November 7, 2024 • 41 mins
Air Date - 30 October
I am not a doctor nor a trained nutritionist, but I have worked on over 20,000 bodies in the last 25 years, and I believe inflammation is one of the biggest causes of unexplainable ailments in the body.
Although we attribute most inflammation to certain foods, I believe it’s something else.
It isn’t almonds or nuts or alcohol or anything else you think it is…
I believe the leading cause of inflammation is stress.
The unresolved traimas, the incessant fight or flight, the constant triggers, the bit feeling safe, the fast paced life, the environmental triggers… those things cause far more stress, which increases cortisol and doesn’t allow the body or the mind to heal.
Living in chronic fight or flight without knowing it could be the root cause of most of your ailments and you can’t heal it with a salad or a green smoothie – you can’t change it with a prescription or a doctors visit – you have to shift it from the inside out and become the expert of your own body and life.
In this day and age of 5 second attention spans, we are being called to look inside, slow down, rest, and create a different kind of relationship with the problems in your life.
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I am not a doctor nor a trained nutritionist, but I have worked on over 20,000 bodies in the last 25 years, and I believe inflammation is one of the biggest causes of unexplainable ailments in the body.
Although we attribute most inflammation to certain foods, I believe it’s something else.
It isn’t almonds or nuts or alcohol or anything else you think it is…
I believe the leading cause of inflammation is stress.
The unresolved traimas, the incessant fight or flight, the constant triggers, the bit feeling safe, the fast paced life, the environmental triggers… those things cause far more stress, which increases cortisol and doesn’t allow the body or the mind to heal.
Living in chronic fight or flight without knowing it could be the root cause of most of your ailments and you can’t heal it with a salad or a green smoothie – you can’t change it with a prescription or a doctors visit – you have to shift it from the inside out and become the expert of your own body and life.
In this day and age of 5 second attention spans, we are being called to look inside, slow down, rest, and create a different kind of relationship with the problems in your life.
http://www.katherinemcintosh.com
#Inflammation #KatherineMcIntosh #TrustingYourGut #Intuition #Consciousness #Lifestyle #BodyAwareness #Health #Wellness
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Be bold, be brave, be extraordinary, be vulnerable, be real,
be curious, be true.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Be you.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Welcome to trusting your gut with world class energy, Intuitive
Katherine Macintosh, a show designed to awaken you to enjoy
the process of evolving, have fun along the way, and
learn to listen to those silent in between moments. You
are the expert of your own life and nobody knows
more about the next steps to take in your journey
(00:40):
than you, So please listen to your gut and discover
what's waiting for you to explore. Here is your host,
Katherine Macintosh.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Hello, my magical friends, Welcome to today's sevo my goot.
So today we are talking about the leading cause of inflammation,
which is going to lead us into a deeper conversation,
more in depth conversation about something I think is not
(01:16):
talked about or a dressed enough and as a woman
of a certain age who has gone through perimenopause and menopause,
the cortisol right, So you know a lot of people
look at, oh, my diet is causing inflammation, or maybe
alcohol or tobacco or environmental toxins or everything else. But
(01:42):
I actually believe that the leading cause of inflammation is stressed.
And when we are stressed, most people are living in
a chronic state of stress. And when stress is abundant,
we're in constant fight or flight. We are our cortisol
(02:05):
levels are raised high. When cortisol is high, right, Cortisol
is sort of the survival hormone, right, So when cortisol
is high, you're like, let me flee, let me run
from every situation. And so imagine you're at the grocery
store and cortisol levels are high, and you get into
(02:25):
an altercation or just have a little exchange that feels
weird with someone. All of a sudden, what could just
have been, like you know, a stream moving around a rock,
all of a sudden becomes a blow up. And then
when that happens, your cortisol floods your body. It begins
(02:46):
an adrenaline pump in your system, which can lead to
chronic fatigue, It can lead to exhaustion, it can lead
to feeling anxious, it can lead to depression. And so
you know, as an intuitive and as someone who works
with people all around the world, I hear stories every day.
(03:07):
I've probably worked with over twenty thousand bodies in the
last twenty five years and the amount of people that
say I have depression, or I'm anxious, or i'm and
believe me, my I go through moments of chronic stress.
And currently I am in the middle of a move,
still staying in Aspens, is moving homes, bigger home or
(03:31):
probably hopefully we'll be there for a long time. And
it has been extremely stressful, and I've noticed that I've
been more amped, that the littlest thing sets me off,
that I'm not paying attention to the important conversations in
my life. Like I can pay attention and be a
(03:52):
great listener in my work life. When it comes to
my personal life, my friends, my son, my husban been
it is very challenging to be able to listen. And
I think I'm a good listener. But when I am
in survival mode, when that corsoal is raised and all
(04:15):
of a sudden, my adrenaliness pumping and I don't even
know I'm in survival, I'm not able to function or
be as present in my life. And so what does
this have to do with inflammation, Well, inflammation is a
cause of many diseases and illnesses in the body. When
there's inflammation in the brain, it can be dangerous, right,
(04:38):
That's what concussions are. That's what you know when football
players have what's that movie with Will Smith? Maybe it's
called concussion, but there's you know. It can cause behavioral disorders.
It can cause anxiety, it can cause depression, it can
cause irrational thought process and so inflammation stress. I believe
(05:05):
this is just my personal opinion. I'm not a doctor,
I'm not a certified nutritionist, I'm not a certified psychologist, right.
I do have a background in many different things, with
psychology being one of them. But I believe that the
leading cause of inflammation is stressed. And why is this
conversation important? Because when you're stressed and your body is inflamed,
(05:30):
your body cannot heal, you cannot think rationally. It affects
your finances, it affects your relationships, it affects all these
different things. And so what do we do about it?
We start to recognize that one of the most important
things in our health journey, in our life journey, and
(05:52):
our wealth journey, in our relationship's journey is to come together, right,
to allow yourself to rest, to align with where you are,
and sometimes where you are is stressed, right, these last
(06:14):
two weeks, I have been extremely stressed out. It's no joke,
packing and moving and we've had to do it twice.
A long story that I won't go and get into.
But I found myself going, oh my god, I'm looking
in the mirror. I didn't even recognize myself, like looking
older right, feeling more fatigued, feeling like I'm ready to pop.
