TwoSistas and today we welcomed Tsao Lin Moy on this WealthWellnessWednesday! Tsao is an Alternative and Chinese Medicine expert with over 20 years of experience in alternative and Chinese medicine. A licensed acupuncturist and herbalist, Tsao founded Integrative Healing Arts in NYC where she offers acupuncture, herbal medicine and energy healing to treat patients.
Today’s conversation centered around the issues that many Americans are suffering such as stress, anxiety, immunity and sleep. We all want to live a long, better life and for some reason, we are not making the mind, body and connection - in other words, listening and queuing into what our body is trying to communicate to us. It’s about the connection.
Connection to our bodies is vitally important. When we make that “connection”, it will make a difference on how we create and cultivate our habits. For instance, we gravitate toward and focus on the symptom and not the root cause. For those suffering from sleep issues, we wake up feeling groggy and maybe in a bad mood. We tend to reach for the cup of Java maybe a little too much while not acknowledging that the cause of how we feel when we wake up is related to how we slept and how we created our night time sleep hygiene. (Janis shared her issues with sleep this past year.) Our nervous system needs to be calmed. (You can’t calm your nervous system when your mind goes into overload mode of your day’s events.)
Tsao shared that if we are having sleep issues, it means that our Yin / Yan is out of balance. When our Yin / Yan is out of balance our bodies have a difficult time creating Melatonin (the hormone of darkness); therefore, our nervous system does not have a chance to reset.
Tsao also shared a suggestion to calm the nervous system: the 4 / 7 / 8 method. You take 4 breaths through the nose for 4 seconds; hold the breath for a count of 7 seconds; exhale forcefully through the mouth for 8 seconds. (Janis has often practiced this method!)
This was such an amazing conversation Tsao and we can’t thank her enough for being on today’s podcast! To connect with Tsao further, please check out her website and connect further on her Instagram account and click on the link in her bio for her other social media platforms:
https://www.integrativehealingarts.com
https://www.instagram.com/integrativehealingartsnyc/
Let us know what you thought of today’s episode. Do you have sleep, stress, anxiety, or immunity issues? How have you dealth with those issues? What are some habits that you have established to assist you? Please go to our website and leave us a voice message:
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TwoSistas and it’s FantabulousFriday!! A whirlwind kind of week with traveling and physical therapy. A quick catch up in our newest segment “in case you missed it” and why turning off those news alerts is a good thing!
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TwoSistas and it’s TriumphTuesday @ Night, July 12, 2022 in the USA and WealthWellnessWednesday in Australia with Kate Boyle! Kate is a qualified Nutritionist and Food Scientist (BHSc.) Kate has worked within the health and nutrition field for more than 18 years and is passionate about helping women move well, eliminate pain, live a balanced life and make being healthy EASY. She is very passionate about holistic health and great movement. Kate owns and operates Mind and Movement Pilates, a Pilates and wellness studio in Melbourne, Australia.
Having been an elite level dancer she gravitated to a career in health due to her love of movement and wanting to get a better understanding of nutrition to improve overall health and performance. (She has extensive training and qualifications in Pilates and various other movement modalities including the Gyrotonic Expansion System© and Classical Ballet.)
To say that she is passionate is an understatement! It’s all about balancing a lifestyle of new ...
TwoSistas and it’s MindsetMonday!! Are you worth it? Hell yes you are!! Part of the process of mindset is aligning or in most cases, realigning our focus. Our perception is often meant from being pulled in too many directions - some of it on our own; some if not. How do we begin a healthy mindset practice? Basically, one step at a time! (Ok, yea this is great but I honestly don’t have time to take care of myself!)
We have been faced with this question ourselves and it’s taken us a long time to come up with what specifically works for us. The best of practices is just to #1 start. Look at your day, realistically and honestly. For instance, are you guilty of waking up and scrolling your social media and therefore run out of time and are running around like a maniac trying to get ready? We are guilty of this as well until we realize the “magic” of setting up ourselves for success!
Simple starting tips - (be totally honest with yourself when doing this exercise):
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