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#98 Empowered Living w/ Rajika Mahan
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Rajika Mahan is a certified Transformational Life Coach, Positive Intelligence Coach, and Soma Breath Instructor. She specializes in dream-building, results acceleration, and guiding individuals to break free from limitations to create fulfilling lives.
Originally from New Delhi, India, Rajika moved to the U.S. in 1983 and is currently expanding her expertise through a Neuro Coaching certification. She is also a co-author of the bestselling book Short, Sweet, and Sacred. Based in Virginia, she enjoys reading, crime shows, and horseback riding.
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Introduction to Rajika Mahan
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Find A Way Podcast
Hi everyone, this is episode 98 Empowered Living and today I have with me Rajika Mahan. Rajika is a certified transformational life coach, positive intelligence coach and a Soma Breath instructor.
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Find A Way Podcast
She specializes in dream building, results acceleration and guiding individuals to break free from limitations and create fulfilling lives.
Rajika's Journey to the US and Neuro Coaching Expansion
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Originally from New Delhi, India, Rajika moved to the US in 1983 and is currently expanding her expertise through a neuro coaching certification.
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Find A Way Podcast
She's also a co-author of the bestselling book, Short, Sweet and Sacred. Based in Virginia, she enjoys reading, crime shows and horseback riding. Welcome, Rajika.
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Rajika Mahan
Thank you. Thank you. i thank you so much for having me here. And I'm just excited to be part of your amazing podcast.
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Find A Way Podcast
Yeah, thank you for being here. So before we get started, can you share with us a little bit more about your business and what you do? Because it sounds super interesting.
Crafting a Life by Design vs. Default
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Rajika Mahan
Oh, thanks. So, yeah, ah my business is really um surrounds the key ingredient of having my clients or prospective clients really living a life out of design versus default.
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Rajika Mahan
And it's really the the but kind of the jits or the the meat of it is really that we live a life that feels aligned, that feels that we are honoring ah what we want versus um kind of stuffing our are are our desires, our wants,
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Rajika Mahan
And really um being that person in the center of our own life, being in the driver's seat of our own life. And, you know, I do it through, you know, the dream builder, really helping, you know, ah individuals to create a clear, clear vision, but really take a life audit of their life and saying, Hmm, what are areas that are working? What are areas that are not working?
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Rajika Mahan
And, the areas that may be not working as well or the areas that might be working well, but not to to their desire. Where can I turn up the volume on really shifting that change?
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Find A Way Podcast
I love that. um I want to say that I did so much of that work myself through therapy, but also through like studying a lot about this, but it would have been great to have a mentor to get me through that.
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And I think so many people need that. Just basically accountability person to help them like figure out how to do this.
Immigrant Challenges and Transformational Coaching
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um i would love to like reel back in on your story and your journey so um as i mentioned you moved as you know of course because it's your story you moved from ah to the u.s from india in 1983 how did your like you can tell me a little more about your personal journey but how did it shape your path towards transformational coaching like what led you here what what made you excited and get into what you're doing now
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Rajika Mahan
Mm-hmm.
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Rajika Mahan
Yeah. So, you know, when we came in 1983, my brother and I were super young um and we were just, you know, coming into this new country, um not really having any connections or roots here.
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Rajika Mahan
um and what I what I noticed as an immigrant that came over here that absolutely, right, we all as immigrants look at the U.S. kind of the land of the opportunities, right? Like we can we can do anything. Like there's just like limitless opportunities and ways that we can expand.
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Rajika Mahan
And um what I noticed as well is that there were times in my own personal journey as an immigrant where it was hard for me to fit in. It was hard for me to, um you know, be like the other kids in high school because I did speak a different language. I smelled differently.
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Rajika Mahan
i um i had an accent and there were times that i went through, um you know, ah high school and college really um not fully identifying with my identity because i wanted to tame that down so I could fit in.
