What’s up, everybody? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I help people understand that they can eliminate pain rapidly by understanding the connectivity of how the body works. And it’s never just physical. You have to always understand what’s happening on the emotional as well as the mental. It’s all about everything in a balanced sustainable way. What we’re going to be talking about today is – I’ve got an email talking about what is the mind-body connection? Mind-body connection. I love getting emails that make me giggle and this is one of them that made me giggle due to the fact that there’s, not just one answer– one way of saying, “This is the mind-body connection.” What I can say is it is not mind over matter where you can push your body in all sorts of different ways and push it and push it, and pop and push it. The body is very, very resilient – you’re not fighting China. So it will do the things that you need to be done based off of fight or flight and is trying to be self-preserving itself. It will make it through pretty much anything that you throw it at or will die trying.

What I want you guys to realize is that’s a servant, slave mentality. That’s not going to be sustainable. Your body is always going to be pushed and you’re going to do– it’s not going to be great because you’re dragging along, you’re telling it what it needs to do. The mind-body connection is different. That’s you listening to your body and understanding that your brain talks one way, your body talks in a different way. And they don’t really speak well to each other in the way of understanding, you understanding.

So I want you to think about it this way. The brain talks to your body through hormones. It’s going to release different hormones. Let’s just take the fight or flight mechanism which is adrenaline, cortisol – all these different ones but adrenaline is the key what I want you just to understand. So it’s going to give you a lot of adrenaline to come out. And the body is going to take that adrenaline and put it through whatever it needs to do, it’s going to speed up certain things, decrease different things. But it’s going to give out a communication of sensations. That’s where we come in as the third party and we mess that up. So they communicate through sensation – sensation the body, hormones the brain. But they don’t really actually connect. They just react to one and other. They don’t really communicate in a way of bouncing back and forth. We are third party to translate everything for everything to work together.

That’s the fun part. That’s where your higher self comes in. That’s how true speeding up of healing comes in. Because when you get adrenaline dropped in, which is a reaction, your body is going to react to the adrenaline by speeding up things, shrinking your pupils, getting you to see everything, being more alert more. All these different things, it’s going to give you sensations of heart running faster, more sweat, all the things working faster, those are the sensations your body is going to give you. You as a person need to put it together, and make that connection and say, alright, my body is speeding something up, that means my fight or flight mechanism is going on. Do I need to do it? That’s one, which is recognize what’s happening, that’s the mind-body connection, the role that all three of you play together and I say it like that because I need you to split yourself apart and realize that you’re watching all this happening, it’s just you’re not taking an active role in it. You’re not saying, “Alright, this is what’s going on, I can change it by noticing it’s not what I think it is.”

So we walk into a party and we notice that everyone’s staring at us, and we’re just like, “Oh my god, what’s going on, what’s going on, what’s going on, what did I do wrong, what did I do wrong, what’s going on? Something– is my zipper down?” All these different things. Your brain is going to say, “Fight or flight, fight or flight.” Your body’s going to go and you’re going to shoot up on your temperature and the way that you talk, your nervous reactions, all these different things. The sensation that actually might happen if you’re a sweater is pit stains, hands might get real sweaty. You might just start getting wet and that’s a bad thing if you’re just walking into a party. Because then, if you’re wearing like a gray shirt, it’s not very appealing, right? So you have to recognize, “Oh, wait. This is picking up. I need to do something because my body is saying something. My brain did something.” That’s the mind-body connection.

Let’s spin it now in the pain world. In the pain world, something happened. You fell down once upon a time and you fell down the stairs. So what happens is you finally rehab yourself. You do all the different things you’re doing, and you now have to walk up three flights of stairs every single day to get to your house. Your brain is going to notice those stairs and see there’s a threat, so you’re going to be very, very cautious. You’re body’s going to do something in reaction to that cautious nature. Which means it’s going to move really, really slow, and use all its big muscles really, really hard. So you’re going to walk really, really slow, and it’s going to be heavy. Your body’s going to use a lot more energy than it needs to. That, causing your body to fall apart faster.

What’s the connection? That’s how your body reacts to your brain, and your brain reacts to your body. The connection that I want you to start playing an active role in is: I don’t need to do that. I’ve rehabbed myself. Your body should have been rehabbed better than it was before, and that’s just the nature of how your body works. Things are moving, and going, and going, and going. When something does break, it’s going to redesign itself not to do it again. It’s just sometimes we just don’t piece it all together fast enough, and get things moving. And so it’s easier to break. That’s the way the body is designed, but that’s what naturally happens.

So we have to now break that cycle and say, “All right. It’s fine. And look at me; I’m shaking all the energy out. It’s fine. It’s fine. I can walk up these stairs.” And then just watch what happens and then do it with confidence. That’s how you break it using your mind-body connection. And it’s the same thing when you’re dealing with pain and say, you hurt your ankle and you’re doing a calf stretch. You’re saying, “Oh my god. Oh my god. It’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt.” But if you’re saying, “All right. Let’s see how far I can pull it before it starts giving me a sensation.” Your body starts talking to you, “All right. Fine.” And now the brain says, “All right. There’s nothing going on. There is no reason for me to protect.” Central nervous system starts cooling down. Now, your body say, “All right. I don’t have to protect. I have no other sensations going on, no other hormones coming in. Let’s heal rapidly.” And that’s how you’re going to speed healing. That’s what you have to start focusing on – where are you currently.

That’s what the mind-body connection is all about. There’s not one true answer to like– it’s not like exactly what I said in the beginning. It’s not mind over matter. But the role that you play connecting the brain and the body together and making them work really, really easy. That’s the mind-body connection. And hopefully, you guys got it because this one is a vague humongous thing that you could put your own spin it in many different ways. But if you’re putting your own spin in, that means you’re in the game. The more you step out and like, “I don’t understand it. I’m not thinking about it. I’m not doing any of these steps out of it,” the more you’re not in the game. The more your body’s always going to just play the reaction game. And it’s the hard way to do so. So you’re always going to be at the whim of what happens in your environment. Let’s change that. Let’s start doing things out of the design by you playing an active role. That’s what I want you guys to do.

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