Awakened Wellness: BOA- Body Owners Association

Is true wellness a language you can learn? Join us on Awakened Wellness as we explore how tuning into your body and well-being is much like mastering a new language. We kick off by sharing listener feedback, including a compelling story from a nurse's aide who has started applying these principles in her daily work. Discover how her inquisitive approach to understanding patients' lifestyles is uncovering the intricate connections between lifestyle choices and aging. Through real-life anecdotes, we emphasize the critical role of personal responsibility in the healing process and how true wellness is a journey that begins from within.

Next, we break down the core pillars of health: nutrition, exercise, rest, and mindfulness. Learn why eating balanced meals is crucial for energy, muscle, and bone strength, and how poor dietary choices impact brain function. We also discuss the benefits and risks of exercise, the essential role of rest in body repair and emotional balance, and why fad diets are more harmful than helpful. By the end of this episode, you'll have a comprehensive understanding of how these elements are interconnected and how mastering them can lead to transformative changes in your health and relationships. This is an episode you won't want to miss on your journey to awakened wellness!

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:14

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Awakened Wellness. Marie and myself are just so happy to have you here and we have a wonderful show for you here. And we have a wonderful show for you today. Two parts, as always, but to begin with we have, I'm hoping, some good feedback from the last two shows. We do Awesome.

Speaker 2: 0:33

We do. Please share, All right. So someone said to me that this whole thing about awakened wellness and learning to go within and listen to yourself is like learning a new language. Really, yeah, that it's so foreign. It's like learning a new language and it sat with me and I'm like for a lot of people it really is.

Speaker 1: 0:55

Well, you said that and you said foreign language. I'm like what are you talking about?

Speaker 2: 0:57

Yes, it is foreign to them because they've never really thought about listening to their body when they do things and all these other ways of how it can talk to you, right? Because we just are so mainstream beeline that everything we've been told, we don't let our body talk to us.

Speaker 1: 1:14

That would make total sense, in that we always either run to the doctor or oh, something's wrong, when it's actually a conversation your body's having with you.

Speaker 2: 1:22

They're trying, but it's like learning a new language, so it is difficult. Is their point Okay that it doesn't come easy?

Speaker 1: 1:27

I think that's a legit comment. I think so too. I thought it was a great comment.

Speaker 2: 1:31

Yeah, I hadn't thought of it that way, and once she said it I was like wow, that's really a cool way to think about it.

Speaker 1: 1:36

Well, I guess we.

Speaker 2: 1:40

I have a client who's a nurse's aide and she goes to work daily and now she's starting to notice more about the patients and she's asking them questions more about their lifestyles and how they see things and how they've always taken yeah. So she's kind of seeing the correlation between how she's aging and how they aged and where they're at, and she's yeah.

Speaker 1: 2:00

Interesting, but also having conversations with them that maybe somebody else hasn't Right and then, at the same time, educating herself and she's learning, you know how lifestyle affects how you age.

Speaker 2: 2:10

I mean she's more from an independent assisted living type thing into, so she's getting them at all different layers so she talks to different people.

Speaker 1: 2:19

How nice.

Speaker 2: 2:19

Yeah, I thought that was kind of cool.

Speaker 1: 2:20

So she's doing her own research, her own homework which I really like, and her job, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 2: 2:25

Yeah, yeah. Well, that's what I want people to do is ask questions, start learning. Don't just take what I say and make it law Go figure it out.

Speaker 1: 2:33

Figure it out. Go, look at two sides of everything and decide what's for you.

Speaker 2: 2:37

The more you learn, the less you know and the more you realize, the more you can learn, Correct.

Speaker 1: 2:42

Yeah, and the more you realize it is. So when people say it's not all about you, yes, it is I'd like to throw that monkey wrench into that comment, because here it is all about you.

Speaker 2: 2:57

So I had a new client and she had done a lot of self-work on herself and someone else sent her to me and she immediately came in and said so-and-so, said you're a healer. And I said I hate that word, please don't use that word. I said I'm a facilitator of what you want for yourself and how aware you've become of yourself. So she gets on my table and we go through the whole thing. She goes, I don't care what you say, you're a healer. And I said to her again you have done so much work on yourself. I mean, she had cancer four times, oh yeah, and the stuff she knew about her body. So again, if her energy is really strong, it makes me look good. Someone else who's never even delved into self-care and really looked at themselves. I'm not going to get the same results on them, I only facilitate where they're at. So my point in telling this story is I want people to own it. It's yours, don't make it about me. I'm just here to help you become more.

