YofA: A Meditation Strategy for Left Brained People!

Interview Episode with Rebbie Straubing

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And that's so that there's never a sense of like, I'm sitting here doing nothing. This is a waste of time. Not that the traditional way.

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And I can't wait to talk to her cuz she's got so many interesting things and we're just gonna dive in in just a minute, but Rebbie would you tell us just a little bit about you and, and the work you do?

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And so this thing that I call the Yoga of Alignment, or I call it YOFA for short, which is just kind of silly, but it's just hard to always be writing and saying the Yoga of Alignment. So it just kind of got down to YOFA. It's a system of meditation. It's a system of healing and a way of just navigating life and manifesting joyfully.

It's like a way of looking at what am I as a human being and what is this journey that I'm on? And how do I live in such a way that my soul is joyful and satisfied in this incarnation? Like the integration of the soul essence of who I am as I'm walking through this life, in this human masquerade it's a soul fulfilling journey.

So that's, and then there's like much more than that, but that's kind of in a nutshell, I would say, what I'm about.

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And so the, what yoga really is, is a yoking of the individual self to the supreme self, the transcendence self. And so there are a lot of different forms of yoga, but basically what they are, it's about joining. It's about joining the finite with the infinite. You can find like a, Bhakti yoga is the yoga of devotion, or there's a yoga of knowledge or the yoga of a selfless service.

There are all these different paths, all guiding us as human beings toward the union of our human aspect with the divine. And so this thing that I call the yoga of alignment is that same journey, same goal that we're on that path using the alignment of the human aspect with the divine energetically as our method for that union, so that we get our human aspect in alignment with a divine spark within us

So that then everything clicks into place. Relationships become better. Manifestation becomes quicker. Spiritual awakening happens just spontaneously. Just healing, physical healing has the opportunity to flow because we're in alignment with our own essence.

And so, so this name, the yoga of alignment came to me in meditation many years ago and I rejected it immediately. Who am I to call something a yoga? You know, I can't do that. And so I just kept pushing it aside, but I tried to honor inner guidance when it comes and I was guided to accept this word.

I'm not trying to say that I'm Indian or that I'm enlightened or none of that, you know, it is none of that. It's just, this is a path toward that union through the lens of alignment.

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And I actually made a promise to Esther many years ago that she was like, yes, you can call yourself an Abraham coach, but just send everybody, give everybody our contact information at that time was like telephone number and address. So I always like to just say please forgive me, but you can find them at abraham-hicks.com go learn from them directly.

But one of the things that Abraham tells us is that nobody else can vibrate for you. You are the only one who's generating your vibration, and the universe is responding to your vibration and there's nobody else you can't hire somebody, how you are vibrating.

You are the only one who can do that. So we tend to that through inner alignment meditation, doing things where I help people learn how to do the meditation. And they, you know, so they can either learn from the book and then insights come and self-knowledge comes or they can join my online meditation center.

And then we're like cranking away at this constantly. The other big category is the things that you can't do for yourself. if you've ever had like an itch on your back and you're like, can you please scratch that part for me? Over to the left a little bit, or, you know, there are places energetically that we can't get to.

And so there's a category of things that you can't get to by yourself because we're human and we just don't have Omnissions. And so having somebody else's perspective can actually help us. So there's that category of stuff where I do remote energy sessions for people.

I do coaching, law of attraction coaching for people. In everything I don't always teach. I'm just, I can't stop teaching.

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What happens is people just sort of like start noticing things about themselves, waking up to patterns that can be, let go of desires or like dreams, talents that they have that they let go of as a child. And there's just so many things.

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And I had no clue if it had changed yet. And then I would say something, something would literally come out of my mouth. That was so out of my previous norm that I would go, oh, look that's different. You know? And so I think that's where you do start to really notice that suddenly things are a little different.

And then I know for me I created a momentum from that and, that's where I fell in love with energy healing. cuz I met so many great healers that have helped me along my path. So it's been really, really interesting. So meditation for me was never a big deal because I spent my life, especially as a child making up imaginary worlds and totally living in my head and some things I made up that I now know are actually a part of me that I had no idea.

But I have so many friends and clients who just have such a hard time meditating and I've never been able to help them much with that because I do it so intuitively, so let's talk about meditation because even in your system or just on its own, it's so transformative.

