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Hello and welcome to The Own Your Health podcast, I'm Cyndi Lynne and I can't wait to help you step into your health power. I'm very excited for today's episode. I'm feeling very grateful for today's episode as well as very humbled. This is the 100th episode of The Heal Your Life podcast with Cyndi Lynne, and I don't know where the time has gone.
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We are on a wonderful journey together and I want to thank you for that. I want to thank you for showing up every week and for your comments and for your input. And I learn as much from you as I hope you do from me.
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And so in this brief episode today, I just want to reaffirm my commitment to you. To helping you own your health. To helping you understand what that means and most of all, to help you get started.
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That seems to be the trickiest part for most people. And I'm committed to helping people get started wherever they are. So many times I hear from folks that they feel like they're behind or they can't keep up or they can't catch up or it's one more new fad and they didn't, they didn't get into the last one.
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So now they can't do this next thing, this next great health thing that's come along. And I'm here to help you get started wherever you are, to let you know that you're not behind, that it's not too late, and that it absolutely, when it comes to your health, is absolutely not an all or nothing proposition.
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I hear so many times that things are non negotiable or you have to do these things. And if you don't do these things, other things won't matter. And it's not true. There are certainly combinations of activities. There's certainly activities that can give you the most bang for your buck. But if you aren't operating at the level that those folks are teaching to, if you aren't there yet, then that information probably won't serve you.
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And there are some fabulous experts out there and there's people I follow and podcasters I listen to, and I find that I switch them up over time and I change what I'm looking for based on where I am in my health journey as well and where I need support.
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And so I want this space to feel like a very good space for starting out, for sorting things out. And so my second commitment to you, one, is that I'm going to help you get started.
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Two is that I'm going to help you sort through the vast amounts of information. It can feel overwhelming and it can feel downright discouraging when you turn on the news or you pick up a magazine or you see an article and it says, oh, you absolutely have to do this, and we should be doing this for our health.
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And this is the best exercise and this is the best diet and this is the best supplements, and we've touched on some of these. And I hope the message that you've gotten, and certainly the message going forward will be, where's the best place to start? Okay, I've started.
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What's a next good step? What's the next logical step so that we don't feel like we're drinking from a fire hose, so that we, we aren't trying to change everything at one time. And I want to encourage you to be able to sort through information, to be able to figure out what applies to you and what may be great information that applies to somebody much further down their path of health, or maybe somebody who's even more of a beginner than you are.
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I also encourage you to have, if you've been in this health space for a while and you find you kind of like this information and you know, you know some of it and you've heard it before, but there's something that draws you to this podcast, and I think it's perhaps the idea that we can do things with the beginner's mind.
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So even if there are practices that we're currently doing, some may become habitual and we don't really remember why we're doing them, or we don't do them with the intention that we started out with. And so stepping back into a beginner's mind as we start practice or, as we restart a practice, even as we restart movement after an injury, can be super helpful.
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That beginner's mind, the intentionality, the sorting through what is serving me and what is no longer serving me. And then third, I want to support you and help you celebrate your wins. From baby steps to giant leaps.
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It's all worth celebrating. We tend to dismiss our own successes. We think to ourselves, oh, yes, I walked five times a day, but I was going to walk, five times a week. I was going to walk every day this week, and so I failed.
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Or you feel really good about what you've done, and then you talk to your neighbor or your sister or someone else and they're doing so much more, or they're doing it better, or they're doing it with weights or they're doing it faster. Don't discount what you've accomplished and how far you've come on your health journey.
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And I know that there is a group of you who have been with me from the beginning, and I encourage you to take a few minutes after this podcast. Even if you scroll through the titles of the different episodes and recognize the wins, what have you started?
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What practices have you adapted? What have you, tried and found that it didn't serve you? What have you learned from that experience? Celebrate your wins. They're unique to you, they're special to you, and they all deserve celebrating.
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See, health is a very, very personal journey. And as we move forward together, I want to continue to address the personal, physical health aspects that we all face, as well as some unique ones that we may approach face different times in our lives, or some people will, some people won't have health issues, sickness issues, that I'll address from time to time.
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There's learning elements in all of this for each of us. In the same way that I learned from every client that I have, I also want to dive a little bit more coming forward into social health, into our, emotional health, as well as mental health, because those things aren't really separate from our body.
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The way we move around in the world, the way we interact, the way we react, the way we feel is all tied very strongly to our body and our, our physical health and the way our body responds to things.
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So I sincerely hope that you will continue with me, that you will join me for this ongoing journey. I am so grateful for all of you that are here for this first hundred episodes and also encourage you to go ahead, like, share if there's someone in your life who you think maybe wants to make a start of it and doesn't know where.
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Now join me next week and we'll pick up with our Resistance Training part two. And in the meantime, let's go out and own it. The very best to you, and thank you so much.
