Embrace Your Essence Podcast Episode #60

[00:00] Introduction: Parinaz announces her engagement and reflects on her gratitude for this new chapter.

[01:10] A Look Back Five Years Ago: Parinaz describes a period in her life when everything looked perfect on the outside but felt deeply wrong on the inside.

[02:45] Ignoring the Inner Voice: How Parinaz made choices based on societal expectations, not her true desires.

[04:10] The Toxic Relationship: Parinaz shares her experience with an emotionally abusive relationship and how it reflected her unresolved inner struggles.

[06:40] The Wake-Up Call: The pivotal moment when her boyfriend cheated on her and she realized the patterns of self-denial in her life.

[09:20] Mirroring Inner Conflict: Parinaz discusses how external challenges and double-sided realities in career and relationships reflect internal conflict.

[13:00] Changing the Person in the Mirror: A key lesson about addressing internal issues rather than trying to change external circumstances.

[16:45] Clearing the Inner Vision: Removing self-doubt, trauma, and blocks to uncover the truth and wisdom within.

[20:00] Embracing the Inner Voice: How Parinaz connected with her inner compass, transforming her career and relationships.

[22:30] Building a Passion-Led Life: Parinaz shares her journey of building a business and community that reflects her true self.

[24:00] Final Message: Encouraging listeners to stop ignoring their inner compass and start embracing their true path.

Resources Mentioned:

• Work With Parinaz - Join Her Community
• Book a Free Discovery Call
• Learn about the Trust Your Inner Compass Retreat in Sedona Retreat here.

Don't be shy or hesitate to contact me (Parinaz) to get started on your journey to authenticity: shamsguidance@gmail.com.

Embrace Your Essence Podcast Episode #59

2:20 Does that phrase "Do Nice Guys Finish Last" really mean anything?

3:30 The real reason nice guys feel like they finish last and why you should stop doing this one thing.

5:20 The box of being a "provider" and need to be perfect is getting in the way.

06:00 Vulnerability and the need to embrace it if you want to find your authentic love

8:15 Reflection questions for the "nice guys" and for women who are seeking authentic love.

13:00 Toxic masculine beliefs that are keeping you from connecting authentically with women and everyone.

14:00 Being obsessed with the provider role and being a smart guy diminishes your ability to receive.

15:00 Themes of men that I've worked with as clients

24:00 Ways you might be keeping YOURSELF stuck in fake love

25:00 Question for reflection: If I were less concerned with being a nice guy, what would the "real guy" inside my heart say?

33:00 Your joy sets in and love begins when you are authentic

To take the next step in becoming your authentic self, reach out. Don't be shy or hesitate to contact me (Parinaz) to get started on your journey to authenticity: shamsguidance@gmail.com

Experience Tantra-style meditation to cultivate love, compassion, and self-acceptance.

This meditation is perfect for:

-uncertainty and doubt

-loss and big change in life

-anxiety and fear

-self-criticism causing perfectionism

-struggle to slow down and be present

To dive deeper into Tantra Meditation and discover how to create a sustainable meditation practice for yourself, consider joining the self-paced online program, Meditation Made Easy. Click here for details: https://www.parinazshams.com/meditation-made-easy

If you would like to join a community of individuals seeking to find inner freedom, peace, and internal wholeness through tools like Tantra Meditaiton, Somatic Yoga, and spiritual guidance from Parinaz, consider the Courageous Comeback Program. This community-based program is an in-depth guide to healing and empowerment. The next cohort begins March 10th, 2024. Learn more here and join the waitlist to save $500: https://www.parinazshams.com/courageous-comeback-waitlist

Evolve Community is now available for you to join! Here is the link to join Evolve, the all-in-one-spot to receive Somatic Healing Yoga, Tantra Meditation, and Spiritual Guidance within a safe community: https://www.parinazshams.com/evolve-membership

In Tantra, the sacred feminine is known and respected as the source of ultimate strength and healing. In Sanskrit, sacred feminine is described as "Devi Consciousness". You'll hear the term "Devi Consciousness" used in this meditation, which is the same as the sacred feminine within you. In this meditation, Parinaz guides you through a connection to the sacred feminine within you that is ready and willing to rise, expand, and guide you towards your fullest expression of inner strength. You're invited to try this meditation at any time of day, from anywhere. If you're doing this meditation inside, you're invited to sit down at your designated meditation space. light a candle, and keep roses at your meditation altar. If you're practicing elsewhere, see if you can find a pleasant view, vista, or simply a quiet space to plug into this with headphones and relax. We hope you enjoy listening and it provides powerful healing to your body, mind, and soul.

Visit parinazshams.com to learn about other programs that can take you deeper into healing, including in-person retreats as well as Meditation Made Easy, an online program.

Violence and destruction are rampant in our lives today across the world. Understanding the sacred feminine can hlep us undersstand the root of these issues and can help guide us to a life hta tis much more courageous, calm, and rooted in love.

Embrace Your Essence Podcast by Parinaz Shams

Episode #47; Why Do We Keep Sabotaging Ourselves Exploring the Roots of Destructive Habits

What is "Sacred Feminine?" Have you heard terms like this before and not known how to make sense of it?

