A Little Alignment
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A Little Alignment
Wellness Series Pt. 1 | Physical Health + Fitness
Ready to change how you see and treat your body? Here's your chance to deepen your understanding of the intimate connection between physical health, mental well-being, and our self-perception. There's so much more to our bodies than what you see, and we're here to explore that together. Be a part of this conscious conversation and see the transformative power of an integrated approach to health and fitness.
If you set health goals for yourself or you have intentions and you're like I want to lose weight, I want to gain muscle, I want whatever it is, and you are genuinely putting a concerted effort toward creating this body they want and it keeps not happening. The point I'm trying to get across is that there is something under the surface that you just have not addressed, and it could be something as simple. As you know, you snack when you're stressed, or you're stressed all the time, and your body really doesn't feel safe to be able to let go of weight. There's something unconscious that is stopping you from getting what you want, because your body wants to be healthy and you have amazing creative potential to create what you want with your life, but also on a smaller, more tangible scale, with your body. Welcome to A Little Alignment.
Speaker 1:If you enjoy what you hear today, if you gain some value from our episode, please leave us a good rating and review at the end. Every single review counts. It really does make a difference. We would appreciate it with all our hearts. We're so glad y'all are here with us, helping us create a little more alignment in the world. Okay, so we recently came off of our beauty series and we had such a great experience with that. It was so I mean, obviously, talking about beauty. It's a beautiful experience, but we really liked that, you know, having a bit of a series and really delving into different levels of a topic. So we're going to play with it again at this time of year when we're all lots of people set goals. So we are going to kick off a new series, three part, about wellness.
Speaker 2:So we're calling it Wellness series, our wellness series, codec'd.
Speaker 1:So we're going to start our wellness series off today with the the most surface level, honestly, of wellness, which is your body, physical level, physical level. Surface ain't bad, it's just the most tangible level, right and yeah. So we're going to talk about the physical body, physical health and that element of wellness right off the bat. Yeah, when we are setting intentions or creating goals for our bodies Lauren, you brought this up and I loved it that it's always more, not only just more effective, but more soul filling.
Speaker 1:Really to focus more on choosing to love your body versus doing it because you hate your body. Yeah, I'm going to take care of myself because I love myself versus because I hate myself and I want to change everything about me or whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So tell us, talk to us about that and how that's benefited you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that it brings a whole different energy to what you're doing when you're doing it from a place of love versus from a place of hate. I mean like it's day and night, obviously. But you know, if you think about okay, I really really want to do this because I hate the way this looks then you're focused on what you don't like and where focus goes, energy flows, and so it's kind of keeping stagnant energy around the things that you're not loving, and so then the other option is to love it, and for me, like, the way that I feel after I work out is so good. But it's also good because of the fact that I know I did it because I love myself and I know it's a good thing to do for myself. And that was just such a huge shift for me when I heard somebody say I work out really hard because I love myself, not because I hate myself, and I was like you're right, Cause I mean, what would I want somebody that I really love to do? You know somebody that I really care about. I would want to make sure they're in really good shape so that they last a long time and you know they're feeling good.
Speaker 2:And then obviously, you know, there's days where I wake up and I'm like so not into working out, I definitely don't want to do it, which is why I have somebody who literally comes and works out with me in the morning because not only do I not want to do it, but I can't even do it later in the day because if I wait, I'm not going to want to do it anymore. Like no, my desire to do it goes way down. So it's like I love myself enough to where I know I have to force myself to do it as early as possible and get it over with, because the rest of the day is going to be so much better and I love myself, so I'm going to make myself do that and it also it's gonna make me follow suit in what I would want somebody I love to do.
Speaker 1:You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:So it's kinda like when you really really care about somebody, you're going to do everything you can to support them and love them as much as possible. So even though I don't wanna work out, the most supportive and loving thing is to work out.
