Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana

Unlocking Health & Happiness: The Power of Listening to Your Body's Signals

June 05, 2023 Jana and Jason Shelfer Season 4 Episode 19
Living Lucky® Podcast with Jason and Jana Banana
Unlocking Health & Happiness: The Power of Listening to Your Body's Signals
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Have you ever wondered how your body communicates with you? Recently, I reintroduced wine into my life only for my body to convulsively reject it, reminding me that moderation is key. Join us in today's episode as we explore the importance of listening to our bodies and how physical symptoms can relate to our mental state, inspired by Louise Hay's book, Healing Your Body. Plus, we share some light-hearted moments about Jana lack of lateral movement and Mindy joining us for a Mindvalley meetup group!

As we dive deeper into the significance of paying attention to our bodies, we discuss how this awareness can help us make better decisions. We also talk about the power of body language and the various ways we communicate with one another. If you're interested in the concept of living lucky, don't forget to check out startlivinglucky.com. Get ready to tune in to your body's signals and unlock the keys to a healthier, happier life!

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*Previously Recorded

Speaker 1: Are you ready to create a life you crave? Let's spin that doom loop of negativity into an upward success cycle and start living lucky. Good morning, I'm Jana, I'm Jason And we are living lucky. Thanks for joining us today. Happy Monday. When do you know it's right? That's right. 

Speaker 2: When do you know it's wrong? Oh, you'll know when it's wrong. 

Speaker 1: For me, it's listening to my body. My body always knows, my body is always talking to me. I've talked about this before. 

Speaker 2: Bo knows. 

Speaker 1: Who's Bo? 

Speaker 2: Bo Jackson, but also Bo is short for Body, body. 

Speaker 1: Oh, your body always knows. Do you remember that commercial Bo knows baseball. 

Speaker 2: Yeah, that's Bo. 

Speaker 1: Jackson, but he really didn't, because he only lasted at baseball for a couple seasons and it was yeah. Anyway, the reason we're talking about this is I have a confession to make. I'm gonna get vulnerable with you all right now. 

Speaker 2: We can all get vulnerable on this one, I think. 

Speaker 1: Oh, we've all made decisions. Okay. So here's the thing. Y'all know that I gave up drinking alcohol. I mean, i gave it up completely. I loved drinking wine In my 30s. I drank a lot of wine. I drank a lot of wine. 

Speaker 2: We had a cork collection. We still have the cork collection. 

Speaker 1: When you say court Cork, Oh cork. Yeah, we did. We had a cork collection Sometimes my k's sounds like t's. And we would actually put our corks on our island in our Not that we own an island, but you know, yeah, we do own an island. 

Speaker 2: It's called cork island. 

Speaker 1: You know, like in your kitchen, how everybody puts Not everybody puts corks on their island. But we did, yeah, we we glued corks on our island and the one we went to go sell our house. The people were like we don't want those corks on our island And I was like well, good, because those corks mean a lot to me, Like that was our wedding night and that's when we had sex for the first time, and that was that So then I started After our wedding night. Thank you for adding that My mom is listening. 

Speaker 1: And then I started tearing off the corks. 

Speaker 2: And the whole island went with them. 

Speaker 1: Totally ruined the drywall, and then we had to redo the whole island and it ended up costing us a lot of money. But, anyway, long story short, i had wine with my friend who's helping me write my book, heather, on Wednesday, because we were talking about the book and I'm like you know what, let's just open a bottle of wine. I've had a long week and I'm trying, because I enjoy wine, to slowly bring it back into my life. 

Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, so there's a thing Everything in moderation, right. 

Speaker 1: Yes, this is kind of a bad idea. I'm just gonna tell you that because there's been three times now since the year started. 

Speaker 2: You've tried to reintroduce. 

Speaker 1: Where Jason has done coffee solo and he I don't even know if he tells you exactly why I'm gone. 

Speaker 2: Something is upset your stomach. 

Speaker 1: Okay. so he tells you I have food poisoning, or Or that I just need a break. Yes, and it's not that I'm over drinking. I mean, i'm talking one or two glasses of wine, but I go into convulsions. Where I go into, i have migraine headaches the next day and I am Ehh ehh, ehh. 

Speaker 2: And someone's going to probably make the assumption that these are big, large like that joke glass where they're like I'm just having one glass, and it's that big monster glass. 

Speaker 1: No, we're talking. a regular bottle of wine, A normal size glass With a friend. so we're talking. 

Speaker 2: Four and a half glasses of wine. Split between two people. 

