Reclaiming Your Body: Discipline as Devotion

Monday: Fear is held in your body. Reclamation means taking back what's yours.

Last week (Ask Nyomi): Discipline is sexy because it's RESILIENT. Not perfect—resilient.

Today: We put it together. We do the WORK of reclaiming your body. Not perfectly. But CONSCIOUSLY.

And we do it from where we are RIGHT NOW.

🧘 60-SECOND MEDITATION

Place both hands on your body.

"My body deserves devotion, not perfection."

Inhale. Exhale.

"I am showing up. I am continuing forward. I am honoring where I am right now."

Inhale. Exhale.

"Discipline is how I reclaim my body. Resilience is how I stay."

Inhale. Exhale.

"I keep going. Not perfectly. But devotedly."

One more breath. Release.

💡 THE TEACHING: DISCIPLINE = RESILIENCE

Day 13: My body said NO.

Day 14: I shut down.

Did I go back to Day 1? NO.

What I did: I repeated Day 14. I honored it. Then I KEPT GOING.

That's not failure. That's RESILIENCE. That's DISCIPLINE.

📝 THE 5 EXERCISES

Exercise 1: Listen to Your Body (With Devotion, Not Judgment)

• Step 1: Where do you feel tightness? Numbness? Alive? Afraid? (Don't fix it—just listen)
• Step 2: What fear lives in that space? (Tight shoulders = responsibility? Clenched jaw = not being heard? Collapsed chest = fear of being seen? Numb belly = fear of feeling?)
• Write it down. This is where the work begins.

Exercise 2: Your Body Reclamation Practice (Start Where You Are)

• Step 1: Choose ONE practice (not everything). Move your body? Feed your body? Breathe? Rest? Feel your body? Pick ONE.
• Step 2: Commit to 7 days (not 30, not 90). Write: "For the next 7 days, I commit to ___ as an act of devotion to my body."
• Step 3: What does devotion look like? If you miss a day, you don't start over. You continue from where you are. (Like the man who walked Philly to LA—got hit by a car, healed where he was, KEPT WALKING.) Write: "If I miss a day, I keep going from where I am."

Exercise 3: Release the Fear Blocks

• Step 1: Name it. "The fear in my [body part] is [fear]." Example: "The fear in my jaw is fear of speaking my truth."
• Step 2: Release it. Write it & burn it. Say it out loud. Move & shake it out. Breathe it out (inhale fear, exhale release).
• Step 3: Replace it. "The fear in my jaw releases. I replace it with: I speak my truth. My voice matters."

Exercise 4: Your 7-Day Devotion Commitment

• Step 1: Write your commitment. "For 7 days, I commit to ___ as an act of body reclamation. I am not doing this perfectly. I am doing this devotedly. If I miss a day, I continue from where I am. I honor my body. I reclaim my body."
• Step 2: How will you track? Simple check-mark in journal or mark on calendar. (Not about perfection—about VISIBILITY. Seeing yourself show up.)
• Step 3: What's your backup plan? If you miss a day: Cool, tomorrow I do it. Family emergency? I honor that, next day I restart. Tired? Rest is part of reclamation too.

Exercise 5: The Bigger Picture

• Step 1: What does reclaiming your body mean to YOU? (Reclaiming from trauma? Disconnection? Shame? Control? Fear?)
• Step 2: Who do you become when you reclaim? (When fear doesn't control you, when you listen to your body, when you show up with devotion—who are you?)
• Step 3: Is that who you want to be? If YES—you just found your WHY. Your discipline just got SEXIER. Because it's not about the practice. It's about WHO YOU'RE BECOMING.

📝 CLOSING AFFIRMATION

My body deserves devotion, not perfection.

I am listening to what my body is telling me.

I am releasing fear held in my being.

I am showing up for my body. Not perfectly, but devotedly.

If I fall, I continue from where I am.

Discipline is sexy because it's resilient.

I am reclaiming my body. Seven days at a time.

I am reclaimed. I am unashamed. I am unstoppable.

