Body Energetix: Renew your Mind, Regulate your Emotions, Regenerate your Body

025: Brain & Heart Coherency Breathing to Stick with a STRICT DIET

• Lauren Saracione • Episode 25

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What if your path to emotional and physical wellness was just a breath away? Join us on the Body Energetics Podcast as we explore a revolutionary gamified coaching approach that transforms health by reconnecting with our emotional bodies. We delve into the crucial first steps taken during our initial coaching call, where we unravel the complexities of the nervous system's dorsal state—encompassing both our soul blueprint and our fear-based reactions. Learn how to navigate self-sabotage and resistance and gain valuable strategies to enhance your overall well-being and performance. This episode is a call to action for those ready to join a supportive community dedicated to holistic growth and healing.

Ever wondered how unresolved trauma affects your quest for the dream body? We address this pressing issue by discussing the intricate relationship between emotional regulation and sustainable habits. Through real-life examples, such as overcoming dietary challenges tied to a history of anorexia and PTSD, we shine a light on the necessity of resolving deep-seated emotional traumas to unlock your fullest potential. Our conversation doesn't stop there; we introduce the transformative practice of Brain and Heart Coherency Breathing, which has the power to heal childhood emotions and bring about significant life changes. Tune in to discover how consistent, mindful breathing can lead you to a more balanced and fulfilling existence.

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Welcome Body Energetix! I'm Lauren Saracione, 23-year fitness pro. I started my Hero's Journey of reconnecting with my Inner Child to heal my mind-body disorders 14 years ago. In my podcast, I share my 3-step system to renew your mind, regulate your emotions & regenerate your body.

Go to https://www.bodyenergetix.com to join my free community, where each week, we expand on the theme of the current episode so you can reconnect your mind-body to restore your physical health & create your desired aesthetic.

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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Body Energetics Podcast. I'm your host, 23-year fitness professional, Lauren Cerceone. I started my hero's journey of reconnecting with my inner child to heal my mind-body disorders 14 years ago. In this podcast, I share my three-step system to renew your mind, regulate your emotions and regenerate your body. Go to bodyenergeticscom to join my free community where each week, we expand on the theme of the current episode so you can reconnect your mind-body to restore your physical health and create your desired aesthetic.

Speaker 2:

Welcome to Body Energetics Podcast. I'm your host, lauren Cerision, 23-year fitness professional and three times self-healing champ. Now this is going to be the same intro to three episodes, and the three episodes are based on the very first gamified coaching call that we just had in the Body Energetics community. If you're watching this on YouTube, you can see there are nine Post-its on the wall. We have nine members in bodyenergeticscom and I'm so happy about it because this is truly my life's purpose and it is so rewarding that all of my heartache and all of my note-taking and all of my personal development and all of my pain and health issues have been useful to share with other people who might be going through something similar. So it's very fun to have the experience reflected back to me from the outside in. I'm very happy about this and very grateful for the women who are in the group and it is open to men. You don't have to be just female-oriented. There's only one module in the entire system. That is around being feminine, with eating and our menstrual cycle. Everything else applies to everybody. So join if you haven't joined, because this coaching call was so effective. We were on for two hours because I wanted to give the ladies space as much space as they needed to express themselves and for us to create a strategy for the next four weeks of their life, create a strategy for their leaderboard so that they can get in the ranks again for the next coaching call, because the leaderboard goes to zero every single month. So every single month, you have a fresh opportunity to get coaching from me. In a small group setting. There's only three people on the gamified coaching call and we made a strategy or an accountability program of things that I am expecting them to post in the group every single day. So they're going to get support from me because when they post in the group, I'm going to deepen whatever it is that they post to help them get even further along. That's going to bring their leaderboard up to give them, hopefully, access to another coaching call. Of course, you could do paid coaching with me in a coaching container that you have access to me almost at all times, but for the free container, participating is what gets you a monthly coaching call. So we did that today and it took two hours, and it was so fabulous because now I have three podcast episodes to share with you based on the things that we talked about and this is going to be so good because it's going to be more relevant to you, because it's something that is someone else is experiencing right now and will help you on your path. And then, if you're one of the ladies who was in the coaching call, one of these episodes is basically for you as a secondary coaching situation to help you through the thing that you're working on. What do I want to say? Okay, continued in this opening that's going to go on. To each one of these episodes is.

Speaker 2:

The common thing that happened on the call was there was a slight, there was an inability to convey the feeling the emotional body was having. So when I would ask a question for all three of these women, part of their response was it's hard to put words to, I'm not really sure there was so much going on. I can't really answer that in a specific way. What that means is the emotions, the energy of sabotage and ghosting. The habits, the emotional resistance that all three of these women are having, are in dorsal. They're in the base operating system of the nervous system. That is the rollover and play dead emotions. This is the freeze and fawn reaction to stay safe, to stay alive.

