Steep Ditches, Sore Knees & Sweaty Self-Discovery - Daily MINI-CAST with Kim & Jill

Unlock the power of mindset and embrace life's challenges with a fresh perspective! 🌟

Join Kim and Jill as they delve into a transformative conversation about facing physical discomfort, shifting attitudes, and discovering hidden strengths. From conquering steep hills with a push mower to understanding how our bodies react to new movements, this episode is all about embracing change and growth.

Key takeaways include:
- How changing your attitude can turn obstacles into opportunities
- The importance of acknowledging body signals for personal development
- Strategies for recontextualizing tasks to unlock energy pathways

Tune in now to explore how you can harness the potential within everyday challenges! 🎧

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Hello, lovely listeners, and good morning, Kim. Good morning, Jill. Good morning, everyone. Today's message comes to you by Jill and Kim. Both of us were experiencing similar aches or just the body was speaking to us today. So it kind of does into this.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of mowing my lawn with a push mower in a very steep ditch. It was overwhelmed with grass.

Say that again. You cut out just a little bit.

That was. I had the ability to mow the lawn.

Yeah. In the ditch that had very tall grass and weeds.

Yes. And the ditch is very steep. And I decided to do it with a push mower.

And prior to doing that, I sat there and thought, well, man, I have kids that can do this. I can literally pawn this off on the kids, or do I really need to do this? I sat there. I had the time to do this. My physical body has the ability to.

Do it myself instead of running this off on somebody else when I was just telling another person in my life to let some people do something because they had the ability to do it. So why not let them have that ability? Why take it away from them?

And it came back to me, like, walk your talk, Kim. You have the ability, so do it.

I'm like, oh, yeah?

Yep. Okay.

So I actually started getting into having fun with mowing the lawn.

Yeah, this is gonna be a little bit of a challenge, but it's gonna be a good challenge. Let's just see how much my body can take.

And I'm sweating like sweat's pouring down me. My ankles are moving in all these different directions up and down this hill. My knees are like...

And I remember at one point one of my knees kind of hurt a little bit, and I talked to it. I said, yeah, this is a workout, isn't it? You're moving in all these different directions. You haven't moved in a while.

But we got this.

And just like that, my knee got strong again, and the pain was gone in that moment.

And I said, okay, you guys, we got this much. We do it.

And it was like a good challenge for myself. I was my own... Like I could have been my worst enemy. I could have been down on myself or I could have been like, I can't do this and not finish the job.

But I did it, and I kept going, and I got it done.

I was super proud of myself.

And then I had extra other areas around the house that we could get to with Ryder, and I was super proud of myself and I had extra energy.

I sat down, went in the house and took a shower.

And I felt great. I wasn't tired or anything.

Went to bed.

Of course, I wake up in the middle of the night and my knees are saying hello; they're waking me up.

Yeah.

And I just laughed.

Like in that moment I laughed and said yeah, I bet you're hurting; that was a big challenge today.

But thank you. Thanks for staying strong.

And I went back to sleep instantly; the pain was gone.

Today they're in that moment where they're sore.

You know brought up a really good fact about energy basically being stuck—our drainage pathways being stuck—I haven't used some of these muscles; my knees haven't moved that way in a long time—so the energy pathways were stuck.

Now they're opening back up and they're rewiring; they're going in a different way that they haven't maybe remembered before.

And sometimes when we go into different roads or pathways opening up differently, it does create a little bit of pain.

Pain or discomfort?

It's like there's a difference too because like you know when you work out and you have this pain there's a pain where you hurt yourself and then there's... then there's a line though too where there's pain where it just feels kind of good because you're growing your muscles you're growing your strength or whatever—and that to me is what you were doing with the mowing—you were working and challenging yourself but you weren't overworking; you weren't overdoing; you were just pushing yourself as far as you could and you found out you could go farther than say your attitude initially wanted to—and then your attitude shifted and you were like: "I got this," and you could do even more—it's fantastic.

But yeah that kind of congestion when we don't use something like our ankles in...