(06:35):
And I'm normally pretty centered. I can handle a lot
of stress usually, but these last few weeks, like last
probably six weeks, I have not been at my best.
And so what does that mean? It means that when
the body's inflamed, when the brain is inflamed, you're not
(06:58):
necessarily present, not really thinking logically. And when you're not,
it's harder to rest, it's harder to sleep, it's harder
to think clearly right. And then that inflammation over time,
so cortisol levels raised over time because you're in fire
or flight, inflammation stays raised. All of a sudden, your
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metabolism shifts. You're not able to process. You might hang
on to, you know, water weight, your digestion can't process,
your heart doesn't work as well. Things start to constrict
and contract, and when we adrenaline pump. Over time, it
(07:42):
can create severe exhaustion, which is also what any of
the chronic fatigue disorders can be. And so what what
are we going to do about it? Right? So my
invitation to all of you who are dealing with inflammation
and your doctor says cut out almonds or cut out
(08:03):
butter or cut out dairy. Yes, that may be helpful,
but underlying most of our physical ailments, most of our stress,
or most of the problems that we're encountering in our
body is stressed. And so how do you mitigate stress?
(08:26):
You learn to do things that calm your parasympathetic nervous
system down. And so you want to get an environment
that feels safe. You want to create a bedroom that
you like sleeping in. You want to avoid, you know,
having your door if you have a bathroom in your bedroom,
you want to avoid having the toilet door open to
(08:49):
where you're sleeping. You want to take time to take baths,
listen to music, meditate. Right my face writ two things
a lot of people are now coming out with, you know,
vagus nerve exercises or even vagus nerve apparatuses that help
calm the vagus nerve and So the vagus nerve is
(09:13):
this nerve, it's the longest nerve in the body that
starts right on the other side of the occiput and
the occiput right. It used to be a hairdresser to
study that. The occiput is this bone that sticks out
in the back of the head. So if you run
your finger along that inner ridge in your neck, right,
(09:34):
and you run it and it kind of has an
indentation and it comes out and there's a little bone.
That bone is called the occiput, right, And on the
other side of the occiput is the vagus nerve. Now,
the vagus nerve is one of the longest nerves in
the body, right, And I believe that from the energy
of the vagus nerve to the energy of the tailbone right,
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is basically what runs your a sympathetic nervous system. And
so when the parasympathetic nervous system is regulated, you are
breathing better, you're more present, you're less stressed, you're feeling
more abundant or grateful or appreciating what's in your life.
(10:18):
It's hard to appreciate what's in your life when you're
stressed out because stress is a survival instinct, right, And
long periods of stress over time without the interruption of
a relaxation, without the interruption of dancing or laughing or
(10:39):
you know, time with your friends or playing can be
extremely disruptive to your health, but also can be extremely
disruptive to your brain. Right. And so it's interesting lately
I've been recognizing things that I thought that I had
healed from my pass asked from my childhood, from my trauma.
(11:02):
As I'm moving, I've had some old stuff raised to
the surface. And the minute it does, it's like out
the window. Catherine is not present, at least not my
personal life, in my work life, yes, personal life, right,
(11:23):
And so what do we do about it? We recognize
the importance of rest, and I'm not just talking about
going to sleep, although sleep is a great way to
reset your energy, to realign, to let go. That's why
you know, sometimes hibernating in the wintertime, right. I live
(11:46):
in Aspen, and bears can be out before the snow comes,
and when that happens, they can get aggressive when they're hungry. Why,
because they're in survived. If they want food, they're hungry, right.
And then in the wintertime they disappear and they sleep
(12:07):
and they rest, And so I believe that we all
need some season of hibernating, of sleeping, more, of maybe
staying inside, more less social. It doesn't mean you have
to do it. It's just an invitation to recognize it.
If you are constantly feeling off, if you have hated
(12:29):
your job for three or four years, if you are
in a stressful relationship for long periods of time, it
can really tax your energy levels. It can tax your
physical body, which means you're more prone to getting sick.
It means that your immune system can be compromised. And
(12:49):
so I think that if we were to have a
conversation on the planet about what's the one thing that
you can do that will drastically change your health right,
and we're talking mental health, physical health, energetic health, relationship health,
(13:10):
wealth health, right, financial health. The one thing that can
dramatically shift your health is mitigating stress. And the way
that I know the fastest way to mitigate stress is
to begin to do things that regulate your parasympathetic nervous system.
(13:33):
Sematic exercises. I have a few. I have a free
download on my website where you can download some sematic exercises,
a PDF that will walk you through. It's all free, right,
because we're not taught to navigate our parasympathetic nervous system,
We're not taught to energize our health. Most of us
(13:56):
are taught, especially in this culture, and all cultures in
the world, except for maybe Native American cultures, Shamanic cultures,
you know, some cultures in Africa where they primarily are
naturally based and they work with the land, and they
live on the land, and they live by sunset sunrise. Right.
(14:20):
And so when we get in the day and age
where it's ten seconds short attention spans, where it's swiping
left or right, where it's you know, scrolling through Instagram
or TikTok or Facebook stories or YouTube stories, our tension
spans have gotten so short circuited that we're less apt
(14:42):
to be present in our lives. We're less apt to
be present in our relationships. And so you see it
all the time at dinner parties or out at restaurants.
I've gotten in the habit of put the phone away, right,
put the phone away. And I used to be on
social media all the time for my business, and lately
I'm like, you know what, last year and a half.
(15:04):
It's like, it doesn't really serve my energy to be
always doing that. Once in a while, I do it,
but it's better to live by the nature, to prioritize
health instead of prioritizing defending against disease two very different things.
(15:28):
You can defend against disease like you defend in an argument,
which is exhausting, or you can be on the offensive
of it right the offense. You can be proactive and
you can prioritize health. I saw something on Instagram the
other day. In my scrolling, which it now lasts about
(15:50):
two to three minutes, it used to last hours. I
would get very distracted. Now it's like, no, it doesn't
really serve me right now, it's not good for my health.
But I saw this. It said, you know, the fastest
way to mitigate darkness is to let the light in.
