Fascia: The Missing Puzzle Piece for Perfectionists

[00:00:00] Perfectionism is the missing piece for perfectionists. It's how we run energy and emotions through our bodies, and it's where we feel our sensations, instincts, and intuition. It is literally how your mind speaks to your person and how your person speaks to your mind.

[00:00:21] If you are ready to burn bright instead of burning out, to lead without losing yourself, and to enjoy the life you have worked so hard to create, then keep listening. I'm your host America's leader on rewiring perfectionism, CLG, and this is Perfectionism Rewired, the

[00:00:41] podcast. Welcome to Perfectionism Rewired. I have found your missing puzzle piece as a perfectionist. I am thrilled, if you couldn't already tell, to be introducing you to the most pivotal inner technology that you have never heard of until now. What is it?

[00:01:03] I'm going to tell you at the end of this episode. Just kidding, homie, don't play that. What is it? Fascia. You don't even need to know how to spell it because this episode is going to give you

[00:01:14] everything you need to know. This is like what Wikipedia won't tell you. If you're not interested in fascia, keep listening because trust, you will be obsessed by the end of this episode, especially if you want to have more energy. If you want to experience more mental clarity

[00:01:35] and to be more decisive. If you want to stand taller and have more confidence, especially if you want to get healthier, if you want to feel more vital, if you want to feel more at ease, present and feel more connected to who you really are. Also,

[00:01:55] you especially want to listen to this entire episode if you want to increase your capacity, if you want to put down some of those bricks that you've been carrying around and feel like you're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. If you want to release old,

[00:02:13] maybe inherited generational belief patterns that you feel you just can't shake, you definitely want to make sure that you listen to this entire episode. If you want to be more resilient, if you are tired of hanging out in your head all the time

[00:02:31] with all the ruminating, the catastrophizing, the overthinking, the saying, sure, I'll do it, and then later totally being pissed at yourself and being super resentful, you for sure want to listen to this episode. This episode, it's like lifting up the hood of a

[00:02:50] Ferrari to see an engine, except the Ferrari is you and what you're going to find is an engine that doesn't work at all like you thought it did. So let's get into it.

[00:03:00] What is fascia and why does this matter most for type A high achieving folks like you and me who tend to be calm on the outside, but anxious AF on the inside? I'm not going to give you,

[00:03:14] like technically there are four different kinds of fascia that live inside of us. I could tell you what it's made of and all of that jazz, but that isn't actually going

[00:03:22] to change anything for us. That's not going to give us any sort of context to do with the amazing content that our fascia holds. So instead, the way that we're going to approach

[00:03:36] this episode and the fascinating episodes to come is we're going to be looking at why fascia makes a profound difference in our daily lives. And that starts with understanding what fascia is. So where can I find fascia? Fascia wraps around and inside our whole body,

[00:03:59] like a Spiderman suit. It is a highly adaptive web that surrounds all of the structures inside your body, including your bones, your nerves, your vessels. It's been there all along and the entire time it has been speaking to you in a secret language that happens

[00:04:22] in your subconscious. Only in the past five years have scientists actually been able to see fascia inside a living human body. Now what we know is that fascia isn't just this thing that's like underneath our skin and on top of our muscles. Fascia is the largest sensory

[00:04:43] organ in your body. It contains 250 million nerve endings. That's more nerve endings than your eyes or any other part of your person. So now that we know that fascia is this really awesome system that everything in our body is encased in, but fascia is actually sending

[00:05:05] and receiving information. Yes, fascia is a communication network. So think about it. It would be like if we found out that we had like all these roads. Oh wait, but the roads are talking to each other. People got so excited when they found out

[00:05:20] that there were like mushrooms that had communication networks underground. Well, guess what? Mushrooms aren't the only one. Fascia is an information super highway. This is the communication network that your brain relies on to run operations efficiently. What is fascia

[00:05:35] sending? What is it communicating? Sound, vibration, frequency, nutrients, and guess what? It's fast folks. Fascia moves at the speed of light. So what does this actually look like inside my person? Fascia is how your brain talks to your gut. It's how your gut talks to your

