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Hi there, and welcome to the Wellness Mama Podcast. I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. And this episode goes into the psychological and emotional well being aspect with the subject of the best biohack is feeling your emotions and the way to truly do this. And I’m right here with a buddy of mine, Raj Jana, who is a former engineer, a 40 below 40 entrepreneur, media host. He constructed a espresso firm, after which a number of years in the past, offered a big a part of his shares and went on his personal private journey of transformation that led to his present venture, which is known as Liber8, which is L-I-B-E-R and the quantity eight, which is a change firm that helps individuals use precision emotional analytics to enhance psychological well being outcomes. And we discuss that right this moment. However we additionally actually speak in regards to the nervous system aspect and the way to change into conscious of emotional triggers, the quantifiable information that he’s serving to individuals have round that, and the way to then use that information to your benefit to rewrite a few of your inner tales and scripts. And since sharing my story with trauma therapeutic and emotional restoration, I get this query loads. So I’ve been attempting to discover actionable and sensible and quantifiable instruments that may reliably assist individuals hopefully have a shorter journey on that path than I did. And I really feel like we realized loads of nice ideas and instruments from Raj right this moment. So let’s be part of him now. Raj, welcome. Thanks a lot for being right here.

Raj: It’s so nice to see you, Katie. Thanks a lot for having me.

Katie: Effectively, it’s at all times thrilling after I get to have a podcast dialog with a real-life buddy, and particularly one who is doing superb work that’s tremendous related, I really feel like, to the listeners and dovetails with my very own story of, as individuals know, doing all the bodily well being issues actually by spreadsheets and dealing with each physician. And it wasn’t till I addressed the interior aspect that each one of these issues grew to become efficient, and I used to be ready to truly heal. And since sharing that a part of my journey, I’ve gotten so many questions from individuals who need to have the opportunity to discover their very own solutions in that approach. And I do know that what I did instantly is not going to work in the very same approach, in the very same order for them. And I do know that the framework of that and that the being prepared to go inside is an vital piece for basically everybody. So for just a little little bit of background context, I do know you have got performed many issues to assist the world in some ways and that you just now are doing a little unimaginable work on this area. So what led you right here from all of the earlier issues that you just’ve performed?

Raj: Effectively, my first enterprise was a profitable espresso firm. And some years in the past, I offered a giant portion of that. And I began taking place a non secular awakening path, should you would, simply because I spotted that I didn’t actually understand how to love myself. Let’s simply put it clearly. I used to be working actually exhausting, overworking. I used to be in a nine-year relationship. And I actually wasn’t current within the relationship. I used to be, I had loads of attachment wounding. We had been stepping into loads of fights and triggers, and I used to be simply in like this actually harassed, chaotic state. And as I began sort of taking place this path of psychological and emotional well-being, I acquired to a spot in our in my final relationship the place like issues had been simply breaking. Like we’d begin to we’d strive to be intimate, and we had been beginning to have intimacy challenges. Like there was simply a lot happening that my physique, my physique was bodily, actually responding to all the stress that I used to be carrying. And all the trauma that I used to be carrying beneath, my below in my thoughts, my physique, and my psyche.

And at that time, I remembered on my podcast, I truly invited out a hypnotherapist to type of speak to me about, you already know, what is taking place in my thoughts? What is taking place in my physique? Why do I really feel a lot stress? Why do I really feel so insecure? Why do I really feel all of those beliefs round not feeling worthy? Like, the place are these coming from? And as we began working collectively, it grew to become very abundantly clear that there was only a lot beneath the hood. There was so many beliefs that had been getting in the way in which of me actually experiencing wholesome intimacy. There have been so many childhood traumas round, you already know, my price and my self-worth that was getting in the way in which of me having the ability to join deeply with my with my former companion. And all of these awarenesses then sort of opened up an entire Pandora’s field of like, oh, my God. OK. Like, there’s loads of Raj work that I would like to do.

So I acquired out of that relationship, after which I went on this deep path of doing all of the therapies, the hypnotherapies, the various kinds of modalities, the various kinds of cognitive behavioral remedy. I used to be working with coaches, and I used to be simply taking place a really loopy route. And I believe perhaps we had been speaking earlier, such as you had a really comparable route. You had been attempting all of the issues, and also you had a really it was your path. And I used to be sort of simply taking place that path, and I spotted how complicated that was. Like, how do I do know what instruments are finest for me? How do I do know what modalities are finest for me? How do I do know what’s truly on the root of all the triggers that I’m experiencing? And the way do I do know what approaches are going to be finest for me? There was no approach for me to discover that.