And I believe it's a metaphor for almost everything in
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our lives. If we are proactive, if we are prioritizing health,
for prioritizing light, if we're prioritizing like being a high vibration,
if we're prioritizing alignment, if we're prioritizing peace and calm,
if we're prioritizing appreciation and gratitude right, those things will
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add to and help you cultivate your health, Strengthen your health,
strengthen your wealth, strengthen your communications, strength in your relationships,
far faster than trying to go into the defensive to
try to get rid of right. And so it's interesting
(17:00):
as somebody who helps people, you know, bring in the light,
let go of the dark. I used to back in
the day only focus on what needed to be fixed right,
kind of like a doctor, but not a doctor. Don't worry.
And now I like focusing on what can we energize today?
(17:24):
What can we focus on? So one of the questions
that I like to ask myself on a daily basis
is what do I want to energize today? And a
lot of times when I'm answering that, or I'm looking
at the possibility of that, it's like, Wow, I want
to energize gratitude. I want to energize appreciation. I want
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to energize the wealth and abundance that already exists in
my world. I want to energize joy. I want to
energize play. I want to energize laughter. Very rarely would
we ever say, oh, let's energize disease, right, Let's energize darkness,
(18:05):
Let's energize anger or frustration, right, all things that lead
to stress, which leads to prolonged corzo levels being raised,
which leads to fight or flight, which then leads to
your immune system being compromised, your metabolism being compromised, your
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digestion being compromised. I know I talk about this a lot,
but I really do believe that if we were to
have a different conversation with our children about what is healthy,
we may include in that conversation spinach and greens and smoothies.
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But we notice that the conversation a lot of times
is like, don't eat so much candy, don't eat so
much chuck food, sodas are bad for you. We're looking
at the negative of what to eliminate instead of the
positive and what to add, what to energize, what to
focus on. And if we were to broaden this conversation
(19:12):
to the health of our children, then maybe we'll want
to start conversations about listening. Maybe, Like this week, I
had parent teacher conferences with my son and his father
and myself and his father and I were like, looks
like it's time to set some boundaries, to take the
cell phone away, to only allow it at certain time periods,
(19:36):
because we noticed that our son wasn't as present right,
He wasn't listening to his teacher, He was extremely distracted.
He was terrible at answering the questions that were asked
of him, and he couldn't even hear them. And I
think that in today's day and age, with cell phones
being delivered at such a young age, I don't even
(19:58):
know when I had a cell phone. I want to
say twenty eight, twenty nine, twenty seven somewhere in there,
you know. And now they're getting them at five, six, seven,
eight years old, and then they're used to just that
quick attention span, quick attention span, quick attention span. And
(20:19):
if we're being asked to be an energy that is
quick attention span, that is cortisol raising, stress producing, it
can be exhausting and it can lead to so much more.
So I really want to invite anyone listening that if
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you are looking at your diet as the primary source
of inflammation, what if you start looking at all the
areas that are causing stress in your life, and so
you may not be able to leave your job currently
because that would create more stress, financial stress. But what
can you add or focus on or energize. So if
(21:03):
you are in a work situation that you are not
in love with, maybe you put on in an earbud
and you listen to podcasts or things that inspire, motivate you,
things that energize you, things that get you thinking about
all the positive things. Because when we focus on the
(21:24):
negative stress, corsal and cortisol one of the leading causes
of not being able to lose weight, especially when women
hit menopause right and the amount of suffering that can happen.
And so I don't know if men truly comprehend how
(21:50):
life transforming it can be through menopause. And what I
mean by that is who I was five years ago
is not who I am today. And that's not a thing,
but it's like I still am having to reform who
I am, how I function because what used to work
in my world doesn't work my attention span. I am
(22:12):
more prone to when I get stressed, to having a
harder time being able to mitigate it unless right. Somatic
exercise is one of my favorite things to do, and
I teach a class live and Aspen three days a
week at a studio and Aspen. And so it's like
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we want to begin to prioritize regulating our health from
an energetic perspective, from the idea that stress could be
the leading cause of most disease. I remember, not a doctor,
not a trained psychologist, not a nutritionist, not any of
(22:54):
those things. I just have worked with over twenty thousand
bodies in the last twenty five years, and I've seen
patterns that fascinate me. And I'm always looking at how
can we do better in the world, on the planet
as a whole to support each other's growth and brilliance
(23:17):
and health. So stay tuned. We'll be back for a
little bit more. If you have any questions about it
and you want to call in live, you are welcome
to call in live into the show. I don't have
the number, and I'm on my phone today because Catherine,
who's moving, got a little stressed out this morning and
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forgot my computer. So but we adore you stay tuned.
We'll be back after the break talking a little bit
more about this.
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are back and we are talking about the leading cause
of information, which isn't omens, it's not dairy, it's not
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you know, meats, it's it's stress. And so I wanted
to talk a little bit and dive a little bit
deeper about the leading cause of stress. Here's what I'm
going to say, and you can see if it resonates
with you or not. Is I believe stress is caused
not by what happens to us, but our perspective. Right.
(27:05):
Stress is thinking we're not happy, and we're not happy
if we're like, oh, we don't have enough money, or
we don't have enough this, or we don't don't have
the giant house, or I don't have enough friends. Right.
Stress is thinking that you are unhappy versus appreciating what
(27:28):
is in your life right, appreciating what you can do now,
because when you begin to shift. So I believe leading
cause of stress is your perspective on your life. And
if you're not happy with your life, it's not about
shifting your life that although that might happen, but you
(27:52):
might not be able to shift it overnight. You might
not be able to get a new job in twenty
four hours. You might not be able to move look patients.
You might not be able to change cities. You might
not be able to get out of your relationship or
shift a relationship. There might be circumstances why you can't
change your life in this moment. But guess what you
(28:13):
can change. You can change your perspective. You can change
your feelings. So when you do not feel happy or
good about your life, or good about your job, or
good about your relationship, it's not about pointing a finger
at that thing that needs to change. It's about going
inside and seeing what part of your perspective. Can you shift, right, So,
(28:42):
let me give you an example, right, this is actually
a real time example.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
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Recently so signed the lease and actually was offered through
my partner a better place to live. And so so
we had to get out of the lease, right, And
so we could have gotten stressed out about it. We
could have gotten upset about it. We could have had
(29:08):
the landlord get upset about it. And I said to
the landlord, I said, look, I know this is an ideal,
but here's what we're going to do. We're going to
take care of everything for you. And I'd like to
offer you gift you a session, and right, we're going
to have free maintenance for your and and so we're talking,
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and I said, you know, it's interesting that most of
us are not good at receiving unless we get into
a pickle or a bind, and most of us will
create a conflict or a problem or something not going
our way in order to receive. So, whether that's receiving kindness,
(29:52):
receiving a helping hand. But I've needed a lot of
help in this move, and so needed to receive a
lot of help, right, And I'm not good at asking
for help. But the point being is that this perspective
that could have been, oh my god, this is a
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terrible thing. We have to break the lease. The landlord saying,
oh my god, this is a terrible thing. You're breaking
the lease. I'm going to charge you for all twelve months. Right,
that didn't happen because we all were willing to shift
our perspective, and then all of a sudden, the landlord
was calling, being like, oh my god, this is the
best thing that's ever happened.