Have you ever wondered if there's a way for us to harness our courage to help us live more connected to our hearts and souls so that we are more available to loving relationships taht serve us and more opne to receiving success and abundance in every way.

0:00 Repeating destructive habits can be frustrating, but learning the origins of them can set you up for success.

1:25 Destructive habits often come from our past, which most people don't remember

4:00: What is Sacred Feminine? How this invisible force can be understood by you and harnessed so that you are open to love and success in life.

5:00: Why we see violence in our life; how hatred grows in us as a result of a disconnected relationship to the feminine within and around them.

6:15 Are some people born evil? How evil acts are the result of a lack of knowing the Sacred Feminine.

7:40: How your anger, anxiety, and fear is also a story of disconnected from the feminine consciousness.

8:58 A Tantric perspective on the divine (sacred) feminine; awareness that sacred feminine essence in each of us.

9:48: Goddesses as symbols for the various qualities of femininity; courage, softness, fierceness and how all people regardless of gender and background can benefit from connecting to the goddesses.

11:00 A relationship with the feminine is also cultivating a relationship with yourself.

12:00 How worshipping the yoni is a way of worshipping the root of all life and a simple guided practice to help you connect with that part of you now.

14:30 how you can build a connect to the sacred feminine here and how (you don't have to travel all the way to India to do it!)

15:50 Tips for how to get connected to the feminine essence

Tip #1: Use nature as a source of receiving prana haling

Tip #2: Connect with your root chakra

Tip #3: Find a conscious community to help you dive deeper.

Tip #4: Set intention to honor the Sacred Feminine within me and around me in every day and in every way.

You can join Evolve Membership now to dive deeper into your Sacred Essence and start learning about the power of feminine energy in your life for courage, calm, and confidence.

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Episode #46; Why Do We Keep Sabotaging Ourselves Exploring the Roots of Destructive Habits

Do you keep repeating unhelpful habits that you know aren't good, but you can't seem to stop?

You're not alone. This episode will help you create a pathway forward to your healing and happiness.

Parinaz can help you free yourself and experience wild fulfillment. Steps: Take the free True Nature Energy Quiz at ⁠www.parinazshams.com/quiz⁠.

Embrace Your Esence Program is now enrolling. The next cohort begins October 15th. Sign up here: https://www.parinazshams.com/embrace-your-essence-program

0:00 Repeating destructive habits can be frustrating, but learning the origins of them can set you up for success.

1:25 Destructive habits often come from our past, which most people don't remember

2:00 The body remembers what the mind forgets

2:40 Reason 1 you're repeating destructive habits: You're carrying a wound within that needs to be here, otherwise they live beneath the surface of your daily life keeping you from living fully free and healed

7:47: The Sacred Wound: what it is and how it becomes the manifestation of self-destructive habits.

8;26: Story example of a sacred wound and how it translated into patterns of anger, the need for control, which led to drinking and strained relationships

1:00 Reason 2: you're repeating destructive habits: our tendency to push away what we want most. We stay in patterns because they are familiar

13:30 How Somatic Yoga and Tantra Meditation and Spiritual Guidance can help you untangle the past experiences and go beyond them

Embrace Your Essence Podcast by Parinaz Shams

Episode #45; Finding Freedom Within: How Your True Self is the Key to Unleashing Personal Freedom

Do you long for health, connection, and happiness? Does it feel far away and frustrating trying to get there?

You're not alone. This episode will help you create a pathway forward to your healing and happiness.

Topic #1. 0:00 We all crave freedom, but do we get it?

Topic #2. 2:00 What does lead to true personal freedom.

Topic #3. 3:00 Why the "work/life" balance isn't helping you and why it can't be the object of your freedom.

Topic #5. 3:34 What True Freedom really means

Topic #6. 5:00 What the call toward your True Self is like and how to identify it.

Topic #7. 7:30 The wilderness of unknowns; how to cross the threshold toward your True Self. Examples of what the call can look like.

Topic #8. 9:15 Go beyond the Standard Game of Success & why you go for more?

Topic #9. 10:31 What happens to your life when you're connected to your essence; how it makes you more effective and productive and loving

Topic #10. 9:58 Tantra will deepen your relationship with yourself and therefore relationship with others; it develops self-acceptance; it heals addiction and impulsivity.

Topic #11 11:00. The soul's call is a call to freedom; symptoms of disconnection from your soul including anxiety, addiction, and isolation

Topic #12 12:10. Disconnection from your soul is the knot of all dilemmas in your life

Topic #13 14:25 How to get off the wheel of success and start being truly free

Topic #14 17:00 Examples of how your conditioned idea of success becomes the barrier to personal freedom

Topic #15: 18:00 Examples of people who have broken free from conditioning and found their path to personal freedom;

Topic #16: 19:00 Practical Tips on how to connect to yourself: Yale study shows spending 2 hours per week in nature will substantially improve your health

Topic #17: 30:00 How spiritual guidance with Parinaz can help you free yourself and experience wild fulfillment. Steps: Take the free True Nature Energy Quiz at www.parinazshams.com/quiz.

To learn more about how you can walk the path to personal freedom, ⁠join Embrace Your Essence Waitlist. An online group coaching program that will begin again October, 2023. By getting on the waitlist, you can save $500 when the program opens if you choose to join! Learn more here.

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

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About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way.

