Practicing Calm: New Patterns to Allow Joy

Have you ever planned a quiet, restorative weekend only to have your mind instantly hijacked by restlessness, dread, or micro-worries? In this episode of The Good Energy Healing Show, we dive into the fascinating neurobiology behind why true peace can feel so elusive and surprisingly uncomfortable. When life finally slows down, our survival brains often mistake the quiet for a lack of defense, setting off internal alarms, triggering "foreboding joy," and pulling us into a cycle of mental static.

Together, we’ll explore how our amygdala, cortisol baselines, and default mode networks work against our calm—and why worry is neither a sign of love nor a substitute for real agency. You'll learn simple, powerful somatic practices using breath, temperature, and gravity to interrupt the brain's internal "scrolling," lower your stress baseline, and normalize the discomfort of ease. Tune in to discover how to quiet the alarm, anchor into unshakable presence, and create lasting space for authentic joy.

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Do you ever feel like you have a peaceful plan ready to go? Like a beautiful, maybe a quiet, well-earned weekend, just a place or a space or an idea that is ready to allow you to just be in the flow and to be relaxed. But your mind disrupts this with a sense of dread or micro worry or even a sense of restlessness. Today I really want to explore something that I'm learning about, where we want to make more space for calm in this world. And in order to make space for calm, I think we want to understand how calm gets interrupted and that joy isn't as easy as you think to hold and sustain. And and peace, this idea of like, I just want to feel peace in my body so that I can share with my community and be show up as my best peaceful self, centered, concentrated, confidence, all that, all that good energy. We want to find that peace. But I've been asking and getting ready for a like a breakthrough because over and over again, I think we are ready to understand why peace can be so elusive. And on this episode of the Good Energy Healing Show, I'm gonna show you the map of the why and the how and what to do to restore our brains from operating at a high speed, worrying, restlessness, dread rate. So that especially when things calm down, especially when things you have a day off from work, as simple as that, your brain doesn't get to go on the freeway of stress. It gets to actually find the rest stop, look at the beautiful views, and make the best memories of your life because the brain and the heart can finally connect. So this tendency to have dread replace plans for peace has like a specific cognitive and neurobiological survival pattern to it. And so I want to go over like four or five different ways as you're listening and walking and talking with me so that maybe you can remember this for the for the future. I've had a couple of clients come in one after the other. It's a little bit of a back to school kind of vibe. People are coming back from vacations, they were able to touch into this peaceful way. It took them a while to get there, but then they come back and all the worry resumes. And I'm noticing it in myself as well. I want to have, I want to have a true sense of like, what is the word? It's not agency, it's a sense of authenticness. I want to have like authentic peace that is lasting. And in order to do that, I have to understand all the the sounds and the noises and the things that are interrupting that place in my heart that's authentic peace. So the very first thing is our friend the amygdala. You familiar with the amygdala? It's the primary part uh built in inside of our brain, named after amygdala is named after the almond, meaning it's shaped like an almond. And the primitive amygdala is actually built for survival, not enjoyment. Okay, so it's a major, major part of who we are and how we get through our day. And one of the very important evolutionary elements in who we are as humans, it's I like to think of the amygdala that it helps us learn because it gathers, gathers, gathers, and says, we're gonna stay safe from this, we're gonna stay safe from that, and we have that survival piece. So the amygdala, get get familiar with the amygdala, uh does not understand as letting your guard down as just being like, oh, this is so good for my health because it is good for your health and relaxation and wellness and stress relief and the work that I do with energy healing, especially when I do it in a in a medical setting where I'm an energy healer, and I oftentimes will ask the doctor or the surgeon who who said, This person, you know, could you help this person? And I and I'll say, Well, on a non-medical, in a non-medical way, because I'm not a medical provider, why would you recommend this? And they always say, Can you help them experience deep peace? Can you help them alleviate stress? Can you help them embody a sense of wellness? Well, your amygdala will say, No. But I've been working with the amygdala for a while, uh, for myself and for all of my clients. So we've kind of become friends. And the amygdala is basically a friend. It's saying, I'm not letting my guard down for you. Because when I feel that I've let the guard down, then I'm afraid that you're going to be attacked by predators. So that hyper-hyper-vigilance is just one small part of who we are, but it's the amygdala. Get to know it. And when any external chaos drops away, so the amygdala doesn't have to work anymore. The brain's vigilance network just interprets the quiet as a lack of defense. So it to it triggers even more anxiety to force you into what's called the alert mode. Okay. So I think all of you can relate to