episode18.txt

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        "text": "Hello dear ones. Today I want to talk about a very simple concept and yet 1 that might be very new to you. And it's the concept that your pain, your tension, any symptoms you might be experiencing related to health conditions, are things like a headache, are you know flare-ups. These are all ways that your body is 1 sending you signals and 2 meeting your needs. Yes, yes, yes, yes. Pain and symptoms are your body meeting your needs. Let me dive into this and caveat that Maybe this isn't true for every condition. Maybe there's nuance and so I just invite you to listen to this with curiosity. You know, see if it fits for you. If it doesn't, that's okay. And you know, let it unfold. Don't rush to any conclusions on whether this is true for you. Okay so pain, fatigue, symptom flare-ups these really suck and most of us including previously myself orient to these by either trying to make them go away, fix them, or avoid them, or just like trying to manage the pain of it, the discomfort.",
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        "text": "And unfortunately this results in these symptoms, these sensations, the pain getting louder. Our healthcare system really just cares about managing or alleviating the symptoms without really addressing The root cause which is how we resulted in an opioid crisis that cost the lives of millions or how people end up on drugs that introduce new side effects.",
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        "text": "And I just want to introduce the idea that maybe your thinking is just completely wrong. So here's the reframe. Our symptoms aka our physical sensations including pain are meeting needs that you've been ignoring. These symptoms are here to take care of you. So just a few top of mind examples by no means an exhaustive list. Fatigue and exhaustion. These are forcing us to rest. To actually deeply take time to rest so maybe we weren't taking time maybe we were hustling and burnt out and struggling and it got to the point where we were so exhausted that we had to rest. We couldn't work, we couldn't do things. Exhaustion and fatigue is our body's way of saying, no bitch, you gotta rest. Pain and tension communicate maybe boundaries. So pain is our body literally saying, nope, not that. Please, please stop. Please don't do that. It's our body's way of saying really loudly, I don't like that. And maybe there's many reasons for pain. But what if instead of just trying to make the pain go away, we're like, huh, I wonder what it's, I wonder what this pain is here to say. Maybe brain fog, headaches, maybe that's our minds way of saying you're doing too much. You're asking too much of me to be mentally productive. I need mental rest. I need to lay in a room and not think. Digestive issues. Yes, they might say that certain foods aren't right. They can also send signals that we don't feel safe. You don't feel grounded. They can say things like this isn't for me. Depression. Maybe it's our body's way of saying that things have been too long, too hard for too long.",
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        "text": "I need to conserve energy. What if anxiety was our body's way of saying something's not right, and I need to act. So those are just a few examples by no means is it exhaustive and maybe think about some symptoms some you know sensations that you experience that flare up and are there any top of mind things you can think of like how is this symptom helping meet my needs? Maybe something comes up maybe not don't worry. But when we view our symptoms as something to manage, minimize, or get rid of, we have this relationship to it in which we're not actually listening. We're like, this thing is bad and I need it to go away. And yet in that we're ignoring our life circumstances, our relationships, our habits, our thinking, our emotions.",
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        "text": "Like we're ignoring so much of their context that could play a role. Maybe it literally is that your stomach doesn't like that food. Maybe it's that your job is not right for you and your body is doing everything it can to tell you that. But if you're like me and a few years ago when I was struggling with anxiety and depression and I had this horrible stomach issue, it did not occur to me that it was anxiety even though I went to all these doctors and like we can't find anything wrong with you. So instead of looking at your symptoms as something to be managed or your body as something that you're at war with let's befriend it. So befriending it your body and your symptoms might look like getting curious about what you're feeling and in what ways it might be serving you. It looks like it's accepting and validating what we're experiencing instead of just trying to fix it and make it go away. And I really like that if this is the this is the reframe okay is like what if your symptoms your sensations are your body just taking action into its own hands, because you won't listen, and doing something.",
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        "text": "And maybe that forces you to change, because you weren't going to change when I was speaking, you know, less loud. So it's like, that's fine, I'll get louder. You need to stop, I will force you to fucking stop. Or like, I don't want you to eat that, so I'm gonna freak out.",
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        "text": "Whatever it is. And so There's like the idea that your symptoms, your sensations are messengers, but it's also that like they're taking care of you. It's both. And it's only when you're not getting the message at the lower volumes that your body's like, I will speak up then.",
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        "text": "What else do you need me to say?",
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        "text": "Oh, you want me to get in those other organs those other systems involved? I will okay So I really challenge you to think about any Quote-unquote negative health symptoms and sensations as your inner child speaking to you. So yeah, we're taking this a step further. It's your inner child who doesn't have the resources to speak through words. All they know is the language of sensation. So you need to connect with your body, give that inner child compassion. You might literally place your hands on this part of your body if it is a specific body part or just go inward and you might visualize yourself hugging your younger self and so give that inner child compassion You could speak directly to some symptoms if it's more like just your pain on your shoulder.",
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        "text": "If it's like a whole body thing you could speak to your whole body. Give them compassion. Let them know it's really hard. Let them know that it's going to be okay. That you're there for them. You are listening. Let them know that you're sorry you didn't listen before, but you're listening now. And ask your body, ask your inner child, what are you trying to say? What do you need me to know? What would you like me to do now ask these slowly give your inner child slash your body time to answer and they might not answer in the first time especially if you're just asking this for the very first time and you don't feel that connected your body take some time Maybe you just focus on hands on your heart and just letting your body know that you're listening. That is a big step. And I promise you if you keep doing that your body will soften and eventually as you ask your body questions your body will speak to you. And if your body does tell you what it wants from you do that thing. So a friend recently did this and he asked his body what he needed and his body said sleep. Even though it was 5 p.m. He went to bed and he slept for 16 hours, woke up and actually felt energized for the first time in weeks if not months because he'd been routinely pushing himself constantly working trying to hack his way around sleep, feeling like, you know, he's a startup and he wants to get shit done. And so it's still new to him, but he's like, whoa, when I tune in, my body tells me. And then when I actually do that, gee, I feel better. In my experience, my body speaks in these really subtle ways. A word will pop up and it's subtle, but I know that it's true. And sometimes it's not always things that I can give myself like sometimes my body from having back issues I tune in and my body says I need support. And so I know that it's on me to go ask for support. And it's also me to grieve the ways in which Maybe I wasn't feeling supported. So it's not just 1 thing and we might need the support of others. But I challenge you to connect with your body, tune in, place your hands in your body, tell your body, I am listening, I am here. And then literally ask your body what do you need? What are you trying to say? What would you like me to do? Give it time to respond and do that thing. Keep asking, keep connecting. The inner voice and that intuition will speak up eventually because that's what it's here to do. So I just want to make this short and sweet to introduce this concept that your body is always speaking to you and your body is always trying to meet your needs. So instead of being at war with it being in opposition with it trying to meet trying to minimize these sensations the pain the symptoms because yeah, they're not fun what if you deeply connected with your body asked it what it needed and gave it that and See how all those supportive things are already doing see what happens Let me know how this goes for you. Please let me know if you have any comments or questions. And I hope that this helps you deepen your relationship with your body and shift maybe any complicated and negative thinking you have about pain and your symptoms. Bye for now.",
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