Your Body Advocate

Today I’m talking about 5 ways to help head issues and a few ways to look at head pain differently. Is your headache just a “normal” headache? Or is your body trying to tell you something? Here are 5 kinds of head issues:

“Normal” headache with pain that follows the line of pain like a band around your head:

This area can include tension and stress from wearing “Rose-colored glasses”, which means that you aren’t looking at a situation in a realistic state. Instead, you may be seeing a situation more positive than it actually is.

For example: being in an abusive relationship:

Example: Staying in a bad job: 

And many more examples of how we can ignore what is happening in our lives.

Your mind might act like everything is fine, but your body is not happy, not safe, not willing to take this anymore, and starts to retaliate to how you ignore what is right in front of you.

How your body reacts:

Sometimes, with chronic headaches, all the “right” things won’t help. Then, when you change your circumstances, your headache magically goes away.

It’s not always this easy, and not always related to your emotional environment, but pay attention to your daily surroundings and how your BODY is responding to this environment.

When your body feels like it has the support it needs, then your headaches (or other pain) could get worse. This is a great sign that you can, in fact, get better. But, this cycle is often misunderstood.

When we clench our jaw or grind our teeth, this can cause headaches, neck pain, and of course, jaw pain.

How our body reacts:

How to relax your jaw, massage it like it shows in this video.

Our eyes are over used and need some TlC.

This is for pain in the sinus cavity that comes up through the face areas, like the cheek bones and around our nose and eyes.

If you have pain on the back and bottom of your skull where the skull meets the neck, you can try some of these techniques to stop the pain:

When you are having an ear infection, ear pain, too much ear wax, hearing issues, try these ideas: - Place forefingers into the ear, just barely, and resting just above the ear lobe.

In today's episode, we talk about how being kind to others and to ourselves can affect our body.

First of all, *studies show that being kind can:

*University of California, Berkley & John Templeton Foundation

Next, being kind to OURSELVES can:

You can spread kindness with one smile!  Smile to stranger and people you know with deep gratitude and sincerity and they will most likely smile back, or smile even moments after you have gone.

A smile can spread kindness, courage, happiness & love at the most random times when you are not aware what another person may be going through, and your smile is a boost they need at that exact moment.  

Spread love & kindness one smile at a time.

In today's episode, we look at some common ways we respond to goal setting, and focus more on how our BODY respond to Goal Setting. Do you get overwhelmed by thinking about the year to come?  When you have these thoughts, how does your body respond?

The process of setting goals can be stressful on the body, but these signals are often dismissed or ignored, and we end up making the plans the same way we always have.

If this happens to you, try to notice how your body responds to this type of stressful stimulus.

When you plan which goals to focus on, do you:

One of my Coaches & mentors, Selena Soo, had some great advice at our last mastermind: Do less, but better! This is one of my mottos for 2023, and I'm adding it to everything.  

Make this year's goal setting less stressful by doing less, but doing it better!

Move your body before, during and after you start planning.  Also, plan to be hydrated, well fed and rested when you have a big planning session, test or other event coming up.

Just like an elite athlete preparing for a big event, consider how your body can make or break how effective & efficient you can be.

An art of "listening" to our body, to the intuition it has to share with us, has been ignored for a long time.  But, consider it a long lost way of communicating with ourselves that we are desperately missing. 

How do you listen to your body?  

There are many ways and each person has unique ways their body communicates, but here are a few basic ways to start listening while you are goal planning:

There are morning routines, exercise routines, but try to create a "self-awareness routine".

Let's review your year from your body's point of view, looking at several categories, rating those categories, celebrating them and considering ways to improve each for 2023.

Where can you find celebrations, lessons you learned, places to improve, or ah ha moments you didn't realize before.

Your body thanks you. :)

Break into categories, your body-year-review.  Consider the areas that you were working on, or most aware of last year.  Below are the categories I used.