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Right.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The new tenant is amazic. They get along. It's just
so you never know why something is happening, right, But
more often than not, it's occurring to bring you something greater.
And yet most of us go, oh my god, but
you're worse than that happened. So I used to say
(30:54):
to my clients. I don't always do that anymore because
it just depends if someone says, oh my god, I
just got out of a relationship. Instead, if I'm so sorry,
I used to say congratulations, or I'm going through divorce, congratulations, right,
Because the point is is that something better is always
coming along. Are you willing to have the perspective that
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life is always working out for you? Right? And look
we all go through horrible situations. I've had a very
colorful life. I've had a lot of crazy things happen,
and at the end of the day, life always got
better because I knew it was an opportunity to shift.
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So for all of you out there that are stressed out,
you might want to ask what's the cause of the stress.
And I don't mean blaming it on your job or
blaming it on your partner. Start to go, Okay, I'm
stressed because I don't blame my job. Okay, I keep
saying I don't mind my job, which is causing more stress,
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which is causing more exhaustion, which is causing me to
be frustrated. It might be causing me to drink too
much at night, which might be causing me to not
sleep properly. Right, you could go down this laundry list
versus Wow, I'm not that happy in my job. But
what am I happy about? What part of this can
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I spin so that my perspective starts to take in
all of the positive things that are occurring. And yet
most of us, when something negative is in our world,
we laser being focused on it, and that causes stress inflammation, indigestion,
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for metabolism, lack of patience. Right, So I've been listening
to some books. I'm listening because I've recognized in my
personal life might be incredible listener in my work life,
but in my personal life not the best listener. And
so my friends say, oh, you're great, I'm like, no,
(33:04):
not really, because it could take more time to really
hear what's going on in people's worlds, right, instead of
thinking in my head what I can do to help. Right,
I'm a helper by nature. I want to gift, I
want to give, I want to contribute, but sometimes that
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can be a hindrance, which then causes me stress in
my body. And when I get stressed out, my body
hangs on to stuff, I clench my jaw. Right. And So,
for all of you out there that are looking to
change your life, two quickest ways you can do it
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is start a gratitude journal. Start to appreciate everything that's
actually in your life. Start to minimize the things that
you complain about, right, start to minimize blaming it on
something or someone else, And go, Okay, how can I
shift my perspective? Because it takes a shift, right for
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you to shift and so it's not about the outside
world changing, because you will never be happy if you
are dependent on the outside world changing. You'll never be
happy if it has to be you know, the right house,
the right partner, or the right political environment, the right
(34:34):
yoga teacher, the right like you navigate and find what
resonates and find a way to be happy and at
peace with where you're at today. And yes, we all
go through stressful situation. So my quickest fix for helping
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your parasympathetic nervousnes and forgetting you into relaxation. Did you
know that if you hold a put this pose, so
you basically put your hands behind your head where you're
hands are interlocked and right in the middle, right right
on that occiput bone, right where your vagus nerve is.
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If you just hold your pose for two minutes like
this right, you can kind of lean back, You can
open up the elbows, relax the shoulders. You can't even
close your eyes. So when I'm stressed out, I walk
around my house with my hands behind my head right.
And then the second piece that you can do, which
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is already starting it right.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Is to yawn while your hands are well hide your head,
because what that does is It releases trapped excuse me, see.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
How we started it. It releases trapped energy out of
your vegas nerves. So try it with me, right, Just
come get those hands behind the head. You can do
it laying down, you can do it walking around. You
just start to so you might start to notice that
you salivate in the mouth. That means your vagas note
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nerve is shifting. It's starting to calm down already. I
feel calmer, right, And then you add a yawn into it? Right?
Excuse me? You yet add a yawn into it? I'm like, oh,
I could take a nap right now. I believe that
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if the planets spent two minutes a day just doing this, right,
and if you salivate, if you yawn, your vagus nerve
will shift, right, so it yawn. Excuse me, if we
spent two minutes a day, I don't want to do
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it too much. Two minutes a day with our hands
behind our heads, and then you can release and just notice,
does it feel different? You feel calmer? Do you feel
more relaxed, more at ease? Right? And I notice that
when I do that, I'm like, oh, what can I appreciate?
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What can I be grateful for and just by doing that,
two minutes a day decreases the cortisol in your body
by sixty five percent. So if we had the planet
doing this for two minutes a day, we would probably
see a ginormous reduction in over the countermits. We would
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probably see a ginormous reduction in the diet industry's success,
right because people are going on diets while they're in
survival mode, while their cortisol levels are constant of yourself, buddy,
I've been there. Who hates their body, hates their weight.
It's constantly thinking a diet is going to fix it.
(38:07):
You're a chronic fight or flight twenty four to seven.
Your cortisol through the roof, inflammation through the roof, metabolism suppressed,
digestion suppressed, right, good gut microbiome, bacteria that helps your depression,
that helps your energy, that helps your skin, that helps
your mood suppressed two minutes a day would change the world.
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And so my friends want to invite you to just
go on a mission with me, not for me, not
with me or with me if you'd like, what if
you committed thirty days, sixty days, ninety days, two minutes
a day, lowering those cortisol levels, giving yourself a break,
finding ways to allow yourself to prioritize from the inside out,
(39:01):
piece and calm, prioritize your health, prioritize the good in
your life right. One day at a time, one moment
at a time, one energy at a time. So that's
all I have for you. So, if you are someone
who is looking on the web, what's wrong with you?
