“The more we find our own health and happiness, the more we help others find theirs.”
April 3, 2014 - Written by TrainingTips.com
Jeffrey Siegel holds a Master degree from Harvard University in Mind, Brain & Education and a Masters in Applied Buddhist Studies from Hong Kong University. He founded JES Wellness to explore the exciting intersection between learning and development with physical movement and fitness.
JES Wellness moves beyond sets, reps and weights to a truly holistic paradigm of health. By seeing the body, mind, spirit and environment as an integrated system, JES Wellness works on physical conditioning, behavioral habits, and mental clarity as part of integrated training. Their approach combines individual lifestyle assessment with one-on-one personal training, health coaching and mindfulness practices. Together they help people develop sustainable self-care practices that cultivated health, wholeness and happiness.
TrainingTips.com: What are some ways that you help your clients reconnect with their physicality and the intuitive wisdom of their bodies? Can you expand on your desire to educate individuals on the importance of developing self-care?
Jeffrey: This first question I always ask is, “What does it feel like to be you right now?” This bypasses the thinking mind and goes straight to the feeling dimensions of our being. If we are acutely aware of what’s going on inside ourselves, we are more capable of successfully navigating the world outside.
The following sequence of questions is a useful tool to guide personal transformation:
1. What’s happening in your body right now? If you body had a voice, what would it say?
2. What’s challenging or interesting about that?
3. How do you think the universe is asking you to take care of yourself? What emotions do you want to feel? How could you move your body to achieve that? How could you shift your mind to achieve that?
4. How would your loved ones, humankind, and the planet benefit from you taking care of yourself? How does that make you feel?
Together these questions help people stop, assess, refocus and act in a way that supports their best self. Moreover, it asks people to connect to their deeper source of motivation. I’ve found that a major missing piece for many people is finding a compelling reason to change their lifestyles. Simply put, their motivation to eat better, move more and be healthier simply doesn’t go far enough. It often stops with dropping a few dress sizes, completing a race, or leaning how to feel stressed.
Working for those benefits is a valuable part of the process. However, a desire for superficial self-improvement usually isn’t a big enough reason to stick with it when life gets challenging. In order to really embody a new healthier lifestyle, people need to understand why continuing this work is important to them personally and how it will impact others?
One of my favorite quotes from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar says, “Health is not a mere absence of disease, it is a dynamic expression of life, in terms of how joyful, loving and enthusiastic you are.” I think this beautifully sums up the reasons it is so important to seek and maintain health—so we can joyfully express love and enthusiasm in every walk of life. The more we find our own health and happiness, the more we help others find theirs.
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