July 12, 2020

Ep 13: Mind Body Bridging -- A Conversation with Niki Olsen

47 minutes

12 July 2020
Edified: Insights for LDS Women
Ep 13: Mind-Body Bridging -- A Conversation with Niki Olsen

For this week's episode of Edified, I interviewed Niki Olsen from nikiolsencoaching.com. Niki is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who teaches Mind-Body Bridging, a process that helps LDS women enrich their connection to themselves and to the members of the Godhead. My conversation with Niki was so packed with great tools and advice that I've divided it into two podcast episodes. Besides Niki's expertise with Mind-Body Bridging, in this episode, Niki also discusses themes such as opposite duality, the comparison trap, building resilience in kids, seeking personal revelation, and more.

KEY POINTS:

Mind-Body Bridging

When our mind, body, and spirit are all united in their whole, we are connected to our Godhead and we are connected to every power that each member of our Godhead can offer us. That's pretty incredible. That's powerful.

When our mind and body and our spirit become disconnected, and they're no longer working on the same team, then we are disconnected from the members of our Godhead. We're disconnected from the spirit. We're disconnected from the atoning power of our Savior. And we're disconnected from the divine power that is within us from our Father in Heaven. It's not that they leave us, it's that we block their powers from accessing us. So we are the ones that disconnect from them.

A piece of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Mother are inside of us, literally inside of us. And when we connect with that power that we have within us, we're unstoppable. We can do things that we didn't think we could do. The Savior has provided an atonement, not just for sin, but for all the heartache that happens from living in a fallen world. He has enabled us to have strength and wisdom and goodness and healing because of that, and we access all of that through the power of the Holy Ghost.

We access knowing what Heavenly Father's Will is for us through the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is our access point, so we have to develop a relationship with him to learn how he speaks to us. We have to learn his language. This requires that we develop and strengthen our relationship with him. ]

The Comparison Trap

The comparison trap refers to the "shoulds" of life.
Instagram or social media has this way of sucking you into this comparison trap all the time. Like saying, "Okay, you're not helping the entire world, so what's the point in helping one person? If you were helping a million people, this would be a whole lot better. Sometimes we think we have to help the million people when really we are being called to leave the 99 to go find and help the "one." We need to be okay that we aren't helping the other 99.

Do One Thing

This week's "DOT" invitation is to visit Niki's website, NikiOlsenCoaching.com, and scroll down to where you see the question, "What is Mind-Body Bridging?" Then click on the "Try it for free" button. After you give it a try, leave a comment on my DOT post on Instagram. That post will come out on Monday, July 13th. I am super interested in hearing about your experience with Mind-Body Bridging.

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