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Rajika Mahan
And what that resulted in was it it led into when I got into relationships, when I became a mom,
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Rajika Mahan
I always had this little facade around, i got to look some ah look a certain way. I got to act a certain way because then then I would be accepted. But in hindsight, as I look back, what that really did for me was I didn't really know truly who I was and what I stood for.
Living Authentically Beyond Societal Expectations
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Rajika Mahan
And they were... and how that kind of went into my transformational journey was really back to honoring what I desired, what I wanted, and not really dim down my own light because I needed to fit in. I needed to look a certain way. I needed to do X, Y, and z And so,
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Rajika Mahan
it It felt almost very stifling when I went through that. And now that I'm on the other side of my transformational journey, it was like, holy moly, like this is the way people do need to live.
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Rajika Mahan
They do need to live out of design. They do need to live life that has their fuller, freer expression of themselves versus what has been put on or what what is society really expecting?
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Rajika Mahan
And i think as an immigrant, we do carry a lot of that burden because we do want to belong, because we do want to be accepted and not be thrown out of the tribe.
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Rajika Mahan
So we dim down our voice, we dim down our light, we dim down of what our desires are. And that flows into every area of our life, um you know, as we go forward. Because if we don't honor what we want, we don't honor our desires and our voice,
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Rajika Mahan
We go through life, um you know, just autopiloting through life.
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Find A Way Podcast
Um, I'm nodding here, but I think that what you said not only connected with me, but it's going to connect with a lot of our listeners. Because exactly as you said, as immigrants, I think we go, I think everyone can go through this and to an extent, but as immigrants, like going through just wanting to belong, to be part of the place that you're in, right?
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And that can create you, would it be maybe easier to fit in? Yes, but then you end up losing yourself on the way. And I can definitely tell you that I had that as well ah earlier in life.
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Find A Way Podcast
And I think I still struggle with that sometimes and just trying to find, like be authentically what I can be.
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Rajika Mahan
Yeah.
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and dealing with the consequences of that as well, right?
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Rajika Mahan
yeah
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um You mentioned this one, but I would love to double down on breaking limiting beliefs. So because know that's some work that you do with your clients, and you help them break free of outdated patterns, right?
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And what are some of the most common mental roadblocks you see with your clients? And how do you guide them to overcome them?
Understanding and Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
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Rajika Mahan
Hmm, great question. and I will start with what is a limiting belief? A limiting belief is a thought that we've held over time that becomes a belief.
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Rajika Mahan
A thought that is held over time starts to become a belief system. And the most often or the most prevailing, i will say, limiting beliefs that I come across with my clients are I'm not good enough.
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Rajika Mahan
Success is for other people, not for me. And it's too late for me. Because I wasn't, um I didn't have the right conditions or the right circumstances for me to Fill in the blanks.
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Rajika Mahan
So the first real step on really breaking through limiting belief is number one is awareness.
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Rajika Mahan
The awareness of what is the inner dialogue that you are you are repeating over and over and over again. So it's really identifying what is the stories you are telling yourself.
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Rajika Mahan
Are the stories you're telling yourself, are they serving you or are they derailing your life?
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Rajika Mahan
Right? And the reason that we want to have the number one tool that all of us have, and I think as as human beings, is the power of our own awareness.
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Rajika Mahan
Because if we're not aware of the story we are telling, we get so tangled up with that, that we start to then start living a very limited life because of the stories we've been telling ourselves.
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Rajika Mahan
So number one is identify that story. Is that really true? Right? Identify it, have that awareness, put a shining light from a place of curiosity, not from a place of blame or judgment.
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Rajika Mahan
Number two, you want to challenge that evidence. Where in your life have you, quote unquote, let's take the limiting belief of I'm not good enough. Where has that pattern shown up? Where has that evidence shown up? And is it absolutely true that you're not good enough?
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Rajika Mahan
So really challenging that belief system of, Is that true? And one of the things that when I have my clients challenge the evidence of truth is I have them even write down.