Embrace Your Essence Podcast by Parinaz Shams

Episode #44; Unleash the Healing Power of Somatic Yoga & Tantra Meditation

Do you long for health, connection, and happiness? Does it feel far away and frustrating trying to get there?

You're not alone. This episode will help you create a pathway forward to your healing and happiness.

Topic #1. 1:30 If you want to true happiness, health, and profound healing, you need to come back to your essence.

Topic #2. 2:00 How Somatic Healing Yoga helps you tap into your essence

Topic #3. 3:00 The Transformative Power yoga is in the approach; it's not about being strong, fit, or flexible. It's a practice to learn your intuition and tap into the intelligence of your body.

Topic #5. 5:00 Benefits of Somatic Yoga: listening to intuition; empowers self-trust; unleashes your body's healing potential; fosters a harmonious connection within your body, mind, and spirit

Topic #6. 6:00 Empowered Yogi can help you get started

Topic #7. 7:30 The power of Tantra Meditation

Topic #8. 8:00 What Tantra Meditation can do for you

Topic #9. 9:43 How Tantra Meditation is different from other meditation

Topic #10. 9:58 Tantra will deepen your relationship with yourself and therefore relationship with others; it develops self-acceptance; it heals addiction and impulsivity.

Topic #11 11:00. Tantra Meditation can help you truly understand self-love and actually start loving yourself and who you are because you will know who you are.

Topic #12 13:00. Finding a Tantra Meditation and Somatic Yoga practice that works for you

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Learn more here: ⁠https://www.parinazshams.com/empowered-yogi.

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way.

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Episode #42; Healing from Within: How Somatic Yoga Transforms Pain, Tension, and Stiffness

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Topic #1.  Muscle Tension is the result of conditioning.

Topic #2. 1:30 Somatics are the solution to pain in the body

Topic #3. 4:30 The negative impacts of muscular tension and poor circulation on the body

Topic #4. 5:00 Nitric Oxide Production through somatics to promote relaxation and ease

Topic #5. 8:47 Trauma Can Manifest as Chronic Pain

Topic #6. 12:00 Chronic Pain and Emotional Stress of Conditioning

Topic #7. 16:00 Personal Stories of Chronic Pain Being Healed Through Somatics

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way.

April 23, 2023

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Episode #41; Breaking the Cycle: How to Stop Analyzing Your Emotions and Start Feeling Them

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Topic #1.  1:00 What is femininity really? Why should we care?

Topic #2. 3:30 What is Tantra and how it thinks about femininity

Topic #3. 5:00 Does this apply to people in male bodies and men?

Topic #4. 12:00 Ways of thinking about femininity & how to nurture it

Topic #5. 20:00 A case study: how cultivating femininity has helped people

Topic #6. 24:00  The importance of feminine & masculine energy together

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way. 

April 23, 2023

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Episode #41; Breaking the Cycle: How to Stop Analyzing Your Emotions and Start Feeling Them

Embrace Your Essence Group Coaching Program is now open for enrollment for Spring 2023!

Learn more here: https://www.parinazshams.com/embrace-your-essence

Topic #1.  1:00 What causes us to dislike our emotions? Conditioning & Society

Topic #2. 4:00 Why you struggle to express yourself

Topic #3. 5:14 How suppressed emotions shows up in sexual relationships

Topic #4. 9:00 What do uncomfortable emotions mean? Do we need them? (Anger, anxiety, fear)

Topic #5. 10:00 Emotions As Mirrors; feel them instead of think about them

Topic #6. 15:00  A guided practice of being with your emotions

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way. 

March 21, 2023

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Episode #40; The Hidden Power of Surrender: And how it can transform your life

Topic #1.  1:00 "Trust. Let Go. And float." - Rumi; the power of these words

Topic #2. 9:42 How surrender can help you if you've always felt like a black sheep

Topic #3. 11:28 What surrendering can do for you

Topic #4. 16:22 Client Story: how to surrender when life gives you difficult situations

Topic #5. 26:00 The Power of Sadnah in surrendering; how meditation can help you

Topic #6. 32:07  Guided Meditation

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

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About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way. 

"The heart is right to cry even when the smallest drop of light, of love is taken away. You are so right to do so, in any fashion, until God returns to you." -Hafiz

00:00 God can mean many things; a consciousness around us and within us.

1:45 When we get close to the courageous, unconventional, truth of us, we get closer to God.

2:30 When there's endless creation in us and around us, why do we feel confined and stuck in a life that feels performative?

5:20 The need to belong is why we are willing to accept the script even if it doesn't fit us.

12:40 Learning how to listen to your inner voice; it doesn't have to feel hard or complicated

17:00 How to discern your Inner Voice from your Conditioned Voice: Nurture the voice inside you:

19:41 Persian story of confusing his eye-lash for the moon

24:00 Steps to nurture the voice inside you

February 27th, 2023

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Episode #39; How to Create Lasting Inner Peace: What Spirituality Can Do For You 

"Spirituality" is a term that gets thrown around a lot. 

But what does it really mean? Is the same thing as religion? Can anyone be spiritual?  And what can it do for YOU in your life today?  That's what this episode is all about. 

