Short coaching segment by Dr. Nicole Cain offering a four-step approach to reconnect with the body and reprogram the mind. Steps: (1) return to the body because many people are dissociated, (2) use top-down awareness and analysis to understand feelings, (3) engage in somatic work (e.g., brief body-scan while brushing teeth), and (4) undertake 90–120 days of reprogramming.
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Three things to get you back into the body. Because we're all dissociated and not in touch with our bodies most of the time. So that's step one and then step two is exactly what you said. It's using our top down resources, awareness tools to help us to understand why we feel the way we feel and to use, you know, there's so many books out there and so many blogs and so many resources and that's the time and place for analysis because now you have your logical brain. But then step three is all somatic work. So now we're in the body and we know what the bullseye is, we know what we're doing. Now we gotta pay attention to the body. So something tangible and I actually, you probably have a million thousand times better idea. So I want an idea from you, but something tangible. I tell my clients to do is while you're brushing your teeth, I want you to body scan without the need to change or do anything about it. Just start at your feet. Notice your feet. What's it like on the floor you have? I have the same rug in my house, so I like this rug. Nice thick one. It's a thick one. It's like reflexology. So you feel the bumps, you work your way up the body and you just acknowledge and notice whatever your body's telling you. And then step four is the 90 to 120 days of reprogramming.