Episode 262: Brain Rewiring and Energy Healing with Sandy Yang
In this episode, I’m joined by Sandy Yang. Sandy first joined me in Episode 194, the first episode in the Human Design Authority series, where she shared what it’s like to have an Emotional Authority.
Sandy is an Energy Healer and Brain Rewiring Coach.
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Sandy explain what’s energy healing and brain rewiring
Personal and client experiences of both practices in work
How Energy Healing and Brain Rewiring complement Human Design
Recent observations we’ve made with Human Design, both in ourselves and with others, regarding Profile Lines, Defined and Undefined Centers, and more!
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Naomi Nakamura: Hello there, my friend. Welcome back to The Live FAB Podcast. I'm your host, Naomi Nakamura, and I’m so excited to be joined by returning guest Sandy Yang.
Sandy is an energy healer and a brain-rewiring coach who helps women raise their self-worth and build confidence. Sandy first joined me in October 2021, where she shared what having an Emotional Authority is like. And today, Sandy joins me to talk about brain rewiring and energy healing, what the differences are between them, and how they're helpful who they're for.
She talks about how they're complementary to Human Design and shares a lot of real-life examples both from her own personal experiences with it, as well as from the work she does with her clients.
We also have a really fun catch-up session talking about Human Design, both being 1 / 3 Projectors; we talk about our different Authorities, we talk about some of our clients' designs, and it's just a really fun time catching up with each other. So with that, let's get to the show.
Hello, my friend Sandy; welcome back to the show.
Sandy Yang: It's good to be back. I feel so honored to be a repeat guest!
Naomi Nakamura: Yes, you are repeat guests. And you were last on - I looked at the calendar before we started recording - in October 2021. You were my first guest in my Human Design Authority series because you're an Emotional Authority, and we know the order of operations in Human Design is that the Emotional Authority is the first one of the bunch.
Sandy Yang: Wow, life was so different back in October 2021. I remember I had just moved to my last apartment, as we were just talking a little bit before we started recording and now I live in a house.
Naomi Nakamura: Amazing.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, it's just crazy. How much can shift within, like, just under two years?
Naomi Nakamura: I know. I was thinking about it. That was like, in some ways, it feels like yesterday. And in some ways, it doesn't. Because I mean, you and I met in our Human Design certification program was that in 2020? It's been three years now. Isn't that insane? It is, but then in some ways, it feels like yesterday.
Sandy Yang: I'm curious, like, just going back to like October 2021. I know you were talking a lot more about human design. You're kind of pivoting right?
Naomi Nakamura: Yeah.
Sandy Yang: How were you feeling about taking your business in that direction back in the day?
Naomi Nakamura: In retrospect, I kind of feel like I was doing a lot of experimentation because I was still deeply into my One Line of wanting to just dive in and learn everything that I could about Human Design because it was pique interest at that point. It still is now, but I had to be in it to really absorb everything, and I needed to bring everybody with me.
Now we’re a couple of years later and I still work with a lot of my health coaching clients. I can see the synchronicity that it has for them. So I've kind of I don't want to say pivoted back, but I haven't like left that conversation, because, for me, I don't know if it's because it's something that I've lived through and something that's always top of mind, but I naturally attract people who are really struggling with managing stress, and they're suffering from burnout and all of these things. So there's that health aspect of, “Okay, what can they do right now, to start alleviating some of that suffering, because it is suffering when you're, you can't sleep, and when you're exhausted all the time and you're burnt out. It gets to the point where you can't function. It's like this vicious cycle.
But then you also see beyond the physical health, the aspects of all the other things that are keeping them stuck in that cycle. That's where human design comes in. It really helps build self-awareness and it's a tool to help them unstuck themselves and break the cycle and find more contentment and inner peace. And I think once you have that, then you can start making other choices and decisions for yourself to help you feel a lot better. I mean, Human Design is all about energy, right? That's kind of where I am so it's kinda like gone full circle. But yeah, what about you
Sandy Yang: I resonated so much with what you said because, like, some, you know, people are burnt out or stressed out, not because they want to, but like, on some level, they chose it on some level, right?
