meditation healing food living in balance healthy relationships and harnessing the truth power where you are powerful you are laughter yoga reiki and coaching the topic today is going to be the mind body connection so how it touches your mind with your body let's explore this more in detail with jodi welcome to the show jod so tell us more about what inspired you to join this line of work both a very interesting story this is actually a second career for me as in my first thirty years in the corporate world doing innovation strategy work and at the end of that stint i actually ended up in order  in condition actually a very life threatening one and boredom you condition and it caused me to really step and step back and say ok how do i take care of myself and about the same time i actually was in a bookstore as they say a book fell off the shelf it was done even you know energy medicine i read the book and before i know it i finished and i said i need to get trained in this and so what is even energy medicine so in the energy medicine is really based on the premise that our bodies are made of energy and how our bodies flowing with energy really determines how we feel emotionally and physically it's basically traces back to chinese medicines and i are vedic practices that are thousands of years old but are our energy flow and our body very much impacts how we feel emotionally physically so that's really the mind body connection right can you get more into detail about what the mind body connection actually is yes for people who don't who might not know absolutely so how we feel and how we think very much impacts our physical wellbeing and how we feel physically so there are scientists have shown that what we are actual emotions link to physical symptoms so for example most the recent research with physicians has said that ninety percent of all illnesses are actually can be traced back to stress as one of the reasons for it there's some work that's just been done by heart math which is  interesting that says if you have an emotion let's say negative emotions like anger for five minutes it actually lowers i g a which is an important immune marker for six hours ok but if you have a positive emotion let's say you care about something or a positive his books that when you witness an act of kindness your immune markers go up as well so that exact same plan right any positive emotion yeah actually literally that we can measure now that actually raises the immune system and the other so that's the whole mind body  work is all about energy so what is the energy body ok so the energy body is basically the fact that our cells are made up of energy they're electrical so we learned at some point in school that protons neutrons electrons are in in every cell for the electrical but we don't always realize that there are those cells talk to each other through electric charge and we all know we have a bony skeleton but most of us don't realize we are an energy body as well and i like to demonstrate this because again we know we can visualize the b us can't see energy ok so i have a children's toy actually i like to demonstrate it when i do you demonstrate say this thing it's called the energy stick it's actually a small children's toy and what we do is we actually are going to show that we are electrical and we can make  llectual current summit and i could actually hold one hand on the other side of this stick ok and then just touch my finger tip with their fingertips right and so we're doing is we're late we can make music so where we're making electrical current and so what happens is we have energy running you know up and down our body and also we're sending energy back and forth to each other and we hold this stick and again it's a it's all a children's toy but it just shows we can make electrical circuit between us because a your energy we connect we can make that circuit so how is this beneficial for someone who might be sick for example or even depressed how can this help them ok so again well we've we looked at everything still as energy and what we try to see is the energy flowing in where's that balance that we're out of balance ok anybody is not feeling well whether it's physical or emotional there's always some root cause energetically and usually what it means for example depression means that there's a system in the body when it is not flowing well oftentimes what i find with depression depending on what the cause of it is one of the areas that usually not flowing it was called the root chakra chocolate or one of the one of the nine energy systems in our body so that's the red wine at the base of the spine that's exactly right and so often doesn't somebody is depressed or not or feeling down that shock or is not moving in a very even flow sometimes it's it's frozen sometimes and how can you get it to start moving right so we'll end up happening is what i'm working with somebody i actually can use my hand or i actually use a small pendulum it's a small magnet as we do circles over the shakara that actually pulls the energy out and get the moving so i think that stuck or not going the direction we needed to is that she starts to get it flowing and so because her hands are magnets also even putting your hand over your body just a couple inches away actually starts to move you move your hand and then the concept afraid he where you kind of you don't touch the person but you put your hand about this much above them and heal them through reiki energy that's a similar cause it's another way of using energy exactly so in the work i do sometimes where we're out you know a few inches away from the body some as we're touching the body for the acupressure points but all of it's really designed to get the energy flowing in the body the more flows the better we feel ok and you talked a lot about stress reduction so what are some famous techniques because the average person out there is suffering from stress to some degree or another and if they're you know if they're just getting over a stressful situation or they're just getting into one or they're in the middle of one yes and that's the nature of life so how can we balance this yes so i love talking about stress because i'm so waiting for a you know they're saying well i'm fine but can you can you see through that and say well his response levels are elevated yes because i can test i can test a person for any question in terms of you know is something out of balance and one of them is the stress response ok so we do it by in this particular case it's  the person's