Hello again and welcome.
This video,
Your body is listening,
The power of what you tell yourself.
Is about the way we speak to ourselves,
The words we repeatedly use,
The thoughts we carry and how these influence the way we experience ourselves,
Our relationships,
Our body and life.
For example,
When you are feeling unwell,
Try not to say,
I'm feeling ill.
Instead,
Consider saying,
My body is healing.
I am recovering.
I'm getting stronger.
I am on the improve.
Now this doesn't deny what is happening.
It is recognizing the difference between acknowledging an experience and identifying yourself with what the body is temporarily experiencing.
This difference could be This is an experience of anxiety.
Is very different from,
I am an anxious person.
Or I am experiencing some pain It's very different again from,
I am a sick person.
What we repeatedly say to ourselves can shape the way we embrace life and the way we relate to our body.
Your body is constantly responding to what is happening within and around you.
Your thoughts,
Feelings,
Your emotions,
Your breathing,
And the state of your nervous system.
When the mind is continually signalling fear,
Worry,
Loss,
Stress or suffering,
The body can remain in a heightened state of alertness.
But when we introduce softer,
More supportive thoughts of safety,
Recovery,
Strength.
Vitality or potentiality.
We then create a different inner resonance,
One that can support greater vitality,
Healing,
Flow,
Balance or ease.
And just as the body responds to fluctuations in our mental and emotional state,
Our thoughts can influence how the body may respond to what we repeatedly tell ourselves.
What you see,
Sense,
Hear or think,
And what you talk about every day.
Gradually becomes part of your personal narratives,
Beliefs.
Remember to ask yourself.
What am I continually feeding my mind?
Is that more of pain,
Lack?
Illness,
Fear,
Stress or anxiety.
Or are you inviting?
Calm hope.
Joy or wellness.
What you repeatedly speak and think can influence the way you experience the life you are living.
So remain aware of the labels,
The fixed beliefs,
The concepts you choose to use or believe.
I'm an anxious person.
I'm always tired.
Nothing ever works for me.
I'm getting old.
I'm always suffering.
These statements can become far more than descriptions.
They can become part of a limiting pattern,
The story of who you believe yourself to be.
And once something becomes embedded as an identity belief,
You can unconsciously begin to see life through that condition filter.
Influencing how you relate to your experiences and your overall well-being.
So notice whether you are speaking from a more positive presence,
One that supports,
Inspires or encourages.
I am healing.
I am recovering.
My body is finding balance.
I am becoming stronger.
I am living with more confidence.
I am grateful.
This conscious shift.
Means you are not adding another layer of suffering or limitation through a limiting narrative you continually tell yourself.
You can acknowledge discomfort without making it who you are.
You can experience fear without declaring,
I am afraid.
You can experience tiredness without deciding,
I'm always tired.
You can experience a challenge without allowing it to define your future.
Your words matter.
Your thoughts matter.
What you repeatedly focus upon matters.
So the next time you notice your self-talk declaring sickness,
Weakness,
Stress or limitation,
Pause and ask.
Is this the message I want to send to myself?
If not,
Choose a different message.
A message that points towards a more conscious way of being.
Not as a denial of reality.
But as a pointing towards healing,
Recovery,
Strength and well-being.
Speak growth,
Healing and positivity into yourself.
Because the way you speak to yourself becomes part of the way you recognise yourself.
And ultimately the way you openly live and welcome life.
Healing begins not by forcing anything to change,
But by changing the conversation you are continually having with yourself.
Now there is something even deeper to explore here.
Underneath many of our conditioned beliefs there can be a more fundamental assumption.
The assumption that there is a separate me at the center of everything being experienced.
And me who is sick.
A me who was anxious,
A me who was tired.
A me who is failing,
A me to whom everything is happening,
A me who wants things to improve.
Begin by recognising and then gradually questioning this conditioned belief.
That there is a separate individual me at the center of experiencing.
The belief that everything that happens in your life involves or centers around me.
How I feel,
What I think,
What I want,
What happens to me,
And how I react.
But what if each experience is unfolding without there needing to be a separate me at the centre?
Claiming it,
Trying to control it,
Or reacting to it.
Also question the belief that you are a separate individual living in the world,
At a distance from life,
Reacting to it.
Try to survive it and subject to everything happening around you.
Because this belief reinforces the sense that you are a separate self.
Existing at a distance from life with the world out there and you being here.
But is this actually your direct experience,
Or is this another condition believed?
The body is not something separate from life.
Thoughts are not something belonging to a separate individual.
Experiences simply arise,
Moment by moment,
Within the one continuous unfolding of one's inseparable awareness.
And when the belief of a separate me dissolves,
What remains?
You will become to realize that there is nothing to attain.
Nothing to become.
Only the recognition of what is already present.
Before the story of me develops.
This is where the deeper awareness of healing can begin to fully blossom.
Not only in our relationship with the body.
But also in our relationship with life itself.
