Working with your parts creates greater wholeness and connection within your body-mind-spirit system. Each part of yourself holds information that can impact other parts of your system. This affects the current energy flow of your life today and influences your response to life tomorrow. This is why it is important to work with the physical, emotional, mental, and spirit levels of your body-mind-spirit system
Family Systems created by Bert Hellinger is offered within Resonance Repatterning.* A discipline outside of Resonance Repatterning® I have studied over time is called Internal Family Systems (IFS), created by Richard Schwartz, PhD. This discipline works with Parts Theory and identifies how your Inner Child Parts play an important role in managing your life as an adult. Unresolved issues from early childhood or teen years can still control your emotions, behaviors, and actions, even if they are reactions from past traumatic experiences. According to Dr. Schwartz,“There are no bad parts.” They have something to offer to experience a greater sense of wholeness. In working with them with The Self, your system has the potential to become more self-actualized.
Your Parts in the Process of Protection
This article will look at the roles of different parts that hold the information related to your body-mind-spirit system’s pain or trauma. Both Resonance Repatterning, which works with Earlier Experiences, and Internal Family Systems Parts Theory work with these goals. The wording within Parts Theory is beneficial in that it empowers your ability to free parts that no longer work for the life you’d like to create as an adult, while at the same time introducing the child parts to your adult parts. Your Functional Adult Self Part champions your ability to provide support and self-care for your life in a more coherent way in your journey toward greater wholeness.
Your Manager Parts protect your body-mind-spirit system to keep you feeling in control of what is happening to you, especially when you feel hurt or rejected. As a result, you might find yourself managing your behaviors through the lenses of caregiving, striving, attempting to control, or becoming critical of yourself. This can happen through perfectionism, micromanaging, judgment, or pessimism.
Your Firefighter Parts protect your system by soothing your exiles or unconscious behaviors, thoughts, attitudes, and beliefs. This can often be expressed through addictions such as work, diet, exercise, computer, drugs, shopping, and sleep, to name a few. Responses might also be expressed as eating disorders, self-harm, violence, and in extreme cases, obsession, fantasy, rage, compulsive behaviors, or dissociation.
Your Exile Parts hold emotions locked away due to painful experiences. They are kept isolated from your conscious Self to protect your entire system. They are protected by management of emotions and compensation through actions to self-soothe.
At the same time, your exile parts live in pain or trauma body without access to the Adult or Higher Self parts.
This means that unresolved grief, shame, fear, pain, codependency, or feeling lonely is pushed down. These exiles carry beliefs that often originate in early life or your teenage years, and can become burdens that limit your choices in your life as an adult. The exiles can also carry burdens ofthe origins of pain from trans-generational patterns representing emotions, behaviors, or patterns passed on by parents or ancestors. This means that while you want to live your own destiny, you carry the responsibility and patterns of your family system.
The processes of Resonance Repatterning, Family Systems, and Internal Family Systems identify the roots of these burdens, so it is possible to give back responsibility and place to the person or group where the pattern originated. By doing so, you are giving a voice to the internal exile and unburdening its impact on your body-mind-spirit system with respect for your system. This creates the opportunity to then move forward with your own life, creating your own destiny with your Functional Adult part.
When The Self acknowledges the needs of your managers, firefighters, and exiled parts, the mobilized energy can open to new possibilities for positive change. The pain or trauma body does not know anything other than the energy constriction. When the Functional Adult Self Part gives the Child Parts the opportunity to reclaim creative life energy, this creates conscious self-regulation and co-regulation.
Mothering and fathering yourself as an adult allows coherent patterns you choose in response to what is happening in your life through updating the communication between all of your parts. Instead of reacting to automatic unresolved negative triggers from the past, you can face life in a new way. There can be choice and resilience in your responses to life, connected to a greater sense of calm, clarity, and courage, curiosity that builds resilience in your relationships with life.
This is your personal invitation to explore how Resonance Repatterning® benefits your life to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being. This transformational process works with all of your parts to experience greater authenticity.
*Credit and gratitude to Magui Block for bringing Family Systems to the process of Resonance Repatterning.
Kimberly Rex, MS
Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning practitioner, Person-Centered Expressive Therapist and Wellness and Well-being Life Coach. Set up a session time with this Contact Page.