Speaker 1:So it's so true, I would personify my body all the time and like, oh, I love her. I really should. She'll need to take care of her and you're right, it's a totally different energy that you're bringing into it, because if you hated someone, you wouldn't wanna spend any time taking care of them, you wouldn't wanna be around them, you wouldn't. You know what I mean, right? So if you think about like your body, if you hate your body, obviously there's gonna be a part of you that wants to not be in your body and you're gonna shut off that communication, you're gonna shut off that flow between you and your body, because there really is. There's a marriage that's happening between you and everything that you are and your physical shell or your meat suit or your home.
Speaker 2:It's all of it right. Every time I hear meat suit, I'm like oh, but yeah. But what you're saying also reminds me of the fact that personifying it is great, because the other thing that helped me really lean into loving her and loving my body more is to think about how much she does for me. Yeah, oh, my gosh. And when you think about what your body does for you automatically, without you asking, and how hard it's constantly working even when you feed it garbage or when you don't treat it in the most loving way, it is still always working it's very hardest to make you as optimal as possible.
Speaker 1:That's so true, and even in a way that we sometimes will shit on like you break out and it's like oh, I broke out, blah, blah, blah because I ate all that garbage. But really that's your body like trying to get that out of there.
Speaker 2:Right, it's trying to take care of you and you're just mad at basically your own decisions and choices yeah, that affected that in the first place. So it's like it's a very important relationship between you and your body, and loving this other part of the relationship is so important for it to get into flow and for you to work together, yeah, and I also think about how the phrase I think I've said this before on the podcast, but the phrase that we hear throughout our life that youth is wasted on the young.
Speaker 1:I think about this with my physical body, because I don't necessarily know if I always agree with that or even totally understand what that means, maybe because I'm still young, but Exactly when I listen to older people talk about their bodies and the limitations that come with aging, Right, I think about man. I have a decision where I could get up and go outside and play tennis just for fun. Right now, I want to always have that decision.
Speaker 1:I might get to a point where my body really doesn't. It doesn't have quite as much flexibility, literally, and then also just the space to move the way that I want to. So learning to fall in love with your body in that sense too, of how it can work. And usually we think about that in like, oh, what if you didn't have feet? Or what if you didn't have legs?
Speaker 2:And absolutely there are people who don't right, that's exactly what I was gonna say. There's also gratitude for the fact that you can.
Speaker 1:Right, but sometimes that's hard to connect with because you're like but I do have legs, I do have hands and I don't really know what it's like to not. But there will come a day for all of us, god willing. We age to the point where we even get to the point where we have a hard time moving our bodies, but we will. That's not always gonna be as easy as it is today, exactly, and so being at the gym working and lifting weights, you could hate that so much.
Speaker 1:I'd be like I hate working out, I hate working out. This is so hard. Or you could have the same go through the same motions, do the same thing, I should say, but it'd be like, oh my gosh, it feels so good to be able to lift this weight and feel so good to move my body. I think we've all experienced some level of this, like when you get really sick and you're like man, all I wanna do is just be able to move.
Speaker 1:I actually wanna go outside and walk or I want to work out.
Speaker 2:You realize how much you take it for granted.
Speaker 1:Exactly so channeling that, remembering that the way that your body is and the abilities that it has right now, no matter what, even if you don't have feet or legs, or even if you have some limitations physically, what you do have access to right now physically is not a given. Eventually you will lose some of that ability that lights me up on the weekends when I'm like I just wanna sit and watch something Not that there's anything wrong with that, cause you know I love to sit and read and do nothing sometimes. But if it's just like I don't know, I'm like sometimes I genuinely think about the day when I don't really have the choice to go out and play tennis, quite the same, like I don't know if today is the day when my body's gonna cooperate, I'm like, okay, yeah, let's go, let's not waste youth on my young, beautiful, capable body.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, and I think this kind of like shifts us into the next thing that we wanted to highlight. When you are taking care of your body from a place of love, you also will fall in love with the way you feel, because the mind-body connection is so strong. And so once you start to become really familiar and notice how your body feels and how your physical fitness impacts your mood and your ability to just function, that also really changes the game. I think Totally so it's. I know it's really challenging at first to get into the flow if you're not already in one of working out or having consistency or whatnot. The beginning is always the hardest.
