Feel Good Life
We all know what to do to feel good, so why is it that we can’t always be feeling good? We can, as soon as we change our patterns of conditioning.
In this episode, Rachel Yellin, founder of The Feel Good Life speaks about healing the body through healing the trauma. Rachel and Matt dive deep into how we can all feel good today, and every day of our lives.
Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:
- Allow the body to metabolize emotions.
- Get in touch with your feelings every day.
- Your issues are in your tissues.
- Relearn how you actually feel.
- Undo depression and anxiety through neuroplasticity.
[02:38] The Step In Between “Not Feeling Good” and “Feeling Good”
If a person is feeling sensations in their body of not getting a particular need met, you’ve got to allow them to feel. They have to metabolize their emotions for them to pass through, and not land in the body as a permanent lens through which they see all kinds of interactions. Otherwise, if you skip this step and move on to problem-solving right away, the emotional experience stays in the body and it will repeat itself over and over again because the trauma has not been processed and healed.
[11:44] Getting In Touch With Your Feelings
One of the things that we learn to do as children is to bypass our feelings [so] that we have completely lost our ability to even know how to feel. It’s not just your basic emotions, but really check in with your heart. Make it a daily exercise to ask yourself: “How do I feel right now?” Do this 10 times a day until it becomes a habit.
[14:33] Our Issues are in Our Tissues
Whether it’s heartbreak or someone screaming at you, no matter how big or small that trauma is, everything is stored in our tissues. This is why many illnesses, and even mystery illnesses, exist. Aggravation is based a little bit on the current circumstance, and a lot on all the situations that happened in the past. It's cumulative aggravation. And so, we have to go back to relearning how we actually feel.
Notable quotes: (Please Choose One)
[09:03] When a person is having emotions, they actually have to metabolize their emotions for them to pass through. [09:09]
[11:44] One of the things that we learn to do as children is to bypass our feelings… we have completely lost our ability to actually even know how we feel. [12:03]
[12:05] Your first order of business as an adult – 10 times a day – stop and ask yourself, ‘How do I feel right now?’ [12:13]
[14:42] Our issues are in our tissues… this is one of the reasons why there is so much illness. [14:56]
[15:49] Aggravation is based a little bit on the current circumstance. It's based a lot on all the situations that happened in the past. It's cumulative aggravation. [16:00]
Resources Mentioned:
Download the Good Mood Toolkit here!
THE GOOD MOOD SHOW Podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Anchor, and more… About the Guest
Rachel Yellin is a relationship, and trauma healing coach, alternative therapist, childbirth educator, and hypnotherapist. Rachel has attended births as a doula and is helping thousands of people not just have babies, but also go through trauma healing and restore their foundation of wellness.
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