Speaker 1: Split between two people, yes, and it makes me convulsingly sick, convulsingly, and it's my body saying no, jana, you cannot have this Like. This does not work for you. I get so ill that I violently vomit And then I have this headache that lasts, usually for three days. Mind you, i had to ride a roller coaster on Friday and we had to ride it not just once, but like twice in a row And smile while we were doing it. We'd be like, ehh, we're having a blast without putting our hands up, because that was the stipulation. Good morning, good morning Lori, good morning Patrick. 

Speaker 2: Good morning Michelle, all the way from Ireland. 

Speaker 1: What Good to see you Stop it good morning to ya. 

Speaker 2: I'll be messaging you right after the coffee. 

Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, and Mindy's here. Mindy joined us on Friday, which was so fun. It was so fun to just sit and have a glass of no, i'm kidding, we didn't have a glass of wine. She joined us for our meetup group. Anyway, what I'm trying to tell y'all is that our bodies are constantly talking to us. We just don't always listen. Louise Hayes, she has this book called Healing the Body. In fact, my copy. Oh gosh, i might be able to reach it. Oh, did I just run over? 

Speaker 2: your toe. No, I was kinda leaning on you because you're my rock. 

Speaker 1: Oh, You're my foundation. I roll though. 

Speaker 2: I roll, i know, but not laterally. 

Speaker 1: Okay, at any rate, she has this book. It's called Healing Your Body, and she even writes in there where she'll say if your back hurts, if your lower back hurts, it means you're having, you're worrying about money. or if your gut is feeling uneasy, maybe that's because you're out of integrity. or if you're itching Remember when Jason was scratching itching Show him your skin and how you've scarred your little. do you see that? Do you see those little pock marks that he's made for himself? 

Speaker 2: Like I'm pointing out your flaws, Yeah, that's all right, because I used to literally just scratch holes in my neck trying to escape, and he was trying to escape his job. 

Speaker 1: He was trying to escape his job and it wasn't until I got out her book and I'm like, why are you picking at your skin? And Louise Hayes was like you're trying to escape something. And I was like, oh, oh, my gosh, that's so crazy. 

Speaker 2: And it kept going and kept going, And even though I would do the lessons so much when I started doing the affirmations, but when I left September 2021. Yes, Literally I have not had a single time to scratch or any like bumps or anything since then. 

Speaker 1: I know, if only I would have looked it up like two weeks prior, you wouldn't have had these scars. 

Speaker 2: For me, like my body told me, because, when I got into the workforce. I wanted power, i wanted wealth, i wanted to be, i wanted to matter in the world. 

Speaker 1: You do matter. 

Speaker 2: I know I do, but the thing is, i didn't matter to me. Okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. 

Speaker 1: Let's just stop right now, because did everyone just hear what he said? He wanted to matter in the world, but he didn't feel like he mattered to himself. I feel like we all can relate to that. I know that I can. And whether it's you want to matter, whether it's you want to be loved, whether it's you want to be seen, whether it's you want to be heard, whether it's you want to be accepted, we have to do that for ourselves before we can expect it from the world. We teach the world how to treat us. If we want the world to see us, feel us, hear us, love us, we have to do that for ourselves. 

Speaker 2: In my heart and in my mind I felt like I had done all these things and I'd continued to show up and do all these things and I wanted things. So I was like, why am I not getting things Okay? So I was desperate to get material things to prove that the work I was doing was valid. Okay, and I wasn't getting it. Okay, and my body was dying from it And I felt it Like my back, my neck, my head, my feet, my legs, my every time I had a, your shins, my shins. 

Speaker 1: I wonder what Louise Hayes says about your shins. 

Speaker 2: But I could feel it in my whole body. 

Speaker 1: I'm gonna you keep talking. I'm gonna try to reach this up. 

Speaker 2: It got to a point where I finally, just one day, realized that I don't need all these things to validate my worth, to validate that I matter, because I started caring, i actually mattered to me and I decided I'm, i am, a value to the world And I just started serving people and providing solutions for people. And the more I gave, the more I realized that by giving I actually prove my value. So it because you can't give unless you have something to give, so you're giving from a place of value. And that changed my whole perspective on who I was as a person And it changed. It's like Dr Wayne Dyer says when you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Yeah, so that changed, knowing where I was going and what. 

Speaker 1: I was okay. I don't see shins, but you mentioned stiffness. You mentioned stiff neck. Stiff neck means you are being bullheaded. 