(39:22):
See if you can focus on reducing your stress right,
lowering your corsal two minutes a day can lower it
up to sixty five percent. And if the world was
less stressed, Wow, we all might make better decisions, We
all might have greater communication, greater connection. We all might
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not be so prone to look at our phone when
we get anxious or interrupt someone. And by the way,
in my personal life, pretty bad at interrupting people, work
life not so much so, my friends. One day at
a time, one moment time. What if you started prioritizing
your stress levels, your cortisol and see if instead of
(40:08):
calling the doctor, calling you know whoever, you just look
at What if you prioritize reducing your stress right, shifting
your perspective prioritizing your piece and calm and see what happens. Right.
And I'm not saying don't go to doctor if you're sick,
don't reach out to somebody for help if you need it.
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But what if you started something different. We've gotten into
the habit of quick fixing, and what if health was
a series of tiny, tiny, tiny, different choices that you
make over long periods of time that create the biggest
difference in your life. So if this episode today resonated
(40:56):
with you, if you like what you had to hear,
you can check out free resources on my website, but
particularly the Healing your Nervous System Right. It's a free
download and get it right away, go on to my
website katamackintosh dot com. Thank you all for being here,
one day at a time, one moment at a time,
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one cortisol drop at a time, and until next time,
thank you for being here.
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She has strong opinions and will express them and truly
believes that you are your best advocate for any and
every area of your life. If you need medical advice,
please consult your physician
Be bold, be brave, be extraordinary, be vulnerable, be real,
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Hello, my magical friends, Welcome to today's sevo my goot.
So today we are talking about the leading cause of inflammation,
which is going to lead us into a deeper conversation,
more in depth conversation about something I think is not
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talked about or a dressed enough and as a woman
of a certain age who has gone through perimenopause and menopause,
the cortisol right, So you know a lot of people
look at, oh, my diet is causing inflammation, or maybe
alcohol or tobacco or environmental toxins or everything else. But
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I actually believe that the leading cause of inflammation is stressed.
And when we are stressed, most people are living in
a chronic state of stress. And when stress is abundant,
we're in constant fight or flight. We are our cortisol
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levels are raised high. When cortisol is high, right, Cortisol
is sort of the survival hormone, right, So when cortisol
is high, you're like, let me flee, let me run
from every situation. And so imagine you're at the grocery
store and cortisol levels are high, and you get into
(02:25):
an altercation or just have a little exchange that feels
weird with someone. All of a sudden, what could just
have been, like you know, a stream moving around a rock,
all of a sudden becomes a blow up. And then
when that happens, your cortisol floods your body. It begins
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an adrenaline pump in your system, which can lead to
chronic fatigue, It can lead to exhaustion, it can lead
to feeling anxious, it can lead to depression. And so
you know, as an intuitive and as someone who works
with people all around the world, I hear stories every day.
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I've probably worked with over twenty thousand bodies in the
last twenty five years and the amount of people that
say I have depression, or I'm anxious, or i'm and
believe me, my I go through moments of chronic stress.
And currently I am in the middle of a move,
still staying in Aspens, is moving homes, bigger home or
(03:31):
probably hopefully we'll be there for a long time. And
it has been extremely stressful, and I've noticed that I've
been more amped, that the littlest thing sets me off,
that I'm not paying attention to the important conversations in
my life. Like I can pay attention and be a
(03:52):
great listener in my work life. When it comes to
my personal life, my friends, my son, my husban been
it is very challenging to be able to listen. And
I think I'm a good listener. But when I am
in survival mode, when that corsoal is raised and all
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of a sudden, my adrenaliness pumping and I don't even
know I'm in survival, I'm not able to function or
be as present in my life. And so what does
this have to do with inflammation, Well, inflammation is a
cause of many diseases and illnesses in the body. When
there's inflammation in the brain, it can be dangerous, right,
(04:38):
That's what concussions are. That's what you know when football
players have what's that movie with Will Smith? Maybe it's
called concussion, but there's you know. It can cause behavioral disorders.
It can cause anxiety, it can cause depression, it can
cause irrational thought process and so inflammation stress. I believe
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this is just my personal opinion. I'm not a doctor,
I'm not a certified nutritionist, I'm not a certified psychologist, right.
I do have a background in many different things, with
psychology being one of them. But I believe that the
leading cause of inflammation is stressed. And why is this
conversation important? Because when you're stressed and your body is inflamed,
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your body cannot heal, you cannot think rationally. It affects
your finances, it affects your relationships, it affects all these
different things. And so what do we do about it?
We start to recognize that one of the most important
things in our health journey, in our life journey, and
(05:52):
our wealth journey, in our relationship's journey is to come together, right,
to allow yourself to rest, to align with where you are,
and sometimes where you are is stressed, right, these last
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two weeks, I have been extremely stressed out. It's no joke,
packing and moving and we've had to do it twice.
A long story that I won't go and get into.
But I found myself going, oh my god, I'm looking
in the mirror. I didn't even recognize myself, like looking
older right, feeling more fatigued, feeling like I'm ready to pop.
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And I'm normally pretty centered. I can handle a lot
of stress usually, but these last few weeks, like last
probably six weeks, I have not been at my best.
And so what does that mean? It means that when
the body's inflamed, when the brain is inflamed, you're not
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necessarily present, not really thinking logically. And when you're not,
it's harder to rest, it's harder to sleep, it's harder
to think clearly right. And then that inflammation over time,
so cortisol levels raised over time because you're in fire
or flight, inflammation stays raised. All of a sudden, your
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metabolism shifts. You're not able to process. You might hang
on to, you know, water weight, your digestion can't process,
your heart doesn't work as well. Things start to constrict
and contract, and when we adrenaline pump. Over time, it
(07:42):
can create severe exhaustion, which is also what any of
the chronic fatigue disorders can be. And so what what
are we going to do about it? Right? So my
invitation to all of you who are dealing with inflammation
and your doctor says cut out almonds or cut out
(08:03):
butter or cut out dairy. Yes, that may be helpful,
but underlying most of our physical ailments, most of our stress,
or most of the problems that we're encountering in our
body is stressed. And so how do you mitigate stress?
