March 1, 2025 • 38 mins
What if your body is trying to tell you something? In this enlightening episode, we dive deep into the messages hidden behind chronic pain and discomfort. Discover how your physical sensations aren't just random signals but profound insights into your emotional and energetic health. Through personal anecdotes and expert insights, we discuss the important connections between unprocessed emotions and physical pain. Learn valuable techniques such as body mapping, emotional release strategies, and mindfulness practices that empower you to decode your body’s signals.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you ever noticed how your body speaks to you,
that nagging shoulder pain, thepersistent headaches or the
tightness in your chest?
It's easy to dismiss them asrandom discomforts, but what if
I told you that your body iswhispering or oftentimes
screaming a deeper truth.
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I've been a body worker andworking in the wellness industry
for oh my gosh, I think over 20years now, and I will say that
one of the most valuable lessonsI learned was that pain is
deeper than simply the placewhere you are experiencing it,
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simply the place where you areexperiencing it.
It is oftentimes posturalmisalignment, but when we start
digging deeper, at chronicnagging pain, the body is an
incredible messenger that isconstantly communicating what
our subconscious mind alreadyknows.
When we learn to listen, weunlock a powerful pathway to
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healing.
Many times, what we do is we goafter the symptom and not the
root cause, and this is truewhether or not it is a physical
manifestation of pain because of, like I said, postural
misalignment.
This is true if it's a deeper,more emotionally rooted pain or
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if it's just a misalignment withour higher self and our purpose
.
We want to go beyond what wealready know and really start to
listen to the body.
And what is it trying to tellus?
So if you're somebody who hasbeen struggling with chronic
pain, like low back pain or neckpain or foot pain, whatever it
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is, and you haven't been able toresolve it, it's not that
you're destined to live a lifeof pain.
It's that the real root causehas yet to be identified.
So I want you to just play withme for a moment, because if
this is a new concept to you, Iforget sometimes that this is
what I do all day.
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So to me it's just normal, likethis is the truth of it,
because this is what I do.
I do mind-body healing, and soto me it's very obvious.
But then, as I was sitting thereand I've been talking to my
clients for a long time, Irealized that not everybody has
that understanding that thatpain is simply a messenger
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that's asking you to payattention to something that is
amiss in your life.
Pain is not just a biologicalreaction.
It is an encoded message fromyour subconscious mind trying to
get your attention.
Every ache and tension carriesemotional or energetic
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information.
If ignored, these messages canget louder, manifesting as
chronic pain or illness.
I used to have horrible SI jointpain, low back pain, constantly
hip pain, foot pain oh my gosh,I always had pain and I was so
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afraid of looking at my pain andactually asking it what it
wanted that I just kept throwingthings at it, creating more
pain for myself.
And, through the process oflearning intuition and creating
an end result that aligns withmy purpose, I've been able to
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resolve pain and get answers somuch faster than I used to.
And I will say that probablyone of the most common triggers
for pain that is not recognizedenough, in my opinion, is
unprocessed emotion, and thebody has a system for
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communicating to you when youare having feelings that maybe
you haven't yet processed, thathave been trapped in your body.
As an intuitive and an empathand before I knew that's what I
was doing sometimes when I'd beworking on people, my body would
hurt where their body hurt andI thought I was just
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experiencing a lot of pain.
What I didn't realize was thatmy somatic intelligence was
communicating to me where theirpain was through my body, and I
wish I had known this in thebeginning of my career.
It probably would have saved meso much pain of how to release
other people's feelings from mybody so that I didn't carry them
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with me.
If you work in the healing arts, you need to learn how to do
that.
I have some meditations in mySoma Flow library of healing
that help you do that at the endof the day, but it is really
important and extremelyimportant that we don't take
other people's pain with us, butwith our own unprocessed
emotions.
Sorry, that was just a sidenote.
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We can have unprocessed anger,sadness, fear and guilt in every
emotion.
Underneath those top tiercategories that will create and
manifest as physical pain in ourbody.
That will create and manifestas physical pain in our body.
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The other top one ismisalignment and that means when
we're not living in sync withour values, our purpose and our
truth, we can feel that as pain.
And then another one is is whenwe have just energetic blocks,
like if our chakra system is outof alignment.
And we have just energeticblocks Like if our chakra system
is out of alignment and we havethese energetic blocks in our
bodies, then that will createand manifest as physical pain as
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well.
I love I studied Carolyn Miss'swork on intuitive healing and
she really hones in on thechakra system and how that can
hold pain if we're not releasingit from the chakras.
I know that a lot of peoplewho've experienced body trauma
will have a tremendous amount ofpain in their sacrum area
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because of not only the physicalmanifestation of whatever the
trauma was, but also theenergetic imprint that that
leaves in their energy systemand the emotional imprint of
feeling powerless againstsomebody else taking away your
power.
And I would say that that hasprobably been the one that has
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been hardest for me to workthrough, just because it was a
deeper layer of pain andbetrayal.
But if we look at like evenjust the more, like slight
nuances of emotional pain in thebody, I would say that the low
back sacrum hip area usuallyrepresents not feeling supported
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in your life.
It could be either the peoplein your life not feeling
supported by yourself.
Were you not supportingyourself, not being supported by
society or the world.
Wherever you look for support,there's usually a lack of
feeling supported in your life.
So if you're currentlyexperiencing some hip or low
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back pain, I encourage you tojust simply ask the question
where am I not feeling supportedin my life and how can I create
support in that area of my life?
Throat tension can indicateunspoken truths.
I do so much work on the tongueand the mouth.
I could nerve on that for days.
What I will say is that whenI'm working on people who choke
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back their words a lot and Iknow there's a lot of you out
there it could either be in yourmarriage, it could be at work,
it could be with yourself, likewhere you're not actually
telling yourself the truth aboutwhat you want in your life.
That will manifest likephysically as tension in the
throat and the mouth becauseyou're like choking back your
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truth.
A lot of digestive issues couldreflect difficulty digesting
emotions or life experiences.
I find a lot of Enneagram ninesand ones with a lot of gut
issues because they tend torepress and suppress their anger
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.
So then it like literallymanifests in gut health issues.
So, and each Enneagram typealways, you know, has their own
flow of what they do with theiremotional blocks.
But that was just the one thatI see the most often with
digestive issues and I usuallysee people who have a lot of
unprocessed anger in generalwith digestive issues.
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I remember when I was oh my gosh, in my 30s, late 20s, I had
ulcerative proctitis Horrible,horrible experience.
I will just say all of yousuffering with ulcerative
colitis or ulcerative proctitis.
My heart is with you.