Spring is an Invitation to get in sync with your Solar Plexus Chakra. This allows you to align with the natural cycles of change in nature. As spring arrives you witness plants suddenly emerging, leaves sprouting and flowers budding. It a result of increased solar exposure with longer hours of daylight and warmth. At the same time it is nesting time for animals when food becomes more readily available. You notice that birds are intently goal-oriented to meet the needs of birthing new life.
“Spring is a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can be” ~Anonymous
Resonance Repatterning® works with a number of holistic disciplines including the Chakra System and Polarity Therapy. Springis a time to get in sync with natural energy of the sun through the Solar Plexus Chakra associated with fire and the power of transformation. Located in the area of your upper abdomen above your belly button, the primary organs related to this energy bundle relates to your stomach,spleen,liver, pancreas, adrenals, and gallbladder. It is located behind your diaphragm below your lungs in front of the largest blood vessel in your body.
Your Solar Plexus Chakra is an intermediary of your Autonomic Nervous System through the Sympathetic and Parasympathetic radiating branches connected to the Vagus Nerve. This chakra is especially attuned to what your thoughts, attitudes and beliefs that get registered in your body-mind-spirit system in your mental body. It allows you to bring your truth into your life with self-confidence, power and self esteem. Other coherent qualities include aspects of passion, willpower, balanced energy levels and purpose. It is a pivotal place of digesting your experience, informaton and using stress to change your life through the process of self-actualization in the world.
Solar Plexus Imbalances
Imbalances in this chakra affected by anger, irritability, anxiety, fear and a feeling of lack of direction or ability to make decisions. Physical imbalances with Solar Plexus might show up in your lower back and muscles. Other issues related to Solar Plexus Chakra imbalances include digestive issues, heartburn, diabetes, headaches, metabolism issues, excessive weight gain, sugar cravings, or gum issues. Working with the interlocking patterns on the physical, emotional, mental and core essence levels creates holographic change that lead to new possibilities.
Solar Plexus Chakra Qualities
The Solar Plexus Chakra is also knows and the Manipura Chakra: This image is the Chakra’s Yantra https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipura
The Solar Plexus Chakra known as the Manipura Chakra is called the “City of Jewels.” It embodies the radiant energies of the sun. In spring, new life emerges as the sun returns for longer daylight hours with warming temperature. Get outside for a daily walk. This is good way to take care of your body for greater calm and clarity as physical care of your muscles and eyes. Practice the Yoga Bow Pose to stimulate and nourish the organs in your abdomen.
The coherent qualities of this chakra invites you to set new goals. As spring emerges with new life and creation, it is an optimal time to tune into new opportunities. Breathing and meditation practices support you in staying embodied and connected to the present while allowing your system to move from reaction to choices with your response in any given situation.
Natural Treatments for Balancing Your Solar Plexus Chakra
Solar Plexus Chakra Color: The light frequency is yellow.
Solar Plexus Foods: Foods like eggs, banana, lemon, yellow peppers, grapefruit, pineapple and yams are good choices to nourish your Solar Plexus Chakra. Spices like Turmeric aids digestion with its anti-inflammatory qualities, Cinnamon warms and strengthens, and Ginger unblocks and smooths digestive issues. Be sure your food is cooked. Bitters and sour foods are also helpful for this chakra.
Solar Plexus Herbs and Teas: Herbs are beneficial for balancing your Solar Plexus Chakra to open your inner sun and clear self-doubt so you can listen to your gut. Drinking teas made from these herbs can be a way to balance digestion and create calm in your nervous system. Drinking a tea with Bergamot calms anxiety, peppermint smooths your digestion and relaxes your muscles, and Chamomile calms your nerves. Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning before a meal to smooth your digestive system’s process. Drink chamomile tea in the evening to calm anxiety and support restorative sleep.
Solar Plexus Chakra Essential Oils: Lavender for calming your Nervous System, Rosemary concentration, thinking and memory and Carnation for calming anxiety
Solar Plexus Chakra Stones: Consider Tigers Eye, for clarity and focus, citrine for creativity and imagination, yellow jasper for clarity and grounding, or pyrite for confidence and motivation. You can carry these in your pocket, wear them as jewelry, or keep them close by when working or setting goals, or keep them nearby in meditation.
