Dr. Nicole LePera

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.

It's impossible to imagine the goal is to completely have a blank, quiet mind.

Usually, if our mind is blank and quiet, we're probably in a state of shutdown, which I spend a lot of time in myself.

So the goal is to develop awareness, which is kind of a living practice of meditation.

where we can choose what thoughts we're holding on to because our mind is powerful.

The more we're thinking a thought, the more we're continuing a feeling in our body.

But we can also choose the moments where our thoughts aren't helpful, where our body is giving us more information and then we could tend to that information.

I'm practicing still.