Al Bailey has been a student of the healing arts for over 30 years. Al uses his wisdom on the relationship between mind and body to help his clients return to their authentic breathing and facilitate healing and self-awareness. In addition to being a licensed massage and bodywork therapist, Al is the owner of BreatheAboutLife, a center for inner healing. Through BreatheAboutLife, he provides NOWON Bodywork, life-coaching, and Mind/Foot Circle Walking sessions to his clients to bring them to the ultimate healing.

 

In today’s episode, Al and I discuss how body awareness can help us relate and gain more insight into ourselves and the world. We explain how the body can speak through inflammation and disease. We describe the effects of craniosacral work and self-awareness on relationships and health. We also illustrate how a lack of self-awareness can create addictions as well as underscore the importance of self-care in improving compassion for others.

 

“Understanding comes from practicing the awareness that we’ve gained. Watching the breath is an awareness. When you practice that awareness, you gain more insight.” - Al Bailey

 

This week on Relationships! Let’s Talk About It:

• The importance of understanding our body
• How the body stores insight, wisdom, and information
• How the ego and suppressing emotions can create disease
• How couples create a “single body” and how they can make it healthy
• What is Mind/Foot Circle Walking and how it helps bring awareness
• The effects of regular craniosacral bodywork sessions and how it changes relationships
• How to take control of emotional pain
• How I managed pain while meditating for the first time
• Why Al encourages people to find work that they love
• The importance of self-care in enriching compassion for others
• How a lack of self-awareness can cause addiction
• Morning and night routines to help you reconnect with your physical and mental alignment

 

Resources Mentioned:

• How the Breath You Take Can Improve Relationship

 

Connect with Al Bailey:

• BreatheAboutLife

 

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