It was horrible and now,looking back, I can see it was a
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huge manifestation of justrepressed anger in my gut and
also frustration of not beingable to get the right answers,
because the only option at thetime was medicine that cost me,
with insurance, $1,200 a monthto manage the symptoms.
Luckily, I followed myintuition back then, even before
I was following my intuition,and I just changed my diet and
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lifestyle and it went awaywithin three months and it
hasn't resurfaced.
So I will say that there'susually an answer.
We just have to get quietenough to hear it.
So when I'm working with people, my top, my top priority, is
teaching them how to listen totheir own intuition, because
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your body is one of the bestintuitive communicators that you
have and if you're notlistening to your body, you're
turning off one of the mostpowerful intuitive receptors
that you have access to.
Now I get it Pain will make younot listen to your body because
you don't want to be in yourbody.
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I lived a lot of my lifewanting to be out of my body and
I know that sounds strange, butif you're somebody who's had a
lot of pain, like physical,emotional or mental trauma.
You will understand exactlywhat I mean by that, and it was
really probably the last fouryears where I've had to learn
how to be fully in my body andto really connect with it and
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hear what it's trying to tell meinstead of running from the
messages Such a gift.
I will say that, on the otherside, having the library of
tools that I have it is such agift now.
So I want to give you sometools on how to do that, because
I think it's really importantthat you begin to understand it.
There are some great books outthere that really go in depth.
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The one that's coming to mindright now is the Sedona Method,
and that is a great book toreally help you understand how
to communicate and tune into thebody and release unprocessed
feelings from the body.
Exercises like Qigong, tai Chithey help move stuck emotions
through the body.
Obviously, I use SuperconsciousRecode, combined with body work
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and hypnotherapy, to helprelease emotions from the body.
There are somatic practitionersout there who can walk you
through a somatic experiencingprocess that will help you
remove unprocessed emotions.
The tools out there are vastand you can either find someone
to help you do it, but you canalso begin the process yourself.
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Probably the first thing youneed to do, though, is become
aware of what's happening inyour body, and we do that using
a body scan, so I'm going towalk you through that now.
If you want to listen along, youdon't have to go into a
hypermeditative state to do this.
You can do this anywhere, butif it's your first time, or if
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you're driving, I wouldn't, youknow, maybe recommend doing it
while you're driving.
So you know, now that I'm like,more in flow with this, I can
do this anywhere and just tap inand figure out what's going on.
But, right for right now, Iwould say, if you're not, if
you're not used to going into ameditative state, you can follow
along and just listen along,and then come back and maybe,
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like, find a nice quiet space todo this when you have time to
really focus.
Okay, so, number one, we'regoing to start with this body
scanning and awareness, so I'mgoing to ask you to find a quiet
space, close your eyes and takea deep breath in through your
nose and expand your belly andexhale, and now slowly scan your
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body from head to toe, noticingany areas of tension, pain or
discomfort.
You can use color.
If color resonates with you,maybe give the areas of your
body that feel nice and relaxed,nice golden color, and then
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have your unconscious mind lightup any pain in the body that
maybe you've not been payingattention to.
And I'm just going to ask thatit uses the color red and once
you have that color, that thatis lit up maybe it's in your hip
or your neck or your foot toallow your unconscious mind to
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reveal it to you.
Reveal it to you, hone in onthat part of the body and just
really put your full awarenesswithout fear.
Go into a space of curiosity.
What is that sensation tryingto tell you?
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Sensation trying to tell youand just breathe into it and if
you're afraid or you're feelinganxious about it, just breathe
in and know that you'recompletely safe.
It's just a message.
Be open to any words, emotions,images or memories.
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Sometimes it'll come through asmell or a visual picture.
Just pay attention to what'scoming through and I often like
to sit down and just startwriting.
My body is trying to tell meand then just start writing.
Good job, and you can use thattechnique anytime, like if
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you're starting to feel anxiousor your neck really hurts.
Don't be afraid to just takethat moment and just breathe
into it and say what is my bodytrying to tell me?
You can often downregulate yourpain signals simply by listening
.
So if you're like at a, youknow, 50 out of 10 on the pain
scale, doing this exercise canat least help bring that pain
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down so you can start listeningand paying attention to it,
because the fear of the unknownin our nervous system will
create more pain.
It's like it sets off thisemergency signal where it's just
going to get louder and louder,where it's just going to get
louder and louder.
Okay, so next we're going totalk about emotional mapping,
and that is where we really wantto identify where pain shows up
in the body, kind of like wejust did.
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But I want you to just reallythink about your body.
Where do you have a lot of pain?
Is it in your neck andshoulders?
Is it your chest, your stomachand gut, your lower back?
And think about your, like,neck and shoulder pain.
Are there any burdens thatyou're carrying?
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Do you feel overly responsiblefor everything?
Responsible for everything?
And then I like to ask myselfwhat would it take for me to
feel supported and joyful?
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What would it take is one of myfavorite questions, because it
gets us out of the problem andit gets our mind to switch into
more of a solution-focusedmindset.
So if you're having any chestand heart pain and please
remember, none of this is asubstitute for medical advice so
if you are having a realmedical issue, please go to see
your medical professionalimmediately.
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This is just an additional toolto help.
This is just an additional toolto help.
Chest and heart are usuallyrepresenting grief, loss and a
lack of love for oneself.
So if you're experiencing a lotof pressure in your chest all
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of the time, what grief is itthat you haven't fully processed
?
Or is there a loss of somethingthat is stuck in your chest?
Maybe it's a dream.
It doesn't always have to beromantic love.
It doesn't always have to be arelationship.
Sometimes it is I lost mybusiness, or I lost faith in
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myself, or I lost my dreamproperty.
It could be whatever.
It doesn't always have to be aheartbreak from another human
being.
And then, where am I not lovingmyself?
Where am I still resisting,accepting who I am and really,
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really falling in love with that?
That is my favorite tool forhigher self therapy and I do
have.
I think I have some stuff on myYouTube If not, they will be
coming soon about reallyconnecting in with your higher
self and purpose, because Iwould say higher self and
understanding who you areEnneagram are two of the most
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powerful ways to get into astate of love, coherence with
yourself.
If you're having chronic stomachand gut issues, are you having
fear?
Is there fear like dictatingyour life?
And you know there's a lot ofchange in the world right now
and when there's a lot of changein the world, that can create a
lot of unconscious fearpatterns.
So, if you're really feeling alot of gut and stomach issues,
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like gut punched, where's feargoverning your life right now?
And then also you might havesome unprocessed trauma or anger
, rage and then also askyourself where am I resisting
change?
