How to Get Real-World Results from Mindfulness, Meditation and Spirituality with Monica Reyes.

Best Life of Your Life: The BLOYL Podcast, Episode 20

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Welcome back to Best Life Of Your Life! I have an interesting question for you today. When was the last time you had the opportunity to speak with a business attorney, but not just any business attorney, one who had the experience of building a multi-million dollar company, and at the same time, that person was also able to articulate to you how leveraging mindfulness and spirituality actually influenced her real-world business success?

If you're anything like me up until today, my answer would be never. That's never happened before, and that's why I'm really excited to bring to you our guest today, our new friend, Monica Reyes.

See, Monica's traditional background is as a business attorney, and I really wanted to have her on the show because I know for many of us, sometimes when it comes to topics of spirituality and mindfulness, meditation, yoga, things of that nature, we may know intellectually how important it is, but it can sometimes feel really separate from the real-world, but Monica is special.

She brings instant credibility because even though she's a yoga instructor and teaches on the topic of spirituality and mindfulness, she has real-world experience. She describes herself I think pretty appropriately as a bridge between the business world and the world of spirituality where she focuses her time now. Monica does corporate workshops, group coaching, one-on-one work, has a spiritual transformation and mindfulness mentor. She really helps people connect with themselves and get themselves mentally grounded and does it in a way that it creates real-world results, and you're going to get to hear more about that today.

She knows the real struggles, challenges, and demands of real life, but she also knows the opportunities that are created just by making some of the authentic shifts, the mindset shifts that we're going to discuss today, so let's get to it. You're going to love her. You're going to love this discussion. Let's welcome Monica Reyes right now.

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Aaron Hawkins:               Welcome, Monica. Thank you so much for taking me up on the offer to join me on the show. How are you doing today?

Monica Reyes:                  I'm doing excellent. Thank you so much for having me.

Aaron Hawkins:                There's a lot I want to get to today, or at least a good amount of stuff I want us to get to today and let you share, but I wanted to start with something that I saw on your website that really hit me. For those that don't know your background, your traditional background is as a business attorney, but you have since transitioned into doing a lot of teaching and mentoring on spirituality, mindfulness, and you mentioned that you've been able to leverage your spirituality to help you find fulfillment, peak drive, and peace.

Monica Reyes:                  Yes.

Aaron Hawkins:                I thought that was really awesome because if there are three things that I think most people wish they had more of, it's a sense of fulfillment, a sense of energy and drive and peace. In your own words, how did you reach that point through spirituality in what you're doing now?

Monica Reyes:                  For me, spirituality is basically getting back to you, getting back to us, who our higher selves, who we really are, our most authentic self, where we are just simply being. When we're doing anything else than being, it takes an enormous amount of energy, so when you are able to just be, when you're able to really connect to who you really are, beyond the patterns, beyond the limitations, beyond all of the fears, you realize that you're this infinite, timeless being. That right there changes everything because there's a huge now and a huge shift of perspective from like, “Oh my God, life is happening to me”, or “I'm not in control”, or “I'm powerless”, or “Why did he do this to me?”, and so you're constantly floating through life, bouncing around from reaction to reaction, just reacting to every external stimuli around in your daily life. Once you realize how powerful you are and that you've got this infinite helping hand that's just waiting for you called the ‘Universe', things start to change. What I do is I leverage the universe because it's there ready for you, leverage my intuition, and then I did an enormous amount of work, spiritual work, transformational work to get rid of those limiting patterns, those fears.

Obviously I'm human, so I'm not perfect, but I can absolutely tell you a humongous difference in my life from when I was an attorney when I first started this journey into spirituality to where I am now. I have less thoughts. Less negative thoughts. I'm incredibly positive. I have an enormous amount of compassion.

I'm really driven. I'm super focused. I'm very productive, and I know what I need to do every single day in order to keep that at its maximum level.

Aaron Hawkins:                So cool. It's funny. A lot of people that I guess just in day-to-day life that you meet, and if they haven't really looked into any of the concept of spirituality or mindfulness, it can sound like, “What the heck is that, this whole universe thing?” How did you get introduced to it because I mean, you're in business. You're a lawyer.

You're handling real-life situations, so you weren't out there just floating out there in a forest, and one day, you tripped on becoming an attorney, so you are very familiar with the real-world and the day-to-day struggles and the business struggles probably more than most people because I know you were involved in not just a small law firm, but really thriving law firm, so the stresses and the challenges that come with any business, much less one that's dealing with what you were dealing with can be a lot.