holding their fingers like this and i'm actually touching their shoulder and i can and i use my pendulum i can test whether or not the energy is flowing or not flowing and that's a test of whether or not there's stress response elevated and then once we find that it's elevated which usually is one quick and easy technique that people can use all day long is right in the back of the hand between the fourth and fifth finger there's a little well right here if you just rub this well this is where the stress response is mapped this actually starts to come the surgeons on trying that right now so it's right here not only stress map there but the fear point there so if you have any fear or you have stress this rub this point on all for thirty seconds on both hands and you can do it throughout the day it actually starts to calm the stress response down we can shift energy very quickly within thirty seconds for a minute energy shift the challenge and opportunity is that as a pattern so it's used to being elevated stress it wants to go back to that pattern when about someone who's dealing with a chronic stressful situation like maybe a death in the family or even a chronic illness we are loss of a loved one so if they're in that mode then because you said energy can be shifted in a moment so can they just snap out of that right so that's the point you can shift the quickly but it wants to go back to the pattern especially if you have something chronic it wants to go back to the pattern it's been in but self care is a really great part of this energy work is anybody who learns about and the medicine has techniques they can do on their own they can really be empowered to keep the energy in a certain pattern so when you do this rubbing of the hand is a good example so it will shift it right away but if you're in a chronic situation it will go back because meditation helps us calm our mind helps us stay focused but there is actually you know energies that's moving up and down the body was certain patterns and so if you do the self care so for example if you do this over and over again several times a day for weeks at a time it will actually create a new energy pattern resetting the energy in your body that's exactly right kind of like on learning your helplessness that sort of childhood or maybe how you used to react to situations that are physically changing your energy body to respond differently to the same events that's exactly right you can  ok so especially with stress people who are under stress the more you do this this point there's several other ways you can do it as well the more you do it the more you build resilience so you're not triggered as easily that if you are triggered you can actually you know bring yourself back down and time yourself much quicker so the key is that the more you do it the more you create a new energy pattern so that the old memory goes away and then the new pattern becomes the norm and so this is about repetition so we always say do as much of the same pattern over and over again to really teach your body to have a new pattern and what part of that would be mentally teaching yourself to have new thoughts well the two together so as as you're calming your eyes or rubbing this you say i'm safe everything's ok two together actually really become additive ok the two together helpful but you could not do anything with their motion and you're still the more you do this the more you create energy patterns you still actually see benefit because we're going to have stress regardless some are going to be that about a situation if you're getting on one you might get into another later so it's more a question of how you maybe have new tools now or a new armor if you will just to face the i always tell people even like throughout the day if you're at work you know lunchtimes a great time to stop and take some deep breaths calm the system down ok grab the hand or do some of the other techniques that allow you to calm you know your syste the subconscious programs and so what happens is when we're children they say between in utero to eight years old our brain waves are a pattern where they're very suggestive so that's when you learn how to be loved what makes you feel worthy what makes you feel talented and that becomes the program in which we actually see the world becomes a lens in which we filter eight to eleven between in utero to eight years old oh ok yes is when when are we're really learning about what makes me feel love what makes me so worthy what makes what do i feel like i'm talented and and that's the filter in the lens in which we see ourselves so neuroscientist say that ninety five percent of the day it's a subconscious programs that are driving our behaviors and our decisions and so a lot of people about how they want to change in the like i really want to change it but i can't change it that's because his subconscious program that's holding them back  to believe that right so then what happens is we actually test them for the right posture the postures call the whole brain posture and it's usually a combination of some kind of crossing your ankles and crossing your hands we have to test for what's the right position depending on that statement but it looks something like this you're crossing your hands or cross your ankles and they close their eyes and they repeat that pas affirmation for about five to eight minutes i'm worthy i'm worthy and they will feel something shift emotionally physically or mentally so you have to really be dedicated to because i've had my affirmations you know we all have affirmations we say positive things but you mean you have to actually say them for five or ten minutes throughout the day could just once know why we're doing this actual test so what's really beautiful about cyc a is that it's given affirmations that you don't repeat it over and over you do it during this actual method when you're sitting like this for five minutes and actually the brain is in a state the left in the right hemisphere in a state where you can shift the brain eventually shift see across your hands like this ok so one hand across like that and then two hands touching each other the two palms touching me just you can put in your lap but what happens is once we have this statement actually if it tests the person so it's not as simple as like you can just get it at home this cross like this right with a test to see what's the right position ok within five to eight minutes we reprogram the brain so that the brain now really does believe it's worthy and why the purpose of