Episode 98: Daily Temperature Check-In
Summary:
In this episode of Weight Loss for Food-Lovers Molly offers a tool to complement her recent episode (which you can find here) about the “Season of You.” She received so much positive feedback about the concept that she was inspired to go further in helping listeners substitute mindfulness for emotional numbing or meltdown; connectedness for over-indulgence.
She provides 10 Steps for centering as a way to reconnect with our feelings and engage with how we’re truly doing at ever level. Available to all of us at any time (well, except when operating machinery!), the process is simple:
o Step #1: Close your eyes, soften your face, draw your attention inward and ask yourself how you are feeling right now. Can you register any emotions?
o Step #2: Clench your fists and scrunch up your face at the same time and then release everything. Relax even more deeply into your body.
o Step #3: Notice how your feet are planted and bring awareness to them and the connection you have to the ground.
o Step #4: Be aware of every other part of your body, how you hold your head, your shoulders, your hips.
o Step #5: Give yourself permission to accept and feel gratitude for the body you have been given.
o Step #6: Take up space! Allow yourself to be fully present in this world.
o Step #7: Check in with yourself, exhale and release any tension or resistance within your body. Let go of rumination about the past or future; any thoughts pulling you out of the present moment.
o Step #8: Notice any sensations in your body, whether there is energy moving around inside you, or tension. Again, gently ask: How do you feel?
o Step #9: Once you register a feeling, embrace, honor and validate it.
o Step #10: When you feel ready, open your eyes and come back to the room you are in, back to your surroundings. And remember that it’s your option to take this moment of intentionality at any time, in any season.
It’s a gift to be fully present to ourselves and our most deeply held desires. Why not give your body the mindful pause it needs to help get you there?
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Topics Covered
· Molly gets right to it, offering a step-by-step start to a “Season of You!”:
o Step #1: Close your eyes, soften your face, draw your attention inward and ask yourself how you are feeling right now. Can you register any emotions?
o Step #2: Clench your fists and scrunch up your face at the same time and then release everything. Relax even more deeply into your body.
o Step #3: Notice how your feet are planted and bring awareness to them and the connection you have to the ground.
o Step #4: Be aware of every other part of your body, how you hold your head, your shoulders, your hips.
o Step #5: Give yourself permission to accept and feel gratitude for the body you have been given.
o Step #6: Take up space! Allow yourself to be fully present in this world.
o Step #7: Check in with yourself, exhale and release any tension or resistance within your body. Let go of rumination about the past or future; any thoughts pulling you out of the present moment.
o Step #8: Notice any sensations in your body, whet