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Why You Feel Frustrated In Spring · The MODERN YIN Podcast

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  Hello and welcome to another episode of the Modern Yin
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  Podcast. I'm Kimberly Roberts of Soulful
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  Yin, and today I want to talk about why you might be more
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  frustrated in the spring. So lately I've been noticing a
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  pattern with a lot of women I work with, both in my
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  reflexology business and online in my yin yoga classes.
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  Lot more irritability, there's a lot more impatience, more
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  tension being held in the body, and it's like nothing dramatic.
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  It's just a shorter fuse, a slightly tighter jaw, a nervous
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  system that feels just a little less forgiving and a lot more
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  bracing. And to be honest with you, at
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  this time of year, as spring rolls around, that is not
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  random. Now let's make the connection of
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  why the spring and why the frustration.
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  It all has to do with traditional Chinese medicine and
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  the liver. So stick around and listen.
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  Grab yourself like maybe your favorite bevy, sit on the couch,
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  grab a blanket, and let's talk about traditional Chinese
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  medicine AKATCM. So in TCM, the springtime is
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  connected to the liver system. It's considered the wood element
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  season in TCM, and the emotion that's associated with the liver
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  is frustration, irritation, anger, resentment.
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  But it's not explosive anger. It's the more like that
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  underlying irritation, the impatience that you just, you
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  know, snap just a little bit too quick.
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  It's also that feeling of being stuck and that sense that you
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  know what things are just not moving the way you want them to.
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  And you see, the liver loves flow.
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  That's what it wants. It doesn't want resistance.
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  It wants energy flowing harmoniously, continuously, and
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  effortlessly. That's basically the liver's
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  role is to keep energy moving smoothly.
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  So think of that energy like water moving through a garden
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  hose. If there's a bunch of kinks in
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  it, AKA there's your impatience, your irritation, your
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  frustration, all of a sudden the water doesn't flow so well.
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  So when that flow gets stuck, again, just think of a garden
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  hose with a kink in it. The water doesn't flow.
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  So we also feel that. We feel it emotionally,
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  physically, mentally, and after a long winter, and I don't know
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  about you, but here where I live, we've had a really long
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  haul of a winter. But when you've had a long haul
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  of a winter and you've been holding things together, it's
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  really common for that kind of stock stagnation energy to start
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  showing up in the spring. So let's talk about how does it
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  show up? So you might notice it like a
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  tighter jaw, your shoulders that just kind of feel heavy or
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  tense. You've got digestion discomfort,
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  mood swings that just feel a little kind of like out of
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  character. Or you just kind of have a low
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  grade frustration that just seems to come out of nowhere.
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  And you're like, I can't pinpoint why, but I just feel
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  this way. And most of us try to just
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  manage it mentally. We tell ourselves, oh, you know
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  what? I'm a little in pain.
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  Let me be patient. Let me calm down.
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  Let me just push through it. But that's just not mental.
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  That stuck energy that you have, it's physiological.
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  Your body is holding energy that wants to literally move.
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  It's like you've got the kink in the garden hose and you're
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  holding onto it, but you don't want to get the kink out.
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  So then the water doesn't flow. This is exactly what's happening
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  to us. And then it creates resistance,
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  and the resistance is not your liver's friend.
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  So if we spin this from a modern Knian perspective, this is where
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  modern yen and its approach is very different.
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  We don't try to force the emotion away, we createspace
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  instead for the body to release it through stillness, through
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  breath, through gentle, consistent practices that help
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  your nervous system soften, even if that's like 5 minutes a day.
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  Because when your body starts to soften, your energy starts to
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  move again. Again, just keep coming back to
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  that garden hose analogy. And when the energy starts to
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  move, frustration naturally begins to dissipate.
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  It even happens like say, do you go to the gym and you move your
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  body? You feel stuck before and then
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  afterwards you're like, oh, I feel so much better because I
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  moved again. It's like it's energy or the
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  body is always moving energy through or it's trying to.
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  OK, so when spring comes and the irritation starts to brew and
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  this is when this is the time of expansion and growth, we want to
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  move into that energy. And this is exactly why I
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  created the Seven Day Spring Liver Reset inside the Soulful
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  Yin Yoga app. It is seriously simple.
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  It's seven days of yen yoga, breath work, acupressure, and
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  it's specifically geared for this time of year.
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  There's also ATCM master class that talks all about the liver,
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  about emotions, about energy. And it's also, this program is
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  to help the body release bent up frustration, built up
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  frustration and irritation and to basically reset your nervous
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  system. It's not intense because we
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  don't want intense when it comes time to deliver, but it's
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  consistent supportive practices. You get lifetime access to this
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  and all the future updates. So every year I run this program
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  and I keep refining it and it gets better.
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  So if you're feeling more irritable, if you're feeling
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  more tense or just a little stuck, this is a really
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  beautiful time to support your body and your nervous system
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  differently. The reset starts March 20th, and
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  you're welcome to join us. No pressure.
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  I want to leave you with this. Frustration isn't something to
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  fix because you know what? You're not broken if you're
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  frustrated. We have human experiences and we
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  have emotions. We're just meant to move through
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  them. And it's often, you know what,
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  when you feel stuck, it's just your body asking, can we please
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  move and release something? Can we Createspace?
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  Can we find the release? And sometimes the most powerful
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  way to create that is through stillness.
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  This is what I call modern yen, where stillness does the real
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  work. So thank you so much for
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  pressing play on today's episode.
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  I'll see you in the next one. Have an awesome rest of your
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  day, yeah?