And that’s when my companions and I got here collectively, and we began engaged on our emotional lab studies and began placing collectively applications that taught individuals how to type of navigate this very complicated world of psychological and emotional well-being and the way to be your personal co-pilot on the journey and convey again the extent of consciousness to what’s happening with my ideas, emotions, and feelings and actually find out how to be human. As a result of I believe these talent units of studying to regulate your nervous system, studying to know what instruments are finest for you, like, these are issues we will be taught. And I want I might have realized this as a child. However sadly, that wasn’t the case. And so, I had to be taught it as an grownup. And so now that’s why we do what we do. We would like others to, you already know, simply be taught these fundamental expertise of how to do the interior work and the way to go inside. As a result of it’s, to me, one of many best biohacks that exist.

Katie: Yeah, effectively, such as you, I want I had realized these items as a child. And we’ll get to do an entire follow-up episode on the parenting angle of this, which I believe is equally or extra vital. However earlier than we leap into that, I really like that as a result of I typically ask in prep for these interviews, should you had to give a TED Discuss in per week, what would it not be on and why? And your reply was how the best biohack is feeling your emotions. And I believe this is pivotal vital. I’ve seen this play out in my very own life. And such as you, I had fairly the journey of pondering I used to be utterly positive and had dealt with all of my traumas and emotions and was, after all, at all times working from a very rational perspective till I unraveled a few of that and realized that there have been deeper layers. However I really feel like this piece is completely key, even from a bodily well being perspective. And I really feel such as you actually seize that by saying the best biohack is to really feel your emotions. However are you able to elaborate on that and what meaning and perhaps the place to even start? As a result of I can think about from having been there earlier than, that appears overwhelming and in addition perhaps at occasions unimaginable for somebody who’s not presently in that place.

Raj: Yeah, so in my eyes, you possibly can’t develop wholesome meals or meals that’s extraordinarily nutritious in soil that’s not, proper? So I like to consider our nervous programs as this like big, so it’s just like the soil of our physique. It’s like all the things is related from the nervous system. Proper. Our immune programs, our digestion, our all the things. And so after I after I consider nervous system well being, it’s greater than psychological well being. You understand, psychological well being is very like, okay, prefer it’s my ideas, it’s all the things up right here. However then, you possibly can’t simply consider that as like all the things, as a result of should you simply consider psychological well being, you’re forgetting your emotional well being. And should you overlook your emotional well being, meaning you’re, however that’s not full both as a result of then there’s your relational well being. And there’s all these completely different elements of well being that create I believe the soil, which permits for wholesome functioning to exist.

And after I have a look at the biohacking area, like, you already know, there’s all these superb instruments and devices and all these completely different dietary supplements and all these various things that we will do to enhance our well being. But when the soil is certain, if there’s loads of vitality that’s simply coiled up in our our bodies, whether or not it’s from present life stressors or from previous life stressors that by no means truly acquired dealt with, in the event that they’re simply saved within the physique, it’s going to be very exhausting for any of the opposite therapies to truly work. And so, one of many quickest ways in which we now have present in our communities and simply from my very own journey and from speaking to specialists and other people within the area to launch a few of this vitality is to develop a wholesome relationship with our feelings. And constructing that wholesome relationship with our feelings is past simply feeling our emotions, proper? So feeling your emotions is one aspect of that. However earlier than you possibly can really feel your emotions, you have got to type of, perceive your emotions and know, and know what they’re. Like when you have got anger, as an alternative of being like, I’m an indignant particular person, studying to create area between you and the anger and say, no, I’m experiencing anger proper now.

