Sometimes your body knows better
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In this episode I talk about
- How ill I really got, before I figured out that something needed to change
- How a medical consultant’s weird diagnosis showed me that I was making myself ill, and that reconnecting with my body was the antidote
- How today I use my body’s responses to things to know what decisions to make on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
My story is the reason why my business is called Live True. I help clients discover and make career and life choices that wholeheartedly align with who they are, what they really want and what they love the most. I support them in finding ways around the things that our minds tell us aren’t possible.
Quick ref to resources or links I mention
In this episode I talk about Martha Beck’s “Shackles on, Shackles off” approach to weighing up your body’s responses to things. Martha is the author of several memoirs and best-selling self-help books and she is also the coach I completed my coaching training with.
I thought I’d note the approach here in case you wanted to read it after listening:
The idea is to pay attention to whether your body’s physical response and reaction is shackles on or shackles off.
Shackles on means that you have a physical feeling of being contorted. It’s a feeling of being trapped, limited and uncomfortable. Some people experience a kind of heaviness within their physical body or a kind of recoiling. For me, it’s always in my chest area and it’s like I’m being squeezed and crushed.
Obviously, this is your body saying: NO.
Shackles off means that you feel physically light and open and free. It’s a feeling of an expansion or ease in your body. A lot of people report almost feeling joyful in their body and sometimes enlightened. Physically it feels like freedom.
This is a big thumbs-up and YES from your body.
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