Monica Reyes:                  Yeah.

Aaron Hawkins:                At what point did you get introduced to this concept of spirituality in slowing things down and accepting you? What was the communication to you that made you say, “Okay. This actually makes sense in a practical way for me”? Was that a process or was it a moment or was it several moments? How did that work for you?

Monica Reyes:                  It was both. It's definitely a process, and we're still in the process, but it was several moments.

Aaron Hawkins:              Okay. You have [problems 00:07:11].

Monica Reyes:                  The first moment was I found spirituality and meditation through necessity, so when I first started my law firm, the first year was incredibly difficult, I mean because I'm a new entrepreneur, I was struggling.

Aaron Hawkins:                Okay.

Monica Reyes:                  I had been working in a big, big law firm and they were going through some issues, so I basically jump ship and I had a client right when I jumped, so I was like, “This is going to be a breeze”, and it was not.

Aaron Hawkins:                Okay.

Monica Reyes:                  It was really, really difficult, and then I had started actually out with my … I pulled my manager with me and I had convinced her to start this law firm and I had these huge dreams, and I remember thinking, “Why am I struggling so much?”

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  I mean, my husband … Now my husband, but at the time, he's my boyfriend. He was struggling to start his nonprofit, so you can imagine my little income was basically covering both of us, and it was really, really hard. I didn't have a life. I was working really hard.

I felt very poor. Everything was triggered in that moment and I was at the worst state possible. I was ruining friendships left and right I had. I was drinking. I was doing drugs. I was coping in all these horrible ways.

I mean, at the moment, that's how I felt and I was just was digging myself deeper and at the point of I was like, “There has to be a better way”. I just looked to God. I had a relationship with God growing up. I was a Catholic. I was in a Catholic school my whole life, and then just it was my intuition. Right?

There has to be a better way, and a book came to me. A person I had been working with to get over some trauma from my domestic violence relationship had brought me … He said, “I'm paying this forward”. This is a book that was given to me, and it was called ‘The Power Of Love'. It was all about meditation and using your heart to manifest, and so it's the first time I had ever meditated, so I tried to meditate. I ended up manifesting a check for $25,000 out of the blue from a referral I've sent over like a long time, a year ago, and it completely saved my life.

Aaron Hawkins:                Oh my gosh.

Monica Reyes:                  For me, because I'm an attorney, lots of logic, lots of “I need to see it”, I didn't really believe in the unknown. I mean, maybe I did have this mystical like perhaps, but for the most part, I needed to see it, and so that right there was like, “Wow. I think this really works. Could it have been a coincidence that I just started meditating and I was asking for a similar amount, and here it is?”

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  That right there got me started in meditation. I started to read everything there is about spirituality, and I had started. I'm going to tell you that just it was only, I don't know, four months later that I found that I was pregnant. That exact day, we were on our way up to the most important meeting of our lives which was this marketing meeting that ended up taking us from zero to a thousand, and it ended up having a multi-million dollar business, so I've been a believer ever since and I've just been able …

Aaron Hawkins:                Wow.

Monica Reyes:                  What I've done is I've synthesized the spirituality because what I call myself is a bridge. I'm a bridge between the yoga, spirituality, esoteric, metaphysical world to the real-world, the physical world, and I like it that way because that's who I am and which is why I think that I'm able to really synthesize all of this, and then put it into something that really makes sense to people like me, the corporate world, the entrepreneurs who's … Those are the people that I work with.

Aaron Hawkins:                That's amazing. That's an awesome story and I love it. I told you guys one of the reasons I had to have you on the show is because you're … I'm like, “She's an attorney. I know attorneys. She's got to be a logical thinker, but she's teaching this awesome stuff.”

It traditionally seems like two different worlds, the spiritual, and the calm, and the inner game, and then the external chaos or at least what many people perceived to be chaos of life around them, but as you mentioned earlier, there's a difference between reacting to these external circumstances and really digging inside yourself and deciding, “Okay. What needs to be done? Who do I want to be right now?”, and allowing that that leads you where you want to be. That obviously works for you to work wonderfully, so I commend you on number one, having the guts to make that journey and actually a hats off to your friend that gave you the book and started it, so it always starts with something small, doesn't it?

Monica Reyes:                  Thank you.