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And so I had started my journey with meditation many years ago. I was listening to Ron DAS in like 1970. I was doing all this stuff as a teenager and it called to me so strongly that it was irresistible for us, but I had a lot of trouble with it. It was difficult for me and over so many years I have struggled with it and times I just gave it up.

Sometimes I really tried to work on it. It was a difficult thing for me. So it's kind of ironic that I am teaching this now. So for the people who have trouble what I think is that there are different kinds of minds that people have. And for some people, and I admit I'm one of these, like, I love learning about meditation.

I love all the spiritual teachings and everything, but then when I have a cushion and a candle and everything, then once I sit down, it's like this is a total waste of time. It's like I have so many things to do. I'm sitting here doing nothing. I admit it, that has certainly crossed my mind or I'll sit there for the time and my mind is wandering or I used to go into like panic almost like I would face this void.

I didn't know what to do. I was coming in contact with some shift in consciousness. It was scary to me. This was not like, oh, meditation's so, you know. It refreshes me and I'm so ha no, you know, none of that. So I was in a really difficult time in my life.

And I was like, I have got to do this. There's nothing left for me to do, but find my way into meditation in a way. Now I've had like profound meditation experiences as a teenager. I was a student of this amazing teacher, Hilda, who people wanna Google her, Hilda Charlton. She was the extraordinary teacher.

And in her meetings it was really because of those experiences that I came in contact with in direct experience of divine love, and all this stuff. Fast forward many years. I decided that I was going to focus on the root chakra and I was gonna spend a month on each chakra and completely focus my attention on that chakra and see what happened.

I started out with the root chakra and in that month, the whole thing happened. I had these revelations and experiences and it was like, that's where the book came from. The book is rooted in the internet. If anybody wants to actually have it here, because I'm gonna tell you some things about that.

So what happened was a way of approaching this that was doable for me, kind of revealed itself to me. You know, it was more to it than I can go into it right now. But I received a method basically that had to do with my background as a chiropractor. It had to do with my understanding of yoga.

It had to do with law of attraction. It had to do with like all these things that I had available to me in my field. It all sort of like crystallized into a system. I was like, I'm never gonna remember all this. So I wrote this book really for me, so that I would have it to refer to.

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It's not private, but it's yeah. Once I found something that worked for me where I could sit there and do this meditation, and it's like what you were talking about, did that do anything? Did it do anything? I think in my experience, and I think in a lot of people's experience, you sit down for meditation.

And then the, ding, you know, bell rings 20 minutes is up or whatever. And it's like, was I meditating? Did anything happen? I don't know my intention with yofa meditation is that you absolutely know that this is a value to you. Like for practically, from the first time you do this, it's like, I know I'm meditating and I know that this is taking me where I want to go.

And that's so that there's never a sense of like, I'm sitting here doing nothing. This is a waste of time. Not that the traditional way.

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And it's also for people who are experienced to don't have a problem meditating. To help them if they're in a rut or whatever, move to their next level. So it's good for people who are advanced too, but it's special sweet offering is for people who have trouble meditating

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When you learn intuitively it's very hard to teach. I have written novels and I could write characters. Great. But I couldn't plot to save my life. I had to work for years to learn to plot. What do I teach if I teach writing? I teach plotting. Because I had to figure it out.

I can't tell you how to write a good character, cuz I just do that. You know? So I think this is very much the same where if you have to struggle a little bit to figure it out, then you can take that experience, which you've done beautifully with a book. And share it with people who have a similar kind of brain to you.

Cuz our brains all work differently and mine is so incredibly intuitive. It's great. A lot of the time and it's a pain in the butt some of the time. So, let's talk about your book. You brought that up, that came out of your learning to meditate.

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And so that's what this whole thing kind of revolves around. And so I explain all that and talk about different things. So that's the beginning of the book where you will learn basically this whole system. I'm extremely introverted. So I thought if I write this book, I will never have to give a workshop, teach anything. It's like, here it is.

You wanna learn this, go. You see all my reasons for writing this book to help because my memory, like I could refer back to it so I could give it to people. It's like and my intention for this book was for it to be something that you could just carry around and you don't even have to read it.

It will just vibrationally give you what you need to know. And, and the other thing that you can do is, once you have a sense of this system is like, if you have a question, you don't know how to deal with something, you can just open it, stick your finger in, and it will give you some way to approach things.

So if reading it cover to cover is just too much, you can just sort of use it as a like, oh, how should I think about this? Like I have this thing going on in my life. Which axis is the most important here? Because the up-down is the spiritual axis. According to this system.

