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Welcome to Rooted in Wellness with me, Wellness Advocate and Holistic Nutritionist,
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Mona Sharma.
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Together we will take a journey to discover natural healing practices from imbalance to balance,
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guided by ancient wisdom and modern scientific insights.
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I was raised living summers on an ashram, so I learned early on that food is medicine,
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and your kitchen is your greatest source of health care and prevention.
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After facing two heart surgeries, anxiety and weight challenges, I discovered that just
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because your symptoms are common doesn't mean that they are normal.
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Together with some incredible guests, we will explore the power of our mind, body and
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soul connection, returning to our roots to rediscover our greatest well-being.
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Welcome back to Rooted in Wellness.
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Today's solo episode is about something that we are all experiencing, whether we realize
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it or not.
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It's stress, but not just the word stress and the way that we casually throw the word
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around.
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This is about the deep physiological imprint that stress leaves on our body and on our mind,
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and even on our long term health.
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It all adds up.
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I want you to walk away from this episode not only understanding what stress is, but
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really feeling empowered to shift it.
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I used to say that stress and anxiety was my blueprint, but no more.
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And if you've ever wondered, why does this stress seem to hit me harder than it should?
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I've created something special for you.
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I want you to go ahead and take my free stress quiz to discover your hidden stress pattern
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and learn how to finally calm your body and your mind.
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You can find that at monasharma.com slash stress-quiz or just check the link in the show notes
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below.
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Okay.
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Let's dive in.
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What is stress really?
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So let's start with the basics.
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Stress is your body's survival response.
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It's how your nervous system prepares to fight or flee or freeze in a response to a perceived
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threat.
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It's not that all stress is inherently bad.
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In fact, stress is actually designed to keep us alive, but in our modern world, we're
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activating that stress response constantly over and over again, often without even realizing
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it.
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And here's the thing, not all stress looks the same.
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There's so many types, and each type of stress impacts us differently, especially when
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it comes to chronic stress when things get a little bit dangerous.
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So let's break these types down.
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The first type of stress is acute stress.
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This is short-term immediate stress like getting stuck in traffic or having a heated argument
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with someone.
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You might feel that your heart starts to raise, your breath starts to quicken, and your
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body kind of reacts to it.
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It feels intense, but it usually passes.
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Next is chronic stress.
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This is the stress that lingers.
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It might be from work, from financial uncertainty, from the world, from relationship strain, or
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simply doing too much for too long.
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This is the type of stress that is most damaging to our health, because it keeps our body in
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this constant state of alert.
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Then we have anxiety stress.
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This is a more mental, emotional stress that's rooted in fear, or worry, or even overwhelm.
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And it often comes from our own internal dialogue, ruminating over thoughts, overthinking,
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or catastrophizing something I've been there.
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Even if there's no immediate threat, your body's still reacting as though there is.
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Of course, physical stress.
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This includes things like overexercising, cold exposure, under-eating, or maybe not
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sleeping enough.
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These stressors can be hormedically beneficial, meaning that they build resilience within
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your body in small doses, but if overused and not recovering properly, they become harmful
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over time.
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Then there's environmental stress, think loud noise, pollution, EMF exposure, blue light
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at night.
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These are often invisible stressors that still affect our nervous system and our hormones.
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Then we have traumatic stress.
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This stems from past events, something that really overwhelmed our body's ability to
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cope.
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It can be a big, capital-T trauma, like an accident, or what they call a little-T trauma,
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like years of emotional neglect.
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Trauma lives in the body until it's processed.
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Then we have use stress.
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This is a positive stress.
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It's like starting a new job or having a baby.
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It still activates the stress response, but it's rooted in excitement or growth.
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The key is recovery.
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Without it, good stress really becomes depleting.
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So yes, stress isn't always bad, but it's how frequently we experience it, and how we
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recover from it that determines whether it's going to be supportive or harmful to our
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health long-term.
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Here's what I want you to understand.
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Stress doesn't just live in our head.
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It lives in our body, and when your body's in a state of constant stress, it's not going
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to be able to prioritize things like healing or digestion or making the right hormones
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at the right time.