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You learn to do things that calm your parasympathetic nervous
system down. And so you want to get an environment
that feels safe. You want to create a bedroom that
you like sleeping in. You want to avoid, you know,
having your door if you have a bathroom in your bedroom,
you want to avoid having the toilet door open to
(08:49):
where you're sleeping. You want to take time to take baths,
listen to music, meditate. Right my face writ two things
a lot of people are now coming out with, you know,
vagus nerve exercises or even vagus nerve apparatuses that help
calm the vagus nerve and So the vagus nerve is
(09:13):
this nerve, it's the longest nerve in the body that
starts right on the other side of the occiput and
the occiput right. It used to be a hairdresser to
study that. The occiput is this bone that sticks out
in the back of the head. So if you run
your finger along that inner ridge in your neck, right,
(09:34):
and you run it and it kind of has an
indentation and it comes out and there's a little bone.
That bone is called the occiput, right, And on the
other side of the occiput is the vagus nerve. Now,
the vagus nerve is one of the longest nerves in
the body, right, And I believe that from the energy
of the vagus nerve to the energy of the tailbone right,
(09:57):
is basically what runs your a sympathetic nervous system. And
so when the parasympathetic nervous system is regulated, you are
breathing better, you're more present, you're less stressed, you're feeling
more abundant or grateful or appreciating what's in your life.
(10:18):
It's hard to appreciate what's in your life when you're
stressed out because stress is a survival instinct, right, And
long periods of stress over time without the interruption of
a relaxation, without the interruption of dancing or laughing or
(10:39):
you know, time with your friends or playing can be
extremely disruptive to your health, but also can be extremely
disruptive to your brain. Right. And so it's interesting lately
I've been recognizing things that I thought that I had
healed from my pass asked from my childhood, from my trauma.
(11:02):
As I'm moving, I've had some old stuff raised to
the surface. And the minute it does, it's like out
the window. Catherine is not present, at least not my
personal life, in my work life, yes, personal life, right,
(11:23):
And so what do we do about it? We recognize
the importance of rest, and I'm not just talking about
going to sleep, although sleep is a great way to
reset your energy, to realign, to let go. That's why
you know, sometimes hibernating in the wintertime, right. I live
(11:46):
in Aspen, and bears can be out before the snow comes,
and when that happens, they can get aggressive when they're hungry. Why,
because they're in survived. If they want food, they're hungry, right.
And then in the wintertime they disappear and they sleep
(12:07):
and they rest, And so I believe that we all
need some season of hibernating, of sleeping, more, of maybe
staying inside, more less social. It doesn't mean you have
to do it. It's just an invitation to recognize it.
If you are constantly feeling off, if you have hated
(12:29):
your job for three or four years, if you are
in a stressful relationship for long periods of time, it
can really tax your energy levels. It can tax your
physical body, which means you're more prone to getting sick.
It means that your immune system can be compromised. And
(12:49):
so I think that if we were to have a
conversation on the planet about what's the one thing that
you can do that will drastically change your health right,
and we're talking mental health, physical health, energetic health, relationship health,
(13:10):
wealth health, right, financial health. The one thing that can
dramatically shift your health is mitigating stress. And the way
that I know the fastest way to mitigate stress is
to begin to do things that regulate your parasympathetic nervous system.
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Sematic exercises. I have a few. I have a free
download on my website where you can download some sematic exercises,
a PDF that will walk you through. It's all free, right,
because we're not taught to navigate our parasympathetic nervous system,
We're not taught to energize our health. Most of us
(13:56):
are taught, especially in this culture, and all cultures in
the world, except for maybe Native American cultures, Shamanic cultures,
you know, some cultures in Africa where they primarily are
naturally based and they work with the land, and they
live on the land, and they live by sunset sunrise. Right.
(14:20):
And so when we get in the day and age
where it's ten seconds short attention spans, where it's swiping
left or right, where it's you know, scrolling through Instagram
or TikTok or Facebook stories or YouTube stories, our tension
spans have gotten so short circuited that we're less apt
(14:42):
to be present in our lives. We're less apt to
be present in our relationships. And so you see it
all the time at dinner parties or out at restaurants.
I've gotten in the habit of put the phone away, right,
put the phone away. And I used to be on
social media all the time for my business, and lately
I'm like, you know what, last year and a half.
(15:04):
It's like, it doesn't really serve my energy to be
always doing that. Once in a while, I do it,
but it's better to live by the nature, to prioritize
health instead of prioritizing defending against disease two very different things.
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You can defend against disease like you defend in an argument,
which is exhausting, or you can be on the offensive
of it right the offense. You can be proactive and
you can prioritize health. I saw something on Instagram the
other day. In my scrolling, which it now lasts about
(15:50):
two to three minutes, it used to last hours. I
would get very distracted. Now it's like, no, it doesn't
really serve me right now, it's not good for my health.
But I saw this. It said, you know, the fastest
way to mitigate darkness is to let the light in.
And I believe it's a metaphor for almost everything in
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our lives. If we are proactive, if we are prioritizing health,
for prioritizing light, if we're prioritizing like being a high vibration,
if we're prioritizing alignment, if we're prioritizing peace and calm,
if we're prioritizing appreciation and gratitude right, those things will
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add to and help you cultivate your health, Strengthen your health,
strengthen your wealth, strengthen your communications, strength in your relationships,
far faster than trying to go into the defensive to
try to get rid of right. And so it's interesting
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as somebody who helps people, you know, bring in the light,
let go of the dark. I used to back in
the day only focus on what needed to be fixed right,
kind of like a doctor, but not a doctor. Don't worry.
And now I like focusing on what can we energize today?
(17:24):
What can we focus on? So one of the questions
that I like to ask myself on a daily basis
is what do I want to energize today? And a
lot of times when I'm answering that, or I'm looking
at the possibility of that, it's like, Wow, I want
to energize gratitude. I want to energize appreciation. I want
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to energize the wealth and abundance that already exists in
my world. I want to energize joy. I want to
energize play. I want to energize laughter. Very rarely would
we ever say, oh, let's energize disease, right, Let's energize darkness,
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Let's energize anger or frustration, right, all things that lead
to stress, which leads to prolonged corzo levels being raised,
which leads to fight or flight, which then leads to
your immune system being compromised, your metabolism being compromised, your
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digestion being compromised. I know I talk about this a lot,
but I really do believe that if we were to
have a different conversation with our children about what is healthy,
we may include in that conversation spinach and greens and smoothies.