Naomi Nakamura: Whether they don't have boundaries, or they're just not realizing their agency in changing the situation, maybe not in the most obvious ways. But we all have agency over ourselves to change different things. And it doesn't have to be major life changes, like getting a new job, but it can be.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, totally. And as you were talking about exhaustion and burnout, I'm like, my super active Defined Root Center kind of gets me into trouble sometimes. And you know how there's this term called like, “Hot Girls Summer, and they're all those different variations going on like heel girl, “Slow Girl Summer or…
Naomi Nakamura: “Relax Girl Summer.”
Sandy Yang: Yeah, I saw her like, chill girl, you know? And I was like, Yeah, every day, this week. I'm like, oh, is supposed to be like a chill slower day. And then I go ahead and mess it up. Because like, invitations will come up. And my Defined Root is like, we can squeeze that in and then I end up like, restless and like running around like a madwoman.
Naomi Nakamura: So you're aware of it.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. Trying to change it, trying to do better.
Naomi Nakamura: But that's the thing. Like most people, they're not even aware of that. Right. So that's where when we hear people who say, “I can't sleep, I have insomnia,” I mean, people will start chiming in with, “Oh, take melatonin and take magnesium, all these things, and okay, that can help you in the immediate, it can help you tonight to get a good night's sleep, but it doesn't resolve the reason why you're not sleeping.
Sandy Yang: Correct. And melatonin messed me up, I either have crazy dreams, or it only knocks me out for like four hours. So I ended up worse off.
Naomi Nakamura: I took it for years, and it never had any impact on me. It never helped me sleep. And I even took it in combination with something else called 5 HTP that my doctors recommended. It never helped me. Honestly, the one thing that helped me is, I know listeners can't see it right now, but I'm showing you my Oura ring.
Sandy Yang: We talked about this last time when you were on my podcasts,
Naomi Nakamura: Yes, because it helped me gain some awareness. Like the ring itself is not helping me sleep. But it helped me by collecting data that I wasn't aware of on my own or that I wouldn't have the tools to be able to collect on my own.
So it's helping me build awareness around some of those habits that I had or things that were going on that I just wasn't clued into. So it's helping to inform me so that I can make better decisions that help me sleep better.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, totally. Those tools are so helpful because it does make you want to keep yourself accountable and want to treat yourself better. because sleep is literally priceless.
Naomi Nakamura: It is it is. But today we are here to talk about you. So for those who maybe have not yet heard your first episode, or they don't yet know you, but this is their first introduction to you tell us who you are and what you do.
Sandy Yang: My name is Sandy Yang, I am an energy healer and a brain rewiring certified coach, I used to do a lot more Human Design. That's how Naomi and I first connected. But these days I mainly run my group coaching program called Empowered. It’s a group coaching program focused on brain rewiring, I also do a lot of energy healing. I think those two modalities go really well together in terms of overcoming limiting beliefs. Talk about sustainable and long-lasting shifts in mindset. Those can be like really powerful. So I’m all about that these days. But when I was thinking, “Oh, today I have a podcast recording with Naomi, I was like, Oh, I forgot how much I love Human Design. With my clients, I don't share about it, openly that much anymore in terms of working with clients, one-on-one or in a group. I do if they are interested in knowing some of the aspects of their chart, right? I realize I attract a lot of 5 / 1’s clients and friends.
Naomi Nakamura: That's interesting because whenever I hear that somebody has a 5 Profile Line in their design, to me that’s leadership energy. And here's the thing about people who have 5 lines - they may not necessarily have an awareness or acknowledge that they have leadership abilities, because they're natural leaders. So I can see how people might struggle with that. But also how learning about that can be very empowering for them.
Sandy Yang: Oh, yeah, totally. One of the 5 / 1 ‘s I know very well, in my own personal life is my dad. We were just talking about sleep and stress, he literally is always putting other people, especially at work, first and prioritizing other people's priorities. Until he recently retired, he has been struggling with sleep for years and years.
So just recognizing like, oh, like you are, there's like this extrovertedness to them, but then also realizing not everyone is like that, not everyone functions the way they do. And it's actually really powerful. And for them to let other people take the lead, they don't have to take responsible in every situation. So or most 5 / 1’s what you’re already doing, you are already overgiving. You might think you can give even more, but you're not letting other people have a chance.