Speaker 1:Always, and it gets easier.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it gets easier because you start to get a little taste of what's possible and your body starts to get used to it and your body wants that.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Like it craves that. So physically it feels good, but I think the thing that's pretty wild is what happens like the mental effects of that physical activity, right, well, and it's not just energetic mental thoughts, like there's an actual gut-brain connection, right.
Speaker 1:So this isn't just about working out, right, like the way that you fuel your body and the things that you feed. It is also something that you can do in love, you know, just shifting the perception a little bit and seeing, like, am I fueling my body or am I just throwing shit in it? Right, yeah, but the way that you feed your body and the way that you fuel your body will actually genuinely affect your mental health.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And not just because of your confidence, though that plays a role. Not just because of your energy level, though that plays a role, but there's a direct connection between the way that your brain functions and the hormones and all of the way that it performs and is able to maintain your mental health and your gut biome and how healthy that is. So it's not just about like, oh, you just feel better and then you're more confident in that place of role, but there's a real physiological effect here as well.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, yeah, and I think also focusing on how you feel versus how you want to feel, versus how you want to look, because part of what keeps the consistency going is when you have small wins and you continue to celebrate those wins along the way. So I was like kind of joking around earlier, but it's like, yeah, I mean there's definitely been the times where, like, you'll work out and you're like checking the mirror for abs after every single workout Look, are they here yet? But of course they're not there yet. Like it's gonna take time. But the thing that will always be there pretty consistently after every single workout will be that like endorphin rush of just feeling good, yeah, and you're never gonna regret having had a really good workout. So it's like focusing on how you want to feel rather than how you want to look will consistently I just smacked my nose on the microphone Well, consistently bring in those small wins that will carry you through to being consistent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and definitely focusing on how you feel versus how you, what you weigh.
Speaker 2:I'm just wondering if, like in the middle of that, I got so excited that you're gonna hear like boop on the mic and yeah consistency, okay, but yeah, I'll go down Definitely on top of that.
Speaker 1:just not just how you look, but how you weigh Like, focus on how you feel, because that feeling is, you know, you can look different from day to day.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, you can weigh different from day to day.
Speaker 1:I think it fluctuates a lot, oh yeah, so much, and it gets in your head If you're weighing yourself and it's just more hurtful than helpful, which I would say for most people it is just stop weighing yourself. I literally never weigh myself.
Speaker 2:There's so many other metrics to track, so many other.
Speaker 1:How you feel, how your skin looks, your energy levels, which is how you feel.
Speaker 1:How many calories you're burning during your workout, if you want to track that, how you're sleeping, your clarity you know whether you have brain fog or you're that's clearing up and you have more clarity of mind. Yep, your mood, all of that will be affected, based all of that is affected by what you eat and how you move. And, yeah, so to your point, focusing more on the feeling, the experience that you're creating for yourself, versus necessarily how you look or by your jeans fit, but that's another metric, by the way, how your clothes are fitting.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and that'll shift over time, obviously, but just always having that wind to celebrate when you feel good, that's huge and that's not always be there for you. And that's what I really really love about focusing on how you feel versus how you look.
Speaker 1:Though I do want to say there is no shame in wanting to look a certain way.
Speaker 2:No, not at all.
Speaker 1:Right, If you're basing your worth on your appearance. That's a different story.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:But something I love to say is that your body is your canvas. It really is. You can, your body can look the way that you want it to look. I mean, to an extent, obviously, you have to work with what you've been given Like it's a specific type of canvas. But if you want six pack of abs, if you want to have like a really lean, muscular body, if you want, you can, and I promise this. I used to feel like I just had my body, that I had, and I could never have a six pack.
