Ep 261: 4 Essential Steps to Listen to Your Body Better in Midlife
What You’ll Learn About 4 Essential Steps to Listen to Your Body Better in Midlife:
- What the 4 essential steps are to listen to your body better in midlife.
- How your body sends you clues that you might miss because you aren’t listening.
- Why being aware of your thoughts about your body’s sensations.
- Your invitation to new midlife workshops.
- Why increasing awareness and developing skills to determine the relationship between thoughts and feelings is essential.
- Why pausing and slowing down is essential to actually notice what your body is trying to tell you.
Welcome to another episode of the Women in the Middle Podcast
Today’s episode is about 4 essential steps to listen to your body better in midlife. It turns out that your body has a lot to say if you’re open to listening. That’s the key. You have to be connected to the sensations in your body and in midlife, a lot can get in the way (especially the way you think) and make this more difficult.
Hear a variety of personal examples that help illustrate this point. In her own words, Suzy was sometimes oblivious to connecting the dots when her body gave her physical clues but nobody was listening as fully as possible. When you don’t listen, you run the risk of missing important clues to your health and welfare; also, you have more difficulty understanding the context of what might actually be going on with you.
The broad range of examples of what kinds of bodily clues you can listen for will make it easier for you to find useful examples from your life too. Sometimes you have thoughts that create feelings in your body; other times your body experiences physical sensations that are important to notice. Being curious will help you get more context so you can do a better job of taking care of yourself.
Learn 4 essential steps to listen to your body better, which include increasing your awareness, developing more self-trust, creating more pauses and space in your life, and coming up with a game plan for decision-making related to taking action.
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Featured on this episode:
Listen to a jazz band recording of Spinnin’ Wheel by David Clayton-Thomas, arranged by Adrian Drover (similar arrangement to what I played in high school. From February, 2020
WebMD article: How to Listen to your Body (A to Z Guides), Reviewed on August 17, 2020.
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Grab your free guide, Top 10 Questions to Reimagine your Life after 50: https://suzyrosenstein.com/10questions/
WebMD article: How to Listen to your Body (A to Z Guides), Reviewed on August 17, 2020.
Related Episodes:
Women in the Middle Podcast, Episode #225: Having Fun with Thoughts About Aging & Your Aging Body with Dr Healther Bartos
Women in the Middle Podcast: Episode #178: A Candid & Humorous Look at Aging with Joan Lunden
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