Why Healing Your Nervous System is the Foundation to Repairing Your Body and Life!

Air Date - 28 August 2024

The other day I saw a woman I hadn’t seen in over 6 months and she barely recognized me – she asked if I was on ozempic and I laughed.

For the last year and a half, I stopped rigorous exercise, I started eating mostly plant-based although in the last month started eating meat and animal fats again. I slept more, rested more, walked occasionally and things in my life started to shift dramatically.

I lost over 15 pounds, my business built itself, my friendships & relationships in general improved, I had a sense of peace and calm, and I realized that I had found a way to release the fight or flight in my system, naturally lower cortisol, and have much fewer stress responses in my daily life.

I started using the methods I discovered with my clients and things in every area of my life dramatically improved.

When we take the time to regulate our nervous system and prioritize peace and calm, we can dramatically change our lives.

Come listen to how this episode may help you have better sleep, improved mental health, less stress, and an overall sense of preach and calm!

You can get a free download on my website for healing your nervous system.

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Episode Transcript

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

(00:41):
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 (00:55):
All right, I'm a magical friend, so welcome to today's episode.
I'm so excited to be here, as I am every
week that we get to share time and space together.
And you know, today's topic is a topic that's near
and dear to my heart because what I'm going to
talk about literally change the course of my life. And

(01:16):
you know, I'm kind of an extreme person, and I
have had a lot of moments in the course of
my journey thus far of moments that changed my life. Right,
some of those moments changed my life not for the better.
Some of those moments changed my life for the better.

(01:37):
And so a couple of years ago, as I was
deep in perimenopause, kind of transitioning into menopause, my body
completely broke down. And I've been working with the energy
of the body for over twenty years, really since I
was fifteen, if I look at it, so over thirty years. Yes,

(01:57):
I'm that old. And I've always known that there was
some magic to the body. So when I was a
little girl, my mother used to complain about her back pains,
and she loved laying on the floor and I would
walk on her back right and then she started to
be like, oh, can you heal my shoulder? And I

(02:19):
would look at her body, and I was young, like six, seven,
eight years old, and I would press in a point
that wasn't related to where her pain was, but then
the pain would release, and she'd like look behind her
and be like, what did you just do? And I
was like, no, is it better? She's like, yeah, I
feel better. And so I've always known that when we

(02:45):
use the body as a way to change what's stuck.
Because the physical body holds trauma, it holds memories, it
holds pain, it holds fear, it holds suffering, we also
can hold joy. We just don't always pay attention to
the lighter energies that are in our body. But the

(03:08):
truth is that in our cores, who we are as
a being, as a body, as a spirit is light. Right.
We just, through the course of our lives come up with,
you know, survival mechanisms. We come up with ways to
make ourselves safe because maybe we didn't feel safe in childhood,
even if we had a good childhood. But most people

(03:32):
that I encounter you have some pretty pretty intense trauma
in their world. So that happened either early on in
their life, you know, midlife, or even later on in life.
And then those traumas tend to get stuck in the body,
and when we work with the body to release it,

(03:54):
that's where the healing can happen. Now, I've been doing
energy work and working with clients all over the world
for over twenty years, and in the last few years
my work has shifted dramatically by focusing on this one
thing that we're going to talk about today. And so

(04:16):
a few years ago, when I was struggling, or a
couple of years ago, I was struggling with bery men
of bause with symptoms, I gained a bunch of weight.
I was lethargic. There's no reason for my waking because
I was exercising, I was doing all the things I'd
done before. But I went, I can't do this anymore right.
I started to get depressed. I started have anxiety, and

(04:37):
that is not me, because I am I look at
the bright side of life and everything. Despite my life circumstances.
I didn't have the easiest childhood. I didn't have the
easiest time in my twenties, I didn't have the easiest
time in my thirties. But somehow I always found a
way to create magic, to believe in the best in everything,

(05:01):
to believe in the power of manifesting, to believe in
the power that we have to radically transform our lives
and radically heal any dysfunction or disease that's in the body.
And so a couple of years ago, when I was struggling,

(05:21):
nothing was working that I tried, and I kind of
tried everything, spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to
figure out what was wrong with me. And when I
started accidentally I went back to my somatic roots, so
sematic psychology, and in that in that time that I

(05:43):
was in grad school studying sematic psychology, and sematic psychology
soma is the Latin root word for body, so it's
basically the psychology of the body. And I was fascinated
by how emotions, how lifetime traumas can get stuck in
our bodies. And so we may be going to therapy,