Solar Plexus Sound: The sound frequency of the Solar Plexus Chakra vibration is within the mantra, “Ram,” You can listen to this video to meditate with the mantra for the Solar Plexus Chakra. As you listen, place both of your hands over your upper abdomen. Visualize the vibrant color of yellow in your solar plexus. Feel its warmth and nourishment.
Solar Plexus Chakra Energetic Contacts
InPolarity Therapy developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, the energy circuit for Solar Plexus Chakra includes working with your head, eyes, and umbilicus areas. Be sure to include attention to your diaphragm and breathing. Practicing diaphragmatic breathing lowers stress hormones, regulates your heart rate and blood pressure, and allows you to relax more deeply. Additional work may be needed with your Root and Sacral Chakras, as well, if needed to resolve underlying conflict or trauma that impacts the function of your Solar Plexus Chakra.
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Consider a Resonance Repatterning® session to balance and harmonize your body-mind spirit system with Polarity Therapy, Chakra System, Life Purpose, Abundance, processing anger or anxiety, setting goals, decision-making, Breath, Creative Expression, Life Cycles, your Vision, or a Seasonal Repatterning during this time to set new goals and possibilities for your life.
Kimberly Rex, MS
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According to the Chinese, the Lunar New Year, is the time forplanting yourseeds of joy to build integrity in your wellness and well-being. The Chinese New Year is the Spring Festival, and the time to begin the blueprint for the rest of the seasonal year. By doing so, you align more with nature within allowing you to re-source the seeds within your own experience of life to take on this journey.
“You carry in your soul every ingredient necessary to turn your experience to joy. All you have to do is mix the ingredients.” ~Hafiz
The Chinese Five Element Wheel creates support for each of its other parts. This cycle is called the Shen Cycle. This means that when you create coherence in one element, you then nourish the coherent capacity of the next element and season. By mixing them together you create energy for the process that will create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being.
The following article contains a number of ways to seed your spring garden of life by syncing with natural cycles. Bookmark this article or revisit it through the year as a blueprint or planting guide to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being in your life.
Starting with Wood Element or Spring: The Chinese New Year literally speaks to the beginning process of spring. Planting seeds of nurture, love, and joy is a beautiful way to create a harvest of benefits for your physical, emotional, mental, and spirit levels aspects of your throughout the year If you look at what is happening in nature as spring begins you will see the gentle new growth and beginning foundation for creating a sustainable new life that builds sustainable harvest over time.
Plant Seeds of Joy on thePhysical Level
When you look at a garden at the beginning of spring, you will see the beginnings of buds and bulb sprouts that are responding to the increasing light and warmth of the Earth itself in its relationship with the sun. New growth is often light green as it starts its movement toward more vivid colors. It is this optimism and sense of what will come that creates the first steps in the process.
Get into the Sun: In the same way, you, too, can take benefit from getting more light during the day. Make daily time to be in nature, or out in the sunlight.
Movement Forms such as Pilates, Qi Gong, and Tai Chi are wonderful to build your strength and flexibility. You experience a sense of joy and resilience by turning on inspiring or energizing music to dance to benefit your body’s need to relax, restore energy and release stress.
Katsugen: Tune into your body when you feel tense or stressed. Allow your body to move in whatever way it needs. You may find that your breathing changes or a sound come that allows you to release any place in your body that feels support or need for release.
Savor What You Eat: Be sure to nourish yourself with whole foods and colorful vegetables to build your energy. Put down distractions such as cell phones, computer tasks, or other multi-task activities while you eat so your body can devote itself to digestion, discernment, and circulation of energy. For more:The Nurture of Color for Your Wellness and Well-Being
Plant Seeds of Joy on theEmotional Level
Create an Anchor Image: To build your capacity to take in nourishment through the year, call upon times in your life when you have experienced joy or love, and bring them into your memory. Tune into these experiences when you need to recharge with a smile on your face and in your heart.
Create Joy with Activities You Know You Love: Build your emotional bank account by doing things that energize you whether it be reading, watching the sunset, or playing with your pet. baking, artwork, dancing, playing music, or writing. By doing so you nourish your inner blueprint that builds the creative potential for new possibilities and perspectives from the inside out.
Build Oxytocin, the bonding hormone that creates neurotransmitters that allow for long-term bonding, with hugs, positive touch, and a sense of presence with safety and trust. Whether you have a partner or not, you can still spend time with others, dance, slow down in your activities for conversation to listen, prepare a meal together, get a massage, or make soft eye contact and smile to activate this positive neurotransmitter effect within.