Naomi Nakamura: Also, with Five Lines, you're there to serve a purpose to lead, but there's an end limit to that. There comes a time when, when you've done your job, you've done all that you can, and you pull yourself back, and you let yourself rest for when the next opportunity comes along, where you need to step in and be a leader again. But there's an endpoint, I guess what I'm saying for every situation?
Sandy Yang: Yeah, totally. I'm actually curious because I remember we talked about this a little bit when we're going through the Human Design grad program. So we're both 1 /3 profiles.
Naomi Nakamura: I was gonna bring that up.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. But then you know how there’s those columns by your chart, other profiles, numbers? I have a lot of 4’s. Recently, I’m realizing how that's actually a big part of me, too. People keep asking me, “Oh, do you have a 4 Profile? And I was like, no, but actually when I look at the whole chart, there's a lot. And then, I'm not good at Astrology by any means, but I have a lot of things going on in the 11th house.
Naomi Nakamura: Okay, so first, let's remind people what is the 4 Profile Line.
Sandy Yang: The 4 Profile Line means if you have that, your opportunities come through your community, and community is high in your priority. I don't talk about Human Design as much anymore, but it's like, not everyone you're going to bond with, but people you do vibe with, you really vibe with.
Naomi Nakamura: Yeah. How has that been showing up for you lately?
Sandy Yang: So I'm leading a barre group class a few times a week. So now, before I was like, going as a member, now I’m teaching and it's kind of like a leadership position and everyone now knows you. And I thrive off that.
Naomi Nakamura: Well, that's why people who have are 2 / 4’s it's almost contradictory because the 2 is where they hermit and need their alone time, but yet the 4 is being in community.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, same. The 11th House Energy is like all of my big planets are in that house.
Naomi Nakamura: I'm looking at my chart right now, I actually have a lot of 6’s, which goes with the 3 Line. I also have a lot of 5’s and 2’s.
Sandy Yang: Okay, that makes a lot of sense. Because there's a lot of like six energy, there's like, this calmness to you.
Naomi Nakamura: Thank you. Sometimes it doesn't feel that way.
Sandy Yang: I'm sure.
Naomi Nakamura: So I have a question for you. So, you’re an energy healer, and you do a lot of brain rewiring. Take us through that. Explain what that is. I know they're two separate things. So what are they?
Sandy Yang: Brain rewiring is definitely less woo-woo than energy healing. There needs to be open-mindedness.
Naomi Nakamura: See, in my perspective is that there's no such thing as woo-woo. It’s people who are unaware.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, for sure. When you talk about Human Design you see the energetic side of things. It does require open-mindedness. So brain rewiring is more based on neuroscience psychology. We all have a brain and we have different beliefs that are formed since childhood. Most of our core beliefs are formed through ages 0-7.
You want to start a habit or do something different in your career, but you just can't get yourself to because your beliefs aren't on board - your belief about yourself, your identity.
When I was working in public accounting, I really had the employee mindset. I knew I wanted to start my own business, but every weekend, I was like, “I'm gonna do something huge for my business, I'm really going to move the needle forward. I'm gonna start on my website. I'm gonna reach out to people, and blah, blah, blah.” But every weekend, I would do everything but. I would do the laundry, wash dishes, clean the floor, whatever.
Naomi Nakamura: And we were just talking about how you don't even like cleaning.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. So it's like, even though I wanted to become an entrepreneur, I didn't see myself that way. I didn't know what it would be like to be an entrepreneur, my brain didn't function that way. That's why I kept running around in circles, getting stuck.
So I basically had to eventually find out, “Oh, you can just shift the way your brain thinks and works. And then change becomes easier if you will.”
So I had to start digging into, “Why do I feel like entrepreneurship is this big horror thing? Who taught me that? Where did I learn that?” And I realized, that no one in my family is an entrepreneur. So, people starting their businesses is like this risky thing, expecting them to have a hard time or even fail, not from ill intent was like, Oh, that's very risky, is risky and unstable.
But, when I really thought about it, working for someone else is not always stable.
