Nourishing You
Enhancing your wellness comes with a personal blueprint. Your nourishment is not something that can solely be sought after externally, through food and the next wellness trend. It also needs to be cultivated internally, through knowing oneself and your own personal relationship to your body, feelings and intuition. When you pour your energy into hard-fast rules, other people’s ways and science-as-fact, you bypass the intuitive process of knowing your own right and wrongs. What feels good and doesn’t. You lose sight of a self-connection hotline and instead create a static relationship with your knowing.
So how do you discover your personal wellness blueprint? How can you become aligned with this knowledge? Let’s start with a discovery process. If you’re truly looking to change, to soften into life and feel less anxiety and more ease, you’ll need to do a bit of reflection. Grab a pen and paper and let’s slow things down to see where you are right now.
What does the word “nourishment” mean to you?
Have you ever had any nourishing experiences? Write about it. Please include FEELINGS you had during that experience. (To separate your feelings from the experience, imagine being there again, take yourself through the scene, then breathe quietly into the recreated moment and ask, “What am I feeling…”)
Some questions to inspire you:
How often do you experience the feeling of nourishment? (How many times a day/week/month?)
If you could choose, how often would you LIKE to feel nourished?
If nourishment is a bigger energy and word than you first thought, what are 3 ways you’d like to nourish yourself daily?
Oftentimes your conditioning and lack of curiosity leave no room for discovery. When you open yourself to the possibilities of how you experience concepts like nourishment, you begin to see your unique perspective and what it really means to you. Sometimes popping the simple question of “Does this feel nourishing to me?” before a meal, exercise class or conversation is enough to create clarity on what your true YES and NO are for that day. That’s how ambiguous we are. Each day can and will be different if you are checking in with yourself. Just because it sounds nourishing today does not have to mean it will feel good tomorrow.
Nourish yourself consciously
Learning to nourish yourself is not an overnight process but more of a “getting to know” you process. It’s common to have trained yourself to abandon your needs and just get by. When you zoom out and look at your ideas and see how you would like to be nourished, you can start adding in the things that feel good knowing that the idea came from YOU and you’ll watch as your body relaxes into it, feeling just right.
Refer to your chart as often as you need.
Bring your YES and NO everywhere you go and don’t be afraid to use it.
Happy Nourishing!
-Jill