Welcome to the Feel Good podcast, which is all about heart-led living and wellness.

When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible

results and create more vitality, health, strength, peace, abundance, and love in our lives.

I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,

creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker. I am passionate

about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey. Let's get started. Hello and welcome back to our Thursday Q&A show. I am so excited

to talk about our very important topic today around shame and specifically healing shame to expand

into fearless self-love.

Shame is such a heavy energy that has become normalized in many of our lives.

I know it was normalized in my life for many years.

And we don't realize how much shame can really affect every part of our lives. For me,

it affected my digestion. Of course, it affected my self-esteem. It affected my relationships.

It affected my energy, my vitality, my ability to create in the world. Shame is this idea that we are bad or we don't deserve love

based on maybe mistakes we've made or things that we've done along the way.

And it very much needs to be detoxified from our system,

from our energy field so that we can move forward into true self-love, into success, true success, true

fulfillment, true energy, right? In fact, Swami Shreyuk Teshwar, who wrote the Holy Science,

this incredible master of Vedic philosophy, this incredibly wise and connected yogi, wrote in the Holy Science,

which is the book that The Five Hearts is based on, the Five Heart stages that I wrote about

in the Hidden Power, the Five Hearts.

Shrik Dishwar says, The Eight Bondages or Snares are hatred, shame, fear, grief, condemnation, race prejudice, pride of family,

and smugness. Removal of the eight bondages leads to magnanimity of the heart,

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