Hello everyone and welcome. I’m Laura Greco and you’re listening to SuperPower Mommas. I am so excited to be here with you today because we are talking about a really cool topic. What is intuitive in the mind-body connection? There’s a lot of talk about mind-body connection. There’s a lot of talk about being intuitive. How does this connect? That’s what Allisa Okrent is going to share with us. She’s a dear friend of mine and she is a vitality coach and an energy management coach, really helping people to transform their lives from the inside out. When I think of my friend Allisa, I think of the mind-body connection all the time because she really knows how to tap into the intuitive part of ourselves, and create peace within. In fact, her mantra is trust, explore, and transform.
Welcome Allisa. I’m so excited you are here.
I am so excited to be here, Laura. This is really fun, I know, because we talk on a regular basis and I consider you equally professional and personal. We have a combination relationship, which always opens my heart, brings a smile and joy to me. And so, it’s a thrill for me to be here as well.
Yes. Yes. Well I’m excited for our audience too, mommas out there, because you are a mommas.
Yes, I am.
And if you would like to expand a little bit more on what you do. I love what you bring to an audience of moms. So you want to elaborate a little bit on that?
Sure. So let me give a little bit of a background in terms of my momship. I am a mother. Our children are now 29 and 32. We have our daughter, Eva, who is now 29, and our son is 32. I’ve had this journey with being a mom before some of these tools that we currently talk about were readily accessible. Most of these I’ve been using my entire life with my kids to graph connection to the body.
When you are looking after these young people in school, it’s a community effort to raise children, and you stepped right up and contribute to that.
Then I’m also principal from a religious school and I have 70 students. But to me, these are all my kids. So I’m a mom in the sense of I have my own family and I also have a mom-type role in many of the professional arenas in which I do what I do. So, those are kind of two hats.
Yeah. I love that. And it is true, isn’t it? When you are looking after these young people in school, it’s a community effort to raise children, and you stepped right up and contribute to that.
Absolutely. Yes.
So tell me Allisa, tell us what your superpower is, your super momma power.
Wow, that’s such a fun question. And I’ve got to say if I was asked even six months ago or certainly several years ago, I would have shied away from this. I would have, I don’t have a superpower. But I believe that one of my greatest strengths is the ability to have compassion for a younger person and I see it in their body. I mean, I recognize the power of me physically calming down and then helping that person in front of me, regardless of age, but children in particular, give them the tools so that they too can calm down.
One of the girls that I’ve worked with more intimately has a number of different… I don’t want to use the word issue, but I would say that the energy within her is more of a roller coaster, and there’s excitement, and there’s diversion of attention. So when I’m with her, I look eye to eye and just start to breathe in my body and give her some guidance. At the moment, we were using hand mudras to use breath with the body, and then I watch this beautiful person come to a much calmer space for themselves, and then be able to express what she wanted to. I would say that that’s pretty powerful. And I am very comfortable reading into what someone is energetically. That’s why I call it energy from the inside out because I’m looking at this vibration. It’s not a look, it’s a feel. I feel it in my body.
It started with myself, but the science behind it is when our mind is racing, then we are not thinking in a calm collective.
Correct.
Whether it’s methodical, logical or just being able to receive information from our deeper self, when the body is agitated, it’s much harder to get to that information. So my tools are what will bring the body into a different state so that anybody can hear what’s happening. Like what is the message that the body is trying to share?
That’s beautiful. That is beautiful. And in today’s world, honestly, there are so many stimuli out there now and moms are finding it is a challenge for themselves, let alone for their children. We see a lot of diagnosis out there for over activity in the children, the inability to focus. And not to say anything about the diagnosis, but this is a challenge for moms when they view it as something of a detriment rather than it’s just something that okay, well let’s learn to work around or through this, and create a practice that can assist. The stress shuts us down, doesn’t it?
My joy is to see something from a new perspective.
Absolutely. Not only does it stretch up and down, it’s also inappropriate in my opinion, to point fingers out like as if there’s something wrong with that child or with the situation. It happens to be what it is and if we are not willing to be aware first and then acceptance of okay. This is the circumstance, what are some things I might not be looking at when I come to things. And I’ll see things from a different perspective. That’s likely the other half of the intuitive superpower. My joy is to see something from a new perspective. And I have no difficulty asking children specifically to take their technology and put it on the other side of the room, like being separated from the technology. I think that we do a disservice to our children, students, all ages, and zero to teenagers.
Yes, they have a device which I know there’s some wonderful things that occur with that device, but you have to remember there’s energy in that device. It operates with vibration as well, and that is going to stimulate the physical body. So the closer it is to the body, there’s going to be the sense of stimulation in addition to the psychological, I want to say addiction, which is a strong term, I recognize, to having the tool right.
If you are not able to put the phone down or not check messages, that’s an indication that there’s too much of it. So many kids have what they don’t. When I grew up, you left school, school left you behind, you head home. And I know that that’s not the world today. Children don’t have what you and I call the sacred space, quiet space or sanctuary space, without it being created by someone or some things.
Yeah. And so you’ve really touched on what my next question would be. I just want to highlight that because we’re talking on the topic of what is intuitive in the mind-body connection. And you’re talking about your super power being compassion and being able to look at a situation, and really assist a child or a person to breathe into that situation and create some space for tuning in basically.
Yep.
And so that’s really the how, right? Like you just know how to command the situation. Before we go to a break, I just want to slip this in. What kind of tools do you use? I’ve heard you mentioned mantras. Go ahead and just share those other things. And then we’ll go for a break, we’re going to go deep dive in to this one more time.
Great. So the key there, well, two main tools. One is breathing, belly breath, using hand movements with breath, and the other is gentle body movement. Then the combination of the two. Those are the most powerful tools in my opinion. And then the mantras, which are ways of helping our mind focus on a particular thought or desired. I don’t want to say outcome because that might happen. And we are told, the more you say a mantra then the more it works. But, I don’t know that that’s really true as a standalone, it’s a combination of things. So we can talk about mantras on the other side of the break. But definitely breath and body posture are two key, very important, simple tools that anybody can tap into, and intuitive that’s the way it’s done, so.
Beautiful. So what is intuitive in the mind-body connection? We’re speaking today with Allisa. And where can people find you before we go on?
My website is allisaokrent.com and my email is [email protected].
Okay, Allisa, tying on to your last name reaction, Okrent.
Oh, you say it fine.
Thank you so much. So everyone, stay tuned because we are going to deep dive into some of these tools that Allisa uses to assist in helping us to understand what is intuitive about the mind-body connection. So we’ll be right back.
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