Like if your higher self iscoming in and creating some
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discomfort for you.
Where are you resisting change?
Where are you resisting growthin exchange for comfort?
Lower back, financial stressthat is a big one.
Whenever I have clients come inwith lower back pain, I'm
thinking in the back of my mindis someone having a lot of low
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back pain because they're havingfinancial worries?
And you know that I think thatI don't.
I don't think I realized untilthe other night, when I was at a
financial summit, that how bad2020 and COVID was Like.
It's one of those things whereyou're like you kind of get to
the other side and you're like,whew, got through that, let's
keep going.
And then you're going why isn'teverything the same as it used
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to be?
And to, looking back, being atthis summit and talking about
the economic impact that COVIDhad was equal to and don't quote
me on this, because I don'thave the statistics in front of
me but I believe what he saidwas it was about the same as a
degree somewhat similar to theGreat Depression and the
financial impact that it had onthe planet.
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And I thought to myself, wow,have we actually stopped to
really appreciate the fact thatthat's the impact that it had on
the planet?
And I thought to myself, wow,have we actually stopped to
really appreciate the fact thatthat's the impact that it had?
I know we were also focused ongetting out of it, but it was
validating, so I really feltthat that was validating.
To just kind of look and go.
Well, of course, everyone wasstruggling, unless you owned
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Amazon, but everyone wasstruggling after COVID.
A lot of small business ownersand independents really
struggled to keep theirbusinesses alive during that
period.
So, lower back pain, financialstress.
Where are you worried aboutmoney right now and what would
it take for you to createfinancial stability?
What would it take for you tofeel supported financially or
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supported in other areas of yourlife?
Maybe it has to do with youknow, taking care of your family
or work.
Maybe you have managementthat's not.
That's not supportive in yourwork environment.
What is it that?
Where is it that you're notfeeling supported in your life?
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In your life, keep a journal andwrite down your thoughts.
Don't do it in your head.
You've got to do it pen topaper, the old-fashioned way.
It is one of the ways that yourunconscious mind communicates
with you pen to paper, and it isso important that you learn how
to write it out, because wecan't process this all in our
head.
We do need to be able to lookat it, and I love it when I'm
working with my clients and theysay, oh, I was looking at my
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journal from last year and Ican't even believe the changes
I've made.
I don't even think that wayanymore and it's such a
validating thing to go back andlook at the old journals to see
your growth and to see how muchyou've evolved and changed in a
really positive way.
Because sometimes, as you'regoing through the process of
growth, you don't always knowthat you've changed because
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you're just now the new you.
So when you're reallystruggling and thinking, oh,
nothing that I'm doing isworking, you can go pick up an
old journal and go, wow,everything I'm doing is working.
I actually like myself now.
I actually enjoy taking care ofmy body.
I actually, you know, amaligned with my purpose and who
I am.
It's going to be really mindblowing in a year or two to look
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back at those old journals andsee the stories have changed.
Okay, so number three.
So we've talked about bodyscanning, emotional mapping and
now we're going to talk aboutasking your pain for guidance.
So you can put your hand overthe part of your body that hurts
Maybe it's your knee and justsay what do you need me to know?
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And listen.
Most people will question theirintuition.
It's totally normal.
So if that's you, not a problem, it's totally normal.
Even trained intuitives likemyself, I question it all of the
time.
That's why I like havingintuition circles?
Because it's very validating toget you know, especially as
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you're learning to get thatfeedback from other people when
they say, actually no, this iswhat I'm getting and, like you
know, having three other peopleget the same thing.
It's just validating in thebeginning so that you do
understand how to build thatmuscle.
So put your hand on that partof your body and say what do you
need me to know?
And then pay attention to anysubtle messages.
It could come through a thought, an emotion, a sudden insight.
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You might see something, hearsomething, smell something.
It all depends on you.
You might have a memory pop upin your mind Don't dismiss it.
Like you might see someone elsetripping and falling on their
knee and that might be the waythat your unconscious mind is
telling you how it perceives thepain there.
So and then journal about itand trust whatever comes up.
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I personally like automaticwriting.
It is my favorite tool becauseI can just go into flow state
and then come back and read itlater and then process the
intuitive guidance that came inthat way.
Number four energy release workthrough breath and movement.
I love breath work.
I do it probably every day.
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I love soma breath work onMindvalley.
I know there's so manydifferent types of breath work.
The easiest and simplest one isjust five by five box breath
and that's five in hold five,release for five, hold for five
and then just keep that patternup.
That is the easiest one.
You don't need a guidedmeditation to do it.
Anyone can do it anywhere,anytime.
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The important thing to knowabout breath work is that you're
breathing into your belly andholding it and then releasing it
through your mouth andbreathing in through your nose
as well.
Ecstatic, dancing, stretching,moving in ways that feel freeing
.
Like I said before, I loveQigong for this.
It really helps move stuckemotions.
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There's a ton of free videos onYouTube, which means none of us
have any excuses for not doingthis, because the available
resources that are free ofcharge are just amazing and
astounding.
And then I want you to justnotice how movement shifts your
emotional state and yourphysical sensations.
I know that, like I'm doingOrange Theory about four or five
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days a week right now because Ilove it, and the days I have to
take a rest day, I almost feellike worse because I haven't had
that chance to really connectwith my body and move the
emotions out.
But because it's an intenseworkout, you really shouldn't be
doing it seven days a week, orat least not where I'm at in the
stage of my fitness journey.
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So when we look at that, then Ihave to come up with
alternative ways, and that'swhere you know qigong, tai chi,
going for a walk.
Other ways of releasingemotions from my body are the
other types of exercises that Ihave to incorporate and it feels
good, like it feels good, tojust let it out of your body.
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Number five releasing throughsound and expression.
If your pain could speak, whatwould it say?
Write it out in a journal.
You can do a perceptual shiftmeditation and there's one that
I use in the tribe, where it'sthe three chairs technique.
I'm not sure if it's on likeYouTube.
It's a classic NLP technique.
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You basically put your pain inthe chair across from you and
just notice what it looks likeand what is you know?
Does it look like a person?
Does it look like energy?
Does it look like a body part?
What does it look like to you?
And then, so that's chairnumber two.
You sit down in chair numberone and then go sit down in
chair number two the perceptionof pain and look back at you.
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What do you look like to pain?
What is it like?
What does it see you as?
Does it see you as a child?
Does it see you as old?
Does it see you as young?
What does pain see in you?
And then, in the third chair,you're going to just have your
higher consciousness, your superconscious, come in and
eliminate the need to know howthings should be.