Topic #1.  1:00 What Spirituality is NOT

Topic #2. 9:42 Your Complete Self™ : What's Missing When You Struggle to Feel Peace 

Topic #3. 11:28 What Spirituality Can Do For You

Topic #4. 16:22 Client Story: from angry, stuck, and lost to happy, free, and connected through the Spiritual Path.

Topic #5. 26:00 Spirituality and Self-Awareness 

Topic #6. 32:07  Is Spirituality Reasonable and Logical?  

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

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About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to help you, no matter who you are or how "spiritual" you consider yourself today, Embrace Your Essence, so you can experience lasting physical health, emotional wholeness, and self-trust in every way. 

January 29th, 2023

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Episode #38; Why Are Relationships so Hard? What you need to know about love

Do you ever ask yourself, "Why are relationships so hard?" or, "What's wrong with me?"

If you've asked yourself either of these questions lately, this episode is for you. We'll dive into what you need to know about love and the ways you've been confused in love by society and conditioning. 

Topic #1.  2:00 The key ingredient to getting love to flow in your life and relationships to bloom. 

Topic #2. 5:00 Why are you struggling in relationships (of all kinds)? What's the real issue?

Topic #3. 6:50 How your conditioning is impacting your relationships with partners, family, friends, and YOURSELF.

Topic #4. 8:52 What's the difference between Self-love and loving others? Start with Self-love to start loving others. 

Topic #5. 10:10 How do you have standards, boundaries, and accountability while also loving unconditionally? lessons from Ancient Persian Mystics

Topic #6. 15:07 The Power of Boundaries in Spiritual Love

Topic #7. 19:00 How to build a Spiritual Foundation within yourself for love bloom: A daily sadhnah 

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Hatha Yoga, Ayurveda, and Tantra Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to make physical health, emotional wholeness, and Persian mysticism an accessible and easy-to-understand spiritual practice.

December 1st, 2022

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Episode #37; How do you find happiness within yourself? 

Do you ever ask yourself, "What am I doing with my life?" Do you ask: "How did I get here?" or "When will it be my turn for joy and ease?"

If you've asked yourself any of these questions lately, this episode is for you. We'll dive into what you need to know to bring joy, ease, and fulfillment (AKA happiness) to your life now so that you are fulfilled from the inside out. Hear 3 essential lessons Parinaz has learned in her own journey that you need to learn NOW so that you can start changing the direction of your personal happiness now. 

Topic #1. 1:00 My personal misunderstandings of what success and happiness means

Topic #2. 3:20 How your conditioning is impacting your ideas of happiness

Topic #3. 9:00 The reckoning that awakens your awareness and changes your idea of how to pursue happiness & fulfillment

Topic #4. 11:34 The first lesson: the REAL reason you feel like you're losing out on life 

Topic #5. 12:07 How life REALLY becomes fulfilling and happy 

Topic #6. 13:07 The second lesson: knowing your REAL strength 

Topic #7. 16:05 The third lesson: How to activate your courage so that you find your happiness  & deal with the fear of "should I REALLY do this inner work?"

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Spiritual Healing Retreats to help you transform your life.

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About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates the ancient healing sciences of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to make physical health, emotional wholeness, and Persian mysticism an accessible and easy-to-understand spiritual practice.

October 13th, 2022

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Episode #36; How to Completely Change Your Life using Yoga, Meditation, and Ayurveda

Often people think that living in vibrant health, a calm mind, big success, and trusting love is a mystery - a code to crack. That is not true. The beauty and power of the spiritual path and spiritual healing sciences like those discussed in this episode offer simple, effective, natural ways to transform your life in all dimensions. It is that simple, but it's not easy. It requires consistency, courage, and reverence of yourself to heal on the true spiritual path using yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda. Dive in to learn more. 

Topic #1 3:50 The truth about yoga & how to use Hatha Yoga to increase your longevity in a real way (hint: this applies to you even if you practice yoga all the time). 

Topic #2 6:40 The real purpose of Meditation & how to get good at it so it actually serves you. 

Topic #3 8:00 The information you need about Ayurveda to understand it will help you from a lifestyle perspective to resolve inflammation, gut health issues, and chronic pain in the body. 

Topic #4 9:30 How these 3 spiritual healing sciences work together and why you need all of them. 

Topic #5: 17:40 Tips on Yoga for healing physically (sciatica, Fibromyalsia, ulcers, etc), emotionally, and spiritually

Topic #6:  30:00   Tips on Meditation for ideal relaxation, self-awareness, and mental clarity

Topic #7:   40:00    Tips on Ayurveda for optimal gut, brain, and body health as well as a lifestyle of wholeness. 

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Wellness Retreats to help you transform your life. 

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About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates ancient healing sciences of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Meditation with her Complete Self ™ Life Coaching approach to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to make physical health, emotional wholeness, and Persian mysticism an accessible and easy-to-understand spiritual practice.

September 20th, 2022

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Episode #35; Do you suffer from toxic positivity? : What you don't know about our societal perception of "good" and "bad" and how it's holding you back.

You cannot know light (positivity, joy, love) unless you also know dark (heaviness, sadness, loss, anger).  To find the true depth of life's joy, success, and fulfillment, you must release your attachment to "high vibes only" and embrace the reality of duality, where darkness and lightness co-exist as essential mirrors for one another. 

