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58: Getting Pumped! Championship Mastery of 'State Management'
Discover how to revolutionize your daily energy and focus by tuning into our latest episode, where we explore transformative state management techniques inspired by Tony Robbins.
What if simple changes in posture or the stories we tell ourselves could unlock a new level of performance and fulfillment in our lives?
We promise you’ll walk away with actionable strategies to harness your attention, internal narratives, and physical presence, breaking free from negative cycles and propelling yourself toward your goals.
Join us as we highlight the powerful impact of affirmations, posture, and movement on energy optimization. Picture yourself declaring "I am the voice" with confidence or standing tall in a Wonder Woman pose to shift your mental state from sluggish to unstoppable. We also shed light on how music and sound can be your allies in transforming moods, sharing personal stories about the roles these elements play in our daily routines. By adopting these techniques, you’ll learn to create an enriched, uplifting environment that supports peak performance, even during life's challenging phases.
Explore the art of crafting sacred spaces and uplifting rituals that foster personal growth and joy. We'll show you how visual cues and organized environments can keep your spirits high, while positive energy co-created with family can set a vibrant tone for the day. Whether it’s a "pump-up hour" or celebrating small victories with a cowbell, these intentional shifts are your toolkit for a more fulfilling life experience. Take control today and transform your life by focusing on your physiology and consciously elevating your energy levels.
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hey superstars.
Samantha Pruitt:and Sam Pruitt.
Polly Mertens:hey, you guys, we're excited. We're coming to you, um, with a getting pumped up. I know you can see us on screen, but in our podcast people can't see us, but now you can imagine us like flexing our muscles. Yes, getting pumped, dude, it's time. It's time, you know, and I think we're doing this, you know, in the early phases of a new year, and you and I were talking how, like, january 17th is like people fall off their wagon of you know whatever, and we're like gotta get them pumped up, like and. And we also said, like this is an episode for us, like we're both where I'm feeling especially like pumping myself back up. So, yeah, we are, yeah.
Samantha Pruitt:I mean, it's one of the things that we do and we teach pretty regularly, but I think, just identifying it for our audience, what are we even talking about? What is this thing? I mean, everyone knows what it's like to get, or they've heard of getting pumped up or they've pumped themselves up, but we're really talking about an actual technique and we're going to give them the tools that changes the state of said human, the self. So I would love for you to explain that a little bit more in detail. When we talk about state or state change, what do we mean?
Polly Mertens:Yeah, so one of the things that I've learned over the years and this comes largely from the work of Tony Robbins is it's like a triangle or a triad. So if you're somewhere where you can write this down, this may help you. But picture a triangle and on one angle or one point of that triangle, what creates your state in your body? Right? So, whether you're happy, you're sad, you're depressed, you're joyful, you're eager, whatever is? Three things. First thing is what are you focusing on? Where is your attention? Right? So our attention, our focus, our consciousness is either in the present, past, future, it's inner or it's outer. You're focusing on. You know the beating up of yourself, you know the mental thoughts that you're chitter-chattering, you know like, you know I shouldn't have done that, or why did that person do that to me? Or you're focusing on the person that just cut you off in traffic and whatever. So where's your focus? Second one is what's the story you're telling yourself in that moment? What's the language that's going on about that thing? Right?
Samantha Pruitt:The chatter, the mental chatter that's going on about that thing, right? The chatter, the mental chatter.
Polly Mertens:Why is it the evil twin? What is she saying now? Because our thoughts influence how we feel in our body, right. And the last one is your physiology. And this is the biggest component I think that we have, and what we're going to talk about mostly today is how to shift physiologically. And so physiology for you guys, it's where your eyes are looking, how shallow you're breathing or how deep you're breathing, if you're moving, if you're standing up, your posture, it's everything having to do with your body, right. So, do you feel energized? Do you feel lethargic? Right, that's your physiological component to this, right. So things I want to kind of intercede as we go down this pumping yourself up is definitely intentional, but a lot of times I've taught this and we've worked with clients in coaching realms, where it's more therapeutic, right. So state mastery, becoming a master of your energetic, physiology, mental focus, all of that that's the goal, yeah, yeah.
Polly Mertens:It's like a practice, right. It Takes practice. Yeah, yeah, it's like a practice, right, it's a practice towards the astral. But a lot of people and I didn't know this myself so, having learned this years ago it's like you're just walk around bumbling around. Anything in life just sort of rubs you wrong and you know like throws you off or triggers. You know people hear that a lot, right.
Samantha Pruitt:Yes, yes, off or triggers you know, people hear that a lot, right? Yes, yes, when we're influenced by our external experience and all of the humans and craziness in the wild west that we all live in, that influencing our state rather than us being in charge and being the creator of our state.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, and I think we've done episodes before where we've talked about energy state and how it's created or whatnot, mostly to help people understand, you know, when you get those triggers to get out of it, to get out of the funk of you know something's not working in your life or whatever. But you can also use it with intention right, and that's where this getting pumped is is like, if you're in a place in your life either you're just feeling low energy or just not having the momentum that you want to do the things, to get about things, to have the relationships that you want to pursue the goals that you have, to just kind of conquer life or be thriving. It's maybe because your state management needs some pumping up right, and so we want to teach people how to, or you feel stuck.
