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Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Did you know trying to change your thoughts can cause psychological stress and exhaustion???
When we work on changing our thoughts, sometimes that can happen easily. But sometimes we have to really work to believe a new thought.
Cognitive dissonance is the discomfort you have when your brain holds two competing beliefs. And that makes it sound mild. Sometimes we call it the "river of misery" when you are trying to change an old thought pattern and believe something new.
Struggling with this work, thinking it is not happening fast enough, or thinking maybe it is impossible for you IS NORMAL. It is sometimes difficult and uncomfortable to believe something new.
Be kind, compassionate, patient, and loving with yourself when you do this work.
Know that struggling with it is normal, not a reason to beat yourself up or lose hope!
The only thing wrong with you is thinking that there is something wrong with you!!!
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Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Hey all you perfectionists and recovering perfectionists!
In this episode I talk about how perfectionism may have gotten you this far in life. But if you living in chronic stress because you think you aren't good enough in some way, then perfectionism may no longer be serving you.
B Minus work is a way of lowering the bar for yourself, to stop expecting the unrealistic, and to allow pleasure into your life on purpose.
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Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Are you a giver? Do feel more comfortable giving, than receiving? Do you struggle asking for, or receiving help?
Well listen up! Because working on receiving could benefit not only you, but also the people around you.
Constantly giving is not sustainable. You may already know that by the toll it has played on your body. If you are giving at your own expense, you can balance that by practicing receiving.
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Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Here is EXACTLY WHAT TO DO to get out of pain and heal your body.
And it's not what you think!
In this episode, I talk about how healing is not a matter of following and exact series of steps. Healing is an individual process, and what works for one person may not work for another.
So how can you know exactly what to do for YOU???
What I teach is to integrate back into the body, and find the inner knowledge within you. What if your body already knows how to heal, you just need to develop the skills to tune into and interpret it.
I go through some of the best basic techniques to tune into your intuition, higher self, inner wisdom, the knowing, or whatever you like to call it.
Tuning into your higher self for wisdom is a skill you can learn through embodying your body. And it is a meta-skill you can use in any area of your life!
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This is Betsy Jensen, and you are listening to Unstoppable Body and Mind, episode 52, Exactly What To Do. In this podcast, we learned to upgrade our brain and understand the power of our thoughts, to heal and to create the results we want in our life. Become the person in control of your healing and make peace with your life.
Become Unstoppable Body and Mind.
Hello, my loves. Welcome today. Thanks for joining me.
I hope you're enjoying this podcast, Unstoppable Body and Mind. If you have, please go over to iTunes and give it a rating and a review. It really helps the podcast be found by more people.
And if you haven't checked it out yet on Instagram or YouTube, you can see me actually filming the video of this podcast. And so you can see me talking as I'm talking. It gives you the whole audio visual effect.
Super fun. All right. So today, the concept of someone telling you exactly what to do, wouldn't that be great?
If you're listening to this podcast, you may be struggling with some chronic issues with pain or disease or fatigue, not feeling good in your body. And usually the people on this podcast, I think a lot of people who are listening to this podcast have tried everything that they can think of to do. And if you think about them, usually they're the physical things, right?
Like changing your diet or modifying how you move or restricting certain activities or getting massages, things like that. Physical treatments for your physical body. And then you might be at this place where you found out that it's possible that some of your pain, maybe even all of your pain and your disease is caused by your thoughts and emotions, by those heightened levels of stress, by your nervous system being so ramped up for so long that some of the signals get mixed or some of the structures break down.
So that's great news, right? You're starting to find out that there are other alternatives other than treating your body in a physical way. There's this whole biopsychosocial approach to your body.
And just as we are trained with everything in life, we want a to-do list. In fact, we want a quick fix. We probably would prefer a pill or something that we can just do very easily.
But even if it takes some work, I think a lot of people at this point are ready to do the work, but they want to know exactly what to do. I remember having this sentiment in physical therapy school, where we were learning about different injuries in the body and how to treat them. And I thought it would just be easiest if they had one big book about all the different possible injuries that could possibly happen and how you would treat each one.
But what they were teaching us were general concepts of how to evaluate a patient and to treat for general types of things independent of the body part. So, for example, if I was learning how to evaluate someone's ankle, I wouldn't just learn about all of the specific ankle injuries, but I would learn in general how to check for swelling and how to treat for that, how to assess the range of motion in a variety of joints, and then how I would apply that to the ankle. So they were teaching us more of the meta skill of being able to evaluate and treat anything, anyone, and not have a list of things memorized.
