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Sandra Paolini - MBET, Walnut Creek, CA (2025)

07/23/2025

Your internal energy system doesn’t need an interface.

AI might be evolving at warp speed, but there’s one thing it will never have: an internal energy source.

We’re walking around with something wildly intelligent inside of us. Our internal energy system.

It pulses. It vibrates. It moves.

However, most of us have no idea how to feel it, work with it, or unlock its potential.

It’s not something to download.
Not something to track.
Not something you “optimize.”

And that’s the whole point.

We’re trained to look outside ourselves for power—tools, hacks, tech, AI.

But the one thing that makes us uniquely human is already here, inside your body, right now.

You just have to slow down enough to feel it.

Not slow down like “take a walk” or “breathe deeply for 30 seconds.”

I mean, actually slow down—beneath the noise, beneath the goals, beneath the part of you that’s trying to get it right.

Let go of your ideas. Let go of what you think is supposed to happen. And turn your attention inward—not to your thoughts, but to your energy.

The rhythm.
The current.
The flicker of something alive that doesn’t need a name or an explanation.

No app will find it for you. Because using the mind to make it happen is the surest way to miss it.

But if you let go, something else starts to stir.
And it’s not small.
You turn your attention inward—not to your thoughts, but to sensation.

To rhythm. To the subtle flicker of something alive, already moving, already communicating.

What if this is the gateway to creativity that’s been waiting underneath all the noise?

What if our real power source can take us further than any external system ever could?

“To infinity and beyond.” – Buzz Lightyear

Want more?
Friday’s newsletter goes deep into this—what it really means to work with your internal energy system, and why it matters more than ever in an AI-saturated world.

I’m not talking about theory—I’m talking about the real thing.

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07/18/2025

What if the life you’re meant to live… can’t be planned?

What if clarity doesn’t come from locking down a five-year strategy, but from letting go of clutter, of comfort, of the version of you that no longer fits?

This week’s newsletter explores the radical power of choosing simplicity—even when it doesn’t make sense on paper.

What it means to walk away from a well-built life... not to escape, but to come home to something more honest.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your stuff, your schedule, or your “shoulds” are in the way of something deeper, this one’s for you.

Sign up for The Change Lab to get this week’s full newsletter—plus tools for real transformation.
Each weekly edition explores conscious life design, personal reinvention, and the deeper forces that shape our choices.

You’ll also get instant access to a full-length Yoga Nidra practice—designed to help you drop the noise, reconnect with what matters, and take action from that place of clarity.

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07/16/2025

Ever feel the pull to make a big change— not just in your work or routine, but in how you live?

Maybe it’s a craving for simplicity.

Maybe you’ve outgrown the life you once built. Or maybe you’re just tired of carrying what no longer feels true.

This week’s edition of The Change Lab explores all of that in detail, through the story of how I let go of almost everything I owned to live more freely, with less, and on my own terms.

But really, it’s not about me.

It’s about a question that might be quietly stirring in you too:

What would change if you gave yourself permission to live more freely, more intentionally, more aligned?

If that question hits home, join The Change Lab—my weekly newsletter exploring conscious life design, personal reinvention, and the deeper forces that shape our choices.

Subscribers get the full post, plus a powerful Yoga Nidra meditation to help you quiet the noise and stay rooted in what matters.

No fluff. Just insight, practice, and tools for real change.
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07/14/2025

Two Takes on the Simulation – and the Space Between

This week, I watched two wildly different takes on simulation theory.

One gripped my nervous system. The other helped me let go.

The first was with Roman Yampolsky, a computer scientist who believes we are almost certainly living in a simulation.

According to him, the only way out might be through superintelligent AI. But here’s the catch: once AGI surpasses human intelligence, we won’t be able to control it. He gives us a 99.9% chance of extinction. And even if we do escape the simulation, there’s no guarantee we’d survive what’s on the other side.

It was a brilliant argument—and completely disorienting.

I found myself pulled into fear-based thinking before I even realized it was happening.

Then I listened to Seiko Shen’s podcast, which offered a radically different frame. (By the way, I love this guy)

Instead of a trap, the simulation became a mirror. A responsive, real-time feedback loop shaped by our inner world—our beliefs, emotional patterns, and frequency.

He spoke of meditation not as an escape, but as a way to change the signal we’re sending. And just like that. I came back to myself.

