(Wk 6) Body + Mind Part 1 | Unleash Your Peace Podcast

Hello and welcome back to Unleash Your Peace.

My name is Ellie Shoja.

I am your host.

I'm a positive mindset coach,

A personal transformation expert,

Your peace trainer,

And I am a deliberate creator.

And Unleash Your Peace is your peace training.

Every single week we take a different topic about the internal world to dig into.

We do that throughout five episodes published Monday through Friday.

The reason we do this deep dive into the self is because by looking inward,

We can start shedding layers of pain and we can actually start finding that lasting internal peace that lives within us and we can live our best lives yet.

When we live from this place of joy and peace and connectedness to that deeper,

Infinite part of ourselves,

We don't just incrementally improve the quality of our lives.

We actually exponentially innovate every aspect of our experiences on this physical plane and we become our whole beautiful,

Powerful selves.

We live authentic lives and we live our dreams.

We allow our dreams to come true while we are here,

Which is very exciting.

And when we do this,

When we live in this very open,

Authentic way,

We become uplifters in the society as well.

Everyone who comes our way is uplifted,

Is inspired to follow their dreams as well.

And this is how we level up as a society.

Last week,

Something happened that has led me to the choosing of this week's episode and that is that I started getting sick.

I don't generally get sick very often,

But when I do,

I know that it is because of something that is happening internally because illness really is a blockage of energy.

Any pain,

Any sensation that we have in the body is energy moving through the body.

And when we block this energy,

It turns into some form of illness.

So I knew I had some kind of internal resistance that was starting to cause this illness to flare up in my body.

And I thought this week it would be very fitting for us to talk about the body.

What is our relationship with this body?

Why do we get sick?

What are these physical sensations we have?

Why do we have emotions?

What causes the emotions?

How do our thoughts manifest within the body?

What does alignment with our inner being look like within the body?

What does not being aligned with our inner being look like within the body?

How can we heal ourselves of small aches and pains,

But also of things that medicine doesn't deem healable?

If you find these questions interesting,

Topic for this week is absolutely for you.

And we will spend the next five days really diving into this and understanding it to some extent as much as we can.

So in this first episode,

Since I mentioned that I was getting sick,

I do want to just let you know what happened there.

What was happening for me,

I woke up with a bit of a sore throat and I do have a history of getting strep throat.

So when I was much younger,

I was maybe in my early twenties,

I got a bit of strep throat.

The thing that was unique about the situation was that for about six or eight months I kept getting strep throat.

So I would have strep throat,

I'd go to my doctor,

He would prescribe antibiotics,

Which I would take in their entirety.

The illness would go away and then about a week or two later it would reemerge and it would come back,

It would get worse and then I'd go to the doctor again and he would prescribe to me stronger antibiotics and then it would go away and then it would come back two or three weeks later.

And this happened so many times that my doctor stopped prescribing antibiotics to me.

To this day,

I don't know why he did this.

I think it was negligence.

It was very dangerous.

What ended up happening was the strep got into my bloodstream and my ankles,

My elbows,

My wrists,

My knees,

They started swelling up.

So all of my joints started swelling up to the point that I could not walk anymore and I had to quit my job.

At the time I was in college,

I stopped going to school.

My arm was the size of a pillow.

It was so swollen and my mom took me to a family friend who was a doctor and the moment he looked at me,

He basically said,

It's a miracle that you are still alive because the bacteria had spread in my body to such an extreme that he said,

It's incredible that it hasn't hit your heart or your brain yet and if it had hit my heart,

I would have had a heart attack.

If it had hit my brain,

I would have had a stroke.

He gave me a really strong shot of an antibiotic.

He also prescribed extremely aggressive antibiotics and within a couple of days,

Everything cleared up and something really interesting that happened after that incident was that I also started refusing to get sick.

So anytime I would wake up and I'd feel like something was not right,

I had a scratchy throat or something like that,

I would say,

Oh no,

You're not doing this.

You're going to get better.

So do whatever you need to do to get better.

And I didn't realize at the time what I was doing,

But what I was actually doing was I was asking my subconscious mind for help to heal me,

To find a way to protect my body from whatever bacteria was inside of it.