Speaker 1:I literally never thought that I could have a six pack, because I tried in ways that were not really effective. And you know, when you try something and you fail, it just solidifies that belief that it's impossible, that story. Yes, exactly. So I totally created that story for myself. And then I tried something new and I tried bodybuilding and, oh my gosh, when my abs started showing, I was like what? I literally was amazed at myself. I was like I had no idea I was taking pictures like every day.
Speaker 1:I was like oh man, I was so proud of myself, you know. And so there's no shame in wanting to look a certain way, because why not? It's like you can create the body that you want, which leads me to something else on the topic. If you have a goal for your health, well, let me start with this. Your body wants to be healthy. It is created to be in health, to be well. So if you are consistently unhealthy, there's something deeper going on.
Speaker 1:And I don't just mean hormonally, yes, but I started this saying that the body is the most surface level, and I meant that because there's so much more to you and your health than just what quote unquote meets the eye exactly. So, energetically, there's something deeper going on. There's a block, a belief, there's an energetic imbalance, which is all something you can look into. But specifically, I want to talk more about the belief in the block, right? Because if I'm sitting here saying your body can look exactly pretty much how you want it to Like if you want to have abs, if you want to, and you're like, no, that's just not possible for me. That's a lie that you're telling yourself.
Speaker 2:Yep, that's something to actually dig a little deeper into. Why do you think that? Why is that true and really question the validity of that thought? No-transcript, anything is possible. I know I always feel like I sound like Mickey Mouse or something when I say things like that, but it is, and if you are telling yourself a story like that, you're cutting yourself off from possibility.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's where Kendra's saying like this is highlighting a deeper belief or block that will continue to hold you back the longer you allow it to. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And even to bring it more surface. You know, if you set health goals for yourself or you have intentions and you're like I want to lose weight, I want to gain muscle, I want whatever it is, and you are trying I put in air quotes and that's not to diminish the effort that you put in but you're like I am genuinely putting a concerted effort toward creating this body they want and it keeps not happening. The point I'm trying to get across is that there is something under the surface that you just have not addressed, and it could be something as simple as you're not. You know you snack when you're stressed, or you're stressed all the time, and your body really doesn't feel safe to be able to let go of weight. It could be right there's something unconscious that is happening that is stopping you from getting what you want, because your body wants to be healthy.
Speaker 2:It does.
Speaker 1:And you have amazing creative potential to create what you want with your life, but also on a smaller, more tangible scale, with your body. So that's just you know. I wanted just to say, you know that, specifically to the people who are like, it's just not possible for me. I'm just not somebody who can lose weight. I'm just not somebody who puts muscle on. Granted, there are certain body types that it's a little bit. I mean, everybody's different and everybody's experience in this health, fitness, physical arena is going to be a little bit different. So, for example, you may be somebody who has a hard time putting on muscle and you might have to be very, very intentional about eating enough and a certain amount of protein and lifting weights a certain way. Sure, but you just gotta figure that out. It's just a simple equation, right?
Speaker 2:Right, and it's not to say that it's easy or that it's gonna be as easy for one person as it is for another.