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🙏 CLOSING MESSAGE

You have now committed to 7 days of body reclamation.

Not to be perfect. To be devoted.

To show up. To continue when you fall. With your head held high.

That's discipline. That's sexy. That's how you reclaim your body.

NEXT MONDAY (Aug 10): We explore what's possible when fear isn't controlling you.

THIS WEEK: Show up. Honor where you are. Continue forward.

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Monday we talked about fear held in your body. And last week on Axe Naomi, we talked about discipline of being sexy. Not because it's perfect, but because it's resilience. And because you keep going even when you fall. But today, today we're going to put it all together. We do the work of reclaiming your body. Not perfectly, but consciously. And we do it. And we do it from where we are right now. So let's go. Welcome to the Season of Sub Love Podcast. I am your host, Naomi Banks, and I am so glad that you are here. As we continue to transform in life, so does this podcast. In season five, we're moving differently. More intentional. More action. Less learning. More doing. Less waiting. And more living. This is a space where we don't just talk about self-we practice it. We don't just discuss transformation. We live it. Every episode is an invitation to do the world. Now let's get started. All right, my beautiful people again. Welcome back to the season of the fucking family bangs, and it is Action Wednesday. Alright, so before we dive into the exercise that's pround ourselves, you know, today we are treating our bodies with devotion. Not perfection, but devotion. So wherever you are right now, if you can close your eyes, if you can, and I want you to get comfortable. I want you to place both hands on your body wherever it feels right for you. And I want you to take a deep breath in through your nose, and I want you to slowly release out your mouth. And I want you to repeat after me. And I want you to say to yourself, my body deserves devotion and not perfection. Inhale. Exhale. I am showing. I am continuing forward. And I am finally when I am when I inhale. Inhale. Exhale. Discipline is how I reclaim my body. Resilience is how I stay. Inhale. Exhale. I keep doing not perfectly. But the full. Release. And when you are ready, gently open your eyes. And let's begin. All right, my beautiful people. So if you are new here to the Season of Suffolk Podcast, it's something that we do every episode just to help ground us before we get into the topic in hand, all right? All right, so Monday, I want to do a little recap. So Monday, we learned that fear is held in your body. And reclamation means taking back what's yours. And last Thursday on Axe Naomi, we learned about discipline. About discipline is sexy because it's resilient. It's not about perfection, it's about getting up when you fall and continuing from where you are. And so today, today we are going to marry these two. We're going to make them as one. We reclaim our bodies through devoted discipline, not perfect discipline, not resilient discipline, but devoted discipline. All right. So here's what I learned in the 15 days of my 30 heart. All right. I learned that I got knocked down. I got knocked down. My body said no on day 13. And I shut down on day 14. Well, actually, it was day 13. I was able to do day 14, is when it shut down. And that's when it told me no. And did I go back to day one? No. I don't be honest. I thought about it. I thought about it. Very heavy about it. But what I decided to do, I decided to repeat day 14. And I honored it. And then I kept going. That's not failure. That's resilience. That's discipline. Now let's talk about doing some exercises to help with this. All right. So the first one is about listening to your body with devotion and not with judgment and not with shame, but with devotion. So here's the steps to do with that one. So step one. So what is your body telling you right now? All right. So what I want you to do is I want you to close your eyes and I want you to scan your body. All right. And so I need you to, these following questions, all right, and scanning your body. Where do you feel tightness? Do you feel it in your shoulders, in your jaw, in your chest, in your belly? Now, where do you feel the numbness? Where do you feel alive? And where do you feel afraid? Don't fix it just yet. I want you just to listen to what your body is telling you. And then I want you to write down what you hear. And I'm sorry, I forgot to go get your journal. Go get your journal. Go to the piece of paper. You already know. If you're new here, get you a journal. I should have said that in the beginning. All right. Step two. What fear is holding in that space? That's what we want to know. What fear is holding in that space? It's for each place that you notice. I want you to ask this. What fear lives here? What fear lives here? Is it tightness in the shoulders? That's a fear of responsibility or caring too much. A clenched jaw. What a clinched jaw