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Rajika Mahan
Where are the times that they like exceeded something or did something? What was the success that they had? Because many times our brain goes into, ah I call it amnesia, ah because the limiting beliefs get so loud and we we dim down all those times that we did have success.
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Rajika Mahan
So we want to challenge it by really saying, really, is that true that I'm not good enough? Where else in the evidence of my life that I did something or I was good?
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Rajika Mahan
Or I did something that I didn't even think that I could have done it. So challenging it. And number
A Client's Journey from Unlovable to Loved
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Rajika Mahan
three is to use vision as your new anchor point, as your new identity.
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Rajika Mahan
Right?
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Find A Way Podcast
Um, I, I find that incredible. And I had, have one, one example to give you on what you just said. I had ah a talk that I gave, so give a lot of workshops and talks and there was ah one an hour and a half, but it was a new topic for me.
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And I think I spent, I told my husband, I spent like days. I was like, Oh, that wasn't a good one. I could have done better. that was terrible. That was like, I didn't do a good job. I don't think people are engaged. And then I got the feedback a week later that my NPS score was 98.
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Find A Way Podcast
And for those of you who don't understand what NPS is, like 90 is really high because of the way that the score works. But I spent a whole week and my husband made fun of me later. He's like, it's been a whole week. Like, and I think that there's a positive thing of us wanting to do better, but there's like the lack of realization of what are facts what are the factual evidence that we have about something that we did well or did not do well and what can we do about it?
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Find A Way Podcast
And I love that you're talking about that. Uh, so I, I gave you my example, but do you have another story from someone that transformed their life through your coaching that you would like to share? Like if you can.
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Rajika Mahan
Yeah, I will share. um I've had this dear client that I have um had the privilege of supporting and mentoring. And um she, you know, went through two bad marriages, um bad relationship, and when it came to really creating a vision for having a love in her life, she's young, she's fifties, she would love somebody else in her life.
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Rajika Mahan
And the first place that she went was, you know, I'm not lovable. I'm not lovable. And,
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Rajika Mahan
and she had that belief system because, of her past experiences with these other people, the marriages that they didn't work out and how it all kind of unveiled for her, but really had her write down the evidence of, is that true that you're not lovable?
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Rajika Mahan
Let's sit down and like, Who are the people who love you? Who are the people who really pour into you and really start to, and are are investing their, their time and their energy in that relationship.
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Rajika Mahan
And she had a whole slew, right? Her parents, her brother, her sister, her, her friends, her colleagues, and you know, her team that she runs.
00:14:04
Rajika Mahan
Right. And, the reason kind of she was in that limiting belief that she's not lovable was because she was told in that previous relationship, Oh, you don't, you are not lovable. You don't do X, Y, and z And so she started to hold that thought over time and started to, to, and you know, bring it to form every day.
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Rajika Mahan
And as we transform that and really challenge the truth,
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we started to create a vision of a life when she where she does have a loving, kind, respectful partner.
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Rajika Mahan
And as she started to hold that vision of absolutely she's lovable, absolutely there's somebody out there who is going to love her and respect her and cherish her.
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Rajika Mahan
Fast forward, she's found somebody who's done that. They've been in a relationship for the past nine months. So it's so important when we have a limiting belief that we must challenge it. And um' I'm going to give a little bit of a ah exercise as some as as we are going into challenging the limiting belief is really write down what are the limiting beliefs and write the opposite of that.
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Rajika Mahan
Write the opposite and really challenge yourself as you are looking at that limiting belief um that has held you back. And then create a vision. If this limiting belief wasn't happening, what would I love in my life? What would I love to create in my life?
00:15:43
Rajika Mahan
So.
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Find A Way Podcast
i I love that exercise and it's something super like quick that people can implement and that's perfect.
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Rajika Mahan
Yeah.
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Rajika Mahan
Yeah.