(06:05):
we may be seeing a healer, we may be trying
all these different things, but if we don't change it
on a cellular level in the physical body will continue
repeating the same patterns, will continue to feel stuck in
certain areas of our lives. And you know, I've been
working with a ton of people, doing a lot of

(06:27):
sessions every day, and like every session, I'm just like,
oh my god, this stuff still works. I'm amazed. And
people that can feel it instantaneously. So when you touch
a part of the body that's tense or sore or
in pain or feeling stuck, and you just kind of
like start to be curious about what's there, the body

(06:52):
can release. And so when I went back to my
somatic psychology roots, I remember all of the movements that
we would do in grad school. So our grad school
was a I went to Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado,
and what and when I was there, we you know,

(07:16):
it was a contemplative university. So we started every class
in meditation would quiet, the mind would get curious. We'd
start to ask the body questions and then we would
do these movements. We also did one on one therapy,
and I found them one on one therapy got me stuck.
But it was the movements that started to awaken. And
so all of a sudden, I was like, I'm going

(07:38):
to go back to these sematic movements. And the more
I did them, the better I started feeling. The more
my anxiety lifted, my depression lifted, my hormones rebalanced, And
next thing you know, I'm like three months into doing
these movements three to four times a day or mean

(07:59):
a week, sometimes five times a week, and it was
five or ten minutes a day, super easy. Anyone can
spend five or ten minutes changing their life, right, And
what happened around the four month period is, all of
a sudden, the weight totally started to come off quickly.
Within thirty days, I'd lost fifteen pounds without trying, without exercising,

(08:20):
without efforting. You know, I changed my diet to plant
based because I wanted to see if I removed sort
of the animal hormones I was ingesting, if that would
change my hormones, and if I just ate plants for
the most part right, plant based foods. And what happened

(08:43):
was quite incredible, And people started commenting, what are you doing,
Oh my god, you must be working out really hard,
and I'm like, no, actually, I'm doing the exact opposite
I spent my whole life doing. And what was actually
occurring on a scientific, on a psychological, and on a

(09:03):
physiological level, is that these somatic movements, these somatic exercises,
we're actually healing the parasympathetic nervous system. And I will
tell you a year and a half in maybe I'm
almost going on close to two years, the shifts that

(09:25):
I'm seeing not just in my life, but I now
teach these classes and we'll be in the future sort
of creating an online program, hopefully live streaming the classes
that they teach live and aspen and really being able
to when we recalibrate our parasympathetic nervous system, which is

(09:48):
designed to relax, designed to create a sense of calm,
but when we're not calm, so when we have stuck
traumas in our body. Right when we have pts, when
we have memories that trigger us pretty dramatically, right, those

(10:08):
memories get stuck and then the parasympathetic nervous system starts
to not fire in a calm and peaceful way. It
starts to sort of alert the entire system that it's
in fireflight. And what I realized is that most people,
without even realizing it, are functioning from fight or flight.

(10:33):
And so if you look at psychology and in relationships,
you look at the attachment theory, right, so secure attachment,
insecure attachment, you avoidant attachment, all of these attachment theories.
They're all great to figure out our way of functioning
in the world. But I believe that if we are

(10:59):
if we can find in a way to regulate the
nervous system, and there's other ways to do it besides
just right somatic exercises. I've just found that sematic exercises
are a huge benefit. They're really simple. You don't work out.
I mean it's a workout, but not a workout at all.
What you're doing in these movements is you're giving the

(11:21):
body as your nervous system is comming down the body
can then release years of trapped stress, trapped trauma, trapped PTSD,
trapped like everything under the sun. And so I want
to invite each of you to sort of imagine what
it would be like if you could function in your

(11:44):
day and you weren't so quick to go to stress,
if you could function in your day and you knew
that if you relaxed more, you would create more. And
so when we begin to do these somatic exercise is
they begin to calm the entire system down, the entire

(12:08):
system down, right. And when you calm the entire system down,
you can stop a lifetime of patterns that you adapted
and adopted in order to survive, whether it was your
childhood or trauma or a war zone, or you know,

(12:28):
bad relationship after bad relationship, right, which then creates the
insecure or the avoidant attachment.

Speaker 1 (12:36):
Right.