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You go into a state ofcuriosity and then you decide
there where things need to shift, what is holding back a
resolution to the issue?
I love that technique.
I use it for so many things.
I use it for a lot of shadowwork, like if there's a trapped
emotion I can't shift or someoneI haven't been able to fully
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forgive for a past hurt ortrauma.
I use this technique almostdaily for a lot of the things
that I'm stuck on, because itgives you a new perspective and
then it also helps you see howis my unconscious mind
perceiving this situation orthis person.
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I also really enjoy soundhealing.
I have sound healingfrequencies on the background
everywhere I go all of the time.
There's this mainstream Reikichannel on YouTube.
Her name's Andrea.
She has so many amazing Reikivideos on there.
I keep that on in my house allof the time.
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She has one for pets and shehas one for healing the body.
She has clearing your space.
I mean, they're just amazing.
It really does help keep yourvibration in your home at that
higher vibrational frequencythat is above pain.
You can also hum, chant or sighto move stuck energy out of your
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body.
I know sometimes and this isgoing to sound weird but like
I'll like growl a little bit ifI'm really frustrated at Orange
Theory, because like I have likea feeling that's coming up
about my own progress and when Igrowl a little bit like I feel
a lot stronger and it's astrange thing I can't believe.
I just admitted that out loud.
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But there we go.
Also, I remember like when wewere at Tony Robbins and we were
processing through probably oneof our biggest fears and hurts,
he had us do a primal screamfrom our core, like our gut, and
there was something soprofoundly life-changing when
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you scream in a room of like 10to 14,000 people and you're just
letting it out of your body.
It was extremely transformative.
I choose not to do that aroundmy house because you know I live
in a townhouse, so.
But you can do quieter thingsas well, like humming, chanting,
singing, sighing is a great wayto do it and, you know, just
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find the one that works for you.
Express your emotions in ahealthy way.
So if you're really having alot of feelings that you don't
know how to process through, Ihave friends I'll call and I'll
say I'm having all of thesefeelings, they're confusing me.
I just need someone to help mefigure it out and listen with an
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open mind, and then you canjust kind of put that pre-frame
there so they know you're notlike emotionally vomiting on
them.
Get their permission and thentalk it out, work it out.
I also cry now a lot, like notin a bad way, but like if I have
old pain that comes up and I'llcry it out and let it go.
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I have also been known toscream into a pillow.
But really being more proactivewith those feelings instead of
storing them up for later.
Because guess what happens whenyou store them up for later?
At some point they need toleave your body or they're going
to create sickness.
And I will say that, as I'velearned how to process through
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feelings faster, feelings faster, I don't store them up with
illness anymore.
I'm so much healthier all ofthe time than I used to be and I
don't get sick as often.
And when I do get sick, it'svery short-lived, normally, like
my body just heals so muchquicker.
And since I had a lot of traumathat I had to process through,
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even the weight I was carryingaround was basically these
unprocessed emotions that weretrying to protect me from
predators.
Right, that's just what thebody does.
And as I've been letting theweight go, losing weight, I'm
feeling all of those unprocessedemotions like needing to be
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released, and I'm so grateful Ihave these tools, because it's
not always pleasant and having ahuge tool basket makes it
better.
So listening is a powerfulhealing ability.
By the way, I know when clientscome in and one of the first
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things they say to me is thankyou for taking the time to
actually listen to me.
And I'm thinking, like who haveyou been seeing before?
Like that's what we do ashealers is I'm listening.
I'm listening to what you'resaying.
I'm also listening to what yourhigher self is telling me, and
I'm listening to your body andI'm listening.
I'm listening to what you'resaying.
I'm also listening to what yourhigher self is telling me, and
I'm listening to your body andI'm listening to your feelings.
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I'm listening to everythingabout you so that I can fully
understand what your experienceof the world is.
Because what I think can befrustrating is when your
experience of the world has beenone of pain for a very long
time.
Yes, we want to create an endresult for you where you feel
good in your body, you trustyour body, but I also want to
remind you that there is aprocess of allowing your
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unconscious mind and your ego,your conscious mind and your
super conscious, to worktogether.
And when the ego has lived inpain for a very long time,
sometimes it can put up a prettybig fight to feeling good in
your body, to being in a bodythat feels healthy and strong.
And we want to work with whereyour current reality is right.
We don't want to say, oh, bynext Friday you should be
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feeling great all of the time.
We do have to have this momentof where are you now and what is
it going to take to get youthere?
Is this a spiritual, energeticthing?
Is it physical?
Is it emotional?
Is there mental components likeand I'm talking about parts
that are holding onto the painand how can we get you there at
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a pace that works for youridentity?
And that's important that youjust remember that, because some
people heal faster than othersand it doesn't mean that they're
better at anything, it justmeans that they didn't have as
much resistance in theiridentity, like their identity
was easily and effortlessly ableto go there With things like,
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you know, self-hypnosis,meditation visualization,
meditation visualization recodeand so many other tools.
That stuff makes it faster toembody and be and to just be a
person who lives in a healthy,strong body that moves easily,
freely and flexibly.
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So with that, I just want to saythat I'm really excited to have
my podcast back.
I was sitting in meditationtoday and I was going over
purpose and I just kept hearinglike it's time to bring your
podcast back.
I went through my own littleself-sabotage not self-sabotage,
but it was my own fear of myown voice and being heard
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process over the last couple ofmonths that I worked through and
this morning when I woke up Iwas like I'm really, why don't I
have my podcast back up?
I love my podcast and so I'mreally excited to be recording
again and educating people abouttheir intuition, aligning with
all aspects of themselves thegood, the bad, the ugly, the
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beautiful, the highest, thehighest potential, our shadow
parts, all of it.
We don't want to be afraid ofany aspect of ourselves because
it's all part of us, and themore we can embrace ourselves as
a whole and not think thatthere's something wrong with us,
and knowing that you're perfectexactly as you are.
We just want to create morelove, flow and freedom in our
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lives, when we can understandthat it creates this space for
us to just be human.
But the gift is is it createsspace for everybody around us to
just be human too, and in thatmindset, life is so much more
beautiful.
I also want to just remind youthat when we stop resisting pain
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and just start listening, ittransforms from an enemy to a
guide and, instead of numbingthe discomfort, we can learn to
decode its wisdom and makeempowered changes in our lives
from our intuition and nothanding our power over to other
people who might not know theright answer for us.
Your body is not betraying you.
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It's speaking to you.
The more you honor its messages, the more aligned, intuitive
and vibrant you become.
And who wouldn't like to bemore vibrant and energetic.
So today I want you to do onething check in and ask what is
my body trying to tell me?
