How To Prepare Your Body For Purpose X Natalie Simpson

Sis, summer is almost over and we told ourselves in May that our summer body was loading but there seems to be a glitch, and a malfunction in the system! If your body is still loading you are not alone. Forget all of the shaming for where you could’ve been if you got that extra hour of sleep or did not make that late-night Krispy Kreme donut run. That’s all in the past! It’s time for us to create an atmosphere that keeps us connected to our body no matter the season! Watch this exclusive full segment from Woman Evolve 2023 where Natalie Simpson shares with us how to set our bodies up for success. And don’t forget to join us for the Woman Evolve 2024 Conference happening in September! ___________________________________ REGISTER for WE24: womanevolveconference.com Stay plugged into the Woman Evolve community: Download the APP: Woman Evolve www.womanevolve.com www.womanevolve.tv download the app from any mobile device’s app store, first 7 days are FREE! Want to support this ministry? Text WEGIVE to (833) 611-9066 FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIALS: Instagram: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts Twitter: Woman Evolve and SJakesRoberts Facebook: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts

how many of you have a strong desire to

make a physical change in your

body whether it to be to eliminate pain

reach a certain Fitness level or to

maintain good health throughout your

lifespan right we all want that I’m

going to share with you three ways to

help set you up for success

that will help you to tap in to the

miraculous design of your

body so number one is a deep rooted why

you need a dee rooted why to help

withstand the challenges that you’re

going to face along the way and you will

face challenges now wanting a bikini

body or to fit into a certain Siz Gene

does not qualify for your Deep

Roots but the good news here is that all

of you are already

connected you’re already into your roots

it’s why you’re here at woman evolved

2023 women who are

in a shift to be in alignment with their

god-given

purpose is that right right you’re

already rooted so

check some of us have been motivated for

change by a life experience witnessing a

family member suffer from the results of

heart disease a stroke diabetes or

Alzheimer’s disease or maybe you’ve

received some not great news about your

own current health

status the issue with that is that it’s

a fear-based motivation

when I was growing up I spent my summers

in Mississippi and every year year after

year do we have some people from

Mississippi

here

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yeah yes so ship to Mississippi every