After which there’s studying the abilities to truly sit with that anger with no need to do something with it, which might be very uncomfortable for lots of people. However this is the place now we’re constructing this lesson, these talent units of emotional intelligence, emotional consciousness. And as you construct these talent units, you finally get to a spot the place feeling your emotions finally ends up being the best releasing software that you would be able to have. Proper. Like as a result of one in all my greatest fears, I used to hate feeling my emotions, actually hated it as a result of I believed that feeling my emotions meant that I might get caught in them. Like if I used to be crying, I didn’t like to cry as a result of I used to be afraid that by going into my unhappiness, I might simply get caught in my unhappiness and I’d by no means have the opportunity to get out. And over time, what I began studying was as I allowed myself to cry, and I gave myself the area. Now, this is the place this might in all probability be a, I assume it is a complete podcast episode in some methods, like how to really feel your emotions as an entire, one other sort of physique of conversations that we will have. However to me, as you get into that zone of 1, paying consideration to your feelings after which giving your self the permission to categorical them nonetheless they want to be expressed. So if it’s unhappiness, like expressing them with cry or perhaps transferring the vitality with like dancing or music, no matter software that you just or perhaps any of the instruments, whether or not it’s hypnotherapy or mindfulness or breathwork, there’s loads of instruments that may truly unlock your emotional physique.

However in the end, it is truly simply coming down to giving your self the permission to really feel and giving your self the permission to be messy should you want to be messy and giving your self the area and discovering group and people to sort of maintain you as you’re studying to do this. That was sort of my journey. However to me, as you do this over time, I’ve discovered personally {that a} good cry beats any biohack I might probably discover since you’re actually releasing the certain vitality. And that’s how I like to consider it. It’s like this vitality that lives in our system, this stress, lives within the physique, and the physique’s approach of releasing it is by way of our emotions and thru our feelings. And as we bodily launch it by way of crying, by way of screaming, we then create a wholesome relationship with the physique, simply sort of purging issues that aren’t meant to be within the physique. In order that’s one thing new can take its place, like pleasure or peace or gratitude, extra of those different constructive states. So I’ll pause there as a result of I mentioned loads.

Katie: Yeah, I believe you touched on a number of actually vital issues that we’re going to get to elaborate on. I believe that piece about studying to type of audit that interior converse and ask higher questions internally, change into conscious slowly of our nervous system’s response to issues. For me, such as you studying, I’m not my feelings. These are an expertise I’m having. So even simply altering my interior language round them and with my youngsters now, we’re very cautious round utilizing the phrases, something comes after the phrases I’m, we select very fastidiously as a result of we discuss that. Like if you say I’m unhappy, the message you’re giving to your physique is that the whole thing of you, your existence is unhappy. And that’s not a real assertion, however we are saying these issues with out actually pondering of them.

And also you additionally actually touched on type of that concept that once we resist the feelings, they really construct like we resist them as a result of we don’t need to really feel them. However that truly type of offers them area to develop and hold getting greater quite than simply addressing them and feeling them. I keep in mind one of many first individuals I labored with after I began this journey was, had a phrase and he mentioned, by no means waste a set off. And he talked about them being actually nice insights and instruments. And I discuss an identical factor within the bodily well being world with signs, being messengers and being items and the way they’re truly nice communication from our physique, even when they’re not comfy experiences. It’s our physique instantly speaking to us. The similar factor with triggers, that that is truly nice perception and an ideal alternative for therapeutic and studying. So I might love for you to elaborate on that, how we will remodel our emotional triggers into a spot of emotional transformation.

Raj: I simply love that query. So for anyone listening who doesn’t know what an emotional set off is, consider an emotional set off as these moments the place you have got an emotional response to one thing exterior of you that you just’re not essentially consciously doing. So in case your youngsters say one thing or do one thing or they’re coming into the room after which you have got a response or a response, that is a set off. A set off could possibly be you’re watching the information and you then get some degree of unhappiness or worry that comes up. That’s a set off. You is likely to be in a dialog with your partner, and your partner doesn’t do the dishes for the 15th time in a row and also you get indignant. That’s a set off. And these triggers are these alternatives. And after I have a look at triggers, we outline triggers as like this response from part of you that is unconscious. And that unconscious set off is responding to one thing proper now.

Now, when you possibly can have a look at that set off as this tip of the iceberg, and also you say, okay, what if this set off has truly nothing to do with the factor exterior of me? And what if, this is only a what if, you can truly say, all proper, as an alternative of this set off being brought on by one thing exterior of me, shifting the language to my nervous system is responding to one thing exterior of me on this approach. Why is that? After we can shift the languaging and now start to ask that query of why and the place is this set off coming from and what inside me is truly getting triggered, now you start the journey to truly shifting it for good. As a result of most individuals don’t notice that. And this is what I’ve realized over time. And it seems like you have got too, Katie, is simply that these triggers change into treasures. Like beneath, just like the triggers are literally your nervous system attempting to sign to you, hey, there’s this factor that’s exhibiting up proper now and I would like it gone. I don’t need to really feel triggered anymore. I would like to really feel calm and related.