this. Maybe some of you have bigger or more active amygdalas than others. But speaking personally, I know that I call it, you know, loving my work, because I do love my work. And so I don't have a huge desire to stop working. But I have noticed that when I don't have a lot of stimulus or outside, I could call it chaos, but it's not really chaos. It's just, you know, a lot of ideas coming at me and a lot of pressures on me and productivity and this whole thing. When that all drops away because I'm away on a ski vacation or I'm not supposed to, I've got nothing to do except to just relax, restore, rest, renew all the all of that. I actually notice I get more anxious. Does anyone else ever experience that? That has to do with your amygdala that says, wait, why are you calm? Are there predators around? You should be looking for something. And then in this world where we have 24-7, 365 access to, you know, getting vigilant, like being able to get more news, more information, what's the latest, what's the what's going to entertain us, entertain, by the way, means to grab my attention. We can easily just slip back into keeping the brain occupied. And in this case, the amygdala gets occupied enough to kind of quiet down. So, in a way, your anxiety goes away, but it's certainly not replaced by this calm and this peace that I'm talking about tonight. This beautiful idea of practicing calm. It didn't take me long in preparing for this podcast to bump into more language from Brene Brown. I know I've talked about foreboding joy in the past, but this is the second piece, and it's so well articulated by Brene Brown. She basically, as a researcher, describes joy and peace as the most vulnerable of emotional states. Who would have thought that when I'm feeling joy and I'm feeling peace, I am really vulnerable? Okay, and they're emotional states. So when you anticipate this idea of ease and delight, your brain instinctively braces for disappointment, foreboding. If I get too excited or too relaxed, something will go wrong. And out of that moment of conflict, there will be resolve. I have a problem with that story structure, even though I know it works and it's important, and in our Western culture, it's the rule. But get curious about other story structures as you move forward in your life. Like what would happen if there was a story that didn't need a crescendo, a catalyst, an antagonist? I don't know. Maybe it'd be a boring story, but what are you boring into yourself? You're boring peace into yourself, like you bore, like a like deeply ingrained is another word for boring, right? Deeply ingrained peace. And say, what are you hoping on vacation? And say, I hope to get really, really bored and get really good at it. Okay. So this is just a basic research piece that happens to all humans or most humans is that when we anticipate ease and delight, we also simultaneously embrace for uh-oh, something will go wrong if I'm feeling ease and delight. Kind of a trauma response. She doesn't talk too much about whether it's a trauma response or not, but it's definitely the research shows, and it's been coined beautifully, foreboding joy. And then Brene Brown, maybe from that research, made herself famous, famous, famous for that TED talk about embracing vulnerability. Because wow, if peace and joy are the most vulnerable states that we need to be in, and so it makes us uncomfortable. Let's get really good at being uncomfortably joyful and uncomfortably peaceful. All right, we're taking a deep dive here, and thank you again, Brene Brown. You're brilliant. And you can follow her podcast, she's always dropping gems. The third thing that we look at that's gonna steal our joy and that sense of peace. And this episode is called practicing calm. So this third piece that is kind of funny and it's kind of gentle, it shouldn't be hard to shift. It's more of a case of awareness where we've created this baseline, this habit of having a high cognitive load, and maybe it's because you're caretaking. I've I've done caretaking in many different ways in my life, and there's a vigilance that that comes over you, and then that becomes your like your new normal, right? That's like your homo homeostatic like comfort zone. Like you're like, I feel great, I'm comfortable. I'm comfortable when you know, every yeah, we know what that feels like. It it can be at the job, it can be at home, it can be just uh the brain. What happens is that the brain starts to mistake high cortisol, which by the way isn't good for any part of your body, but it mistakes high cortisol in mental activity for like normal. So when external depend when external demands all disappear, like this practicing calm that I'm talking about, when that all disappears, the system experiences a form of like nothing short of withdrawal, almost like an addiction to cortisol, manufacturing like just mental noise, mental static, total baloney to restore that familiar high stimulation baseline. We have all been in a family situation or a work situation or a social situation, a friend situation where everyone's kind of found their way to be comfortable. And then you have that character who walks in, probably a very lovable character, says, I'm not comfortable with all you being so, you know, just calm and relaxed. And, you know, you've you seem to be practicing calm. And they'll they'll throw a curveball in there, and immediately you can see if you look around the table or you look around the circle, you can see it worked. Everybody's cortisol went up, everyone gets a little bit more tense. Try not to be that person. Try to say, I am uncomfortable with this new level of calm that I'm walking into, but my discomfort might have to do with more of a bad habit of having