Body-mind connection; Your body and mind are so connected that you can experience physical complaints if you have stress or suppressed emotions, such as anger or sadness. This may cause you to experience pain in your body, such as pain in your back, neck or shoulder blades.
This pain is real, and (medical) treatment can help or be necessary. Consider physiotherapy or ruling out the possibility that you have broken something. It is also advisable to investigate whether there is also a mental emotional blockage or tension that influences the pain. In other words, what does your body want to tell you.
Body-mind connection: 7 tips to make it more powerful
Since your body and mind are connected, I always pay attention to how someone feels in my coaching conversations. Through coaching and things I have learned, I pay attention to a number of things within myself, which I have integrated in such a way that I am always alert to them.
By paying attention to this, you can achieve gains, including by not suffering unnecessary loss of energy, staying true to yourself and preventing and reducing stress. You also stay closer to your own feelings, your energy continues to flow better and you can better indicate your boundaries.
- How are you feeling? Do not sit with your legs crossed, but keep your legs parallel to each other, hip-width apart. This ensures a free flow of energy through your body. This way you stay grounded and prevent yourself from locking down. This also keeps your sexual energy flow going. By this I mean your flowing life energy.
- Always keep your mouth slightly open. By keeping your lips tight, you do something with your energy and you lock yourself down a bit. It’s more relaxing if you keep your mouth open a little bit.
- Don’t look up when you’re talking to someone (or on the phone). We raise our eyes very easily and quickly, but by keeping them low, you are more in touch with your own body and feelings and with the other person. If you keep your eyes low, your chin and head will automatically lower, so that you do not move away from your body and you are more present.
- Avoid drawing a thinking line between your eyebrows as much as possible. The special thing is that it can work in such a way that you retrieve more old information, instead of receiving new information and impulses. By old information I mean that you often respond from an old pattern, a well-trodden (brain) path or way of thinking. If you play with this and consciously remove the thought wrinkle when you feel it coming on, you will become more relaxed and you will be more open to spontaneous impulses and new ideas.
- Keep your chin slightly down, this will help you maintain more contact with your body and stay with yourself more (and you will not disappear into others, or in other words you will spend less of your energy on others). Your body-mind connection is stronger and you leak less energy.
- Pay attention to your feet, pay attention to your feet and you may experience that they are tense and pulled up in your shoe. By stretching and relaxing them, you often feel your whole body relaxed.
- The most important: finding your inner smile through contact with your source (see blog: find your inner smile). Beauty from within cannot be matched by make-up or artificial interventions. You will be surprised how little you need to feel happy. If you As you become more and more aware of it, you will experience that food is available on the street. That you do not have to do big things for this, but that a smile, a conversation on the street, nature, nourishes you.