Hi, welcome back. I'm Havala and this is Havala's podcast. And today we are tackling the mind-body hack,

what it looks like to unlock your brain's full potential. This is part of a whole series called

Intentional Living. So if you like it, go back and listen to a couple of them. But we're going to

jump in today

and talk about why it matters that we understand the dynamic of both our mind and our body

and how they work together. Let me ask you a question. What if the secret to a sharper mind

and better decision making lies in the way you treat your body. Well, I believe that that's

has tons of evidence. It's very true. And it's really important that we understand this. So first,

we want to understand the loop, the idea of the mind-body exchange and why that matters. So what I mean by that is we want to kind of

unpack the idea that there's this constant interplay between your mind and your body,

and they each influence each other. Now, some of this content that you're going to hear today,

I'm taking from one of my favorite books called How to Have a Good

Day by Dr. Carolyn Webb. Now, you can go back and find that. I think she's just Carolyn Webb. I

always call a doctor, but she's not. Carolyn Webb, and you can find that book, but some of these

things that she's talking about I'm mentioning. And one of those is this idea of the mind-body loop.

And so really what she kind of unpacks and what I love about intentional living is to understand

that there's this constant interplay that you can't separate your mind and your body, that

they interact together.

They affect each other.

And instead of resisting that, like, I'm going to divorce my body and I'm just going to work

on my mind and my

inner, you know, being and relational and be offended that my body is reacting, or work really

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