Our bodies are amazing, wonderful creations, and they know exactly what they need! They usually start to tell us subtly, and if we don't listen, they get louder and louder.

In this episode, Julie helps us start to understand what our bodies are trying to tell us and how we can work with them, instead of against them.

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#createjoychallenge

This week’s create joy challenge is to work on figuring out what your body is trying to tell you.

Julie shared an amazing tip of using kind of the Marie Kondo method with your body. Getting in tune with it and figuring out, does this feel good, or “spark joy”. Don’t get frustrated if it doesn’t feel like it is working at first. Like all good things, it is going to take some time and practice.

Forget about what all the experts are telling you, and focus on what your body needs. Involve it in your prayers, if that feels right to you. Ask, what does my body need from me today? In my own experience, sometimes it is drink a lot of water… sometimes it is yoga, and sometimes it is go for a run. The hope is that little by little we will become more in tune with what our bodies need and become better at drowning out the outside influences. This is going to be amazing!

Resources Shared on Podcast

Your Inner Physician and You: Craniosacral Therapy and Somatoemotional Release

Feelings Buried Alive Never Die

The Happiness Advantage - Shawn Achor

TED Talk by Shawn Achor

Quotes

I have learned that you need to be nice and say hi to your body and ask it where it wants to be and then just help direct it.

As soon as you can start to connect with what your body is saying to you, you really start to pick up on the small ways it is communicating with you daily.

The body is amazing when you give it what it needs, and it usually knows what it needs.

Everything that happens to us gets recorded in our bodies.

Our bodies are always trying to preserve themselves.

Pay attention to the patterns of when you are feeling your symptoms. Your body is crying out at that very moment.

Your body is going to change to the degree that you are ready. So if you are ready for big change, welcome to the journey.

The power of positivity really does change things in your body.

Positivity and gratitude change bodies.

Emotions are information. They are not good or bad. They are just information.

You can mold your children so that they do not take on the patterns of the generations past.

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