Speaker 3 (12:36):
There's so many things to this. And when you prioritize rest,
when you prioritize peace, when you prioritize rewiring the nervous
system so it can do what it's meant to do,
which is to relax. And when it's relaxed, the liver
and spleen work better. You detox the body better, you're

(13:00):
not as quick to react, right, But look, all of
us have triggers. All of us have triggers, right, and
we go into those triggers and we do the best
we can. But the way to stop a trigger is
to remove the root of the trigger and the bodies

(13:23):
the body no longer overreacts to the knee jerk reaction.
And I've talked about this in a lot of different ways.
We all can't necessarily prevent ourselves from feeling fear, from
being scared from you know, judgment. We can't necessarily stop

(13:47):
ourselves from getting triggered. But what we can do is
to respond and react differently to the initial react. And
I believe that's where the magic is. There's so many
people trying to get rid of their traumas instead of

(14:08):
trying to change their relationship to their traumas, because we
all have trauma, and it could be very minor trauma,
it could be very very big trauma. But the point
is is that we do. And so I believe that
most of us, in our sort of lifelong patterns, we've

(14:32):
been reciprocating or kind of replicating these patterns over time,
just out of a habit of survival right. And in
that patterning right is where we get stuck. Is where
the nervous system rewires to survival right. And then we're

(14:53):
stuck in this wiring of survival, not recognizing that we
could have a totally different choice. And so these patterns
get stuck in the muscles, they get stuck in the organs.
So in the liver and spleen particular, a lot of
people have a lot of stuff stuck in their kidneys.
They start to protect their heart instead of let the
heart right. So when we recognize that the heart is

(15:17):
meant to expand and contract, so as it expands, it
sort of lets the good in. As it contracts, it
protects right. And then as it squeezes, because it can
expand and contract simultaneously, then that expansion and contraction simultaneously

(15:38):
can expel right trapped stuff out of the body. The
body was meant and we were all meant to be
like to contribute to others, to really just shine in
the best way we can in Over time, right, we

(16:03):
stop shining, We start trying to fit in. We start
trying to please other people. Right people. Pleasing is a
huge thing, and I have a course on it. Then
it might have to remain because nobody wants a course
about people pleasing, but everyone wants a course about lighting
your life up right, having the life of your dreams.

(16:25):
But most people don't believe it's possible because the trauma
in their body is telling them that they're still in
survival mode. And I think that life's too short. I
think that we're living in crazy times and so much

(16:45):
is occurring all around. But if each of us had
the chance to really live lit up. It's not about
the dollars in the bank account, although that's fun and
creates more. Right, It's not about the ideal relationship. It's
about a relationship in which you have connection and protection. Right.

(17:09):
It's about expanding your world to allow yourself to feel
safe enough to let your light shine. Right. And so
here's the coolest thing. And I was teaching class yesterday.
I was talking to class about I was like, you know,

(17:31):
most people think that inflammation in the body comes from food,
or comes from alcohol, or comes from environmental toxins. And
I personally, now, remember I'm not a doctor, right, I'm
not a licensed licensed psychologist, although I did have training

(17:55):
in it. I believe that the number one cause of
inflammation in the body is stress. And when people are
stressed out, their lymph nodes get taxed, their thyroid gets taxed, right,
their thymus sort of doesn't do its job. The thymus,

(18:17):
which is the sort of biggest surfaced area on the chest,
is one of the biggest areas of our intuition. Most
people refer to either the third eye or our gut, right,
trusting your gut, which is why this radio show is
called that. Most people refer to that. But this thymus
is not just an intuitive monitor. It's also an energy regulator.

(18:43):
And so when we you know, I have all my
clients kind of tap their heart cupped hands or not
flat because that's a different sound. You want to do
cupped because it starts to open. And you'll do this
and you'll start to feel, oh, something's happening in the
case these Oh maybe it's relaxing the hip flexers, right,

(19:04):
Maybe it's allowing more blood flow to move through the body.
And so when we do these somatic exercises, what we're
effectively doing is we're releasing trapped trauma out of the body.
And when you release trap trauma out of the body,
guess what the nervous system goes. And when the nervous

(19:26):
system is relaxed, metabolism improves, digestion improves, intuition improves, clarity improves, right,
you start to have more energy. There's all these incredible
benefits that can occur when you begin to focus not

(19:47):
on what are you eating, not on losing weight, not
on you know, all the things that you try to
work hard to do, because that just keeps the nervous
system right tax And when the nervous system's taxed, you might,
you know, your body might present in an autoimmune deficiency.
You might feel like you know, you're depressed or lethargic,

(20:12):
or you have prone to anxiety, prone to panic attacks,
all these things. And the quickest fix is to focus
on changing the vibration of your parasympathetic nervous system. There's
vagus nerve exercises, there's somatic exercises, there's meditations. You know what.