Naomi Nakamura: Yes, exactly. I work in tech, and I don't know if you’ve worked for a public company. It's not just in tech, but whenever you work for a public company, every quarter, you have to report your earnings to Wall Street, and a board runs your company. So if your earnings are not good, there is a high chance that there might be layoffs. It just doesn't happen when there's inflation, it doesn't just happen when the economy isn't going well; it happens every single quarter, whether people realize it or not. So yes, even if you have full-time employment and you work for someone else, that instability is still there.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. So it just really depends on how you look at it, because when you think entrepreneurship, starting your own business, you think about money. And when I think about my relationship with money, it was very uptight, always very conservative, with a lot of guilt and shame. And then I realized, oh, there are people who genuinely see money as a source of possibility is like this thing to play with. How is that possible? It's just their upbringing,
Naomi Nakamura: And those beliefs translate to every part of your life. Because I'm thinking of health coaching, and some of my clients that I work with, are struggling with health issues.
A lot of it comes down to fundamental beliefs, like money, which then goes back to limiting beliefs.
Think about our habits. One of my biggest revelations, and this is not exactly the same as yours, but I promise this is related.
There are seven ways that we have limiting beliefs. One of them, especially when it comes to our health and specifically around nutrition and food, is a scarcity mindset. This relates to money, which then translates into entrepreneurship, but it also translates into our health and especially with our food.
For me, I realized that I had a scarcity mindset. And when I dug deeper, because, as you said, a lot of it goes back to our childhood - when people go through this type of healing, it goes back to inner child healing - I grew up in a place that was very isolated.
I grew up on a small island in Hawaii; with 7000 people. We didn't have anything franchise - there are no franchise businesses there other than the gas station. Everything was mom-and-pop. There's no movie theaters. There's no shopping malls. There's nothing like that. It was just bare necessities.
So we would go to Honolulu once a year, well, we'd go more than once a year, but every year, we’d go on a school shopping trip to get school clothes and school supplies for the next year. That was the one time that we could get McDonald's or a new Hello Kitty pencil case, or whatever it was. I would really try to preserve it because I didn't know when I could go back and get it again.
And I realized, as I've gone through a similar journey as you, a lot of decisions that I've made throughout my life, and still to this day, go back to that scarcity mindset. That’s where it comes from.
When I'm shopping for things for my home, I never run out of toilet paper, paper towels, and certain groceries because I'm afraid of being without. When it comes to gas, I fill up actually fill up when there's like, half a tank,
Sandy Yang: Really
Naomi Nakamura: But again, when I think about why I am this way, why do I make these decisions, it all goes back to having that scarcity mindset. So where did that come from? My childhood. So that’s a roundabout way of saying I understand, and they relate to what you're getting at?
Sandy Yang: Yeah, yeah, that is such an interesting upbringing. And now you live in the Bay Area, which is completely different.
Naomi Nakamura: Exactly.
Sandy Yang: You can order toilet paper on your phone. So yeah, scarcity of mindset. Everyone can have a scarcity mindset, but everyone's worry about it differs.
So going back to entrepreneurship and money, even though it feels like, “Wow, can I really shift this workload,” you can buy a promise.
And scarcity mindset can also be applied to like love and relationships. Many people, almost everyone, have some wounds, especially women, Father wounds, which leads to seeking now emotionally unavailable men or showing sub-optimal, unhealthy attachments. But most people, unless they really work at it, have insecure attachments. Everyone just has a little bit of shit around it, and all of that can be healed and shifted. So that's what brain rewiring is about. It’s intense.
Naomi Nakamura: I know everybody's different, and I don't want to put timelines on anything, but what's that process like?
Sandy Yang: So this is like an ongoing thing. Personal Development is an ongoing thing because you and I always growing, right? Every time I'm stepping out of my comfort zone, there's a little bit of fear. With brain rewiring, if you have gone through the process, you know how it works, you can almost like use that framework to work through that fear. So I feel like everyone can work through their fears.
Naomi Nakamura: But what this tool is like, it makes it more easeful.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, so you learn the process and can apply it to whatever situation you encounter throughout your life. It's not like you get to this destination to say, “I've rewired my brain” because there's always going to be something that needs to be worked on.
Naomi Nakamura: Yeah,
Sandy Yang: I don't think you have to think about oh, I've never done so I'm just going to do it every day till the day I die. Personally, I go through phases. So if I recognize like, I started doing a group coaching program last summer, and when I was launching that program, I really wanted to give up.