[00:05:54] thigh. It's how your thigh talks to your brain. It's how your heart talks to your brain. It's how your heart talks to your bladder. Fascia is how we get the chills, goosebumps. It's when we get

[00:06:07] butterflies in our stomach or a frog in our throat. When we just have this pull towards something where we're like, I know that CLG is the coach for me. A great analogy to remember fascia

[00:06:19] is what skin is to touch. Fascia is to feeling. Your fascia is this information super highway, the wifi of our person. It's your internet and it is sending light, heat, vibration, frequency. And what else is it doing? Oh, well, I mean like it's not busy enough.

[00:06:43] Always the overachiever. Fascia is also helping aid your lymphatic system to flush toxins out of your body along with metabolizing that stress. And just when you thought fascia couldn't get any cooler, guess what? It can because fascia holds and imprints memories and emotions.

[00:07:06] Fascia remembers everything. It is able to communicate at the speed of light. What's so cool to think about is that right now your fascia are talking to each other at the speed of light, like your toes have communicated with your mouth. They've already communicated

[00:07:21] before that is even registered in your brain. Fascia communicates with us through sensation, but this is the linchpin for us perfectionistic people. You want to get your pen and notebook for this one. Fascia communicates with us through sensation. If you don't understand

[00:07:37] those sensations, your fascia is communicating to you. Or if you choose to ignore them by pushing through white knuckling it being like, I'll deal with that later. That adds more stress. Anytime we have stress that doesn't get metabolized, which if you're wondering what

[00:07:57] that is, link in the show notes to a podcast episode that gives you the 411 all about that. Anytime that your stress doesn't get metabolized, it gets stored internally. Where does it get stored? In your sensory organ, the fascia. See how that's full circle? Your fascia is trying

[00:08:14] to communicate with you. If you're not understanding it or you're choosing not to listen to it, you're adding more stress. And where does that stress go when it doesn't get metabolized internally and gets stored into your fascia? Your fascia is trying to tell you

[00:08:27] something. You're like, talk to the hand. Then things start to get congested. Stress goes back into our fascia and it obstructs your cells ability to communicate with your brain. So this is why you misinterpret situations or this is a fun game to play with yourself.

[00:08:45] Ask yourself, how do you know that you're stressed? I'm talking about your body, body sensations. Okay? And then also ask yourself the same question for how do you feel when you're excited? How do you feel when you're anxious? How do you feel when you're frustrated?

[00:08:58] What you will find if you just purely look at the sensation list, it's all the same. And so it's like, wait, have I actually been accurately decoding this or there are signals

[00:09:07] that I'm missing? It's a really fun game that you can play with yourself. And it's the first game that we play together when you are a perfectionism optimized one-on-one client. This is just why I am so pumped and excited about fascia. It is the missing piece for

[00:09:24] perfectionists with over 250 million sensory receptors. It's how we run energy and emotions through our bodies. And it's where we feel our sensations, instincts, and intuition. It is literally how your mind speaks to your person and how your person speaks to your mind.

[00:09:44] It's not just about feeling better. It's really about getting better at actually feeling. And when you do this, what Clients Inside of Perfectionism optimized, my private one-on-one coaching experience is that this is actually fun. When you enhance

[00:10:00] your connection to your fascia, which I have developed tools for you to do so, the amount of miracles that can start to happen in your life is profound. I'm talking about lifelong eczema, these lifelong malalogists go away. And what's so cool

[00:10:23] about fascia is that this can happen within minutes because it is highly, highly malleable. Fascia is the internet of your insides always sending and receiving information. When you upgrade your internet from dial-up, remember those days back in the days of AIM to Wi-Fi,

[00:10:45] guess what happens? You get younger, you get healthier, you feel more vital, you feel more at ease and you feel more connected to who you really are. If you want all the above, I want to get on this, go to CourtneyLoveGavin.com slash contact.

[00:11:01] As we continue to explore this amazing, incredible system known as our fascia. In the next episode, we are going to dig into the connection between interoception, your emotions and fascia, the nexus of that.

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