Hello, and welcome to The Own Your Health Podcast.
I'm Cyndi Lynne, and I can't wait to
help you step into your health power.
This is our third episode already, and I'm so excited for
all of you who are on this journey with me.
This is something I've been meaning to do for
a while and I've been asked to do for
a while, and it's happening and you're here.
So thank you very much.
The this episode, we're going to talk about
moving back into your body, moving back in.
Now, it may sound a little strange at first, but
if you think about it, if you think about a
time that you've been very sick or a time that
you've been in a lot of pain, a time that
you've had a chronic issue that you've just had to
manage, and your mind kind of checks out of your
body, frankly, you get exhausted from the problem, exhausted from
the pain, and you just want to check out.
And sometimes, even after the pain is gone, after the
condition or diagnosis that you originally had is healed, you
still live kind of on the outside of your body.
And some symptoms of this is when you walk past a
mirror and you look at your body and you make judgments
and you talk to yourself in your head like you would
never talk to a friend or a loved one.
That's a really good sign that
you've moved out of your body.
But in order to really own our health, for you
to own your health, you need to move back in.
You need to feel the feels.
And I can promise you they're not
all going to be wonderful feels.
This is the time where people say, oh,
I have aches, I have pains, I'm getting
old, all of these kinds of things.
And you may have aches, you may have pains.
If you're still alive, you are
getting older, and that's a blessing.
But if you don't move into your body, if you don't
feel the feels, it won't enable you to own your health.
You'll still be kind of outsourcing it
to a distant part of your brain.
So what are three steps that can help us as well
as are the reward for moving back into our bodies?
Number one is awareness.
This is the feel the feels.
This is enabling yourself to take the time
to actually sit quietly and feel your body.
Now, some of you may do this automatically and
check in with how you're feeling, but I know
a lot of people who just keep running.
They can outrun aging, they can outrun pain,
they can outrun whatever it is they're experiencing
if you just don't hold still long enough
for it to catch up with you.
But of course, it always does.
So checking in with your body, feeling the feels,
this doesn't mean you have to ruminate or you
have to let those feelings run your life.
But it does bring you back to that
center, bring your awareness back to what is
actually happening inside of my body.
And so when we look at awareness, when we bring
that awareness to, it allows us to do some analysis,
and that analysis allows us to make decisions.
And that's one of the huge
benefits of ownership over your body.
So let me give you an example.
You've gone through a really hectic
day, booked solid, lots of stops.
This is the kind of day that on a Sunday night, you look
at and you think, oh, why did I do all of that? Right?
You get to the end of the day, and
you sit down and you're relaxing, and you have
this headache that kind of just won't go away.
And if you pay attention, you may also
notice that your shoulders are riding a little
high or that your leg keeps bouncing.
If that's a habit that you have, that's one of mine.
And you may finally become aware that you are bringing
all of that busyness of the day, even though that
stuff is done, into the present moment, because you weren't
necessarily aware of that attention as it accumulated, and then
you didn't bother to get rid of it after the
events of the day had passed.
So when we look at this and we do this
analysis, I'll call it we do it without judgment.
We do it without getting upset with our body.
Let me think about it.
Makes no sense to get mad at our
body, because our body is us right now.
This is the only house we have to live in.
We don't judge, but we do analyze, and we
say, okay, this is what this day, the schedule
of these activities did to my body today.
Do I want to do that again next week?
Or am I going to make sure that
next Wednesday or Tuesday or whatever day is
scheduled much differently than this day is?
And even if things happen during the day that
we don't have a lot of control over this
sitting down, this analysis, how am I feeling?
Am I feeling like I'm still revved up?
Okay, why am I feeling like that?
And reminding yourself, going through the simple exercise
of reminding yourself that these errands are done.
Yes, maybe I wasn't looking forward to today.
I got things crossed off the list.
I did what I needed to do.
Or are you still holding tension because you
didn't accomplish what you wanted to accomplish?
All right, get it on tomorrow's list or the
next day's list and out of your mind and
spend time in each parts of the body that's
registering a complaint, for lack of a better word.
So if your neck and your shoulders are complaining,
if your feet are sore from standing too many
hours, if your back is sore because you haven't
moved around enough, you get to do something about
it because you're aware of it.
And that's huge.
That's a really big that's one of the
benefits of ownership is that you can intercede.
You can do something about it.
You can make alterations to your schedule.
You can make alterations to how you take
care of your body based on that schedule.
You can make alterations.
And I know people say frequently,
I don't have a choice.
Some days what I have to complete.
Okay?
But you do have a choice about what your
personal expectations are piled on top of that.
So if you have an absolutely miserably hectic day,
then maybe lower the expectations for what you're going
to make for dinner or that you're going to
get dinner out or have dinner delivered.
