Are You Listening?
When your body is tired, or you feel pain or discomfort, do you respond?
This is your body’s way of telling you what it needs.
Your body could be telling you many things:
Is it telling you to stop and rest? Rest can be sitting, or from sitting to standing or having a nap.
Overwhelmed occurs when stimulation from social media, zoom calls, TV causes the brain and in turn the body to experience anxiety. Continuing to push yourself while working on a project, determined to get it done. Causes the body and brain to be less effective. Research shows that productivity declines when you don’t take breaks.
When do you take that time?
Emotional blocks:
A feeling or sensation about emotion is the time to stop and listen to your body. For when you don’t listen, the emotion(s) gets stuck in your body. As the emotion(s) remain there, your body begins a process of building resistance to understanding and change.
Ignored emotions accumulate in the body and will cause sensations, pain or dis-ease. The body’s response becomes commonplace and turns into a habit. Not acknowledging or uncovering these emotions, will lead to a lifetime of unresolved issues and conditions.
Learning techniques of listening to or connecting to the body’s messages will alleviate forcing yourself to live inside a body that is experiencing pain or dis-ease.
The process of understanding the messages in your body is through the connection with the heart and gut. The heart and the gut speak more to your brain than in reverse.
The Process:
Quiet your mind and become curious
Meditate
Pay attention to your body’s sensations
Ask your heart what your body needs right now
Listen for the answer
Acknowledge and release