Topic #1 1:45 What is toxic positivity?  Scenarios where you are experiencing your Prana circulating versus stagnating.

Topic #2 9:10 Duality is an essential counter-approach to toxic positivity What causes Prana to stagnate & what warning signs you'll start to see?

Topic #3 14:45: Extreme darkness setting in & how it causes a fractured identity within us

Topic #4 16:50 What's really going on when it feels like nothing is working for you? 

Topic #5 18:02 How darkness can help you move forward & guide you back to the light of life

Topic #6 20:50 Redefine your conditioning about darkness in life  & start respecting your existence

Topic #7  25:00 Important lessons on duality from Persian Mystics & ancient healing tools

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Wellness Retreats to help you release your anxieties, stress, and fear.

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates ancient healing sciences of Yoga, Ayurveda, Persian Mysticism, and Meditation with modern lifestyle planning and psychology to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to make physical health, emotional wholeness, and Persian mysticism an accessible and easy-to-understand spiritual practice.

August 29th, 2022

Embrace Your Essence Podcast by Parinaz Shams

 Episode #34; The Power of Prana: How to stop feeling drained, reduce chronic pain, and help your vital life force flow 

Your vital life force, Prana, is living in your right now, either circulating well or sitting stagnant. It can even be getting drained through your words, actions, and behavior without you realizing it. To no longer feel drained, experience chronic pain, and enhance your intimacy in life, you have to learn about the power of Prana

Topic #1 1:45 What is Prana?  Scenarios where you are experiencing your Prana circulating versus stagnating. 

Topic #2 9:10 What causes Prana to stagnate & what warning signs you'll start to see?

Topic #3 11:00 How to circulate Prana using the physical body (discussed through Parinaz's personal experience learning to cultivate Prana). 

Topic #4 23:06 How to cultivate Prana using meditation & the spiritual path 

Topic #5 31:00 How sex can drain your Prana & client story 

Visit www.parinazshams.com for more information on Spiritual Life Coaching & Wellness Retreats to help you cultivate Prana

Follow Parinaz on Instagram @_parinazshams_ (https://www.instagram.com/_parinazshams_/)

About Parinaz:

Parinaz Shams is a Persian Spiritual Life Coach and somatic expert. Based in Denver, Colorado Parinaz integrates ancient healing sciences of Yoga, Ayurveda, Persian Mysticism, and Meditation with modern lifestyle planning and fitness to awaken health, healing, and happiness in the lives of busy people who experience high stress and chronic pain. Parinaz's mission is to make physical health, emotional wholeness, and Persian mysticism an accessible and easy-to-understand spiritual practice. 

Have you tried to meditate & felt unsure "how" to do it?

Do you feel like meditation "doesn't work" for you? 

You're not alone...and chances are, there are some things you haven't been told yet that could really help you.

Meditation is at its essence a healing tool. It can help us cultivate self-awareness, and that can help us transform our lives into something more calm, whole, and fulfilling.

Do you like this episode? Please do share & subscribe. 

You have a long-standing history with yourself that needs to be addressed and healed before you can create history with another person that feels loving, supportive, and lasting. 

Have you ever gone through a bad break-up? Are you currently in the midst of a divorce? If so, there are a few essential pieces to the process that need to be examined so that you can feel whole, connected, and free coming through it. So that you can find love, fulfillment, and happiness that lasts. 

Did you enjoy this episode? Share it & subscribe so you're the first to know when a new episode drops. 

Success isn't actually defined by what most people think. 

Success isn't accomplished by the things most people think. 

In fact, success is so much more than hustling, grinding, and fighting for your peace. Tune in and discover how you can avoid common mistakes ambitious people make while trying to be successful.

Most people don't realize that their physical body pain & discomfort is a mirror for their emotions. 

The emotional pain and trauma from your life is living in your physical body, causing tension, tightness, and a whole-body response that throws off your natural cycles and rhythm (sleep, appetite, menstruation).

If YOU are struggling with: chronic pain, repeating menstrual discomfort, sleepless nights, digestive issues 

AND if you are struggling to feel: calm, clear, confident, joyful, like the real you, comfortable in your own skin...

if you KNOW you're meant for more, but you're not sure how to get there...then this episode is for you.

After you listen, share this with a friend!

Subscribe to this podcast & like it - it helps a lot!

xx

Parinaz

PS visit parinazshams.com for more details about how you can heal your body, emotions, and mind. 

This is a special bonus meditation podcast as a Summer solstice gift to you : )

Are you at a crossroads in life?

Are you wondering what steps to take next?

This meditation is for you.

Whenever you feel shame, embarrassment, or notice yourself going into self-punishment mode because you didn't do something "right", compassion is your medicine.

Shame ultimately lives in fear - fear of not being good enough.

Compassion can help you love and nurture that inner self that has been trying hard for a long time and deserves to be seen.

Tonight’s full moon in Cancer (June 21st, 2024) is all about slowing down and letting yourself be.

Be in your many expressions - the rawness, fierceness, sadness, confusion, chaos, strength, creativity, and everything in between.

Focus more on being rather than doing to absorb the healing of this month and this full moon.

As we step into summer (yesterday was the solstice, we have many invitations waiting for us)

To feel ready and able to meet those invitations with full trust, joy, and courage, we need to be soft and gentle to the wounded parts of us. To all parts of us.