means, it means a fear of speaking or not being heard. A collapsed chest. That's a fear of being seen or taking up space. That numb belly. That's a fear of feeling, being disconnected. So whichever one that you are feeling or right now, I want you to write it down. All right. Alright, so this is where the work begins, all right? So this next exercise, exercise two, is about your body reclamation practice. And we're gonna start wherever that you are. So this is the discipline that's sexy. It's not about doing 30 hard perfectly, it's about showing. It's about showing up even and perfectly. So step one, choose one practice, not everything. Choose one practice. You don't want to overhaul your whole life. We tend to do that sometimes, but you don't. You don't want to overhaul your whole life. So you choose one thing that your body needs, just one thing. For example, move your body at least 30 minutes with a walk, a yoga, a dancing, or stretching. All right. Feed your body. Here's another one. Feed your body with intention. One meal made with love and not rushed. Here's another one. I want you to breathe your body to life. A five-minute breathwork meditation prayer. Here's another one. I want you to rest your body without guilt, a nap, a bath, a little yoga, laying down something, all right. And the next, I want you to feel your body, a body scan, massage, a cold water, warm tea. I want you to pick one of those. Just one. Don't try to be the hero of self. Just one, all right. And step two, I want you to commit to seven days. Not 30, not 90, but seven days. Small, devoted, sustainable, seven days. All right. And I want you to write this down. Okay. So for the next seven days, I'm going to, whatever the practice, whatever the one you choose, as an act of devotion to my body. So whether it was the 30-minute walk or 30-minute um prayer, or whether it was the five minutes um breathing exercise, or it was making sure that you cooked you a lovely, nourishing meal, whatever that one that one practice is. I want you to commit to doing that for seven days as an act of devotion to your body. All right. All right. Now, step three. What does devotion look like? What does devotion look like? So I'm gonna tell you, it's not perfect, but it's conscious. So if you miss a day, you don't start over, you don't shame yourself, you don't get up the next day. What you do is you get up the next day and you continue. Like that man who walked from Philly to LA, got hit by a car, found out the other day twice. Twice. He didn't fly back, he didn't fly back to Philly and start all over again. What he did is he healed where he was and he kept walking. And he kept walking. So now I want you to write this down. If I miss a day, I keep going from where I am. If I miss a day, I keep going where I am. Write that down. All right. All right, so exercise three, release the fear blocks. So remember the fear that we identified in exercise one. Now it's time that we release it, all right? And it's how we do it. So step one, we're gonna name it. We're going to name it. So I want you to write this down. The fear in my body, whatever body part, whether it was your shoulders, your your jaw, your chest, your neck, the fear in my body part is what fear. And I've given you the examples of what the fear is. Remember with the jaw, like that, it's a fear of not being heard. Remember that? I'm gonna give you another example. The fear in my jaw is the fear of speaking my truth. Hmm, that's a good one. All right, now step two. Y'all ready for this? Step two is to release it. To release it, release it, let it go. You can write it down and burn it. You can say it out loud and let it go. You can move your body and shake it out. You can breathe it out, inhale the fear, exhale the release. I want you to choose a method on how you are going to release it. All right. And so, step three, you know what we're gonna do? We're going to replace it. We're going to replace it. What do you want to do instead? What do you want to do instead? So I want you to write this down. The fear in my jaw releases, and I replace it with. So it's the fear that you have in your shoulders, and I replace it with like this. I speak my truth, my voice matters. So I want you to write it. I want you to speak it, and I want you to feel it in your body. All right. All right. I hope y'all are writing these down. And if not, y'all can just replay it all over again. All right, exercise four, your seven-day devotion commitment. In step one, I want you to write your commitment. All right. And I'm gonna take my time when I say this, when I read this off, all right. Y'all ready? All right, for seven days I commit to whatever practice that you commit to as an act of body reclamation. I am not doing this perfectly. I am not doing this perfectly, I am doing this devotedly, and if I miss a day, I continue from where I am. I honor my body, I reclaim my body. That's it. All right, now we're gonna go on to step two. How would you track this? How would you track this? Just a simple check mark in your