(20:35):
One of the quickest ways to decrease it is to
hug atry, to take your bare feet and put them
in the grass, or to lay you know, my son,
as a kid, almost on a daily basis, would go
outside and just lay down in the grass, somewhere and
he would just look up at the sky, close his
eyes and I was like, Wow, this kid is this

(20:57):
kid is different. He's very where. And so I believe
that in this process of healing, whatever it is that
you're working on healing amazing, keep going. Do whatever you
can do that works for you, that makes you feel alive.

(21:18):
You want to check in with yourself and look at
is what you're doing expanding your energy. So when you
walk out of the therapy office, are you expanded, are
you encouraged, do you feel inspired? Or are you feeling depressed?
That I was in therapy right from the age of
thirteen pretty much regularly until the age of thirty, and

(21:45):
when I did my sematic psychology underg Masters, I was like,
I'm actually getting more depressed going to therapy because I'm
talking about it, but I'm not letting it come out
of the body. I'm not letting it really lease out
of the tissues. Right. It really messed me up and
I kind of went, I need to go find another

(22:06):
way because this therapy thing isn't working. And so I
started on this journey of really connecting back to my
sort of intuitive roots, back to my body roots. Because
I loved to dance. I loved dancing was a huge
healing thing. So we'll talk a little bit more about

(22:28):
some of the things that you can do to begin
to heal your nervous system. And the best part about this,
right is that you don't have to work hard. This
is about getting you in a relaxed state where it
actually is easier than you ever imagine. I'm living proof.

(22:51):
I'm watching people that are coming regularly to my class.
They're dropping weight, They're, you know, changing their relationships, They're
feeling more fulfilled in every area of their life. It's
quite incredible, and the best part is it's so easy.
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We're talking about why sematic exercises, why somatic movements are,
and why actually healing your nervous system is the foundation

(26:14):
for not just changing your body, but changing your life.
And you know, so many of us are running around
to doctors, to therapists, to you know, whatever it is,
to try and get answers. Sometimes the quickest answer is
to recognize that you might be in a holding pattern,

(26:35):
a fight or flight or PTSD or phone or freeze, right,
that is actually keeping your body in survival. And when
your body's in survival, it can't rest. So sleep gets challenging, right,
Metabolizing food gets challenging. Dealing with loud noises gets challenging.
Being able to navigate conflict and a healthy way gets challenging. Right.

(27:01):
Being worried about money all the time challenging. And yet
I believe that if we can entrain our bodies to
naturally do what they're meant to do, which is to
heal themselves. But they can't heal themselves if you're in
fight or flight. So we're going to be able to

(27:23):
talk about some of the things that you can do, right,
to be able to sort of regulate that nervous system
and hopefully start to feel right that there is light

(27:46):
at the end of the tunnel, because the truth is,
we all deserve a happy life. We deserve a lit
up life. We deserve not just to survive, but to thrive,
to act, to create, to enjoy, to bask in and
to celebrate. Right. But let's be honest, life isn't always easy, right,

(28:14):
And you know, there's a lot of things going on
in a lot of parts of the world, and you know,
like we just have to, one day at a time
do our best. But I think that if we focus
on regulating the nervous system, on getting this trauma out

(28:34):
of the body, not just out of the head, right,
because the more we use our heads, the more it
still is stuck in our body as a memory. And
so I used to explain to people and I still do, Right,
I have a new explanation. So if my you know,
when I had a five year old, he's now eleven,
and you now at eleven. He takes his you know, sticky,

(28:55):
dirty hand and he places it on a beautiful glass window. Right,
he can take the hand away, which is the equivalent
of healing the trauma, but there's still going to be
an imprint of his handprint on that glass window until
I come over and clean it, right. And if I

(29:18):
don't clean it, that imprint right, not as clear glass
that you're looking through. And so our traumas are like
these handprints all over body, and we never bother to
actually clean them completely off. And so we might have
taken the trauma out, but the imprint of that trauma
is still living in the body, is still firing the

(29:41):
nervous system for survival. And so I believe that each
of us deserves right, and it's our birthright, not just
even as deserve that. Like, imagine a planet where people
are thriving, there'd be less conflict, right. So it isn't

(30:03):
about let's, you know, fight for peace, because fighting for
peace doesn't work. But what if we start fighting for
our best lives ever? And I don't mean fight right,
but I mean having an energy, and where you prioritize
being the best version of yourself, You prioritize holding that

