#19: Taking Care of Your 3 Bodies

Written By Daniel Cojocaru

Hello, and welcome to Find Yourself Change Your Life. I'm your host, Mary Clavieres. This podcast is here to help you rediscover yourself and become the leader of your life, however you want that to look.  

For today's episode, I wanted to talk about taking care of your three bodies. Now, what are your three bodies, you may ask? The bodies that I'm talking about in today's episode are your physical body, your emotional body, and your energy body. We're going to take a look at each of those in more detail and the invitation for you is to be curious and open to what is your relationship with each of these, and are you taking care of them. As always, take what resonates, leave the rest behind, just use the information that you need for where you are on your journey. 

Taking Care of Your 3 Bodies – The Physical Body 

We'll start with the physical body. The physical body is pretty self-explanatory. It is your human form, And there are a few different aspects that you can look at when you're taking care of your body. A lot of people probably think right away about food and diet and exercise type of thing, and yes, those are pieces of it. I would definitely say nutrition is one in terms of food and drink and what you consume. Another is movement. Are you moving your physical body and giving it what it needs?  

The other piece that sometimes people can miss is consumption in terms of information. This is a way that you're feeding your body just like you feed your body with, again, food and drink. You also feed your body with information. So how are you using devices in your life, your phone, your computer, your iPads, etc? And how much information are you consuming and what type of information are you consuming? All of that is also part of taking care of your physical body. This episode isn't about telling you have to follow a certain way or do a certain diet. I mean, diet is not a word that I like to use anyway. So I don't know why I said that, but you don't have to follow a certain way of taking care of yourself and exercising and, oh, you can't eat this or you can't drink that. I am of the mind that, again, each person can decide for themselves what feels right to them, what feels aligned, and what doesn't. And when you're taking care of your physical body, it's important to pay attention to how do certain things make you feel.  

How does it feel when you eat a particular thing or drink a particular thing? 

How does it feel if you go to bed at nine or 10PM versus one or 2AM?  

Different people have different rhythms and schedules. So again, it's not to say you have to do it a certain way. I absolutely don't believe that.  

Pay attention to yours for yourself.  

How does your body want to operate? And if you've operated in a certain way for a long time, you might find that it works for you. You might also decide now is a time to question that and say, well, I've been doing that for a long time. Is it really working for me or am I just used to it?  

The more that you deepen your connection with your body, the more you listen to it, the easier it will be to understand what it's telling you and to decide how to work with it.  

You might need more sleep or you might need a little less sleep or you might need to do your exercise outside or go for walks because you're really needing the sunshine versus maybe going in a gym five days a week. Maybe you want to mix in being outside and being in nature. All of these things are part of taking a look at and taking care of your physical body.  

Whether it's food, drink, sleep, consumption of information in some way, all of these things are impacted and movement as well. Movement is a really big one that I think people pass up a lot of the time. And it doesn't just mean exercise, go to the gym, do your reps, and come back. The movement I'm talking about is also paying attention to, do you need to stretch? Do you need a brain break? Do you need to just get up and move around during the day? We sit at computers so often that a lot of the times you do need that break, but you might just find yourself pushing through and saying, oh, I can wait a little bit. I can wait a little bit more. And part of taking care of your physical body is paying attention to that and knowing when you need something different.  

Invitation to explore and kind of do an assessment on where are you with taking care of your physical body.  

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Taking Care of Your 3 Bodies – The Emotional Body 

The next body to take care of is your emotional body. This one is a little different because it requires reflection in a little bit of a different way.  

  • What is your relationship with your emotions?  

  • Do you express your emotions?  

  • Do you not express them?  

  • Do you express them too much or do you let them take control of you?  

  • Are you directed by your emotions or are your emotions?   

A lot of us may walk and run around the world with our emotions just kind of going everywhere. Getting triggered by things, reacting out of anger, having reactions that are disproportionate to the thing that's happening. And a lot of that when that happens to you, it's trying to tell you something.  

If you're triggered by something or someone else, it's telling you that there's something off or something not in alignment with you. And part of that is also looking at what are your unmet needs. If you're someone that reacts a lot out of anger or impatience, there is something within you. There is a need that hasn't been met. There's something that you need to do to take care of yourself so that you aren't reacting from that place.  

Now for me, personally, this can show up a lot of different ways. If I'm tired, if I don't have enough sleep, I can be really out of sorts the next day. And I find that the more the more I become in tune and in touch with my three bodies, the more I'm able to see how it impacts me. If I don't sleep correctly the night before or you know I wake up too early or go to bed too late whatever the case may be I can be more susceptible to being reactive to people. So having a short temper or not having the patience that I want to have with my kids, maybe a lot of you can relate to that. And just coming from that place of exhaustion is going to set you off in a different way, and it's going to be harder to stay in control with your emotional body.  

A thing that I like to do is, of course, checking in with that and seeing, what am I reacting to and why am I getting upset about that?  

When you find yourself reacting in a big way to something small, check in with yourself and ask these questions: 

  • What do I need right now?  

  • Do I need more time to myself?  

  • Do I need a moment alone?  

  • Do I need to take a walk?  

  • What are those things that I need?  