And I was giving my subconscious mind permission to tell me what to do.

And like magic,

I knew exactly what I needed to do.

As soon as I would say,

You're not doing this,

You're not getting sick,

Do whatever you need to do,

I knew exactly what I needed to do.

I'd be gargling salt water,

Making myself concoctions with lemon juice,

Honey and cinnamon and hot water and drinking it as tea throughout the day.

I don't eat meat,

But I would make chicken broth and drink it.

I would rest quite a bit.

I would suddenly feel really thirsty and drink all sorts of water.

And my subconscious mind would tell me exactly what I need to do in order to heal myself.

And then a day or two later,

I would wake up and the illness would be completely gone.

And that,

By the way,

Is exactly what happened last week.

Now what I have learned,

However,

Since then is that whenever these little bouts of illness or aches and pains come up,

They are an indication that energy is being blocked within my body.

So we are all energetic beings.

We are vibrational beings and energy is constantly moving through us.

And as long as we are up to speed with this energy,

There is this general sense of well-being that surrounds us.

And we feel good.

We feel alive.

We feel energized.

We can go all day and work our little buns off,

But we will feel energized if we are up to speed with the energy that is flowing through us.

Now when we encounter body pains and body aches and illnesses and things like that is when we are blocking that energy in some form.

And I know exactly how I was blocking my energy.

You see this project,

This peace unleashed project that I have started is growing.

It's expanding and it is taking on a life of its own.

The momentum is building up and it's very exciting.

It's quite an exciting experience to watch a project that I am passionate about take root and start becoming something real in the world.

But it can also be a bit scary because momentum can be a little unsettling.

And I think I got a little bit scared to be honest by the momentum of this project.

What if I cannot deliver?

What if I don't have the answers?

Recently I also started doing live Q&As on Instagram Live.

I believe that that was actually at the core of me tensing up.

One of the personal problems that I have,

Something that makes me very vulnerable is putting something out into the world before it's done,

Before it's complete,

Before it is in my mind perfect.

So if you are on the Instagram account,

The peace unleashed Instagram account for example,

You can see every single post is beautifully edited and curated and I spend a lot of time and effort making sure that your time is not wasted on reading something that for example has typos or grammatical mistakes.

I want everything to be very smooth and fluid for you.

And for me it's important that everything is easily consumed.

Now a live Q&A doesn't really allow for that.

It doesn't allow me to record something,

Edit it and then put it out and that is the scary thing.

And that is I believe what made me tense up.

So I woke up with a bit of a sore throat.

So I guess this week's topic is a reminder for me that our bodies are incredibly intelligent and they are constantly communicating with us.

They're telling us what we are carrying with us subconsciously.

And I hope that if you are dealing with something within yourself,

If there is some kind of an illness that's popping up within you,

You can now maybe look at it in these other terms that this illness,

This body ache,

This headache,

This shoulder ache,

Whatever it is,

This sore throat is a blockage in energy that is flowing through you,

That wants to flow through you.

You're somehow blocking that energy in some way and it is manifesting itself inside your body as this sensation,

As this illness quote unquote.

And by addressing the issue that is causing the sensation,

That is causing the pain,

That is causing the illness,

You can not only eliminate the symptom,

Which is the illness itself,

But you can also expand internally and you can become more of what you are.

I will leave you with this today.

The next four episodes won't be this personal.

They'll actually go into the relationship of the body with the food that we consume,

What the physical sensations actually mean,

What our emotions mean,

And all of those stuff that we mentioned at the beginning of the episode.

We'll dive into them a little bit more so that we can cultivate this relationship between our bodies and we can listen to it and communicate with it in a more holistic way.

And until we come back and do that,

I hope that you will check out Peace Unleashed on Instagram and do join those live Q&As and ask me some questions and let's have a dialogue live on there.

I am ready for you.

You can also reach out to me through my website by sending me a message through there.

I love hearing from you.

The website is peaceunleashed.

Com and I look forward to talking with you a lot more about this topic of our bodies next time.

Until tomorrow,

I wish you a peaceful day.