Speaker 1: 3:55

That's a very interesting story because I had a couple of friends One friend does the Rife machines and the other, gal, does Reiki, and you know, whatever you want to do. But it's very odd because they made a similar kind of comment that a client will walk in and, you know, fix me. You know you've got the machine, fix me. And he had said well, it's really what are you open to? What are you? You know? Are you able to listen? Are you able to go into your body and allow it to heal, or allow this method, whatever it is, to help you?

Speaker 2: 4:39

But that's the new language we're trying to learn right.

Speaker 1: 4:42

Yeah, wow, I had that conversation a week ago. That's the new language we're trying to learn right. Yeah, wow, I had that conversation a week ago. That's the new language we're trying to learn. Yeah, yeah, but they said the same thing. No, that's not my job. I'm facilitating. I like that word facilitating, but it's what you do with it. I can't do it for you. I can't fix it for you, right.

Speaker 2: 5:05

But I can't fix it for you, but I can nudge you along. Right, and the more people become aware, the more their body changes, the more their life changes, the more their relationships change. Everything happens. You know, I had a guy come in yesterday and I was talking to him about something and he says to me he says, well, you need to ask to see what you need to see. And I go and I did and I got some pretty cool answers. He goes, it really works. He goes. I do it all the time I go. I do too. It really works, he goes. And it surprises me every time I go. It still surprises me too when you just sit with a problem and you have clear intent and you do that three minute meditation of asking to see what you need to see, but you're truly open to anything, not just what you want to hear. It's amazing where the answers come out of and it's nothing you could have come up with yourself, so you couldn't have managed Right, and if you're actually listening, you'll realize that.

Speaker 2: 5:50

Yes.

Speaker 1: 5:51

Right, yeah, it's pretty cool, it depends. So I'm still caught on the fence for some things and I'll hear that other option and I jump back on the fence. So I'm working on not jumping back on the fence. So what happens to all of us being open to all possibilities? All possibilities, not just yours. Yes, I like that. All right, so today, oh, this is an interesting, it's going to be fun.

Speaker 2: 6:15

B-O-A Body Owners Association and how this came about. We were talking a little bit that my husband and I, five years ago, bought into an HOA. And it's a minor HOA. It's very inexpensive. It's only a yearly fee and there's not a lot of rules. But it's mostly about the common areas and the conservation land and everything else Okay. So the builder's now leaving and he has to transition it over to the people and all of a sudden they decided they don't want it, they don't want anything to do with it, they don't want anything they signed on for. And when you sign into an HOA you are consciously signing that piece of paper saying I want to live in that neighborhood under those guidelines, Correct?

Speaker 1: 6:55

It's a legal document. They don't care.

Speaker 2: 6:57

The people don't. They don't care, not all of them, but some of them, the ones that are yeah, and then, if they are going to do it, they want to all change to benefit the individual. So, anyway, it's caused a lot of things, but it made me think about what do we do with our own bodies, right, what do we sign on for, and what are we doing or not doing? So I started to create a body owners association on the same guidelines of the homeowners association, and it kind of got fun.

Speaker 2: 7:27

So, yeah, body Owners Association it's dedicated to understanding and maintaining your own body instead of your neighborhood.

Speaker 1: 7:34

And what you sign off on and what you don't, right? It's just like a Homeowners Association what you agree to and what you don't, so you're looking after your physical body and the well-being of your physical form.

Speaker 2: 7:43

So how do you do that? By creating your own association, right, okay. So you first start with community and understanding what is your body, how does it run? Okay. So what did you sign on for at birth and where do you want to be when you die? What kind of health profile are you looking for? Right, same as my neighborhood, I wanted my property values to stay. I wanted my neighbors to pick up their trash, whatever it is, what do you want to see throughout your lifetime for your body?