Aaron Hawkins:                There's something that appears to be small and you wind up going through a really meaningful progression, so I really want to honor you for what you've done and what you're still doing right now and what's growing for you. If I can, I want to transition to what you were just saying about being that bridge between the spirituality and the mindfulness in the corporate world. Now you do corporate workshops and things of that nature, so you actually bring this stuff into real businesses. What's that like because you probably more than I have been in the corporate world and you have many different personalities? Sometimes you have egos. Sometimes you have strong cultures of “This is the way things get done”.

How do you bring something in that for a lot of people be really vulnerable because some people don't like to reflect and see what's going on in the mirror because it can be painful, so they cling to some of those distractions and coping mechanisms like you were describing earlier? How do you introduce that and get a buy-in because obviously you're doing it successfully? How does that work for you?

Monica Reyes:                  What I've been doing is … First off, I have developed, and then I've always had this, but it's really, really important and it's essential for this process, but for me, it's really big. It's compassion. Right? I have an enormous amount of compassion for the world. I can pretty much find the good in the humanity in anybody. Okay?

That's what's really helped me throughout this entire journey because I've been able to bring this to people where they are without forcing them to come in, without forcing it down their throat, without judging them in any way, and a lot of it is energetic. I make the space incredibly safe, number one, so just by showing up with an incredibly open heart. Anybody can do that, and that's the beauty of this. Right?

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  You are absolutely in control with you. Change starts with you. You can do meditation. There's work you can do. Just show up and be this incredibly compassionate person where the people are disarmed immediately. Right?

That's number one. I create the space. Number two is I show them, so all my workshops that are experiential, so they actually experience what it feels like to be all up in your head, and then not all up in your head. Like they experience what it feels like, so there's a lot of different techniques and things that I do to allow them to experience this. That right there is also …

Because I know for me as an attorney, I needed to see it, and so I show them. Right? I show them. Then, there are other things that I do like if I can get them into a program, then I just … This is what I did with my husband because my husband is incredibly analytical.

He's very data-driven. We're totally different. I'm good in [checking 00:14:45] out.

Aaron Hawkins:                That's awesome.

Monica Reyes:                  I'm very creative, but I'm the deep one, and he's totally the opposite. It was for him, he wasn't necessarily a believer when we first started. He wasn't into Kundalini yoga. He didn't like the turbans. He didn't like the mantras, so I had to really baby steps with that, and also surrender into the process, understanding that everybody is ready at their own time.

Not being pushy, but just I'm a very strategic person, so if I see that there is something that they're experiencing, it's easy for me to connect. I think it has a lot to do with where I've come from, and that's the beauty of life is there are no accidents, so for me in my law, my legal career has absolutely helped me in this space because it allows me to think in the way that I do.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  I've been trained to think with critical thinking skills, and at the same time, I'm able to connect certain dots that maybe somebody might not be able to, so it's really my skills, me, and then really just having an open heart, and then just understanding because I've been there and I have a similar mind, “What do they need to experience? What do they need to hear in order to buy-in?”

Aaron Hawkins:                Okay. I love that you mentioned the empathy because that's usually where the disconnect if there is one. If one or the other person has to have some empathy, some compassion and be able to say, “Okay. I'm going to honor what you're thinking right now and I totally understand why you're thinking it” and then with that, as you said they feel safer and it allows some new information be introduced. I love that you bring the experience or you bring the experience to them as opposed to trying to explain the experience.

I know there's a huge difference. There's been tons of people that I meet that say they've tried meditation and it doesn't work for them. I didn't start meditation until probably I guess three of four years ago now consistently. Like you, I'm an analytical thinker. I've spent a couple of decades in law enforcement so I know all about the real-world, but at the same time, the real-world is us and what's going on in our head.

That's what creates everything we see in the real world. As far as what we see coming from people, we create it ourselves, and it all starts up in here. The idea is the problems, the struggles. Those things don't grow on trees so to speak. We bring that as you said into existence. You manifest that stuff.

What advice … I really want to make this to awesome people that are listening to you and are getting to hear you share. I'm sure there are people that are thinking, “Okay. I really need something like this to help me slow down and to deal with my business better, with my family better. Where do I start?”

“Should I start just taking a yoga class or should I start meditating right now? I don't know how to meditate.” I have my own thoughts on that, but what would be your advice for, “Okay. Step one, just breathe and do this first.” What would you say?