Plant Seeds of Joy on theMental Level
Take inventory of your Self Talk and statements or beliefs you find yourself repeating. Tune into the amount of time you spend on worry, anger, resentment, and thoughts that spiral you into de-energizing habits. It is important to take the message from these beliefs and thoughts to process, to work with them, and if need be, find the underlying seed or need to be expressed. The following articles will give you some ways to start this process of looking within from a place of beginning to resolve and grow with new possibilities: 3 Ways to Create Positive Self-Talk
Create a Menu of Stress-reducing Activities to Pace Yourself that you can use instead of current compensation reactive responses. It’s About Pacing Yourself over Time
Plant Seeds of Joy on the Spirit Level
Meditate: Meditation is a process that allows you to both cleanse and renew. Creating a menu of self-care related to this quiet time can be both creative and productive based on your schedule and personal needs. Know that when you meditate, you are tuning in to the deep web of your being. Beginning to form questions of wonder about your process with wonder about emotions, thoughts, and beliefs that come up will allow you to re-energize while restoring your inner garden. Your meditation or self-care practice can be as simple as a walk in nature, drawing, dancing, journaling, or breathing practice. Now is the time to start making it a routine with5 Messages from Your Heart.
Get in touch with How Far You Have Come: When you feel as though you are going through a rough patch, get in touch with a challenge in your life that you handled over time, and felt as though you were able to get through with an inner strength or quality that made it possible. Call upon this inner positive quality and reservoir of strength you have in the present.
Find gratitude: Finding gratitude in your life is beneficial to your heart and mind. When you begin to focus on the “little” things that bring you a sense of nurture and joy, your way of looking at the world will change. This allows you to feel energized more than depleted, and by doing so, even with an appreciation for a smile, you are building the inner resources for connection, inspiration, and well-being that builds momentum for experiencing positive change.
Deepen your Practice of Forgiveness: In the Buddhist Forgiveness in 3 Directions Meditation, the quality you bring to each direction: for self, toward others, and others toward self is a process that is founded on a sense of mercy and compassion. This process is done in small steps, gently nourished by the compassion and warmth you bring to it over time. By doing so, you create openings and space for new possibilities in your own life.
Get in Touch with Your Why: Your life experience, talents as well as what you ENJOY give you insight and inspiration to continue in your spiritual journey with a life purpose. Whether your life vision or purpose is volunteering, being an activist, parent, or a special field of work, finding your inner passion, connect to this message to continue growing in beautiful ways while energizing yourself in the process .Kimberly Rex, MS
This is your personal invitation to explore how Resonance Repatterning® benefits your life to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being. At this time of year, it is a wonderful time to plan for new possibilities and strengthen your physical vision, as well as your vision for life. Experience a session by phone, online, or proxy with
Kimberly Rex, MS
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Gratitude practices for wellness and well-being benefit the integration and embodiment of the effects of positive emotions. Research has shown that when you express or receive gratitude your body-mind system functions better. This happens by moving out of the Fight-Flight or Freeze modes into the Parasympathetic Nervous System. When your body relaxes and moves into safety your cortisol levels decrease, your ability to digest improves, your heartbeat stabilizes, circulation improves, bile is released, and your digestion, inflammatory and excretion functions stabilize. This article will give you gratitude practices for new possibilities in your body and mind.
Healing Your Body-Mind Connection with Gratitude Practices
The Gut-Brain Connection impacts your hormones, neuro-transmtters, and body signals. This connection responds to shifts from anxiety, worry, grief or inability to let go of something, anger or frustration, and/or hate. New messages, memories or life-enhancing thoughts create greater calm and focus which in turn changes your mood and communication between the systems of your body. Over time a focus on gratitude has a positive impact on your physical and mental health through creating greater happiness and longevity.
Gratitude practices have a powerful role in disengaging stress response in your body through the Vagus Nerve. This means that the major organs of your body receive benefit though moving into greater calm and feeling of safety. In Chinese Medicine, each organ has the capacity to nourish or limit energy processes. When the Vagus Nerve is activated, your organs respond in more optimal ways to nourish the specific organs and the overall function of the entire system.