Speaker 2: 8:16

So you create your organization for that, right, yeah, okay. So you're responsible for the upkeep right, and it's care, just like your house or your neighborhood. But the only way you can do that is by understanding your body, correct. You can say I'm going to do it just like a diet, just like I'm going to go exercise, but you don't understand why, like that New Year's promise, that we don't always follow through Right because you don't completely understand why, just like these people didn't understand why they signed that paperwork they just did it because they wanted a house, because that's the world we live in now.

Speaker 2: 8:54

right, correct, do whatever you can to get a house, right, you don't care what you signed on for, okay. So let's talk about that. By understanding your body you can make informed decisions to optimize its function and longevity. So the more you understand it, the more you can do it. So first you have to understand how different organs and systems work together. Okay, where most of us don't know that at all.

Speaker 2: 9:16

Because if you take the Western model of medicine, the one we know now, it keeps everything in parts Correct and it's totally segregated. So nothing affects anything, nothing works together. But if you go back to the Eastern philosophy, so let's look at acupuncture. So acupuncture is all about meridians and energy flow and the belief of acupuncture was to keep the body in balance. So you would go see an acupuncturist when you felt off and they would help you with their herbs and their acupuncture and whatever they would tell you to do for yourself to bring it back into balance. So there wasn't cancer, there wasn't dementia, there wasn't illness, because you always had your own BOA. You paid attention. But over time we've distorted that. Even in the Eastern philosophy. They're living the American dream, so they're losing touch of that. We're using acupuncture now. We have a problem. We want it to fix it Right. It doesn't fix problems, it brings back balance.

Speaker 1: 10:08

So the more you understand the flow of energy through your body, the more you can help your body too, because we have to understand that our meridians in our body can have blockages, yes, and so, if you think of it, as you know, snaking a drain or a pipe, these different options help open up the flow Right, in a very simple, simple manner, right? So, if you?

Speaker 2: 10:33

take chiropractic. They have the same philosophy, just a little different. Okay, okay, they stay in the spine, Correct, and they believe your nervous system is all through the spine and all those nerves run out to all your extremities. So if they can keep that spine straight, they can help the body heal by just bringing everything back into an alignment. If the spine's out, then you're going to have issues in all the other organs and systems and muscles and tissue. So people get mad at chiropractors because they want you to come three days a week, because they're only out for your money. No, because they only stay in the spine If you're off. They want to try to bring it back as often as they can. So your body tries to remember.

Speaker 1: 11:10

Right, so that you get the muscle memory to hold it in the right position and all the different parts help.

Speaker 2: 11:13

So if you even understood that, you wouldn't be mad at the chiropractor. You'd go home and say okay, what do I need to do to keep it in check? Working alongside the chiropractor Correct, you would understand that you have a part in this.

Speaker 1: 11:27

Exactly so they're partners in the BOA in that agreement Exactly exactly so.

Speaker 2: 11:34

Yoga again. So this is all the different philosophies of how the body heals. So if we put those all together, then we can create our organization Right, but we have to understand that the body has different mechanisms that it can use to heal, right? So let's look at the yogic philosophy, okay, okay, that again has to do with flow of energy through the body through the tissue.

Speaker 2: 12:01

They do a lot of detoxing of the organs because they believe if the organs are tight and you don't have a lot of space inside your abdominal cavity, that creates disease. The organs can't drain, the tubes get clogged, everything gets backed up which is actually true, but nobody pays any attention to that and they just sit for long periods of hours. They don't go walk it off, they don't try to open their abdominal cavity, they don't do visceral massage All these things you can do to yourself to help your body maintain.

Speaker 1: 12:23

We don't do.

Speaker 2: 12:27

Right. So again it goes back to what we've learned medicine to be is keeping us in separate parts. We have to learn to bring ourselves back to a holistic view of how everything affects everything.

Speaker 1: 12:36

Well, they did call it the human body, they didn't call it the human parts.

Speaker 2: 12:42

So, now that we understand that there's different philosophies on how the body heals and that it's all got to do with it should be a holistic view, a roundabout view, what would you do to create your BOA? Okay, so first you would start to look at understanding how they all work together, so, and what affects them? Okay, so your organs. What affects your organs?

Speaker 1: 13:10

what you eat right breathe drink exercise yeah what type of job you have your environment.