Samantha Pruitt:Yeah, you know, a lot of people get into a state and then they continue to perpetuate the negative focus, negative story, negative physiological reaction, and they get stuck in that pattern. It's like a swirling vortex sucking them down and they don't know how to break that.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, and if you just you know go through life responding to what you had, you know the situations that you have in life. If you don't ever change your story, if you don't ever change your physiology, if you don't ever change your focus, you're going to keep getting the same experience. You're going to feel the same way day after day. You know it's just going to be groundhog day where it's like same, same day.
Samantha Pruitt:You know, same story, same life, different day right, you're living a reactionary life instead of a proactive life. Right, right, you know you're not even participating in your own life.
Polly Mertens:You're a bystander almost.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, and it's not that people don't want something different. I think they just don't know how to do it. And I would say I fell into that for a long time myself. It's like I didn't know that I could shift all these things, or I could at least. I think you can't have heard this, what we just talked about. If you heard it, you understand now what state management is. You can't unhear it. It's like oh, now you know. Oh, my gosh, but tell me more. Right, like what, what can we do? We'll go into some tools, but once you know you can do it, it's like oh, I have a tool in my, my toolbox I can start using in my life and, and you know, creating a better life for myself, becoming the master of my life instead of just being in response to what life brings to me. Right, yeah, exactly yeah. So let's share.
Polly Mertens:Let's share some you know I think so in my study of this, the area of the triangle called physiology is the one that you can have the biggest impact on Right. It's something that will have the biggest. So I coached a lot of people through dark days and addictions and states where things just weren't. They were almost like, you know, straight jacket, you know, by their state or by their addiction, if you will, and I found that you know it's one thing. By their addiction, if you will, and I found that you know it's one thing to like think rainbow thoughts when you're not feeling good.
Polly Mertens:It's like it's kind of hard, you know, like it's not necessarily what's going to pull you out of that state, right? Or you can shift your focus. You know I do like the phrase. If I'm focused or I notice a thought going through my mind and I don't want to think that, or I've got a problem or something and it's just I'm not feeling good about it, I'll say, well, I don't have to think about that right now. Right, like I can shift my focus and that can help. But the physiology and you, my dear, are like the master of human physiology, right, like movement, movement, movement. Like you and your pump up sessions, talk about your, your back in the gym and like feeling great about it, right, and how that energizes you.
Samantha Pruitt:Totally, totally. To me, the physical piece is one of the most empowering for me and for when I do work with people, not just because I believe in doing physical activity I mean lots of us do physical activity but how that physical activity and movement really is a catalyst for just moving through crap and getting rid of it from my story, my focus. But physiologically changing my body, brain chemistry, body chemistry literally changes as you move your body and how that changes your total experience definitely your state right. Total experience, definitely your state right. Yeah, examples for me on the every day, every single day, is the gym experience for sure. Going in there and I basically light a fire in these spaces. A, that's what I want to experience, so I bring that with me. I don't expect others to give that to me, but it's fine. Sometimes they do give that to me and I bring that with me. I don't expect others to give that to me, but it's fine. Sometimes they do give that to me and I love that too. I want to receive and give, but bringing that lighting a fire within others.
Samantha Pruitt:So during a workout I was just giving an example I made my way back to CrossFit.
Samantha Pruitt:Finally, after all the Iron Woman training, and so back in the gym, strength training, and I forgot how much those workouts are horrendous and they hurt like hell.
Samantha Pruitt:So to to enjoy them and continue to succeed in them, do the work, show up, give it my best, you know, for that day, that moment, I need to have some you know expression of that.
Samantha Pruitt:So during the workout, there's maybe eight or 10 of us doing the same workout and we're all suffering together, quote, unquote. But like there's no reason for us to go into the pain cave and just grind away and just survive the thing without any joy or actual positive fire coming out. So I will scream out loud and I will yell to my teammates and you know, if we're near each other we might high five or fist bump each other, but we'll definitely have a verbal expression. I start this and then other people start doing it or responding to it, and I always get a lot of feedback from everybody that they love that because it really distracts them from the physical suffering that might be happening and allows them to alter their state in their own experience during that workout. Right, and I think that that's exactly what we're talking about. In that setting, you can really see how that would happen, and I think most listeners have experienced this.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, I think if you work, you know. So some people have the ability to work one-on-one with a trainer or a coach, right? Or you think of pro athletes who have coaches and you know like people yeah, people surrounding them, like this is their job, if you will.
Polly Mertens:And it's like pump them up, get you know, get them in a peak state, go through these workouts and stuff. Or you're working one-on-one with a trainer. You know they're like one more set, one more set. But when we're in an environment where it's say we can still do it for ourself, that's exactly what you're doing right?