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It's honestly prioritizing survival, and that's why chronic stress is linked to so many
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imbalances within the body, things like hormone imbalance, having high cortisol or insulin
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or impacting your thyroid and your estrogen levels, also digestive issues, things like
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bloating or gas or irritable bowel syndrome or constipation or even leaky gut.
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Also impacts poor sleep.
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This could be issues falling asleep or staying asleep.
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I definitely have noticed that.
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It could impact weight gain or even weight loss resistance.
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Maybe it's impacting your immune system, causing a weakened immune response.
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Brain fog, memory loss, mood disorders like anxiety and depression.
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You get it.
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It's a long list, but so many of us are suffering, especially for women and especially
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in parimenopause and menopause.
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Chronic stress can absolutely amplify all of those symptoms.
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Why?
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Because when your adrenals are constantly pumping out cortisol, they're too busy supporting
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other hormones like progesterone and estrogen.
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You might be doing everything right, you're eating clean, you're exercising, you're getting
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fresh air, but you still feel off, and that's the power of stress.
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It's invisible, but it's really loud in our body and it gets louder and louder over
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time if we ignore the symptoms.
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So how do you know if stress is quietly running the show on your health?
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Here are some signs.
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Maybe you're waking up feeling tired even after eight hours of sleep, or you're feeling
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wired at night like you can't wind down, you're feeling bloated after your meals or just
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uncomfortable after eating, you have frequent headaches or neck tension and your neck and
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shoulders.
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Your periods might be irregular or your PMS might feel worse at times.
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Maybe you're feeling anxious or easily overwhelmed or emotionally reactive.
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You might have lost your sex drive or you're feeling really tired, but wired 24-7, any
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of these sound familiar?
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This isn't a willpower issue, this is a nervous system issue.
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And for me, these were all symptoms that I ignored for far too long until I had a physical
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manifestation of actual heart palpitations, right?
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My body had to send this really loud signal for me to pay attention to my nervous system
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and everything that I was holding within me.
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I was a master at ignoring my symptoms and I really hope that you start to tune in to
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the power of what your body is trying to communicate with you.
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In Ayurveda and yogic traditions, we've known for a long time that stress lives in our
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nervous system and our gut.
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Stress is considered a key driver in imbalances across all of our doshas, especially our vata
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dosha.
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And from a traditional Chinese medicine perspective or even indigenous practices, healing really
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required us to tune in and restore the balance between our mind and our body.
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They recognize that this was essential before throwing any modalities into the body.
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This is now catching up to this ancient wisdom.
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In fact, studies show us that practicing deep breathing or meditation or gentle movement
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that we love or spending time in nature grounding or even practicing gratitude actually shifts
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our nervous system from fight or flight into rest and digest.
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And these are just nice to have.
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They are essential to our health and how we live.
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They're essential in paramount to feeling our best every single day and for our body to
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function.
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Now let's talk about the solutions because here's the truth.
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You don't need to change your entire life to become stress resilient.
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You just need to start weaving in small, consistent moments that tell your body, hey, you're
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safe now.
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You can start turning on all the cues that your body needs to function at its best.
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These little shifts throughout the day can really help your nervous system move from
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fight or flight into a parasympathetic mode, also known as rest and digest or repair and
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heal.
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And the best part is that these tools are really simple.
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They're accessible and they're proven to work.
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Here's some of my favorite ways to build stress resilience without adding more to your very
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full plate.
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The first one is your morning reset.
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Start your day with the feeling of safety.
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Before you check your phone or dive into your day, just take one to two minutes of really
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deep, belly breathing.
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You could also try the 4-7-8 breath method, you can find this on my website, you're inhaling
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for the count of 4, holding your breath for 7 seconds, exhaling for the count of 8.
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This type of breath really calms your vagus nerve and lowers cortisol, especially, you
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know, almost instantly, I would say.
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The bonus tip is you're going to put one hand over your belly and the other one over
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your chest.
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This simple gesture, this posture is going to signal safety to your body.
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Tune in, feel your body, feel your heartbeat, the miracle that exists within you, that
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typically will shut down the noise of everything around you so that you can tune into the
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sense of peace, so you're setting the tone for your day.
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Next is micro moments for regulation.