inverting that it's getting the left in the right hemisphere the brain to be the whole brain state kind of an alpha wavelength so that we actually can get in picture three days later he said look i'm going to bed and the dishes are in the sink that's another one balance is really we're little changing the programming of the brain for you and it's it happens very quickly so really powering so these are all the things you don't learn in school you don't learn growing up you don't learn through western conventional medicine so you kind of have to be a pioneer in and search right and it's why they're so powerful we can really really make a difference we don't we're not well that's more powerful than we think that's right we're not destined to be stuck in any one place emotionally or physically we can get can you help a cancer patient maybe who's in stage three yes some i don't there today maybe i'm really honored when i have a chance to work with people who are were dealing with cancer because there's a lot that we can do to support the person while they're going through their their chemotherapy and their radiation or whatever we can really support people so well people feel more vital and energized by helping them keep the meridians moving so that they have more energy in their body is actually techniques for nausea and actually for brain fog like opening up the brains they can think more clearly and especially  emotions on our head are points that are that we can hold the link each of the emotions so if we have fear this point you can hold in your head but actually help you with fear if there's stress there's other points on the head as well you know you have this to rid of in chinese medicine when you say point so those are the radiance that they speak of so there's nine different energy systems that we're trained in through you know energy medicine and one of them one of this nine systems is called neurovascular the nerve gases are the points that are linked to the emotions and they're all in the head so the top of the has a point lead to anger behind the head is a point lead to fear and there's a again a combination of how we hold things so let's say some is angry what we would have somebody do it or get angry a lot we have so we put their hands on their forehead that's called the main or that's because it's sort of like the grounding of the reading so someone's going through a stressful situation maybe one person would say ok well i'm willing to try anything you know i want to make a change and i'm really willing and i'd like to and then there's the other person who just believes that there's no hope you can't get back and they call almost like an anger towards the world so how do you help those people who aren't even willing to try what you have to offer do you ever have people come to you like that well i have a lot of who come to me who are spouses or family members of people who have who are clients of mine who come and say ok my my wife sent me or my sister s me i'm really have to go i say great my life showed up i love skeptical skeptical people are my favorite people because they become my best clients because they see the difference and they feel better and they come back i have a gentleman now who i love working with he says you know a little older gentleman seventy in his seventy's who was sent to me and he said i'm really skeptical and he's my he's seen the biggest difference of anybody i've ever worked with you know i bet he finds a screen wow ok so what about if somebody is tired all the time how can you help  energy in and circulates in the body and it actually starts at the bottom of the foot now show you my little demonstration here is my little foot model right at the ball of the foot i have a story here bridges above the foot is the bottom of the base of what's called the  ready and if you actually just rub that point for like thirty seconds to a minute and then you flip your hand front to back to front to back what ends up happening that resets the point and the reason why we rub it is we actually start getting the energy moving the reason why we flip our hand is our hands  magnets actually resets the point and then what happens then it starts coming up the legs and where it ends is right under the collarbone so if you go to the edge of your collarbone and you just drop down about an inch there's a little well you'll feel there yes roll it was points  point everyone in india they say to walk on grass what if you can want today yes or especially if you can fall asleep when i go out and take a walk in the fresh grass there's a lot of research now on the idea of earthing that the natural vibration of the earth is very healing to our body we're just so out of touch i mean with today's society you know be especially live in big cities we don't even have nature that's right and there's lots of research there's this in japan they call for speeding where they take people away for a weekend and they've shown decreases in blood pressure and all kinds of health benefits despite peeping out nature for a weekend and dr james austin is showing some work that says a chronic disease began when we started wearing shoes and stop sleeping on the earth yeah that's true that is true so if somebody comes to you what's  typical session like what can somebody expect them if there's a viewer out there who's interested in yeah absolutely so my first thing is that i welcome everybody with an open heart because i really feel like there's so much benefit that people can see when they experience this work so i really open people up for whatever it  is they have and then we spend a fair amount of time the first time i mean really listening to what they have to say emotionally or physically because a lot of times people come in they think they have all these different symptoms are not related but the reality is they're actually very much related so what i had to do is i listen and base their energy type are more vulnerable to certain things being out of balance one of the energy types so there's there's actually water wood fire earth metal and so for example if somebody's the wood rhythm they may find that they get headaches they may be more susceptible different different places we retrace different you know lines that reach out to the skeleton of what you do so like for example if somebody comes to you with crohn's disease or you know a problem a real physical tangible thing so would you then go to the energy body and start the so i really listened again to what where they are and what's happening emotionally