Monica Reyes:                  I'll tell you the way that I get my clients to do it. I get a lot of like “I've never meditated in my life”, “I tried”, “It doesn't”, exactly what you're saying. Right?

Aaron Hawkins:                Yeah.

Monica Reyes:                  “I'm unable to”, “I'm not good at it”, so I'm going to tell you that it's like doing anything that you learned for the first time. Right?

Aaron Hawkins:                Okay. Yeah.

Monica Reyes:                  What I typically do is I start people off with … I'm all about Kundalini. I do mix in some other types of meditation, some other mindfulness techniques, that sort of thing, but I really love Kundalini because it's a technology, and if you do it for a certain amount of minutes for a certain amount of days, I can guarantee you an outcome whether it's getting rid of a certain fear, whether it's developing your intuition, whether it's working through a health condition. It's incredibly powerful. I love to start …

One option would be to start with movement, because a lot of times it's hard if your mind is going, going, going, and you can't just sit and Om and be quiet. Then, you're going to get frustrated. You don't have the confidence. You already feel like you can't do it, so I usually start them off with … There's a beautiful Kundalini Kriya called the ‘Sat Kriya'.

It's movement. There is movement. There's a mantra, and so you're simply going in and you're doing it. Right? That particular Kundalini meditation works your first three chakras, would have everything to do with fear, security, personal power, so it's already clearing out some amazing stuff.

You do that, and you're like, “Oh my God. I'm meditating.” Right? “I'm meditating”. Now, you've got the confidence. Now, you're ready to try on.

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  I mean, just within eight weeks in my own course, I went to non-meditators, and now at the end, they're all doing 40 days of meditation and it's a meditation that's a little bit different. Right? It's not so much movement.

Aaron Hawkins:                That's so cool.

Monica Reyes:                  It's really … Remember, it all starts up here. Second thing I would say is you've got all the tools. The body is the most amazing vehicle to get you to do all of this stuff that you want. Right?

Mindfulness, so maybe tapping into your senses. When was the last time you tapped into your senses? Right. Just simply focusing on the sight. Just really observing something as if you've never seen it before or maybe you'd look observing sound or maybe just observing the air on your skin. Right?

That will get you blank in the head and will get you connected, grounded to the moment. Another beautiful thing would be breath. Right? This, you've might have heard before if you're listening, and it's like simply just closing your eyes or even just watching your chest rising and falling, but again, connecting you to the present moment, creating this blank state of in your mind which is what meditation do. You can also keep your eyes open and live life and meditate.

I love to clean, and I get myself in this meditative moment, but what we do is you can do what's called ‘Mindful behavior' or ‘Mindful action', so you're sweeping the floor really feeling your muscles and really feeling the sweeping sensation and putting all of your attention in there. Right? You're starting to train your mind to be more mindful and to stop being so [inaudible 00:21:21], like bouncing all around, so there are so many things that you can do. So many meditations out there. Sometimes it could be a little overwhelming, but those would be the top tips that I would say.

Aaron Hawkins:                Now, where could they start with this? If they say, “Okay. That sounds really awesome”, would you advice them to visit your website or is there a resource that you would consider a go-to just as a, “Okay”? Somebody that's just sitting in their home and they would literally start doing something through a process. Where would you suggest they go?

Monica Reyes:                  Okay. There are tons of websites. Tons of people doing it. I actually have meditations on my website, Monicaereyes.com. Also, if you find me on Facebook, I just finished a 21-day mindfulness journey, and so I walk you through 21 days each day through Facebook Live.

They're Facebook videos, and you learn a new lesson and a new mindful technique, and by the end of the 21 days, if you can commit to at least the 21 or listen, whatever, you will learn something from each video. Otherwise, I first started with the Deepak Chopra, '21-Day Meditations'. That's actually how I started before.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yeah.

Monica Reyes:                  Oprah was even in there, but I couldn't even complete it at the time, and now, I'm meditating way more consistently.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  That's what I love about Kundalini personally, but there's a lot of that.

Aaron Hawkins:                I appreciate that. That's an awesome resource, and I'll definitely link to your website and your Facebook page on the show notes, so anybody listening that wants to know or didn't quite get a change to write down what Monica just said, don't know where it is, I will link to it on my website so you can get it after this episode airs. Let me ask you this. I know there's so many benefits to meditation and mindfulness and yoga, and we could probably spend hours, if not, days talking about all the specific benefits, but for the purposes of giving a tangible example, what's a really big win that you've seen either with somebody that you've worked with personally or a group of people that you work with, an organization? What's something that pops in your head that's like, “This was awesome, and this is why I do this”?