Where am I out of alignment andhow can I honor my body's
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wisdom today?
Healing starts with awareness.
When you listen, you open thedoor to deep transformation.
Your body is very wise.
Are you ready to listen?
Have you ever noticed how your body speaks to you,
that nagging shoulder pain, thepersistent headaches or the
tightness in your chest?
It's easy to dismiss them asrandom discomforts, but what if
I told you that your body iswhispering or oftentimes
screaming a deeper truth.
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I've been a body worker andworking in the wellness industry
for oh my gosh, I think over 20years now, and I will say that
one of the most valuable lessonsI learned was that pain is
deeper than simply the placewhere you are experiencing it,
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simply the place where you areexperiencing it.
It is oftentimes posturalmisalignment, but when we start
digging deeper, at chronicnagging pain, the body is an
incredible messenger that isconstantly communicating what
our subconscious mind alreadyknows.
When we learn to listen, weunlock a powerful pathway to
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healing.
Many times, what we do is we goafter the symptom and not the
root cause, and this is truewhether or not it is a physical
manifestation of pain because of, like I said, postural
misalignment.
This is true if it's a deeper,more emotionally rooted pain or
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if it's just a misalignment withour higher self and our purpose
.
We want to go beyond what wealready know and really start to
listen to the body.
And what is it trying to tellus?
So if you're somebody who hasbeen struggling with chronic
pain, like low back pain or neckpain or foot pain, whatever it
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is, and you haven't been able toresolve it, it's not that
you're destined to live a lifeof pain.
It's that the real root causehas yet to be identified.
So I want you to just play withme for a moment, because if
this is a new concept to you, Iforget sometimes that this is
what I do all day.
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So to me it's just normal, likethis is the truth of it,
because this is what I do.
I do mind-body healing, and soto me it's very obvious.
But then, as I was sitting thereand I've been talking to my
clients for a long time, Irealized that not everybody has
that understanding that thatpain is simply a messenger
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that's asking you to payattention to something that is
amiss in your life.
Pain is not just a biologicalreaction.
It is an encoded message fromyour subconscious mind trying to
get your attention.
Every ache and tension carriesemotional or energetic
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information.
If ignored, these messages canget louder, manifesting as
chronic pain or illness.
I used to have horrible SI jointpain, low back pain, constantly
hip pain, foot pain oh my gosh,I always had pain and I was so
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afraid of looking at my pain andactually asking it what it
wanted that I just kept throwingthings at it, creating more
pain for myself.
And, through the process oflearning intuition and creating
an end result that aligns withmy purpose, I've been able to
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resolve pain and get answers somuch faster than I used to.
And I will say that probablyone of the most common triggers
for pain that is not recognizedenough, in my opinion, is
unprocessed emotion, and thebody has a system for
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communicating to you when youare having feelings that maybe
you haven't yet processed, thathave been trapped in your body.
As an intuitive and an empathand before I knew that's what I
was doing sometimes when I'd beworking on people, my body would
hurt where their body hurt andI thought I was just
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experiencing a lot of pain.
What I didn't realize was thatmy somatic intelligence was
communicating to me where theirpain was through my body, and I
wish I had known this in thebeginning of my career.
It probably would have saved meso much pain of how to release
other people's feelings from mybody so that I didn't carry them
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with me.
If you work in the healing arts, you need to learn how to do
that.
I have some meditations in mySoma Flow library of healing
that help you do that at the endof the day, but it is really
important and extremelyimportant that we don't take
other people's pain with us, butwith our own unprocessed
emotions.
Sorry, that was just a sidenote.
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We can have unprocessed anger,sadness, fear and guilt in every
emotion.
Underneath those top tiercategories that will create and
manifest as physical pain in ourbody.
That will create and manifestas physical pain in our body.
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The other top one ismisalignment and that means when
we're not living in sync withour values, our purpose and our
truth, we can feel that as pain.
And then another one is is whenwe have just energetic blocks,
like if our chakra system is outof alignment.
And we have just energeticblocks Like if our chakra system
is out of alignment and we havethese energetic blocks in our
bodies, then that will createand manifest as physical pain as
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well.
I love I studied Carolyn Miss'swork on intuitive healing and
she really hones in on thechakra system and how that can
hold pain if we're not releasingit from the chakras.
I know that a lot of peoplewho've experienced body trauma
will have a tremendous amount ofpain in their sacrum area
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because of not only the physicalmanifestation of whatever the
trauma was, but also theenergetic imprint that that
leaves in their energy systemand the emotional imprint of
feeling powerless againstsomebody else taking away your
power.
And I would say that that hasprobably been the one that has
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been hardest for me to workthrough, just because it was a
deeper layer of pain andbetrayal.
But if we look at like evenjust the more, like slight
nuances of emotional pain in thebody, I would say that the low
back sacrum hip area usuallyrepresents not feeling supported
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in your life.
It could be either the peoplein your life not feeling
supported by yourself.
Were you not supportingyourself, not being supported by
society or the world.
Wherever you look for support,there's usually a lack of
feeling supported in your life.
So if you're currentlyexperiencing some hip or low
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back pain, I encourage you tojust simply ask the question
where am I not feeling supportedin my life and how can I create
support in that area of my life?
Throat tension can indicateunspoken truths.
I do so much work on the tongueand the mouth.
I could nerve on that for days.
What I will say is that whenI'm working on people who choke
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back their words a lot and Iknow there's a lot of you out
there it could either be in yourmarriage, it could be at work,
it could be with yourself, likewhere you're not actually
telling yourself the truth aboutwhat you want in your life.
That will manifest likephysically as tension in the
throat and the mouth becauseyou're like choking back your
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truth.
A lot of digestive issues couldreflect difficulty digesting
emotions or life experiences.
I find a lot of Enneagram ninesand ones with a lot of gut
issues because they tend torepress and suppress their anger
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.
So then it like literallymanifests in gut health issues.
So, and each Enneagram typealways, you know, has their own
flow of what they do with theiremotional blocks.
But that was just the one thatI see the most often with
digestive issues and I usuallysee people who have a lot of
unprocessed anger in generalwith digestive issues.
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I remember when I was oh my gosh, in my 30s, late 20s, I had
ulcerative proctitis Horrible,horrible experience.
I will just say all of yousuffering with ulcerative
colitis or ulcerative proctitis.
My heart is with you.
It was horrible and now,looking back, I can see it was a
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huge manifestation of justrepressed anger in my gut and
also frustration of not beingable to get the right answers,
because the only option at thetime was medicine that cost me,
with insurance, $1,200 a monthto manage the symptoms.