Speaker 2: 13:17

Toxins you put in yourself medications, too many herbs, too many alcohol all those kinds of things affect your organs. Sugar, yeah Right. So if we want say we want to say okay, I think my organs are suffering, what's the first thing you do? You don't know. You start taking all these supplements to try to detox. But if you look at all the things you do to maintain, you'll know what they do for your body. So let's start with nutrition, the most basic thing, okay. So what would your nutrition?

Speaker 1: 13:47

do for you? What would my nutrition?

Speaker 2: 13:49

do for me. If you ate, what was your reasoning for eating? How would it affect your body? I see what you're saying.

Speaker 1: 13:56

So what is my rationale for eating For nutrition is to keep myself healthy, to keep energy in my body so that it doesn't eat its muscles.

Speaker 2: 14:04

Okay.

Speaker 1: 14:05

So it helps with your energy? Yeah, what else? I believe it builds muscle and bones and keeps Okay Without the right nutrients you cannot build a strong body, okay, and you can't build strong bone, right.

Speaker 2: 14:20

I believe your skin health is dictated by your nutrition. Huge Yep.

Speaker 1: 14:24

Skin, blood, brain. You need energy, you know, and you need energy for your body, but you do need a specific kind of energy and nutrient for your brain, because that's your computer.

Speaker 2: 14:38

OK, so how does your body? If the science says that our body builds and repairs every seven years everything? Yeah, so how does it do that?

Speaker 1: 14:48

By proper nutrition. Okay, and that includes. So what if?

Speaker 2: 14:50

you're doing a lot of fad diets. What if you're eating too many calories? What if you're not eating enough calories?

Speaker 1: 14:55

Then you're derailing yourself, you're not building and repairing properly, like you're supposed to be. You're sabotaging your body doing its seven-year cycle. So the build and repair right.

Speaker 2: 15:05

How about stress? Stress will have you consume your body right?

Speaker 1: 15:09

Stress can, but nutrition can build you back Correct after the stress, but you need to realize that the stress must be decreased.

Speaker 2: 15:18

So it's the same thing if the sun wears out the paint around your door casing, you have to paint it again or it's going to rot out. Correct, right? So there's all these ways. We should be looking at our bodies on what's breaking it down and how are we going to rebuild it Right and not quick fixes.

Speaker 2: 15:35

Quick fixes don't work. Correct, that's the fad diet. Well, what they do is they create more chaos in the body and feed you, yeah. So nutrition itself is huge. I always tell people to start there. If they're having a bad day where they're overstressed, their probably brain focuses off. So how much sugar did you eat? How many carbs did you eat? Did you eat proper balance in your food? Did you skip a meal? Did you do too much coffee?

Speaker 1: 16:00

There's so many things that can.

Speaker 2: 16:02

So if you start there, there's usually a place to find your answers before you have to go elsewhere and but when you do that.

Speaker 1: 16:10

I never liked coffee. My whole life. All of a sudden I liked it. I want a cup of coffee, and then I started listening and sitting back and going, but the coffee doesn't like me. Why do I keep doing this? So you have to listen Right To yourself when you're going through those little things mini tests, okay. So what does exercise affect? So exercise affects your blood pressure the pumping of your heart your heart rate.

Speaker 1: 16:38

It affects your breathing, your lungs, okay. It affects your muscle strength. It does so that that allows you to walk properly. And your bone density? Yep, if you don't exercise your bone density as you get older, your blood sugars.

Speaker 2: 16:53

Yes, yes, your blood sugar, your balance.

Speaker 1: 16:56

Yeah, because if you're too over, if one side of your body is overworked as opposed to the other, you become overbalanced.

Speaker 2: 17:06

And then you get compensation your immune system, yep, your tissue integrity. So what happens when you don't exercise? You become a slug. Well, there's a lot of things, a lot of things that have a negative effect. Right, Correct. That's the point about. If you truly understand that one thing affects the other and everything else works together because we've been taught so differently, you start to really get a bigger picture on what's going to affect what for yourself.

Speaker 1: 17:30

Well, like you said, exercise, because I think to most people, I'm going to run, my heart's going to be strong, I'm going to have a great cardiovascular, but there's really all those things we just checked off.

Speaker 2: 17:42

But runners can run too much and break down bone and have arthritis in their back and you know they get the humps and everything else because they're not eating enough calories and they're running for the endorphins.