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And so that's where your relationships are. That's where your career is. That's where the desires that you're kind of running after are. By getting these things all in alignment, we bring all these aspects of our lives into balance and the opportunity for full fruition. So that's the beginning of the book.

And then in the end of the book, there's a practice section where you can go through exercises and learn how to do this meditation step by step. You can really learn the whole thing in this book. It's more fun for me if you come to the meditation center online and we do it all together, but you don't need to. The book is everything.

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And so those things might take you more advanced if you just joined or sometimes, we're looking at it on Fridays, it's all about manifestation so that anybody can come into anywhere. And then on Mondays, it's either healing or we're going through the book. And so you could come in at any place, but we we're going through the book with a fine tooth cone because it's a lot packed in there.

I'm not, as you can probably tell, I'm not much a filler.

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You know, it's not, it's not like read this book and you'll be enlightened. It's like, oh, don't even think it's gonna happen in this lifetime. And so I'm really interested in like making something happen. Maybe it's not the ultimate enlightenment, but if I'm gonna sit down or if people who are listening to me are going to honor me with their time and they're going to take the time to sit down and do something that I'm suggesting that they do, I'm really committed that they get something worth way more than a time that they put into it.

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And so one of the things that when you click into yofa meditation, what happens is that at the end of the 10 minutes or the 20 minutes or 30 minutes, you're actually sitting up taller than you were. You started. It's not deliberate.

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The desire can be for enlightenment. The desire can be for, I wanna manifest a really disciplined, spiritual practice. The desire can be for anything and manifesting that. That's where it comes to which axis am I looking at manifesting along, I want to really purify my meditation and prayer practice.

That's a Y axis desire. I want a new car. That's a Z axis desire. I want to lose weight. That's an X axis desire, but they're all desires and they all get manifested through the same exact process. so that's one thing that I wanna just say about manifestation, just to clear that. The other thing that I wanna say about manifestation is that we're always manifesting.

We're always vibrational beings. and the universe airy fairy, woo woo sounding, but it's just the way that it is, is responding to us. And so it's not like oh, I've just been living my life and now I want to start manifesting. It's we're always manifesting and mostly we're manifesting by default.

We're not paying attention to it. It's like, if you were a magnet and you just walked into a field of paperclips, all the paperclips would just jump on to you. Willy-nilly just random. And you would just say, oh yeah, this is just how it is. There are just paperclips everywhere and that's just life.

I'm not a magnet. It's just what is. Just paperclips everywhere when we get deliberate. So we're different from magnets and that magnets can only attract things that have iron in them or whatever, but we, by changing our vibration can stop attracting paperclips and start attracting enlightenment or a car or a body that I love, depending on how we shift, we attract differently.

In fact, it's kind of perfect because you know how a magnet works like the way that a magnet attracts paperclips is that the electrons that are spinning around each little iron atom, when they are all spinning in alignment, that's a strong magnet. You drop that magnet and it scrambles everything.

And now you've got all kinds of different electron directions. It's out of alignment that magnet has lost its magnetism. Magnetism is a function of alignment.

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Let's go with, I am happy. So, I start magnetizing my consciousness around I am happy. And then I become that magnet. So things that are congruent with I am happy come into my life. and so manifestation is not really that, I don't know. It's not so airy fairy. It's not so when you really think about it,

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You're eliminating all contradictory energies. You're pure on that subject. And then you just let the universe show you whatever it's got in its back pocket to bring to you. It's like, what paperclip is of the same vibration that it can bring to you, but it's not gonna be a paperclip. Obviously.

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If we're gonna get a dog, it's gotta meet all of these eight things. And it was like hypoallergenic. We wanted to adopt from the pound, not a puppy. I just, and for about a year, every time it came up, I go, okay, but we got these eight things and I would go through the list. The last one on it was doesn't shed. We found a dog, my daughter and my husband found a dog at the pound where they volunteered that met seven of the eight criterias.

And I was. All right. So whenever I talk about manifesting with my family, that's what I use. It's like, I kept putting it out there. Just, this is what we want. It's very specific. So it took a while to find her, but it was just a, for me, it was a real eye opening moment of going, oh, that did come to us.

I did magnetize that. You didn't get this non shedding, but everything else was there.