Samantha Pruitt:Well, share yours. On your way to the gym, what you do? You have a gym pump up ritual.
Polly Mertens:I do, I do, yeah. Yeah, I can't control the music and whatnot or whatever at the gym, but you know I have about a. It's less than 10 minutes, so I listened to different things. So in my days of Spartan training there's this wonderful video on YouTube that I listened to. It's like the soul of a champion, right, and it was like I was born to be a champion. I was me, you know all this stuff and so that would just like raise this and this guy's passion and energy for pumping, put, you know pushing love and you know energy into people, which is so powerful. And then these days I also Tony Robbins has an affirmation, so something that you learn and you know some people talk about affirmations like I'm this, I'm this, whatever, but like when you get it energetically in your body. So I'm like in my car driving to the gym like yelling.
Polly Mertens:you know, I'm like I, it's like it goes. I am the voice. I lead, not follow. I believe, not doubt, I create not, you know, and on and on and on. And I'm just and you say it over and over again I get out of that gym or I get out of that car and I'm just like let's do this workout. You know, I don't quite, you know, do the high-fiving around, whatever, but I put myself in a state and, yeah, there might be some camaraderie smiles energy, fist bumps along the way.
Samantha Pruitt:That's how I bring the best of myself to my workout. Well, I actually, for a period of time, when you were sharing some of these with me, I downloaded the app. I don't use it now, but it's called pep talk. So there's actually an app called pep talk and there's a free version, and then there's a fee based version, but it is these little blurbs of people from all different walks of life and expressions or whatever, that basically give you a pep talk that day.
Samantha Pruitt:How brilliant is this? So people are using this in those kinds of formats. You and I have used these walking into important meetings or boardrooms, or we have to give a presentation, or we give speeches, we get on stage, we talk to people, we get in front of groups of people, like we've done these things in those work or professional settings as well. It's the same concept. It can be moved around into whatever the thing is you're trying to do, pumping yourself up so you can be a full expression of yourself in that moment. Yeah, fully present, fully dialed, with all of your gifts available to be utilized.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, and you know, when it's a tool, let's say, that you use, you bring out when you need it in select times. You know, like I don't pump myself up to go to bed. Yeah, it's like not using this on the the, on the hourly Right, it's like in situations or but I but I would say you know, definitely, if you find yourself in a lower state, you're just kind of like I was just sharing with you and overwhelm and just tremendous, like too much going on in my and my nervous system was just on overload, starting to get a little eye twitch. I'm like whoa. So for me it's just been about getting back down to peaceful state, right, so I wasn't in those moments trying to pump myself up, I was already pretty, pretty wired right.
Polly Mertens:Not wired in a positive way, I would say, wired more in an anxious, just overwhelmed right, Just feeling like I couldn't get everything done and the burden that that was, and feeling, you know, I like to keep my word and things like that. So it was just getting to peace and I feel like the pendulum is swinging. And just in the last couple of weeks, as I said, I'm going to the gym and I'm like getting back into pumping myself back up right, like I'm turning that pendulum. From a peaceful state my body feels like it's energetically in balance. You know, one of the things I want to talk about as we get into the tools is like you are an energy system, you are. You know pluses and minuses of neutrons and protons and energy, right, and so it's the balancing and so things are. You know friction. You know you look at an EKG right, like up and down and up and down, if that heartbeat of your energy system isn't fluctuating in a, say, harmonious way like my word for this year is yeah, rhythmic harmony.
Polly Mertens:It feels jagged in the body Like you know it. You know you just feel that tension, you know you just want to get out of your skin because your nervous system is out of whack. And so I've gotten to myself, to down to a state of peace, you know, more harmonious, and now it's like all right, and I love to be at a high vibration, not in an energetic frenzy vibration, but in a high peak, thriving, lookout world, un-stoppable kind of vibration.
Samantha Pruitt:Yeah, you can't live there all day long, 24 hours a day, Totally, and I don't I don't want to give people the idea that I do either, but like that is just. You know, these are examples we're sharing of things that we do that are just kind of a normal part of our life. You know, or my visit to the coffee shop is a very high vibration experience for me, but it's also beautifully grounding. So it's like high vibe in a very like calming, grounding way, because it's a community of beautiful, like-minded people and there's connection and, you know, there's a hug and there's like moments that are just really tender and beautiful. But it's also like a really high vibration. So it's less of that fire up, pump up and more like good vibes.
Polly Mertens:Right, and really you know, you know. So it's noticing when you're not when you're off right so not off.
Polly Mertens:You know we talked about the therapeutic uses of state management and mastery. Is you know you're not when you're off, right, so not off. You know we talked about the therapeutic uses of state management and mastery. Is you know you're really off, you're having bouts of depression or you're feeling, you know, lack of self-worth or you're just, you know, and all these dark, darker phases of energetic states. So that's like helping you rebound from that or, you know, regain your energy from that. But there's also times when you do want, you know so, like you were talking about. So a couple of times where I've used this over my lifetime with huge I would say great results is when I was teaching, you know.