So are you able to truly have a look at this from that lens of studying? And once we begin to have a look at it by way of the lens of studying, you possibly can open up an entire world of perception. And that perception is truly the factor that leads to the transformation. It’s like, okay, I’m stepping into this set off with my partner as a result of he didn’t do the dishes for the 15th time in a row. However after I actually sit with it, what I’m actually triggered about is the truth that I don’t really feel very heard. I don’t really feel very understood. I don’t really feel very acknowledged. I don’t really feel appreciated. And that’s the factor beneath the factor beneath the factor. Now, when you have got that perception, the subsequent step is to do one thing with it and to talk that. After which there’s an entire suite of instruments, proper, for nonviolent communication and the way to identify your wants and the way to talk successfully with others. And we will speak, there’s so many worlds. This is why I’m like this, this physique of labor has so many various instructions we will go in. However that’s the journey of going from emotional set off to emotional transformation is the journey of asking with curiosity, the place is this coming from?

Katie: And a lot of it does appear to begin there, just like the Walt Whitman quote of approaching it with curiosity, not judgment. I really feel like that is an amazing first step as a result of it permits you to not make assumptions of what you assume is happening. And if you strategy it with curiosity, particularly I discover with feelings within the nervous system, if you ask good questions, often it’s very prepared to provide you with good solutions. We simply typically have to be taught the method of asking good questions. And such as you mentioned, there are, I believe, so many instruments now obtainable, which I’m so enthusiastic about, that may assist in so many various areas of this. And I believe generally that may really feel just a little overwhelming. I do know it did for me after I was attempting to work out what to attempt to what may work. And I attempted an entire lot of issues earlier than discovering those that appeared to be actually efficient for me. So do you have got any concepts or instruments or route for individuals in how to strategy that course of and discovering the instruments that is likely to be only for them?

Raj: Yeah, so this is the idea of all the things that we’ve been constructing at Liber8. This was the issue I bumped into. Once I first acquired began, there’s simply so many books and podcasts and sources and so many individuals which can be swearing by their software. Oh, this is the factor that labored for me. Everyone’s acquired to do it. This is the factor that labored for me. Everyone’s acquired to do it. I’d go speak to my dad, my mother, my brother, my buddies, my colleagues. Everyone had a unique reply, and it was simply so complicated. And that’s mainly what our emotional lab studies assist individuals.

To me, that is probably the most efficient instruments that I might probably advocate for anyone to work out what kind of instruments, what sorts of sources, what sorts of books, podcasts, subsequent steps are going to be related to your particular emotional triggers and your particular targets psychological panorama as a result of in the end that’s actually what, based mostly in your nervous system, based mostly on the way in which that you just understand menace, based mostly in your beliefs in regards to the world, based mostly on the way in which you had been raised completely different instruments are going to give you the results you want. Like, you already know, if I went to anyone who’s extraordinarily spiritual, proper? And I went to them, and I began speaking about all of this mystical stuff over right here that’s a sort of woo. It doesn’t matter. It’s simply not going to land, proper? But when we go to that very same particular person and convey one thing that is in additional alignment with their perception system, one thing like prayer or one thing that is extra in congruence, that software is going to be a lot extra worthwhile to them than the rest. And so I believe having the ability to take the time, and this is what we’re actually, that’s what our emotional labs are. I’d be exhausting pressed to discover one other factor that does that as a result of to me, going by way of the method of really assessing what’s happening if you’re experiencing an emotional set off is going to permit, by doing that course of, then we will discover the proper instruments. So it is like a, I want I might simply say, hey, these instruments are finest for everyone. But it surely’s exhausting to do this as a result of relying on every particular person, it’s simply going to be wildly completely different. And that’s why we constructed our emotional lab studies.