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You don't need 30 minutes, you don't need to sit and stillness for 30 minutes, you just
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need these specific moments.
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So for example, let's say you're waiting in line, relax your shoulders, unclench your
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jaw, take a breath, maybe when you're driving, I like doing this one, you're inhaling
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for the count of 4, exhaling for 8 seconds.
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Excellent acceleration that's longer than the inhale is going to cue the body to relax.
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Maybe you're making lunch or coffee in the morning, you're going to play some really
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calming music or binaural beats, or you're going to go with your coffee outside and get
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barefoot on the ground.
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These are all really great modalities that I use with my clients, but my constitution
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is different than yours, so try to find some things that help you feel a sense of common
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peace.
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Then you can schedule them into your day or try habit stacking these things.
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The more that you build these into your day, you're queuing the sense of calm on repeat,
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and you're retraining the nervous system to come back into that restful state.
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That practice of shifting from one state to the other is going to build resilience in
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your body and then your body becomes what you're seeking.
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The next one of course is how you eat.
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Make sure that you're eating in a calm state.
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Most of his eat while we're stressed while we're multitasking or scrolling or on the
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go, when we eat while we're stressed, you're shutting down digestion, your body cannot
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digest food when you're stressed, so here's your cue.
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Before every single meal I want you to pause, take 3D breaths, smell your food, look at
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your food, look at the colors, the simple act of stopping to register to eat is queuing
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your body to release the digestive enzymes that are going to support you.
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When you start eating, chew slowly, chew your food, taste all the flavors, acknowledge
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and let your body receive all the nourishment instead of eating mindlessly or throwing things
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down the hatch.
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Eating can be a really spiritual experience and it's an active self-love, right?
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You're nourishing every cell in your body, so tune into that.
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These simple practices are going to help reduce your bloating, support your nutrient absorption
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and tell your body that, oh, we're safe now, so let's digest all of our food properly.
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Next is moving with intention, not intensity.
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We can feel good sometimes to make sure that you have these gentle practices like yoga
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or walking or dancing which helps to release the buildup of stress from our fascia or connective
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tissue.
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Even from your mind, just 10 minutes of movement in between your meetings, maybe at the
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end of your workday, can really completely shift your state.
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Maybe after yoga you've experienced wanting to cry, I've been there, that's your body
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telling you that it can let go of stored tension.
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It's beautiful.
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Let it move through you, don't try to stop it.
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If that feels like too much, yoga is not your thing, get a rebounder.
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This is something that I ask my clients to do.
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Mini trampoline in between your meetings, you're jumping up and down, maybe playing
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your favorite song and you're shaking things out of your cells, out of your body and letting
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things go.
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I promise you, you're going to see your body's ability, your superpower to learn how
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to change your state with these simple practices every day.
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Next is anchoring your day with nervous system rituals, yeah, not habits, rituals.
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So let's say you're experiencing an afternoon slump, instead of reaching for caffeine,
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which I know is tempting, try to take a few rounds of box breathing, so inhaling, holding,
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exhaling, holding it out, each for the count of four.
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Maybe you're noticing that you're feeling overwhelmed on some days, I've felt this a lot
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lately.
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Try humming or chanting, maybe sound oom softly.
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It activates the vagus nerve, what's been feeling really good for me lately is inhaling,
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but as I exhale, this like sigh, hum feeling, that alone makes me feel like I'm having
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a release and it's becoming a bit of a ritual for me.
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Another great time for rituals is before you go to bed, din the lights in your house, put
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one hand on your belly or maybe you're doing gentle breath work or journaling, purging
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everything on to paper.
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A lot of my clients will do a scribble exercise if it doesn't feel comfortable to journal,
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literally just think of everything that's bothering you, like the person that cut you
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off in traffic or the teacher from grade one, whatever's coming up for you that day, just
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scribble it out onto paper and then when you're dying, you feel like you've got a release,
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take that paper, crinkle it up, throw it in the trash, burn it if you want to, but find
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your ritual throughout the day that you can add into your life to give yourself some
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release.
