Embracing Recovery With Your Mind & Body

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Embracing Recovery With Your Mind & Body

by Julia Mossbridge

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4.6

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talks

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Meditation

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Everyone

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Recovery is a time when we can really ask what needs to be changed in our lives, and listen well. This brief audio file contains a description of a recovery practice spontaneously discovered during my own recovery from pneumonia – when my mind and body told me they wanted joint custody over my life. I'm hoping you can benefit from it as well, whether you're recovering from something physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual.

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Meet your Teacher

Julia Mossbridge

Falls Church, VA, USA

Meet your Teacher

Julia Mossbridge

Falls Church, VA, USA

Transcript

I don't know what you're recovering from, But I'm recovering from pneumonia and it takes a long time and I'm so used to being super functional and so used to being able to do everything I want whenever I want to that I'm starting to realize that recovery, Physical recovery itself and mental recovery for sure are long-term life-changing phenomena that we can actually harness to shift our experience of how we live. So I started doing this practice that I want to share with you and this isn't a meditation. This is just some information about a practice that seems to work really well when you're recovering from something that has given you a heads up or like a red flag or some pieces of information that has told you something about the way you're living your life isn't working and you need to start considering more fully who you are. So here's the practice. Each morning when I have breakfast instead of looking at my phone or looking at my computer or interacting with a screen at all, I get out a piece of paper and a pen and I create a new normal for my breakfast time and the new normal is that I have two columns. Column on the left I put the word mind and on the column on the right I put the word body. And I might want to add a third column. I haven't done it yet but I'm thinking of adding a third column that says spirit or soul or something. But anyway right now I have these two columns and what I do is I let my hand write what those pieces of me want to do today. So in the body column I've been surprised to see things like take a nap on the couch. I know that my body likes taking naps but I didn't realize it wanted to take a nap on the couch. Or another thing in the body column that surprised me was just walk around the house while you're on a phone call rather than sitting or standing. Just move. So that was surprising to me and I did those things later in the day. I kept my list with me and later in the day I would just cross things off as I did them and on the mind side I would notice things not just the things I usually do for work because my work is very mind oriented. I write and I do science and stuff and so I almost always have something that I want to write or some scientific idea I want to get down on the mind side. But also on the mind side I'll notice things like write a letter to the editor. Well I didn't know I wanted to write a letter to the editor because I'm really just eating my breakfast and allowing my mind and my body to tell me what they want to get done that day. And then the neat thing is as I said I carry that piece of paper around with me and then when I do things I scratch them off the list and if I notice I've been doing a lot of mind things in a row which is pretty common for me because I get excited you know this and then that and then this. I'll stop and I'll say wait this is the third mind thing I've crossed off and let me look at my body list and I give my body full permission to do one of the things on the body list even if it's you know simply take a body brush and rub it around my body so that my body just feels good or maybe it's do a little dance or sit in a hammock or punch a pillow. And what I'm noticing is that this sort of strategy seems to be helping me recover better because I am allowing what happened which was for me this time getting pneumonia to tell me what it wants to tell me which was for me that my mind and my body want joint custody over my life. They both have things they want to do and I need to respect both of their limits and both of their desires. So I'm learning and that's the best part of recovery is to come out of something more informed and more clear about who you are and what you can do and what you can't do than when you went in. So thanks for listening.

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Recent Reviews

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Belinda

January 26, 2026

I need to try this. Sounds very interesting and worthwhile. Thank you.

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Andrea

January 3, 2024

Thank you for this. I am also recovering from pneumonia (associated with influenza). I have had it many times. This time I am trying to listen differently. Your simple practice is an excellent suggestion. ❤️

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Shannon

September 22, 2023

Love this practice! What a beautiful way to be present, honor and balance ourselves.

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LAURA

April 24, 2023

Truthfuly I do not come on here as much as I thought I would. Whenever I have, I've found amazing guidance. This has brought me to my newest level. That is a great morning ritual. I have been trying to find it. Thanks to your support I will. Rearranging my kitchen today.

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Sandra

March 4, 2023

Really inspiring, and so much better than my usual to do list first thing in the morning...

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Peggy

May 17, 2022

Yes. Good work for me to start the morning. All the best to you and get well.

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Edith

May 5, 2022

Thank you for that. Sending you love and healing energy

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Stephen

May 2, 2022

Very good. Just what i needed! I didn’t get Covid but i keep thinking what have I learned from this and how can i be better🙏😌

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Gabriella

April 18, 2022

The literal words that came out of my mouth as this track ended were, “YES. THANK YOU!” As someone who is a huge lover & advocate for meditation, visualization, and breath work, it feels as though it has been a really long time since someone has suggested to me a new incredibly practical tool (which I have yet to try) that I believe will make an enormous positive shift in my day-to-day. I look forward to this! Blessings 🙏🏽💫

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Lisa

April 8, 2022

Love this. What a great suggestion. Will begin today. Feel better.

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Christine

February 27, 2022

I love this! Getting deeper into questioning & listening about the pain etc! 🙏

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Kristen

February 9, 2022

Really enjoyed. Recovering from a stress induced migraine so this practice seems especially important to try. Thank you.

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Mia

January 31, 2022

What a great practice you have come up with! I’m recovering from COVID Pneumonia right now. I tested positive for COVID on December 24th, I was in the hospital for 9 days. I’m home now recovering! I am still very tired, but improving, very little, every day. I will follow you & your recovery practice! Thank you so very much for sharing your journey & your wonderful practice! Namaste 🙏

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Liesel

January 20, 2022

This was a beautiful reminder of how to use a recovery period with grace and wisdom. Thank you!

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Jo

November 26, 2021

I love this! I have always bristled at “to do” lists, but this really appeals to me because it’s so self directed, and lovingly so. In doing so, it also helps the “user” to step back and observe what may need to be done, and perhaps isn’t being honored by others, in order to help recovery. In my case I was dealing with walking pneumonia, an auto immune condition and a long time infestation with parasites. I was living in and running a business which I loved, but eventually found it necessary to move out and got a place of my own where I downsized my business. It wasn’t being heard nor acknowledged until I took that step in behalf of my health. As it is still so important to put my health needs first, I will begin this process immediately. Thank You 🙏

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jesse

November 16, 2021

I'm very grateful humble.Im an Actor model Christian with Love purpose, Vulnerability and a Purpose amen 🙏 ❤ ♥

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Nicole

September 16, 2021

Great idea. I normally call it my brain dump and let spirit guide me and tell me what it wants for me that day regarding business etc. But I love it for mind and body. 🙏🏻

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Ashley

August 27, 2021

What a great tool I can add to my toolbelt! Thank You for sharing! 🙏

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Jena

February 28, 2021

I want to try this, great idea... Thank you. Namasté

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Miranda

January 29, 2021

Thank you. I developed pneumonia 20 years ago. Then I had it again a year later and I never recovered. For the past 10 years I have been bedridden with M.E. It's a high price to pay for not listening to my body. If we ignore what our body says, it will shout louder. It says "stop or I will stop you".