Katie: And I like this as a result of it offers information. And within the bodily well being world, we will run labs and we will get information. We will have perception of what’s happening inside our our bodies. And I say fairly often on this podcast that we’re every our personal major healthcare supplier and that there at the moment are so many instruments obtainable that we will truly take the possession of that with good information and make knowledgeable choices. I believe it’s additionally true in corollary that we’re every our personal healer and that nobody exterior of us is going to be our healer. We have now to do this work internally. However now that there are instruments that may be very complimentary in that journey for ourselves, and we will have guides and helpers and individuals who maintain our hand. However on the finish of the day, we’re our personal healer.

I believe one other level of this that I skilled and also you might need as effectively or may encounter individuals experiencing is if you begin doing the work, it looks like it may be simple to then shift from the identification of trauma or no matter you’re coming from into the identification of therapeutic and doing the work quite than and the objective finally, after all, truly simply being healed and controlled and emotionally calm. And so, I believe a few of these instruments are useful as a result of they may also help body not getting caught within the identification of therapeutic both, however truly staying on the journey of therapeutic to get to the purpose of being healed, which is, after all, a lifelong journey as effectively. And also you’ve talked about nervous system well being fairly a bit. Are you able to converse extra to whether or not it’s habits, instruments, something that may be useful in curating good nervous system well being. Trigger I do know this is additionally very a lot a journey.

Raj: Yeah. And it’s, and I simply need to actually identify like this physique of nervous system well being is rising, proper? Like I can share the perfect that I do know right this moment, and in per week with new analysis and new research, like this might evolve, so I simply need to identify that. From what I do know for myself, regulating and taking good care of my nervous system is available in a couple of alternative ways. One is with truly creating a follow to launch the certain vitality that is coiled up and saved in our nervous system. So over time we now have hostile childhood experiences and traumas. We have now life stressors. We have now huge T life stressors and little T like we now have little stressors, huge stressors, all the things simply accumulates in our nervous system, proper? So creating a follow of releasing that vitality persistently and having one thing you like to do is paramount. So it could possibly be breathwork. It could possibly be it could possibly be hypnosis. It could possibly be ecstatic dance and motion. It could possibly be no matter it is likely to be, however getting right into a follow, a follow of persistently releasing vitality out of your system is probably the most, and I like to consider this as like unconscious rewiring in loads of methods, like actually like, as a result of by releasing the vitality out of your system, you’re truly rewiring your nervous system to be extra resilient, like, as a result of it’s not carrying all that vitality. So, that’s step one.

The second step to me is constructing a wholesome relationship with your feelings and your ideas. And so, to me, probably the most efficient instruments to do this is this physique work known as components work. And, you already know, components work is, it’s not essentially like a software. It’s extra like a one thing that you just be taught over time, like, okay, when you have got this indignant half, studying to separate your self out of your anger by calling it a component. I’m not indignant. It’s simply my indignant half that’s out proper now. Or I’m not being judgy. It’s my judgy half proper now. I’m not being this. It’s my this half and studying to create that spaciousness between you and your half. And if you do this over time, you might be actually separating out these components of your nervous system which can be triggery, unconscious components of you that aren’t in alignment with this peaceable, loving, calm, related, assured, inventive, compassionate half model of you that is truly who you might be. I actually imagine that’s truly who all of us are. Beneath all of our triggers, we’re truly unimaginable, actually, actually, actually unimaginable. So it’s constructing this behavior of going from figuring out with all of this, the triggery components to then figuring out with these calm, related components. And that occurs by way of constant consciousness.

So some software for nervous system rewiring regulation, a software to, or components work and actually studying to separate your self out of your ideas and your feelings. After which we expect if there’s a deeper, one other software that I might in all probability advocate. After which actually monitoring to me, it’s like, you already know, emotional lab studies are a technique to observe, journals or one other approach to observe, you already know, like I’m an avid journaler. And to me, actually, there’s a lot analysis on, you already know, the affect on well being and well-being because it pertains to like a constant journaling follow, like simply stepping into the follow of persistently journaling your ideas and your emotions if you really feel them is a implausible approach to proceed releasing a few of that certain vitality from the system.

Now, as I mentioned, there’s, I can go loads deeper as soon as we all know extra about every particular person, however I, from a grand standpoint, like these are simply fundamentals that we discover to be actually vital when it comes to taking good care of your nervous system, past all of the bodily stuff like sleep, you already know, there’s all that stuff as effectively. I’m not going to go too deep into these departments as a result of I’m certain there’s, you already know, you’ve had different specialists on the present to discuss that, however from an emotional aspect, from the psychological aspect, like these are the three, three instruments that I believe are nice.