Luckily, I followed myintuition back then, even before
I was following my intuition,and I just changed my diet and
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lifestyle and it went awaywithin three months and it
hasn't resurfaced.
So I will say that there'susually an answer.
We just have to get quietenough to hear it.
So when I'm working with people, my top, my top priority, is
teaching them how to listen totheir own intuition, because
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your body is one of the bestintuitive communicators that you
have and if you're notlistening to your body, you're
turning off one of the mostpowerful intuitive receptors
that you have access to.
Now I get it Pain will make younot listen to your body because
you don't want to be in yourbody.
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I lived a lot of my lifewanting to be out of my body and
I know that sounds strange, butif you're somebody who's had a
lot of pain, like physical,emotional or mental trauma.
You will understand exactlywhat I mean by that, and it was
really probably the last fouryears where I've had to learn
how to be fully in my body andto really connect with it and
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hear what it's trying to tell meinstead of running from the
messages Such a gift.
I will say that, on the otherside, having the library of
tools that I have it is such agift now.
So I want to give you sometools on how to do that, because
I think it's really importantthat you begin to understand it.
There are some great books outthere that really go in depth.
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The one that's coming to mindright now is the Sedona Method,
and that is a great book toreally help you understand how
to communicate and tune into thebody and release unprocessed
feelings from the body.
Exercises like Qigong, tai Chithey help move stuck emotions
through the body.
Obviously, I use SuperconsciousRecode, combined with body work
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and hypnotherapy, to helprelease emotions from the body.
There are somatic practitionersout there who can walk you
through a somatic experiencingprocess that will help you
remove unprocessed emotions.
The tools out there are vastand you can either find someone
to help you do it, but you canalso begin the process yourself.
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Probably the first thing youneed to do, though, is become
aware of what's happening inyour body, and we do that using
a body scan, so I'm going towalk you through that now.
If you want to listen along, youdon't have to go into a
hypermeditative state to do this.
You can do this anywhere, butif it's your first time, or if
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you're driving, I wouldn't, youknow, maybe recommend doing it
while you're driving.
So you know, now that I'm like,more in flow with this, I can
do this anywhere and just tap inand figure out what's going on.
But, right for right now, Iwould say, if you're not, if
you're not used to going into ameditative state, you can follow
along and just listen along,and then come back and maybe,
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like, find a nice quiet space todo this when you have time to
really focus.
Okay, so, number one, we'regoing to start with this body
scanning and awareness, so I'mgoing to ask you to find a quiet
space, close your eyes and takea deep breath in through your
nose and expand your belly andexhale, and now slowly scan your
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body from head to toe, noticingany areas of tension, pain or
discomfort.
You can use color.
If color resonates with you,maybe give the areas of your
body that feel nice and relaxed,nice golden color, and then
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have your unconscious mind lightup any pain in the body that
maybe you've not been payingattention to.
And I'm just going to ask thatit uses the color red and once
you have that color, that thatis lit up maybe it's in your hip
or your neck or your foot toallow your unconscious mind to
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reveal it to you.
Reveal it to you, hone in onthat part of the body and just
really put your full awarenesswithout fear.
Go into a space of curiosity.
What is that sensation tryingto tell you?
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Sensation trying to tell youand just breathe into it and if
you're afraid or you're feelinganxious about it, just breathe
in and know that you'recompletely safe.
It's just a message.
Be open to any words, emotions,images or memories.
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Sometimes it'll come through asmell or a visual picture.
Just pay attention to what'scoming through and I often like
to sit down and just startwriting.
My body is trying to tell meand then just start writing.
Good job, and you can use thattechnique anytime, like if
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you're starting to feel anxiousor your neck really hurts.
Don't be afraid to just takethat moment and just breathe
into it and say what is my bodytrying to tell me?
You can often downregulate yourpain signals simply by listening
.
So if you're like at a, youknow, 50 out of 10 on the pain
scale, doing this exercise canat least help bring that pain
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down so you can start listeningand paying attention to it,
because the fear of the unknownin our nervous system will
create more pain.
It's like it sets off thisemergency signal where it's just
going to get louder and louder,where it's just going to get
louder and louder.
Okay, so next we're going totalk about emotional mapping,
and that is where we really wantto identify where pain shows up
in the body, kind of like wejust did.
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But I want you to just reallythink about your body.
Where do you have a lot of pain?
Is it in your neck andshoulders?
Is it your chest, your stomachand gut, your lower back?
And think about your, like,neck and shoulder pain.
Are there any burdens thatyou're carrying?
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Do you feel overly responsiblefor everything?
Responsible for everything?
And then I like to ask myselfwhat would it take for me to
feel supported and joyful?
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What would it take is one of myfavorite questions, because it
gets us out of the problem andit gets our mind to switch into
more of a solution-focusedmindset.
So if you're having any chestand heart pain and please
remember, none of this is asubstitute for medical advice so
if you are having a realmedical issue, please go to see
your medical professionalimmediately.
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This is just an additional toolto help.
This is just an additional toolto help.
Chest and heart are usuallyrepresenting grief, loss and a
lack of love for oneself.
So if you're experiencing a lotof pressure in your chest all
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of the time, what grief is itthat you haven't fully processed
?
Or is there a loss of somethingthat is stuck in your chest?
Maybe it's a dream.
It doesn't always have to beromantic love.
It doesn't always have to be arelationship.
Sometimes it is I lost mybusiness, or I lost faith in
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myself, or I lost my dreamproperty.
It could be whatever.
It doesn't always have to be aheartbreak from another human
being.
And then, where am I not lovingmyself?
Where am I still resisting,accepting who I am and really,
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really falling in love with that?
That is my favorite tool forhigher self therapy and I do
have.
I think I have some stuff on myYouTube If not, they will be
coming soon about reallyconnecting in with your higher
self and purpose, because Iwould say higher self and
understanding who you areEnneagram are two of the most
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powerful ways to get into astate of love, coherence with
yourself.
If you're having chronic stomachand gut issues, are you having
fear?
Is there fear like dictatingyour life?
And you know there's a lot ofchange in the world right now
and when there's a lot of changein the world, that can create a
lot of unconscious fearpatterns.
So, if you're really feeling alot of gut and stomach issues,
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like gut punched, where's feargoverning your life right now?
And then also you might havesome unprocessed trauma or anger
, rage and then also askyourself where am I resisting
change?
Like if your higher self iscoming in and creating some
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discomfort for you.
Where are you resisting change?
Where are you resisting growthin exchange for comfort?
Lower back, financial stressthat is a big one.