journal or mark on your calendar. And this isn't about perfection. Remember, this isn't about perfection, it's about visibility, it's about seeing yourself showing up, and when you're able to see yourself show up for self, that is such an amazing feeling. It is such an amazing feeling, all right? And let's go to step three. What's your backup plan? So let's say life happens, you got knocked down, right? If you miss a day, what's your plans to continue? Not start over, but continue. What you gonna do? So, example, if you you miss today, a day missed, cool, tomorrow I do it. A family emergency, I honor that next day, I restart. Tired, rest is part of reclamation too. I want you to understand that when you have to rest, that it's a part of your healing, that's a part of your journey, that's a part of all of that. So I want you to write down your backup plan, all right? All right, so exercise five. You know, we always talk about the bigger picture. This has a bigger picture as well. Step one, what does reclaiming your body mean to you? What does it mean to you? Not mine, not the explant anniversary, that's mine, not that, but for you, what does reclaiming mean to you? Does it mean reclaiming from trauma, um, reclaiming from disconnection, reclaiming from shame, reclaiming from control, reclaiming from fear? What is your reclamation? And write it down. All right, and step two for this is who do you become when you reclaim? So when you are not controlled by fear, when you're listening to your body, when you're showing up with devotion, who do you become? I want you to write that down. Who do you become? Step three. Is it that who you want to be? So if it's yes and you just found your why, is it who that you want to be? If it's yes, then you found your why. Your discipline just became that much more sexier, because if it's not about the practice, it's about what who you're becoming, right? It's about who you're becoming, right? Right, it's about who you becoming, and so whatever those amazing whys are, hold tight to those, all right? All right, my beautiful people. So we have come to our closing affirmations, all right? And I want you to repeat after me my body deserves devotion and not perfection. I am listening to what my body is telling me. I am releasing fear held in my being. I am showing up for my body, not perfectly, but devotedly. And if I fall, I continue for where I am. Discipline is sexy because it's resilient. I am reclaiming my body seven days at a time. I am reclaimed, I am unashamed, and I am unstoppable. All right, all right, my beautiful people. All right, so you have now committed to the seven days of body reclamation, not to be perfect, not to be perfect, but to be devoted, to show up, to show up, to continue when you fall, to to continue where you fall and keep going with your head held high. That's disciplined, that's sexy, and that's how you reclaim your body, all right? All right, so next Monday, we're gonna go a little deeper. We are going to go a little deeper and we're going to explore what's possible when you're not controlled by fear. But this week, this week, let's show up. This week, let's show up, let's honor where you are now, and then you can continue forward, all right? All right, my beautiful people. So until next Monday, Mr. Gurdy God is now me banks here, reminding you that discipline, discipline is how you reclaim, resilience is how you stay, keep going, all right. All right, and if this work is doing well, this work we're doing well. We are doing so well. And if you and if you want guided support through your body reclamation journey, through your nervous system, healing, body reconnection, embody self-love, all of that, elevate me is here. We got phase two, is our healing and reclamation is specifically designed for this work. So you can start today um seven days um free. Look, you can do it coincide with the seven-day body, seven days um free. And then once the seven days is over with and you like it, which I believe you will, then you go ahead and subscribe. You can go to studio.com, that's n-y-o-mi, or you can go to elevatemeomi.com as well. And hey, if it's something in today's episode that hit home for you, I want to hear about it. Text me or leave me a voice note using the link right in the show notes. Right in the show notes, all right? Well, all right, my beautiful people. Again, I want to thank you so much for just being here with me and trusting me on this journey. But also, I want you to remember is to be good to one another in yourselves and always keep it sexy. Love yourself first so you can love others well. And remember, it's the season of self-love is now on YouTube. I want you to describe for the videos, the behind the scenes content, and much more. We got new videos coming up for our flashback Fridays. You don't want to miss it on the YouTube channel. These are um videos that we have never seen before that you just listen right here on this podcast. All right. All right, my beautiful people, again, have an amazing, amazing day. Have a good one.