this normal setting way too high, like way too high, way too intense on stimuli and cognitive loads and pushing yourself with deadlines. I really do think just being aware of this will make a huge difference for all of you. This one's a biggie for me. It took me half my lifetime to find out that being worried is not a sign of love. It's not a sign of caring. And it's definitely a state of processing to worry, but it's not something to cultivate or to reward as you're as a part of yourself that you want more of. So worrying creates an illusion that you're actually doing something, and peaceful plan requires that you actually don't do anything, which is called surrender. Like doing less is best, and worry makes you feel like you're doing something. So let me pause for a second and say there's calm. I keep talking about like this vacation. I'm kind of picturing like a little cabin, you know. I'm remembering from the 1970s, like a lovely little cabin on the pond where we used to go. And as a young person, I experienced calm. I could smell, you know, I could smell dinner cooking in the kitchen. We were only there for three or four days because one of our neighbors let us stay out there. But like everything was peaceful, and I remember it so much better than the hundreds and thousands of days that I've spent in like the ordinary, normal, intense, high cognition piece. But from that sense of calm, there's also other things where you do have something going on that's extremely stressful. You could be caregiving, you could have somebody you care about in the hospital, you could be in the hospital, you could be lucky enough to be in the hospital. Maybe you heard that somebody is hurt and you need to go get them. Action is not the kind of stress that that pulls us down. Action actually creates a different kind of calm. It's the worry that creates like an inaction. And so even when you're needed to like press on and be productive and be there, practicing calm is good for that as well. So anytime you could be like in a huddle trying to figure out how to handle a crisis, right? And somebody says, I'm worried, or you say, I'm worried about this, just say, that's great, but that's not appropriate for this time because worry is not a substitute for agency. Agency means I have awareness and regulation over who I am and what my thoughts are and what my emotions are. Wow, right? Worry removes agency, not adds to it. So again, obsessing over uh logistics or, you know, if it's a vacation packing or all the little health things that can go right or wrong and any potential snags you might feel at work, this gives the ego a sense of control over the future, right? I can't even say the unpredictable future, but the future's the future, right? So trying to have that sense can really lead to a deep, deep, damaging level of confusion. And it turns out our bodies are built with beautiful balance. So a little bit of awareness, that's fantastic, but holding on to it for too long, that's worry. And worry is not the equivalent of loving or being taking action, productive action. There's nothing about worry that, in fact, what I would strongly suggest is when you find that you're worrying, you can say, Well, I know one thing about this walk through the wilderness that I'm doing right now. If I'm worrying, I can be sure I'm on the wrong path. So I better lift up my head and look at all the mile markers and look at all the paths and check my compass, take a deep breath, ask for help, phone a friend, whatever you need. Because worry is not the path you want to go down. Okay? That does not have anything to do with practicing love or calm. So here's another really cool thing. There's an expression called the default. Let me read this to you because I have it in my notes over here. Let me see where are they. Here we go. Default mode network. When you're not engaged in demanding and structured tasks as we've been programmed to be in basically since we were in first grade, when your brain shifts to the default mode, and it's time to like self-reflect and recall the past and and then also have future projections. This is all just what the brain's gonna do. The brain's gonna do what the brain's gonna do. This is sort of some light neurobiology summary I'm giving you right now. The brain is wired for vigilance, just like I said before. And so it will idle like a motor, it will run and scan, constantly scan for unresolved problems, any past regret, any future threat. It's just gonna keep scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning, scanning. I learned years ago from some people who work with, I think it's called human design and software. Gosh, it seems like such ancient history now, because it had to do with like, remember when the term clickbait just came on, first came on, or even sales, collecting data? Like a lot of these things that lead to sales isn't about charming or having the best product or anything like that. It it they actually went into this neurobiology of the brain. And if we know that our default mode is like always scanning for unresolved problems, then why wouldn't we scan, right? Why wouldn't we be scanning our screens and saying, I think if I get this one special piece of technology, or if I can upload this one app, or if I can make that, you know, one extra project get done, then I'm gonna get this big reward rush from my body. Well, you don't. It's kind of a lie. It just turns into the next thing, becomes the next thing, becomes the next thing. And if I was doing this like eight years ago when I first started this podcast, I'd be saying the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, and nobody really knows what I'm talking about, but you know what we're talking about. It's