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What are some other practices that I love going for a walk with my family after dinners
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or between client calls shaking things off or maybe you're burning some incense or polo
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santo in your house or maybe every time you eat, you're setting a blessing not only
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for yourself, but for someone else.
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There are so many opportunities for you to adopt rituals in your life to shift your
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nervous system, feel into them, I promise, with practice and consistency, just like with
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feeling stress, you're retraining your body and how it functions so that you're waking
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up feeling better every single day.
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Thinking and speaking about stress, I need you to recognize that you are not broken if
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you feel tired consistently or overwhelmed or moody or inflamed, it's not just in your
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head, it's your body's way of communicating you that something is stuck, it might be
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stuck in survival mode, maybe from something that you don't even recognize, but you can
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shift it, the first step is being mindful and aware of it.
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recover from it that determines whether we're going to support our health or whether it's
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going to harm our health long term.
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that's not a flaw, it's just a pattern, it's a deeply rooted one, and this is where working
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with my clients, healing becomes this spiritual journey.
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For me, I would say that a lot of my health, like I said, was rooted in habits or beliefs
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or behaviors from my past.
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to really do the work in the timeline of your life, to recognize when's the first time
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that I felt this way?
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I notice that I'm reacting to stress, simple stresses in ways that seem like it's too much,
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so that you understand more about who you are and your constitution.
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I promise you, you can retrain your mind, you can retrain your body to heal,
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and it's the mindfulness and awareness that's going to get you there.
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So ask yourself, why does stress hit you harder than it should?
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Is there something you can change in your life to believe your stress?
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I really hope that you go and take my free quiz on uncovering what your hidden stress pattern is
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and get personalized guidance to finally calm your mind and your body.
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You'll find the link in the show notes below, or simply go to monosharma.com slash stress-quiz
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because the more that you understand about your stress type, the easier it becomes to heal.
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when you relieve some of that stress and recognize your good stress versus the overwhelming
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consistent stress, you'll recognize that your body functions a little bit more optimally.
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You're waking up feeling a little bit happier, and you're in alignment with the mind,
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the body, the spirit, and the life that you were meant to live.
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Namaste, my friends.
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Welcome to Rooted in Wellness with me, Wellness Advocate and Holistic Nutritionist,
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Mona Sharma.
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Together we will take a journey to discover natural healing practices from imbalance to balance,
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guided by ancient wisdom and modern scientific insights.
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I was raised living summers on an ashram, so I learned early on that food is medicine,
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and your kitchen is your greatest source of health care and prevention.
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After facing two heart surgeries, anxiety and weight challenges, I discovered that just
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because your symptoms are common doesn't mean that they are normal.
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Together with some incredible guests, we will explore the power of our mind, body and
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soul connection, returning to our roots to rediscover our greatest well-being.
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Welcome back to Rooted in Wellness.
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Today's solo episode is about something that we are all experiencing, whether we realize
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it or not.
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It's stress, but not just the word stress and the way that we casually throw the word
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around.
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This is about the deep physiological imprint that stress leaves on our body and on our mind,
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and even on our long term health.
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It all adds up.
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I want you to walk away from this episode not only understanding what stress is, but
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really feeling empowered to shift it.
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I used to say that stress and anxiety was my blueprint, but no more.
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And if you've ever wondered, why does this stress seem to hit me harder than it should?
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I've created something special for you.
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I want you to go ahead and take my free stress quiz to discover your hidden stress pattern
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and learn how to finally calm your body and your mind.
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You can find that at monasharma.com slash stress-quiz or just check the link in the show notes
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below.
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Okay.
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Let's dive in.
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What is stress really?
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So let's start with the basics.
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Stress is your body's survival response.
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It's how your nervous system prepares to fight or flee or freeze in a response to a perceived
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threat.
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It's not that all stress is inherently bad.
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In fact, stress is actually designed to keep us alive, but in our modern world, we're
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activating that stress response constantly over and over again, often without even realizing
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it.
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And here's the thing, not all stress looks the same.
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There's so many types, and each type of stress impacts us differently, especially when
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it comes to chronic stress when things get a little bit dangerous.
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The first type of stress is acute stress.
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This is short-term immediate stress like getting stuck in traffic or having a heated argument
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with someone.