Monica Reyes:                  For me, why I do this, so any win for me as far as when I'm able to flip somebody's perspective or perception about something. Right?

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  That would be probably … I mean, that's pretty much what happens, because what meditation does is it provides you with awareness, so it allows you to see things differently. Right? We have these limiting beliefs. We have these ideas, these interpretations of what's going on, AKA sensory data that's going on in our lives whether it's in relationships, in events, and circumstances and so forth, and so what I'm doing when I work with people is I'm shifting their perspective to realize that number one, they're way more powerful than they think they are, number two, that their circumstances are not what they think, and even their relationships aren't what they think.

I mean, I just finished my class with these women, about five women, and I would say the big wins like they were able to manifest. They were able to hit … One of them was able to hit through this visualization/meditation that I do. She was able to hit her goal which she didn't think was possible forever in her business. She was able to hit a monetary goal, so I thought that was amazing.

Aaron Hawkins:                Wow.

Monica Reyes:                  Another one was able to completely shift her relationship with her boss from anger and just they were always fighting, and just it wasn't a good scenario to compassion, and calm, and peace which was huge. Right? That also happened to another woman in one of my other programs. There was her husband had an ex-wife and same thing, they weren't getting along, and just without even talking energetically, she was able to shift how this woman thought of her. The woman ended up sending her baked goods out of nowhere and she's like, “Wow, it really worked”.

Aaron Hawkins:                Wow.

Monica Reyes:                  There's so much you can do just within you. Right? There's so much that can happen with forgiveness, with compassion, and you don't even have to talk to anybody because we are connected.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  That's the thing. For me personally, I mean, I was terrified of public speaking my whole life. I was terrified of communicating. I went through two really bad relationships and I pretty much felt like I lost my identity and I couldn't look at people in the eye. I wouldn't be able to do this interview right now without feeling just not confident, and I wouldn't be where I am, and so just doing this work and simply …. All it is is …

I mean, I'm pretty much just meditation and being more mindful, and then just being more aware of like, “Oh, I'm afraid of this”.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yeah.

Monica Reyes:                  I'm going to consciously decide not to be, and it's just action. I mean, there really isn't anything to it. Then now, all of a sudden, I'm speaking in front of hundreds of people, and that's my goal. I'm writing a book, I want to travel all over the world and speak globally. Wow. Who would have thought?

It's really transformational and it just shows you what you're capable of and where you're leaving something on the table like had I not decided, I would have just been hiding behind my computer as an attorney. My whole life completely unhappy had I not decided and realized like, “Oh my God. I don't have to do this anymore.”

Aaron Hawkins:                That is so great. I loved that you mentioned this. It's just deciding to do it because like you mentioned earlier, there's always people that will claim, “I'm not good at meditation or it doesn't work for me”, but logically, we only get good at what we practice, so at the beginning stage is anything new is going to feel uncomfortable. I say this for the people listening that if there's any hesitation in this, just give yourself the gift of blocking out, allowing yourself to do this as a habit for whatever time that you just choose to tolerate trying something new that can literally transform the way you feel about yourself because it really does. Whether it's 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, you won't need that much time because you're going to feel the difference before that, trust me.

For those listening, please make sure you visit Monica's site. If this is something new for you and you haven't done meditation or invested in your own mindfulness or spirituality, this is a huge … This is a total game-changer. It really is. I want to get to something else.

I think it's almost like the elephant in a room for you, the business attorney turned mindfulness practitioner, so you're an awesome example of what most people are terrified of not just because you're an attorney and you are now really investing your life in something different. People are terrified in my experience, and you probably agree of doing something other than what they're expected to do because once you have your law degree, you're expected to be a lawyer for the rest of your life. Like you said, sitting in front of a screen, and that's it. That's all you're allowed to do, and doing anything else is breaking the rules and it's terrifying, and “Oh my gosh. What are you doing?” I'm in the same boat.

I've spent a couple of decades in law enforcement, and my transition career when I transitioned completely out at will be in something totally different, in personal development and life performance and things of that nature, so I'm really inspired by you because I know there are people listening that are in a career or job or something they feel that they must do and there's something that they want to be doing instead that would be really important to them, but they're afraid to either by because of what somebody would say or they're worried about what somebody would think or the societal expectations that we all have. How did you make that transition or how would you discuss that to a friend sitting next to you about letting go of that worry about doing the expected and just doing instead what's important to them?