called scrolling, right? So we scroll with our phones or our computers, there's scrolling. But you know what existed before that? We used to scroll in our own brains. We just didn't call it that. But now, can you relate? Like, close your eyes for a second and just be like, oh, wait a minute. I know that I scroll on the screen and I can see a happy thing and a song and news from a friend, and then a person I've never heard from before giving a great tip, and somebody else doing something, well, that was weird, you know, like, oh, and then that was a really cool, you know, dude perfect moment, or like whatever it is, like all these different things that are happening are scrolling, but they've always existed in our mind. We've just perfected it out here in the sales and attention industry. Okay. Meaning getting your attention is the game of the economy now. And we all know that. All right. So how can we change this? Thank you for letting me share this. One of the ways you can change it is just to label it. When the anxiety bubbles up against a peaceful plan, just identify it and just say, and I want you to hear this from me, somebody who teaches about intuition. When anxiety bubbles up, you actually might want to say, This is not my innate intelligence. This is not intuition, this is not even foresight. How about this? This is not even smart. Hit your ego where it hurts, right? This is just my alert system running in the background. Like, you know, the car alarm that you really wish your neighbor didn't start on a Sunday morning, right? The one day you could sleep in. Why is a car alarm on? Why'd you even set it? You know, that no one's turning it off. And that's what you're feeling when you can feel that anxiety bubbling up. So find your remote control and say, Oh, I forgot it. That's actually my car alarm going off all the time. I'm turning it off. I'm gonna unhook it. I'm not gonna set it. I the alarm is robbing way more from me than anybody could if they were trying to break into my car. I want my peace back. Don't let anybody steal your piece. So turn off the alarm and let them steal everything else, but not your piece. Okay. The next thing is it's a really good idea to anchor, anchor yourself. Anchor is a word I see over and over again as I study about the care for medical providers, how to take care of themselves, how to come overcome compassion fatigue, especially mental health providers, just this whole idea of feeling anchored. So anchor yourself in this sensory moment of the present. Yes, the now, the here and the now. So I talked about this on my last episode, which is I am here now, all is well, right? So rather than analyzing the worry, like where did this come from? Who taught this to me? You know, what else am I supposed to do? You know, and drop instead into the physical sensations, not the head. Okay, so let your body be your friend in this case. Notice the temperature of the room. Notice if it's cooler or warmer near the sun or the window. Notice all aspects of just the temperature of the room. That's something that's available to us if we're inside, and of course, the temperature of wherever you are, the car, the outdoor space, you know, the path, the corridor, the bridge, wherever you are. Okay. And then notice the rhythm of your breath. I say this oftentimes in session. I say, don't, don't change your breath, just notice your breath. And that is such a respect for the body to just notice your breath. Even as I'm speaking, I took a deep breath when I said that. Before I even said it, you heard it. I think I caught it on the clip here, on the audio. I it said, notice your breath. And you know what? My body went, oh, I get to notice my breath. Well, yeah, that feels good. I didn't say change your breath, deep in your breath, but once you notice it, your breath is going to do what your breath wants to do. And then the other thing that's very helpful is to notice gravity itself. Gravity. An amazing force. Sometimes I like to think of gravity as like the metaphor for love, that which pulls us and holds us here, right? Gravity. I love the expression that which holds us together as an expression for energy and healing and life force and all the loving brilliance and intelligence that's in the life force energy. But you know what else that describes is actually gravity. And so take a moment and feel the gravity of the weight of your arm, the weight of your body, the way your feet are touching, if they're touching, wherever they're touching, your heels might be touching the edge of the couch or your feet might be on the floor, whatever it is. Try to find some physical awareness of gravity. Again, notice the breath, the rhythm of your breath, or maybe the lack of rhythm. Just notice your breath. And then go back and notice the temperature of the room. Very, very good ways to calm down and end the analyzing because you're actually paying attention even closer to real things that really matter. And here's where I started, and I want to just get back to this for a second, because I just think this is so brilliant. See if you can take a moment to normalize. This is gonna sound like I'm saying a typo, you know. Um, you're gonna you're gonna hit the replay and say, Did she just say this? Okay, get ready. Normalize the discomfort of ease. Normalize the discomfort of ease. Treat as it treat calm as if it's something you need to practice. Okay? It's something that needs to be practiced. So we're gonna normalize the discomfort of ease. You know, there's been a lot of language over the decades about dysfunctional families, dysfunctional childhoods. I don't know. I feel like that's a category that doesn't even deserve to be a category. I think childhood is dysfunctional, and