Speaker 2:

The dorsal level is also your blueprint, your natal chart, your human design, your gene keys. They are the same thing. We call one dorsal as a fear, reaction and survival and we call the other our soul blueprint. Reason being the soul blueprint of your charts is what, in my belief system and in many belief systems, take it or leave it is what you, your soul, decided to experience in this human form. I'm Aries, rising, my mid-haven is in Capricorn. That is go-fight-win energy, that is strategy energy, that is discipline energy, that is leadership energy. And I'm in fitness. That is leadership energy. And I'm in fitness Makes sense, right? Chiron the wounded healer is in Taurus. That has to do with physical problems that you're coming to heal, not money problems, not relationship problems. I came here to heal through the physical body and I had three life-changing events with my physical health. So it makes sense. Who I am in my profession, my who I am in my profession, makes sense based on that blueprint.

Speaker 2:

The dorsal is the same thing. If we are regulated, we're able to access that blueprint. That's the unconscious, just way of being who we are to be fear-based because we then create a protective mindset in the sympathetic of fight or flee to make sure that that dorsal rollover and play dead emotion from our childhood does not happen again, like the sympathetic fight and flee is something that we're doing unconsciously through our behavior and through our words to prevent two things Number one, to prevent the bad thing from happening again, whatever it is that sent us into dorsal as a child. And number two, prevent our worst fears about us being a POS from being confirmed. So the sabotage questions and the resistance questions and the struggle questions that the ladies had today they're aware of the problem, but when I ask a question from a feeling sensation they can't access it. So they're aware of how they act and react and how shitty they feel because they can't do this thing with their habit, because that thing with the habit is actually attached to the dorsal rollover and play dead. God forbid I find out I'm a POS, I'm not good enough, I'm too much, or, if I follow through, my worst fears will come true. That's really what the inner child feeling and the adaptive teenager are is thinking.

Speaker 2:

So the reason why I'm bringing this up is because, to use the body energetic system, I was the same way that I knew I felt bad, but I didn't know why I felt bad and I didn't know what emotion was making me feel bad. So that's why I used, why I created the body energetics coding system to look at the body parts that weren't working correctly, that were unhealthy, giving me pain, and that I didn't like, that I really wanted to change. I looked at those to say what is the metaphysical meaning of these, what is the negative mindset that is associated with these body parts? And do I relate to any of that stuff? And because I was in dorsal and disconnected when I looked up the metaphysical meanings and I looked up the negative mantras from Louise Hay you can heal your body. I sat with it to be like does any of that resonate with me? Because if it does, then I must have experienced that negative mindset or that metaphysical meaning that's making me direct my focus to this area of my body that I don't like or that's causing my body to deteriorate. That's the dorsal stuff, that is the unconscious.

Speaker 2:

And so the things that these three episodes are of, what their accountability is for the next four weeks, are giving them a focal point in 3D in their adult human, to allow the resistance and sabotage of the adaptive teenager rear its ugly head, to assess it and pay attention to it and work with it to then loosen the grip that the adaptive teenager is keeping on, the inner child emotions from not being re-experienced being re-experienced. When we can feel those inner child emotions, the adaptive teenager in fight and flight is going to stop being so reactive. So then your adult self can follow through better with your habits. The outcome is that we get into the body of our dreams because we're finally being consistent with our habits. But what's actually happening is you're regulating your nervous system and you are moving up the autonomic ladder from dorsal rollover and play dead emotions that you don't even can't access but you just know you feel bad up into sympathetic, to get the energy moving to actually face the worst fears and pay attention to the sabotage or the resisting, to then be able to eventually be in a ventral state where you are coherent and making decisions as a balanced human being, being aware of the feelings and being aware of your thoughts, so that you don't let your habits go off the rail, so that you build a lifestyle to support your dream body, to eventually become your dream body. We're reverse engineering it and we're heading into this knowing that we're pulling up emotions. So it's a whole different mindset for this dream body acquisition. So that is your intro for all three of these episodes.

Speaker 2:

We are now transitioning to topic number one, which is brain and heart coherency breathing. The reason why brain and heart coherency breathing is this person's DNC or not DNC. The reason why brain and heart coherency breathing is this person's job commitment for the next four weeks to post in the group. Every time she does this is because the resistance that she's having to doing an elimination diet because of inflammation in her digestive system. She's having resistance to doing that because she has an old mindset from being anorexic. So now to go from moderation, you can eat everything and still love yourself.