physically and it's usually some combination of the actual physical body doing the work were acupressure points or tracing sometimes we start with sites because it's really a limiting belief that's behind it so if somebody had a trauma in their life as a good example they maybe experience all kinds of physical issues and yet it's the trauma that they need to release so louise hay talked a lot about that her books write that all sickness is a derivative some sort of faulty thinking in your mind and usually it's that you don't love yourself or you think you're not worthy like you mentioned earlier or some childhood trauma then or even later in life so basically do you find that successful with your practice that people come to you and when you can and can cover their faulty belief systems they heal absolutely and  also time people come with physical issues they think it's just physical and almost always it's emotional so it's related it could also be relate on forgiveness holding on to something absolute we've all been there you know we have to learn our bodies a metaphor for what's happening our life so i have a great example a woman who came to see one point she could not eat anything basically she came into the like the three things i couldn't i just anything my question to her was what is it you can't adjust in your life like i never thought about that and what we actually end up realizing is she did major issue she was in a situation where she really couldn't digest her life and when she's away a vacation she can eat anything we've she's come a very long way she can eat pretty much anything now but once she understood that understood it was really her lifestyle and situation she was in those causing the gist of it for even when you have constipation maybe you're not able to let go energies trapped in the body action actually i can actually work with the shocker is and work on seven layers of the shock to release trauma that may be hell then held there for twenty or thirty years and it really does relate to thoughts because what you know what i say is the most important decision you will make when you wake up in the morning is to i live in a family or a hostile universe and if you believe the universe is working for you and you know god is on your side so to speak and you're supportive and live your days different and if you go the other way it's different and that relative to sickness and all kinds of very much ripple effects d joda spends it basically says that what we put out is a boomerang is what we bring back and so we put happy happy for you truthful thought out that's what we bring back in and same thing if we're you know when you know something we wake up we feel off and that's it we tracked back in that hard mess and each one of us has basically electromagnetic signal that goes three feet out so whatever we're feeling we're basically projecting else three feet all around us we're putting happiness and joy out there that's what we're projecting out that's what we attract in and you probably notice a around some people some person you're around and you think oh my god so so go around that person oh yeah they're projecting the spot oh there's definitely tangible energy on people that you can almost smell and feel you can you can internalize it and you say like you know i feel happier uplifted or you know i as your feelings and i thought well that's great you can definitely help people i think that we all have a self healing mechanism within us and you know people like you definitely help to activate that bring that out whereas if you go to traditional western medicine it kind of becomes like a dependency on a pill and you know that becomes your god and we have our own god within us you know it's a whole different school of thought and i really respect and appreciate people like you in the community and i believe and i don't believe it's a all or nothing i believe that there's a place for both eastern and western medicine about it's about the right balance right there are times when we need the medicine but there are many times were we could really be empowered to help ourselves or work with something even help us because the body wants to return to health and knows how to return to health if we help guide it is of his needs us to know how to help help to get by so i guess sometimes when people go through a big emotional shock or something that's really hard to recover so how would you help someone let's say who came in and they've just been emotionally traumatized yes they're actually points on the bottom of the foot that are actually shock points so we can actually i think he held stock point can  audience which i can show them there on the basically there at the base of the foot right here is the heel but yeah it's basically putting some pressure and there's a couple other techniques that go with it but that's exactly the point there's a few things leading up to  few things after that's the main point but yeah a lot of times people p t s d or any kind of shock that's one of the places we'll work sometimes we work with emotions very much we do testing each time we somebody explains what's going on i started i pass what i think is out of leave with a packet of self care tools i have are these like picture and were based handouts they give people so even one session a person knows where or how they are energetically wired and why they sort of get certain symptoms all the time they learn how to basically bounce those basic things that are normally going on a balance for them so you know one session they leave with you know the basics of it but if somebody has something chronic usually three or four sessions is needed to like really make a big difference they're almost always driven derived in the mental body or the mental energy body there there's almost always we're almost always working the emotional the mental body and the physical because they're very much going to i'm assuming you don't see many people who are mentally sound and at peace and have no resistance in their life who are sick right there's always doesn't have to know that they have an emotional component to it in fact most of the time people walk and they say i guess their issues and it's ok it's very subconscious world we live in but it's you know like you said it's bringing it to the forefront and i'm glad people like you are doing that by helping people live their full life their true life much viewers for watching you don't have to suffer there is health there is hope thank you so much for watching we will see you next week