(30:26):
space for your kids to be the best version of themselves.
You prioritize your family members being the best version of themselves.
But since you know the pandemic, and since social media
is so rampant and TikTok and Instagram and all these things,
these quick these reels we've were, the more that we

(30:51):
sort of engage in these quick fixes, guess what stresses
the nervous system out. So that being said, right, once
you begin to work with regulating your nervouses, once you
begin and specifically to do somatic exercises. Now, if you're listening,

(31:11):
I have a free download on my website right just
Katherine McIntosh dot com on my website where you can
download this free healing your nervous system and you'll both
see it. I have an old video there and that
videos about a year old, and if you look at it,

(31:31):
you'd be like, wow, she doesn't even look like that.
Are No, I look very different now And I've filmed
some new videos we just haven't yet uploaded them. And
so you can go and watch this free nervous system
download it's a five minute video. It's the three basic
exercises that I did for three months straight. And I

(31:55):
still do them. You know, I don't do them every
day anymore. Sometimes I need to, right, Sometimes my body
needs that just as much. But I'm watching people as
you do these somatic exercises. Right. There's hip circles, which
helps if you feel like you have excess weight on

(32:15):
your butt and your thighs. Because the truth is, you
might be hanging onto trauma. You might be hanging onto
emotional or physical or mental abuse. You might be hanging
onto resentment or fear, and you might not even know it.
And so these exercises are sort of the quickest Cammis
way to begin to heal the body and activate the

(32:40):
body's ability to heal itself. Right, Because when the nervous
system is running at its optimum, the amount of space
that's left available for you to create instead of fix,
most people are walking around trying to fix right. How

(33:03):
do I fix my broken knee? How do I fix
my broken heart? How do I fix my broken marriage?
How do I fix my trauma patterns? How do I
fix my money situation? But what if instead of focusing
on fixing because that just even that approach is coming

(33:24):
from a lack perspective. What if we shifted the narrative
into I'm going to open my world into being the
best version of myself I can be. I'm going to
open my heart into being the best version I can be.

(33:46):
I'm going to focus on relaxing and shining my light.
I'm going to focus on all of the people and activities.
Then when I do them, I feel more alive. And
if we were to begin to shift our focus into
committing to doing things, thinking things, creating things, that when

(34:10):
we're doing them, it's like this magical ride, this magical momentum,
most of the traumas in our life would go away,
most of the problems in our body would begin to shift.
But when we're fixed based, it doesn't always work as

(34:31):
well because there's a projection there, there's an imprint there,
there's a stuffedness there. There's also I need to fix it.
And so when I you know, before I became an
intuitive consultant full time, right, I actually that's after grad school,

(34:53):
I became a hairdresser. Never in a million a million
years did I ever imagine myself cutting people's hair, right,
but something in me. So after grad school, I bartended
for a couple of years. It bartended through grad school
and then stayed on as a bartender server right. And

(35:15):
then after my bartending days, I went into hairdressing, right
and believing I did not want to choose to be
a hairdresser, but the two professions in which people will
confess their entire livesuite now. I went to grad school
for psychology. People didn't tell me their deepest, darkest secrets.
Why because they thought they were being judged. When I

(35:38):
was a hairdresser, and people weren't liquored up because bartending zezy,
you get liquered, you spill your beans, right. But when
I was a hairdresser, I got to like the most
intimate details. Because people didn't think I was a psychologist.
They didn't feel judged, right, They felt safe and comfortable

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to share sort of some of their deepest darkest secrets,
share some of the things that were happening in their lives.
And I went, oh my god. And then I started
to you know, ask people questions. I was, you know,
in their crown while doing their hair. I was giving
them the best head massage you'll ever have in your life,
and people just kept coming back and coming back, and

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they went, Wow, what's different about you? Because I feel
different every time I come see you and be like, wow,
I'm really I'm doing something different. And the point is
is that when we face our challenges with judgment, right,
they change less. When we open ourselves up to no judgment,

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then that's when things can shift, they can release, they
can change. And so I'm going to talk about a
few things that you can do besides just the somatic movements.
Been listening. Go to my website Katherinemackintosh dot com go
after the show, or you can do it now, and
you can download the sematic movements. It's on It's called

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free download Healing your Nervous System. It should be at
the top of the page on the website, right or
skull just a little bit down and you can sort
of see it. And so when you do this video
is the three moves I did every day, and now
I add more in. But those three moves will get
you going right, and there's a PDF attached to it.