Polly Mertens:So I would teach business classes every week and before I would go into my class I would literally go into the bathroom, do some grounding, some centering, calling in you know all these teachers and flow through me, bring your wisdom through to me, that my words may be exactly what these students need to hear all this stuff and I would just like grow the energy inside of me and it wasn't like I wanted to run out there and like, but like I brought the best of me to that class because these are night classes and people are coming at the end of the day night classes and people are coming at the end of the day and blah, blah, blah, and it's like I want them to feel my energy and excitement for their business and their future and their potential, because I believe in them and like have them receive this material in the positive way, right, like this can help your life, your future, your business. Right. And the other one is definitely in those like hard phone calls you have to make you know it's like so one thing you can read on the internet there's like Superman postures and stuff. There was a research at Harvard about you know how you hold yourself right. So they talked about the Wonder Woman posture. You know you put your hands on your hips and you hold. You know it's about putting your chest proud and your head up high.
Polly Mertens:And we talked, you know, before we went on air about how they did studies on people who are depressed. If they put them in front of a mirror for two minutes and had them just smile. Nothing else don't do any homework whatever, just smiling, depression went away because your body is like I'm smiling, I'm clearly not depressed, right, I'm smiling, right. And sometimes people just need that physiological shift on the outside to help them like start to do the work on the inside. And so this wonder woman posture is great for like that. You can't stand, I'm sorry, like fucking wonder woman with like like gonna crush the universe and just be like, oh, maybe this will work out, or I hope I'm good enough at this, or I hope this person you're like game on, dude, let's go.
Samantha Pruitt:Totally. I was giving you that example of this new work environment. I'm doing some work with REI and the team there, and so I've developed like some different habits with this team to get them fired up. They are the face of the brand and we have very specific like value system and in within REI that is so freaking, amazing and beautiful. But the guest member experience that they're trying to create is very unique and special, I think, based on a lot of companies I've been in. So here's all these team members you know, coming to work and they're bringing with them whatever their stuff is because we're all humans and we carry that backpack around, right and then they go out on the floor and they're engaging with members and doing whatever their roles are. So I've developed these little habits of going around and like high-fiving them and walking around and making eye contact and stuff. So this is me and them co-workers, teammates and then you see them doing it with others. I do that with customers too, by the way.
Samantha Pruitt:Members Like if they're sharing their story and they're going all of a sudden to Antarctica to do whatever the hell, like I'm interested in these things, so I'm like fired up for them, but you see, it's like a little spark that has started. You can't be in a bad mood and high five somebody. It's impossible. I am breaking their state mentally and physically just by this eye contact and high five. Maybe if I say even nothing at all, just that little bit of like hey, I see you as I'm walking by and give you a quick high five, and there's just a massive shift instantly in their physical, present state, alertness, and then their energy starts to rise up to meet that high five moment. And, like you doing it with students in class, I can totally see how that would be the same thing. You know now that they're looking at you. They're attentive because there's an energy up there, a vibration in front of the room and they're attracted to that. Yeah, and I think it's a high vibe, they're attracted to that, yeah, and I think Attracted to high vibe.
Polly Mertens:You know we can. And no, no bad words here, bad juju when the story I'm about to tell. But like when you go into like a, for me anyway I'll make it personal. So when I go into a store, like a Walmart, right, and I can just feel the, it just feels low vibration. To me, the lighting is low vibration, the quality of the materials are low vibration. To me, the lighting is low vibration, the quality of the materials are low vibration. Everything is designed to be low, I don't want to say designed to be low quality, but it's designed to be low price and it is you know, and so like the energy, the thoughts that is like, oh right.
Polly Mertens:And then, as you contrast that with walking into a store like a beautiful rei and if you haven't been in it's a beautiful store number one and the quality of the clothes and materials and the people and everything, it's just like, well, how long can I hang out here and do something? Let's get up to whatever you guys are getting up to right so it's like that's in.
Polly Mertens:You know there's a in the world of experiential marketing. There was this great book that I read a long, long time ago. That's about people shop in the grocery store they stop at because they feel like energy the same energy with those people. People will go when they shop. They don't shop at the one that's closest to them. Always Maybe, but not always right.
Samantha Pruitt:No, because I shop in a Sprouts. You shop in a Sprouts and I drive to a different town to shop in a different Sprouts than the one that's closer to my home. That's why I laughed out loud, because I do this. Currently, it's the same freaking brand store with similar products and I drive extra miles to go to the other one Because it feels better.
Polly Mertens:It feels different for you. It feels better, right, right. And we just want to give people permission to remember like it's okay to reach up for that higher vibration. It's okay to you know, and maybe in your store and in your life you know you do a great job, like you don't care that people look at you funny the first time you high five them because after like three, they're like we should do this every day. Why haven't we always done this? Right, because people don't exactly they're not now.
