Being Unapologetically Authentic Podcast

What an exquisite conversation I had with Jean Tien, host of the podcast Being Unapologetically Authentic .

In this conversation we explored:

The four breaths you can use to shift your state.
Some of the challenges I faced
How I learned to appreciate the intelligence of my body after engaging the IVF process.

Grab a cup of tea and join us!

Some background:

Jean was a fellow speaker at the GO ALL IN FEST in November 2022, and we became fast friends. I was excited when she asked me to be her final guest of the year and to speak to and about a new program, near and dear to my heart; supporting women going through their 2+ IVF process.

I’m putting together a Pilot Program to support a small group of women going through their 2+ IVF process starting September 2023. If you are interested connect with me to find out more.

Until the next time!

Lisa

Breath and the Body

Insights

(This is article #4 in a series of articles I created for Montreal Community Contact, April 14, 2023 p. 10)

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Welcome Back!

In the last article, I invited you to explore what happens when you focus your attention on a sensation occurring in your body and engage one of the four breaths. Today we are going to go a little deeper. Now that you have been playing with noticing these sensations, we are going to explore how breath becomes the invitation for you to relax into them, and begin the process of shifting your thought patterns.

When you first begin to notice the sensory cues, the physical sensations associated with the feelings and emotions in your body, your intellect may begin to fight back. You see, it doesn’t want you to drop into your body. Why? Because your intellect has been the part of you running the show, and it’s afraid it’s going to lose its power.

For many of us, the intensity of some of the sensory cues that present cause us to disembody, and go deeper into our intellect. Our intellect creates stories and scenarios to help us cope with the strong sensations we are feeling. The problem with this is, when we lose ourselves to our thoughts, nothing changes. This is why changing patterns and habits can seem so hard. In order for any change to take place, we must focus on what is happening inside ourselves, and this is where breath comes in.

Think about an experience, now or in your past, which has left you feeling overwhelmed by the emotion and the sensory cues associated with it. What did you do? Did you disembody? Did your intellect create stories to help rationalize your reactions? This is where taking a different breath can have a huge impact.

Consider starting with the Water Breath. The Water Breath is the breath where you inhale and exhale with no stopping. In the second article in the series, I outlined how to do each breath and what they represent. You can also read more about them in my book Breath Sensations Words, available on Amazon.

When you choose a different breath, new neurological pathways are opened. This means how you think about a certain experience, and/or conversation, has the opportunity to shift. Consider clicking on the QR code where I will guide you through a process to test it out.

By actively choosing a different breath when you feel stressed, frustrated, angry, excited, and/or happy, you invite new thoughts into your awareness. New thoughts invite new perspectives, which in turn have the potential to shift your reactions and responses. When your reactions and responses shift your experience of your world is transformed.

Until the next time!

Lisa

Sensations – What Sits Under the Surface

Insights

Discovering what Sits Beneath Your Feelings and Emotions

“The body never lies!” This is a quote I heard many times from one of my mentors, and it’s so true. The question is what is it telling us?

I use the word Sensations to refer to all the body cues we describe as feelings and emotions. When you say you are angry, frustrated, disappointed, hurt, happy and/or excited, they are all in reference to certain cues in your body. As we grow, we start to pay less attention to the internal cues our body gives us and we begin to pay more attention to external situations to describe how we feel. This is not to say these external situations are false, or how we are describing what is going on inside of us is incorrect. It’s more about all the information we are missing because of where we put our attention.

Feelings and Emotions

When we use the feelings and emotions words, we diminish our curiosity to go beneath the surface of what is happening in the body. This is exactly what our intellect wants. It lives for the story.

Let’s test this out. If you’re willing, think of a situation when you were angry. Now, pay attention to where it sits in your body. Is it in your head, your chest, your back or your stomach? Is it heavy, light, sharp, dull, tingly, hot or cold?

This is where it can get interesting. Rather than framing this sensation as anger, consider a reframe. What happens if you reframe it as “I feel (hot, heavy, tingly, etc…) in my (head, chest, abdomen, back.)”? If you have been following the series, in the last issue we covered the four breaths, Earth, Air, Water and Fire. What happens if you engage one of the breaths as you place your attention on the sensation. As you think about the situation, has anything shifted?

The truth of your experience

Your body is always speaking to you, informing you of the truth of your experience. You have been taught to ignore it. Remember your parents telling you to go to the bathroom before a trip even if you didn’t need to? Telling you you must be cold when you weren’t? This was all done with great intention. Unfortunately it started you on a journey to dismiss what your body is telling you.

The sensory cues, in combination with the four breaths, are a powerful way to begin the process of discovering what is sitting under the surface and preventing you from living the life you long for. The good news is you don’t have to do it alone. This is what I do. I work with my clients to discover their truths sitting beneath the surface, that once freed, invites new possibilities into their world.

Until the next time!

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Lisa J. Weiss, Transformation Maven, Speaker and Author offers programs for individuals and organizations seeking to break old patterns, communicate more effectively and connect more deeply. She invites you to Shift your perspective, Transform your relationships, and Evolve your world.

Over the many years of working with individuals and groups Lisa has found that most of her clients tend to focus on the body, the mind and the spirit separately. In order for healing to take place all three need to be engaged simultaneously. Her book Breath Sensations Words, available on Amazon.ca, is a gateway for you to deepen your awareness of the mind, body and spirit in real time.

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(Montreal Community Contact, March 31, 2023, p.16)