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Anything that's going on in your life that you're really happy about or that you're really grateful for, know that you had a hand in that. It's not just luck. You were pure in your vibration. This whole thing that I just described that all happened. You just weren't thinking these thoughts or saying these words and I’m saying, but it's the same exact process.

It's, no different. Everybody's already doing this.

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And by bringing ourselves into alignment with our essence, we are helping make this a better world and helping the evolution of humanity. So I think that's part of this manifestation thing we're just talking about, but it's, really a higher purpose. I know for me, this is about the most important thing we could be doing right now. The world needs higher vibration. The world needs compassion and love and peace and equity and all of those things.

But you're saying in what you sent me that just by working on ourselves, that we are participating in this raising of the human experience.

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Paraphrase. It's not the exact quote, but you get the idea. If there was somebody who was really bothering you, they were really annoying or hurtful or whatever, if you heard, oh, you know that person is working on himself. He's really working on getting himself into alignment with his essence.

Wouldn't that feel like, oh, something good has gotta come out of that. Right?

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And so by working on ourselves, by coming into alignment with our essence, what's happening is we start to see things more clearly. We're more ready to forgive and we're more forgivable. Like we become more of a person who someone else might be more inclined to forgive if we have transgressed in some way, because the more you come into alignment with your essence, the less there is about you that's offensive because you're just being yourself.

And so we're all human. It goes in and out and I'm not saying you're gonna become the perfect person by doing this. But what I'm saying is when we take the time to clear the static in our energy field and to bring our energy field into balance, these three axis, so we're not like way distorted and out in one place.

Our energy is more organized and more I wanna say independent because we are more complete, more whole so that when we go to interact with another person, we're not trying to get something from them, or trying to push something on them. We can actually see them as they are, appreciate their magnificence, their beauty, their uniqueness, their gift, and love them in a way that's like not looking for anything. It's just appreciating them as they are.

And so the more we are doing that, the more we're contributing to our shared world of balanced, compassionate energy. When you do this, you naturally become compassionate. When you start just accepting someone else as they are, you don't have to think like, oh, I have to be compassionate with this person.

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You are sort of an Oasis energetically. It gives them space to spin it out, come to a sort of fatigue point and find their center. Again, they're not, meeting with an argument or something that's just going to fuel their disturbance. And you become a place where they can start to find their own alignment.

It's not that you are going to align them, but being in the space of your magnetism, they find their magnetism and they find through your alignment, they find their alignment. So that they can become more truly who they are. It's not like you're gonna try to I don't try to get people to be more like me.

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Sometimes we're so busy protecting ourselves from other people that we don't get to do that.

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Oh my goodness. There are so many things to be reactive to. And that reaction is where a lot of that change can come from. But after you've had that reaction, so if you go out with that reaction then you are off balance. If you go out like, you're off balance.

If you cultivate your alignment first, and then you go and you talk to the people who you need to talk to, or give your speech or run for office, or go try to make a change in the world, you're coming from such a more powerful place.

And if you can even cultivate even like a little bit of compassion for your opponent and you have some bridge with them, Hey, we're both human beings and we see this differently. You have so much of a better chance of making a change.

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You know, and they would smile and start to laugh and it would shift everything away from whatever that issue was ahead of me. But even just smiling at somebody changes their experience. And it's just a little thing. So even if that's all you do is you just walk around and you smile at people, you're gonna change things for the better. So…

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Whether it's about meditation or it's about it means to be in alignment or to manifest. It's so great. Thank you. But I'm gonna shift this now to my rapid-fire questions

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Okay. You don't have to dig for anything. First one is, who is, or was the wisest person in your life?

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And maybe just the word peace or an I am phrase, I am hold and just let that permeate me, let that be sort of like the tea bag in the cup of water that I am and let it infuse and then I'm good to go

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I think you have something on your website even about it. Don't you.

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And if you have a ache or a pain or an upset or a relationship, whatever that you want to address, I do a free session for everybody who's there. So you can sign up for that. And then you'll get an email letting you know, when the next one is scheduled. So yeah.

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And so thank you so much for being here with me and with us and to the listeners. Thank you for joining us. I hope that you have found a bit of wisdom or maybe some useful tips to help you meditate better or to help you manifest more. There's just so much good stuff I hope you have enjoyed this as much as I have.

And I hope to see you next week. Every Tuesday we come out with a new interview or a solo sometimes I like to share my own wisdom with you directly. But every Tuesday we release a new episode. So thank you again for being here and hope to see you next time.

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