So use this compassion meditation to help you!

Are you craving intimacy? 

Are you searching for love rooted in trust and respect? 

Are you looking for a relationship that lets you be truly you...that brings deep satisfaction and lets you show up in your fullest expression?

You're not alone. Most of us, yet most of us feel that is so elusive...this episode is meant to shed light on how to maintain and deepen intimacy and how to move into love with confidence and clarity. 

How do you like this episode? If you enjoy it, please share it and leave a review! It means the world to me.

xx,

Parinaz

Have you been going through a massive life change? Loss, divorce, career changes, or otherwise? 

This can be a very confusing, lonely, and disorienting experience. This episode is going to walk you through what's REALLY going on when you feel  like a part of your life has fallen apart (now or in the past) and how you can heal. 

You can also read about how to heal after things fall apart from divorce at www.parinazshams.com/blog.

P.S. Only 4 spots left for this April's Wellness Retreat in Colorado. Sign up now for 4 days of deep healing, immersive guidance, and a trip to the Sacred Sand Dunes National Park. 

This episode is about love and all the ways we've been confused, misguided, and misrepresented when it comes to love. This is for everyone out there seeking deep love. Seeking to know what's really going on in all the moments you've felt belittled, betrayed, and forgotten...

Real love comes from a much deeper place than any of us realize...we're going to explore that space today and what it means for you as a lover...and as the beloved. 

What you don’t know about your loneliness…

Most people thing loneliness comes from a lack of external things.

A lack of friends, money, respect at work, a SO, or not living in the “right” city.

Truth is, though: LONELINESS IS ABOUT YOU.

When you aren’t comfortable being with yourself, you need other things & people to make you feel comfortable.

When you aren’t connected to your a complete self it becomes VERY hard to be comfortable with yourself.

So, the cure to loneliness is not a better body, more money in your bank account, or the next best boyfriend.

It’s in building that real relationship to your mind, your body, and your energy.

This episode is going to break down what you're missing about your loneliness and to really start bringing connection back to your life now. 

You might know that I don't fixate on "dream" bodies very much. That's because I feel much stronger about every person embracing who they already are versus trying to become something else...that said, YOUR dream body lives in you finding YOUR state of balance...which means way more than counting calories and trying the next-best zero-calorie salad dressing.

Instead, having a body that is fit, strong, and you feel great in comes down to balancing your physical body, your mind, AND your energy. 

This podcast breaks down 3 secrets that are NOT shared in the mainstream (that's what makes them secrets ; )) so that you can start embracing vibrant health and loving relationships through your truly confident self. 

Questions? Email shamsguidance@gmail.com or visit @_parinazshams_ on Instagram to learn more. 

Ready to dive deep into your balanced life? Visit Parinazshams.com to learn more about in-person wellness retreats coming in 2022. 

Have you been experiencing unexplainable shifts to your body, mind, or energy lately? 

Things like: anxiety, low motivation, a sense of urgency that feels like it has nowhere to go? 

What about restless sleep, mood swings, or constipation (physical or emotional)?

These are all symptoms of seasonal change. Whether you're aware of it or not, the season affects you because you are a creature of nature. in many ways, our being mirrors what's happening in nature - regardless of our climate. You may experience less extreme shifts if you live in a temperate climate, but you are nonetheless always changing as nature is. 

Embracing these changes from a place of awareness is the key to feeling strong, fit, and like the real you year round. Start listening to nature & it will show you how to listen to your body - and vice versa!

There’s so much around digestion and how it directly impacts the quality of your fitness, relationships, and your success professionally that is really not talked about in Western nutrition, wellness,  and fitness spaces.

In this episode, we unpack what we haven’t been told and what is not being talked about that you need to know about digestion today to maximize your health, wealth, and joy in life. 

Join the True Balance Live Workshop August 30th at 6:30 PM for a deep-dive into balancing tools and practices discussed in this episode!

You've probably heard manifesting is the powerful practice of calling anything & everything you desire into your reality. As powerful as this practice of the mind is, it has to be done with complete self-awareness. As you step into this embrace your essence podcast episode, do so with an open mind, a curiosity towards your own desires, and how they have come to be. Learn how to manifest from a place of awareness so that you can have not just what you desire, but feel aligned with all that you call in. 

This episode is for anyone out there who's felt like they exist outside the norm. Like you don't quite fit any complete definition of what society offers, your family or culture expects, and as a result, you've felt unsure about your won identity.

Identity is what offers us a sense of stability and security. We often seek a fixed identity based on external things (status, money, relationships, etc). This episode will explore with you the ways you may be attaching to fixed identities and how you can find greater peace, confidence, and self-respect by embracing your dimensions, releasing the need for a fixed identity and loving your uniqueness. 

Send your questions & future topic suggestions to shamsguidance@gmail.com

This interview is with Micaiah Jones. She's a holistic child strategist, seeking to help youth primarily between the ages of 12-18 to develop their physical, mental and emotional wellness. Most recently, Michaiah has founded a non-profit organization, called Mind The Agapē, that walks students through coaching and mentoring to help cultivate holistic wellness.

This interview touches on Micaiah's personal journey towards wholeness and her perspective on seeking to bring balance, clarity, and self-awareness to kids. Follow her on instagram @mind.the.agape

Have you wanted to live a bold, courageous life, but felt afraid to disappoint your family or culture? Then this is for you.