that's the point of childhood. I just did a really fun lecture this spring about a school where kids go away for a year, and it's super challenging. The weather is hard, the work is hard, the interpersonal social intensity, like the this the social piece is hard, the the physical workouts because there's athleticism involved is hard. And then the isolation. So you're you're highly socialized in one respect, but you're isolated from your safe people, right? Or you're isolated from your home. It's all hard. And it's really uncomfortable. And it turned out like that was the point. Because once you get through all of these distractions that supposedly are the problems in our life, and once you get through all that, you realize that the real point is to embrace the discomfort because on the other side of that is ease. With everything I just listed off, these students finish this year that is structured. And I'm not talking about outward bound, but I could be, you know, it's like outward bound or a any kind of program, probably a recovery program has this as well. It's like you go through this tunnel of discomfort only to find out that getting comfortable with discomfort, like normalizing discomfort, is your fastest route to finding the ease and the peace and the calm that you've been seeking. Why is that? Because feeling slightly unsettled during during peaceful moments, as I've said, for all these different reasons, is not a problem that needs to be amplified. It's actually validation that your nervous system exists and it needs to be lowered and put into a more restorative space. That's it. So when you feel a lot, acknowledge that your nervous system exists. That's what's happening. I saw some interesting insight the other day that says if something somebody says something to you and your body like gets filled with anxiety, that's actually not anger. It's your ego just trying to protect itself. We're very, very, very protective beings. You're a protective being. I'm a protective being. Let's take this to the highest level of saying yes, and the most protective part of me being me, the most protective part of me being me, is merging and bringing the whole community of my mind, and I mean all different parts of my. I listed out five different ways to which the brain is working against you to feel peace. Five different ways. Okay. And and so we also have memories and we have joys, and we have the pleasure principle. We have we have all these aspects going on around us all the time. This is part of who we are. Bring it to counsel, bring it to community, and say, if we ultimately want to survive and be healthy and have that sense of well-being that, you know, the medical world sends people to me to learn more so I can learn and teach and do and share and shift the energy. If that's the goal, and that's what the highest level of healers know is the goal, then let's strive for that goal and not get caught up in the in the weeds of the alarm system, mistaking calm for being unprepared, this foreboding joy that ignores the fact that it takes a lot to be vulnerable. The discomfort of being vulnerable is because the most vulnerable state you can be in is peaceful and joyful. Think like the monks, right? Like spending a whole entire life insisting on being peaceful and joyful. Because that's the hard work. Okay. The other one was what was that other one I'm trying to remember? The baseline habit of the comfort zone. Like lower your baseline, make it much more relaxed, make it so when you're relaxed, you're actually comfortable rather than your high cortisol is like your new normal, which creates a false sense of relaxation because you're comfortable and you recognize it. So therefore, you feel like you belong there and you fake relax, right? So lower your baseline to be like, oh, wait, wait. I woke up from a nap the other day, and it took me like a full the other day, I think it was yesterday, it took like a full like five minutes for me to like be ready to move my body. It's different than waking up in the morning, you know, when you wake up from those deep power naps. And I was like, I need to take a kind of a muscle memory snapshot of this moment because I am really relaxed right now. This can be my new baseline. And it was low, it was like very, very relaxed, but that's so much better than this high vigilant. Like, if something's going wrong, that means something's right, you know? No. So change that baseline, lower that. And then certainly worry is not a substitute for action or agency. Just allowing yourself to let sometimes just let yourself surrender because then you'll know what the next best right action will be, rather than having your brain creating scenarios. And worry is just not good for your health. This is a health podcast, and worry is not good for your health. And then this cool term, the the default mode network, that's part of your brain. You have that in your brain. Yep, the default mode network, and that simply scans for unresolved problems all the time. It could be from your past unresolved problems, and it could be from hypothetical threats in your in your future. So that's an infinite list, okay? Especially unresolved threats. Like that's infinite. That could go on and on and on and on and on. So what you need to do is say, I'm recognizing that it's my default mode, and it's my brain's default mode, but enough is enough. I'm allowed to disengage and just feel peaceful. And how do you do that? Notice your body, notice the temperature in the room, notice the pattern of your breath, notice gravity. Those things will always be with you. Always, they'll always be with you. So I think what I want to do is just give you like a little bit of a takeaway so that