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But we notice that the conversation a lot of times
is like, don't eat so much candy, don't eat so
much chuck food, sodas are bad for you. We're looking
at the negative of what to eliminate instead of the
positive and what to add, what to energize, what to
focus on. And if we were to broaden this conversation
(19:12):
to the health of our children, then maybe we'll want
to start conversations about listening. Maybe, Like this week, I
had parent teacher conferences with my son and his father
and myself and his father and I were like, looks
like it's time to set some boundaries, to take the
cell phone away, to only allow it at certain time periods,
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because we noticed that our son wasn't as present right,
He wasn't listening to his teacher, He was extremely distracted.
He was terrible at answering the questions that were asked
of him, and he couldn't even hear them. And I
think that in today's day and age, with cell phones
being delivered at such a young age, I don't even
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know when I had a cell phone. I want to
say twenty eight, twenty nine, twenty seven somewhere in there,
you know. And now they're getting them at five, six, seven,
eight years old, and then they're used to just that
quick attention span, quick attention span, quick attention span. And
(20:19):
if we're being asked to be an energy that is
quick attention span, that is cortisol raising, stress producing, it
can be exhausting and it can lead to so much more.
So I really want to invite anyone listening that if
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you are looking at your diet as the primary source
of inflammation, what if you start looking at all the
areas that are causing stress in your life, and so
you may not be able to leave your job currently
because that would create more stress, financial stress. But what
can you add or focus on or energize. So if
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you are in a work situation that you are not
in love with, maybe you put on in an earbud
and you listen to podcasts or things that inspire, motivate you,
things that energize you, things that get you thinking about
all the positive things. Because when we focus on the
(21:24):
negative stress, corsal and cortisol one of the leading causes
of not being able to lose weight, especially when women
hit menopause right and the amount of suffering that can happen.
And so I don't know if men truly comprehend how
(21:50):
life transforming it can be through menopause. And what I
mean by that is who I was five years ago
is not who I am today. And that's not a thing,
but it's like I still am having to reform who
I am, how I function because what used to work
in my world doesn't work my attention span. I am
(22:12):
more prone to when I get stressed, to having a
harder time being able to mitigate it unless right. Somatic
exercise is one of my favorite things to do, and
I teach a class live and Aspen three days a
week at a studio and Aspen. And so it's like
(22:34):
we want to begin to prioritize regulating our health from
an energetic perspective, from the idea that stress could be
the leading cause of most disease. I remember, not a doctor,
not a trained psychologist, not a nutritionist, not any of
(22:54):
those things. I just have worked with over twenty thousand
bodies in the last twenty five years, and I've seen
patterns that fascinate me. And I'm always looking at how
can we do better in the world, on the planet
as a whole to support each other's growth and brilliance
(23:17):
and health. So stay tuned. We'll be back for a
little bit more. If you have any questions about it
and you want to call in live, you are welcome
to call in live into the show. I don't have
the number, and I'm on my phone today because Catherine,
who's moving, got a little stressed out this morning and
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forgot my computer. So but we adore you stay tuned.
We'll be back after the break talking a little bit
more about this.
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are back and we are talking about the leading cause
of information, which isn't omens, it's not dairy, it's not
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you know, meats, it's it's stress. And so I wanted
to talk a little bit and dive a little bit
deeper about the leading cause of stress. Here's what I'm
going to say, and you can see if it resonates
with you or not. Is I believe stress is caused
not by what happens to us, but our perspective. Right.
(27:05):
Stress is thinking we're not happy, and we're not happy
if we're like, oh, we don't have enough money, or
we don't have enough this, or we don't don't have
the giant house, or I don't have enough friends. Right.
Stress is thinking that you are unhappy versus appreciating what
(27:28):
is in your life right, appreciating what you can do now,
because when you begin to shift. So I believe leading
cause of stress is your perspective on your life. And
if you're not happy with your life, it's not about
shifting your life that although that might happen, but you
(27:52):
might not be able to shift it overnight. You might
not be able to get a new job in twenty
four hours. You might not be able to move look patients.
You might not be able to change cities. You might
not be able to get out of your relationship or
shift a relationship. There might be circumstances why you can't
change your life in this moment. But guess what you
(28:13):
can change. You can change your perspective. You can change
your feelings. So when you do not feel happy or
good about your life, or good about your job, or
good about your relationship, it's not about pointing a finger
at that thing that needs to change. It's about going
inside and seeing what part of your perspective. Can you shift, right, So,
(28:42):
let me give you an example, right, this is actually
a real time example.
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Recently so signed the lease and actually was offered through
my partner a better place to live. And so so
we had to get out of the lease, right, And
so we could have gotten stressed out about it. We
could have gotten upset about it. We could have had
(29:08):
the landlord get upset about it. And I said to
the landlord, I said, look, I know this is an ideal,
but here's what we're going to do. We're going to
take care of everything for you. And I'd like to
offer you gift you a session, and right, we're going
to have free maintenance for your and and so we're talking,
(29:29):
and I said, you know, it's interesting that most of
us are not good at receiving unless we get into
a pickle or a bind, and most of us will
create a conflict or a problem or something not going
our way in order to receive. So, whether that's receiving kindness,
(29:52):
receiving a helping hand. But I've needed a lot of
help in this move, and so needed to receive a
lot of help, right, And I'm not good at asking
for help. But the point being is that this perspective
that could have been, oh my god, this is a
(30:12):
terrible thing. We have to break the lease. The landlord saying,
oh my god, this is a terrible thing. You're breaking
the lease. I'm going to charge you for all twelve months. Right,
that didn't happen because we all were willing to shift
our perspective, and then all of a sudden, the landlord
was calling, being like, oh my god, this is the
best thing that's ever happened.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Right.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
The new tenant is amazic. They get along. It's just
so you never know why something is happening, right, But
more often than not, it's occurring to bring you something greater.
And yet most of us go, oh my god, but
you're worse than that happened. So I used to say
(30:54):
to my clients. I don't always do that anymore because
it just depends if someone says, oh my god, I
just got out of a relationship. Instead, if I'm so sorry,
I used to say congratulations, or I'm going through divorce, congratulations, right,
Because the point is is that something better is always
coming along. Are you willing to have the perspective that
(31:19):
life is always working out for you? Right? And look
we all go through horrible situations. I've had a very
colorful life. I've had a lot of crazy things happen,
and at the end of the day, life always got
better because I knew it was an opportunity to shift.
(31:40):
So for all of you out there that are stressed out,
you might want to ask what's the cause of the stress.
