For years I knew exactly what I wanted. I read the books. Listened to the podcasts. I watched the Youtube videos and tried to "feel like the new version" of me. I tried to "Live in the end” as Neville Goddard talks about. But it wasn't really working. And it took me a while to understand why. It was due to the reason that my body didn't feel safe enough for that version of me to exist. The mind was on board. The mind had been on board for years. But my body wasn’t feeling safe enough for the expanded version of me. And mine was still holding on to old energies and traumas. It was through somatic movements, breathwork and sitting still that my body slowly, over a few years started to shift into safety. The shift wasn’t dramatic. It was gradually. I one day just realized - I actually feel like her. And with it came this deep trust in myself. Like this feeling of “I got it”. I finally got it!! That's the gap between knowing and embodying. Your mind can understand something for years before your body believes it's safe enough to live it. If you've been doing all the "right" things and still feel stuck; it might not be your mindset. Your body might just need to feel safe first. This week's shift: Sit in silence for 15 minutes a day. No phone. No music. No agenda. Just you and your body. Notice what comes up. Notice where you're holding on to old stuff. That's where the work is. Drop a comment if you're in. And let me know how this works for you. I love hearing your stories. Much love, Neda

Quick check-in: When did you last actually feel your body. I am not talking about thinking about it, not judging it, just feel it? Most of us spend the majority of our day living from the neck up. We're planning, analyzing, replying, reacting… and somewhere in all of that, we lose the connection back to ourselves and the present moment. The body isn't just a vehicle. It's information. It's where your nervous system lives, where stress gets stored and where calm actually has to be embodied before it becomes real. This week's shift is simple and I made it even easier for you. I just released a free 5-minute body scan meditation for this community. No experience needed. Just 5 minutes of your day and a willingness to reconnect with your body. Your practice this week: Use this meditation once a day. It can be in the morning, at your lunch break, before bed, whenever, you decide when you need it. Then notice: Does anything feel different afterward? Even slightly? Drop your experience in the comments. I love to hear about your journey. Much love, Neda

Have you ever completely believed a thought and then realized later it wasn't even true? I used to walk into certain rooms and just not feel comfortable. There was no specific reason. I just had this feeling of being an outsider, like everyone else got the memo and I didn't. The way people were dressed or the way they talked, the restaurants they picked without even looking at the prices. A thought would show up: "you don’t belong here." And I believed it. Every time. But here's the thing. Your thoughts are not facts. They're not the truth. Most of the time they're not even yours. They're old programming, inherited beliefs and your mind doing what it's always done. Trying to protect you from the unknown. You are the one noticing the thought. That's the part worth getting curious about. This week I want to share a practice that has genuinely helped me create some distance from my thoughts so they stop running the show. The Hermetic Principles says that your mind is a tool, not who you are. The Principle of Mentalism tells us that everything begins in the mind but that also means the mind is something you use, not something you are. When a thought keeps looping, try asking yourself: "If this were a radio signal, what station am I tuned to right now?" Then see if you can reach for something just a little higher. Not fake positivity and gaslighting yourself into feeling something you’re not feeling yet but just a small and honest shift. Use this method every time a thought comes up and pay attention to the internal shifts you will start to experience. This week's reflection: What's one thought you've been treating like a fact? What might shift if you apply the recommendation above? Share in the comments! I genuinely love reading what comes up for you. Much love, Neda

I used to be really good at catastrophizing. Like, Olympic-level. Something uncertain would come up and my mind would immediately start building the worst-case scenario — rehearsing the disappointment, preparing for the loss and already grieving something that hadn't even happened yet. And I called it being realistic. But I've been sitting with something lately: why do we so easily argue for our limitations and so rarely argue for ourselves? We'll fight hard to prove why something won't work. Why we're not ready. Why it's too soon, too risky, too much. We build airtight cases against our own possibilities and then wonder why we feel stuck?! What if we took even 10% of that energy and used it to argue for the best outcome instead? Not toxic positivity or pretending the fear isn't there. But genuine audacity. The kind that says; what if this actually works out? What if something even better than what I planned is on its way? Your nervous system doesn't know the difference between a threat you're imagining and one that's real. When you catastrophize, your body responds as if the worst is already happening. But the same is true in reverse. When you practice holding the vision of the best outcome, your whole system starts to move toward possibility instead of protection. This week, I invite you to catch yourself mid-catastrophe and ask: What's the best version of how this could go? And then I want you to stay there for a minute. Let your body feel it. Let it be possible. You're allowed to believe in your own best outcome. It is your birthright! What's one area of your life where you've been arguing against yourself? Drop it below. Much love, Neda

Something I keep coming back to lately is to really understand what beliefs are running my life. Most of us are so focused on what's not working that we never stop to ask why it keeps not working. And I don't mean that in a blame-yourself kind of way. I mean it in a "your subconscious is running a program you haven't looked at yet" kind of way. So here is one thing I recommend you to try. Pick an area of your life that feels stuck. Money, love, work or anything that you want to see progress in but it just doesn’t seem to happen. Pick just one. And ask yourself: what would I have to believe for this to keep happening? Then I want you to sit with it. Write down whatever comes up even if it feels uncomfortable, even if part of you goes "oof, yeah that's it." That "oof" moment? That's the first step; awareness. And awareness is where change actually starts. Not in the affirmations, not in the vision board but here. In the honest, slightly uncomfortable moment of seeing the thing. This week's practice: This week I want you to sit 15 minutes in silence each day and set the intention to understand what thoughts and beliefs are running the area if your life you chose to focus on. No phone, no podcast, no background music or guided meditation. Just you and your thoughts. And the point here is not to try to not think but actually observe what thoughts are coming up, even if they are not making any sense. (Most of the time they don't to be honest). Your subconscious does its best work when you stop drowning it out, that's when things come up to the surface, connections get made and sometimes the belief you've been looking for just surfaces on its own. Let it. I would love to hear what is coming up for you so make sure to drop a comment and share with the community. Even just a word or a sentence. Sometimes naming it is the first shift. 🤍 Much love, Neda