Wendy K. Laidlaw

What we do want is an imbalance a little bit.

And this is whereby doing relaxation, mindfulness meditation, we not only increase the nervous system being reduced, but we also increase

oxygen getting in and around our body as well remember i was saying earlier if there's tension develops in the body and it can tension can show up in many different ways your neck head and shoulder pain migraines uh stomach your stomach and knots all these kind of things your jaw excuse me then these are the kind of things that we're we're always looking to kind of um as much as we can excuse me

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As much as we can positively influence our bodies and obviously our nervous system.

And equally, what's wonderful about meditation, relaxation, especially guided meditation, and Kelly Howell is is one of my favorites, is it gets into the subconscious and is more imagery based.

So that allows, you know, again, if you think when you were little, you were very image oriented.

aware, weren't you?

You were color aware, image aware, because that's how you learned.

And then as you get older, we shift away from right brain into left brain, which is all kind of lines, linears and words.

But we are feeling beings.

And again, sometimes when we're trying to put feelings to words, then it really helps to have imagery and things to do so.

So this is why the recovery of the inner child is such an important book.

and we're going to be talking more about that over the next couple weeks as well because I'm going to be encouraging you to if you feel comfortable to share little drawings again you can do it through email but even if you if you feel like and I'm talking emotions that aren't socially acceptable or aren't socially most people are comfortable and I'm talking about rage and anger and depression and

pardon me, I've got a kaleidoscope here, of all these kind of, in inverted commas, unpleasant emotions that society says we shouldn't have.

But we're a human being.

Now, we're not saying to act out the rage and the anger, obviously.

But what we are, I mean, if you have to go and punch a pillow, then punch a pillow.

If you have to write that you're livid and furious and how dare they and feel slighted or blighted,

then you have to do it because if you don't, it stays stored in your body or at least then become aware of what's happening.