Monica Reyes:                  I would suggest … This question comes up a lot obviously because it's –

Aaron Hawkins:                I bet. I bet.

Monica Reyes:                  It's like “You're a what? You were a what?” When you're on the other side, there is an enormous amount of happiness and fulfillment and it's living my dream. I have this conversation with so many people and I've been able to inspire some people to … I'm helping them move through the plan and transition into their dream business or whatever, but there are others that might not. Right? I know a lot of attorneys that are unhappy and they are …

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  Then, because I'm involved in the legal community, I still do workshops for the law firms and so forth, and they're afraid. I mean, I completely get it. Right? I completely get it, so for me, it was like it was the pain of knowing that this is all that life was going to be about for me. Right?

Even though I was helping people, I absolutely was, but I wanted to help in a much larger capacity and I just wanted to do what I wanted to do every day and get paid for it.

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  I mean, I love spirituality. I am so fascinated by it and I was like “Imagine? Is that possible? Can I possibly do what I really want to do and get paid for it?”

Aaron Hawkins:                Right.

Monica Reyes:                  It was the meditation that helped me through it because otherwise, I know that I would have been debilitated by this fear and because I've been thinking about it for a whole year. I was the breadwinner in my household. I had a business partner who is a single mom with two kids, so this decision was not easy. I also had hundreds of clients who I was like, “How are we even going to do this?” I mean, it seemed incredibly impossible.

The mountain I had created was really, really large, but I thought, “Okay, so I can either do this now or I can wake up when I'm 50 or 60 and realize like, ‘Oh my God. I want to start this.'” I'm like, “No. I'm going to do this now.” I was actually in my honeymoon when I was sick.

I was stressed. I had my law firm. I had another business. I was co-producing a large women's event, and I couldn't relax in the middle of the ocean. We were in the BVI, so I was like, “This is crazy”, and I was like, “I need to redefine the success. I would need to define …

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  I have a daughter that I want to spend more time with. I really love what I'm doing, like I love meditating. I love spirituality. Like, “Why couldn't I?” Right? “Why couldn't I?”

I looked around, and this is with the beauty of awareness is, like, “What do I have in my life right now? Am I able to do this around?”, because I would suggest most to plan. Right? If you're in a great job right now, you can totally plan. Oh my God.

You can build something on the side, just continue, and there's so many things you can do. You can just doing one thing that moves you forward every single day or every week will move you forward, visualizing, keeping the vision alive. There's so much that you can do to move this forward while you're in a job. You don't have to make this transition. For me, for some reason, I was like, “I need to get the hell out now”.

Aaron Hawkins:                I love it.

Monica Reyes:                  I seriously got that from my honeymoon and I had told my business partner, and that was it. I mean, I didn't transition. I didn't save. Thank goodness, I had built something that was providing me with some sort of income, but for the most part, I mean, I just flipped and leapt because I saw an opportunity. I had this huge women's conference that I was going to have to speak at, and I was like, “What a perfect platform for me to launch this thing”. Right?

That was the thing. I saw the opportunities around me and I ended up launching my business super successfully, built up my group coaching, sold out my BVI Kundalini Retreat, so that's a thing. I saw the opportunity, and we have opportunities all the time. You just have to be aware and awake for them which is why meditation is so awesome.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  Listen. If you're on the fence, I'm telling you that being on the other side if freaking amazing.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  Listen. Just like anything else, it's not going to be easy, but if you can just keep a consistent connection with yourself and with the universe, everything will be okay.

Aaron Hawkins:                I love it. Great advice from somebody who lived it. Speaking of awesome opportunities, I want to make sure I get a chance for you to explain what you have available for people that actually want to say, “You know what? Monica is awesome. I need to spend more time with her and what she's doing.” How can anyone listening get involved more directly with you?

Monica Reyes:                  Okay. I have a couple different things. I have three different things. If this is something you're interested and you're like, “Okay. I want to hear a little bit more about that”, I would love to provide you with a free coaching session so you can check it out.

You can just see what it feels like to experience spiritual coaching. Right? That's the first thing, because it doesn't take me very long to show you that there's this other world. Okay? Then, from there, no obligation.

