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On this episode of the Healthy Wealthy and Smart Podcast, I welcome Jazz Biancci on the show to discuss the power of tuning in to your body. Jazz Biancci, CAPP, founder and creator of The Consciousness Project 2020, is an Author, Speaker and Channel, helping people access their invisible influences to discover what they don't know they don't know, to have a greater impact in the world. In this episode, we discuss: -The importance of tuning in to your body's awareness and emotions -How to live with more integrity during your daily interactions -Why you should shift your inner dialogue towards kindness -And so much more! Resources: Speakers Who Dare Jazz Biancci Twitter Jazz Biancci Website Jazz Biancci Facebook For more information on Jazz: Jazz Biancci, CAPP, founder and creator of The Consciousness Project 2020, is an Author, Speaker and Channel, helping people access their invisible influences to discover what they don't know they don't know, to have a greater impact in the world. Jazz has been a speaker at the Fit, Feminine & Fierce Conference in NYC, the Speaker Salon NYC, and a panelist at Soul Clarity & Abundance Live. She is currently the online host and co-producer of MamboNYC.com, co-host and producer of Spiraling Inspiration on blogtalkradio.com, producer of Healing & Becoming The Divine Masculine, and producer and moderator of The Summer Series LIVE: Anchoring During Troubled Times, and Conscious Masculinity Part ll: Diving Deeper. Read the full transcript below: Karen Litzy: 00:00 Hey Jazz, welcome to the podcast. I am happy to have you on. And for those of you who have not listened to the podcast before and have not heard me talk about the speaker salon that I was involved in over the summer last year and the mastermind that I continue to be involved in through Trisha Brouk, then you need to go back and listen to some of the episodes I did with Trisha Brouk because that is where Jazz and I met. So we met last summer. We were a part of a small group of this speaker salon. And for me it was a real big shift in mindset in life. And I always credit all of the people in the group, not just Trisha for being the leader of the group, but everyone else in the group, and Jazz was one of them. And so that's how she and I met. Jazz Biancci: 00:53 Oh, thank you. That was probably a crossroads in my life. It was definitely a game changer. Karen Litzy: Yeah, I agree. I, um, it changed my life and all aspects of my life, not just speaking, not just business, but personal confidence, everything. It was just this big, big, yeah, crossroads for me as well. I just absolutely loved it. And Jazz was just this amazing public speaker getting up on stage. Like I was saying, I remember the first time I went, everybody got up on stage. And I was wondering, I'm like, is everyone here a professional speaker? Karen Litzy: 01:37 What is this? And I was very, very intimidating, but at the end I think we all definitely got so much out of it. And the support and the love, the community was great. But today jazz is here to talk about the power of being in our body. So Jazz, my first question to you is, what the heck does that mean? Jazz Biancci: It means fully inhabiting your body to allow to provide some feedback that it's meant to provide. So I believe the body is a biological computer and it plugs us directly in to this energetic grid that lays across all things. And so when we're in our body, our sensory system is at work. And we receive messages. So the language of the body is very different from the language of the mind because there are no words. And so to understand and interpret those messages, it requires us to inhabit our body versus, you know, a lot of people live life from the neck up and it's all logic, linear thinking. Jazz Biancci: 02:47 And there's a level of detachment. So when their body has a response to something, a person, a situation, they're slower on the uptake if they even feel it at all. Because we can feel residents, we can feel when something is a no. Karen Litzy: So is this like an excuse my kind of layman's terminology here. Is this what people would refer to as their gut feeling? Or is this something more? Jazz Biancci: It's a combination. So there's a, there's a heart intelligence and there's the gut feeling and they all worked together. Karen Litzy: And how do we tap into this? So I feel like I am certainly hand raised one of those people that's probably more head up or neck up then the rest of your body. I fully admit that I am. So how can we tap into those other parts to the heart, to the gut feelings and how can we do that? Jazz Biancci: 03:54 I used to be a linear, logical head person too. And I found my way back into my body as an athlete and a dancer. And I started noticing when I was at the gym and in dance class, how the reach of my arm connected me to my heart. And so a great way to start is just to get physical if you can, and if not to take a moment and just put your hands over your heart in the morning. Take 10 seconds to remind yourself that your heart is not only beating to keep you alive, but