Samantha Pruitt:they're trying to currently incorporate the cowbell thing. Okay, so I brought all these cowbells because we have team initiatives and we do these things and we celebrate our teammates and our members Right. So I'm like, well, what's a symbolic thing that we could hear through the store when it's happening in the bike shop, in the shoe zone, at the front counter, whatever. In camp, you know, there's all these different departments a freaking cowbell.
Samantha Pruitt:Okay, they haven't fully embraced the cowbell yet, but I'm working on it because it's so freaking fun, right, right, you know it's like these are these might seem ridiculous and no one's ever going to want to work with me when they hear this. I'll be like she's a crazy person. But I don't walk around life like this. But I understand that there are certain environments I am co-creating and can help to curate. I can be one of the people that raises the vibration for myself and for whomever is in my space.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, if not for them, just for yourself, even Totally, like I do it in the gym. I go to you know when I would teach, I would do it for the whole class because you know I was the leader of the class, if you will. But in my gym situation, even though it's a group class, I'm not trying to lead it or whatnot, and you and I are just sort of a little different. But I do want to bring the best of me to my workout and feel as good as I can, you know. So if that rubs off on other people, I love it and we just we. Everybody has a little different personality and style, but, like, don't let yourself fall into what's around you. Vibration, be the vibration that you want to be.
Samantha Pruitt:Let's give them some actual tools, cause I think we've sold them on why, to do it and where we've done it. Also it's better for your health. In case we didn't drop that into the bucket your physiological state, the biochemistry happening in your body and brain, 24 seven, is what dictates your state of health. Yeah, yeah, and so this is really important just to be a healthier human in of the brain and of the body and of the heart, because the body wants to be at a high vibe.
Polly Mertens:The body, everything in you, wants to seek, you know. That's why it feels so good to be up there. Like that's its quote natural state, like babies, you know. It's only when we condition them and program them with all these responsibilities and rules and don't do this and whatnot, that we turn them into these little walking robots if we're not careful, right, it's like our natural state is childlike curiosity and playfulness and exuberance. And that's where we thrive and we grow and our bodies flourish. Right, so 100%, I agree.
Samantha Pruitt:This is one of the reasons I think that the breathing has taken off in the last whatever five years. All these different breathing techniques there are so many, just Google it, whatever you're into, but like people have really taken on these practices of breathing, a variety of breathing techniques, to bring to alter their state or the physiological and psychological emotional response. So that's one tool. I guess we'll just throw that into the toolbox that you can do breathing. But let's talk about some tools that you believe in and you've seen really be helpful.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, so the you know physiology. If you look at it on the macro scale, like the biggest thing is like move the body, like like do something with it, stand up, you know. So one of the things I'll give this example now that we're on air we talked about a little bit off air is when I would teach my therapy clients, my coaching clients, about state management. I would have given them an example Like you've got door number one and door number two right, and behind door number one you've got a person who is not having a good life. Right, they're depressed, things aren't going well, maybe there's grief, whatever. Like how is that person's body Like? If you could imagine what would they? If you open the door, what would you expect to see person's body like? If you could imagine what would they if you open the door, what would you expect to see If I told you that before we opened the door, we'd all say, oh, they're what Slouched over.
Polly Mertens:They're kind of they're not making eye contact, maybe breathing shallow or deep you know full breaths or shallow breaths, probably shallow breaths. They're not being expansive. They're kind of like wanting to get smaller and smaller in the world. They tend to kind of cave in if you will not. They're kind of like wanting to get smaller and smaller in the world. They tend to kind of cave in if you will not moving a lot. Right, their heartbeat if you checked it would be very low, right? And they're just sort of like caving in on themselves, right? If I said, okay, well, let's contrast that behind door number two, somebody just won the freaking lottery, right? Oh, I hope that's me, samantha's. Behind door number two, let's take a look, right, what would you expect to see? How would that person be moving, right? What would you say would they be?
Samantha Pruitt:fired up, screaming, yelling, jumping up and down crazy they'd be taking up space.
Polly Mertens:They'd be as big. They'd be as big, their movements would be big. They couldn't hold in the energy right like they would have some exuberant right. They'd be making eye contact with you, probably with some bright, big eyes, like always check this out, right.
Polly Mertens:And it doesn't you don't have to win the lottery, that's not the story that you have to have. But, like, you can still raise your vibration just knowing if you put yourself. You could put yourself into a depressive state If you sit long enough on a couch, slumped over eyes, down shallow breathing don't move.
Polly Mertens:Guess what You're going to 1000% and turn on the TV and game over, check out, check out, just be, you know, tranced and trance with whatever's there, or you can choose, and again, you don't have to go off the rails into, you know, energetic, winning the lottery energy. Maybe you just want to feel like badass, right? Maybe you want to feel like energized, maybe you winning the lottery energy. Maybe you just want to feel like badass, right? Maybe you want to feel like energized. Maybe you want to feel enthusiastic. Maybe you want to feel just happy, right, like you can create that, and so that's. That just gives you a picture in your mind. So, however you get there, there's a lot of ways to get there, right. Like you said, there's a lot of tools.
