Body Wisdom With Dr. Michele

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Body Wisdom Podcast with Dr. Michele.

This season the podcast will be focusing on healthy habits. As your host, I’ll be recording solo episodes which will answer some of the most common questions I’m asked as a physician such as “how do I build a new habit?” "which habits are essential to get healthy again?" "what can I do to lose weight?" "how can I look and feel younger again?" "how can I start exercising again if I haven't done it in years?" and more. I will also be coaching patients and clients live on-air, and conducting interviews with other health & wellness experts. Of course, I am always open to new topic ideas, so if there is a topic you would like me to address or if there is a question you would like answered, please reach out. Email me directly at [email protected].

Today Dr. Michele discusses "Sitting in Silence"

I hope you enjoy the show!

About Dr. Michele:

As a physician & surgeon, certified Ayurvedic and Autoimmune health coach, yoga/anatomy teacher, and overall health & wellness expert, Dr. Michele Summers Colon is an Advocate for Women's Health. Her passion is helping women help themselves to heal their body. She is the author of Body Wisdom: 10 Weeks to Transformation, the creator and host of the Body Wisdom with Dr. Michele Podcast, and the leader of the Body Wisdom Membership Program.

She has been interviewed and quoted in many prominent publications including USA Today, US News & World Reports, Health Magazine, Yahoo! Makers, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. One of Dr. Michele’s greatest strengths is her ability to help women create balanced, healthy lives by looking at the whole picture. She combines the best of Eastern and Western medicine to create individualized health & wellness plans for her patients and clients. For over 24 years, Dr. Michele has dedicated herself to maintaining a private medical practice and providing exceptional care to her patients while at the same time studying holisitic and integrative medicine. Dr. Michele believes that food is medicine and that yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation are the keys to perfect health.

Dr. Michele has a Bachelor’s degree in Physiology from UCBerkeley, a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Doctorate degree in Podiatry from Barry University, and graduated from a Foot & Ankle Surgical Residency in Los Angeles. Dr. Michele is also certified in Ayurvedic as well as Autoimmune Health Coaching, Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Laser Therapy. Dr. Michele specializes in Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Therapeutic Yoga to provide the most healing, relaxation, and rejuvenation to her patients and clients. Dr. Michele has studied Ayurvedic Medicine extensively and has worked with some of the best practitioners throughout the United States to bring Ayurveda to the forefront of medicine.

Combining yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation is one of Dr. Michele’s passions so that she can spread the word to as many people as possible that this is the path to perfect health.

What does regular meditation mean to you? Is it daily? Is it daily for 5 minutes or 20 minutes? What happens when you don’t practice for a while? Do you feel more spiritually disconnected? Do you feel less in control? Do you get more depressed? Do you get more busy? Do you feel like you are just skating on the surface of life? Does life go by too fast? Do you feel more anxious? Notice what has happened to you when you practice and when you don’t practice.

Why does meditation work? There are research studies on why it works.

Daily mindfulness practice has been proven to increase tuolumerase, the caps on the end of our genes, which can reduce cell damage and lengthen our lives.

What are the benefits of meditation? It boosts our immune system so we can fight off disease better, from the flu to cancer.

Some of the effects of meditation: improved focus, better concentration, better communication, improved relationships, clarity of thinking, we feel safer, we have less accidents, more precision, more clear with our intentions, more efficient, more aware of how we feel and what we say, more conscious in our relationships, especially when we are in a state of transition.

There are more spiritual effects too, such as more peace of mind, more sense of flow, more faith, more access to intuition, more self-confidence, better insight, more discipline, more caring, more calmness.

Physically, the benefits include reducing stress, more gene repair, balanced heart rate, lower blood pressure.

Why are you meditating? Is it because you think you should do it? We will have a shift in our meditation practice and we will make it more effective if we know why we are doing it. Focus on it before you start.

Ask yourself, “why should I meditate today?” Notice what comes in. Ask yourself, “why do I need to medit...

