What the Mind Sees, The Body Creates

I love doing this activity, even though at times it also feels a bit tongue in cheek.  I love that it opens up possibilities, can stretch the boundaries, expose limiting beliefs and enables permission.  Re-wiring of the brain can start as the seed is planted in a different direction of 

What if xyz does happen, what if I succeed, and if I can evolve and become what I chose!

The challenge in this activity is to give yourself permission to daydream and even consider, ever so slightly, something else is possible for you.  

It is a great activity to combine with the Wheel of Life, and the information gathered in this activity is used in future episodes. An excellent activity to create a dream /vision board or even brainstorm your upgrades and changes you would like to create in the future. 

If this episode triggers you, reach out to your local mental health service. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as therapy but offers ideas to explore your beliefs and why you do what you do.  Working with a trained therapist is highly recommended to help you address the deeply rooted issues. 

This episode is to create a baseline awareness of how you see your life at the moment. As you label the roles or parts you have in your life, you also start to evaluate the meaning these have in your life and why.

Common segments include: health and wellbeing, adventure, friendships, family relationships, finances and investments, relaxation and self-care.  You can label the segments as you choose, as this is your life. 

Exploring the segments, exploring if you are living them from your conscious choices, they are of value according to your or others' values, or life scripts enables you to make empowered choices from here on.  Ultimately the questions raised filter if you are living your life on your or other's terms, explore whose expectations are you striving to meet and why.  With this information, you may choose to make changes subtle or profound to align your choices with your values and the character you want to become during your life. 

If this episode triggers you, reach out to your local mental health service. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as therapy but offers ideas to explore your beliefs and why you do what you do.  Working with a trained therapist is highly recommended to help you address the deeply rooted issues.

In this episode, I walk through an activity that engages both the left and right brains, exploring the thought/memory and feeling parts of memory.  Your dominant/writing hand asks the question, and the less dominant/non-writing hand gives the answers. In essence, you access the folders in the subconscious, and with the adult, mind make sense of what happened of the hurtful experience from all those years ago.  

Combining the technique with powerful questions, forgiveness, and insight into why people do what they do, this episode is an excellent refresher of ways to reclaim your power and create beliefs that work for you. 

If this episode triggers you, reach out to your local mental health service. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as therapy but offers ideas for ways to reduce the impact at the moment.  Working with a trained therapist is highly recommended to help you address the deeply rooted issues.  

Character roles, in this episode are the parts of us that step in and support us.  Unexplored, they control and act from our beliefs, which as you can imagine can empower, neutralise or disempower our experiences.

In this episode, we explore journaling as a form of exploration, in particular 6 primary and common roles present in our behaviour 

The ones discussed include:

• Observer
• Director
• Guardian
• Warrior
• Lover 
• Leader

You may identify with others, and that is ok.  The principle is the same for the each character role that presents themselves.  With a curious, non-judgemental approach, each can provide you with invaluable insight into their role, function and purpose, and how to maximise their expertise for your growth and towards the life you choose to create, on Your Terms. 

Trust you enjoy this self-exploring exercise, and answer the questions provided for each character role to answer.  

What comes to mind for you with the word "Declutter"? 

Do you consider the emotional declutter and release that comes as you remove material things and dirt from your environment? 

Have you reflected how liberating it can feel to create a space you love to see, and live in? Or the idea of creating space is following a Universal Law, and so it required as part of living a fuller, happier life?

These are some of the benefits of removing 'things' from our space.  We clean, lighten the energy flow of the space, create opportunity to replace with things, experiences and reminders by more conscious choice.  All the while, lightening our emotional energy and opening up the flow for more good things to come in. 

Admittedly, like all other processes, this takes time, and bigger the clean out, potentially the bigger energy and memory shifts. With this in mind, it is suggested you be gentle with yourself, do in stages or on a mission to create more of what you choose to experience in your life. 

Mindfulness is the practice of allowance and permission for you to be human. To have feelings, reactions and responses to situations.  By giving permission, takes the sting out of the feelings, similar to reverse psychology. Another way of viewing the acts of mindfulness is seeing yourself with compassionate and empathetic eyes.  

You are a collection of experiences, which when triggered will come through, but I will challenge you.  To consider the cost of staying in pain and suffering by blaming, judging and holding onto your reactions when things do not go to plan, or you are activated, or your knee jerk reaction comes through before you have a chance to notice. 