summer my great grandmother I watched

her year after year suffer and decline

from Alzheimer’s

disease talk about

motivation to do all that I could to not

trigger my Gene so years later she lived

till she was 102 by the way yes

longevity genes but years later I found

out through DNA testing that I have a

gene for

Alzheimer’s talk about motivation to not

trigger that Gene but all I could think

about was I don’t want Alzheimer’s I

don’t want to be a burden I don’t want I

don’t want and what I did was I created

a negative stream of thinking and I

based my foundation for change on

fear and it felt awful and it’s not

sustainable so what I’m saying here is

let fear inform you but do not let it be

in the driver’s seat along your journey

flip fear on its head and put it in the

back seat and focus on how you want your

life to be in the absence of those

unwanted conditions which leads me to

number two

mindset your thoughts and your beliefs

about your body’s physical capacity to

change and improve matter and that’s

because your body responds to what you

focus

on so picture this you’re at home you’re

in your coziest house clothes it’s movie

night you got your popcorn you got your

milk Deads and tonight it’s a fful movie

now you

know on an intellectual level that

you’re in the safety of your own home

that’s just actors playing out a scene

on a black screen but then as the movie

starts you start to buy into the story

line and you see some some characters

you identify with ooh I like that one

and oh I don’t like that one so much you

start to feel something right and then

you start start to get into the movie

and then the suspense

starts the music comes up you’re buying

in you’re even anticipating what’s going

to happen you can feel your muscles

tense you feel your heart rate go you

might even cover your eyes or jump or

scream and that’s your body just doing

what it’s designed to do it is

responding to what you’re focused on and

it does the same thing in life it does

the same thing with your thoughts it’s

not a bad thing we are wired for that

and the good news is you can change it

you can write your own script just by

using visualization it’s what Olympic

athletes do when they’re

training for a big event so we’re going

to do that today we’re going to go ahead

and tap in to our empowered cell so I

want you all to think of a goal that you

want to accomplish in the future it

could be what you want by the end of

woman evolv 2020 3 it could be what

there’s no limits here this is your

visualization this is

your empowered self so think about that

goal you should feel it here though Deep

Roots I want you to think about

that and then what you’re going to

do is settle into your

seat you’re going to take a slow deep

inhale

and as you exhale gently close your

eyes and I want you to stay with that

deep breath pattern just for a few more

breaths inhaling through the

nose exhaling as you exhale exhale all

the tension out of your

body and one more time

inhaling and exhaling and now go ahead

and visualize that goal that deep deep

rooted goal that you want to feel or

that you want to

accomplish and now we’re going to fast

forward you’ve achieved that

goal you’ve done

it where are you where are you right now

when you’ve achieved that goal are you

on vacation in a beautiful place that

you’ve always wanted to go are you in a

space that’s all your own who are you

with right now give it some color really

feel into this vision

give it some

color what does it smell

like how does it

feel do you feel excited or do you feel

calm and

peace do you feel proud are you thinking

in your mind I can’t believe I I’ve done

this but I

did and just know that this version of

you this empowered person is you this

woman is you right here and right now

and everything that you need to get to

this point all the obstacles all the

hurdles you have them with you right

here and right now this is

you I want you to take another deep

breath in as you exhale bring yourself

back into this body into your

body and into this room this massive

room with all of these

amazing

sisters and check in check in with how

you

feel so that’s visualization just

dipping our toes into it you can also

work it from the outside in how many of

you have ever heard of power poses

anybody here of power

poses a few of you so I’m glad to bring

this to you because this is just in two

minutes two minutes you can work your

your body and your brain will respond to

the way you hold your body so here’s a

low power pose you’re waiting up for an

interview they’re taking too long so

you’re scrolling through your phone and

you’re all closed in like this when

you’re like this in this position you’re

signaling your body and your body

upregulates cortisol cortisol is

correlated with

stress as opposed to there’s a few high

power poses it’s this right coming

through the Finish Line in a race

Victory and then there’s the Wonder

Woman power pose this one I like cuz you

could get away with doing this without

looking too crazy right before your

interview in a Lobby 2 minutes and you

upregulate testosterone and yes we women

make testosterone and it’s correlated

with strength and confidence so what

this researcher named Amy cudy found is

that 2 minutes of this before going into

an interview before pitching your new

business idea to some investors before

getting up in front of

4,000 amazing women to speak on

stage it signals your body that it’s go

time and it works so 2 minutes just want

to give you that so that’s mindset

number

three stress

reduction who here has never experienced

stress

before no one it’s part of life right

it’s part of life and it’s there for a

reason stress is there for a reason when

we’re in pain we’re stressed we’re

working all day we’re stressed but it

puts us our nervous system into a space

where where it helps us to push through

so here’s the thing you need to know how

to balance that

out and if you get this you win if

you’re able to and I’m going to give you

some quick resets some of it we already

naturally

do but stress reduction is going to help

you to show up fully in your

life with kindness compassion and

patience for

yourself and

others it’ll help clear your lens so you

can see Solutions when they’re there

right in front of you you’ll get more

creative ideas and inspiration you can

see the look of Happiness on your

child’s face and be able to take it in

and feel

it so number one sleep hygiene anyone

here is sleep hygiene it’s like dental

hygiene so sleep hygiene there’s tons of

resources out there right now and

there’s lots of literature and research

about the effects of sleep now we all

know that when we get a good night sleep

we feel refreshed right but it’s no

longer about the number of hours of

sleep you get it’s about the quality of

sleep it’s about setting yourself up so

that you go through all of the phases of

sleep and what happens are some

miraculous things so one is part of

sleep hygiene is going to bed at the

same time every night and waking up at

the same time every morning you want to

be able to do that at least 80% of the

time so there’s a phase for example of

Deep

Sleep where your body or your brain gets

washed with cerebral spinal fluid the

neurons pull back and cerebral spinal

fluid is this flu that houses the brain

and spinal cavity and the neurons get

washed and it flushes out a protein

called beta ameloid that is associated

with Alzheimer’s

disease so how beautiful is that by just

hitting that one phase of

sleep you can help to reduce your risk

your chances of cognitive decline