And I get it. It was frustrating. And I have some good news for you, some bad news and some good news, because if you think of it like bad news, not that we have to label it, get all judgy about it, but the news that people maybe are not as happy to hear is that what works for one person might not work for another.
Where one person might get a lot of benefit from 10 minutes of journaling, someone else might need 30 minutes of journaling, or maybe they are in a support group, or maybe they're getting coaching, or maybe they are doing a meditation series. People can get different effects that are helpful to them, I think depending on where they are in their life, what they're open to, and really what their body is ready for. So it's a little bit nebulous as far as what exactly works for someone.
But there is some good news too, because there's actually a way of learning the meta skill, of learning to tap into your own body, your own intuition, your own higher knowledge, your inner voice, and getting those answers for yourself. So although the process is not one of someone giving you a checklist of all the things you need to do, and you going through and checking them off in order in a certain way, and then boom, your healing's done. It's more a process of learning and growth through trial and error, through change, through baby steps, through successes, and times that aren't as successful that you learn from.
And even thinking of the goal as not a place that we just get to, where we're just healed, but thinking of humanity as always in continual healing, always on this journey and this path. Because as we grow and we evolve, new things might come up for us, new realizations of the old patterns that we have from our childhood, the old programs in our brain that aren't serving us. And not everything comes up at once and then gets healed and it's done.
And the goal is not to be completely pain free 100% of the time. Just like our goal would not be to be awake 100% of the time or full 100% of the time. We have these contrasting emotions for a reason.
And pain does serve a purpose. So you may be wondering, how can I know for myself exactly what to do? Because this was kind of a bait and switch, right?
I hate this title. I'm going to tell you exactly what to do. But I am.
Exactly what to do is for you, getting in touch with whatever your blockages are to your inner self. So maybe for you, journaling is the best way. I think that's a great way to start uncovering things.
If you haven't tried it, then absolutely try listening to that episode I have about Penvent, where I talk about how you can get rid of your negative thoughts, and how you can get rid of them. And I think that's a great way to start. Describing that journaling process, where you just write without any kind of filter, as if you're just a child having a temper tantrum, just spewing out all of the negativity, you get it out.
You can rip it up or burn it and move on. That can be super helpful in just. Uncovering some of the subconscious thoughts and old feelings that can be there.
Maybe you're someone that doesn't really feel any emotions. You kind of repress them to the point that your body does it automatically. You may not even feel like you get very angry or upset.
You're just kind of even all of the time. So for you, really labeling your emotions might be a really good first step. What am I feeling?
I would suggest getting a chart that labels a lot of different emotions, so we're not just saying bad or good or fine. You could really get down to the nuances of, you know, do I feel irritated or frustrated or annoyed or worried? You know, those all have slightly different meanings and different flavors.
Definitely for everyone, doing any kind of personal work, learning what your thoughts are, just listening to your thoughts, being the observer of your thoughts, detaching yourself and your concept of yourself and your self-worth from your thoughts, just realizing my brain keeps coming up with some of these old beliefs, but that's not a reflection of how good of a person I am or not, or if I've done enough work or not, or if I'll be able to do enough work in the future to get over this. Start by noticing. Meditation is almost universally shown to benefit with any kind of mental work that you're doing, whether it's just for calming your stress level or for actually trying to use your thoughts to manifest things and to have power and for healing.
So if you don't already have some kind of meditative practice, I would suggest something for calming your mind. Now, it doesn't have to be sitting on a yoga mat with a rigid straight back for 30 minutes straight. There can be walking meditations.
There can be guided meditations. You could be in a position that's comfortable to you. You could start with three minutes.
I would start with three minutes. Just don't even think about starting with 30 and then getting frustrated that you can't do it. And even with those three minutes, don't think that you have to be perfect about having a clear mind.
The process is more about noticing when your thoughts are straying and then bringing them back rather than perfection. Another very beneficial thing for getting back into your body, for connecting with your body again to find that higher wisdom and that intuition is to move your body. So actually physically moving your body and especially in enjoyable ways.
So doing things like dancing, moving to music, going on walks outside, nature can be a place that's very calming to your nervous system, a place where it might be easier for you to connect with something bigger than yourself rather than just having all the thoughts that you have and distractions of being indoors. Thinking thoughts on purpose can be very helpful. Having some kind of mantra or affirmation that you say can be very helpful in changing your beliefs, which can heal your body and change your pain.
So you might have a practice of when you fill that nervous system ramping up physiologically with your body, learning how to calm yourself, and then also having some affirmative thoughts that you say to yourself, like, I'm safe. I am always safe. I have divine guidance.