What if, with practice you were able to see these reactions and responses simply raw data. Simply information.  Are you able to stop, see and let it be?  Is it possible for you to thank the information and choose a different response of action as a consequence of this data coming to the fore?   

What wold you like to create different, with the new insight and information?  As your awareness, allowance and non-judgement skills strengthen, are you able to celebrate this win and encourage yourself all the more to continue practicing the art of awareness without controlling each thought? 

Ready to consider a different way of seeing yourself, and possibly a different way of seeing mindfulness. 

Take away the judgement, blame and projection onto your past showing up in the present and see you different you feel, interact and heal  

This is the end of the series, introducing topics in the book What the Mind Sees, the Body Feels, Creates and Attracts. Over the series, we have explored big concepts outlining how our body and our mind create our life choices, and more so how our beliefs do this. 

The child's emotional and mental develop is key to how as adults we operate, for the child's brain is like a sponge and takes in all the bits of information they are exposed to.  We make interesting and very influencing interpretations about ourselves, the world we live in, our value and importance in life even in these formative years.  

The benefit with knowledge is you can choose to learn, apply, and practice the information. The next series of the Podcast is Change Beliefs, Create Your Life Activities and Strategies.  In this series, ways of addressing our beliefs.  Healing, re-writing, letting go and forgiving ourselves so we can Create a Life by choice and not auto-pilot dictates from our past. 

Believe it or not, you have been applying these laws, you can't get away from them, well because they are law!

Before you start dissing the possibility, listen to the episode with an open mind, and reflect how you are using the law for pleasure or pain.  Then, consider if you live more from fear, protection and heavy emotions or pleasure, joy and lightness.

Gold nuggets galore as you sift through insights, and Aha moments.  

If this episode hits home, and you are ready to use these Universal Laws to Create Your Life on Your Terms, then now is the time to reach out.  

Own your past!  Heal, forgive and let go!  Define and Declare what you Desire and move forward to creating life from love and acceptance. 

Challenges are designed to create growth. 

Life's adventures encourages growth, challenge the norm, the old dogma and ways of doing things, if one is open are receptive.  

Self-compassion, empathy and awareness to embrace the journey of self-discovery and coming back to yourself. 

Enjoy this one 

Our physical body is directly influenced by the food, drink, medication, exercise, all the choices we make. 

Down stream or the ripple effect of these choices, often dictated by our choices are:

• gut microbe imbalances, 
• poor digestion
• inflammation 
• activation of the nerves, immune system, altering our hormones 
• nutrient deficiencies, 
• physical stressors
• self-fulfilling prophesies around age, gender, family history etc.

Increasing our awareness of why do choose what we do, our resistance to look after our body, make changes appropriate to support health, we learn so much about our past.  With this information, we are in a position to make informed, empowered decisions that work for us, our character, our values etc.  

Enjoy the exploration of what our beliefs can do as a secondary effect. You might be quite surprised. 

We know our beleifs rule our world, but have you thought about how?

Previously we explored beliefs and the emotional vibration they created, and from this episode, we explore other ways the beliefs interfere with our body's health, mental health and dis-ease that is created. 

How do you feel when you receive an unexpected gift, help or compliment that means the world to you.  At a guess, it could be that deep sense of gratitude that is heart felt, that immerses your body with sense of amaze, wow combined with thanks. 

This emotion has the power to do much more than just feeling good.  It changes our body chemistry, the way we see and interpret life.  Under the Law of Focus, what we focus on increases, so the more we feel into the sensation, recall times of gratitude and share it with others, it gets bigger.  Besides, who doesn't like an appreciative person with a great outlook on life?

This episode we discuss the benefits in ourselves, relationships, and in the workplace.  

Sit back and allow all those gratitude moments come flooding back. 

Where or how do children learn the subtle messages of what is appropriate or not?

By listening, observing and being 'guided' as to what is expected of them in different situations 

Family, social interactions, school, culture, rituals, celebrations, sports, economics, peers, class structures etc. are some of the settings.

What is expected of us becomes part of our beliefs systems and the rules that guide all things we do in life. 

In this episode, we explore what emotions actually are - chemical changes in the body. 

What mimics the emotional chemicals - in particular food chemicals. 

Triggers, and things that help lift our mood - the common/normal emotional range felt. 

Become aware of these, and you are another step closer to empowerment.