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We'll kind of talk a little bit about healing your
nervous system. So what else can you do besides these
sematic movements to heal your nervous system. You can hug
a tree, you can get out in nature, you can
land shivasuna, you can do I like to do a
particular yoga, but any yoga that calms you down. So

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it's not like sort of intense flow, right, it's not
overly sweating. It's more like, Okay, I'm gonna sit and
breathe and really work on because when you do that,
you begin to relax. When you do that, you begin
to open your piniut land. When you do that, you
begin to create a heart and head right connection. And

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so when the heart and the head are on the
same page, when they're aligned, guess what, calm. But when
they're not aligned right, not so calm. And So I
used to have a shamanic teacher who passed a few
years ago, and he did something called the Results Course.

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He also did a relationship course, and I have I was.
I traveled around the world with him for almost eight years, right,
and was one of his assistants and got sort of
the ins and outs of this incredible sort of alternative

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way at looking at everything. I was fascinated. And so
one of the things that he used to say is
if you're going to have a fight with your loved one,
do it laying down right. Why, he said, because you
want your head and your heart on the same page.

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And so when we go we get in an argument
and we go this, or when we're trying to work
really hard and figure something out, I guess what we're doing.
Our heart and our head are not on the same
they're not aligned. So getting your heart aligned same place, right,
And so it's funny because you know, in the beginning,
I would do this with my husband back in the day,

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and we would lay down and try to solve our issues. Well,
guess what would happen when someone would get upset. They'd
sit up right, and so when you know, and they'd
be like this heart and head not in alignment. And
so you want to really start to pay attention. So
it could be yoga. It could be maybe soaking in

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epsom self bath. It could be lighting candles, It could
be pulling tarot cards, anything that you can do. It
could be journaling, right, but journaling from a place of
you know, what am those five journaling prompts? Right? What
am I grateful for? What are my wins? What would
I like to let go of right, what do I

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want to focus on and energize and what's my ideal day? Right?
And that ideal day could be anything. That ideal day
could be I am excited to graduate college. That ideal
day could be I'm packing my car for a road trip,
or you know, getting on a plane to Paris, or

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hanging out with friends in the mountains, or or can't
I mean, it can be anything. But what happens is
you start to dream. And when you start to dream,
guess what, you start to relax. Meditation incredible way to
work with the parasympathetic nervous system, working with your vagus nerves.

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So I'm going to give you guys a little secret rite,
a little something and you know, and it's incredible, and
so clasp your hands right, you put them behind your
head on your oxophote, which is the bone that sticks out,
And if you stay in this position for two minutes,
you can also do yawning. Right. If you do that

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for two minutes, you will lower the cortisol levels in
your body by sixty five percent. Cortisol is guess what,
the stress formone. And so most people that deal with
weight on their bodies don't even realize how much stress
they have going on in their bodies. When you consistently

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do things that begin to reduce your stress, begin to
reduce the cortisol levels in your body, you will literally
change you life. And so anything that gets you calm,
walking out in nature, right, jumping in a lake, going
on a hike, you know, picking flowers, putting flowers in

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your house, hugging a tree, putting your feet in the ground.
I have a labyrinth in my backyard and walking that
labyrinth helps, right, getting sunshine on my face. But here's
the deal is I think that we need to as
a culture, instead of focusing on food and exercise, right,

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I think we need to focus on are we willing
to lower our stress responses? Are we willing to lower
Are we willing to get our heart and head in alignment?
Are willing to find ways to calm? Sound baths, right sounds,
even listening a good a woman that I recently had

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the pleasure of meeting, who I think is going to
be a friend and a client. Is she shared these
selfhagial frequencies, right, these healing sound frequencies. Anything that you
can do to begin to find that alignment is going
to help your nervous system release the imprinting of all

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the things that have been stuck in your world. And so,
you know what, don't take my advice I always tell
people filter it through your own you know awareness. Does
it expand your energy when you look at it? Does
it contract your energy? And if you're willing to really
play with okay, how we are all the ways I

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can expand my energy. Oh that makes me feel good.
That doesn't. Well, that person totally energized me. That person
does not, and start to pay attention because guess what,
you only got one life and you might as well
make it the best life you possibly can and stop
trying to work so hard just to survive. So I

(44:25):
hope you enjoy this episode. If this tickled you, if
it touched you, if you think there's someone in your
life that needs to hear this message, please share it
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and I look forward to to watching you grow, to

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watching your journey. Don't forget to download the free download
and I'll see you all on the other side. Thanks
for watching. Until next time.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
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.