I am strong and powerful. I can receive help from others. The power of thoughts is something I talk about almost constantly because it's so, so important.
So cleaning up any of those old beliefs that you have, understanding them, thinking new thoughts on purpose, being so compassionate with the times that you feel like you're failing and having this patience with yourself. All of these things are so important on the healing journey, and some things may be more important at one time to you than another. And again, that's why tapping into your unique wisdom, your inner knowledge is going to be so important for you.
There are things like keeping a dream journal, which can get you more in tune with your intuitive side or what's going on in the subconscious. You can notice those times when you are feeling inspired. You can notice those times on purpose, where there are serendipities, where things seem to happen magically.
You can ask yourself throughout the day lots of questions and see with your body how you respond. So you can ask yourself yes or no questions, and there are different ways of muscle testing. One of them is just asking your body how it feels in your body to believe that thought.
So if your body tenses up, it's probably not a thought that is very helpful to you. Maybe it's producing some fear or anxiety. If a thought is calming to you, it's probably a thought that you want to have in your back pocket for those times that you want to calm yourself.
So asking yourself lots of questions, giving yourself time to respond, and muscle testing, which is basically like you can ask yourself in different ways, standing and swaying forward or back with your finger. There are some different ones. These ones I'm not as familiar with, but I have been doing this one, and I have an Instagram video about it.
I'll put a link in the show notes, where you can ask yourself a yes or no question. And if there's no resistance and it's smooth, then that's a yes. If there's some tension and there's kind of some resistance or friction, then that's a no.
And you can develop these. If they don't feel natural to you, and you don't feel intuitive with it yet, intuition is a gift that comes with practice. It's something that you actually have to develop on purpose.
It's not something that many people just have. And even if they do, you can still develop it further with this intent. This may look to you like what I've talked about in previous episodes.
As far as asking yourself, what is the next best thing for me to do? What is the next right thing? So in the morning when you wake up, what is the next right thing?
And maybe it's getting a glass of water. Maybe it's going for a walk. Maybe it's making your bed.
And then you do that thing and then check in again. What's the next right thing? So it's this process of continually checking in, following through with whatever message you're getting from your body and developing that sense of connection with your body each time you ask and respond.
The somatic tracking meditation is a good one for connecting with your body if this process sounds hard to you. But this really is the answer. It's a meta skill.
As you develop this confidence, this inspiration, this intuition with yourself, then you'll be able to use it in all situations, not just for your healing, but with your relationships, with money, with your body image, all of these kinds of things you're working on simultaneously as you're reconnecting with your body, and really seeing all of the old stuff that's there, all of these old emotions and programs, and bringing them out into the light, not judging yourself for them, understanding them, and then being able to move on in a purposeful way. So if this sounds like something you're interested in taking to a deeper level, be sure and reach out. I have a few more spots open for one-on-one coaching.
You can look at the link in my show notes, and you can sign up for a time for a free consult call with me. All right, you guys, give yourself some practice time this week with tuning in. See you next week.
Thank you so much for listening. I hope you learned a little bit about your brain today that helps you in your life like it helped me. Please be sure and subscribe and leave a review.
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Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
In this episode I talk about how sometimes in life we have negative emotions.
We have an inner child that can feel self pity or unloved or unworthy.
So rather than beating ourselves up. Or worse, thinking that something must be wrong with us because we can't get over some negative core thoughts, I suggest you try ALLOWING them.
Set a time that you write and vent - imagine your inner child having a tantrum and complaining without restraint. Then you can rip it up and move on.
Try allowing the emotion in your body, like being the calm parent of a tantruming child. You don't have to do what the toddler wants, just listen. Have compassion. Understand why a child would feel hurt or sad or victimized.
Use your body signals as a sign to do this inner processing. Listen to you inner child, so she or he stops screaming to you through your body.
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Monday Jan 18, 2021
Monday Jan 18, 2021
In this episode, I teach you a strategy you can use to start to change your thinking patterns and rewire your brain. It is to be a Detective for the opposite of what you already believe.
Our brain is used to seeing what we already believe as truth. So the first step is to notice that you believe something. Then notice if what your believing is serving you.
When you have identified a painful belief you have, look for ways the opposite might have some truth. You can usually find SOME truth in the opposite, and sometimes it is AS TRUE as what you currently believe.
Our thoughts are powerful. Just opening up your mind to different thoughts, can create space for new changes to occur.
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Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
The way you react when you feel pain, determines whether you continue to wire you brain for pain or not.