Samantha Pruitt:So, if we go on the map movement.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, and I love what you said about your stories of like running and movement and the gym and stuff. Absolutely the chemicals, the hormones, the, the, the flushing of the lymphatic system, all of that during running, yoga, exercise, movement, dance, anything that you can dance in your house. This isn't like, oh, I got to go raise my state somewhere.
Samantha Pruitt:Dance in your car when no one's looking. You do it all the time, I've done it all the time Sing oh, that's the next one. Music sound.
Polly Mertens:Sound 100% right. So people aren't aware that the sounds that are going on around them, if they're not intentional with what's on the dial or the Spotify or the channel that they're tuned into, it could be having a big impact right, tune in or have the music lift you up if you want. You know so, before this episode, I was like we're doing the pumped up episode, you know. So I was listening to like 90s rock and dance and come on, ride the train. You know I was like getting all jiggy with it in the bathroom before we, you know, before I was getting ready, and it's like, yeah, because I want to bring that to this, I want to demonstrate like this is possible.
Samantha Pruitt:Totally, totally. I just the other day was at a light and the guy next to me had his music so loud and it was hilarious. I looked over and it was actually an older gentleman and it was like total funky 80s, whatever. I don't even remember the exact song, but he was literally doing it. I mean he was probably like in his 70s or 80s with himself and I was like how cute are you? I love this. He was feeling himself just driving down the road exactly exactly so I think.
Polly Mertens:Sound, we take for granted the impact. Um, you know we're water, you know we're 80 water, so we're vibrating right like so, like like the water. You know we're 80% water, so we're vibrating right Like so, like like the water. You know, if you read studies of how they've taken, you know crystals, water crystals, and they put you know words with it, like love or peace or joy, the crystal will look different. It will look more beautiful and radiant than if they put it with the word hate or anger or whatever. Like the crystal looks dysfunctional, like it forms differently, right?
Samantha Pruitt:Oh, that's crazy, it's good.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, there's a whole Japanese study of that. That was done many, many years ago. But we're water Like we can have, like the high vibe, the energy like flowing through our body. You can just feel energy as you get good music around you, something that feels good to you. Whatever that is, it doesn't have to be, you know, extreme pump up, but it can just lift you right, exactly, exactly.
Samantha Pruitt:I put music on a lot when I come home after a really like hectic or big day and I want to quickly shift down my state into my home space, my safe, secure, nurturing, food, rest, et cetera, and we'll put music on pretty quickly to bring myself. Okay, I'm in a different space. Now it's time for me to shift gears and dial back all of those, you know, high intensity moments that I've experienced today, or whatever the mental chatter, all the things.
Polly Mertens:I love that. Yeah, your nervous system, your energetic vibration, your center point, will be raised or lowered. You know, do you want to be in a state of peace? You know I listen to great peaceful music in the morning as just kind of like a sound bath. I put myself in right Like, oh, I just want to feel nice joy or peace, and you can create that right. Like I used to have an intention and a practice before I'd get out of bed every morning I would put in some music and I would just listen to things. And my practice and purpose was I want to get out of bed and feel love and happy. And I don't get out of bed until I feel love and happy, because that's what I want to bring to the world. And I would just bring to myself thoughts of love and happy, like feel it in my body. And then when I took the sheets off, I was like love and happy coming out. Look out, here she comes, because it felt so good for me oh that's so good, I'm bringing that.
Samantha Pruitt:Let's talk about the environment, signals, cues, etc.
Polly Mertens:Okay, well, if you could see Samantha on screen and many of you are listening, you can. But like she is the master of like having an entire environment, cues, reminders, right. Like you've got like little quotes that you love. You've got your medals in your office, I know in your refrigerator you've got beautiful magnets of all these little funny things and inspiring things.
Samantha Pruitt:You tell us how do you utilize those, those kind of cues just peppered throughout my space, even in my car or wherever my spaces are that I go out and about into?
Polly Mertens:your key chain. Yeah, key chain.
Samantha Pruitt:Exactly, are reminders to me, cues to me, of not only who I am in the world and who I aspire to be. You know, it could be as simple as what's on your screensaver.
Samantha Pruitt:Oh, I should just say my crazy, runs wide and it runs, but like a screensaver. You know, I have a quote on it right now that I'm working on. I gathered my habits and started releasing the ones that never lead me to lasting freedom and joy. Wow, and that's because I'm in the middle of some habit change for the new year, right so?
Samantha Pruitt:putting these little cues, you know, visual things, reminders of moments, people, places and things that bring me joy, that bring me peace, that pump me up and make me feel fired up about the work I'm doing in the world with humans.