Katie: Yeah, I do know loads shifted for me after I even simply grew to become conscious of the nervous system element as an vital piece of well being and began devoting intention and time to that. And I had a few of these comparable experiences the place I discovered issues that I had not thought of earlier than that had been actually useful in that. For me, issues like singing randomly, which if you have a look at the bodily well being aspect, it’s nice for vagal nerve tone, for exciting the thyroid. But in addition, for me, there was the metaphor of discovering my voice and getting to course of by way of that. I truly did yelling and tantrums as a result of I had suppressed feelings for therefore lengthy. And when the therapist first advised me to throw a mood tantrum and yell, I used to be like, ah, it wasn’t going to work. It truly took time to find out how to get in contact with these feelings.

Even issues like all sort of motion, like dancing is superior. Or after I would push towards a wall simply to have just like the bodily sensation of pushing towards one thing and getting to like repattern that in my physique. I believe these instruments are so underestimated due to their simplicity, however they’re obtainable to everybody. And so they actually could make an amazing distinction as a result of something we’re doing that indicators security to our our bodies can actually assist on this course of. And I believe if we simply can have that concept of what can I do to sign security to my nervous system as a element in our well being journey, that’s an enormous piece that is typically extraordinarily profound within the outcomes that it offers. I’d love to additionally speak briefly about biohacking for our psychology. If there are any like ideas or tips or instruments that may assist with emotional resilience, may also help with repatterning a few of these issues, perhaps something you encountered in your journey that was actually pivotal for you.

Raj: I believe, you already know, for me, biohacking, and what I simply need to actually identify, like, security. Security is once we really feel secure, we’re calm, related, inventive, assured. Like, that pure a part of us comes up once we’re secure. So I really like that you just introduced this again to security as a result of in the end any software that permits you to join to security is a software that is serving to you enhance your nervous system well being. Like, simply consider that as a broad stroke.

Now, biohacking your psychology, this is the place it comes down to separating your self from this a part of you that is triggered, restricted, sort of reactive to this a part of you that is infinite. Proper? This a part of you that doesn’t get triggered in any respect. This a part of you that is nearly, like, simply superhuman in some methods. And all of us have entry to this a part of us. Proper? And after I consider biohacking or bioharmonizing, no matter phrase we wish to use, it is going from bringing consciousness to this aspect of you and all of the ways in which it’s enjoying out. So to me, one of many quickest methods to establish all of the components of you which can be sitting on this restricted a part of you, or all of the components of you which can be sitting in triggers, which can be sitting on this, and actually, once more, not truly who you might be like beneath all of those triggers, you’re truly an incredible, good human being. In order that’s the elemental factor that simply has to be related with first so as to even discover biohacking.

However when you get that basic piece down, now, the largest factor that labored for me was paying consideration to my relationships. Relationships are the supply of all of our triggers. I’ll simply put it that approach. Like to me, like whether or not it’s relationships with my dad and mom, relationships with my, with my companion, relationships with my, like, I don’t have youngsters, but when I had youngsters, like all of this, like the way in which that we work together with {our relationships} is the largest and most profound breeding floor for figuring out the quickest methods to go from this anxious a part of you, this indignant a part of you, this resentful a part of you, the shameful a part of you to this different aspect, which is this infinite a part of you. And I believe that body, and it’s fascinating as a result of I want that there was extra like tangible, like, do that factor to get that factor. However in the end, psychology is not that approach. That’s why it’s a delicate science, proper? Like psychology is a delicate science. So we usher in as a lot, you already know, rigor as we will to delicate science. However on the finish of the day, it’s not like this one particular factor. There’s a physique of understanding that by your relationships as lecturers, you will discover the quickest pathway to releasing the components of you which can be truly not you in any respect. And if you launch the components of you that aren’t you, you change into probably the most genuine model of you. And that genuine model of you is brilliantly superb. And so, relationships are one of many greatest methods. Within relationships, my, I’m attempting to assume if there’s every other instruments. I assume I’ll pause there. If there’s something that’s come up for you in that, I’d love to go deeper. However yeah, for me, beginning with the relationships and beginning with your emotional triggers, these two items are just like the quickest approach to biohack your psychology.