When you respond with fear, anxiety, worry, stress or urgency, then your brain gets feedback that the sensation it is feeling is very important. The brain prioritizes looking for pain. And the hyper vigilance and guarding actually CREATE more and more pain pathways!
When you can respond neutrally, the brain does not see it as a high priority. Since it is not urgent, the brain can stop focusing on anticipating and creating pain.
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This is Betsy Jensen, and you are listening to Unstoppable Body and Mind, episode 49, How to React to Pain. In this podcast, we learned to upgrade our brain and understand the power of our thoughts, to heal and to create the results we want in our life. Become the person in control of your healing and make peace with your life.
Become Unstoppable Body and Mind.
Hello, my friends, thanks for listening today. I am going to tell you about how to react when you have pain. Now, I used to teach this a lot for several years, decades even as a physical therapist.
I taught people to tune into their bodies and to be very sensitive to any kind of pain, any kind of sensation that they would have in their body, and immediately link it to whatever activity they were doing. So I had a very physical approach. That's how I was trained in physical therapy, to look at the body as a structure, as a machine.
And if parts were broken, then we could do some exercises, maybe our stretches, some mechanical, physical things, in order to fix them. And now, what I've learned from studying research in neuroscience, is that the structures are not really shown to cause pain. Now, of course, sometimes if you sprain your ankle, or there's an acute injury, there will be a sensation of pain from your body to your brain, indicating that there's some problems, there's an injury, there's something that might be causing damage.
But that can even be overridden. Imagine if someone's being chased by a bear, and they've sprained their ankle, they won't even be feeling that ankle if they're running for their life. So we know that the perception of pain can vary depending on the situation.
Pain as this danger signal is very important to the brain. But what we learn from neuroscience is that when conditions become chronic, there are more pain pathways that are originating in the brain and felt in the body, not going from the body to the brain. Plus, you may have heard me say there's plenty of MRI research, hundreds of studies of healthy people, even professional athletes with no complaints of pain or resulting limitations in their function, who have torn rotator cuffs, meniscuses, menisci, meniscuses, I don't know, a torn meniscus or two on a knee, disc bulges, herniations.
That is so common in people, basically over age 40. If you've lived a few decades on the earth, you'll have some wrinkles on your face, and you'll have some wear and tear to your body. The perception of pain is so interesting.
There's a girl on my daughter's soccer team who ran with a dirt bike straight into a storage container, broke some bones in her face. The doctor said she still has broken bones in her face around her eye, and it's been three weeks, and she said she feels no pain. And she's out there playing soccer, running around, I would think jostling those bones.
She has no pain, no sensation of pain. And at that point, is there a threat? So if you're always taught that any painful sensation in your body means that something physically is the cause of it, then it's very easy to think that when something doesn't get better, that it means that the structure is still not healed or it continues to be damaged, or there really is something that needs to be on high alert, and you need to really watch out for and be looking for and be guarded.
So think about what happens when you're guarded. You tense up, right? When you have fear if something's going to hurt or not, you can even be sitting in a chair and thinking of a movement and start to tense up in your back.
So we know that more is going on than just what is structurally happening. And the difficult thing is that when we feel the sensation of pain, and we believe that it is structural, and we are basically giving feedback to our brain that this is important, there might be some damage, I wonder why it's not healing, it hasn't gone away yet, maybe this is never going to go away, what's the rest of my day going to look like? All of those kinds of things increase your stress level, increase the sense of fight or flight in that amygdala.
And so when the amygdala, the area that kind of processes all of the sensations, the information and the emotions, it's in the limbic system and emotional center of the brain, there's this part that's called the amygdala, and when it gets basically overstimulated, then signals can get mixed up. Things can be perceived as pain from the body, and it's actually from the brain down to the body. It can all be linked back to heightened states of arousal, stress, fight or flight that people are in chronically.
I mean, we are basically living in fight or flight, most of us. Have you ever been on vacation, laying on a beach, and you're still stressing out about things? It's because this is our normal.
Our cells are used to a certain amount of cortisol. We want to have a little bit of stress in our lives. It keeps us motivated.
All of these things, when we actually look at the thoughts and the feelings that are creating these neurochemicals, they can all actually be modified. They can be changed. If the pain has lasted for several years, and if you have tried many different things, physical things, if you've tried all the physical things that were suggested and nothing has worked for you, then please consider that you might have some emotions involved, that this might be something that you can actually work on on the emotional level, which they're showing most chronic pain and disease cases are, to a large degree.