  • And then how can I express them to the other people in my life so that it doesn't hurt my relationships?  

So now with my kids if I'm frustrated and I know that I'm not responding in a rational way, I will tell them, hey, I need a minute. You know, I'm really tired right now. I'm in the middle of something. Please wait a few minutes while I finish this. Because the more exhausted I am, the less I can multitask. And so all of those different things kind of run together in different ways. And it's part of, you know, taking care of yourself and having your cup full before you help others. The same premise with the oxygen mask, put on your mask before helping others. It's because you need to be fulfilled and in right relationship with yourself before you can extend that to other people.  

That’s why it's really important to take care of your emotional body so that your emotions aren't running you ragged all over the place and impacting your relationships as well. Because let's be honest, anytime your emotional body is out of alignment, it's not impacting just you. You become like a dinosaur that's going around and attacking and roaring at everybody else. So pay attention to that. Be mindful of it and think about, Okay. What do I need right now? How can I come back and be more present? And even if you don't have time and you don't have the luxury of stepping away, I find, honestly, even taking a few breaths, just a few breaths until you feel yourself calm down, very deep breaths. Count at least four or five, six times. Right? Inhale and exhale. And really let yourself calm back down before you engage again. And so really paying attention.  

Managing your emotions in little moments is important. But then you'll also want to look at certain bigger things, are certain patterns where you realize that your emotions spiral. Then you can take a look at the bigger picture and try to work through and say, how can I regulate that as well? What's happening in those moments, and how can I shift something else for myself? So that's a big part of the emotional body. And very honestly, if more of the world paid attention to their emotions and tried to regulate and take care of their emotional body, we would have a very different flow of energy.  

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Taking Care of Your 3 Bodies – The Energy Body  

The third body when taking care of your 3 bodies is your energy body. So I've spoken about energy on the podcast before. The energy body is all about paying attention to how you're operating on an energetic level. And the thing that I like to gauge a lot of the time is, what are my energy levels? And am I good where I am, or am I overspending? And am I depleted in some way?  

I did an episode on energy management where I talked about energy dollars. Episode 15. It's a really good one. Go check it out. And it's all about energy dollars as a way to take a look and take stock of your energy levels.  

If you're allotted a hundred energy dollars in a day, are you spending all of them, overspending, and then being depleted after? Or are you also doing things throughout your day to refill and refuel? Taking breaks or having a rest or doing something that's fulfilling in some way. All of those things can be refilling your energy dollars. But if you're running around, if you're going to a bunch of meetings, if you're working through lunch, if you're, I don't know, stay staying late, working late, not having a brat not having a break, not resting, that will all deplete you more. So your energy body is all about all of this and how it operates together.  

Everything is energy and we are all energy beings. If you start to pay attention to these things, you will see that how you manage your energy is very important. And all three of these, the physical body, the emotional body, and the energy body, they all work together. And as you pay attention to it, you can see what feels like it's going well and flowing and where do you feel stuck or stagnant. And then take a look and see where you can make some tweaks. The energy body is all about paying attention to those energy levels and making sure it's a check-in. It's a check-in with yourself to see how you're doing and be very honest with it.  

So your physical body, you can check-in in certain ways. Your emotional body, you check-in in certain ways. And your energy body, you also check-in in other ways.  

It's taking the moments and pausing and checking in with each of those to see how things are going and to see what you need in that moment. And it can always be changing. It doesn't have to be, okay, I'm looking at all three of the bodies right now and then that's it. No. We're always changing. We're always shifting. We're always evolving. Kids are actually really good at from an energetic perspective, they're really good at, managing their energy and releasing it from their physical body. They'll be really rambunctious or have a lot of energy and want to run around, of course, right, when it's time for bed or something. But they are naturally trying to recalibrate and empty out and fix and kind of reset their energy all the time. So they're a really good example of this. And as adults, I feel like we usually just try to push through and press it down. And what does that do? That does not help us. It makes things harder for our life. So take a look at these.  

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Conclusion on Taking Care of Your 3 Bodies 

The invitation, the reflection, and the homework prompt for today is to take a look at your relationship with your three bodies, and how are you taking care of them? What is something, maybe one thing that you want to do to improve your relationship with one of these? Doesn't have to be all at once. Doesn't have to be everything. I don't want this to be overwhelming for you. It's really just paying attention and seeing what you need right now.  

As you become more aware of these, it's, again, going to shift and change things for you and really start to have you operating in a different way that brings more alignment and that brings you more fulfillment because you feel differently. And, again, they're all connected. You're feeling it in your physical body, you're feeling it with the regulation of your emotions, and you're feeling it with your energy levels.  

Working Together on Taking Care of Your 3 Bodies 

If you want to explore taking care of your three bodies with support, you’re invited to check out my Human Design readings. You’ll learn about how your energy works, expo that you can learn more about your own energy and how you operate. This tool is a powerful building block that will allow you to live life with less stress and more peace.  

You’re also invited to check out my one on one coaching containers.  

I'm here as a guide and a mentor to support more people in showing up and doing the work to become more of who they really truly are, live more in alignment so we can all be a part of this journey in a new and different way.  

Thank you so much for listening today. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day, and I'll talk to you next week.  

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