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Sandra Paolini - MBET, 1630 N Main Street, # 298, Walnut Creek, CA (2025)

10/03/2025

Ever feel exhausted but wired?

It’s not just your thoughts keeping you awake.

Your body needs a different signal—one it can actually follow.

This week’s Blog Post breaks down why most sleep advice doesn’t work...
and what real rest actually requires.

Read the full blog post and get today's FREE Yoga Nidra Audio link here: https://changeworkstrategies.com/beyond-sleep-hygiene-a-yogic-approach-to-deep-rest/

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Get the full 30-minute Yoga Nidra Freebie here https://mindbodyenergytechnology.com/yoga-nidra-freebie/

09/27/2025

When thinking harder stops working...

There’s a different kind of intelligence—beneath the doing. One that doesn’t require effort, insight, or strategy.

My weekly LinkedIn newsletter explores:

• Why overanalysis doesn’t lead to real change
• What most mental strategies miss
• Why real transformation doesn’t come from motivational effort. It begins (and ends) with not doing. Yep, exactly opposite of what you think would work.

Plus: it includes a free Yoga Nidra guided meditation - a deeply restful, time-tested practice rooted in ancient yogic wisdom and supported by modern neuroscience.

This isn’t mindfulness or breathwork.

It’s a doorway into clarity, calm, and nervous system reset—without effort.

Read the full article + listen to the guided meditation here:

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08/29/2025

You don’t think your habits.

You become them.

Tight breath. Bracing shoulders. A jaw that clenches before your mind catches up.

These aren’t just stress responses—they’re patterns etched into your body.

And talk therapy alone can’t unwind them.

In this week's post, I break down why your old strategies might not be working—and what the subtle body knows that your thinking mind doesn’t.

Real change doesn’t come from more insight.

It comes from working with energy, fascia, breath, and sensation—where your habits actually live.

Read the full piece + get a free Yoga Nidra audio when you sign up for my newsletter.

https://mindbodyenergytechnology.com/yoga-nidra-freebie/

08/14/2025

Why does therapy feel like a surface-level fix?

You go in for support. To talk. To get help.

To sort out what's been overwhelming you.

And maybe it does help—at least at first.

But over time, something starts to feel off.

The diagnosis. The treatment plan. The never-ending "work on yourself."

You start to wonder if the thing you came in with is being addressed—or just managed.

This week's newsletter is one of the most personal I've ever written.

It's about how I got disillusioned with the therapeutic model—and why I am ultimately stepping out of it.

Not because I don't believe in healing. But because I do.

You'll also get a free guided Yoga Nidra audio when you sign up—
a powerful way to slow down long enough to feel something new.

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08/01/2025

Have you ever felt the urge to leave—without knowing exactly why?

Maybe nothing is “wrong,” but something in your system knows: it’s time to go. Time to change. Time to stop waiting for clarity and start listening to that quiet internal yes.

I’ve built lives in different cities and countries—and walked away from all of them. Not recklessly. But because something deeper was pulling me forward.

This week’s newsletter isn’t about digital nomadism—it’s about something more human: the inner urge to move, to shift, to evolve.

I write about what happens when comfort becomes a cage, what it means to leave behind projects that no longer fit, and how expectations—especially unconscious ones—can quietly keep us stuck.

If you’ve ever felt restless in a life that once felt aligned—or wondered if you’re the only one wired this way—you’re not.

➤ Get the full story when you sign up for the newsletter: https://changeworkstrategies.com/

You’ll also get:
✅ A free full-length Yoga Nidra meditation
✅ First access to my upcoming digital meditation library
✅ Real, grounded tools for navigating change, clarity, and reinvention

07/23/2025

Your internal energy system doesn’t need an interface.

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

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

It pulses. It vibrates. It moves.

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

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

And that’s the whole point.

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

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

You just have to slow down enough to feel it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“To infinity and beyond.” – Buzz Lightyear

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

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

Sign up for the newsletter if you’re ready to reconnect with what’s already inside you. https://changeworkstrategies.com/

07/18/2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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07/16/2025

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

Maybe it’s a craving for simplicity.

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

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

But really, it’s not about me.

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

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

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

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

No fluff. Just insight, practice, and tools for real change.
Sign up here:https://changeworkstrategies.com/

07/14/2025

Two Takes on the Simulation – and the Space Between

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

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

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

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

It was a brilliant argument—and completely disorienting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

07/11/2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

📩 Sign up now to get acces to today's newsletter and the Yoga Nidra Meditation Audio: https://changeworkstrategies.com/

07/10/2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

07/09/2025

When Thinking Isn’t the Way Through

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

You understand the pattern.

You can name the trigger.

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

And yet… you’re still stuck.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sandra Paolini - MBET

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