What hit me most wasn’t the contrast between their ideas—it was the speed at which fear had hijacked my system.

Even after decades of spiritual practice, I still get caught off guard. The mind grabs the story. The body tenses. And the simulation reflects it right back.

That’s why a disciplined, daily practice matters. Not to transcend reality. Not to stay calm all the time. But to catch the spin sooner. To choose presence instead of panic. To return to home base.
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What about you?

Have you noticed the way fear sneaks in—even from “smart” ideas?
What helps you come back to clarity?

If you’re looking for something to ground you, I recorded a free Yoga Nidra meditation to help reset and reconnect.

07/11/2025

I used to think I was just scattered, incapable of staying with one thing.

However, in hindsight, I was searching for something more profound.

In today's newsletter, I'm sharing a story about panic, purpose, and the practice that helped me shift from constant analysis into something quieter, steadier, and more alive.

In addition to today's newsletter, I'm also offering a free full-length Yoga Nidra guided meditation audio.

If you've never heard of it, Yoga Nidra is a guided meditative experience done while lying down, designed to bring you into a state of deep rest while remaining fully aware.

It's not about effort or mental control—it's a method for gently clearing the mind and calming the nervous system by guiding you into deep, conscious rest.

Something shifted the moment I experienced it. It quickly became the most powerful tool I use with therapy and coaching clients, especially those caught in stress, overthinking, or emotional overwhelm.

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07/10/2025

It’s Not That You’re Lost—You’re Listening

If you feel like the old way no longer works—but the new way hasn’t fully shown up yet...

You’re not lost. You’re just listening.

That moment is quiet. Unsettling. Often invisible to others.
But it’s the beginning of something real.

In this week’s newsletter, I’m sharing a personal story of how panic, fear, and anxiety became my teachers.

And how the practice of Yoga Nidra—something I initially dismissed as “just relaxation”—became the most powerful tool in my work with clients.

💌 When you sign up for the newsletter, you’ll also get the link to a full-length Yoga Nidra session. This deeply restorative guided experience meets you right where you are.
It might be precisely what you didn’t know you needed.

🌙 Get the newsletter + free Yoga Nidra session here: https://changeworkstrategies.com/
You don’t need to fix yourself. Just listen.

07/09/2025

When Thinking Isn’t the Way Through

Sometimes the mind keeps looping, even after you’ve had all the insight in the world.

You understand the pattern.

You can name the trigger.

You’ve journaled, meditated, even talked it through.

And yet… you’re still stuck.

That’s not failure. That’s a sign it’s time to stop analyzing and start listening differently.

For me, that shift began when I started working with the body. Letting go of problem-solving and dropping into presence.

This week’s newsletter includes a link to a full-length Yoga Nidra session—a deeply restorative guided experience designed to quiet the mind, calm the nervous system, and reconnect you with a sense of clarity that thinking alone can’t reach.

No mental effort.
No “figuring it out” first.
Just space to feel and reset from the inside out.

✨ Get the newsletter + free Yoga Nidra session here: https://changeworkstrategies.com/

Sometimes the way through isn’t insight. It’s something much quieter.

07/08/2025

Scattered or Focused?

I used to think the problem was me.

I couldn’t stick with one thing. Couldn’t choose a lane and stay in it.

I was intense, but inconsistent—burning hot, then gone.

People said I was scattered.

The truth? I was searching. For something that held it all. A worldview. A thread. Something real enough to follow all the way down.

I now know that “focus” doesn’t always mean doing one thing forever.

It can look like coming back—again and again—to what matters.

This week’s newsletter is the most personal thing I’ve written in a while.
If you’ve ever felt like you were too much, too restless, too late—
it might speak to something in you.

💌 When you sign up for this week’s newsletter, you’ll also get the link to a full-length Yoga Nidra session—a deeply restorative guided experience to reset your system from the inside out.

It’s the practice I use most with clients—and the one that changed everything for me.

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07/03/2025

Why You Keep Falling Back Into Old Patterns
(Even When You “Know Better”)

You read the book. Tried the course. Added the habit tracker. Promised yourself this time would be different.

And then… the old pattern returns. The one you swore you were done with.

You’re not lazy. You’re not broken. You don’t lack insight.

You’re just trying to run a new app on an old operating system.