So what is this about? What are my beliefs about this? And I realized, oh, because I had always like worked for other people. They were things, that kept me accountable. I had to go to college, I had to pass my classes in high school, I had to meet the 4/15 deadlines for tax returns, that kind of thing.
So now that I'm the only one keeping myself accountable is very new. So I was like, we need to shift that. So that's why I did, and before, I used to be like someone who wants to quit. Now I need to see everything.
Naomi Nakamura: Oh, that's amazing. That's awesome.
Sandy Yang: So it just depends on what is coming up for you. For a very long time, my thing was visibility, like podcasting, showing my face sharing Why have to say that was like this big serious thing?
So I took that through preventive brain rewiring before our podcast interview. I actually have an Instagram story that I haven't posted it yet, but it was the first time which isn't even that long ago. I recorded my first ever podcast as a guest on somebody's podcast about Human Design. And I was not well, I overthought everything I said, how I came across.
I was worked up about days before and then days after, and I was sweating under my clothes. So that was like a whole thing. At that time, I really wanted to be on podcasts. And I had like two other interviews lined up like weeks after. So I was like, Oh, I really want this. I could cancel, of course, but I knew I didn't want to.
So I was like, I will take this to brain rewiring, and so showing up public speaking in this way, was actually one of the first things I took through brain rewiring. Two weeks after, when I did my second podcast interview, I'm like, “Oh, this shit works.” I look at you here. That was the first experience that built a lot of confidence. And that made me want to take that whole process through with other things. like, dating and relationships.
Naomi Nakamura: It's progress, right? It's a work in progress. But I also feel like, and you tell me what your thoughts are, as you said, we also go through phases because there was a period of time where I was constantly on Instagram stories, I wasn't afraid to show my face, it wasn't that big of a deal.
But I went through this period of not wanting to be there because I kinda was like reevaluating my relationship with social media. Now it's almost like having to work me back up to be comfortable doing that, again, because I'm comfortable putting my face on camera, but it's just getting into the habit of doing it again.
And then also releasing all of the ideas of what it's supposed to look like, or what it should look like, based upon how other people do it, because if I try to copy how other people do it intellectually, I know that it’s not authentic to me, but given which is how things have changed and shifted, not just with social media, or with the app itself, but with me, what is authentic to me.
Sandy Yang: Oh, my God I definitely had phases where I was on there, but now I looked back in the archives, I was like, “Oh, you were putting up a show.” I wasn't inauthentic.
Naomi Nakamura: It was authentic to you at the time, but we are allowed to evolve and grow.
Sandy Yang: I hope we all do as humans.
Naomi Nakamura: So, tell me about energy healing.
Sandy Yang: Okay, so energy healing. So, brain rewiring is one thing, and I will say everyone I have worked with in terms of brain rewiring, they all tend to open up a little bit more spiritually and intuitively.
So in my program, like if you were with me, we do monthly energy healing one on one. energy healing is like - okay, everyone here is familiar with Human Design. So it's your energy, and so everyone has different vibes, right?
Your defined centers, your profile, and all that jazz give you your own unique blueprint for your energy.
So we also have an energy body and our kind of like our field, right? Some people can feel very potent, strong, and activating. Whereas other peoples’ energy can feel more nurturing, slow, and calming.
We all have energy bodies and our fields. energy healing is essentially balancing your energy body, as well as clearing and optimizing.
Naomi Nakamura: So what does that mean?
Sandy Yang: We both have defined group centers, right?
Naomi Nakamura: We have two Defined centers - the Throat and the Spleen.
Sandy Yang: Okay. so you have an Undefined Root. You can kind of get a little overwhelmed by other people rushing and deadlines, and just that adrenaline energy,
Naomi Nakamura: I can't keep up. And I've, again, some of my parenting things were like, you know, I parents who have to find you at centers. So like, that was how I was raised with that energy, but that's not my energy.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. So in energy healing, I can intuitively see which energy centers need a little bit of nourishing and balancing support or charging. We can do that throughout your chakras or energy centers. Throat is a big one for people.