Gratitude Practices with the Chinese Five Elements
Anxiety: In Chinese Medicine your heart is the home of love, joy and connection. When you feel disconnected from others through intolerance or hate or lack of discernment, this impacts your heart. When you feel anxious your heart beats faster. The impact of gratitude on your heart can lower anxiety, and regulate your heart rate, blood pressure and circulation. Gratitude can also improve the quality of your sleep. A Gratitude Practice before going to bed can allow your body-mind system to relax more deeply so your system can cleanse during the night contributing to greater longevity. You can make it a practice to verbalize or write down your gratitude in 3 Directions including toward nature and life, toward others, and toward yourself. Be specific with reasons you feel and experience gratitude for each direction. Example: I feel gratitude toward my partner for cooking dinner tonight because I was tired after a long day at work. Notice how this makes you feel. Stay with the feeling.
Finding gratitude and appreciation in your life builds connection that benefits your wellness and well-being. Whether it be your family or work environment, expressing gratitude creates a greater sense of safety, trust, and warmth between you. A Gratitude Practice with children where the parent tells the child 3 things before going to sleep that they saw, heard, or noticed during the day also creates greater connection, self-esteem and calm which contributes to self regulation and sleep habits.
Worry: In Chinese Medicine, Earth Element is related to Stomach and Spleen with the energy of nurture and support. The primary purpose of Stomach is digestion. Your pancreas is also involved with digestion and chronic stress plays a role in blood sugar regulation. The non-coherent emotion related to this element is worry, This is where a gratitudepractice before a meal and mindful eating can be a way to move out of worry and stress to better be able to digest and integrate optimal energy while letting go of what needs to be excreted to support your body-mind system.
Grief: The Metal Element in Chinese Medicine is the home of the Lungs and Large Intestines. The primary energies of these organs allow you to breathe and take in inspiration. The non-coherent emotion of this element is grief.This happens through partnership with the Large Intestines related to the ability to let go. Expanding your lungs and exhaling fully improves your breathing capacity when you are able to think of something that brings you a sense of gratitude no matter how small. Your inhale can become a a gratitude practice of naming what nourishes your life. Your exhale can release grief, stress or resistance to the letting go process that exists in your life. By doing so, you can let go of critical thoughts, your frustrations, and regrets, and instead become grateful for positive qualities about yourself, others, nature, and what you value about each by connecting to love and life itself. Try these 3 Guided Meditations for Times Like These.
Fear: Water Element in Chinese Medicine refers to your Kidneys and Bladder. Your Adrenal Glands sit on top of the Kidneys so it is important to create calm to affect the body-mind connection through the HPA Axis. When you move into a greater sense of appreciation, you give your kidneys the opportunity to drop resentment and fear. This can bring you back into the flow of life while connecting more fully to your vital energy to support your ability to persevere so you can pace yourself while setting healthy boundaries. This allows you to move forward with a greater capacity to face life with self-care. Practicing Mindfulness through your 5 Senses can calm, ground, and create appreciation for your body-mind system.
Anger: Liver and Gall Bladder are the organs related to the Wood Element. These organs allow your body-mind system to filter and let go of toxins. On the mental level, this has to do with unfinished business. When you feel frustrated or angry, this impacts your ability to see the big picture with a broader perspective. This element allows you to make wise judgments, plan, delegate and create strategies. A Gratitude Practice for this element could be related to work with your breath inhaling unconditional love on the inhale, and on the exhale, release anger and frustration related to a current situation that is causing chronic stress.
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.”~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because Wood Element is related to vision,journaling for your mental health can become a great way to organize your thoughts, take a closer look at what is frustrating you in your life, and to get in touch with gratitude as to what resources you already have or might tap into to create positive change. Remember to stay with the feeling when you identify gratitude, and name how this supports your life.
Gratitude practices do not need to be formal. You simply stop, reflect on how you are feeling, and activate a gratitude practice in real time anyplace in your life. Your body and mind will appreciate it!
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In times of significant change in season, life and world events, this is an invitation to practice self-care while moving though all of these transitions. This article will give you examples of how your body and mind work together, and how this relationship can give you information to create significant change in your resilience through awareness, response and nurture.
