Episode 98: Building Better Relationships with Yourself and Others by Aligning Your Body and Nervous System with Jay Fields
In this compelling Episode 98 of The Business Habitat podcast, Sam is joined by Jay Fields, Somatic Coach and LinkedIn Educator, dialing in all the way from California to discuss the mind/body connection and how being true to yourself and aligning your is fundamental to living a more fulfilling life. In her game-changing work, Jay helps people leverage their nervous system and body to shift their thinking, and have better relationships with themselves and others.
Kicking off this important conversation, Sam talks to why she is so passionate about this topic and how exploring this field has benefitted her personally in her own journey. Jay explains the meaning of Somatic Coaching, with Soma being the Greek word for body, where body encompasses all the parts of mind, body, heart, spirit, consciousness and the nervous system.
Jay’s background as a Yoga instructor and rock-climber helped her to appreciate the clarity that came from being present in the moment. It led her to focus her studies on the mind/body connection. Developing her own major of Psycho-social health and human movement, Jay pursued how people can use the connection to our bodies as a preventative measure for psychological health in our culture.
Drawing on her own background, Sam makes the connection between Jay’s work and the need for goal alignment as we move forward towards people-centric, heart-centred businesses. Recognising that people thrive when they can truly bring their whole selves to work, Sam and Jay examine the shift that needs to occur in traditional corporate culture and the role people play in their own transformative journey.
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What we cover in this episode
What is Somatic body work and why is it important
The mind/body connection
Bringing your whole self to work
Looking at the stress responses
The integration of the physical, emotional and intellectual to have all of your energy available
The power of the ‘feminine’ skills
The crutches people turn to numb anxiety and relationship stress
Jay’s top three tips for relationships and business
Quotes
“I know for sure, that the most important element in any business habitat as we create it, is you, and your energy. To have any kind of business habitat, family habitat or anything thrive, we really need to be truly living as our true selves, in our business, at home and in our other pursuits and that’s extremely difficult to do in the world that we live in where there’s so much ‘should’ stuff.“ - Sam
“What I knew was, presence, and how presence in your body, shifts how you show up for yourself and other people“ - Jay
“This whole idea that 10 years ago kind of wasn’t out there yet, which was you’re still a person even when you go to work, when you open the door to your office, you’re still you, you still have your family. And now in the pandemic world everybody gets it, but 10 years ago people weren’t really talking about, when you’re stepping into your role as an expert, that you still have feelings, you still have relationships, you still have anxiety and depression“ - Jay
“Because we can’t shift cognitively into a totally new blueprint, we need the body and the nervous system to come along with us in order to actually change behaviour“ - Jay
“Something I say all the time to people is ‘if you could’ve gotten to a fulfilling, rewarding relationship or fulfilling work and life through being smart, you would’ve already gotten there’, ‘coz one thing about my clients is, they are smart. They’re smart people who also happen to have very big emotions and they have been trying to divorce themselves from the physical, emotional piece, in order to come through hard on ‘look how smart I am, look how capable I am’ and it got them really far, but it hasn’t gotten them to fulfilment and happiness, and that’s because they’re not integrated”. - Jay
“We’re shifting from the brain industries and the economies of experts into the relationship heartfelt ones, and this is one of the key skills that needs to be learned and it’s probably one of the toughest ones“ - Sam
Links
Yours Truly - Group Coaching program with Jay
LinkedIn Learning courses:
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