it's also feeding you information. And then as you move throughout your day and you're having interactions, notice how you feel when you're ordering your coffee and they call your name. How does it feel? And without judgment, but start to pay attention to your responses to people, to the things you're saying and how it resonates in your body. Jazz Biancci: 04:58 Because often people will ask us questions like, uh, do you mind helping me with this? And sometimes the answer is no, but we say maybe because we're being polite and feel how that resonates because that lie resonates much differently than the truth. Karen Litzy: Interesting. And, and I, I think we've all been in these situations, like you said, someone asks you to do something and you say maybe are you say yes. And I was in a situation a number of years ago where I said yes to something, but it was literally giving me stomach pains and you know, it was making me so anxious because I knew deep down this is not right, but I am a bit of a people pleaser. And so I said yes. So for those people like me, which I, I think there's a lot of us out there and a lot of the people that listen to this podcast are, you know, we work in healthcare. Karen Litzy: 05:57 We want to stay healthy. You want to stay fit. And oftentimes were big givers, right? Because we're, we want to heal people. You know, we want to help people, but then it kind of backfires on ourselves. So what do we do in those situations where someone asks you to do something, you feel it in your gut. It's not, it's literally making you sick, but you say yes anyway. Jazz Biancci: Well it's, it's baby steps, right? It's a process. So the noticing is a start. Like I used to tell myself, yeah, workout in the morning. I am not a morning person. I have never been a morning person. And so starting to notice how that felt in my body, whether I was able to change it or stop saying, oh I'm going to work out in the morning. It was a different story. So we start by noticing how it feels and then we start asking ourselves, well, why did I say yes? Jazz Biancci: 07:05 So why did I say maybe when I met and start delving into that because it takes a while before we are in grace enough to say, I would really love to help you with that, but my plate is full right now. Can I help you find someone else? Karen Litzy: That's great. That's a very, very nice way to say no. And the offer of saying, can I help you find someone else or I have someone else in mind I think is a great way to, from the people pleaser standpoint, again, I'm going to be selfish and go from the people pleaser stand point that you still feel like you're helping even though you're not the one who can do it. Jazz Biancci: Exactly. And you're in your heart. Because sometimes when we don't understand how to do something and we're, we're getting our legs about us, we can be short or curt or rude just to try to get that boundary laid down, you know? And we don't have to do that. We can take our time with this process and notice what we're doing when we're doing it, understand why we're doing what we're doing, when we're doing at being graced with that and sit in our hearts and give us an answer that's a win win for everyone. Karen Litzy: 08:32 Yeah. So when we're talking about, you know, being in your body, we're, I'm just going to recap the steps because I'm a step person. I'm a checklist person, kind of. So noticing first what's happening in your body. And like you said, it doesn't mean you have to sit and meditate for 20 minutes or 30 minutes. It's just take a moment to remind yourself where you are and how you feel in that moment. And then delve into the, why did I say yes or maybe when it should have been a no, and delving into the why is something that we've been talking about a lot lately on the podcast and that why goes pretty deep. So it's not just why did you do this? Oh, because I didn't want to. And that's the end of the conversation. And then finally being graced with your decision. And then the most important is to come up with a win-win response for everyone. Got It. Well that seems easy. Jazz Biancci: 09:38 It does seem easy. The hardest things usually do. Karen Litzy: That sounds like I've got it down pat now I just have to practice it. And I would assume just like, you know, you were an athlete and a dancer. How many times did you practice certain movements in order to perfect them? Or to feel comfortable with them. Right. So I would assume that this process is just a lot of practice, right? Jazz Biancci: Ongoing. And it's not about judging ourselves or being mean or shaming ourselves. It's not about that. It's just like, it's a scientific experiment. That's all it is. How can I improve? How can I shift? Karen Litzy: And so if you're, let's say you're working with a client and you're working with them on this sort of shift, what pieces of advice seems to resonate most with your clients? And again, knowing everyone is different and has a different path, but are there exercises or things that you do with clients that you're like, you know, this is pretty powerful. This is something that seems to work. Jazz