Bridge the Gap Podcast Connecting Business Perspectives
Chelsie Ward- Meditation & Relaxation
Jun 01, 2022Season 5Episode 15
Colton Cockerell & Trisha Stetzel
From Chelsie Ward.....
We are misinformed. We don’t have to expect illness as we age. It’s simply a choice when we know what to do. The problem is, how do we learn these techniques if they aren’t being taught?
I never intended to share this story. I did it because I saw so many others who desperately longed for the answers I had. As I looked around, I saw the energy depleted faces that I once knew so well. I knew I had to share this information with others. It was my gift back to a world of hurting people. It wasn’t fair to keep this knowledge to myself.
I wrote my story in a book called Healed His Way and filled it with as many resources as possible. To my surprise, it hit the Amazon Bestseller List! My next steps became clear – I had to create a program to help others get their life back.
It is my mission to make sure you gain an understanding of how to heal naturally, no matter how hopeless the situation may feel right now.
Healed His Way
BY CHELSIE WARD
God created your body with an amazing capacity to heal itself when you give it what it needs. Most Western medicine is focused on alleviating symptoms without addressing the root cause. Chelsie’s approach to health and healing takes into account spirit, soul, and body. By cooperating with our body’s systems, providing proper nutrition and supplements, along with exercise and common sense, we can experience optimal health and wellness.
We are misinformed. We don’t have to expect illness as we age. It’s simply a choice when we know what to do. The problem is, how do we learn these techniques if they aren’t being taught?
I never intended to share this story. I did it because I saw so many others who desperately longed for the answers I had. As I looked around, I saw the energy depleted faces that I once knew so well. I knew I had to share this information with others. It was my gift back to a world of hurting people. It wasn’t fair to keep this knowledge to myself.
I wrote my story in a book called Healed His Way and filled it with as many resources as possible. To my surprise, it hit the Amazon Bestseller List! My next steps became clear – I had to create a program to help others get their life back.
It is my mission to make sure you gain an understanding of how to heal naturally, no matter how hopeless the situation may feel right now.
Healed His Way
BY CHELSIE WARD
God created your body with an amazing capacity to heal itself when you give it what it needs. Most Western medicine is focused on alleviating symptoms without addressing the root cause. Chelsie’s approach to health and healing takes into account spirit, soul, and body. By cooperating with our body’s systems, providing proper nutrition and supplements, along with exercise and common sense, we can experience optimal health and wellness.
Hello and welcome to a another exciting episode of Bridge the Gap. Where we're balancing life through health, wealth, business and relationships. All right, hello everyone and welcome to another exciting episode. My name is Colton Cockerell. And with me every single Wednesday, I have the lovely and trying to think of another adjective Trish, I can't, so I'm just gonna go ahead and throw it to you. My wonderful co host, Miss Trisha Stetzel, what's going on?
Trisha Stetzel:
Thanks, Colin. You could call me cute or sweet or times thoughtful. I
Colton Cockerell:
don't think Dennis would appreciate that.
Trisha Stetzel:
Hey, everyone, Trisha Stetzel here Results Xtreme Business Solutions. And welcome. This month on the show, we are focused on health and wellness. And today we're going to talk about meditation and relaxation. And we have back on the show my favorite friend, Miss Chelsea Ward to talk with us about meditation and relaxation. Chelsea, welcome to the show.
Chelsea Ward:
Thank you both so much. I'm thrilled to be with you here again.
Colton Cockerell:
Yeah, and we're excited to have you and I sadly wasn't able to be with you last time. So this is the first time for me. So I'm excited. Well, excluding the first time he came on me years ago. Anyway, enough wasting time. I do want to jump in and ask some questions here. I think the first thing that we think of,
Trisha Stetzel:
hey, don't we have a sponsor?
Colton Cockerell:
Oh, my goodness. And and it's the best sponsor? It's Sharer McKinley Group, LLC. My goodness. How did I forget that? Thank you, Trisha. See Trish's On top of it Chelsea, as always, but no, what I want to jump into is the idea of meditation. A lot of people think it's a waste of time. They don't think that it's worth the 10, 15, 30 minutes. So tell me, what do you what do you say to those people.
