Dr. Nicole LePera

And now what we're giving us access to is we're regulating our body so that we can begin to show up differently in those moments.

But for a lot of us, the journey begins by just noticing, whoa, I don't spend much time in my body, right?

I don't know how I feel.

I don't know when I'm hungry.

I don't know when I'm full.

I don't know what my body wants to eat.

These are great moments in time where you can drop in, which just simply means shift focus,

And ask your body, see how it feels.

See what you're hungry for.

See when you're full and complete it with eating, right?

All of these are a big foundation then to having a better relationship with your body.

Because again, your body is directing so many of those reactive choices that you're making that until you shift your body into that state of calmness, it's going to be really hard for you to maintain the choices that you're making.

Yes, I appreciate you bringing this up because I do think meditation is often, I think, a misunderstood concept where we think, right, meditation is sitting in silence, cross-legged, and the goal is to make our mind as quiet as possible.

While that's a form of more structured practice, I translate meditation to just simply be awareness.

Life can be a meditative experience.

And also, it's important to release the expectation that our mind is quiet.

Thoughts are very helpful.

They're where we create things.

We have insight.

We have ideas.