That default system—your automatic responses, deeply grooved thoughts, reactive impulses—was built for survival, not freedom. It doesn’t care about your goals. It just wants to keep you safe and familiar.

Even if “familiar” looks like anxiety, self-doubt, overthinking, or burnout.

The problem isn’t that you haven’t added enough tools.

It’s that the tools are being absorbed by the same system that created the problem.

What if lasting change doesn’t come from trying harder to rewire the machine… but from learning how to step outside of it entirely?

There’s a paradox here that most self-help misses:

Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is to learn how to stop doing.

Body-based practices, like Yoga Nidra offer an alternative to the usual strategies.

Not another mindset trick, but a practice that bypasses the analytical mind and gives you direct access to something deeper, older, wiser.

It doesn’t just soothe the nervous system (though it does). It opens a backdoor to the operating system itself—quietly, gently, without force.

In a state between waking and sleep, something profound becomes possible:

The pattern doesn’t need to be fixed.
It can simply be released.

More on this in an upcoming post.

07/02/2025

You’re not broken.

You don’t need to discover your soul purpose or find your missing piece.

The work isn’t to fix yourself.

It’s to clear what’s in the way—energetically, physically, emotionally—so that what’s already here can start to move.

Most people search for fulfillment through new circumstances.

A better job.
A more aligned relationship.
A place to finally feel at peace.

It’s understandable. We were raised in a world that taught us to look outward for meaning and control—to chase progress and self-worth through effort, achievement, and constant doing.

But true change doesn’t come from chasing. It comes from turning inward, into the system itself. Into the habits of tension, avoidance, and survival that keep you spinning in the same loop.

In my experience as a therapist and coach, real change doesn’t happen through mindset work or spiritual bypass.

It happens when we engage the whole system in an honest, embodied way.

When we work directly with the breath, the body, the nervous system—and the subtle layers of energy and awareness that shape how we move through the world.

These are the deeper technologies of change: not tools for self-improvement, but practices that help clear what’s in the way of who you already are.

The shift begins when you stop searching and start listening.

Not to another outside voice.

But to the one inside that’s been there all along, quiet, steady, and whole.

If this resonates, I share more reflections and practices each week to help you reconnect with the intelligence of your own system.

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07/01/2025

Lasting transformation isn’t a breakthrough. It’s a shift.

We’re conditioned to chase breakthroughs—those dramatic moments of clarity that feel like everything’s about to change.

But most of the time, those moments don’t hold.

We fall back into the same patterns and wonder why insight wasn’t enough.

The truth is, your system—mind, body, and energy—doesn’t shift through insight alone.

Real change requires something we don’t often talk about in personal growth spaces: discipline, attention, and time.

Not willpower. Not grit. Not forcing yourself to be different.

Discipline, in this case, means consistently returning to the practices that shift your state, not just your mindset.

Over time, without trying to change how you move through life, you simply begin to. Your body stops bracing. Energy starts to move in new directions. Your responses change spontaneously, not strategically.

In my work as a therapist and coach, I’ve seen this happen again and again through subtle body practices—especially Yoga Nidra.

Unlike mindset work or seated meditation, Yoga Nidra bypasses the thinking mind.

You lie down and follow a guided process that takes you into deeply restorative states. And in that place—where the usual identities and defense patterns soften—transformation begins at the root.

This kind of work doesn’t give you quick results. It’s not flashy or optimized for performance. But it’s real.

It changes the system from the inside out.

If you’ve been chasing breakthroughs and getting frustrated when they don’t last, maybe it’s time to stop chasing and start returning. To the body. To breath. To sensation. To the place beneath thought where real change begins.

Mind-Body Energy Technology isn’t a theory. It’s a way out of the loop.

It’s not about mindset hacks or surface-level self-improvement.
It’s about shifting how your entire system—mind, body, and energy—functions.

If you’re ready for real change that lasts, not just insight that fades,
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06/27/2025

What if you're not broken?

What if the patterns you struggle with aren't signs of failure but evidence that your system is doing precisely what it was designed to do—keep you safe?

This week's post goes deeper than mindset. It unpacks why insight alone doesn't create real change, and why the body—not the mind—is the place to start unlearning what's been running your life.

If you've ever felt like you're doing all the right things but still stuck in the same loops, this is for you.

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(You'll also get future posts, practices, and no-fluff tools for real inner change.)

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