Welcome to Season 3 of the Body Wisdom Podcast with Dr. Michele.

This season the podcast will be focusing on healthy habits. As your host, I’ll be recording solo episodes which will answer some of the most common questions I’m asked as a physician such as “how do I build a new habit?” "which habits are essential to get healthy again?" "what can I do to lose weight?" "how can I look and feel younger again?" "how can I start exercising again if I haven't done it in years?" and more. I will also be coaching patients and clients live on-air, and conducting interviews with other health & wellness experts. Of course, I am always open to new topic ideas, so if there is a topic you would like me to address or if there is a question you would like answered, please reach out. Email me directly at [email protected].

Today Dr. Michele answers the question "Why Should We Go To Bed Early?"

I hope you enjoy the show!

About Dr. Michele:

As a physician & surgeon, certified Ayurvedic and Autoimmune health coach, yoga/anatomy teacher, and overall health & wellness expert, Dr. Michele Summers Colon is an Advocate for Women's Health. Her passion is helping women help themselves to heal their body. She is the author of Body Wisdom: 10 Weeks to Transformation, the creator and host of the Body Wisdom with Dr. Michele Podcast, and the leader of the Body Wisdom Membership Program.

She has been interviewed and quoted in many prominent publications including USA Today, US News & World Reports, Health Magazine, Yahoo! Makers, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. One of Dr. Michele’s greatest strengths is her ability to help women create balanced, healthy lives by looking at the whole picture. She combines the best of Eastern and Western medicine to create individualized health & wellness plans for her patients and clients. For over 24 years, Dr. Michele has dedicated herself to maintaining a private medical practice and providing exceptional care to her patients while at the same time studying holisitic and integrative medicine. Dr. Michele believes that food is medicine and that yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation are the keys to perfect health.

Dr. Michele has a Bachelor’s degree in Physiology from UCBerkeley, a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Doctorate degree in Podiatry from Barry University, and graduated from a Foot & Ankle Surgical Residency in Los Angeles. Dr. Michele is also certified in Ayurvedic as well as Autoimmune Health Coaching, Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Laser Therapy. Dr. Michele specializes in Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Therapeutic Yoga to provide the most healing, relaxation, and rejuvenation to her patients and clients. Dr. Michele has studied Ayurvedic Medicine extensively and has worked with some of the best practitioners throughout the United States to bring Ayurveda to the forefront of medicine.

Combining yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation is one of Dr. Michele’s passions so that she can spread the word to as many people as possible that this is the path to perfect health.

This season we are going to be talking about Healthy Habits so that we can feel younger and healthier.

Why is it important for us to go to bed early? What is 'early'? And how much sleep do we really need? We're going to talk about that today.

From an Ayurvedic perspective, there is a 'natural' time to have an evening meal, which is just before the sun goes down. If we eat early enough and it's not stressful, then there is a natural relaxation and feeling of ease in the early evening because dinner isn’t overwhelming. Dinner should be simple, from a physiological perspective and from a practical perspective. It is starting the cycle of winding down for the night.

This is Kapha time. It is the heavier time of day. The early evening cycle has the heavier qualities of earth and water, like fluid, gooey, mud-like, and cloudy, but also stable. It is more stable than the energies that precede it. Kapha is so much about ease and taking it easy. If we are not revved up, we will start to wind down and take it easy after dinner.

When you have a late dessert and have sugar to stay up later, this is what breaks down your immune system. Kapha is in charge of congealing the immune system and creating integrity through connectivity of the immune system when it is allowed to be refined through the application of consciousness. It builds ojas. It gives rise to immune integrity. There are so many immune issues out there like allergies. If we rev it up at night, we are blowing up our immune system. We either pay for it now, or we pay for it years later. We know that there are massive issues.

It’s so crucial to wind down before bed. If you don’t, you are crashing your immune system, you are creating inflammation, you are not able to tap into the causal energy of deep sleep. When you go to bed too late, ...