00:15:50
Find A Way Podcast
um On that line, what are some other things like small but impactful mindset shifts that you think can create lasting change?
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Rajika Mahan
Um, number one, i will tell you, I will, I, you know, I'll scream it off the rooftop is you must, must, must have take a life audit of where you are and where you want to go. Because until you, until you, see until you address that and take a life audit, you will not have the clarity on where you do want to go.
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Rajika Mahan
Most of us or most of the human human um existence is living in what is not going right. So when we want to take an audit of, ooh, what is going well, what is not going well, and we want to create a vision. If we don't have a vision, we are not living from our true authentic place because life is always sending us two signals.
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Rajika Mahan
Signals of longing, what we would love, and discontent, what I'm dissatisfied with or unsatisfied with or unhappy with. And um I would say
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Rajika Mahan
having a vision is is is key. If you want to create a life out of design, you want to create a life that you feel fulfilled and happy and...
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Rajika Mahan
um
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Rajika Mahan
um and you are in the center of that stream of life. So I would say that the mind hack, I would say definitely to have, um or i don't know if it's a mind hack, but I would say it would be um it would be a practice, is definitely um gratitude.
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Rajika Mahan
And I don't want to say gratitude only for when good things are happening, but being gratitude for when you have an adversity.
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Rajika Mahan
Look for the good in that. um Have that practice 100% every day, non-negotiable. And once you have that gratitude, have the vision for your for your day, for your life, and then set an intention every day.
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Rajika Mahan
Who do you want to be as you advance through your day or your week or your month? Who do you want to be
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Find A Way Podcast
I find that perfect. I am someone that does a gratitude list every single day of 10 things. Like it can be small or big things. And like, I forced myself to do it every single day and journaling, but like journaling, sometimes it just takes time and I don't have the time, but like the gratitude list is like, it happens every day.
00:18:42
Find A Way Podcast
Um, and it made a really positive change. It's like, it trains everything for, and we're going to talk about it a little bit about your, um, the neuro coaching, because I think you're going to touch on that. But ah before we get to that, it's just really for it's like training your brain to look for the good training, your brain to look for the not just for the problems, right?
00:19:01
Rajika Mahan
yeah yep.
00:19:01
Find A Way Podcast
ah Before we jump into neuro coaching, because I'm curious about your experience with that. Now, I want to talk about you're also a Soma breath instructor.
Integrating Soma Breath in Coaching
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Find A Way Podcast
And tell us a little bit more about how does breath work complement your coaching?
00:19:10
Rajika Mahan
yep
00:19:15
Find A Way Podcast
And like, how does it help with the personal transformation?
00:19:20
Rajika Mahan
Yeah. So Soma Breath is is um ah technology that I use in my coaching, especially when i when i I notice my clients getting hijacked by their fears or their limiting beliefs.
00:19:38
Rajika Mahan
And so it ties into the neurocoaching piece because when we are in fight or flight mode, we are not able to make decisions or make choices that are going to be ah supportive.
00:19:52
Rajika Mahan
So when I, and as I start any of my coaching calls is number one is we do a a short breath session really to relax our nervous system because we, we are always in this fast paced society and so much is coming at us.
00:20:13
Rajika Mahan
we could come to a call being in a very reactive mode, a reactive response of something happened or you might've had a conversation. So what the soma breath does is really allows you to really be in the rest digest, which is in ah very a place of calmness.
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Rajika Mahan
And so when we do that, we start with that. And we start to shift our breath because everything, once we are shifting our breath, we start to not be in that trigger mode, but really be in the in the response mode of life.
00:20:56
Rajika Mahan
So how I use soma breath is number one for that. Like as we start a call, we all go into a short meditation, take them to a short meditation on really setting the call up, setting an intention for our call.
00:21:10
Rajika Mahan
And we do that to our breath. And as we shift that, they're really more into the place of the vision for their life. Right. Um, And I think the second piece is on my longer sessions of Soma Breath, where people are really connecting to is the higher guidance, is the intuition of life.