In today's world, not many people are comfortable saying what they need to say or overthinking what they say. That kind of thing. So, a lot of people's Throat can be blocked. So that's a common one. And we can, in some cases, see why they're blocked, and their stories link it to childhood or something that maybe when you're in first grade, you were told you speak too much, or you're too loud, or you are too direct, so it’s clearing energy around that as well as like charging your Throat.
So you can do that kind of thing with all of your centers and people do feel energetically lighter after a healing session. When it comes to like clearing and optimizing your field, sometimes we are just around too many people's energy.
For example,I haven't taken that BART in a very long time. There are a lot of people on there, all kinds of different backgrounds and personalities.
Naomi Nakamura: For those who don't know, she's talking about the mass transit system in the Bay Area because Sandy used to live in the Bay Area. So she's very familiar with the things of the Bay Area. And BART is Bay Area Rapid Transit - a mass transit system that a lot of people take every single day just to get around,
Sandy Yang: Oh my god, I used to have to drive to the BART station, take the bar for 30 minutes and walk 5-10 minutes to the office,.
Naomi Nakamura: I did that, too, back in the day. I used to take it because, at that time, Colma was the end of the line. I would take it to Montgomery, but the parking situation was such a nightmare that I used to carpool with my cousin so we could park in the carpool section. I would get off at Montgomery and she got off at Embarcadero and then we would carpool home. But when she got a new job that wasn't in the City, I had to get a new job, too, because I didn’t have anyone to carpool wtih.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, a lot of different kinds of humans on the BART, and you can feel really exhausted after taking the BART.
Naomi Nakamura: You're not driving. You're just sitting on the train, but it is exhausting.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, so we feel like we're supposed to interact with other people - energy exchanging, just from your day-to-day life. You can feel exhausted or “Oh, like that interaction left me feeling achy.” Have you ever had that?
Naomi Nakamura: Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I have that even on social media, through my screen.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. Last weekend, I went to a friend's house, and she wasn’t in a good place. Emotionally, she felt like she had not been taking care of herself, physically, emotionally, and mentally. She was really stressed out. Her house was kind of messy. It really needed cleaning. When I left, it was like good to see her, but I was kind of low afterward.
So imagine, over a month or so, you kind of have to like clear your energy a little bit. So people do feel a lot lighter. Sometimes we have like energetic attachments that are really serving us. So while we clear whatever is ready to go, we can feel way more in flow. Way more uplifted, just brighter, shinier. Just good and optimistic.
Naomi Nakamura: What are some tools you use to like clear the energy?
Sandy Yang: How do you mean?
Naomi Nakamura: Like, do you do tapping? Or do you do - I don't know, what do you do? What are just some go-to that you use, either for yourself or in a session? I'm sure it varies from person to person.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, so generally, like, let's say, someone books their energy healing session. They generally have a reason why they're booking it, either they're having a hard time, say like, with their partner, they're fighting a lot more, or they're like going through big transitions in life or processing a lot of grief. So generally, like some intention, and then in that session, we'll chat before, kind of just get clear on what's going on in their lives. And then we go into a session where they go into a meditative state, and I work on their energy.
Usually, there's plenty of “downloads” that come through from their higher self or like their spirit team, if you will, that will feel very uplifting and encouraging.
So those are usually guidance, like something to add to their routine that will maintain the health of their energy, or there's like a show they should watch or just like something to incorporate Or just like a message that they needed to hear that will bring them kind of like relief and clarity.
So that's what a session looks like for me when it comes to clearing my energy. I can always do a session on myself, but other things I don't do that that often. There's like a whole thing. Other ways. You got to, take a bath with Epsom salt. I actually did that the other day and that's so not me. It was actually very Cancer season vibes now physically at home. I was able to process a lot of emotions, which I didn't think was going to be the case.
Naomi Nakamura: My gosh, I get my best ideas when I'm in the shower. So like, when I'm feeling stuck about something, I either take a shower or I take my dog out for a walk, because just being on a walk as well, I find it very mind-clearing.
Sandy Yang: Totally, nature can be great for clearing your energy. Sleep is a big one. When it comes to energy healing clients, I also always tell them that sleep is how you can help yourself integrate the work.
Naomi Nakamura: Yeah, because you're giving your nervous system a rest to start to integrate everything not just on a physical level, but your brain, and your emotions as well.