Categories:

Rate yourself in each category based on how your body would rate these areas like this:  

Take any criticisms, negative thoughts or and turn them into positive sentences, one by one.  Examples:

Acknowledge the wonder and positivity in your world, and give thanks.  

Planning for 2023 is always helpful.  Listen to next weeks episode for some powerful ideas. 

1. Put Breathing First!  Use your breath to relax, destress, take a moment, not scream, have better concentration, pray.

2. Set an Intension about how you want your Body to Feel this year. 

3.  Add Kindness from yourself to yourself.  Each time you do something kind for someone or something, use this as a reminder to do something kind for yourself. 

What do you think about these steps for this year?

Thanks for listening today!  

Consider these blog posts and podcast for more support:

blog post: What is Your Definition of a Happy Family?

blog post: How Does Your Body Ask For Help?

blob post: How to Laugh with Your Family to Relieve Stress

Podcast: Helping People Get Out of Their Own Way with Sherry Lukey

PhD, MA, CHt, CAPP

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HOW TO SET OUR BODY UP FOR SUCCESS

The knees are very important in all mobility but also in correlation with our gut/low back and our neck.  

These three areas work together, and if one is injured or struggling in some manner, one of the other 2 can also show signs of stress.

These three areas are called "the Earth triad" and hold grounding in the body.

Here are 3 ways to Setting Up Your Knees For Success:

1.  Touch:  Rub your knees, one at a time, to get and keep them warm.  Also, envelop them and hold nice, warm pressure on your knee.  Try to feel your pulse from the knee--this takes practice.  Send them healing energy and love from your hands, then repeat the process on the other knee.  

2.  Foam "stick" rolling:  This is a hand-held roller that is just like a rolling pin, but a bit skinnier and has a softer coating on the roller.  Use this gently on all sides of the muscles around your knees to create relief and comfort.

3.  Movement & stretching:  move your knees to your chest in the morning before you get out of bed, then pull your toes to your nose to stretch those lower leg muscles and to create some blood flow and stretching before you put any weight on your ankles or knees in the morning. Also stretch all the muscles leading into your knees to support their continued health.

Problem solving for your knees:

The knees have to do with grounding in the body and work well with the gut/low back and neck.  You might also find hints to help your knees in the opposite elbow or shoulder.  Right shoulder for the left knee.  Left shoulder and elbow for the right hip, knee and ankle.  

Become a master of body awareness to really set your body up for success.

I'm starting a series on "How to Set our Body up for Success", and the first of this series is about our Neck.  If our neck is healthy physically, emotionally & spiritually, it's much easier for the entire body to heal.  

How do we create issues in and around our neck?

Physically:

-Injuries

-Bad Posture

-Sleep positions

  Emotionally:

-Not saying what we need to say

-Not hearing what we need to hear or "digest" or "assimilate"

  Spiritually:

-Not receiving gifts or compliments

-Not accepting help

-Not accepting positive vibes towards us, instead deflecting them

  3 Ways To Set Our Neck Up For Success:  

Physically:

-Strengthen upper back

-Practice good posture

-Deep breathing to open the throat

  Emotionally:
(get emotional pain out by:)

-Singing (or humming)

-Massage on neck

-Hot tea

  Spiritually:

-Journal

-Pray & talk to God

-Talk out loud to yourself, friends, pets, the wall... just get the words out.

Pamela Miles is an internationally renowned Reiki master and the foremost Medical Reiki pioneer, bringing the practice to conventional medicine in the 90s. Over more than five decades of spiritual practice, she’s collaborated on various projects with academic medical centers including Yale, Harvard and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Pamela has been published in peer-reviewed medical journals, including the preeminent Journal of the American College of Cardiology. She’s also brought her insight to corporate outlets such as Google and Unilever.

Pamela’s expertise in Reiki and integrative health has been featured in mainstream media including The Dr. Oz Show, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, The Atlantic, Forbes, US News & World Report, New York Magazine, Allure, and Self. She is also the author of the award-winning REIKI: A Comprehensive Guide, the only Reiki book written for the mainstream public and healthcare professionals.

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