Speaker 2:It might be a little bit more difficult for you. There might be a different challenge, you know, at play, and so it's. Yeah, it's truly different for everybody, but where there's a will, there's a way. Everything's figure out a bowl. You have to allow yourself to want it and allow yourself to believe that it's possible because that mind-body connection is so strong. So if you're telling yourself, oh, that's just not me, it's not possible from my body type, or I have X, y and Z that stops me from doing it, you have to realize your body is listening to that, it's taking direction from your thoughts, and so this is actually like a little bit of a lead into the second part of our series with wellness, and we're not gonna get into it too much yet. But the mind-body connection is so incredible and the reason we're really really leaning into this is because of the fact that your thoughts will 100% affect your body physically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so true. In fact, let me tell you two very distinct but separate experiences that I've had personally with this, just to give you some evidence, if you will. One time I wanted to do an experiment for myself where I was meditating for seven days and had affirmations that were specific to shifting my body, and I had affirmations that I said every day and I meditated every day, specifically visualizing my body shifting and getting tighter, not doing anything different, and after seven days there was a physical. There was a visible difference in pictures. Even where I just tightened up, you know, I wasn't holding as much water and my body just looked, it looked different. And that's all I did was visualize and speak in the affirmative right, speak in the present things that I wanted to happen with my body. My body, it burns, you know, my metabolism is high and I put on muscle easily and things like that. Right, I'm healthy and I'm well and I'm whole. And there was a visible difference within a week.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Which is fascinating. I have those pictures. I wonder if I can put those in the show notes. And then the second thing is something I'm experiencing right now. So if any of you follow me on Instagram, you may have even seen my story, but let me break down a little more for you. I have just been really feeling great and I did get on the scale for the first time in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1:I was curious and I seriously dropped quite a bit of weight and I was shocked, like I thought my scale was broken Cause I was like what, I don't really have a lot of weight on me. So I was like, dang, I'm leaning out what's going on, but I also have muscle, like definition, like I'm putting on muscle, and I'm like what am I doing that is making me feel and look so good and my energy has been amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right, and even right now I'm about I'm in my luteal phase and usually at this time I'm like I don't have good energy.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm like what is going on, and so I was really thinking about it and trying to figure out, you know, what is something tangible that I can share with people so that they can create this for themselves, cause, of course, I would want to do that, yep, and so these are the two things, the only two things that I've done differently in the past month, cause I'm pretty conscious about what I eat and how I move my body, and that has changed.
Speaker 2:That's been consistent for years, for years.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, it has been, and what I've been doing lately is, genuinely, I've been laughing more intentionally. I was telling Lauren about this experience I had, where Spirit communicated a message with me that was basically laughter is the best medicine.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And it was through the imagery and the memory of my grandma, who passed just a couple of years ago and, man, she was so jovial, yeah, and she always seemed very youthful and happy and healthy and she lived to a ripe old age of 97.
Speaker 1:And I do credit a lot of that to her disposition. She was just very cheerful and happy and everything was like you said, figure out a bowl, and that's how she lived her life. And I was like, yeah, and I just realized in that moment, when I received that message about a month ago, that I was taking everything a little too seriously, including myself, and I wasn't allowing myself to be this goofy, fun, loving, jovial, laugh at literally everything, which is, I mean, people who have known me forever, like my siblings. That's literally that's who I am to them. I just laugh at everything and I love being that way. And I was dialing that down because I was trying to be serious and take things seriously and be a good coach and a good mom. And I was like I've got to be like, how did you put it when I was telling you this? You just put a lot of pressure, you're weighing yourself down. Yes, I was really weighing myself down.
Speaker 2:Physically.
Speaker 1:Yeah, mentally, and it was. It was because, about a year ago, remember, I was telling you I don't know why I'm just putting on this weight for no reason. It was the other direction and it was. I was putting a ton of pressure and weight on myself mentally.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:The other thing that I really leaned into which again will come later in the series, will dig into it more is I've been really utilizing my crystal singing bowls. I've been running more sound baths, I've been using them more for myself, I've been singing with my meditations and I really feel how effective putting an concerted effort towards resonance within the body and within the chakras and the energetic body has shifted things for me physically Right, and it's been amazing and it's so fun to come to that realization because it's I don't know, it's so much more than just what you eat and how you move. That can get really like uh, you know, restrictive in a way, and this feels more free, like just be happy.
Speaker 2:You lighten up, which I know is way easier said than done.
Speaker 1:But there's something to that weight on the mind becomes weight on the body.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you literally lightened up with laughter and then lightened up physically and lightened up also energetically because of you putting attention and energy into your body. That resonated.
Speaker 1:Isn't that?