Chelsea Ward:
So we waste a lot of time doing things that are not very productive things like scrolling through social media, things like you know, we could probably list millions of things we waste time on. But I will say that meditation is not one of those whether we think it is or not. I used to feel like I could meditate and walk. And while there is such thing as like walking meditations, you can get in more of a meditative state, when you're working out, you can do a lot of different things where you're just kind of like focusing inward getting present in the moment. The big thing to remember is where you enter into a parasympathetic state when you're meditating is that rest and relax state, it is not something that we do very often, because we live in this fast paced society, we're running from one thing to the next, we're, our hair is on fire half the time, right? We're picking up the kids, we're we're managing our businesses, were juggling all the balls, we're trying to cook dinner, we're thinking, oh, I need to get healthy. You know, you know what life brings us every day. Meditation is a way to really step away from that and enter into a brainwave state called theta, which is one that we never really enter into. And that is the most relaxed state outside of sleep that we could possibly enter into. It's a place where creativity comes from, we need that as business owners, we need to take that time to sit back and allow our brain to just be in that state of reception where we are receiving. And that's one of my favorite things about meditation that most people don't talk about is that we we can use it as a time to receive the things that we need to really go into our day and be very productive and very creative. And a lot of times you'll have visions, and you'll see things during a time of meditation that you just don't see in other times because you haven't given your brain space to actually think about those things. And a semi waking state outside of you know, like your dream state, which half the time we don't even remember our dreams. Right? So it's just really is a time for us to be in reception mode and to create that space for creativity to
Trisha Stetzel:
I was reading something the other day Chelsea take place. came across my feed probably right that said we spend we spend so much time scrolling is you mentioned that a minute ago, that we don't leave time for the creativity so our brain isn't actually able to relax because we're looking at all this junk on social media. And the mindset The thing that I hear people say is I'm just gonna scroll my phone to relax and chill. And it's doing the opposite. Right? It really is kicking our brain into high gear because we were looking at all the junk as we scroll scroll through. I'd like to ask you Chelsea about when people think about meditation, I believe most people think of this you know, sitting in the middle of the floor with the candles in the om and the cross legs and you have to sit there for 30 minutes. Is that the only kind of meditation there is, because that's hard,
Chelsea Ward:
it is hard, it's really about getting comfortable. So that's probably the easiest way to do it. Some people will say lay down, some people say set up, I'm not a fan of laying down and meditating, because I'm gonna go to sleep, I'll be honest with you, I'm not really good at that, I will do anything I can asleep, I'm a sleeper, but if you will sit up and get in a semi uncomfortable state. So that's why people cross their legs, because maybe their legs could fall asleep. But you really want the body to feel stimulated in some way so that you're in that waking state, but you're relaxed. So that's why they say sit up straight. Because you're, you're having to use your muscles to sit your body up straight, right. So those are the reasons behind some of those practices. And it's really just getting your body still so that you can still and quiet your mind and focus in and there's really not a lot of rules to it. A lot of people say quiet your mind, I find that men feel like they can quiet their mind a lot easier than women do. Women sitting tend to have these thoughts that are going going all the time. And men are just like, you ask a man what they're thinking about nothing, like that's always their their thought. And I'm like, Oh, they must meditate all the time, right. So that's kind of the difference. And women tend to have a little bit more difficult time calming down before meditation. So one thing I like to say is, if you can kind of change the frequencies, music brings in a different frequency, and it can literally change our atmosphere. So I will use instrumental music, you may play different tones and things like that. They're very specific tones that are great for meditation, great for sleep, helping you enter into those beta brainwaves. The beta brainwave, so whatever brain state you're looking for, you can choose, just literally get on YouTube, and play something and you can enter into that meditative state just by doing that. Some people prefer to use a guided meditation where someone's leaving them through a relaxed state, talking about, you know, creativity, and kind of helping you helping guide you into that just freeing up your mind where you're just kind of envisioning space, or that's one thing that Joe Dispenza talks about a lot is really just seeing yourself in space, seeing each body part in space, like what could you experience what your throat would be like in space. And that really just gives us something different to focus on outside of ourself, that it really helps kind of relax us, and get us into that different brain pattern. So that we can really focus on those positive emotions. So it doesn't have to be anything specific. It can just be it's really more about entering into that state of rest.
Colton Cockerell:
Yeah, no Chelsea, I know exactly what you're talking about my brain, I can tell when I'm in bed, I'm thinking about a ton of stuff. Immediately, I can turn it off, and I'm going to bed my wife is like, how does it how can you just fall asleep so fast? Like what what I'm, I'm gonna get so funny, I didn't know that there was a man, woman thing. I thought that was just Colton Madison thing. So that's good to know. But hey, let me ask you this. With meditation. I know it's not, you know, clearing your mind, I get that how important is breathing as well with that.
Chelsea Ward:
So breathing is used to kind of calm your nervous system. So it helps us to enter into that parasympathetic state. So it's one of the physical things that we do to help relax the body. So it's almost impossible for people like I was saying early earlier to just like, stop the mind, turn them on off and just sit there and pause and enter into this relaxed state. But breathing is something that we can do to help us so I love using different patterns. And there's a whole different talk about breath work in general, just using the breath to enter into certain states. But if you want to calm the nervous system, one of my favorite ways is to just use slow breathing or box breathing. So slow breathing, for someone who hasn't really used breathing techniques before, you would just kind of breathe into the count of four, and breathe out maybe to the count of seven. And that really helps you get rid of all the extra air. And you're you're kind of breathing out and you're calming down, slowing down the heart rate. The more that you do that, see what just straight into the count of four. And then out to the count of seven is that mainly just doing that out breath a little longer.
