Dr. Nicole LePera

But we can begin now by noticing our daily habits, our relational patterns, how our body feels by taking moments throughout our day to pause, to shift our attention from wherever else it may be focused on, whomever else it might be focused on, and to even just as simply explore, what am I feeling?

Again, checking in with those three areas.

How's my breath?

Am I holding my breath?

Is it very quick?

If I'm holding my breath, can I kind of release that tension and allow myself to breathe?

Our body is naturally breathing.

If it's quick, can I slow it down?

That's going to impact the rate of our heart.

Can I notice the tension in my muscles?

And if I'm feeling a lot of tension, can I release it?

Or if I'm feeling on that numb kind of end of the spectrum where I don't even feel like I have muscles or energy, can I stimulate my body's energy system?

So we can start now at any time.

But quickly, I just want to speak to it is very confusing because a lot of us do see these patterns, myself included.

I would have said, right, I am anxious.

Why?

Because my whole family is right.

It's just genetically passed on to us.

So what I hope is a takeaway is not regardless of what we know happened in childhood or not, understanding that, you know, family from the early family environment to even ancestrally environments that are passed on epigenetically to us or how our body stress system functions can often then be the answer to why these all just seem like.

And this was a running motto in my family.