Whenever I have clients come inwith lower back pain, I'm
thinking in the back of my mindis someone having a lot of low
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back pain because they're havingfinancial worries?
And you know that I think thatI don't.
I don't think I realized untilthe other night, when I was at a
financial summit, that how bad2020 and COVID was Like.
It's one of those things whereyou're like you kind of get to
the other side and you're like,whew, got through that, let's
keep going.
And then you're going why isn'teverything the same as it used
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to be?
And to, looking back, being atthis summit and talking about
the economic impact that COVIDhad was equal to and don't quote
me on this, because I don'thave the statistics in front of
me but I believe what he saidwas it was about the same as a
degree somewhat similar to theGreat Depression and the
financial impact that it had onthe planet.
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And I thought to myself, wow,have we actually stopped to
really appreciate the fact thatthat's the impact that it had on
the planet?
And I thought to myself, wow,have we actually stopped to
really appreciate the fact thatthat's the impact that it had?
I know we were also focused ongetting out of it, but it was
validating, so I really feltthat that was validating.
To just kind of look and go.
Well, of course, everyone wasstruggling, unless you owned
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Amazon, but everyone wasstruggling after COVID.
A lot of small business ownersand independents really
struggled to keep theirbusinesses alive during that
period.
So, lower back pain, financialstress.
Where are you worried aboutmoney right now and what would
it take for you to createfinancial stability?
What would it take for you tofeel supported financially or
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supported in other areas of yourlife?
Maybe it has to do with youknow, taking care of your family
or work.
Maybe you have managementthat's not.
That's not supportive in yourwork environment.
What is it that?
Where is it that you're notfeeling supported in your life?
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In your life, keep a journal andwrite down your thoughts.
Don't do it in your head.
You've got to do it pen topaper, the old-fashioned way.
It is one of the ways that yourunconscious mind communicates
with you pen to paper, and it isso important that you learn how
to write it out, because wecan't process this all in our
head.
We do need to be able to lookat it, and I love it when I'm
working with my clients and theysay, oh, I was looking at my
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journal from last year and Ican't even believe the changes
I've made.
I don't even think that wayanymore and it's such a
validating thing to go back andlook at the old journals to see
your growth and to see how muchyou've evolved and changed in a
really positive way.
Because sometimes, as you'regoing through the process of
growth, you don't always knowthat you've changed because
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you're just now the new you.
So when you're reallystruggling and thinking, oh,
nothing that I'm doing isworking, you can go pick up an
old journal and go, wow,everything I'm doing is working.
I actually like myself now.
I actually enjoy taking care ofmy body.
I actually, you know, amaligned with my purpose and who
I am.
It's going to be really mindblowing in a year or two to look
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back at those old journals andsee the stories have changed.
Okay, so number three.
So we've talked about bodyscanning, emotional mapping and
now we're going to talk aboutasking your pain for guidance.
So you can put your hand overthe part of your body that hurts
Maybe it's your knee and justsay what do you need me to know?
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And listen.
Most people will question theirintuition.
It's totally normal.
So if that's you, not a problem, it's totally normal.
Even trained intuitives likemyself, I question it all of the
time.
That's why I like havingintuition circles?
Because it's very validating toget you know, especially as
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you're learning to get thatfeedback from other people when
they say, actually no, this iswhat I'm getting and, like you
know, having three other peopleget the same thing.
It's just validating in thebeginning so that you do
understand how to build thatmuscle.
So put your hand on that partof your body and say what do you
need me to know?
And then pay attention to anysubtle messages.
It could come through a thought, an emotion, a sudden insight.
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You might see something, hearsomething, smell something.
It all depends on you.
You might have a memory pop upin your mind Don't dismiss it.
Like you might see someone elsetripping and falling on their
knee and that might be the waythat your unconscious mind is
telling you how it perceives thepain there.
So and then journal about itand trust whatever comes up.
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I personally like automaticwriting.
It is my favorite tool becauseI can just go into flow state
and then come back and read itlater and then process the
intuitive guidance that came inthat way.
Number four energy release workthrough breath and movement.
I love breath work.
I do it probably every day.
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I love soma breath work onMindvalley.
I know there's so manydifferent types of breath work.
The easiest and simplest one isjust five by five box breath
and that's five in hold five,release for five, hold for five
and then just keep that patternup.
That is the easiest one.
You don't need a guidedmeditation to do it.
Anyone can do it anywhere,anytime.
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The important thing to knowabout breath work is that you're
breathing into your belly andholding it and then releasing it
through your mouth andbreathing in through your nose
as well.
Ecstatic, dancing, stretching,moving in ways that feel freeing
.
Like I said before, I loveQigong for this.
It really helps move stuckemotions.
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There's a ton of free videos onYouTube, which means none of us
have any excuses for not doingthis, because the available
resources that are free ofcharge are just amazing and
astounding.
And then I want you to justnotice how movement shifts your
emotional state and yourphysical sensations.
I know that, like I'm doingOrange Theory about four or five
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days a week right now because Ilove it, and the days I have to
take a rest day, I almost feellike worse because I haven't had
that chance to really connectwith my body and move the
emotions out.
But because it's an intenseworkout, you really shouldn't be
doing it seven days a week, orat least not where I'm at in the
stage of my fitness journey.
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So when we look at that, then Ihave to come up with
alternative ways, and that'swhere you know qigong, tai chi,
going for a walk.
Other ways of releasingemotions from my body are the
other types of exercises that Ihave to incorporate and it feels
good, like it feels good, tojust let it out of your body.
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Number five releasing throughsound and expression.
If your pain could speak, whatwould it say?
Write it out in a journal.
You can do a perceptual shiftmeditation and there's one that
I use in the tribe, where it'sthe three chairs technique.
I'm not sure if it's on likeYouTube.
It's a classic NLP technique.
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You basically put your pain inthe chair across from you and
just notice what it looks likeand what is you know?
Does it look like a person?
Does it look like energy?
Does it look like a body part?
What does it look like to you?
And then, so that's chairnumber two.
You sit down in chair numberone and then go sit down in
chair number two the perceptionof pain and look back at you.
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What do you look like to pain?
What is it like?
What does it see you as?
Does it see you as a child?
Does it see you as old?
Does it see you as young?
What does pain see in you?
And then, in the third chair,you're going to just have your
higher consciousness, your superconscious, come in and
eliminate the need to know howthings should be.
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You go into a state ofcuriosity and then you decide
there where things need to shift, what is holding back a
resolution to the issue?
I love that technique.
I use it for so many things.
I use it for a lot of shadowwork, like if there's a trapped
emotion I can't shift or someoneI haven't been able to fully
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forgive for a past hurt ortrauma.