Colton Cockerell:
So it's just getting you in the in the state to prepare yourself for meditation. And I think let's go ahead and like give it like a 10 second pause, give people a chance to just try it because I know that everyone's like thinking oh, I need to do that need to do that. So give them a chance.
Chelsea Ward:
Yeah, so let's breathe in. And then breathe out. And then after that you would breathe in and out. And the other form is box breathing. And I know this is Trisha favorite. And this really helps you enter into that relaxed state as well. And it's more focusing on the hold of the breath, where the other is just breathing in and out. And this is more holding between the breath and the breath out. So you would breathe in for a count of four. So in 234, hold your breath, three, four, breathe out 234 And hold 234. And you can do rounds of this for like two minutes. And even as I'm talking about this, do you not just spill the state like literally started to calm over this whole call, I mean, it's just, there's something about the breath is so magical, like, we think we don't think about it, because we do it all day, every day. But we can do so much with a breath just to help relax the system, because what we're doing is we're forcing that parasympathetic, or that rest and relaxed state, because it's impossible to be in a state of stress if we're physiologically in a state of calm, right. So as we calm down the nervous system, we slow down the breath, we calm down our entire system, and we're forcing that relaxed state. So then you've entered yourself into this very calm state. And meditation becomes a lot easier. Now you start to receive in that state of meditation.
Trisha Stetzel:
So I would suggest that everyone trade scrolling through their phone for relaxation to breathing, for relaxation, right? That is something very simple that we could all do. So when you feel like picking up your phone and scrolling through all the junk that is there, stop and just breathe, right one of these methods that Chelsea just talked about. So Chelsea, if one of our listeners decides that they want to try meditation, what are they? Where do they go? What do they do? So I love
Chelsea Ward:
starting off with like a, it really depends on where you are in your brain, if your brain is always on, like, if you are, the very next thing you think about is picking up your phone and scrolling. If you can't pay attention for longer than just a few seconds, if you're on one thing and then on to the next, then it might be difficult for you to just sit and listen to some instrumental music in the background to calm yourself down. Like your your brain is gonna say, You better get busy, you need to start doing something like you're being lazy, or whatever, you know, so you gotta meet yourself where you are. I didn't start meditating for long periods of time, I'll do an hour meditation these days, you know, and sometimes that's without guidance. And sometimes that's with guidance. And sometimes I'm meditating multiple times throughout the day, if it's for energy, I want to meditate and then go for a walk instead of drinking a cup of coffee because I know my sleep is going to be disrupted if I drink a cup of coffee, where if I meditate, it's not. So that said, meet yourself where you are. I love just getting on YouTube. Honestly, my favorite instructor is right now I'm so hooked on him is Joe Dispenza. And he has like 15 minute meditations. And they're all guarded. So he'll walk you through and help you enter into that relaxed state. He what I love is that he'll take the first couple minutes, and he'll explain, you know, something, he'll give a little teaching for about two minutes on, you know what you're doing as far as the meditation goes, and then he'll go into the guidance, and then you'll pause and you'll have to look through and scroll through some of his meditations but it's probably some of them are like an hour long, but some of them are really short. If you have meditated for a little while then you can really just use instrumental music, and I kind of I LOVE EAST forest. He's one of my favorites. So I'll use some of the just east forest instrumentals our inner myself into a relaxed state just by using the instrumentals and breathing and you know, for a couple minutes breathing out, sometimes I'll do longer breath holds. And then I'll relax that out. So you can kind of get deeper into some of those practices, but then you just want to set you know, set the timer or pick a song that's for as long as you want to meditate, maybe 10 minutes and then sit in silence for 10 minutes. Just relax. You're gonna have thoughts come up, and you're gonna think about your day but what you really want to focus on is as I was kind of going into that or earlier where Joe talks about the space, you know, seeing yourself and space, you really want to see yourself become that nothingness. You know, what if you were nothing more to what if you weren't attached to anything here in this present world your work or your spouse or your problems? Or what if there were none of that? What if you weren't sick? What if you didn't have cancer? What if you what if you just let that exist? What if you just coexisted with this chair? Like, what if you just literally coexisted with everything here and you just freed yourself from any attachment whatsoever, and could just be present with who you are?
Colton Cockerell:
Well, Trisha, I don't think we've ever done this before. But let's go ahead and give a challenge to all of our listeners. I think everyone should spend just next week, just take three days, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, wherever you want. Take 10 minutes, two minutes or breathing, eight minutes, just turning your brain off and just just go into a place of meditation. Just seeing what happens. You know, it could start your day off or intraday on a great note. So
Trisha Stetzel:
yeah, we appreciate you and anybody who takes that challenge, post your comments on how it felt in the comments below. All right, in closing, again, thank you to Chelsea Ward, Chelsea Ward Wellness, and her contact information will be in the comments below if you guys want to connect with her and please, as always tune in next week for another exciting episode of Bridge the Gap.
Colton Cockerell:
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