Body Talk: The language of wealth encoded in your body. 3 steps to expand your nervous system’s capacity to receive more — income, impact and fulfillment.
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Body Talk: The language of wealth encoded in your body. 3 steps to expand your nervous system’s capacity to receive more — income, impact and fulfillment.
The body knows how to do this, if we just allow it to. But many of us push away this pain with distraction, numbing, and avoidance. This is the metaphorical equivalent of putting a dirty Band-Aid on a fresh wound. It might bring temporary relief, but it has long-lasting and painful ramifications. The feeling that you are breaking is the preparation
... See moreThe first thing we must be able to do is to let the grief in. Otherwise, it turns into an infection rather than a scar.
Many of us associate pain with suffering, but we only suffer when we resist pain. Pain is the initial sensation or feeling, while suffering is the mental, emotional, and sometimes even physical struggle caused by our resistance to that pain. Our initial reaction is to stop ourselves from feeling the pain immediately. This turns into avoidance,
... See moreWhen we have the tools to sit with, feel, and surrender to the pain, we can experience the deepest levels of compassion, empathy, hope, resilience, and courage.
So we have to go deeper than the mind: We go into the body.
Your fear doesn’t want to be regulated, it wants to be accepted, known, seen, celebrated.
any fear can be transformed into excitement by breathing fully with it.
Excitement and fear are very similar body sensations; the only difference is the breath.
Most people try to stop feeling fear and pride themselves in being fearless. But the truth is, fear doesn’t go away. It’s not supposed to. Your body naturally tries to stop this feeling of fear because it doesn’t feel pleasurable, but you can train yourself to lean into that sensation.