I use this technique almostdaily for a lot of the things
that I'm stuck on, because itgives you a new perspective and
then it also helps you see howis my unconscious mind
perceiving this situation orthis person.
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I also really enjoy soundhealing.
I have sound healingfrequencies on the background
everywhere I go all of the time.
There's this mainstream Reikichannel on YouTube.
Her name's Andrea.
She has so many amazing Reikivideos on there.
I keep that on in my house allof the time.
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She has one for pets and shehas one for healing the body.
She has clearing your space.
I mean, they're just amazing.
It really does help keep yourvibration in your home at that
higher vibrational frequencythat is above pain.
You can also hum, chant or sighto move stuck energy out of your
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body.
I know sometimes and this isgoing to sound weird but like
I'll like growl a little bit ifI'm really frustrated at Orange
Theory, because like I have likea feeling that's coming up
about my own progress and when Igrowl a little bit like I feel
a lot stronger and it's astrange thing I can't believe.
I just admitted that out loud.
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But there we go.
Also, I remember like when wewere at Tony Robbins and we were
processing through probably oneof our biggest fears and hurts,
he had us do a primal screamfrom our core, like our gut, and
there was something soprofoundly life-changing when
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you scream in a room of like 10to 14,000 people and you're just
letting it out of your body.
It was extremely transformative.
I choose not to do that aroundmy house because you know I live
in a townhouse, so.
But you can do quieter thingsas well, like humming, chanting,
singing, sighing is a great wayto do it and, you know, just
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find the one that works for you.
Express your emotions in ahealthy way.
So if you're really having alot of feelings that you don't
know how to process through, Ihave friends I'll call and I'll
say I'm having all of thesefeelings, they're confusing me.
I just need someone to help mefigure it out and listen with an
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open mind, and then you canjust kind of put that pre-frame
there so they know you're notlike emotionally vomiting on
them.
Get their permission and thentalk it out, work it out.
I also cry now a lot, like notin a bad way, but like if I have
old pain that comes up and I'llcry it out and let it go.
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I have also been known toscream into a pillow.
But really being more proactivewith those feelings instead of
storing them up for later.
Because guess what happens whenyou store them up for later?
At some point they need toleave your body or they're going
to create sickness.
And I will say that, as I'velearned how to process through
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feelings faster, feelings faster, I don't store them up with
illness anymore.
I'm so much healthier all ofthe time than I used to be and I
don't get sick as often.
And when I do get sick, it'svery short-lived, normally, like
my body just heals so muchquicker.
And since I had a lot of traumathat I had to process through,
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even the weight I was carryingaround was basically these
unprocessed emotions that weretrying to protect me from
predators.
Right, that's just what thebody does.
And as I've been letting theweight go, losing weight, I'm
feeling all of those unprocessedemotions like needing to be
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released, and I'm so grateful Ihave these tools, because it's
not always pleasant and having ahuge tool basket makes it
better.
So listening is a powerfulhealing ability.
By the way, I know when clientscome in and one of the first
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things they say to me is thankyou for taking the time to
actually listen to me.
And I'm thinking, like who haveyou been seeing before?
Like that's what we do ashealers is I'm listening.
I'm listening to what you'resaying.
I'm also listening to what yourhigher self is telling me, and
I'm listening to your body andI'm listening.
I'm listening to what you'resaying.
I'm also listening to what yourhigher self is telling me, and
I'm listening to your body andI'm listening to your feelings.
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I'm listening to everythingabout you so that I can fully
understand what your experienceof the world is.
Because what I think can befrustrating is when your
experience of the world has beenone of pain for a very long
time.
Yes, we want to create an endresult for you where you feel
good in your body, you trustyour body, but I also want to
remind you that there is aprocess of allowing your
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unconscious mind and your ego,your conscious mind and your
super conscious, to worktogether.
And when the ego has lived inpain for a very long time,
sometimes it can put up a prettybig fight to feeling good in
your body, to being in a bodythat feels healthy and strong.
And we want to work with whereyour current reality is right.
We don't want to say, oh, bynext Friday you should be
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feeling great all of the time.
We do have to have this momentof where are you now and what is
it going to take to get youthere?
Is this a spiritual, energeticthing?
Is it physical?
Is it emotional?
Is there mental components likeand I'm talking about parts
that are holding onto the painand how can we get you there at
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a pace that works for youridentity?
And that's important that youjust remember that, because some
people heal faster than othersand it doesn't mean that they're
better at anything, it justmeans that they didn't have as
much resistance in theiridentity, like their identity
was easily and effortlessly ableto go there With things like,
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you know, self-hypnosis,meditation visualization,
meditation visualization recodeand so many other tools.
That stuff makes it faster toembody and be and to just be a
person who lives in a healthy,strong body that moves easily,
freely and flexibly.
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So with that, I just want to saythat I'm really excited to have
my podcast back.
I was sitting in meditationtoday and I was going over
purpose and I just kept hearinglike it's time to bring your
podcast back.
I went through my own littleself-sabotage not self-sabotage,
but it was my own fear of myown voice and being heard
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process over the last couple ofmonths that I worked through and
this morning when I woke up Iwas like I'm really, why don't I
have my podcast back up?
I love my podcast and so I'mreally excited to be recording
again and educating people abouttheir intuition, aligning with
all aspects of themselves thegood, the bad, the ugly, the
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beautiful, the highest, thehighest potential, our shadow
parts, all of it.
We don't want to be afraid ofany aspect of ourselves because
it's all part of us, and themore we can embrace ourselves as
a whole and not think thatthere's something wrong with us,
and knowing that you're perfectexactly as you are.
We just want to create morelove, flow and freedom in our
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lives, when we can understandthat it creates this space for
us to just be human.
But the gift is is it createsspace for everybody around us to
just be human too, and in thatmindset, life is so much more
beautiful.
I also want to just remind youthat when we stop resisting pain
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and just start listening, ittransforms from an enemy to a
guide and, instead of numbingthe discomfort, we can learn to
decode its wisdom and makeempowered changes in our lives
from our intuition and nothanding our power over to other
people who might not know theright answer for us.
Your body is not betraying you.
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It's speaking to you.
The more you honor its messages, the more aligned, intuitive
and vibrant you become.
And who wouldn't like to bemore vibrant and energetic.
So today I want you to do onething check in and ask what is
my body trying to tell me?
Where am I out of alignment andhow can I honor my body's
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wisdom today?
Healing starts with awareness.
When you listen, you open thedoor to deep transformation.
Your body is very wise.
Are you ready to listen?
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