Biancci: 10:55 I have them keep a journal. First I just do like the tick system. So noticing how many times a day that you lie. Like when you're like counting and you're like putting like marks and then you get to the five and you cross it over. So it's just that easy to start noticing how many times a day you lie. So you have a notebook and you just make a tick or use your notes on your phone and you just put a one Monday, one, two like you just keep adding ticks and you count it up at the end of the day. Because it's fascinating because we lie a lot, this self-deception is astounding and it does no service to anyone when we're out of integrity because that's what that is. We're being inauthentic in a moment because we are taught to be polite before we consider ourselves and we can do both without being disingenuous. Karen Litzy: So yeah, it'd be like little white lies or maybe, yeah. Jazz Biancci: Yeah, because it's all about the observation and understanding what kind of situations prompt us to lie. Noticing when we have fear, because fear is huge. If you're afraid of retaliation or punishment, you're prone to lie to get approval. Jazz Biancci: 12:40 So it's like noticing those moments that that turn up the volume and then noticing how that makes you feel. Because there is a different way. We just haven't been taught what that way is. Karen Litzy: So you start, you have people get a journal or like you said on their phone and write down how I'm going to do this because I wonder how many times do I even say a little white lie. I'm going to do this. I would encourage the listeners to do this as well and we'll see what we come up with. It's really fascinating. Yeah, it sounds really, really interesting. So, all right, let's say I do this system for a week and I like five times in a week. What do I do about it? What does that mean? What does that lead to? Jazz Biancci: Well, it leads to noticing what kind of lies you're telling it to whom, right? Jazz Biancci: 13:30 Because they may, they may be the lie that like, hi, how are you today? I'm fine and you're not, you know, and then reconstructing that answer so that it feels right in your body and appropriate for the social situation. So someone may say, hey, how are you? And you could say, well, I'm hanging in there, you know, that's acknowledging what you're feeling without giving too much information. Karen Litzy: Yeah, because I would think that you can acknowledge it, but giving too much information, people will be like, why is she inappropriate? So you have to kind of know where that line is between, you know, allow like divulging information but then being like, what is wrong with like why is this person saying this in this context at this time? Jazz Biancci: So you're honoring and acknowledging and being aware of your environment at the same time because the residents of truth and creating the habit of truth for yourself. Jazz Biancci: 14:43 As you begin to notice how that frequency vibrates, the way a drop of water into a glass of water does, you see the ripples, you can feel it. And over time it's, it's a purification. It's a gentle way to start the purification process because the body is an incredible instrument. What I found in doing these practices, I know when someone's lying to me because it feels different than truth. And so it's a confidence of knowing that I can rely on myself and my instrument and my body to provide information that I can rely upon because being able to rely on the body because there are no words attached to it, the body doesn't lie. And so those moments I've had moments. I'm sure you have too, that an alarm has gone off within you that you don't necessarily understand. And do you follow? Do you not follow it? Jazz Biancci: 15:52 Is your imagination, are you having an anxiety attack? For me it happened in queue boarding an airplane and I've been flying all my life and I was going to Haiti for work. It was my fifth trip to Haiti. I was excited, our whole team was going and we were waiting in queue and all of a sudden something happened in my core and I was terrified and I went to my friend and my coworker and told you, I'm like, I am not getting on this plane. I'm not going. And of course she was like, what are you talking about? We have a job to do. And I'm like, no, something doesn't feel right. And so we went to the director and she's like, you can sit by him and you've heard me speak about this. And I let myself be peer pressured and I wasn't competent in that feeling yet that alarm is one of the first times I felt that. Jazz Biancci: 16:48 And so I got on the plane, I was sitting next to the director and I buckled in and I'm like, what am I doing? But I still didn't have the courage to say, I've got to get off of this airplane. I sat there. So we take off, there's this huge commotion and the commotion is moving forward. The stewardesses cannot get the situation under control and the plane has to turn around the air marshals come on the plane and escort the situation off the plane. So the grid that we have within us in our hearts, that…
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