Speaker 2:so cool? Yeah, you almost said crazy, right, but the thing is, it's not crazy, it's just that we never give those kinds of things or actions enough credit that I think they truly deserve. Oh yeah, so that's what I knew. You were thinking You're about to say crazy, but you're like no, it's not crazy, isn't that cool? Yeah, totally, You're right For me, in the opposite direction, like just to give you guys an example of how really like aware you will want to become about the things that you're telling yourself, like even today. So I'm still trying to balance out my thyroid and historically always kind of had low thyroid hypothyroidism. Just this morning I had the thought and there's like a lot of clarity that came around it is that there's always been a lot of pressure for me from me. Of course, that was like you're not doing enough.
Speaker 2:You need to be doing more. This is not enough. This is not enough. You're not doing enough. And to the point where my thyroid is legitimately not doing enough, but like how direct is that?
Speaker 2:You know, what I mean, like my body is literally just listening to the thoughts that I have and duplicating that sentiment. So I'm gonna be turning that around and I'm gonna be talking to myself in a way that's like no, you are doing enough and being supportive, and see how that plays out. Obviously, I'm also doing other things and supplementing and taking care of it in other ways, but I think the mental part is such a huge component and to what you're saying. You know, if you can just become conscious of what's weighing you down or what you're telling yourself or where you're putting your energy, that really will connect with your body.
Speaker 2:So this is gonna be my little experiment for right now.
Speaker 1:I'm excited to see how that goes. But, yeah, your body, the way that you know we talked about it before recording this is your body manifests what your mind is focusing on, and so much of that too. A lot of that has to do with the things that you actually say, because what you say, you know, the I am we talked about this before it's spell casting, right, there's a real energetic charge, there's a real frequency to your words and your body is in. It's a being, it's an organism that responds to its environment directly, and part of that environment is the vibration of what you're putting out there. So, if you're speaking about your body a certain way, one thing that we say all the time probably all of us do all the time is I'm so tired, right, but if you're like I'm fat, I'm ugly, I'm my body's this way, I mean, even if it's just the, it's not even always what you're saying, but how you are saying it and the charge that it has Right your body's absorbing that.
Speaker 1:And to that point, let's put a plug in here to the memory of the soma, the somatic memory. Like your body stores emotion and memory and we are also not always taught and encouraged to express what we're experiencing and like let it out and we can keep it in a lot and that can manifest into things you don't want. Yeah, like, if you're holding on to emotion, you better believe your body will likely hold on as well to whatever. I mean. It doesn't have to be like weight necessarily, but you could have digestion issues, you could have right, like that energy that you are facilitating within is also going to be reflected without. So a plug for processing your emotions and having that somatic release. That is different, separate from the mind, right, it's the body separate from the mind and letting your body just release.
Speaker 2:Yeah, dogs and animals do it. Well, dogs and animals, hello, yeah, dogs are people. It's. Sometimes I really think that. But you see, dogs do it all the time, right when they shake, or they'll like yawn or whatever, because they're releasing something. And like that's the same thing, that, like you know, you'll watch Planet.
Speaker 1:Earth. Oh yeah, Babies, they'll just be like like shake or like stamp their feet or like you know, they totally let that shit out.
Speaker 2:They move the anger through with those little stomps and stuff like that. But yeah, like I'm just thinking, there's been so many times where you're watching, like Planet Earth or something, and there's like a zebra getting chased by a lion and somehow maybe he gets away instantly. They're shaking, right. They are letting that energy go.
Speaker 2:But do we do that, like, do we ever give ourselves the time to like release what we need to? And I've been really. I mean sometimes yeah, but most of the time I would say not. And I mean, and for me, I'm really conscious of wanting to allow energy to move. And even just yesterday, yeah, I had a really scary situation with Bear running into the street for the second time this week when there's a car coming, and it freaked me out. I was really stressed and I noticed myself kind of like swallowing tears over and over again. You're like I can tell I need to cry this out.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:And I get really freaked out in that way.