Speaker 2:

She now has to get restrictive. And I definitely relate to that because when I cleared my inflammation for the most part and wanted to eat everything that I couldn't have without having any symptoms, to then eventually getting symptoms again, to then finding the balance of the moderation, of being 80% on my anti-inflammatory list, to then want to get the 10 pounds off that I gained. To want to track macros because that's the most effective way to lose weight honestly, because you have it on paper to then feel the resistance of now that I can kind of have everything. I don't have the fear mindset for symptoms. Oh my God, if I restrict myself, am I going to go off the wheels again, am I going to start binging? So I know what she's thinking and what the fear is. So my question to her was when you were able to overcome anorexia, what was the fear that you were able to, you know, demolish? She's like whoa, that's a loaded question.

Speaker 2:

She names off all these things that happened in her childhood, and the two things that I want to touch on is parentification. She became the caregiver to her mother who was sick physically and emotionally and she was put into a group therapy as a young person, like a home, which caused complex PTSD because of the things that happened there. Who, in the definition of the nervous system, is in dorsal because she had to fawn, take care of her mother, which means that, like she's frozen in a certain level because she had to now be an adult as a child. So, number one, she has that. Number two, that Number two she has complex trauma of repeated attacks in multiple scenarios, not just with being in a home. So those two things make it so that she can't really identify why she's resistant to doing the anti-inflammatory diet, when she knows she was able to overcome anorexia. But overcoming the anorexia had to do with all these other things. So if we know it had to do with all these other things and now she's facing something to get out of these painful symptoms, why isn't it just the symptoms are painful enough to start to follow through and it's because of those two things. So on a deep nervous system level she actually hasn't regulated her nervous system to get out of the dorsal of the parentification and to get out of the complex trauma. So for her mental emotional identities there's a little bit and I'm not saying that she is a split personality. But what happens is, with the complex trauma, to survive all the nuances of the different traumas that are coming at us or at her, there's different mental emotional mindsets. There's different mindsets to match different emotional attacks, emotional abandonments. So she is dealing with so much. So, because she's dealing with so much that she can't pinpoint, okay, well, when I was able to overcome anorexia, it was really the fear of dot, dot, dot and I was able to make sense of that and overcome that and change my mindset and be confident in that area. She didn't have a statement like that she had. This is what happened to me. So, because it was, this is what happened to me, I can't really identify it.

Speaker 2:

The brain and heart coherency breathing is her work for the next month, and the reason why is because the brain and heart coherency breathing brings us into a ventral state where we're in our conscious adult mind. The reason why it does that is because the slow breathing of inhaling for five seconds and exhaling for five seconds slows the rhythm of the heart. So now the heart, which is kind of this sensory am I safe? Type of energy, now gets to relax and know that because I'm breathing in such a relaxed state, there's no danger. A faster breath is I need to be active because I'm doing a presentation or what is happening? Did I just run from danger? Is danger approaching me? So it calms down your heart and your heart is electric and your heart emanates a signal.

Speaker 2:

Your brain's job is to interpret the energy of the physical body and its surroundings through the thing that we name emotion. Emotions are just measurements of energy, so they have a number associated with them on a scale that you can measure. But then they also have a feeling that we identify with sad, happy, chaotic, disappointed, depressed, fearful. So when we're in brain and heart coherency breathing and we slow down the heart number one the nervous system leaves sympathetic and is in ventral. Number two the brain starts to think differently because we're also feeling an emotion in the breathing we're feeling, we're imagining something that would make us feel love, joy, appreciation, kindness, care. So we got the breath slowed down so the physical heart knows that it's safe.

Speaker 2:

We are using the energetic component of the intuition of the heart to feel a regenerative emotion and the only way we can feel that is if we focus with our mind. That energy, so the image that we have in our mind is projecting itself out of your body to then eventually be reflected back so that you can experience love, joy, appreciation, kindness, care, whatever emotion it was that you think that experience will give you. So you're using all the laws of the universe while you're regulating your nervous system. When you're doing that, the regulation of your nervous system allows you to have a distinction of energy. To have a boundary of this is okay. I can handle this. This is overwhelming. I got to cut and run. I feel really insecure. So I'm going to buckle down and do everything right and be really hard on myself, like those are the thoughts and the actions that we have when we're dysregulated.

Speaker 2:

So the brain and heart coherency breathing is going to allow this person to number one, regulate that nervous system. Number two, change the energy of her body. Number three, change the molecules of emotions secreting from her brain. While she's imagining something that will make her feel love, joy, appreciation, kindness, care, she's sending out a vibrational signal out into the quantum field to then have it reflected to her. And because the outcome of her mind, whatever she's going to use to imagine love, joy, appreciation, kindness, care she's got the image and then she's got the feeling. That feeling is the magnet to attract things that are going to bring her closer to that experience. So she has to be aware her, her doing her part is to be aware of what changes in her life, what comes into her life, and aware of what is being reflected to her. And the reflection aspect is a little bit tricky because sometimes life areas of life fall apart when you start doing brain and heart coherency breathing, because you are out picturing a different reality and you are feeling something different in your body and you are choosing these things. So you are now using your body parts consciously to direct universal law of energy that is conducted through thoughts and feelings of the brain and the heart. So it's very powerful what this is going to do for her. For her doing this consistently for at least 30 days however long we have this month until the next coaching call her life is going to change, her body's going to change.

