4 Tools for Harnessing your Intuitive Nutrition + Fitness
Learning how to tap into your intuitive knowing can make all of the difference in feeling more at home and liberated in your body. Here are 4 tools to incorporate into your daily and weekly rituals.
1. Wellness Visual Meditation
A wellness vision is not just something you imagine but something that already lives inside of you.
Find yourself a comfortable seated position. Close your eyes. Connect with your breath. And start to align yourself with the energy of the most well version of yourself. Imagine yourself feeling connected to your body. What does that feel like? Expansive? At home? Safe? What do you do every day? What foods do you imagine yourself eating? How do you imagine yourself feeling after eating them? How do you move your body? How does taking care of yourself affect the way you show up in the world?
Take anywhere between 5-10 minutes to connect to this energy. From here, think of 1 action step you can take to start to make this vision part of your physical existence. This can be done daily or monthly on the new moon.
2. Daily Body Scan
In a quiet space, either lying down or sitting tall, take inventory as to how your body feels. Start with the top of your head. How is your mental energy? What foods would serve this part of the body? What movement would serve this part of the body?
Ask these questions as you scan down each part of the body slowly tapping into the energy that is there at that exact moment without judgement.
Think of the energy being either yin or yang. Acidic or alkaline, to start. What can you do today to help bring your body into balance?
Some ideas would be eating more fresh veggies or fruits if the body is feeling acidic or sluggish. If the body is feeling more flighty, anxious or hungry, try to incorporate heavier, more grounding foods like root veggies, stews or more calorically dense foods.
3. Journal your self limiting beliefs around our health.
Many of us carry a story around health whether its from society, magazines or just our interpretation of what is acceptable for us. These are usually self limiting beliefs. The ideas that we carry with us that affect our decisions around how we should fuel our bodies. When we start to recognize these beliefs that no longer serve us, we can rewrite what we know to be true. What we want to be true for us. And remember that we are the experts in our own lives.
Take some time as often as needed to journal about the untrue beliefs you have around food and your health.
Some examples include:
“I have to eat under 1200 calories a day to be lean and healthy.”
Does that resonate with you at your core? “No because I am still hungry, feel angry and have immense cravings when I eat that little.”
What do you want to be true?
I want to eat what feels intuitively right for my body’s energy which changes every day.
This can be done as often as needed to develop your own constitution to what your body needs.
4. How do certain foods and movement effect your body?
Do you ever notice that when you eat tomato sauce you get indigestion? Or that when you have too much coffee you have anxiety? These are the subtle cues of the body helping guide you back to balance and feeling healthy.
Notice how different foods effect your body. You can do this by keeping a food journal to track each food and feeling. Notice how the acidity or alkalinity of the body changes when you eat or move a certain way.
In your journal, write out these 3 columns:
1.Day/Time
2. Food/Movement
3. Feeling/Energy
Be as detailed as possible to see the patterns of how different foods and movement make you feel. This can be done daily until you feel confident in understanding your unique body’s cues.
