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Hello, welcome to the Own Your Health podcast, I'm Cyndi Lynne and I can't wait to help you step into your health power. Today we're going to do something a little bit different. As typical, it's based on my work with my clients in office. But I thought I would share something different with you today.
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So if you're not accustomed to using the show notes, today's your opportunity because there is something special for you there. And I'm going to briefly explain why I think that this is a, really important part of your health and of owning your health and taking care of your body.
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And, then a few tips on how to use the recording that's attached. So today, very typically I saw one of my clients and one of the first things I asked them is, let's check in with your body, how's it doing?
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And they usually kind of tell me what hurts or maybe for the first time notice that something doesn't hurt that's been causing them pain. And because it's a, because my practice is a physical practice and I deal with people who are often in pain and work with their muscles, that's a good check in.
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But the practice itself has helped many of them plug in or tune in a little bit more to their body. And we hear the phrase move into your body or check in with your body and it sounds a little bit woo woo for some people.
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But in fact, it's really helpful to figure out what's going on. Your body's feelings, the sensations that you get in your body, help you process and experience your moods and your emotions.
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And all of those things contribute to your health, both your mental health and your physical health. So a body scan is simply an organized way to evaluate how you're feeling in different parts of your body.
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And it can be really helpful to have a guided process to start out. So I've attached for you today a process that I use with my clients. It's five minutes, it's very quick. Now I will say if you are like me and you listen to podcasts like this while you're driving or while you're walking, you may want to come back to the show notes and do this while you're sitting or at least while you're someplace safe and you're not going to get, you're not going to trip and fall or run into traffic problems.
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So when you have five minutes and that's all it takes, sit down, have a listen, and I would invite you as you listen to this, check in with yourself. Not only the instructions that are being given, but notice are you getting impatient for this five minutes to go more quickly?
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Are you thinking, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's just, let's just move on with it? Are you hesitant to check in with certain parts of your body? Do you get frustrated at some point and just say to yourself in your mind very quickly, this is just dumb, I don't want to do this.
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I encourage you to stick it out for the whole five minutes and see if you don't notice a different feeling at the end. And this is a practice that you can do anytime as long as you're someplace safe to sit and do it.
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And it's a good way, like I said, to check in with your emotions. If you're feeling extremely frustrated, if you're feeling anxious, if you have that sensation in the pit of your stomach and you don't know why, take five minutes for a body scan.
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This one's guided. It's very quick. You'll learn to do the process on your own if you choose. Or there are longer, longer types of these check ins, longer types of these body scans that I can provide you as well.
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So if you enjoy this, by all means, please pass it along to a friend who you think may like it as well and let me know how is it working for you and if you'd like something longer.
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I include these things because sometimes it's nice to take stuff offline to do things as you can. It's in a, in a form that you can easily download on your phone if it's something that you'd like to do each night before bed or maybe at lunchtime when your day has maybe gotten away from you.
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But it's a good start. It's a good, simple way to check in with your body and your health. So until next week, I hope you enjoy and let's go out and own it.