Speaker 2:

She is going to be aware of the inner child emotions of sadness and disappointment that are in dorsal, that she maybe knows that she feels sad or disappointed, but she doesn't know the exact moment in her childhood that those feelings happened, that she disassociated to not be the reason for sadness or not to have sadness or not be the disappointment to someone else or not be disappointed by someone. Because sadness and disappointment are very heavy for a child. Because the sadness is often because we're not feeling loved by our caregiver, we're not having enough attention to feel that we're worth anything. And then the disappointment, especially if you have been parentified, where you had to be a caregiver in one way or another for your parent, for you to disappoint them. There could be like a sad fallout where you can see they get sad, or it could be a fallout of them attacking you or something bad happening because you couldn't soothe them. Soothe them. So in the emotions of that dorsal, of that inner child, it doesn't want to have those feelings confirmed. As I'm sad because I feel this emptiness, or I am a disappointment, or I feel disappointed if people don't show up for me in the way we want them to. So the sadness and disappointment then to not have those things experienced.

Speaker 2:

Then the sympathetic of the adaptive teenager comes in and either acts avoidantly because there's a fear of engulfment that's the parentification, you don't want to be responsible for somebody else or the fear of abandonment that if we don't live up to those expectations we're not going to get the love and affection from our caregiver. But because those sympathetic reactions in attachment theory are because this woman can't commit to an anti-inflammatory diet that's going to reverse her health problems. What is in committing to this and following through with it and the fears that she has around it that remind her of her triggers with anorexia has around it that remind her of her triggers with anorexia? How is the sympathetic fear of engulfment and fear of abandonment going to? Why is it showing up here? So the brain and heart, coherency, breathing is going to connect that dorsal, sympathetic and ventral of the nervous system and using the laws of the universe to watch how her life is going to change and what's going to come into her life to support her to be able to follow through with this anti-inflammatory diet that's going to start to show her things about these repressed memories that are now available to be rewritten in a wisdom story of this was the perfect raw material for me to be this extraordinary human being right now. That was the coal. I am the diamond. That was the potter's wheel. I am the vase. It's going to allow that to start to happen so that she can follow through with the anti-inflammatory diet. So that's why she has brain and heart coherency, breathing. It's just three minutes a day and it will change her life In conclusion. So this segment right here that I'm sharing with you right now is going to go on the tail end of every single one of these videos. In conclusion, if this was helpful, I would really love for you to give a five-star rating and review on your podcast players. Tag me on social media at Body Energetics with an X or at Lauren Cerceon.

Speaker 2:

Go to bodyenergeticscom to join the Gamified coaching community. It is like a personal training and diet store, because you have all different strategies. You have a guide to assess where you are mentally and emotionally. You have a guide to set your goal and then, once you set your goal, I have this little template that then tells you what tool to use to get that goal, and the videos feel like I'm having a one-on-one conversation with you, telling you what to do. So it's very simple and when you check the box, when you watch a module, your leaderboard goes up, gets you into the running to be the top three for the gamified coaching that's on the first Saturday of every month. When you post on the wall, it's a question or an insight or an aha moment, whatever, and I respond to it and then you respond again. Your leaderboard just went up twice. If somebody posts and you relate and you encourage or you congratulate someone, and you encourage or you congratulate someone, your leaderboard goes up. So, in other words, the more work you do for yourself and the more you support your community, the more support you get.

Speaker 2:

And, like I said, that coaching call was two hours. I had initially had said that it was just gonna be an hour, but I was like, not what it's about, it's not about the time it's about how can you feel that basically every strategy can work and basically every hangup that you have is mental, emotional, and we can access it strategically with habit change and nervous system regulation and reflecting on how the inner child and the adaptive teenager shows up specifically in the autonomic nervous system. So then we're doing this mental, emotional work to get the body healthy and regulated, which makes you more conscious, to be able to follow through with your habits, which then will get you to your outcome. So we're kind of like going through the back, the back entrance to your dream body, cause we're looking at the sabotage and the resistance and the fantasies that we made about it, that are going to validate us, that are going to validate our reality. That wasn't validated when we were kids. It's causing all these issues.

Speaker 2:

So good, so good. So thank you so much for listening to this body energeticscom. So thank you so much for being here. I will see you when I see you. I hope to see you in bodyenergeticscom where you can get gamified coaching.

Speaker 1:

Thank you so much for listening to this episode. If you found it helpful, please give me a five-star rating and review. Share it with your friends. Tag me on social media at bodyenergetics with an X or at lauren cerceone, and I'll reshare you.