Podcast Summary
Experience Embodiment in Every Moment: Training our nervous system daily improves our ability to stay embodied and fully present in relationships and life.
Embodiment is more than just a cognitive understanding; it's an experiential connection to our bodies. Embodiment means fully being present in our bodies and able to fully express ourselves emotionally, behaviorally, and through movement. It's not something that can be achieved through dissociation. The health of our nervous system plays a crucial role in our ability to embody ourselves, especially in relational contexts. When our nervous system is healthy, we can stay embodied during intimacy and other experiences with others. Tracy Litt, a neuro somatic intelligence certified practitioner, emphasizes the importance of embodiment and the impact it has on our relationships. By training our nervous system daily, we can improve our ability to stay embodied and fully present in our lives. Embodiment is not just a character we play in a movie, but who we truly are in every moment.
Reconnect with your body for full presence: Embodiment is essential for experiencing life in the present moment, allowing us to feel sensations and sync internal and external data, ultimately leading to deeper engagement with life and increased tolerance for joy and comfort.
Embodiment is the key to fully experiencing life in the present moment. It involves reconnecting with our bodies after years of dissociation and intellectualization. Embodiment allows us to feel and interpret sensations, syncing up our internal and external data. Society often values staying "neck uppers," focusing only on cognitive understanding, but true change requires presence. Embodiment provides a deep presence within ourselves and the world around us, allowing us to fully engage with life and tolerate joy and comfort. Through practices and measurable experiences, we can gradually build this grounded energy and connection to our bodies.
Recognizing the importance of safety and consciousness for embodiment: To become embodied, acknowledge the power of sensory stimuli and gentle inputs, and remember that safety and consciousness are foundational for healing and growth.
The process of becoming embodied and finding safety within oneself is a unique journey for each person, shaped by past experiences and traumas. It begins with recognizing the importance of sensory stimuli and gentle inputs to awaken the body. For some, this may involve acknowledging and apologizing to their body, while for others it may mean learning to feel emotions and receipt of kindness in a deeper way. Regardless of the starting point, it's essential to remember that safety and consciousness are foundational to this process. By recognizing that we have the power to take charge of our bodies and emotions, we can begin to heal and build a strong foundation for growth in all areas of life.
Practicing self-care and mindfulness: Self-care practices like breathing exercises, kind self-talk, sensory stimuli, setting aside time for grief, daily sensory practices, and using breath to connect with body can promote healing from addiction and trauma.
Intentional self-care and mindfulness practices, such as breathing exercises, speaking kindly to the body, and engaging in sensory stimuli, can help individuals develop a deeper relationship with themselves and facilitate the healing process from addiction and trauma. These practices can include setting aside time for grief and apology, engaging in daily sensory practices, and using the breath as an entryway to feel into the body. Slowing down and practicing nervous system regulation are also essential for fully experiencing these practices and connecting with the present moment. The use of calming environments, such as a bath, can enhance the effectiveness of these practices and provide a safe space for exploring emotions and sensations.
Connecting with the body in a bathtub: The bathtub experience can evoke a womb-like sensation, promoting deeper body connection and emotional expression. However, facing suppressed emotions can be challenging and requires support.
The experience of being in a bathtub, with its warm, dark, and healing qualities, can evoke a sense of safety and comfort reminiscent of the womb. This sensation, coupled with the weightlessness and floatiness, can help individuals connect more deeply with their bodies. However, the process of slowing down and fully experiencing emotions, including painful ones, can be challenging and may bring up suppressed feelings and emotions. As practitioners, it's essential to support individuals in safely and fully feeling their emotions, as emotional expression is a crucial aspect of being present in the body. The disconnection from our bodies, particularly for women in American society, is layered and complex, with influences from early life experiences, diet culture, societal pressures, and the need for self-regulation. Reconnecting with our bodies and emotions can lead to significant health benefits and improved overall well-being.
Recognizing the impact of thoughts on emotional expression: Embrace emotional expression to improve physical and emotional well-being, let go of judgment, and experience deeper connections and creativity.