This season the podcast will be focusing on healthy habits. As your host, I’ll be recording solo episodes which will answer some of the most common questions I’m asked as a physician such as “how do I build a new habit?” "which habits are essential to get healthy again?" "what can I do to lose weight?" "how can I look and feel younger again?" "how can I start exercising again if I haven't done it in years?" and more. I will also be coaching patients and clients live on-air, and conducting interviews with other health & wellness experts. Of course, I am always open to new topic ideas, so if there is a topic you would like me to address or if there is a question you would like answered, please reach out. Email me directly at [email protected].

Today Dr. Michele explains "What is Easeful Living?"

I hope you enjoy the show!

About Dr. Michele:

As a physician & surgeon, certified Ayurvedic and Autoimmune health coach, yoga/anatomy teacher, and overall health & wellness expert, Dr. Michele Summers Colon is an Advocate for Women's Health. Her passion is helping women help themselves to heal their body. She is the author of Body Wisdom: 10 Weeks to Transformation, the creator and host of the Body Wisdom with Dr. Michele Podcast, and the leader of the Body Wisdom Membership Program.

She has been interviewed and quoted in many prominent publications including USA Today, US News & World Reports, Health Magazine, Yahoo! Makers, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek. One of Dr. Michele’s greatest strengths is her ability to help women create balanced, healthy lives by looking at the whole picture. She combines the best of Eastern and Western medicine to create individualized health & wellness plans for her patients and clients. For over 24 years, Dr. Michele has dedicated herself to maintaining a private medical practice and providing exceptional care to her patients while at the same time studying holisitic and integrative medicine. Dr. Michele believes that food is medicine and that yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation are the keys to perfect health.

Dr. Michele has a Bachelor’s degree in Physiology from UCBerkeley, a Master’s degree in Biomedical Sciences and a Doctorate degree in Podiatry from Barry University, and graduated from a Foot & Ankle Surgical Residency in Los Angeles. Dr. Michele is also certified in Ayurvedic as well as Autoimmune Health Coaching, Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Laser Therapy. Dr. Michele specializes in Yin Yoga, Restorative Yoga, and Therapeutic Yoga to provide the most healing, relaxation, and rejuvenation to her patients and clients. Dr. Michele has studied Ayurvedic Medicine extensively and has worked with some of the best practitioners throughout the United States to bring Ayurveda to the forefront of medicine.

Combining yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation is one of Dr. Michele’s passions so that she can spread the word to as many people as possible that this is the path to perfect health.

Easeful living is a habit in and of itself but it's also a result of the previous Ayurvedic habits we've covered. Easeful living is about being more present, more calm, more content, and more at peace. Easeful living is about being able to savor each moment and to tap into gratitude and the abundance that surrounds us.

It's about feeling so deeply nourished by life that there's more patience and compassion for those around us.

Easeful living is about being in a flow and having a deeper trust that you are taken care of.

Easeful living is a grounded connection to your natural state, your divine inheritance as a human, the basic teachings of heaven on earth.

When you notice stress, choose ease. The problem isn’t the problem. Your reaction to the problem is the problem.

Stabilize your day-to-day perspective in the expanded backdrop of easeful awareness, in touch with intrinsic plenitude.

Like a toggle switch in your nervous system, you live in either reaction or reception. The first perpetuates stress, the latter cultivates ease. One unconsciously meanders towards unconscious tension, limitation, and disconnection. The other intentionally leads to an extraordinary, heart-centric, intimate, and evolutionary life.

Allow stress, overwhelm, or anxiety to fade into the background as you focus on living into what each day unfurls. You’ll enjoy an extraordinary life and become an inspired leader for your future.

How do we do this?

It comes about from daily self-care and healthy routines.

When we're not in an easeful state chances are we haven’t aligned our day with what matters most. Or maybe we're too busy and overscheduled to be able to slow down and enjoy ourselves. Maybe we haven't taken care of ourselves with proper food, the right exercise or enough sleep. Maybe we're stuck in ...