Speaker 2: I was very bullheaded. 

Speaker 1: You're unbending. 

Speaker 2: I was very unbending. 

Speaker 1: Oh, and if that happens, if you're feeling that, then you need to say this affirmation It is safe to see other viewpoints, And the minute that you start saying that affirmation, then your neck pain will go away. 

Speaker 2: I was unbending and unforgiving. 

Speaker 1: Isn't that crazy. Okay, wait, wait, okay. So put your ailments in the comments. Put your ailments in the comments and I will look them up for you. If you have an ailment, put it in the comments and I will look it up for you. Okay, so I know that I've been having shoulder pain, so let's see what shoulder pain is. Shoulder pain represents our ability to carry out experiences in life joyously. We make life a burden by our attitude. Oh, i need to be more joyous. I've got joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart. 

Speaker 2: Where My shoulder. So, michelle, is knee pain Knee pain So attitude is a attitude reflects your aptitude. 

Speaker 1: Okay. 

Speaker 2: Or altitude. 

Speaker 1: Yeah. 

Speaker 2: So that's that's pretty big. 

Speaker 1: Okay, knee pain. Oh my gosh, do you really want to hear this out loud, michelle? Knee pain Okay. So it says knee C joints. So there's a couple things for knee pain. But knee represents pride and ego And if you're experiencing anything with your knee you should say I am flexible and flowing. I am flexible and flowing. And it also says knee problems mean you, means you may be stubborn, ego and pride, inability to bend, fear, inflexibility, won't give in. Is there a situation where you're not giving in? That's if you're having knee problems, and for that you should use the affirmation forgiveness, understanding, compassion. I bend and flow with ease and all is well, okay. Wait, mindy says she has headaches and jaw pain. Okay, we'll start with headaches. 

Speaker 2: Well, a lot of times, headaches come from jaw pain. 

Speaker 1: Okay, so we'll go with jaw pain, because jaw pain just came up. Jaw problems means you have problems, anger, resentment and desire for revenge. Oh, mindy, mindy, i wanna talk to you more. That was a good TV series, oh my gosh, i wanna talk to you more and you should use the affirmation I am willing to change the patterns in me that created this condition I love and improve of myself. I am safe. Oh, that's so good. that's so good. And headaches? did headaches come up? Okay, i need to do headaches one more time. 

Speaker 2: So sometimes we don't recognize revenge, yeah, but because I was very vengeful, yeah, i know, and it was just because I felt hurt, i felt betrayed and also I felt like other people were causing injustice in the world, because I was unwilling to see from their perspective And I was unwilling to see that people do the things they do because of the way they think, the way they believe and the way they were really raised in the world. Yeah, so they're right in their own, the way they were brought up Like they're just doing things. Everyone does things because of their thoughts, their beliefs and their feelings. 

Speaker 1: Okay, here's one last one headaches. And now it also says see migraines, but here's just headaches. in general, it means you're invalidating the self, self-criticism and fear, and the affirmation is I love and approve of myself. I see myself and what I do with the eyes of love, i am safe, which is very similar to the jaw pain. I am safe, i am safe. There's something to this. 

Speaker 2: I really love this. I think a lot of it comes back to just making sure that we check to make sure that we are really dialed into where we want to be personally And knowing are we clear about being on our own individual path or have we adopted someone? have we gotten on someone else's taxi cab And are we going to where they wanna go, or are we on their ride? Are we following someone else's dream, someone else's path? And it's okay to jump on someone else's ride for a while as long as they're in our lanes and going kind of in the direction we wanna go to learn, but we have to make sure that when it deviates from where we wanna be going, that we get out of that cab. 

Speaker 1: We've gone a little long, but I do wanna say your body never lies. There's actually a couple of tools that Jason and I have, where, when we go around the house, like we'll go to a painting and I'll say, Jason, do you like this, Do you like this? And there's actually a tool where you can put your hand up and you can ask like, do you like this? And if he likes it you push his hand down. If he really likes it. It'll be hard to push down. 

Speaker 1: And if he doesn't like it, his hand will go pfft, because when you lie your body, your energy just goes pfft. anyway, We can explore that tool at another time. Your body never lies. Listen to your body talk. 

Speaker 2: Listen to your body talk, your body talk. Listen to your body talk, exactly. 

Speaker 1: Let's get Okay, olivia. Bye guys, have a great day. 

Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us Have a great trip. 

Speaker 1: If the idea of living lucky appeals to you, visit us at startlivingluckycom. 

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