Exercises to Improve Your Physical Well-Being

At Life Artist I’m teaching all kinds of what I call frame states. You know, if this is the frame of our experience, my body is the frame of my experience. If you really look at it, it is what is holding and expressing itself in reality, what we call my experience. Otherwise we’re just a disembodied idea. The expressor of my idea is this, it’s the frame of my experience. So frame states our exercises based on body attention. Like I said, body attention is fundamentally noticing that I’m a body noticing my physicality right now, noticing how I’m breathing, noticing how I’m moving. Two key things. Frame states are looking at focus, relaxation, attention, movement and energy and strength frames. Yeah. Our body needs many different experiences to feel well, right? A lot of people are talking about focus from a mind state. Yeah. And I’m teaching focus as a physical experience. So things that I can do daily, daily, daily, daily, simple, simple. And I’m going to just give you two because there’s, it’s, it’s a huge range. We talk about it in mindfulness, we talk about it. The only distinction I want to give is what I call the practical side of mindfulness. Okay. Mindfulness says breathe. And most of us go. Okay. And they try to, we try to breathe and it’s uncomfortable because if I’m trying to breathe and I’m holding contraction in my chest, it’s hard to breathe, right? So what I teach people, and I can just do it for you now, is when you’re looking at breathing, okay, and we’re going to say, I’m gonna reactivate my now state through my breath. If I were to tell you, breathe into the midsection of your chest, five centimeters in front of your spine and five centimeters behind your chest bone. And as you breathe, imagine that there’s a ball expanding between those two points. Do that for a minute. What happens in your breathing? It changes. Very, very, very clear distinction for the body is description. And this is part of what I’m teaching is if I tell you to breathe, it’s difficult because there’s no clarity for where, when, how. Yeah. It’s like an abstract idea. Trying to put itself into a very practical physical frame, and I’m teaching you how to put that idea into a practical physical frame through the use of description. So if you’re trying to breathe very, very fundamental, ask yourself where would it feel good right now to expand? Where do I need to relax? Find it in your body. Oh my belly is really tight right now. Get very descriptive about it right there in the back of my belly. There’s a little teeny ball that’s like a little piece of led. Bring your attention to it, notice it, and then actively breathe to it. Now that’s one very simple tool that you can do around breathing. And the other thing that is just, you know, no special technique, no remembering anything seriously, guys, move! You want to change your energy level, move! Put on a song, jump up and down. You know, I do it all the time from my kitchen. I get up. First thing I do while my coffee is brewing. I’m jumping up and down. Literally I’m rolling around on the ground. I’m ah, making some noise. Why? Because I want to change my state. I want to change my physicality. Depending on what I’m doing during the day. If I have an exciting busy full day, I’m raising up energy. If on the other hand, my coffee’s brewing and I’m like, hm, I am just stretching, experiencing my body, noticing what’s happening. That’s the key to body attention. Most of us don’t notice what we’re doing in our body because we’re up in our mind thinking about all the stressful things that we’re going to do in that day. Attention is the key. Bring your attention to your physicality and the fact that you’re in a body and it makes a huge difference in your energy levels.