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You might feel that your heart starts to raise, your breath starts to quicken, and your
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body kind of reacts to it.
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It feels intense, but it usually passes.
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Next is chronic stress.
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This is the stress that lingers.
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It might be from work, from financial uncertainty, from the world, from relationship strain, or
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simply doing too much for too long.
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This is the type of stress that is most damaging to our health, because it keeps our body in
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this constant state of alert.
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Then we have anxiety stress.
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This is a more mental, emotional stress that's rooted in fear, or worry, or even overwhelm.
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And it often comes from our own internal dialogue, ruminating over thoughts, overthinking,
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or catastrophizing something I've been there.
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Even if there's no immediate threat, your body's still reacting as though there is.
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Of course, physical stress.
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This includes things like overexercising, cold exposure, under-eating, or maybe not
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sleeping enough.
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These stressors can be hormedically beneficial, meaning that they build resilience within
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your body in small doses, but if overused and not recovering properly, they become harmful
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over time.
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Then there's environmental stress, think loud noise, pollution, EMF exposure, blue light
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at night.
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These are often invisible stressors that still affect our nervous system and our hormones.
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Then we have traumatic stress.
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This stems from past events, something that really overwhelmed our body's ability to
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cope.
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It can be a big, capital-T trauma, like an accident, or what they call a little-T trauma,
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like years of emotional neglect.
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Trauma lives in the body until it's processed.
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Then we have use stress.
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This is a positive stress.
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It's like starting a new job or having a baby.
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It still activates the stress response, but it's rooted in excitement or growth.
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The key is recovery.
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Without it, good stress really becomes depleting.
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recover from it that determines whether it's going to be supportive or harmful to our
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health long-term.
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Here's what I want you to understand.
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Stress doesn't just live in our head.
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It lives in our body, and when your body's in a state of constant stress, it's not going
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to be able to prioritize things like healing or digestion or making the right hormones
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at the right time.
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It's honestly prioritizing survival, and that's why chronic stress is linked to so many
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imbalances within the body, things like hormone imbalance, having high cortisol or insulin
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or impacting your thyroid and your estrogen levels, also digestive issues, things like
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bloating or gas or irritable bowel syndrome or constipation or even leaky gut.
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Also impacts poor sleep.
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This could be issues falling asleep or staying asleep.
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I definitely have noticed that.
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It could impact weight gain or even weight loss resistance.
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Maybe it's impacting your immune system, causing a weakened immune response.
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Brain fog, memory loss, mood disorders like anxiety and depression.
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You get it.
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It's a long list, but so many of us are suffering, especially for women and especially
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in parimenopause and menopause.
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Chronic stress can absolutely amplify all of those symptoms.
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Why?
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Because when your adrenals are constantly pumping out cortisol, they're too busy supporting
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other hormones like progesterone and estrogen.
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You might be doing everything right, you're eating clean, you're exercising, you're getting
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fresh air, but you still feel off, and that's the power of stress.
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It's invisible, but it's really loud in our body and it gets louder and louder over
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time if we ignore the symptoms.
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So how do you know if stress is quietly running the show on your health?
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Here are some signs.
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Maybe you're waking up feeling tired even after eight hours of sleep, or you're feeling
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wired at night like you can't wind down, you're feeling bloated after your meals or just
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uncomfortable after eating, you have frequent headaches or neck tension and your neck and
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shoulders.
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Your periods might be irregular or your PMS might feel worse at times.
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Maybe you're feeling anxious or easily overwhelmed or emotionally reactive.
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You might have lost your sex drive or you're feeling really tired, but wired 24-7, any
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of these sound familiar?
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This isn't a willpower issue, this is a nervous system issue.
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And for me, these were all symptoms that I ignored for far too long until I had a physical
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manifestation of actual heart palpitations, right?
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My body had to send this really loud signal for me to pay attention to my nervous system
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and everything that I was holding within me.
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I was a master at ignoring my symptoms and I really hope that you start to tune in to
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the power of what your body is trying to communicate with you.
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In Ayurveda and yogic traditions, we've known for a long time that stress lives in our
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nervous system and our gut.
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Stress is considered a key driver in imbalances across all of our doshas, especially our vata
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dosha.