00:21:33
Rajika Mahan
Because all of the questions, all of the answers are within us. But because we're living an outside in world, we've lost that tendency of gaining that awareness or the answers from within.
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Rajika Mahan
So when we're in again, as we're doing soma breath, we're really moving from fight or flight into rest digest. And we're we are connecting to that higher source and that higher source could be God, universe, whatever that is.
00:22:03
Rajika Mahan
That is where all of that, the the intelligence lies.
00:22:10
Find A Way Podcast
um breath work and meditation have been such a difference in my life um i've i've done it more or less depending but i think that in general most people don't spend enough time with themselves just with no distractions actually sitting with their feelings uh we tend to rationalize our feelings and deploy accordingly but i am one to be known to do that so like actually taking time
00:22:28
Rajika Mahan
Yes.
00:22:36
Rajika Mahan
Yes.
00:22:37
Find A Way Podcast
even if it's five minutes, two minutes, whatever it is to do a meditation or just sit literally sit with your thoughts. It's something that makes people really uncomfortable usually. And they're not used to doing it, connecting with themselves.
00:22:49
Rajika Mahan
Yeah.
00:22:50
Find A Way Podcast
Yeah.
00:22:50
Rajika Mahan
Yeah.
00:22:51
Find A Way Podcast
um And I love that you use that in coaching because I think it's super, super important. um Tell us more about the, so you're getting a certification in neurocoaching now.
Neurocoaching: Behavior and Decision-Making Insights
00:23:01
Rajika Mahan
Yeah,
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Find A Way Podcast
What's exciting about this field and why are you doing it? Like what are the applications that you're planning to do with it?
00:23:05
Rajika Mahan
yeah. yeah Yeah, and I want to kind of like just piggyback on on what you shared, right? Like, why are people so afraid to not sit with themselves?
00:23:17
Rajika Mahan
Because most of the thoughts that we all are generating in our day are mostly dis so disempowering or disruptive thoughts. And so we are so trained to be busy, busy, busy and distract ourselves so we can not maybe address things that are not working well or, or. or And when we are in that place of stillness and stillness is, is again, a practice.
00:23:43
Rajika Mahan
um It is a muscle that we, you know, we, we grow into. and if we're not doing that, what's happening is we're living a life with outside validation, right?
00:23:55
Rajika Mahan
We're looking for answers for what people will tell us to do or say or make a decision. And we're not, again, going back to honoring what feels aligned for ourselves.
00:24:06
Rajika Mahan
So it's super important. And I would say even start with a minute. Start with a minute. And really honor that time that you have that gift of time to just sit with yourself in stillness.
00:24:19
Rajika Mahan
Maybe, you know, so I think it's so important. um And yeah it's so funny that you brought that up because I had this call with my client this week and she's like, I don't want to be alone. And I'm like, it's a gift that you can be alone.
00:24:33
Rajika Mahan
And how much more can you learn about yourself when you are alone? Right. So, um Why I'm excited about neurocoaching is because as we live in a very intellectual world, sometimes explaining why certain behaviors and certain patterns in our mind are happening, people having that science behind it, I feel connects connects the dots for them.
00:25:05
Rajika Mahan
Ooh, I can notice this behavior because I'm getting hijacked with ah with a limiting belief. Or, ooh, I can't make this decision because I know the blood flow where my decision-making ah capacity has been hijacked because there's a lot of emotions happening in this moment.
00:25:24
Rajika Mahan
Right? Because our prefrontal cortex is where our decision brain is. And if we are hijacked in the moment with emotions and limiting beliefs and what's not, done you know, all of those circumstances, our blood flow to the amygdala is so much that it would does not allow us to make the right decisions and make the right choices.
00:25:52
Rajika Mahan
So, and how I use it is really, explaining what's happening in the moment when you are getting hijacked or you're being in a reactive behavior.
