I'm so glad that you're here . You are listening to what the fuck did she just say with your host ? That's me , sandra Priestly . I'm all about living our best life and finding our zone of brilliance and then removing the resistance so that we can go all in .
I say random , crazy shit , which is why I called this podcast the way that I did , and I really hate long drawn out intros , so let's fucking go . I just got out of my second session for floating , my floating session , float tank session .
I don't know what it's called , I think I think I booked it as a floating session If you have never gone into a float tank . It basically looks like this like a beautiful white bathtub with a lid on it , so it kind of looks like an egg and the lid is on hydraulics . You can pull it down if you choose to .
There's lights colored lights in the inside , that sort of move from like one color to another . Or , if you'd like , you can turn the lights off . I chose to pull the lid down , lights off , so chose to pull the lid down , lights off . So it's basically like a desensitization tank . The water in there is so lovely .
It's the same temperature as the air , so it's a little bit warm , it just feels beautiful , and there is a thousand pounds of Epsom salts in this water , so you just naturally float in that water . What happens is your body soaks up the magnesium from the water and it's extremely therapeutic .
The very first time that I went in there , I thought that I really believed I was going to go in . I had this Zen music that they were going to play . I was going to go in . I had this Zen music that they were going to play . I was going to be in this completely dark tank and I was going to have the most beautiful meditative state .
It would be like I don't know conversation straight with God . I believed that I was going to have the most incredible intuitive downloads . I mean the ideas and the knowingness that was going to come out of this pod , like I was going to go in and come out completely different person . That did not happen .
The music that they were playing that time and I'd asked for it . But the music that they'd played reminded me of that movie , passengers , with Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence . And then I'm in this pod and I started thinking about the damn movie . I did not experience any huge enlightenment that I was hoping for .
I mean , I came out of that thing going okay , not entirely what I thought it was going to be . Now , that being said , I got home and I think I could have fallen asleep standing up .
I was so relaxed and so exhausted that I literally could have fallen asleep standing up not joking and so I kind of knew when I went in today that I was probably not going to have a huge amount of enlightenment , that I was just going to lay there and just reap the benefits of the magnesium .
To be honest with you , I have quite a magnesium deficiency , but I mean I looked this up there 80% of us 80% of us are magnesium deficient . Like and low amounts of magnesium results in anxiety and poor sleep , difficulty recovering .
I mean it is no wonder , with 80% of us that are deficient in magnesium , it's no wonder we're a stressed out bunch of crazy people , anyway . So I just kind of went in and I thought that I was just going to benefit from the magnesium and I was going to get out . But when I got in there , they had forgotten to put the music on .
So I was in this pod in the dark for an hour and with nothing to listen to , but my thoughts . You know what was really interesting about that . It was a beautiful place to be . There was a time where I couldn't have said that . There was a time where I didn't want to be alone with my thoughts . I would grab my phone , I had the TV on .
I mean , I always needed the distraction because my thoughts were so toxic . I was constantly in either a state of worry or a state of regret or beating the shit out of myself for something that I hadn't achieved or that I didn't like .
I know that so many women out there , so many people in general , have this talk track , this toxic talk track that's going on in the back of our minds and we can't seem to stop it . I got into this float tank , laid there in the dark , in the quiet , listening to absolutely nothing but my thoughts , and felt so much gratitude for being okay with my thoughts .
I literally sat there and started going over the things that I was grateful for , and it started with I was happy to be alone with my thoughts , that it was a safe place , and then it went to a visualization practice that I've been doing since the beginning of January . In the work 90 day challenge that I'm running .
We focus on three things every single day 90 day challenge that I'm running . We focus on three things every single day mindset , practices , energy and action towards our goal .
And so , for me , one of the things in under the energy category that I've chosen everyone can choose their own thing , but one of the things that I've chosen for my energy category is visualization or meditation every day . And so I just naturally went to I'm going to do a visualization .
And here's the thing that I thought was beautiful is that I've been visualizing achieving the goal , but quite past it , because if you know anything about manifestation , you'll know that you need to step into the person that has the thing that you want . So I'm visualizing not just achieving the goal , but I'm visualizing having achieved the goal .
I'm visualizing after achieving the goal , and it just felt so lovely and so beautiful and rich in so many aspects . And again , I was just so thankful , so grateful that I was able to do that , because there was a point in time where I was not .
There was a point in time where I would start visualizing and I would go to fear I would start visualizing and I couldn't keep up with it because my brain would go immediately to my thoughts and and the thoughts would be fear-based of the future .
This podcast today is about gratitude , honestly , for how much I've progressed , how much I've come , just doing all of the personal development work that I've been doing and helping women go from where I was to where I am and beyond .
And if you're listening here and you are identifying with the person that I was , you're identifying with this idea that being alone in the dark in a pod with no music and nothing to distract your thoughts by is a scary place . I want you to know that you can shift this . Start with gratitude . Start with just thinking the smallest thing that you're grateful for .
If you hear yourself say the word but , or your brain start to shift to the negative , the word but , or your brain start to shift to the negative . Flip back again to gratitude . What else are you grateful for ? You might be grateful for the feel of the water . You might be grateful for the fact that it's quiet .
You might be grateful for the fact that you don't have to listen to the music that reminds you of the passenger's movie , no matter what it is . If you can start with gratitude and every time , you start to shift to the negative in the moment . Shift your thoughts . You kind of got to reprogram yourself to stop going to the negative .
Shift your thoughts as quickly as you can , intentionally as you can , and eventually you'll be able to get out of that negative default and stay in the positive for a lot longer than you ever dreamed possible . You've got this . Thank you so much for listening .
I hope you've had some laughs , maybe some ideas , and that you've been inspired to take some type of action toward the life you've always dreamed of . If you feel so called , I would love it if you would share with your besties and leave a review down below . I look forward to bringing you along on this journey and I will see you in the next episode .