4:00 Rumi and Shams Tabriz as ancient, unconventional wisdom that can guide you today

Sacred Rebellion

9:00 Personal story from Parinaz about breaking her family's expectations

11:15 Evolve your lineage, don't repeat the past

11:45 Lesson #1 In Sacred Rebellion: Your job is not to be your parents; your job is to evolve

12:43 Freedom, while we want it, we are afraid of it so we hide from it.

13:31 Lesson #2 Trust yourself more; trust that your courage is stronger than your fear

16:00 Your "misfit" or black sheep energy is what makes you courageous enough to live beyond the script. You have always been enough for the life beyond the script.

17:05 The place that will allow you to live courageously

18:00 Lesson #3: Realize that the answers live within you

19:00 The Inward Journey

26:00 How to deal with the voices inside your head

28:00 Choose compassion over reputation

Join Evolve Membership today! https://www.parinazshams.com/evolve-membership

True love, or eshgh, as the Persians say, is something greater than the love most of us know. Love as we know it stems from conditioning, past trauma or fear. True love is rooted in connection, and connection is born from awareness. 

If you've recently gone through a breakup, have a pattern of upsetting relationships, or are seeking to understand yourself as a lover & partner more, this episode is a good start. 

Reach out to us with questions at shamsguidance@gmail.com

This episode honors the Persian New Year (Nowruz) and dives into where attachment is holding you back from expansion this year. As we all embrace a new season (spring), it's important to recognize where our habits, mindsets, and other attachments are limiting our growth. Listen all the way through to learn about my virtual workshop. & wellness retreats coming this spring!

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If I have harmed anyone, knowingly or unknowingly, through my own confusions, I ask their forgiveness. If there's any who has harmed me, knowingly or unknowingly, through their confusions, I forgive them. And if there is a situation I am not yet ready to forgive, I forgive myself for that. All the ways I doubt, judge, belittle and be unkind to myself, through my own confusions, I forgive myself. 

These lines are a buddhist prayer of forgiveness. i appreciate it so much because

We all struggle to forgive for different reasons. Sometimes its from a place a pride, we feel the only power we hold over a person or situation that has harmed us is to not forgive them. And then we build actions and mindsets that keep us bound to from that oath we take with ourselves to not forgive, to not give another ounce of power away. It can look like holing grudges and resentment. 

We probably all have a time we’ve chosen to not forgive another person - something small or major - but the truth is, when we choose to hold onto harm by not forgiving we are internalizing the pain they inflicted on us. when we internalize the pain, when we think we are being strong or powerful, that pain builds within us and has long reaching impacts. we can become jaded, judgmental, and sometimes petty ourselves. we hold onto the pain inflicted on us and it roots itself deeply within us to the point that it cannot be let go.

Sometimes its toward ourselves. we make mistakes, or from a time in life when we were struggling to know our worth, value, and importance, we lashed out or acted through deceit or anger or even violence which imposed harm on another. And sometimes we cause harm to ourselves in a more subtle yet still powerful way. and that is through the relationship we have with ourselves. right now, ask yourself, how do I speak to myself about my physical body? Can you start to tell me the things about your physical body you dislike and wish were different? what are they?

do you speak to yourself, think to yourself, or act towards yourself in ways that further highlights what you don’t like abut yourself. if you stand in the mirror daily criticizing the fact that you have curves, or the way your eyes are spaced, things that are inherent to you, you are causing har.

If you know me and listen to this podcast, i don’t promote or encourage ignoring what causes you pain and pretending everything is fine, so i’m not here to tel yourself to suddenly start loving everything about you.

Rather, I invite you to become aware of the ways you may be inflicting harm on yourself in the subtle ways.

Use this breathing-based guided meditation to support your state of inner calm as you complete any task, assignment, project, or moment of stillness throughout your day. 

Meditation Text: 

You are made of joy. Start to breathe in and out through your nose with intention. Feel your spine grow taller on your inhales and press your air down into your base on your exhales. 

You are made of joy.

Every action you take. Every word you speak. And the thoughts you create can all be infused with the energy of joy. 

As you breathe, feel your body with the energy of joy.

This can be warmth rising within you, syncing to your inhales and exhales. 

Joy can feel like a smile gently turning your lip creases upward.

Joy can be a moment of gratitude where you feel your heart open and soften to an image that brings you joy. 

Connect with the energy of joy and invite it in as you breathe steadily and comfortably.
Breathe in. Breathe out. 

Joy expands within you as you let go of what your mind searches for and welcome what is already yours. 

For the next couple minutes as you inhale and exhale, breathe in the qualities of you and on the exhale, let go of your judgement, comparison, and competition that's living in your mind.

Release the need to be anything else.

Embrace what is already yours.

Breathe and receive the energy of you through this affirmation. You can repeat this affirmation to yourself, reword it in a way that feels right to you, or just absorb it as I say it....."I am made of love and abundance."

Breathe in. Breathe out. 

Embrace the joy within you and all around you. 

