If you've hung out in yoga circles and meditation centers of any type, I'm sure you've experienced

the smile or die personality. This is the person when you walk in the room who forces a

smile. You're not sure if they'll laugh or if they'll cry. They give you a hug that's a little

too strong and even though on the outside they might look happy in air quotes very

clearly you can see that they're suffering on the inside and this tendency to

cover up pain with smiles to cover up tragedy with laughter is really

rampant in mind-body health circles and it's really destructive. In fact there's

research to show that it can actually have the opposite effect. This overriding of your

true feelings can actually bounce back and make you less happy. On this week's show we'll

talk about emotional agility in my career I've spent almost every waking moment looking at

physical health and wellness something I struggled with something I've been

interested in so movement and food and diet nutrition sleep and all these kinds of

things and for many years I really overlooked

emotional health and emotional health is so much more important. How you feel is

so much more important than how you look, how you feel is so much more important

than what you have. How you feel is really everything and so if you wake up in the morning and you have

nothing but you feel awesome and you're optimistic and you're light and

supported and loved and it's really great and I don't think that I've thought about it enough and I wonder if you have

hopefully you get some good insights on this week's show your questions comments feedback

always most welcome email me podcast at yoga body

dot com enjoy the show

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