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Thanksgiving MindBody Tool!! - Dr. Kim Deramo

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Channel: Dr. Kim D'Eramo · 2016 · People & Blogs

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Hi everybody, it's Dr. Kim D'Eramo from the American Institute of Mind Body Medicine, and Happy Thanksgiving. I want to share some of the most powerful things about appreciation and gratitude that come with Thanksgiving that are so powerful in allowing your body to heal. It's not only being with your family, being with those that you love, but every time you call to mind something that you appreciate, whether it's just the simple thing of like, I'm hearing this message right now, or I have food on the table. 
 Even the simplest thing brings your state into a different alignment, physically, emotionally, and mentally. Creates chemicals in your body, hormone balance, that allow your body to heal. Even if you're exhausted and you feel terrible today, find something that you can appreciate because it lets your system know what you would like to expand. Your system is always listening, every cell in your body is listening. You want to sort of cultivate that ability to appreciate. It lets your energy appreciate, it lets your health appreciate, it lets your life appreciate. 
 If you're thinking about your Thanksgiving meal and there's some stress, whether it's family you're going to see or how much you have to do or how much preparation or ... maybe it's even just eating, which for a lot of people can stress us out. Like, "Oh, I might not tolerate this food," or "Maybe I shouldn't eat this thing," or "I've got to do a paleo diet, or gluten free." There can be a lot of fear around eating. I know for me, I used to kind of prepare. I do a nice long run on Thanksgiving morning, get this great appetite going, and it was great. After however many years of doing that routine, it sort of became forced, like I was gearing up for this big meal that I was going to have and I need to prepare and counteract it somehow. After realizing that, I knew that was not going to contribute to me to try to stress myself out, push myself. It was like, can I just receive this? It's totally different for me right now. 
 If you want to invite your body to receive your Thanksgiving meal, your relatives, and all the things that come with the holiday in grace and ease, simply invite your body to this. Take a deep breath, and put your hand in your heart, and just repeat after me. I choose to receive this holiday in grace and ease. I choose to allow my body to receive my food with love. I choose to love myself with food. As I enjoy myself and those around me. Just keep breathing. I choose to allow my body to do what it does naturally, releasing everything that doesn't serve me, and easily receiving and assimilating everything that nurtures me most. Good and just take a big deep breath and let it go. 
 If you connect with your body this way and allow yourself to receive your holiday, receive your family, receive your meal in this state, your body already knows how to release everything it doesn't need and how to receive and ingest everything in grace and ease, allowing your body to work the way nature intended. If we kind of just going through the motions, "I got to do this thing," "I got to do that thing," we don't even check in with our bodies. It's really hard for our body to do that, especially when we're living in fear or we're eating out of anxiety. When you eat out of self love, your body will always have a harmonic effect and harmonic relationship with your food. 
 Connect with this wisdom in your body, ignite this wisdom in your body, connect with yourself this way before your Thanksgiving, and I'd love to hear what you noticed, and what you noticed from doing this little mindful, mind body activity. Sharing my love with you, I hope that you have an amazing holiday season, that this holiday season is one unlike any other, where you really invite yourself into a whole new level of allowing a whole new level of self love and to begin to nurture yourself with food, with relatives and sharing and your relationships, and with everything around you. That is the greatest gift that you could give to the world. Be well, it's Dr. Kim D'Eramo from drkimd.com, and I'll see you soon. 

MINDYOURBODY. DRKIMDERAMO.

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