And I don't mean blaming it on your job or
blaming it on your partner. Start to go, Okay, I'm
stressed because I don't blame my job. Okay, I keep
saying I don't mind my job, which is causing more stress,
(32:00):
which is causing more exhaustion, which is causing me to
be frustrated. It might be causing me to drink too
much at night, which might be causing me to not
sleep properly. Right, you could go down this laundry list
versus Wow, I'm not that happy in my job. But
what am I happy about? What part of this can
(32:21):
I spin so that my perspective starts to take in
all of the positive things that are occurring. And yet
most of us, when something negative is in our world,
we laser being focused on it, and that causes stress inflammation, indigestion,
(32:42):
for metabolism, lack of patience. Right, So I've been listening
to some books. I'm listening because I've recognized in my
personal life might be incredible listener in my work life,
but in my personal life not the best listener. And
so my friends say, oh, you're great, I'm like, no,
(33:04):
not really, because it could take more time to really
hear what's going on in people's worlds, right, instead of
thinking in my head what I can do to help. Right,
I'm a helper by nature. I want to gift, I
want to give, I want to contribute, but sometimes that
(33:26):
can be a hindrance, which then causes me stress in
my body. And when I get stressed out, my body
hangs on to stuff, I clench my jaw. Right. And So,
for all of you out there that are looking to
change your life, two quickest ways you can do it
(33:47):
is start a gratitude journal. Start to appreciate everything that's
actually in your life. Start to minimize the things that
you complain about, right, start to minimize blaming it on
something or someone else, And go, Okay, how can I
shift my perspective? Because it takes a shift, right for
(34:10):
you to shift and so it's not about the outside
world changing, because you will never be happy if you
are dependent on the outside world changing. You'll never be
happy if it has to be you know, the right house,
the right partner, or the right political environment, the right
(34:34):
yoga teacher, the right like you navigate and find what
resonates and find a way to be happy and at
peace with where you're at today. And yes, we all
go through stressful situation. So my quickest fix for helping
(34:57):
your parasympathetic nervousnes and forgetting you into relaxation. Did you
know that if you hold a put this pose, so
you basically put your hands behind your head where you're
hands are interlocked and right in the middle, right right
on that occiput bone, right where your vagus nerve is.
(35:17):
If you just hold your pose for two minutes like
this right, you can kind of lean back, You can
open up the elbows, relax the shoulders. You can't even
close your eyes. So when I'm stressed out, I walk
around my house with my hands behind my head right.
And then the second piece that you can do, which
(35:39):
is already starting it right.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
Is to yawn while your hands are well hide your head,
because what that does is It releases trapped excuse me, see.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
How we started it. It releases trapped energy out of
your vegas nerves. So try it with me, right, Just
come get those hands behind the head. You can do
it laying down, you can do it walking around. You
just start to so you might start to notice that
you salivate in the mouth. That means your vagas note
(36:17):
nerve is shifting. It's starting to calm down already. I
feel calmer, right, And then you add a yawn into it? Right?
Excuse me? You yet add a yawn into it? I'm like, oh,
I could take a nap right now. I believe that
(36:40):
if the planets spent two minutes a day just doing this, right,
and if you salivate, if you yawn, your vagus nerve
will shift, right, so it yawn. Excuse me, if we
spent two minutes a day, I don't want to do
(37:01):
it too much. Two minutes a day with our hands
behind our heads, and then you can release and just notice,
does it feel different? You feel calmer? Do you feel
more relaxed, more at ease? Right? And I notice that
when I do that, I'm like, oh, what can I appreciate?
(37:22):
What can I be grateful for and just by doing that,
two minutes a day decreases the cortisol in your body
by sixty five percent. So if we had the planet
doing this for two minutes a day, we would probably
see a ginormous reduction in over the countermits. We would
(37:45):
probably see a ginormous reduction in the diet industry's success,
right because people are going on diets while they're in
survival mode, while their cortisol levels are constant of yourself, buddy,
I've been there. Who hates their body, hates their weight.
It's constantly thinking a diet is going to fix it.
(38:07):
You're a chronic fight or flight twenty four to seven.
Your cortisol through the roof, inflammation through the roof, metabolism suppressed,
digestion suppressed, right, good gut microbiome, bacteria that helps your depression,
that helps your energy, that helps your skin, that helps
your mood suppressed two minutes a day would change the world.
(38:33):
And so my friends want to invite you to just
go on a mission with me, not for me, not
with me or with me if you'd like, what if
you committed thirty days, sixty days, ninety days, two minutes
a day, lowering those cortisol levels, giving yourself a break,
finding ways to allow yourself to prioritize from the inside out,
(39:01):
piece and calm, prioritize your health, prioritize the good in
your life right. One day at a time, one moment
at a time, one energy at a time. So that's
all I have for you. So, if you are someone
who is looking on the web, what's wrong with you?
(39:22):
See if you can focus on reducing your stress right,
lowering your corsal two minutes a day can lower it
up to sixty five percent. And if the world was
less stressed, Wow, we all might make better decisions, We
all might have greater communication, greater connection. We all might
(39:45):
not be so prone to look at our phone when
we get anxious or interrupt someone. And by the way,
in my personal life, pretty bad at interrupting people, work
life not so much so, my friends. One day at
a time, one moment time. What if you started prioritizing
your stress levels, your cortisol and see if instead of
(40:08):
calling the doctor, calling you know whoever, you just look
at What if you prioritize reducing your stress right, shifting
your perspective prioritizing your piece and calm and see what happens. Right.
And I'm not saying don't go to doctor if you're sick,
don't reach out to somebody for help if you need it.
(40:32):
But what if you started something different. We've gotten into
the habit of quick fixing, and what if health was
a series of tiny, tiny, tiny, different choices that you
make over long periods of time that create the biggest
difference in your life. So if this episode today resonated
(40:56):
with you, if you like what you had to hear,
you can check out free resources on my website, but
particularly the Healing your Nervous System Right. It's a free
download and get it right away, go on to my
website katamackintosh dot com. Thank you all for being here,
one day at a time, one moment at a time,
(41:17):
one cortisol drop at a time, and until next time,
thank you for being here.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
Catherine is not a medical practitioner nor a licensed therapist.
She has strong opinions and will express them and truly
believes that you are your best advocate for any and
every area of your life. If you need medical advice,
please consult your physician
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