Samantha Pruitt:Like all of those things things I need that in my space and I believe they're incredibly powerful for all of us to really be thinking more intentionally about that and what our space does look like. We are the co-creator or the creator or the curator of this experience. So what's going to be in my vision and focus? What are going to be these little moments for me throughout the day that are gentle reminders to stay on the path? That is true to me? I mean, you've got to have all this stuff. I don't know how people are in spaces where it doesn't feel good and they're living in that room, that house, that apartment, they're driving in that car that is full of crap and trash and like. These are your spaces, they're your sacred spaces to be your best self and if they don't feel good and the energy and the vibration in there is very low, you're facilitating that cycle.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, it's having an impact on you, you know, whether you, whether you, you know, and some people, it's like oh well, and we've talked in the past about capacity, you know there's times where my capacity is, you know, you're in an event, whatever. It's like you have very little capacity to do extra, you know, or whatnot. But when you have capacity, it's like how can I reduce the resistance, how can I, you know, take away the things that are creating friction or stress in my life or bringing me down, or you know, just the mental space of like a trashy car or a cluttered drawer or old food in the fridge or whatever, you know it's like, like, like, take the time, have the capacity to remove those things, because you will feel lighter. We've done episodes on this, on like the feng shui of things, right, and the only one thing I want to say is like, have these pump up things in the places where you want to be pumped up, not in your bedroom, where you want to go to rest.
Polly Mertens:Unless. Maybe a corner of your office is in your bedroom, maybe, but like that energy, will you know? It will call out to you, it will speak to you, right? So have a calming environment in your bedroom, but have spaces your workspace, your computer, your laptop, your car, whatever that.
Samantha Pruitt:Yeah, pump you up your style that I've witnessed for years now and I just love because it's just different than mine and it's so like jovial, is you have party favors, literally like in certain places, or you bring them with you, or you know, we talked about the balloon unicorn, rainbow unicorn that was given to you and that you held on to that and it sort of hovered around in your space in your home for months, kind of just keeping an eye on you. I know.
Polly Mertens:Well, I know where Tracy got it I saw I was like, oh my God, this is that same rainbow unicorn that she got me. I almost bought myself one. I was like maybe I should buy another one Because he reminded me for months of like every time I would look at it right.
Samantha Pruitt:Exactly Party favors, dude. Why can't we buy ourselves party favors? Totally, totally. You know when we're talking about pumping ourselves up. Whatever that means like if it's some piece of your um fitness routine wacky socks you know, yes, exactly like you know putting on the fun hat or putting on the crazy socks, or you know a water bottle or something, something that has a message that's significant to you. Whatever If it's a work thing, have your day timer or your tools for work reflect the value system and the vibration, the energy you want to bring to that work.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, right, the front of your journal. You know like, do you have?
Samantha Pruitt:just all of that kind of stuff.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, or you know vision boards. You know that's the bigger one. You know like people are used to hearing about vision boards, but it could be small things like you're talking about, like little stickers on your laptop, or you know magnets on your fridge, right?
Samantha Pruitt:Visual cues to remind you and give you that little bit of like and some of the best ones are like handwritten notes to yourself.
Polly Mertens:So like like when we did our kickoff last year, we did I'm the awesome, I am awesome. Challenge for 30 days. Like I wrote, I am awesome and I put post-its all around my in the time in my RV it was like little handwritten reminders for me, to me, you know so yeah, all that all that.
Samantha Pruitt:You buy five cards, you know. So, yeah, all that, all three by five cards, you know, kind of whatever makes sense. I do post-it notes in my car that I'll remind myself of things that I'm working on, whatever personal stuff to personal development stuff, and I'll write a little post-it note and I'll have it in my car just stuck on my little dashboard. There you know same kind of concept what you're talking about. If you have a desk at work, if you have a locker at work, you know, like all of these places that are going to be points of contact for you throughout the day, these little visual cues to reignite your own internal fire are so good, yeah, and you know what.
Polly Mertens:Go find an environment if you don't, or if you, you know you've created your max environment in your own home. Like you, we go out to environments like the gym that we go to, or the restaurant, or the hotel, the grocery store that we shop at. Like we feel good in those environments, right, you know your gym, my gym like it's an opportunity to get up level, not only physically but emotionally. Right, so go put yourself in spaces where people are. You know, if you need to feel more peace, okay, go to a coffee shop, or the chill vibe is going on or whatever. Or go somewhere where you know things are more lively. Maybe it's a concert, maybe it's a, maybe it's a bar, I don't know. Maybe it's a dance club, something. You know that you feel that enthusiasm, that pump up for you.
Samantha Pruitt:You know. I want to just mention one thing. You talked about capacity, which is one of our big teaching points. If people feel like, well, this is all nice and everything, but I don't have the capacity or the bandwidth right now to change my vibration or change my space or whatever, I would strongly encourage them to clear out. So, even if they're not bringing in just simply the clearing out of the fridge, the bedroom, the closet, the car, the desk, whatever to make space for the vibration to shift, even if you don't have the energy to do the proactive shifting and pumping up like we're talking about, If you just simply make room for a different energy, it will change. Open the windows, open the doors, like it will come in. Right, it will come in. Just be receptive to it.