So I want to really talk about what to do when you feel the sensation of pain. As much as you can, you want to react calmly. I know it's counterintuitive.
It's totally different than what I used to teach my patients. I used to teach them to fear, but that actually ramps up the nervous system and causes more pain to be created. So what you want to do is signal to the brain that it's not important, that it's boring, that it's not a big deal.
Maybe you can think, my body is strong, my back is strong. Maybe you can think, this is emotional, I'll deal with it later. Maybe you can think parasympathetic, you know, like the nervous system, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic.
Maybe you can just take a deep breath when you feel the pain. But I'm telling you, the more you can really believe, it sounds like some faith-based kind of thing, or like a cult or something, like you really have to believe, but this is why. The more you can, at the neurological level, at the nervous system level, respond back with a sensation of pain in your body, neutrally, then your brain doesn't keep thinking that it's important, doesn't stay on the lookout for it constantly.
When you're always looking for pain, more and more of your brain gets devoted to looking for and creating pain. So what you want to do is feel that sensation and react as neutrally as possible. Those meditations where I have you go into the body and describe the sensation, that's one way.
You can describe it neutrally, like my back doesn't feel as loose as I would like it to right now. Or you could have like a code word for your pain. You could call it banana or something, like, oh, that banana is back.
You could talk to your body, like, oh, neck, I hear you. You're getting really stressed. You're tightening up.
I'll journal about this later. We'll talk about this later. It's okay right now.
And then as much as you can, forget about it. Don't base your day around it. Try to not pain catastrophize.
Try to really not talk to people about your pain. The less you can make it important to your brain, the less your brain will create pain. So there are a lot of rhyming words there.
Every time I rhyme, I want to say, that's a rhyme. So become the observer of your body. Feel the sensations as neutrally as possible.
Describe them with neutral words, or kind of ignore them if possible. You don't have to be mean to them. You don't have to say you're not allowed here.
They're allowed here. It's going to be here. It's going to be in the passenger seat, or maybe in the back seat.
It's coming along with you, those sensations. But maybe you can still drive wherever you want to go that day. The more you can accept that it's there, but not really let it dictate you anymore.
Try and make peace with it. Try and observe it. Try to accept it.
And try to ignore it. Just try to be neutral with it. I know it's easier said than done.
If you've had some success with this, I would love to hear your comments. You can go over to Instagram, or YouTube, or Facebook. Body and Mind Life Coach.
And watch it and comment there. Thanks, you guys. See you next week.
Thank you so much for listening. I hope you learned a little bit about your brain today that helps you in your life like it helped me. Please be sure and subscribe and leave a review.
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Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
In this episode, I take you through a calming meditation. We focus on the positive sensations in your body, and finding a place of safety within that you can come back to.
This meditation is great to decrease fear and promote calm in the nervous system.
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Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
In this episode I talk a little about the word I have chosen for 2021- Light.
Have you chosen a word for 2021? Today is a quick listen to get you thinking about the intention you want to set for the coming year.
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Monday Dec 21, 2020
Monday Dec 21, 2020
Today I interview Danielle Savory about overcoming chronic pain, embodiment, and finding pleasure.
Danielle is a sex coach for women, and host of the podcast “It’s My Pleasure.” Her education is is in Neuroscience and Buddhist Psychology.
She shares her chronic pain journey, starting with noticing her thoughts - allowing sensations in her body, and having self compassion.
Danielle studied with Kristen Neff and learned first hand the science of Self Compassion for creating a healing environment. When you accept and reconnect with your body, you can start to notice pleasure along with the pain. Danielle says, “When you start to see the rest of the body is there to support the pain, and in a compassionate way. That would help the pain move through. And over time to eliminate it.”
Allowing pleasure was a huge part of Danielle's healing. “Soak in the good of pleasure. Let it become a part of you, your brain, your whole being. It creates a buffer system of resilience, and a nourishing refuge within your body to help you through the pain.”
Sensuality is just paying attention to the senses. Notice your body and the sensations it has. And when you can learn how to do that, then it is easier to do with your own sexual pleasure.
Learning how to practice engaging with pleasure in your body can help shift the focus off the pain and allow healing. “Just because you have pain does not mean you can not experience nourishment and satisfaction and pleasure in your body.” You can notice the pain, AND also pay attention to what feels good.
Focusing on pleasure allows you to be more present, increase joy, and find delight - which will help to improve all areas of life. Studies show changes in parts of brain involved in imagination, the creative process, rational thinking, efficiency, and focus. So the journey toward sexual growth can create neuroplastic changes that effect the way you show up in the world.
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