It's funny to me because in American world society and pretty much everywhere in America now very rarely do we move our ankles multi-directionally anymore—you know we don't—and we have a lot of ankle issues especially knee issues and hip issues in the States—and it's because of that because if you go to other parts of the world especially that aren't quite—you know—first world or whatever that silly phrase is but where there's more rockier terrain that you walk on your ankles go in all those different directions—and so your ankles stay strong because you're using them—and here we don't use all those different directions—and so you had this challenge that came up and you took it on—and I just...I think it's just fantastic—the way you shifted your attitude about it is what's really fantastic.

Yep. And that...and I've noticed throughout the years doing this type of work and recognizing how strong our brains are—we are literally our worst enemies—and when we put in that anchor—that frame frustration—or like "I have to do this"—that pain gets worse and it stays with you so much longer—and the body actually does not heal—and that's more or less what mine was in a way—I was about to become my worst enemy in terms of pain—in what you just described Kim—and right before we got on this call—I said—I was like oh maybe it was just—you know—a change maybe it's not necessarily...

None of it was a bad thing—it's just a change—and it's a little bit uncomfortable—or like when you work out a muscle an area of body you haven't used in a while—it's a change—and it's a little bit uncomfortable—but ultimately—it brings...it brings—you know—more strength—it brings something you're not...

You're not...it wasn't moving into harming ourselves—we weren't pushing it too far—and I wasn't pushing it too far—but I was gonna start with my brain stuff—I was gonna start having that meltdown like you just described—like oh my God—which was just gonna put gasoline on this fire—but it was just to embrace that change and say okay what's happening here?

And then I also changed my attitude—

Yep—

and that made me feel better—changing where the drainage pathways are going how they're getting stuck—and now you're like nope—we gotta...we're getting...we're getting shown—we're getting forced or guided...

Strongly guided—

Strongly guided—

Yep—to look in at a different route rerouting things—and like understanding we have the ability to do that—we don't have to stay in the same stuck energy—

Yep—

and I think it really...what's kind of coming to me right now is—it really starts with our attitudes and how we're framing it and what context we're giving it—and like—you could have had a bad attitude like you said with your—with the mowing—

Yep—that was the context

But it wasn't just—you know—not just mindset—it's like the entire context—you're like Kate—like your mind then you're like come on body let's do this—and then like Kim as a whole you're like all-in on it

So it's like at multiple levels you're changing your attitude and your approach to it and the way you're seeing—I think you started saying "I had the privilege of doing this."

Yeah

and yeah it's like going all-in on this thing that in the past we would have just judged as "I don't want to do this" or "someone else has to do it" or blah blah blah blah blah

and you just keep recontextualizing it until you're in a space—you know—even if you never get into the space where you're like "in love with it"—you just keep doing it because you're like no I'm not going down that crutch of old path saying "this sucks"—this is what it is

Yeah I'm going to make the best of it

and it's not trying to make something positive that isn't positive—it's just here—it is—it's right in front of you what are you going to do with it?

Exactly

The outcome is going to be the same—the lawn is going to get mowed one way or another

Yep

and it opens up—that's the congested pathway stuff—is open—it opens up—as you do this process—as you talk yourself through this self-coaching yourself through this—you open up energy stores—you open up brain-like energy—to take on something you didn't think you could

It's just kind of...

I don't want to say...it's again like you're tapping—we tap into that—we start hitting that infinite potential realm when we shift ourselves like this—but it's not trying to put a smiley sticky face over a bad situation—that's kind of what people were—I feel like they were trained in past—to do—just pretend—you know fake-it-till-you-make-it

It's not that

Yeah well if anybody's having discomfort today just talk to it—it's understanding different pathways which are opening up for you—different drainage pathways different energetic pathways

It's just you're being led to see a different path

Yep

and to grow some new muscles new strength new something new way

and that can be a little uncomfortable for bit but in end it's totally worth it

Thank you

Thank you

Yeah thank you Kim

Yeah I know we're both exactly we're all excited

Yeah thanks Joe thanks everyone

All right until next time