Feelings In My Body

In this video/episode, we’ll:

1. Reframe Our Thinking: We’ll learn how to see our bodies and emotions differently.
2. Find Your Why: We’ll talk about the short & long-term physical effects of emotions.
3. Tune In: We will learn ways to tune into what we are feeling and how it might affect us physically.

1. Your Body Stores Emotions

   A. Body as a container holding emotions

   B. Emotions release neurochemicals affecting the body

2. Short-Term Physical Effects of Emotions

   A. Anxiety causing stomach/digestive issues

   B. Anger causing physical heat, flushing, and increased heart rate  

   C. Sadness causing physical tears (self-soothing response)

3. Long-Term Physical Effects of Emotions

   A. Positive emotions linked to a longer lifespan

   B. Negative emotions (stress, anxiety) can cause:

   1. Memory loss, cognitive impairment

   2. Impaired immune system, more frequent illness  

   3. Impaired cardiovascular system

   4. Impaired gastrointestinal system

   5. Impaired endocrine system, hormonal imbalances

4. The Body Scan Activity

   A. Having children draw/color where they feel emotions

   B. Study mapping where adults feel emotions in the body

   C. The body’s way of signaling emotions to be addressed

5. Importance of Body Awareness  

   A. Scanning the body for emotional tension

   B. “Where do you carry your stress?”

   C. Being in tune with bodily signals of emotions

6. The Body Scan Habit

   A. Slowing down to recognize bodily effects of emotions

   B. Releasing bodily tension through progressive muscle relaxation

   C. Today’s habit: Doing a body scan

Verse for Reflection

   A. Psalm 139:13-14 – “Fearfully and wonderfully made.”

Let’s Review

1. Reframe Our Thinking: It’s important that we begin to see our bodies as containers holding emotions.

2. Find Your Why: If you lack motivation as to why this is important, think about both the short & long-term physical effects of emotions.

3. Tune In: Practicing activities such as performing a body scan can help us be in tune with what we are feeling and how our emotions might be affecting us physically.

Source

[1] Fileta, D. (2023). Reset. Harvest House Publishers.

Show Notes

Episode Description

In this episode, we discuss the chapter Feelings in My Body. This is part of a study inspired by Reset – Powerful Habits to Own Your Thoughts, Understand Your Feelings, and Change Your Life by Debra Fileta. We take concepts from the book each week and apply them to brain health.

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Transcript

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have you ever wondered why emotions

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cause certain bodily

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reactions do you get hot when you get

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angry does your skin get flushed red or

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maybe your heart starts beating rapidly

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have you ever had stomach or digestive

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issues when you’re feeling stressed or

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anxious perhaps neither of those appli

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to you but this last one certainly will

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perhaps the most well-known reaction to

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an emotion would be

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tears in this video we’re going to do

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three things in relation to our emotions

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we’re going to reframe our thinking

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we’re going to learn how to see our

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bodies and our emotions

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differently two we’re going to find our

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why we’ll talk about the short and

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long-term effects of emotions on our

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bodies third we’re going to tune in

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we’re going to learn about ways to tune

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in to what we’re feeling and how it

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might be affecting us physically so

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stick around at the end of the episode

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first up we’re going to look at how our

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bodies store

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emotions now in this chapter Deborah F

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gives this analogy about our bodies as

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containers holding

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emotions now you’re probably familiar

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with how emotions make you feel but it’s

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important to note that emotions release

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neurochemical effects on our bodies and

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we can look at this in two ways uh we

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can look at our positive emotions they

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release feel-good chemicals into our

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bodies and we can look at negative

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emotions these release stress chemicals

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in our bodies all right let’s consider

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the short-term physical effects of

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emotions on our

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bodies now you may know how these

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emotions make you

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feel but it’s important to note the

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physical effects on our bodies for

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example anxiety often causes stomach or

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digestive issues anger will often cause

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physical heat flushing or increased

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heart rate third sadness often cause

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physical tears which is a self- soothing

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response all right let’s look at

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long-term physical effects of emotions

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on our bodies for this part I want to

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break it up into two categories positive

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emotions and negative emotions positive

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emotions have been linked to longer

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lifespans while negative emotions like

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stress or anxiety can cause a whole host

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of physical issues in our bodies I’m

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going to give some examples of these but

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there are a lot so first off memory loss

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or cognitive impairment second an

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impaired immune system which leads often

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to frequent illness third would be

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impaired heart function which would be

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our cardiovascular system system uh

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fourth would be impaired

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gastrointestinal system you may recall

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that in shortterm physical effects it

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also affects our gastrointestinal system

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here we see that it also has long-term

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effects and fifth we see impaired

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endocrine system think here hormonal

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imbalances the body skin activity in

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this chapter Deborah talks about a few

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ways that the body skin activity has

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been used for both children and adults

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in her own practice she describes how

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she has children drawn outline of their

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body and then she has them color in the

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areas where they feel certain

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emotions she goes on to talk about a

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scientific study where adults were asked

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to color in emotions in their body in

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response to visual stimuli that they

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were shown the scientists used this data

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to map out common emotions in different

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parts of the body she goes on to talk

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about how physical symptoms in our body

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is the body’s way of signaling emotions

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that need to be addressed all right

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let’s talk about the importance of body

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awareness scanning the body for

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emotional tension is an important

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process in this chapter Deborah talks

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about a technique called progressive

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muscle relaxation

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now this is a technique that helps us

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slow down and take time to pay attention

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to how our emotions might be affecting

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our bodies this exercise is meant to try

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to help and relieve some of that tension

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that we may have not been aware

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of Deborah goes on to talk about a

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common question that’s a asked in

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different settings and that is where do

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you carry your

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stress now certain areas of the body

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tend to tense up in response to other

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underlying emotions and this process of

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being in tune with our bodily signals is

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important because it helps us to be in

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tune with our emotions verse for

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reflection Psalms 1391

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13-14 it says you created me in my

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inmost being you knit me together in my

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mother’s womb I praise you because I am

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fearfully and wonderfully made your

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works are wonderful I know that full

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well

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let’s review what we’ve learned at the

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beginning of this episode I stated that

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we’re going to learn three things in

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relation to our bodies and our emotions

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first we’re going to reframe our

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thinking it’s important that we begin to

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see our bodies as containers holding

0:05:46.759,0:05:52.960
emotions two we’re going to find our why

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if we lack motivation as to why emotions

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are important we’re going to think about

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the short and long-term physical effects

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of emotions on our bodies

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third we’re going to tune in we’re going

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to practice activities such as

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performing a body scan to help us be in

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tune with what we’re feeling and how our

0:06:11.000,0:06:15.759
emotions might be affecting us

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physically

 

Last updated on: 10/16/2024

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