Your body-mind-spirit system gives you feedback through your body sensations, mood, and outlook on life. In Resonance Repatterning®works with many holistic disciplines. One of these disciplines is Chinese Medicine. This system honors the body-mind-spirit system for the energetic communication and connection. An acupressure point, meridian or element speaks to the wisdom this relationship gives the whole system. A session can identify where energy is blocked in your system, and how this interruption of energy impacts your wellness and well-being in all aspects of your life
The Need for Support and Nurture in Significant Change
As an example, working with Spleen Meridian is often considered for support and nurture in working with shifts in situations and energy that you experience in your life. At the same time, You might be starting a new project, making a move, entering or completing a phase in your life, having surgery or recovering from illness, experiencing a change in family or relationship dynamics, retiring, or suddenly finding yourself emotionally confused, worried, or distraught about what is happening in the world around you.
“The challenge of recovery is to reestablish ownership of your body and your mind—of your self.” – Bessel van der Kolk
The somatic response to current stress and triggers from past traumas might be represented in your body in some of the following ways:
Trauma Reflex Response where your body continues to carry a pain response that creates asymmetry in how you hold your body. It reflects the remnants of how your body and mind have not released the mobilized energy of a traumatic experience.
The Protective-Startle Response where your body and mind resonate with worry or fear of threat in a way that reflects a protective posture both physically and emotionally toward life.
The Landau Response reflects a body posture of being prepared for action even when no action is needed. Your beliefs, thoughts and attitude reinforce the need for hypervigilance.
The question that Spleen Meridian asks is “Where in your life do you feel like you might collapse or have difficulty getting the support and nurture you need to get you through the changes that are showing up in your life?
You might be experiencing issues that crop up unexpectedly like a project that takes focused attention to complete, a move, job loss or change, financial depletion, a health issue, or family issue that needs support and nurture. This need for nurture and support can show up on a regular basis like taxes, mortgage payments, rent, or business deadlines. In every case, there is a need to experience support on the physical level to have the energy to take next steps, emotional level to give you the information or social support you need to experience safety and security.
Creating Awareness of Your Needs in Significant Change
Basic needs are essential to be able to take next steps. When you feel shut down, unable to make a decision or consider next steps, this is precisely the time to consider taking time to ask yourself the question: “What would make this situation better?” “What would allow me to feel better?”
The moral of the story is that the quality of support and nurture you give yourself and the permission to connect to resources in any challenging situation to navigate change to create positive change throughself-actualization.
This is a good time to journal, rest, meditate, or take a walk in nature. Use your5 senses to you take time to nurture yourself. Notice what your body is telling you. Tune into what new awareness is coming up. Be sure to write it down. It’s okay to brainstorm, draw pictures, write single or groups of words, or let what you feel or write down marinate. Know that when you give yourself the time and space you can access wisdom and grace more easily because you move into the rest, digest, and heal mode of the Parasympathetic Nervous System.
Meridian Session to Build Resilience in Significant Change
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Tapping into your emotional intelligence is a process that benefits your self and social awareness, relationship and personal management. While emotions might be considered as only taking place in your mind, science proves that that emotions have a direct impact on your Nervous System that create specific body responses.. The importance of this connection is often automatic especially in stressful situations. However, when the option of choice is considered, you have the opportunity to experience greater authority over your both your mind and body’s responses. This, in turn, allows you to navigate relationships, work, stress management and your well-being more effectively.
Resonance Repatterning® is a multidisciplinary process that builds coherence within your body-mind system. The communication between your mind and your body are directly linked. This connection allows you to create greater meaning to gather from listening, observing and responding to what your emotions, thoughts, body sensations, and beliefs tell you.
Life is energy in motion. You can use your e-motions to give you energetic feedback on what you are paying attention to and the meaning behind what is orchestrating your thoughts, beliefs that can lead to automatic or chosen responses. This gives you the opportunity to create new possibilities by using what you have direct access to within.
Overthinking or being flooded with emotions can lead to greater overwhelm and shut-down. However paying attention to what your emotions are telling you can open the doorway for a shift in perception. This gives you the opportunity to weigh appropriate emotions for where you are, and what you are going through to consider appropriate and life-enhancing thoughts with best timing.
This happens with emotional intelligence. Recognizing what triggers you, and what moves you away or towards something or someone is important. Moving from being overwhelmed or flooded with emotions, or seeing clearly to notice and accept what is happening without any new awareness or feeling of agency is dis-empowering. Becoming more self-aware, making time and space for greater understanding, allows you to better listen to your body. This creates choices to empower your emotional response and actions you consider.