Polly Mertens:You know. The other thing I was thinking of is we don't have kids at home, but you know, people with children like teach your kids this right, because kids can help you, they can help shift your energy, right? Like, hey, kids, we're going to play this game. You know? So maybe you have a ritual of kids doing a pump-up every night or every morning before they go to school, or whatever. You know like, play with it.
Samantha Pruitt:See how you, how could you, you know, enliven and bring in more of the people in your house to, like you know, even moms, you know, get get run down or a long day or whatever, but if the kids like, have the habit of like it's a pump up hour or home from school and many times, but going to school for the pump up vibe you know you're talking about.
Samantha Pruitt:Hey, what are you going to do at school today and what's your day going to look like? And a lot of parents I'm not judging, I was a parent of many children, and it is complex would be we would be focused on maybe whatever we saw our child struggling with. So we'd be talking about oh, here's maybe how to manage that not so pleasant classmate or the teacher that you don't really get along with, or the schoolwork that you're burdened by Setting the tone for the negative experience to literally expand in the child's brain and body before they've even walked in school. I'm sure I'm guilty of this. Where it could be, let's focus on the positives, and this is also for an adult going into the workspace too.
Samantha Pruitt:So do we go to work and we're talking to our friends or our family members or whatever about? You're not going to believe so. And so she is such a oh my God and I got to put up with this boss today. Oh, oh my God. Right, like, rather than you know who's my favorite person at work. Like I have some favorite people in my spaces and I want to shine light on them.
Polly Mertens:Celebrate.
Samantha Pruitt:Celebrate Because I want more of them.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, or like what was the best, what was the best experience, what was the best thing? You know, like I remember asking this gal at our workout on friday. I said what was your favorite workout today? You know, because we do a lot of little mini things. I said what was your favorite task or whatever workout? Right, and she's like, so she had to think about it, like oh no, and I said, yeah, that was my too, you know, and it's like we focus on what was what made us feel good.
Polly Mertens:Yes, yes, what you focus on expands and I want to share that. So when we're in different energetic states. So if you kind of think of it like a thermometer right, like high, higher vibration the top of the thermometer, lower vibration maybe at the lower of the thermometer, you're kind of cold.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, you're cold, right, so like there's not a lot of possibility at cold, there's not a lot of excitement, there's not a lot of it's retraction. Yeah, like the mind isn't like what could I do? How could you know? But if you warm it up, if you bring that energy, if you send kids off into a day like you don't have to focus on how, are they not going to be bullied at school or going to get overcome that test, if they're in a high vibration, all of oh my God, I should totally do that, and then we get fired up to go do that Right.
Samantha Pruitt:You'll seek that matching vibration. You'll go to the school, the work, the home, whatever, and you'll get people trying to date in the world. I mean you're going to match the vibration of the high vibe across hottie across the room yeah Right, or whatever. Not to match the vibration of the high vibe across hottie across the room yeah right, or whatever. Not like, oh, that creeper over there. You know like it's fascinating how this works.
Polly Mertens:This is good stuff, lady dude pump up, so let's anything else. Are we going to share our like?
Samantha Pruitt:one thing like I'm pumped up just talking about all this.
Polly Mertens:So this is so good and I needed this today. So thank you, and thank you listeners, for being on this journey with us. I hope you got something out of this too.
Samantha Pruitt:It's like we did yes, they're fired up right now. What's the one thing for you?
Polly Mertens:well, I hope you know we've gone through like the tools and the why to do it and whatever. But I want you to just remember like either you're in default and you're reacting to life, which we sometimes do, and that's you know. But now you know better so we can do better. So remember, you're creating, you can become the master of your state. You set the tone, you set the energy. You can turn on the radio, you can stand up, you can move your body right, but you're reacting, or in default, or you're creating. What about?
Samantha Pruitt:you Exactly Same. You are the creator or the co-creator, depending on your belief system of your entire experience.
Polly Mertens:100%, you are the creator and just imagine if you had 1% more pump up, like you just practice it each day, like 1%. You listen to a more upbeat song on the way to work, or you went to the gym and you fired yourself up, or you just got your kids and whatever you just did 1%. Imagine that multiply over the arc of your life, right, like how much more impact you would have, how much more joy you would have, how much more access to potential you would have.
Samantha Pruitt:Mm-hmm, do it so good.
Polly Mertens:Well, I don't think there's any we should just go crush the day.
Samantha Pruitt:Moving on to crush the day.
Polly Mertens:You know Bye and you listening. Go crush your day Like take something away from this. Remember, physiology has many levels. It's what are your eyes? What are you doing with your breath? How are you moving your eyes? What are you doing with your breath? How are you moving your body? Do something right Like make that shift, take that into your own hands and make a shift.
Samantha Pruitt:Because how your life feels is everything more important than how it looks.
Polly Mertens:Yeah, guys, and every day is your opportunity to find your awesome.