you can feel that you know, you don't have to feel that you're alone in this. Oh, I did a little research around this and I was looking for like kind of like a mantra or a prayer. And here's one for you. In this stillness, I paused my mind searching. I trust that the universe is holding everything together. Isn't that beautiful? And I do not have to carry it all right now. I breathe in with rest and I breathe out with ease. Breathe in rest, breathe out, ease. The universe is holding everything together. Good. So this is allowing you to, as they say, be still, find your stillness and pause your mind searching. Just stop scrolling in your mind. You were scrolling way before social media was invented, way before smartphones were invented. We're we they've just copied it and put it on the outside of us. So I I want to leave you with this sense of like handing over all the what-ifs and the restless mind. And may you have quiet and unshakable peace, and may that peace stand guard over all the elements that are trying to protect you because you want to put this beautiful cloak and umbrella, this beautiful arc of peace over you. And that let's make it unshakable today. Unshakable peace that makes room for joy, vulnerable, peaceful joy, the beauty that comes from that. And here's the biggie: it allows you for true, true restoration of of your body and your cells, so that you can rest and restore. I'm Hilary Crowley, and thank you for joining me for this kind of special episode of what would happen if we just look at how the brain is not wired, literally not wired, to make it easy to feel ease. It's wired to keep us uncomfortable. I remember way back when there was this great like hot tips magazine that was it would it would come in the mail. I worked at a front desk of a construction company. And so I always liked that because look who I turned out to be. I love all these like little healing tips and all these like ideas. So, you know, I was finding my way to my career eventually, but I would find this, it was called the bottom line. I don't know if you guys remembered it. It was like the internet before the internet, it was so cool. And they had an article about tips for managers, and they said, it said, this caught my attention. It said, if you find that the morale is low among your employees in your workspace, so I'm imagining just a big room full of cubicles. They said, control the temperature and lower it, okay, and make it too chilly on an already cold day. And you will find that, you know, there might have been now we found out a lot about the healing power of coldness and so forth. But for this article, it said, what you'll do is you'll create an environment where people will become agitated and they'll have something to complain about. And you might overhear them saying, Why does the management keep the temperature so low? But they said, what you'll be doing is you'll you're giving them something to complain about so that they won't like, you know, there won't be like mutiny because they'll have something external to complain about rather than complaining about their job or or each other. Give them an external thing to complain about, which is temperature. That's not it. That's not the whole point, though. The final point said, because everybody who is here today on this planet, including the people that you hired who work for your company, are the what's it called? They're part of the they're the legacy of their complaining, hyper-vigilant, cranky ancestors. Because we're all related to the people who are who say, you know what, I don't like it here. I I got a bad feeling about the way that storm is rolling in, or I'm freaking out about the noises I'm hearing at night. I want to find higher ground. I want to find a better place. Well, truth be told, over the course of evolution or the years of evolving human intelligence, those those became the leaders because they said, I'm paying attention, I'm gonna stay hyper-vigilant, I'm gonna be restless, I'm not gonna leave any room for joy or comfort or peace. I'm gonna survive. Okay, so we're the result of that personality, and that's part of us. So I thought that was really funny because it was like, well, play into that, play into like, but but I think as we are learning more and sharing more and realizing that the greatest peace we can experience is working together and collaborating and being honest with each other, and that always begins. If you do nothing else in your life, your legacy could be that I modeled joy and peace and I practiced calm. I practiced calm so people could see me calm. And calm is contagious, it is truly, truly contagious. You can trust that, you can practice that, and you can find new patterns to allow joy in your life, knowing that if you feel vulnerable around joy and peace, it means you're on the right path. Okay? Let go of worry, don't go down that path. Let yourself feel uncomfortably joyful. So I'm Hillary Crowley. Thank you for tuning in to the Good Energy Healing Show. It's been a pleasure talking to you today. I hope you have a beautiful back to school season uh wherever you are in the world. Thank you for listening to me from all over the world, by the way. It's just I'm tuning in to all of you for, you know, a few days, a few weeks, and then I'm ready to share what I have. I hope you found this useful and particularly helpful since I was very methodical in my sharing today. A little bit different than usual, but a very special episode that I might go back to and listen to myself when I forget to practice calm. If you enjoyed this podcast, please hit the five stars and share with your friends. And I'm happy to keep going. You can find me on hilarycrowley.com, and I will see you the next time.