Emotional Intelligence on the Physical Level
Your body responds to your emotions biochemically through your posture, facial expressions, gestures, breath cycles, tone of voice, Nervous System influence of neurotransmitter and hormone production, heart rate, as well as temperature in stress responses. Your emotions impact your attention, how you think and what happens next.. This happens through unconscious material in both your survival and emotional brain. Accessing emotional intelligence activates your thinking brain so you can consider the meaning of your experience. Take time to develop emotional intelligence skills. Your mind then has the opportunity to begin to identify habitual and automatic reactions, and with greater self-aware, analyze and choose new possibilities.
Emotional Intelligence and Your Attention
Where you put your attention in any given situation sets up how you will respond. If your mind has not let go of old tapes from the past or worry about the future it is difficult to keep your attention in the present. While your survival and emotional brain want to keep you safe based on past experiences, your attention limits you from getting the most out of life currently. Until limiting patterns from the past are made conscious, it is not possible to take the lessons you need so you can pay attention to what is happening in front of you today, Once you have transformed limiting patterns from your past, you can then apply your new awareness to your current situation. This puts you in the position to choose something new or different.
Emotional Intelligence and Language
Your self-talk affects your ability to listen, see or feel what is showing up in front of you. If you react to life from a dis-empowering belief about yourself or another person or group, your body-mind system will communicate this. Your energy level, stress or calm will have an impact on your ability to be present. In fact, your ability to see, feel, or listen to yourself will equal how much you can see, hear or understand what is happening with another person. When you consciously move through different issues in your life you expand your perception and range of vision, change your thoughts, beliefs and posture towards life.
Emotional Intelligence and Meaning
When you have worked through different issues in your life you expand your perception and range of vision. This allows you to consider other viewpoints if you have first considered yourself with greater self-compassion and empathy. It is through this lens that you can discern what feels empowering or dis empowering for your life. Giving meaning to what you are experiencing allows you to take lessons, choose between options while aligning with your values. With coherent new awareness you are better able to have empathy for others. This allows you to give new meaning to what you are experiencing from a broader and more compassionate perspective.
Emotional Intelligence Applications
When you find yourself feeling stuck, you can choose to tune into your breath and then focus on what emotions you are feeling. Notice how you are holding your body. Get in touch with your thoughts and any beliefs that are running through your mind. Acknowledging this can gives you insight into how you are responding to life in the present. Notice the meaning you give this feedback. Altogether, how does this impact your ability to focus or pay attention, get things done, take action with your goals, or make choices in your life?
Take account of timing in response to what you are feeling. Daily journaling is a powerful way to record what is happening. After you journal, ask yourself the question, Is this the best time to take action? Are my choices empowering or dis empowering? Is there someone or something that this is most related? Is this a good time to take extra steps, or do I need to pay more attention to what is happening right now? Both are equally important.
If you are in traffic or at work, consider options that will allow you to shift your mood to practice self-care in the moment as you catch yourself spiraling down. As you go through the day, this can be as simple as remembering an empowering or joyful moment in your life. Is there an empowering belief or thought to consider when you catch yourself in negative self-talk? Notice how these actions change your breath, your mindset and choices.
Use gratitude and appreciation for others, yourself or parts of your life to lift your mood. Create an inventory of favorite stress reduction activities to change things up. Or, if you need to, take a pause on your current situation and the rumble it is causing you until you can give yourself the time and compassion to work out what is going on within. When you do, the biology of your mind and body will change. Over time, new neural pathways and positive habits will become more automatic and beneficial to your health, wellness and well-being.
Resonance Repatterning sessions give you the opportunity to tap into the unconscious material within your body-mind system. If you experience patterns that limit your life related to your physical responses, your attention, your energy levels or dis-empowering thoughts and beliefs, this process gives you the power to step into new possibilities so you can live life with greater awareness and ease. This allows your body-mind-spirit system to create greater integrity in your wellness and well-being.
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Kimberly Rex, MS is an Advanced Resonance Repatterning® practitioner, Person-Centered Expressive Therapist, and Wellness and Well-being Life Coach. She works with people all over the world online, by phone, and proxy.