I’ve had energy healing sessions before in my life. I understand everything you're saying, I relate to it. It’s a visceral feeling of either an energy release or an energy shift after these kinds of sessions.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, totally purging your belongings can lead to like having a garage sale is amazing, because not only are you getting rid of stuff, but someone else is finding joy in it, and you're making some money. It's not like things are going to waste.
Naomi Nakamura: It's like that whole Marie Kondo thing - it served this purpose, and now like, give somebody else a chance to get purpose out of it.
Sandy Yang: Yeah, purging, cleaning, even, you know, cleaning up your Google Drive, or Instagram following or the people you follow, like the content you consume, all of those things can really help with the release. If you're releasing something, one thing that I recently did, so my grandparents from my mother's side passed away like grandpa passed away one day, grandma passed away, like two weeks after, so my mother was going through like a lot of grief. And I agreed to do like an energy healing session for her. And I honestly, I was like, I don't know how this will help her.
Naomi Nakamura: It's just weird when you work with family, right?
Sandy Yang: I like working on my mom and watching my dad balance him out, charge him up. I don't really like to share the messages. I don't know. Yeah, it's a little weird. But my mom said she went from not wanting to eat and just feeling very light, and low to feeling like she got a little bit more of her energy back. And it's like she could see the light at the end of the tunnel, just like a shift and or habits.
I noticed that some habits you actually, like, let's say someone was binge eating, or whatever, post-energy healing is very common to notice, I actually don't want to do that anymore. There's this newfound self-worth and self-respect that you're like, I'm not going to do this for myself, because you feel something different. It's not the same feeling you had before the experience. And like you said, you feel lighter, more optimistic, and don't want to go back to feeling that way. So you're more inclined to release whatever it was that you were doing that was keeping you with those feelings.
Speaking of 5 / 1 people, the real estate broker I worked with is a 5/1. She asked me what I did, and I told her about energy healing, and she goes, “Oh, my God, can book a session?” She loves the work she does, and she's really good at it. She has a heart of gold, that kind of person. But when it comes to buying a home, you're getting deep into other people's families and their emotions - it’s a lot. So even though she loves what she does, it can be very exhausting very fast, especially as a 5/1 she wanted to help those people in a big way. So for her to continue living out her purpose, she really needs energy healing, like on a regular basis.
Naomi Nakamura: Yeah, whenever you're dealing with people's homes and private sanctuaries and then families, it's not just like any other business.
Sandy Yang: Yeah. I totally get it. Wow, this has been such an amazing conversation.
Naomi Nakamura: Well, the reason I wanted to have this conversation is that I feel like people lump these things together. Still, they're actually quite different, energy healing, brain rewiring, and Human Design. And while these things are all complementary to each other, they're all actually very different. But yet, there are amazing tools and frameworks to have in your life. So thank you for coming and sharing all of it with us.
Sandy Yang: Oh, you're so welcome. Yeah, this flew by.
Naomi Nakamura: It did, and you know, it's a great time chatting with you just because we went through Human Design certification training together. So we have that foundation, and it's been a while, but I love just chatting about Human Design with people who understand it, too.
Sandy Yang: Oh, I know. It's so much fun. And talking to people like you can always bring up something I kind of knew but didn't realize about my chart. So that's super fun. So glad to talk to you again.
Naomi Nakamura: You too. So where can people connect, find, and work with you?
Sandy Yang: So my Instagram handle is @sandylyang and everything I do is on there. I have a podcast too. It's called Design Your Life with Sandy. So yeah, you can find what I'm up to on Instagram for the most part, but check out the podcast as well.
Naomi Nakamura: And I will link to those things in the show notes. Thank you so much for coming on again.
Sandy Yang: Thank you for having me.
Naomi Nakamura is a Health x Human Design coach who’s creating a healthier society through aligned energy.
She blends a bespoke mix of Functional Nutrition and Human Design to help others shift into alignment to leverage and correctly manage their energy to support their body, mind, and spirit.
She believes that when we embrace our authenticity and lean into our bio-individuality, we naturally live a life of freedom, empowerment, and optimal health.
Naomi resides in the San Francisco Bay Area and can often be found exploring the area with her puppy girl, Coco Pop!
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