Our thoughts, influenced by fear, ego, and past experiences, can hinder our ability to embrace emotional expression and embodiment. Emotion is energy and motion, and suppressing it can lead to emotional congestion, affecting our physical and emotional well-being. By recognizing that we are not our thoughts, we can learn to direct our minds to support our potentials. Embracing emotional expression allows for a clean and clear vessel, leading to benefits such as increased potency in frequency, deeper connections, creativity, and the ability to heal physically and emotionally. It's essential to acknowledge the resistance and fear towards emotional expression due to societal conditioning that judges emotions as good or bad. By understanding that emotions are just energy and motion, we can begin to let go of judgment and fully experience the benefits of emotional expression.
Suppressing emotions can limit vitality and freedom: Exploring emotions instead of suppressing them leads to greater consciousness, deeper relationships, and a heightened sense of joy and liberation.
Suppressing emotions can lead to a lack of vitality and freedom in life. It's important to clear out the emotional "gunk" built up from years of judgment and repression. Emotional expression, whether it be through dance, grief, or love, is a key component to living an authentic and full human experience. Choosing to explore emotions instead of suppressing them can lead to greater consciousness, deeper relationships, and a heightened sense of joy and liberation. Judgment is a self-protective mechanism that keeps us separate, but it's essential to let go of it to truly feel and live. Our bodies and nervous systems are designed to process emotions, and the consequences of not doing so can be detrimental. By training our nervous system daily and reinterpreting our emotional experiences, we can build the capacity to access higher order thinking and choose a path towards greater emotional intelligence and authenticity.
Understanding emotions and physical sensations in the brain: The interoceptive system, including the vagus nerve, interprets emotions and physical sensations, and learning to work with it can help change how we respond to internal signals and prevent panic or shutdown states.
Our emotions and physical sensations are interpreted in the brain, primarily in the insular cortex, and these interpretations can significantly impact our response to the world around us. The interoceptive system, which includes the vagus nerve, plays a crucial role in bringing internal sensations to the brain. However, when we attribute high levels of threat to these sensations, they can trigger a fight-or-flight response without allowing conscious awareness or interpretation. By learning to work with the nervous system and retrain the interoceptive system, we can change how we interpret these signals and prevent being pushed into panic, dissociative, or shutdown states. The Neurosculpting Institute's approach to neuroscience, energetics, metacognition, and spirituality offers tools to help individuals understand and work with their unique nervous systems, leading to increased safety, confidence, and the ability to hold new experiences and results.
Embrace emotions for personal growth: Allow emotions, prioritize self-compassion, and focus on self-truth for healing and growth. Embrace your role as a creator and break free from limiting beliefs and conditions through self-awareness and reconnection with the body.
Committing to personal growth and development requires a commitment to the process itself, and allowing oneself to fully experience emotions without judgment is essential for regulation and healing. The speaker shares her experience of a transformative journey, emphasizing the importance of embracing one's role as a creator and prioritizing emotional expression over living in a state of survival. She encourages allowing feelings to be felt and processed, rather than suppressing them, and highlights the importance of self-compassion and self-truth in the healing journey. The speaker also touches on the idea that true living and intentionally creating a life that serves one's higher purpose is challenging when in a survival state, and emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and reconnection with the body to break free from limiting beliefs and conditions. Additionally, the speaker mentions her recent book as a tool for further exploration and growth in this area.
Understanding and replacing limiting beliefs with progressive paradigms: This book offers practical solutions to replace detrimental thought patterns with compassionate, loving paradigms, and introduces seven replacement paradigms for transformative results. Join the NSI certification program to make a difference in the world and oneself.
The book "Expander for Trailblazing Women Building a New World" offers a deep understanding of the detrimental paradigms that hinder personal growth and provides practical solutions to replace them with progressive, compassionate, and loving paradigms. The book, which is available as a free ebook, helps readers question their thought patterns, identify limiting beliefs, and replace them with healthier alternatives. The author emphasizes the importance of delivering the "how" to truly make a difference and introduces seven replacement paradigms. For practitioners, therapists, or coaches seeking to bring nervous system work into their client sessions for transformative results, the Neuro Somatic Intelligence (NSI) certification is recommended. The author, who is a licensed hypnotherapist and certified professional coach, emphasizes the unique depth and impact of NSI, regardless of one's experience or current level of success. The author's invitation to join the NSI certification program is an opportunity to make a difference in the world and oneself.