Speaker 1: 17:51

So that's where the nutrition piece comes in.

Speaker 2: 17:53

But then some of them run for the health and they do fine. So again, why are you doing these things? Right, yeah, okay, so rest. How does rest affect your BOA?

Speaker 1: 18:02

So rest is essential because your body needs to have that quiet time to repair overnight. Yes, that's a big one.

Speaker 2: 18:12

But what if you don't have the proper nutrition when you go to bed?

Speaker 1: 18:16

Or you eat too late, so your body is busy digesting and not repairing.

Speaker 2: 18:20

There's all these kinds of things, one affects the other all the time, but we just keep saying no, they don't, but they do.

Speaker 1: 18:27

They do. They're all like this.

Speaker 2: 18:28

They do Right.

Speaker 1: 18:30

What else does?

Speaker 2: 18:30

rest do they, do, they do.

Speaker 1: 18:31

They're all like this. They do Right what?

Speaker 2: 18:34

else does rest.

Speaker 1: 18:35

Do Rest determines your next day and how your energy flows Correct. It also allows your brain to. I say put it in the backpack so that you don't have all that stress and all those things going on so that you can't sleep and you're busy doing that and you ate too late so your body's not healing. So not only does your body repair and reheal, your brain needs to file what happened that day in its proper place so you can have the great next day.

Speaker 2: 19:05

And if you don't rest well, your focus is off and your health starts to dwindle. Your stress levels are off your mood is off. Your mood is off your emotions you're not eating right or meal prepping. You're giving in to everything.

Speaker 1: 19:18

So you're not exercising because you're too tired, because you didn't rest you just gave up the other two things because you're stressed, it's all connected everything is.

Speaker 2: 19:25

We are one big organization, all connected.

Speaker 1: 19:29

I love it. It is when, when you say that wow, I know I'm sorry, did you agree to do it this way? Start having that conversation. You're going to have to start talking to your body.

Speaker 2: 19:41

Okay, body, and then mindfulness. That's the last one. Right, that's another one.

Speaker 1: 19:45

How does that affect us if we don't take time to just us if we don't take time to just it I would say mindfulness, spirituality, the whole, it's all encased in there would have a direct effect on the other the other topics we just talked about, Because if you're not in that right state of mind that you can listen, there you go, Then all of that goes right out the window.

Speaker 2: 20:12

You have been listening all this time.

Speaker 1: 20:15

Yes, we didn't set this up ahead of time in a full disclosure. I'm learning right with you guys, so if I can, you can.

Speaker 2: 20:22

All right. So if you want to create your own body organization, you don't have to make it complicated I mean, this was just fun to brainstorm but define your goals Again. What do you want your path to look like? And then what do you want for a fitness level longevity, overall well-being and then take your specific ailments and see what you have to manage and see what you're all these pieces that could be affecting them, that you didn't realize.

Speaker 1: 20:45

Correct that. Just not taking cookies out of your diet when it really is something in the exercise. I mean, I'm really reaching in that, but one, like you said, could affect the other, that your exercise could affect your mood, that's a better connection than what I was saying.

Speaker 2: 21:04

And I have a daily check-in on my website. We've talked about that before. It's an e-book that you check in daily and you ask your body these questions how did I do today? Were my stress levels out of control? Was my nutrition sound? Did I have time to exercise? What do I need to do to plan for tomorrow?

Speaker 1: 21:18

So explain to those that are new when you say your e-book, how do they get to your e-book and what would be a tab or a place?

Speaker 2: 21:27

It's on my website marienodigcom, and if you go under my resources under there there's some free eBooks Under resources and the only reason.

Speaker 1: 21:39

I've been doing an awful lot of Zooms over the past couple of weeks and we've had some new people come in and they've said I don't know where to find that and we do have a lot of people, older people, that don't use the computer a lot, so I like to throw that out there. No, that's fine, marienoetigcom, and go to resources and your ebooks and tons of other information. Don't be afraid to use it.

Speaker 2: 22:02

So the key is to get to know your body, check in daily and then try to see which thing affects what and really start to learn and listen. And what you can do too is you know, if you don't follow through on an HOA, you can get, you know, find and all these kinds of things. So you want to find a way to hold yourself accountable. You can do it with a friend. Yeah Right, you can make your own way. Treat yourself at the end of the month. If you succeed and really listen.

