Mona Sharma left her corporate job after developing heart palpitations and burnout, then spent two months at an ashram learning yoga and mindfulness. Her husband Craig supported the decision. The practices helped her heal her heart issues and change her internal dialogue.
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So maybe for the first time in decades, I became present to my thoughts, the quality of my thoughts which God, nobody in this world should have ever heard. So called it quits on the corporate world. Craig, my amazing husband, was so supportive, I went and I lived at the ashram for two months. And that's when I became a yoga teacher. Just for my own personal healing and rather, at the ashram, returning to all of those ancient healing principles, my heart palpitations subsided. I stopped being hardcore, hardcore exercise, hardcore dieting, and my body came into balance. So maybe for the first time in decades, I became present to my thoughts, the quality of my thoughts which God, nobody in this world should have ever heard. My feelings, my emotions, the things that I was stuffing into my body. And like, you know, if you stuff things into your body and then focus on doing, doing, doing, doing, doing, I just ignored everything. And so looking back, when I think about my poor heart was like, I can't do this anymore.