Lower your expectations for the day, saying, that's not
going to be a day that I'm going to
get a couple of loads of laundry piled in.
That's going to have to be another day.
There's always something when you own your health and
by extension, own your life, if you haven't caught
on to that part yet that you can change.
There's always something in your control that's something
that's very difficult to tap into if you
aren't in your body, if you aren't living
in it, experiencing it, feeling the feels.
So this works on a singular day micro kind of scale.
Even a more micro scale would be having
an interaction with a friend at lunch.
How do you feel afterwards?
Was the interaction positive?
Was it uplifting?
Did it make you feel better?
Was the interaction stressful?
Were there expectations?
Were there uncomfortable conversations?
Did you have lunch with someone that you
would choose to spend time with again, or
was it kind of an obligation?
Did you eat well for your body at lunch?
Did you take the time to enjoy your food?
So how does your stomach feel after lunch?
All of these kind of little bits of
awareness will come automatically with practice, as long
as your awareness is within your body.
So I know right now it sounds like a big to do list.
Great.
I have to sit on top of everything else.
At the end of the day.
I have to sit down and see what I feel like.
Well, it's called a body scan, and it
doesn't really take very long, but I can
promise you with practice, it will come automatically.
And it's a really good instant feedback when you
get good at it, when you have that practice.
And it doesn't take long at all to just kind of
walk out of a situation, to walk out of a meeting,
and I can guarantee you do it right now.
You walk out of a business meeting and you
say, that went well, or that didn't go well.
I'm getting these things done, or I
got five more tasks assigned to me.
Whatever the case may be, you can
do the same thing for your body.
If that was anxiety producing, why did I have so
much anxiety going into and coming out of that meeting.
Was I not prepared as well as I could have been?
Was I unable to speak up the way I wanted to?
Did I hold back?
Did I regret not saying something?
These are the thoughts that we can gather based on the
feelings that we have when we're checked into our body.
Because I can promise you your gut
is much faster than your brain.
And once you're living in your body on a
regular basis, it's a trusted friend to kind of
give you feedback on what's going on.
Your body can also give you fabulous feedback very
directly on how does it like the food you're
eating or the circumstances that you're eating under.
How do you feel differently when you sit down at
the table and eat versus eating at a drive through?
How do you feel eating with extended family?
How do you feel gathering together for family meals?
Is it a positive thing?
Is it an anxiety ridden thing?
All of this information comes
from feelings in your body.
And the feelings are generated often by thoughts.
But those thoughts can happen so fast and
so reflexively that we can miss it.
And so tuning in to how we feel
in our body is the first step.
Now further down the line, and I teach this
in the Heal Your Life Circle, which is a
program that I have later on down the line.
We'll learn to go back and look at, we identify
the feeling, go back and look at what thoughts led
to that, what beliefs led to those thoughts.
That's a big piece of all of this work.
But the first step in this owning your health.
And that's where I wanted to start with this.
How if someone has never felt that they've
owned their health before, how do they begin?
What is that process?
So the very beginning is this checking in,
this awareness and this analysis without judgment.
And the final step we're going to talk about today
is the acceptance and the loving who you are.
And that's the most rewarding, it's the most health
inducing, and it's also the most challenging of the
steps involved in moving back into your body.
Because we all have loads of stories about how our body
should be or how it shouldn't be or why we shouldn't
have gotten sick, or why we should be thinner, or why
we should be stronger, or why we should whatever.
We have a tendency to should
all over ourselves, as I say.
But accepting what we find when we find it,
when we feel it, when we're feeling all these
feels, accepting it, saying, okay, this is what's happening.
We can analyze it.
We can look at why if we own it,
the beauty is we can choose something different.
But in order to make a choice and to choose
something different, we have to accept that we are where
we are in this moment, and that's okay.
And where do we want to go from here?
And because it's our body, because it is the only home
we have right now for our soul, we can love it.
And we can love this process because this process
is so powerful and it gives us the power
to step up and own our health.
Now, there's a very specific type of moving
out of our bodies that we do when
we get a diagnosis, something like cancer or
autoimmune disease and have to go through treatments.
There's a very specific kind of moving out of our body
that I will talk about and do another episode on.
But if you find this intriguing and if you would
like to do some more work on kind of rediscovering
the body that you have and how you interact with
it, then I invite you to my free Masterclass.
You can listen anytime you like.
I'll put the links in the show notes.
It is geared towards diagnoses, but
it applies really across the board.
And I think you'll really enjoy it.
You'll get a real sense of what it means to
move not only back into your body, but maybe move
your body and your spirit back into other parts of
your life that may have slipped by the wayside.
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So, again, thank you very much.
And until next time, let's go out and own it.
