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Listen every week to your colleagues as they're being interviewed and we chat about their progress and success from when they got it started from zero to all the way to creating million dollar businesses and beyond. Hello, coach Heather here with Team Dietitian Boss, and today I wanted to chat with you about meditation and entrepreneurship, and then at the end of this podcast episode, I'm gonna walk you through a guided meditation.
So make sure to stop before the meditation if you're driving or doing the listening to this podcast. Doing anything that requires your full attention. But before we get to the guided meditation, I wanted to share with you why meditation could be beneficial for you as somebody who's starting a private practice or as you're getting ready to start your private practice, or if you already have your own business, how meditation helps in entrepre.
So little bit about me. I am Coach Heather with Team Dietitian Boss. I am a retired naturopathic physician, and I have been teaching meditation for over 20 years now, which sounds crazy for me to say out loud, but it's true. I started teaching meditation in. 2001 and have never looked back because it has shifted my life so profoundly and has made me a calmer human being, someone better to interact with than before I started meditation.
So how does meditation support the entrepreneur? Some of the benefits of meditation is that it can increase creativity, and as business owners or as someone who wants to start a business as Dietitian, bosses, creativity is necessary. . It's not just necessary. It's critical to be able to tap into creative spaces, and some days we might not feel.
Creative, but meditation and taking five or 10 minutes to meditate can help you get back into a creative space. So that is a major benefit. There are plenty of research studies that show that meditation, doing 10 minutes of meditation a day increases productivity, so it can help with your own level of productivity on days that you feel tired.
One research study. That when people meditate for 10 minutes in the morning, even if they didn't sleep a full eight hours the night before, they feel rested and their labs and brain function tests show that they're functioning at the same level as someone who rested for a complete eight to 10 hours, where the non-meditation group had cognitive deficiencies.
It can help with sleep deprivation, it can help with creativity. It can help with productivity. It can open up solutions to problems. So when you are having a certain problem and you can't see your way around it, then taking that 10 minutes to meditate can help open up the brain pathways that allow you to see potential solutions.
When we're stuck in problem thinking, there's parts of our brain that are activated that make it very challenging to actually see a solution to the problem. It also activates parts of the brain for better decision making. So as a Dietitian boss, as a practice owner, you have to make a ton of decisions every single.
Day and those decisions can be critical for your business. So meditating can activate the parts of your brain that are related to more clear decision making. Meditation can also take us out of fight or flight mode and can help reduce or balance our stress hormones. So sometimes as an entrepreneur, as a Dietitian boss, as somebody who's juggling a lot of things on your plate, you might be working full-time, you might be in school.
You might also be juggling that with being a parent or a spouse or so many other different hats that we wear. All of the. That can get you into a stress state or a fight in flight mode. And meditation has been shown in research studies to bring down cortisol levels and take us out of the part of the brain where we are in panic and fight or flight, and bring us into the part of the brain where we are relaxed and calm, and again, we can make clear decisions.
The last benefit I wanna mention about meditation is that it can help you break through thoughts that are stopping you from creating the life of your dreams. If you have continual doubts or thoughts about how things aren't going to work, or you get in these loops in your head of stress and. Unclear decision making.
Then meditation helps you put a full stop to that thought process and helps you break through those thoughts, and then might be able to even open yourself up to new thought patterns, new thought behaviors, and things like affirmations that help you create the changes and. Things step by step to make the life that you desire to have.
There are several apps that are available for meditation practices and some of the apps that I have used and that we have used through team Dietitian Boss are apps like Headspace. Insight timer, calm and shine. So these are really great places to get started with a guided meditation practice. You can also find guided meditations on YouTube, Spotify, so many platforms, and so you can get started for free.
You don't have to pay to join many of these. So now I'm going to take us through a meditation that I use with some of our clients at Dietitian Boss. So if you are driving, this is the time to pause the podcast and listen when you get home or when you have some time to rest and relax. And if you're listening in a space where you can rest and relax, this is a great time to get comfortable.
Take a comfortable seat. Or lay down. It's up to you how you choose to meditate, and we're going to start by just noticing our breath. We're not gonna change our breath at all. We're just gonna notice our breathing pattern. And what do you notice? Is it shallow? Is it deep? Are you inhaling longer than the exhale or exhaling longer than the inhale?
Do you feel the breath coming more through one nostril than the other?
And now I want you to notice the breath and if there's any areas of your body. Where the breath is getting stuck, or are there any areas of your body where you're holding tension?
Common areas of tension can be our hands, our fists, our shoulders, our jaw, our upper back, our lower back, our legs. So just notice, are there any areas of tension in your body
as you become aware of that tension? Is there anything that's related to that tension, a thought, a project, an interaction? There doesn't have to be, you don't have to label the tension. It can just be tension, but this is just a curious question to see if there's anything related to the tension.
Now we're not gonna shift anything that's related to the tension. We're just bringing awareness to.
And now to support that tension releasing, there's a couple of different practices you can choose from in these next couple of minutes together, you can choose to breathe into that tension and use your breath, your inhale, and mostly your exhale.
To release this tension. Inhale and exhale. Release the tension. That is a great somatic way to release attention. If you're more visual, then you can choose to use colors or light to release that tension. So if you wanna use a color, you can pick a color like purple or green or pink, and bring that color to that area of tension and just paint it with that color.
Completely saturate that area of tension with your chosen color. Gold is another great color and allow it to melt the tension away. So keep painting or keep inhaling and exhaling until you feel that tension unwind.
If you're holding a deeper tension, you can pause here and continue to do your tension relieving practice, whether that's painting with a color or breathing. And then once you feel that tension release, hit the play button again. For those of you who have the sense of the tension being released at this point, want you to bring your awareness to your chest and the rise in the fall of your chest with each inhale and exhale.
And then to your throat.
Inhale and exhale to your jaw.
Inhale and exhale
to the forehead.
Inhale and exhale, and then to the top of your head, inhale and exhale.
And just take a few breaths here in the space of calm and quiet. And if it's not common quiet, then just allow the thoughts to pass through. Acknowledge them, but allow them to keep moving, like clouds that are moving in the sky, you can see it and it can keep moving.
Very good. Very good. And now you can wiggle your fingers and your toes coming back to your body, to the space and time.
And now you can go throughout the rest of your day with some clearer thought processes, a little less stress maybe, and a lot more clarity. And if you're doing this before bed, I hope this helps you rest tonight and have a great night's sleep. And if you have questions about meditation or feedback about this guided meditation, you want more meditation in your practice, let us know.
Here at Teen Dietitian Boss, we are here to support you and your health and wellbeing on this journey to entrepreneurship. Thanks so much for joining. I look forward to connecting again soon. We are so excited to offer you support in our various programs. If you identify as a beginner and you're looking to lay down the foundations, our society program might a great sit for you.
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