00:26:02
Rajika Mahan
Why is that happening? It's not that there's something quote unquote wrong with you. This is how the brain functions. And people are like, oh, thank God. I thought like I, you know, I was crazy or something, right?
00:26:15
Rajika Mahan
but sharing the science piece, I think is so, I think it's important. So people can connect the dots and not feel like something is wrong with them or we need, they need to be fixed.
00:26:27
Rajika Mahan
Nobody, I would say the number one thing, nobody needs to be fixed. Everybody is beautiful in their journey. It's, it's, they don't, they haven't perhaps understood certain things that have been holding them back.
00:26:41
Rajika Mahan
And the neuro, neuroplasticity or the neuro brain so intriguing because as, as your first question, right around limiting beliefs, if we want to transform the limiting beliefs and we're challenging it, we must create a new neural pathway.
00:26:59
Rajika Mahan
Because that old pathway of that limiting belief is so cemented that we keep operating from it. And the only way that we can change it is to create a new belief, a new empowering belief, and that takes repetition.
00:27:12
Rajika Mahan
But sharing that science piece really intrigues people and they're like, Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Oh, yeah, this is why I was hijacked. Oh, yeah, you know, and so it's really, i love the neuroscience and I'm a little bit of a science nerd. So I love science, but sharing it with my clients, it just opens a whole different conversation for themselves.
00:27:36
Rajika Mahan
So, yeah.
00:27:37
Find A Way Podcast
Yep, I 100% agree. And I read, I'm too, I'm a science geek and I read a lot about neuroscience and how to apply that to, you know, like in self-development and all that I think is super important.
00:27:39
Rajika Mahan
Yeah.
00:27:48
Find A Way Podcast
I love that you're focusing on that with your clients.
Rajika's Co-Authored Book and Personal Fulfillment
00:27:51
Find A Way Podcast
I just wanted to make a pause and just ask you a question about your book, you know, the book that you co-authored. ah Tell me a little bit of like, what made you write this book? What is the book about? Like, what are like some key messages? Tell us more about that.
00:28:05
Rajika Mahan
Yeah. um So the book actually um is is co-authored. And i think that we we were like 52 different coaches who kind of put in their little story. And it was really my my story around my journey as I became a transformational coach where i really saw my life where I had everything. i Life was great.
00:28:35
Rajika Mahan
And inside of me was a piece that was missing, feeling unfulfilled, not really living my life that I felt really happy and joyful.
00:28:47
Rajika Mahan
So I walked around predominantly in my life, having a smile on my face and people would be like, oh my gosh, you have the best life. And yes, I did. and I was super grateful.
00:28:59
Rajika Mahan
And yet I would go to bed every day, feeling unfulfilled, unhappy, And it was really my story around that journey of life where ah had dimmed my life, ah my light, dimmed my own voice because it was the people pleaser in me.
00:29:22
Rajika Mahan
It was to get the outside validation and how it perpetuated through my journey as i as a little girl, but also coming into you know this country as an immigrant and how i chose a different decision for myself so that I could have other women not go through life settling, not go through life just saying, oh, it's okay. I need to be grateful for X and it's not okay for me to want more.
00:29:59
Rajika Mahan
So, um,
00:30:02
Find A Way Podcast
I think it's so important for you. i didn't have a chance to read the book, but I for sure was, especially for your story. um Because I think that there it's important to talk about the experience of people that on paper have the dream life that on an outside, because I know that a lot of people go up through this, but for them, it's the dream life for someone else.
00:30:24
Rajika Mahan
Yes.
00:30:24
Find A Way Podcast
Doesn't mean that they are fulfilled on that dream life. Doesn't mean that it's their dream. And I think it it must give people a warm hug when that like that's just like, oh, someone's talking about the experience that I have.
00:30:28
Rajika Mahan
yes
00:30:34
Find A Way Podcast
And that's why you what the reason that you shared. um I want to ask. So we have a thing here where we always ask our previous guest to leave a question for the next guest.