Speaker 1:I need to express it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I tend to like just need to express by crying a little bit to let that out. But I kept being like no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine. And then I was like why am I holding onto this? I can totally let this go, because otherwise it's gonna sit in my body and there's gonna be some weird thing. That happens Like I'm watching a commercial or something and I start crying and I'm like where did that come from?
Speaker 2:But it's because Maybe it's a lucky it'll come out eventually, right, if I'm lucky it'll come out during a commercial, but it could just sit and manifest into something else, right? So I was like, okay, and I was like telling Kendra kind of laughing at myself because I was like I'm gonna go get some water and a tissue and I'm gonna sit on the couch and I'm gonna cry for a few minutes, let it out, and then I'll be good. And sure enough, I was. I cried and I felt so much better and then I could move on with my day. But I just had to allow my body to process the emotion of what happened, because it was really scary and sudden and my freaking adrenaline went crazy for a few moments there. So I had to allow that energy to move, otherwise I was just gonna sit there. Do you know?
Speaker 1:what I thought about. I thought this when you first told me that story, and I'm thinking it again and we maybe cut this out, I don't know, because it's a little bit out there, but just to normalize this a little bit, something that I think people are comfortable with, maybe not talking about, but whatever it's like, you know, when you get that need to release sexually right. I'm thinking about teenage boys grabbing their cleanings, what their lotion, and going and like I need a release. I mean they don't hold back. No, they don't hold back, though. Like I feel this release, I need to make it happen, right. Yeah, and I think that it could be a similar. You know, I just feel this release. I don't need an excuse to like cry.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's all energy, it's all energy, absolutely, and it's all natural.
Speaker 1:Totally, and I think we think it's weird, if I like, like, why am I gonna cry about my dog running into the street? He's fine, and we talk our threes and ourselves out of it.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:And we have animals that do that. That reason our way out of processing emotion. Yeah, it's just or energy, Exactly just moving that energy, and it's interesting when you think about it. You know in that context, like one way is totally natural, the other one we totally block ourselves from.
Speaker 1:Right and it affects your body physically? Yes, because dis-ease in the body which is created by holding onto this emotion, not processing it, cause once it's generated in the body, it's not going anywhere, yeah, until you release it, right? Dis-ease in the body equals disease eventually. Yeah, so physical, right. This has all been about physical stuff. There's so much on the topic we're kind of running low on time, but really the main theme that we wanted to bring into the importance of physical health is that it does so greatly affect your mind and your life. Really, this is your vehicle throughout this life, and if the vehicle is compromised, so will your experience. Right, and even more than that, like I mentioned in the last episode about full body consciousness, your body can become a friend. It can become a tool, another way to live a more conscious life, some part of you to receive signals and to. We have so much untapped potential within our bodies and so much. It's incredible. It is. It really is incredible.
Speaker 1:And we stay stuck in this. I need to look a certain way, to be whatever, and that just holds us back from really loving and honoring this incredible gift of flesh and blood and bone and sinews and nerves and joints. I mean, it's such a complex mechanism, machine. I mean it's really miraculous. Oh, yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2:We just got to treat it as such. Yeah, your body is a.
Speaker 1:GD miracle Sure is Wanted to be grateful for. I love you body. I love you too. I get so choked up when I think about stuff like this, because it is it feels like a friend that I neglect sometimes or they take for granted.
Speaker 2:I know, but it doesn't have to be that way. No, you can totally honor and appreciate your body in so many ways. I love you body. Thank you, Yep.
Speaker 1:And I love all of you all for listening to us. Oh yeah, and next time we're gonna talk about mind Mindset how to cultivate a healthy mindset.
Speaker 2:So that'll be next week, Minds wellness, yes, wellness part two.
Speaker 1:I'm excited. Me too it's gonna be fun, All right. Well, thanks for being here. We love you guys.
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