Folks, what we’re going to be talking about is what is self-care and how do you change your attitude, you vantage point, towards that. I’ve been asking a couple of clients, a couple of people here and there “What do you think self-care is about? What is your self-care?” I started hearing the same thing; I was hearing a variety of different things answers but all the answers seemed to focus on the tools of self-care. My personal clients, the people that know me very well thought I was testing them, and so when I asked, “So what do you think self-care is?” Their typical answer was something like, “Trigger point stretching, foam rolling.” And I was like, “No, come on. What do you think self-care is?” And that’s what they thought it was.

Some people that are personal trainers think it’s the lighter workouts. For the long runners, they were talking about the light runs, you know, the pool workouts; the things that they do that are not weight bearing.

I want to challenge you a little bit. I want you guys to really think about what do all of them have in common? When you’re truly doing self-care, it’s an inward sight action. So anything that you do, you have to learn how to look inside and communicate with yourself. It’s all about learning how to communicate. So when I ask people about self-care, “What do you think about self-care,” the answer should be, “It’s the time that I spend with myself, that I communicate with myself, I listen to myself, and I give my body the chance to actually say what is on its mind.” That’s self-care.

There’s something that was beautiful that a client said to me and I just loved it is, she was doing my program and she said, “You know what, I’ve realized this is like a different type of meditation. When you look inside your body and you communicate with your body – and that’s what the whole program is designed to do, is to get you to look into yourself – you start to do this meditative thing, and the concept of the meditation is inward sight.” It was easy for her to say but I never really thought about it that way – which my program doubles as a meditation, and it’s completely right. She just saw it from a completely different vantage point, and I loved it. The fact that she was doing her foam rolling and because she was so quiet and because she was looking within, things started changing rapidly. Because she was looking within, seeing what was happening, things started to change.

I started hearing that a lot when it’s like, all right, you’re doing your trigger point work, you’re looking, and then afterwards, you’re moving in around. You are quiet. You are not rumbling inside your head. That’s self-care. So let’s start focusing on, yeah, it’s very important to do all the things, but that is not the end and that’s what’s going to do everything. What’s going to do everything – to help you to heal fast is, getting you to focus and communicate with your body to heal. Point-blank. That’s it. That’s what self-care is about. I don’t care what tool you use, whether it be sitting meditation, whether it be foam rolling, trigger point stretching, easy movement training, quiet Tai Chi; all those things together boil back down to the basics.

Self-care needs to be main objective, me looking within and talking with myself, and getting my body to talk back. That’s it, communication. And once that happens, I guarantee you everything will shift, guarantee you everything will shift and you really will supercharge your healing. Do self-care. I swear to you once you change that vantage point and do self-caring than like let me do my foam rolling– no, it’s let me do inward sight. So now you can do your self-care on a train, on a plane, on an automobile. No matter where you are, you can do self-care if you’d start learning how to look within, and to just practice on changing that gauge, changing that vantage point. That is my challenge to you. Let’s get you to supercharge your self-care because you are doing it not to foam-roll, but to talk with your body. Imagine that.

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