dementia Alzheimer’s there’s more things

that I even have the opportunity to list

with sleep but it will allow you to show

up fully now when you go to sleep at

night don’t just put your head on the

pillow and go to

sleep because what you want to do is you

want to shift yourself into What’s

called the parasympathetic branch of the

autonomic nervous system it’s a big

that’s a mouthful but what we’re going

to talk about is the autonomic nervous

system just think automatic it’s the

things that happen in your body body

without you thinking about it so your

heart’s beating without you thinking

about it you know how to consciously

work on every

beat your breath you breathe

automatically if you had to do that

consciously we’d all be gone by now if

we had to think about every breath so

the autonomic nervous system there are

two branches there’s the parasympathetic

branch which is What’s called the rest

and

digest which that’s where calm comes in

and creativity and rest and allows us to

go through all of those phases so you

want to shift yourself into the

parasympathetic branch and get out of

fight or flight fight or it’s not flight

or flight really it’s a sympathetic

branch it’s where you’re hyperfocus it’s

there for you when you need to push

through at the end of the day and you

don’t think you have any more to give so

we want it but we need to shift out of

it before we go to sleep so how do we do

that we’re going to do that right now

now um it’s just breathing it’s a breath

pattern and I’m going to count you

through this there is a hold at the top

okay so what we’re going to do we’re

going to inhale for five 4 slowly 3 2

one hold for five 4 3 2 1 and

exhale 4 3 2 1 inhale one more cycle 3 2

1 hold 5 4 3 2 1 and exhale for five 4 3

2 one so you can do this you want to do

this before you go to bed at night

you’ll fall asleep faster you’ll stay

asleep longer and it’ll help guarantee

that you go through those phases of

sleep and get that restoration

and all the things that good sleep does

for you that so that’s sleep hygiene

last

exercise exercise who here is exercising

regularly yes right cuz our bodies are

made to move we’re designed that way

that’s how God designed is is to move

our bodies and exercise moving your body

regularly is powerful it’s more powerful

than any Pharmaceutical drug for

improving your

Wellness so if you’re already a mover

you already have a routine going keep

moving but move for life if you aren’t

exercising right now just know that

small 5 to 10 minute

bouts add up to huge changes huge

changes you don’t have to go and run out

and join a gym in fact if you’re just

starting you want to focus us on

mobility and balance now what’s mobility

in physical therapy terms Mobility is

that abil the ability of the joints in

your body to go through their full range

of motion so we’re going to do a

Mobility test right now if you could

stand we’re going to do an overhead

reach

yes to so I can only use one hand but

what are you going to do yeah you’re

going to go

overhead right and so ideally as you’re

coming

overhead your arm should be pretty close

to your ear right some of us stop here

but because we want that alignment we

might compensate and take it into the

back or we’ll take it into the neck like

this and come forward right so that’s

Mobility when you do Mobility work think

about what you’re doing you can bring

your arms down now thank

you but unless you want to be in a power

pose right and get some confidence yeah

um but uh Mobility work is counter first

you want to just counter the effects of

gravity on your body so all day we’re at

the computer we’re driving we’re sitting

we’re cooking we’re cleaning we’re

forward it’s even if you walk a lot for

your job most likely you’re not bringing

your arms overhead so this is like one

of the first things to go and it’s not

just about your shoulder Mobility this

comes from your shoulder your midback

and right here this tiny little joint

here that where your clavicle connects

to your

sternum this joint gets stuck it all

gets stuck and then you end up like this

right and it closes in the heart and

then that has its effect on your

autonomic nervous system and your health

the heart is where we live right see and

and notice too in worship how were we

last night we’re all like this we’re

open yeah

yes so balance okay balance will sneak

up on you some we can walk around and

have poor balance you won’t know it you

won’t know it until you have a fall or

you try and take a yog a class or

something and and

um can’t do it can’t stand on one leg so

balance sneaks up it gradually declines

with age so you want it you want to it’s

so

easy you just want to train it so first

test it I’m not going to have you guys

stand up and try and stand on one leg CU

we’ll have like a a a a new kind of wave

right yeah yeah so what you what you do

is just stand on one

leg right you stand on one leg the leg

that you choose that’s cool the leg that

you choose is mostly going to be your do

is going to be your dominant leg if you

go on the other leg you’ll notice you

won’t be able to stand as well on the

other leg so this is what you do you

just have a stable surface stand on one

leg make sure you’re using your glutes

and your hip

muscles pull in here and just try to get

that balance going 2 minutes on each leg

twice a week two times a week and you

will improve your

balance so balance is is huge because

Falls are a problem in society

especially if you’re 65 and

older so for

exercise if you’re not exercising try to

attach movement to an already daily

habit like brushing your teeth brushing

your teeth I tried this I I brush for 2

minutes I can get a lot of squats in

brushing my teeth I can get in fact I

have to just go on and move to balance

and then while your coffee is growing

how about some overhead reaches overhead

reaches and get some confidence at the

beginning of your day while you’re at

it so I just want to let you know it is

never too late to start to make

significant changes and lastly is

community community you all are

here if you want to be

moving community and and make it

sustainable you need your ride or dies

you need your

sisters everybody here should be leaving

with a group or a sister or an addition

to your group where you can support each

other it’s that person who’s going to

FaceTime and it doesn’t matter how far

apart you live because of modern

technology right you can FaceTime just

getting each other up share and it needs

to be people that’s us who have that

common vision and common goals people

who will support your goals sometimes if

it’s a family member that might not

always work out so well it’s easy to say

no right to a family member so Community

with that for

sustainability and

notice that everything I’ve told you

we’ve got your Deep Roots deep roots for

your motivation and your foundation

we’ve got your mindset quick resets to

mindset and then we’ve got your stress

reduction through breath through through

sleep hygiene and just moving moving

your body dancing and putting on your

favorite song it

counts

so what I want to say is

is

that you can do

this you women are here to show up fully

in your purpose in your god-given

purpose and realize your dreams moving

your body is going to help you to be

there to get there to have the clarity

so I want to encourage you

and who’s who’s with it who’s with it

let me he yes I love it

okay I’m I’m convinced I don’t know I’m

not convinced over here up in the who

else can we get some more people

committed to just moving yeah