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required us to tune in and restore the balance between our mind and our body.
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They recognize that this was essential before throwing any modalities into the body.
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This is now catching up to this ancient wisdom.
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In fact, studies show us that practicing deep breathing or meditation or gentle movement
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that we love or spending time in nature grounding or even practicing gratitude actually shifts
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our nervous system from fight or flight into rest and digest.
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They are essential to our health and how we live.
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They're essential in paramount to feeling our best every single day and for our body to
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function.
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Now let's talk about the solutions because here's the truth.
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You don't need to change your entire life to become stress resilient.
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You just need to start weaving in small, consistent moments that tell your body, hey, you're
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safe now.
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You can start turning on all the cues that your body needs to function at its best.
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These little shifts throughout the day can really help your nervous system move from
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fight or flight into a parasympathetic mode, also known as rest and digest or repair and
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heal.
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And the best part is that these tools are really simple.
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They're accessible and they're proven to work.
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Here's some of my favorite ways to build stress resilience without adding more to your very
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full plate.
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The first one is your morning reset.
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Start your day with the feeling of safety.
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Before you check your phone or dive into your day, just take one to two minutes of really
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deep, belly breathing.
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You could also try the 4-7-8 breath method, you can find this on my website, you're inhaling
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for the count of 4, holding your breath for 7 seconds, exhaling for the count of 8.
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This type of breath really calms your vagus nerve and lowers cortisol, especially, you
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know, almost instantly, I would say.
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The bonus tip is you're going to put one hand over your belly and the other one over
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your chest.
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This simple gesture, this posture is going to signal safety to your body.
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Tune in, feel your body, feel your heartbeat, the miracle that exists within you, that
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typically will shut down the noise of everything around you so that you can tune into the
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sense of peace, so you're setting the tone for your day.
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Next is micro moments for regulation.
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You don't need 30 minutes, you don't need to sit and stillness for 30 minutes, you just
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need these specific moments.
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So for example, let's say you're waiting in line, relax your shoulders, unclench your
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jaw, take a breath, maybe when you're driving, I like doing this one, you're inhaling
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for the count of 4, exhaling for 8 seconds.
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Excellent acceleration that's longer than the inhale is going to cue the body to relax.
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Maybe you're making lunch or coffee in the morning, you're going to play some really
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calming music or binaural beats, or you're going to go with your coffee outside and get
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barefoot on the ground.
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These are all really great modalities that I use with my clients, but my constitution
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is different than yours, so try to find some things that help you feel a sense of common
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peace.
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Then you can schedule them into your day or try habit stacking these things.
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The more that you build these into your day, you're queuing the sense of calm on repeat,
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and you're retraining the nervous system to come back into that restful state.
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That practice of shifting from one state to the other is going to build resilience in
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your body and then your body becomes what you're seeking.
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The next one of course is how you eat.
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Make sure that you're eating in a calm state.
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Most of his eat while we're stressed while we're multitasking or scrolling or on the
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go, when we eat while we're stressed, you're shutting down digestion, your body cannot
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digest food when you're stressed, so here's your cue.
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Before every single meal I want you to pause, take 3D breaths, smell your food, look at
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your food, look at the colors, the simple act of stopping to register to eat is queuing
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your body to release the digestive enzymes that are going to support you.
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When you start eating, chew slowly, chew your food, taste all the flavors, acknowledge
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and let your body receive all the nourishment instead of eating mindlessly or throwing things
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down the hatch.
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Eating can be a really spiritual experience and it's an active self-love, right?
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You're nourishing every cell in your body, so tune into that.
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These simple practices are going to help reduce your bloating, support your nutrient absorption
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and tell your body that, oh, we're safe now, so let's digest all of our food properly.
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Next is moving with intention, not intensity.
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We can feel good sometimes to make sure that you have these gentle practices like yoga
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or walking or dancing which helps to release the buildup of stress from our fascia or connective
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tissue.
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Even from your mind, just 10 minutes of movement in between your meetings, maybe at the
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end of your workday, can really completely shift your state.
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Maybe after yoga you've experienced wanting to cry, I've been there, that's your body
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telling you that it can let go of stored tension.
