MindBody Consulting was created to allow a shift in our approach to the health and wellness industry.
“There was a time when the only way man could get light was through burning kerosene, so everyone worked to create the latest greatest way to burn kerosene. Until the day they harnessed electricity.”
The global wellness economy was a $4.2 trillion market in 2017, and more and more services are being offered as we speak. The drive for self care is stronger than ever, and the number of options to get you there are overwhelming.
Should you change your diet, your mind, your job, your morning routine, your hair….!? Should you try yoga, or join a gym? Maybe all of them?
The simple act of not knowing where to start can be enough to make you wanna give up. Which only makes you feel worse, because you know you really should be doing something about it.
I know this frustration. I’ve felt it myself, and I see it walk through my door everyday.
I read an article recently from The New York Times, and I’m so grateful this woman had the ovaries to say what I’ve been feeling for years. It’s called “Smash the Wellness Industry” , and I recommend giving it a read.
The wellness industry has developed this nasty little habit of speaking to your fears in order to get your attention. It’s not their fault, it’s a really good marketing angle and it works!
Once they’ve grabbed your attention, they reassure you that they’ve figured out the “right” way to accomplish (fill in the blank), and present it to you in a beautiful little package. I know this because I’ve been one of those people.
Now let me be clear! I absolutely adore and appreciate all of the amazing, blazing, kick ass people out there bringing us new ways of being and would highly recommend a bunch of them, but there’s something very important to consider before you entertain any one of us.
Who’s eye’s are you looking through right now?
Most of the time we adapt to the way people around us see the world. In their best attempts to protect us from danger, our parental figures accidentally take our ability to sense our own way by imposing theirs.
As much as we’d like, we aren’t born with an operator’s manual. Let’s be honest, nobody really knows what they’re doing and we’ve basically survived generations of the blind leading the blind.
We weren’t really taught how to live in our bodies, let alone how to leverage their inner genius. Quite the opposite in fact. We were taught to suck it up, and suppress our feelings. We were taught to ignore ourselves, and even worse to fear our own bodies.
If I could’ve, I would have loved to hear something along these lines…
“Welcome to your new body, I’m excited to watch you discover the world around you because I know that you came with your very own inner genius. I’ll be here to guide you but I will never do for you what you can do for yourself.
You were born with the gift of focus, and you have the free will to shift your focus in any direction you choose. This is important because your focus matters a great deal. When you focus you move energy through you. and towards the thing you’re focusing on.
Everything you focus on you include in your energetic signature, and the longer and more persistently you focus the more it becomes a part of you and your life. Pay attention to your emotions because they will always indicate the quality of energy moving through you.
If your focus is in a direction you prefer you’ll feel it. It feels like home, it feels like love and it feels like joy. If you’re focusing in a direction you don’t want to experience, it feels like fear, pain and loneliness. Not because it’s bad or good, but because it’s nice to know what you’re currently investing in.
Our world is filled with endless things for you to give your focus to and you may choose whatever you please. My only hope is that you remember this choice is yours and you always make your relationship with you a top priority.
There’s no one way, there’s only your way. Allow this for others as well. Your perspective matters more than you know and I trust you to share it with the world.
No one has the power to take this from you, you must be willing give it away.
Remember this always, trust your inner guidance and discover what you and the world have in store for each other. There is great love here for you.”
If we understood this from a small child we would’ve been very deliberate about what we focused on, but we weren’t and instead we randomly focused in so many directions we lost track.
Now we’re experiencing the result of this. So many random things are happening in the world we can’t hardly make sense of it all. Millions of people are suffering from chronic pain that’s being grossly mistreated. We have so many dis-eases and pathology’s they can’t print books fast enough to contain them all.
It’s time to stop the insanity!
Health and well-being are symptoms of connected communication & illness and dis-ease are symptoms of disconnected misunderstandings.
We can spend our time and energy putting our the brush fires, or we can harness the electricity that started them.
It’s my place as a MindBody consultant to work with your inner genius and sort through the chaos bringing clarity and focus in a unified direction of preference.
When all of your cells an systems are working in harmony to support you, health and well being are easily accomplished.
We were wired by other people. Our very experience of life right now was decided for us, and nothing is more frustrating than having your life decided for you.
The freedom of expression is the most sought after freedom. Not because we’re ungrateful for all that seeks to keep us safe, but because we’re freedom seekers in a world that seeks to make us the same.
MindBody Consulting offers expert advice from the perspective of your inner genius. The part of you that knows you best.
There’s a level of you that is so complex you wouldn’t even want to be bothered with the details. That’s what your inner genius is for. It’s been with you your whole life and knows exactly how you’re wired.
So often we get swept up in the next best self help system only to be disappointed again. Not because they don’t have amazing things to share, but because we’re coming from a place of disconnection. We’re lost and scared and they suck us in like moths to a flame. I’ve been there too.
I’m not by any means telling you to avoid anything. I am however advising you to seek the advice of your own inner genius above any one else, it will never steer you wrong. If you think it ever did, it wasn’t your inner genius you were listening to.
MindBody Consulting offers a bridge between you and your inner genius. It’s a practice of integrating with the skills you were born with and utilizing them in a way that will lead you to your next retreat, or morning routine. Not because you need to release your deep dark blocks but because you want to explore your ability to create.
I remember when I started my journey I heard a little voice in my head that said “I’m so happy you’re back, I’ve missed you.” It brought a tear to my eye and a sense of peace I hadn’t felt in a very long time.
This is my hope for you, to have that feeling of coming home. To be so comfortable and confident in your own skin that you don’t need a wellness industry to save you, you need a wellness industry that allows you to celebrate YOU.
It’s my mission to shift health care from something that seeks to fix what’s wrong, to one that honors the innate intelligence that you are.
Quite frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn what you do with your life, because I trust that you are intelligent enough to make your own decisions. It is however my intention to set you free from the imposition of others.
You’re a bad ass, and I’m excited to see what you and the world have in store for each other.
xo- Jayme Kay
Jayme Gunderson LMT 