Happy May everyone! As you may already know, it's Mental Health Awareness month! Of course we had to put our own spin on things, so we'll be using this month to talk about multidimensional health with the help of The Five Dimensions of Wellbeing. Join on us on this journey as we take a dive into a different dimension each week of this month. If you want to deepen your understanding and relationship to your personal self-care journey, you can take our FREE Self-Care Assessment here! You may also consider joining us in the group chat or getting on the Scroll With Intention Challenge waitlist! At Inner Workout, it's all self-care, all the time!
On this episode, we're reclaiming our power of choice. You only get one life (so they say), we think it's best that you start making the best decisions for you.
Happy May everyone! As you may already know, it's Mental Health Awareness month! Of course we had to put our own spin on things, so we'll be using this month to talk about multidimensional health with the help of The Five Dimensions of Wellbeing.
Show Notes
Happy May everyone! As you may already know, it's Mental Health Awareness month! Of course we had to put our own spin on things, so we'll be using this month to talk about multidimensional health with the help of The Five Dimensions of Wellbeing. Join on us on this journey as we take a dive into a different dimension each week of this month. If you want to deepen your understanding and relationship to your personal self-care journey, you can take our FREE Self-Care Assessment here! You may also consider joining us in the group chat or getting on the Scroll With Intention Challenge waitlist! At Inner Workout, it's all self-care, all the time!
On this episode, we're reclaiming our power of choice. You only get one life (so they say), we think it's best that you start making the best decisions for you.
This podcast is where your inner work begins. Each season, we skip the small talk and get straight into: nuanced conversations about self-care and inner work where you’ll feel understood instead of overlooked, practices you can try as soon as the episode ends, and reflective prompts that connect you and your experience to the conversation.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
Welcome back to Inner Warm Up, where your inner work begins. My name is Taylor Elise Morrison, creator of inner workout, and you, as always, are our expert guest. Thanks for being here today. It's May, which is mental health awareness month, and we thought we'd put our own inner workout spin on things by talking about multidimensional mental health. So here at inner workout, we talk about 5 dimensions of well-being, physical, mental and emotional, energetic, wisdom, and bliss.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
And we're going to talk about each of those dimensions and how they can impact your mental health. So that's what you can expect for the podcast this month, and let's go ahead and get into it. We're going to kick things off by talking about the energetic dimension of well-being. And if you're not familiar, there are 2 sub dimensions. One is breath quality, all about how you're breathing, and the other is about energetic zones.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
So these different aspects of ourself where our energy can be replenished or can be drained. And the energetic zones sub dimension is really what is inspiring today's question. Where can you reclaim choice? The basic idea of energetic zones is that there's a fixed amount of energy in the world and in many cases in your life. If you've ever heard of the law of conservation of energy, you probably learned this in high school.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
Energy isn't created or destroyed. It's just transferred. It can be transferred between people and interactions that you're having that are draining and energizing. It can also be transferred in and between areas of your life. And I think it's important, especially during mental health awareness month, to say that everyone has different levels of energy depending on what they have going on in their life, but especially if you've got some type of chronic illness, whether it is a physical diagnosis or there is something that you're dealing with with regards to mental health, you may be working with a more limited energy reserve than some other people in your life.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
And my hope is that you have the support to help you navigate those limited energy reserves, both personally, people in your life who can be supportive, but also professionally, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and other support team members who can help you through that. What we're gonna be focusing on in today's episode is really looking at the pieces that we can control. What can we control? What do we have choice around? Because we all have some measure of control over our energy even when it doesn't feel like it, even when a situation is so awful or just comes completely out of left field.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
There is almost always an element of choice. And I know for me, that's helpful for me to lean into, especially when I don't feel like I have a lot of choice or a lot of control in other places. And this term came to mind. I was actually introduced to it by my friend, Amelia, who also is a member of the group chat called energetic sovereignty energetic sovereignty. And it's really this idea that, no, we're taking our control back of our energy.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
We don't have to give our energy over to things just because it's what everyone else is doing. And Amelia was specifically talking about it with regards to social media. As a business owner, she has a great podcast that's out now called off the grid, and it's for business owners who are thinking maybe they wanna get themselves off of social media and find other ways to grow their business. So didn't mean to turn it into a whole plug for the podcast, but it is 100% worth listening to. But that term energetic sovereignty for me is really empowering because there are places where I have choice and energetic sovereignty reminds me of that.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
I can choose my response even if there is an email that is frustrating to me, even if there is a world event that is dysregulating, even if there's something simple, like a package was supposed to be delivered and it got delivered to the wrong building. I can choose how I respond to it. That's energetic sovereignty. I can expend a lot of energy being upset about it or wanting it to be the way I planned for it to be, or I can accept, okay, this is how it is and respond to what's happening rather than what I wish were happening. That's a form of energetic sovereignty.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
In a similar vein, I have choice in my attitude. Maybe attending something or participating in something is nonnegotiable. I have to be a part of it. I can be annoyed about it, or I can choose, okay, I'm gonna show up and I'm gonna make the best of it. Two different choices, 2 different ways to spend my energy.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
Another one that I think we sometimes miss out on is that we can choose where we spend our time. And, again, maybe you don't feel like you have full control over your time. You have responsibilities to partners or kids or family members. Maybe you're in a job that you don't want a 100% love right now, but there are pockets of your time that you are in control of, and you can choose how you spend that time. For me, there's this reminder, oh, I get to choose if I'm on social media, how much I'm on social media, what I'm sharing on social media, when I'm on social media, I can reclaim energetic sovereignty in that area.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
And if you're listening to that and being like, oh, yeah, I need some energetic sovereignty around social media too, I'm gonna do a quick plug for our scroll with intention challenge, a 7 day challenge and mini course. Not to say you need to get off social media, but to help you choose how you want to relate to social media into your screens. So if that sounds interesting, you can join the wait list, in the show notes, and group chatters get a discount and first steps on it. So if that interests you, all that information is in the show notes. But social media isn't the only way, the only place where we can find energetic sovereignty, but I do find that when I'm letting a lot of my energy get sucked by social media and by things that I'm consuming, even if it's not just social media, could be certain content that I'm watching on TV.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
When I am letting that happen, then I have less energy to pour into myself. I have less creative energy. I have less energy for the things that I want to be doing. And so by reclaiming choice in one area of my life, all of a sudden I feel like I have so much more choice and energy in other areas of my life. So I want you to be thinking, where can you reclaim choice?
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
Where can you reclaim choice? And maybe you really hone in on the area of your life where you feel like you have no choice but to show up to this job or but to do this task like vacuuming that just feels so annoying to you. Hone in that place where you feel like you don't have choice and see, is there a micro choice there that you can still choose, or you can tweak your attitude, or your response, or where you're spending your time? Find that choice. That's what I'll invite you to do right now.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
And then as you move into the coming week, see if you can notice shifts in your energy as you start to reclaim that choice. Okay. I'm gonna turn the mic over to you with a couple of minutes for reflection. I'll see you on the other side to close things out. I hope you've been able to identify at least one place in your life where you can reclaim some choice and reclaim your energy in the process.
Taylor Elyse Morrison:
I am really excited for you to play with this over the course of the coming week. I wanna say thank you so much for listening, and if you wanna chat more about it, go ahead. Feel free to DM us on Instagram, join the group chat. But above all, I'm just so thrilled that you're listening and that you are investing this time in your inner work. Thanks for listening and take care.