to you. The people who would make comments about my weight on TikTok, they didn't think about it again. They commented it and then went on with their day. So it wasn't worth my energy to sit there and think about their comments all day long. And also just understanding that I'm going to go through different waves and I'm going to be

different versions of myself at different points in my life and that means I'm gonna look different and I'm gonna feel different and it's all part of the process and it's all part of the journey and anyone who has an issue with that or has something to say about that doesn't deserve any room in my life and that's that on that because you know what food is good and food is beautiful and you deserve to eat what you want at any given moment and I feel very very strongly about that topic

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is jealous of someone. I always wanted to look like someone else. I wanted to be more popular like someone else. I wanted the boys that other people got. And as I got older, I learned to turn jealousy into inspiration and to just kind of delete the word jealous from my mind. It's not a word I think anymore. It's not something I associate with. I just look at it as inspiration.

For example, if I'm in a yoga class and I see someone able to do all the things that I used to be able to do, past version of me would be jealous that they could do that and I would be angry. Not at the person, more at myself that I couldn't do those things anymore. But now if I see someone doing what I used to be able to do in a yoga class, I'm like, wow, okay, if I get back on track and I stay into this, maybe I'll be able to do that again one day. It's so beautiful that that person can and I'm

When I started thinking like that, I just kind of noticed jealousy disappear and this was also, I noticed I found myself not comparing anymore. I wouldn't really compare what someone had versus what I had because I understood that we're all meant to have different things. We're all built to be different people. We can't have everything. We're not supposed to have everything. One person's beauty never takes away from your own beauty and that's something that I want you to remember.

The next one is getting out of your own head. And I think that for this one, you just have to become aware that you are not your thoughts. You are not your thoughts. You are not the voice in your head telling you one thing or another. You're not a body. You are simply a soul. And I noticed that when I tell myself that more, I can get out from that voice in my head a little bit. I can escape from it more.

I've also noticed one thing that I do when I am really in my head is I go do something active, whether it's like going for a walk or calling someone that I love or going to yoga or just doing something to keep me busy, going swimming or just doing anything where you're kind of forced to be out of your own head. And I like to socialize sometimes when I'm in my head because honestly, I'm not a huge socializer anymore besides with the people that I'm close to.

But when I am in my head, I escape myself by being with people. And I think that that's something that could help a lot of people. So do that. Just call someone. Erase those negative thoughts for a second. The next one is how to start journaling. And I love this one because I've just recently got into journaling. And I've also noticed that sometimes it's harder for me to journal than other times. And I've had to kind of accept that I'm going to go through different phases where sometimes I'm not made to be journaling and sometimes I am.

And that's okay. I think for a little while in there, once I did start getting consistent with journaling, if I wouldn't have anything to journal, I'd get upset with myself. But it's going to come in waves. But the way I would say to start is to just, when you feel like writing, especially if that voice that is in your head is really loud, another way to get out of your head is to take what's in your head, write it on paper.

And not like rip it up physically, but like mentally rip it up. Okay, you were in your head and now you're not. And you don't have to write on a pen and paper. You can type in your notes of your phone too. And just ease into it. Take your time. You don't have to be a professional writer to be a journal. Not to be a journal, to have a journal. Anyways, next one. The next one is how to be more authentic in friendships and relationships. And I

This one was hard for me when I didn't really know myself because I would just kind of adapt to the people that I was around. So it's not that I was like faking who I was. I just could never really fully feel like myself in new friendships and new relationships. But I think the key to being authentic in these is to really be authentic with yourself and to really find yourself and figure yourself out.

And don't lose your personality trying to align with someone else's. If your personalities don't align, that's okay. There's people out there who you will align with. And the next one is how to talk to boys.

I just think this one's funny because I don't know how. I don't know. I don't really have advice to tell you on this one. I think that my thing would be to build a friendship before you build a relationship. And that's something I never really understood because growing up, it was like if you liked a boy, you started talking to them and then you were just talking and then blah, blah, blah. The rest is history. But I've learned that a lot of the people that I've really talked to in my life are

Like on a more serious note are people that I built friendships with before I focused on building a relationship with them. So I think that that's a key. Just build the friendship. Just be friends with someone before you try to be romantic with someone. But other than that, I don't really have too much advice on this because I don't know. Next week, I'm going to do another episode on advice. So if you guys have more things, I'll put another box on my Instagram story or a comment on the podcast Instagram page.

And you guys can comment what you want me to talk about, and I will be happy to do so. But this last one's kind of sad. Breakup advice, especially if it was blindsided. So I know this hurts, and I know that everything I'm going to say here you've probably heard a million times or don't want to hear it again. But...

You are unique. You are one of a kind. And if someone proves to you that they don't want you in their life, you should take that as a beautiful sign to know that there is someone else out there that you are more aligned with and understand that this is an opportunity for you to heal yourself and to work on yourself and to truly do what you love. If someone makes you feel unwanted and undeserved, you should know that that's not what you deserve. You deserve better. You deserve someone who is going to make you feel better.

like they won the lottery because they did. You are special and you are made for someone. And I know that that probably doesn't make it easier in this moment, but I just need you to know that it is a sign from God or it is a sign from the universe or a sign from whoever you believe in that there is something better for you and you deserve more than someone who makes you feel that way. I'll go more into this one in the next episode because I kind of want to think about it a little bit more, but that's what comes to me when I first think about it. So

That's that. But I love you guys and I'm so grateful for you guys. And I am so glad that we have this podcast to stay connected because you guys are freaking awesome.

And this is perfect timing right now because it just started raining outside. I'm not sure if you can hear it, but if you can, I'm going to go dance in the rain probably. I feel like that will be good for my sickness, but I love you so much. Don't forget to follow, rate, subscribe, do whatever it is that you do with podcasts. Download all the episodes. You guys are awesome. I love you. I keep saying that, but I do. And I will talk to you guys next week. Goodbye.