It's completely complementary just because I'm really thankful to be a part of this on this podcast. Then, I can tell you about everything else I have, but for the most part, I have a eight-week class called ‘Change Starts With You' because it does. Change really does start with you, and what we do is I show you your …

Aaron Hawkins:                Absolutely.

Monica Reyes:                  We learn about the brain. We learn about your biology. We learn about your energetic framework, and what you, how you can make change within yourself and how it affects everything, how it affects your biology, how it affects your genetic expression, how it affects your relationships and how they show up, it's incredible. We go through three levels. It's the YOU.

We work through the Y, the individual consciousness. We start working through you, and then we work through the O, the others, and then we start learning about the divinity of relationships. I have amazing tools for you. You start to learn about how your perception really affects like how people are coming to you and how are they showing up, and whether it's actually real reality or if it's just a belief. Then, we go through to we learn about the universe and the principles of the universe and how you can leverage the universe for abundance and just for a more fulfilling and more joyful life, and we actually start to nurture that relationship. Then, from there, we work through prosperity and impact, but it's a super transformational class.

It's been so awesome. It's live. We can do it anywhere around the world because I do it via virtual through a video conferencing platform, and I have a little community that we have and we exchange and we'd learn a new meditation every other week, and yeah, and you learn how to clear out your own subconscious patterns. It's super awesome, super powerful, and they're all the tools that I've used in myself and that I continue to use. That's one thing.

I'm also just launching the Spiritual Success Society which is a spiritual community. It's mind, business and spirit which is what I'm talking about in the community, and it's a group. It's virtual. It's the ability to be able to connect, to be inspired, and to learn about spirituality on a massive level, and just connect with like-minded people. The idea is to …

I mean, my vision is to connect people from all over the globe and to have somebody from Sweden, talking to somebody from Florida, and being able to help each other through whatever they're going through using the tools and the meditations that I'm providing, so I'm going to be providing you with a monthly spiritual lesson or spiritual meditation and I'll be having weekly group live calls so I can coach you and you have questions and answers on whatever is going on in your life.

Aaron Hawkins:                Yes.

Monica Reyes:                  It's all group, and then of course I have one-on-one if you really want to take a deep dive into anything, but I'm constantly doing lots of stuff, so that's what I got going on right now.

Aaron Hawkins:                I love it. I totally love it. For everybody listening, make sure whatever you do, number one, you need to go to Monica's website regardless. I don't care if you're interested or not. Just go and see and experience some more of her, and trust me, you'll be glad you did, but it's so true, there's such a huge benefit that comes when we spend time with people who inspire us and make us reflect and say, “You know what? I can do this too.”

I can tell you upfront and with no hesitation, you definitely inspire me. That's why I totally had to have you on the show and I appreciate what you do. I just want to take another second to totally let you know how much I appreciate what you do as a person. It's easy for people to reach a certain plateau or title in society and just take their ball and just run with it and not share and just get what they can get, but you've completely turned that around not as a concept, but as an actual lifestyle, and that's really what we need more of in the world. That's why I do the show and that's why I reach out to people like you to share the amazing things that you can do that don't just sound good or feel good in concept.

It actually helps people. It transforms the way they experience their business, and their families, and their lives, so thank you for doing what you do. I really appreciate it.

Monica Reyes:                  Thank you and thank you for having me.

Aaron Hawkins:                Definitely.

Monica Reyes:                  I really appreciate what you do and I'm so thankful we have met, so it's so amazing, and thank you so much for the opportunity to speak my message.

Aaron Hawkins:                You're definitely welcome. Again, for those listening, make sure you hop over to AaronKeithHawkins.com. You'll get all the links you need to reach out to Monica and spend some more time with her. Trust me, you'll be glad you did. Monica, you and I are going to talk soon, and thanks so much for connecting today and for sharing so much insight with us. Your generosity is appreciated. Thank you.

Monica Reyes:                  My pleasure.

Aaron Hawkins:                Thank you again for listening to Best Life Of Your Life. Listen. If you liked this episode, if you got something useful from it, please do me a huge favor and leave us a big five-star rating and review on iTunes or Stitcher, whatever medium you're using to listen to this show, because doing so, really help inspire others to listen, and it's really going to help me be able to bring you new and improved content, so please take a second to do that and make sure you share this with someone that you care about. Until we talk next time. Make sure you're taking care of yourself, take care of each other, and always be creating the best life of your life. Thanks again and I can't wait to talk to you soon.

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