Speaker 1: 22:29

Yeah, yeah way, treat yourself at the end of the month if you succeed and really did every day and checked off the list.

Speaker 2: 22:33

Yeah, you know, and you could make excuses all. You want to not do anything. I mean, first of all, you have to want to do it, you have to want to learn. But true health doesn't come from just reading a book. It's about being home and listening, because everything you do affects everything.

Speaker 1: 22:49

And in saying that, I got a picture in my mind of ever-growing circles, concentric circles, with what you do affects so much and it just the energy goes out, or the energy just stays there and nothing happens, right, right. So you do need to be very conscious of that. Wow, I really like that idea. It was just fun, it Right? So you do need to be very conscious of that. Wow, I really like that idea.

Speaker 2: 23:13

It was just fun. It is fun, like I said. It was causing me a lot of stress, the whole situation. So I said what can I do to have fun with it? And I just kept seeing how it compares to how we look at our health and wellness. You know, people don't want what they don't want, so they're going to find a way to manipulate it so they don't have to. And that's what we do with our health. And watching the news lately, you know the median age for nursing right now in New Hampshire is 45 and there's nobody going into nursing and the hospitals are so packed because nobody's caring for themselves. You know the diabetes is off the hook, the heart disease, the obesity.

Speaker 1: 23:46

And I think there's value as well. As you know, don't just scroll by some of these things that might seem ridiculous. Oh, gmas and GMOs, and this and this and this, everything's got two sides. You've always told me that there's two sides to every story.

Speaker 2: 24:03

We all know there is.

Speaker 1: 24:03

There is two sides to every story, and so you know, I think the most impactful thing that you've said to me lately is we were talking about fruits and vegetables and I said, oh, yeah, you can get them in capsules and gummies. And you said to me yeah, but your body isn't digesting it properly and using the enzymes and the proper what was the word you use? It's just the proper. The system is not working correctly. You need to eat and chew those vegetables. You need to eat them seasonally.

Speaker 1: 24:34

It's an enzyme that creates digestive enzymes and that has really stuck with me, and the broccoli actually creates enzymes in your gut because it's a live product and your gut is very important to so much and we don't want to forget that the gut is huge.

Speaker 2: 24:47

Yeah, so the more you take in acids so you can eat what you can eat, you're stunting all that stuff for your health. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, if you need it because you have severe reflux, I say take them.

Speaker 1: 25:00

But if you're doing it, so you can eat something so you don't get reflux. That's a problem. Yeah, I thought that was that has impacted me the most and that and just looking at labels, watching TikToks and Facebooks Full disclosure I've never seen anything bad on TikTok. I get incredible information that sends me down other rabbit paths.

Speaker 2: 25:17

Yeah, you're just on the wrong pages.

Speaker 1: 25:19

People are on the wrong pages. I'm on the good ones. But sourcing your food, it's not that hard. No, watch what you're eating. Just read what it is. Make sure there's not junk in it. Meat potato vegetable. Watch what you're eating. Just read what it is. Make sure there's not junk in it. Meat potato vegetable.

Speaker 2: 25:31

Stick to your basic food groups and less processed is better. I like it. Yeah, so I have. My website is up and going now. It's awakenedwellnesslife. Oh life, life. I had to change it one more time, so it's awakenedwellnesslife. That will be on all my shows from here on in. I'll put them when I post it and any questions is infoawakenwellness at gmailcom. So everything's officially Awaken Wellness now.

Speaker 1: 25:56

Perfect.

Speaker 2: 25:57

So it's all in alignment I created a community, so it's going to be slow and going, but you can get in now and you can start getting some challenges to do for yourself. It's free, but you just have to sign in to join, because I want to keep it a little bit private. Correct, yeah, and then yeah, so there's some meditations on there, there's some other things, and I'll keep building it as we go.

Speaker 1: 26:15

I love it. Thank you so much. This was a fun show. Yeah, all right. Well, thank you everybody for joining Marie and I, and we hope you have an absolutely fabulous day and set up that BOA.

Speaker 2: 26:27

Body Owners Association. I kept having awareness come in.

Speaker 1: 26:31

Have a great day. We'll see you in the next show.