Katie: Effectively, I undoubtedly agree based mostly by myself private expertise and from what I’ve heard from so many others as effectively. And I do know we’re going to do an entire follow-up podcast episode. You guys can hold an eye fixed out for relating to the child’s aspect and the parenting as a result of typically on this podcast, in any facet of well being dialog, there’s a recurring theme of, I want I had recognized this after I was youthful. How can I assist my youngsters have a more healthy framework for this from an early age? We’re going to get to go deep on that as a result of additionally I believe kids might be our greatest lecturers and in addition generally our greatest triggers and that the perfect present we can provide them is our personal nervous system and emotional regulation, however that is fairly the method and fairly the ask. So we’re going to get to go deep on that, however you talked about Liber8. Are you able to briefly clarify what it is and the instruments that you’ve got obtainable? And I’ll after all, be certain that it’s linked as effectively so individuals can discover it and begin participating there.

Raj: Yeah, so at Liber8, our type of flagship product is an emotional lab report. And what that features is so that you go on our web site, you possibly can enroll. While you enroll, you get entry to our app, and we begin to observe your emotional triggers, or we educate you ways to concentrate to your triggers. Now, as you observe your triggers, we then take you thru a 90-minute one-on-one session with somebody on our group to assist you perceive and unpack the basis causes of these triggers. The place are they coming from? The place in your childhood perhaps did any such sample in your life start? We begin to information you thru a very easy strategy of figuring out all that data.

As soon as we get all that data, we then generate an emotional lab report that features books, podcasts, sources, and particular instruments for nervous system rewiring regulation which can be all based mostly in your assessments. In order we observe the info, as we see your triggers, we discover the perfect instruments which can be for you. And you’ve got mainly now just a little toolkit that you would be able to carry with you all through your day, all through your weeks, all through your months to proceed working in your nervous system well being and to proceed getting the assist that you just want. And we now have so many sources, all the things. We have now an entire free group that you would be able to go and get entry to content material and curriculums and one-on-one assist. However in the end, it’s a useful resource for individuals who have actually not gone down this path to discover the proper instruments for them, in order that they’ll get efficient, lasting outcomes and to observe that journey. As a result of in psychological and emotional well-being, there’s simply no monitoring. I by no means had a approach to know if I used to be truly getting higher or not. I simply was going to software after software after software after software after software. Effectively, the emotional lab studies can type of assist you quantify, okay, this is the place I’m beginning. This is baseline. Ninety days later, the place am I? Am I getting higher? Am I nonetheless getting triggered by the identical stuff? These patterns nonetheless exhibiting up. We will maintain ourselves accountable. That’s in the end what Liber8 supplies. So we now have these emotional lab studies after which we now have applications for those that need to go deeper. However yeah, that’s the large factor.

Katie: Effectively, like I mentioned, I’ll make it possible for’s linked, however I really like this as a result of I really feel prefer it’s basically the purposeful drugs strategy to psychological and emotional well-being as a result of we’ve seen this pattern, particularly within the well being world and lots of people I speak to and work with of transferring towards a extra root trigger purposeful drugs strategy. And I really feel like this is serving to do this in that psychological emotional panorama, which I’ve seen in my very own life be probably the most pivotal key in even shifting my bodily well being. So I believe this dialog is so vital. And I’m reminded of that quote that till we make the unconscious acutely aware, it should rule our life and we are going to name it destiny. And I really like that this is a quantified approach to truly begin getting some perception as a result of when you find yourself in that emotional panorama, and particularly from my start line, after I was in a spot of being very triggered, but in addition being very emotionally shut down, it’s exhausting to even strive to get an goal have a look at what’s happening. And so, I really feel like instruments like this may be useful as a result of they offer us an information level and a monitoring after which a objective, and we will transfer hopefully in the proper route and alter if we’re not. So I’m so grateful for the work that you just’re doing. And like I mentioned, we’ll get to do a follow-up dialog on so what can we do when it comes to youngsters with this as effectively. However thanks a lot in your time and your knowledge and for sharing right this moment.

Raj: Yeah, thanks a lot, Katie. It’s been nice spending a while with you right this moment.

Katie: And thanks for listening. And I hope that you’ll be part of me once more on subsequent episode of the Wellness Mama Podcast.

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