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It's beautiful.
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Let it move through you, don't try to stop it.
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If that feels like too much, yoga is not your thing, get a rebounder.
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This is something that I ask my clients to do.
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Mini trampoline in between your meetings, you're jumping up and down, maybe playing
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your favorite song and you're shaking things out of your cells, out of your body and letting
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things go.
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I promise you, you're going to see your body's ability, your superpower to learn how
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to change your state with these simple practices every day.
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Next is anchoring your day with nervous system rituals, yeah, not habits, rituals.
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So let's say you're experiencing an afternoon slump, instead of reaching for caffeine,
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which I know is tempting, try to take a few rounds of box breathing, so inhaling, holding,
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exhaling, holding it out, each for the count of four.
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Maybe you're noticing that you're feeling overwhelmed on some days, I've felt this a lot
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lately.
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Try humming or chanting, maybe sound oom softly.
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It activates the vagus nerve, what's been feeling really good for me lately is inhaling,
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but as I exhale, this like sigh, hum feeling, that alone makes me feel like I'm having
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a release and it's becoming a bit of a ritual for me.
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Another great time for rituals is before you go to bed, din the lights in your house, put
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one hand on your belly or maybe you're doing gentle breath work or journaling, purging
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everything on to paper.
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A lot of my clients will do a scribble exercise if it doesn't feel comfortable to journal,
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literally just think of everything that's bothering you, like the person that cut you
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off in traffic or the teacher from grade one, whatever's coming up for you that day, just
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scribble it out onto paper and then when you're dying, you feel like you've got a release,
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take that paper, crinkle it up, throw it in the trash, burn it if you want to, but find
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your ritual throughout the day that you can add into your life to give yourself some
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release.
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What are some other practices that I love going for a walk with my family after dinners
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or between client calls shaking things off or maybe you're burning some incense or polo
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santo in your house or maybe every time you eat, you're setting a blessing not only
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for yourself, but for someone else.
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There are so many opportunities for you to adopt rituals in your life to shift your
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nervous system, feel into them, I promise, with practice and consistency, just like with
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feeling stress, you're retraining your body and how it functions so that you're waking
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up feeling better every single day.
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Thinking and speaking about stress, I need you to recognize that you are not broken if
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you feel tired consistently or overwhelmed or moody or inflamed, it's not just in your
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head, it's your body's way of communicating you that something is stuck, it might be
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stuck in survival mode, maybe from something that you don't even recognize, but you can
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shift it, the first step is being mindful and aware of it.
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So yes, stress isn't always bad, but it's how frequently we experience it and how we
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recover from it that determines whether we're going to support our health or whether it's
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going to harm our health long term.
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And here's the truth, some of us are just more sensitive to stress than others, and
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that's not a flaw, it's just a pattern, it's a deeply rooted one, and this is where working
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with my clients, healing becomes this spiritual journey.
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For me, I would say that a lot of my health, like I said, was rooted in habits or beliefs
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or behaviors from my past.
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So if any of that is resonating with you, maybe now it's time to find a practitioner to work
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to really do the work in the timeline of your life, to recognize when's the first time
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that I felt this way?
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I notice that I'm reacting to stress, simple stresses in ways that seem like it's too much,
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so that you understand more about who you are and your constitution.
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I promise you, you can retrain your mind, you can retrain your body to heal,
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and it's the mindfulness and awareness that's going to get you there.
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So ask yourself, why does stress hit you harder than it should?
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Is there something you can change in your life to believe your stress?
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I really hope that you go and take my free quiz on uncovering what your hidden stress pattern is
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and get personalized guidance to finally calm your mind and your body.
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You'll find the link in the show notes below, or simply go to monosharma.com slash stress-quiz
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because the more that you understand about your stress type, the easier it becomes to heal.
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And maybe you'll even recognize that when your nervous system is regulated,
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when you relieve some of that stress and recognize your good stress versus the overwhelming
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consistent stress, you'll recognize that your body functions a little bit more optimally.
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You're waking up feeling a little bit happier, and you're in alignment with the mind,
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the body, the spirit, and the life that you were meant to live.
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Namaste, my friends.
