The Brain Gut Connection
Do you think that how you think and feel about yourself can affect our gut?
I truly believe this, and studies are now coming out that the way we feel about ourselves manifest into our gut health. This is down to the brain gut connection also known as the brain gut axis. Your brain and gut are linked through the largest nerve in the body called the vagus nerve.
Did you know that the first cell formed in the embryo is the brain and colon, they then separate but stay connected by the vagus nerve. Hence why you get that butterfly feeling when you are excited or nervous.
If you are struggling with confidence, low self-belief and self-loathing, you will be sending signals down to your gut microbiome that you were not happy. This constant worry and stress can create a hostile environment for your gut causing you to have on going gut health issues.
I want you to become your very own cheer leader. From this day on you will start to incorporate some simple but effect self-confidence exercises to help boost your mood and sense of self worth. You truly deserve to feel happy and feel about who you are.
But honesty is always the best policy…… so here goes. You are going to hate it…. When you first start doing some of these exercises its going to feel really hard, when you first start them you’re not going to believe them. They will make you feel uncomfortable. As cheesy as this sounds “magic happens outside of your comfort zone”
Your subconscious is a powerful thing and is going to tell you that you are not worthy of feeling good, it will tell you to not bother working on yourself and to stay just how you are. I know, she is a right piece of work (your subconscious that is) not you….. you we love.
The way we overcome this is practice, practice, practice. The more you repeat these exercises the easier they will become. The more you do it the more you will feel it and believe it. Nothing good comes easy, so put the time in, if you can dedicate some time to changing the way that your brain thinks about you, I cannot explain how much better you will feel.
3 CONFIDENT BOOSTING EXERCISES
Do these every single day even when you really don’t feel like it.
- Write 3 things you like about yourself
- Write a gratitude list
- Create 3 positive mantra and repeat them as often as you remember. Check out the “how to write positive mantra blog”
- Stand like superman – every day look in the mirror with your hands on your hips, chest and head up, take a big deep breath and repeat in your head or out loud.
- I am amazing.
- Good things happen to me
- I love who I am
If you want to learn more about this and really under how you can truly change how you think about yourself, I would highly recommend these 2 books