00:30:45
Find A Way Podcast
And the next guest, ah the last guest left you with the question, what is your why
00:30:52
Rajika Mahan
a
00:30:52
Find A Way Podcast
And why is your why your why?
Empowering People to Live a Loved Life Now
00:30:55
Find A Way Podcast
So what is it and why is that your why?
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Rajika Mahan
a Yeah. So my why is that each human being has been given this unique journey and we have been gifted this one precious thing that we call life.
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Rajika Mahan
And it is so essential that we listen to what we want
00:31:22
Rajika Mahan
Because if we don't do that, we're just going to autopilot through life. So my why is really to empower people to create and live a life they love living.
00:31:33
Rajika Mahan
Because that is the greatest gift when we have more people are alive and awake at the wheel of their life versus others. just settling and auto cruising through life and waiting for this precious life that we've been given. And I feel so, so strong that this life is a such a gift that there's so many people who don't wake up the next day.
00:32:02
Rajika Mahan
So many people who have those regrets. And so my why is that
00:32:12
Rajika Mahan
That we must, we must, must, must live a life that we love living while we're living it. Not when we retire. Not when with the kids go to school. Not when X, Y, and Z happens. Not when my husband says yes. Not when my boss says yes.
00:32:27
Rajika Mahan
Live it now. Live it now. And your voice and you your desires matter. So that is my why.
00:32:39
Find A Way Podcast
that's a great That's a great why. So I want to ask you for book recommendations. Well, we'll recommend your book, of course, because the short, sweet and sacred.
00:32:45
Rajika Mahan
yeah
00:32:49
Find A Way Podcast
ah Do you have any other books that you would like to recommend?
00:32:50
Rajika Mahan
no
00:32:52
Rajika Mahan
Yes, I love um two books. Number one is The Power of Awareness by Neville. um I highly, highly recommend anybody on this path of um transformation really to awaken that an inner awareness inner desire to connect with self.
00:33:18
Rajika Mahan
So power of awareness is one for sure. and the second one is the science of getting rich by Wallace bottles. I love this book because it really goes back to the fundamental learning of everything is created in thought, what we're thinking, we are creating in form.
00:33:40
Rajika Mahan
we do not not get to create. So either we are creating consciously or we are creating unconsciously. So those would be my high I mean would be a great recommendation for anybody who wants to dive into it.
00:33:53
Find A Way Podcast
I love that. I haven't read both of them. I'll definitely add them to my list.
00:33:57
Rajika Mahan
Yes.
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Find A Way Podcast
um And as I said before, we close this episode, we always ask guests to leave a question for the next one. So what would be the question you would like to leave?
00:34:08
Rajika Mahan
Yeah. um ah So I would love the next guest. My question for horror him, I don't know who the next guest is, but really,
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Rajika Mahan
um what would your number one advice be as an immigrant entrepreneur who is looking to launch themselves?
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Rajika Mahan
What would your number one advice be for them?
00:34:41
Find A Way Podcast
That is actually a great question. I think we might steal it for a baseline podcast too.
00:34:47
Find A Way Podcast
We'll hijack your question. i Love it.
00:34:47
Rajika Mahan
Cool.
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Rajika Mahan
but
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Find A Way Podcast
Yes. um Well, thank you so much for giving us the time and for telling your story. It was amazing talking to you, Rüdika. Is there anything you would like to say before we close?
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Rajika Mahan
No, I, I, well, I will say thank you so much for having me as your guest. And number two, whoever's listening, you absolutely can create a life that you love living and and don't let others say otherwise.
00:35:16
Rajika Mahan
So thank you.
00:35:18
Find A Way Podcast
Thank you. This was our episode 98 Empowered Living with Rujika Mahan. We'd like to thank all of our listeners and like to remind you that we'll be posting one episode biweekly always with a different guest.
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Find A Way Podcast
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