You may already agree that health is more than going to the gym and eating salads. Did you know, though, that a major aspect of health is understanding the natural profile of your mind and body? Ayurveda - a traditional medical science - offers a roadmap for us to explore ourselves in mind and body so that we can understand how to eat, sleep, and move in a way that is most supportive to our evolution. When we explore health through self-awareness building practices, we realize we can make small yet powerful steps to our lifestyle routines that will greatly influence our longevity, success, and happiness.

To receive a 30-minute coaching session where we explore your dosha and practices that can balance your health and wellness, click here. 

The Heart Center is a powerful place to begin meditating. It is our personal reservoir for love, acceptance, and giving and receiving joy. As you meditate, you are moving beyond your mind into a place of awareness. Awareness is your strength, courage, and intuition that is always present,  and wants to be heard more by you.

To learn how you can receive a customized meditation and mantra from Parinaz and start to build a relationship with your awareness, email: shamsguidance@gmail.com

This intuitive, ancient science describes tools for healing that are just now being discovered in Western Medicine. Ayurveda not only shares ways to cure and heal the body of ailments, but it provides a framework for understanding oneself through the lens of nature and its elements. 

Here are links to learn more about Ayurveda and your Dosha: https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/ayurvedic-living/learning-ayurveda/intro-to-ayurveda/

https://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/dosha-quiz/

To share questions, episode topic ideas, and otherwise, email shamsguidance@gmail.com

This episode explores one person's perspective on how being from a bi-racial family can confuse the idea of race and self-perception. This episode is an important eye-opener about how strongly white culture and communities can condition people into feeling as though they need to conform to white standards. Katrina Kiritharan talks about white standards of beauty, success, and how a childhood based in White Connecticut sparked her journey of self-discovery as a woman, teacher, and person of color. Katrina is a Reiki Master and Guide for people seeking to find healing in their body and energy. She is based in Vietnam, and works virtually with people. Follow her @katrinakiritharan on IG to learn more about her work through Earthbound Intuitive. 

Karla is a spiritual healer who is on the EYE podcast to share the importance of remaining connected to your roots and remain committed to finding your voice as life unfolds. Her powerful message will resonate with people who are seeking to understand a complex identity, how a sense of place affects your trust & confidence, and how gratitude can help you evolve mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

Karla is the founder of the Share Your Voice Movement, where she empowers individuals to share their life stories, unfiltered, in a healing way. 

Karla also offers healing self-care products and is launching a group program for people wanting to go deeper in their work of self-understanding. Connect with Karla via her website: Website link www.karlajulissa.com or on Instagram @karlajulissa_co

Do you want to be featured on the Embrace Your Essence Podcast? Send us a message at shamsguidance@gmail.com or follow us on IG @_parinazshams_

Episode # 55

"How Do You Stop Getting In Your Own Way? I really want stability, but how do I not sabotage it? "

5:30 The #1 Insight to break out of self-sabotage

6:30 What am I worried will happen if I DO get what I want?

13:00 The Power of Receiving for Overcoming Self-sabotage and how it will change the game for you. How can I do less and receive more?

14:25 Receiving is a feminine quality; how to embrace softness

17:03 How much you struggle to get what you want comes from how you relate to yourself.

Tip #1: Learn your fears and the voices you've been listening to

Tip #2: Let yourself receive

Tip #3: Build self-awareness to understand how to soften and receive

With Covid-19, racially-based hatred, and uncertainty at a high in the US and the world, it is essential to find ways to engage in meaningful self-healing. It's also necessary to realize that there are very real barriers to keep people away from healing practices based on race, class, gender, and more. This episode reaches directly towards these barriers, lifts them up, and examines the ways in which they keep people's potential suppressed.  If you are on the spiritual journey, a woman, a person of color, or someone seeking to be an ally, this episode can highlight and provide context and language about what is missing and needed to be done to support healing from an inclusive place.  To learn more about Beza's story or how you can participate in the Embrace Your Essence Podcast, email shamsguidance@gmail.com

We often don't realize until adulthood that our identity is a mixture of what we were told we should do, who we're supposed to be, and a deeply rooted desire to heal our earliest wounds. Rarely do we have the  opportunity to ask "Who am I, really?" 

This episode explores Parinaz's personal journey with this question as a way to provide context for how this essential question can generate new perspectives on how you see yourself beyond your titles, roles, responsibilities, and past experiences. 

To send comments and specific questions about this episode, or ideas for future topics, please email shamsguidance@gmail.com directly.

We live in a physical body, which is the home of our awareness and our logical mind. This episode explores the ways that our mind interacts with the world from a place of ego, bias, and prejudice. Connecting to our awareness allows us to explore love from a place not based on labels, categories, and expectations, but of a greater perspective of connectedness. This is the healing work being called out of us during the Black Lives Matter-focused protests occurring. Explore this time of awakening with grace and trust. 

To learn more about how you can be exploring your personal identity, the one rooted in your family lineage, as well as the ways your mind has become conditioned, reach out to Parinaz personally at shamsguidance@gmail.com 

Finding yourself & your voice isn’t a path with an end point at which you someday arrive. It’s a journey of unlearning and redefining what is truly yours. It’s rooted in your lineage and the experiences you’ve had. To learn more about how you can find your empowered voice through a self-paced yoga and breath work program, click to learn about Empowered Yogi: https://christiana-s-school-c570.thinkific.com/courses/Empowered-Yogi