Methods To Help Your Mindset For Spring | WKMG Channel 6 News

 

In this segment on WKMG channel 6 news, Dr. Brooke Stuart, a holistic and functional medicine doctor, talks all about spring, growth, holistic healing and how to shift from a negative to a positive state. For the full segment, you can check out the video above or visit the link here! 

Spring is officially in the air, here, in the northern hemisphere. Across cultures, spring represents creation, vitality, growth, and development. Think green, blooms, enthusiasm, strength, vision, new beginnings and life. It’s the season where less is more- cue spring cleaning, where we have the opportunity to let go of the old and make room for the new. Overall, the conversation revolves around the concept of spring symbolizing growth, new beginnings, and letting go of the old to make room for the new.

Throughout the segment, we discussed how to let go and grow in this seasonal way by diving into the following takeaways:

• Choose growth: through returning to the present moment and setting your future free
• Detox your perspective: by catching what isn’t working and appreciating what is
• Focus on what you can do: clean out your closet, donate clothes you haven’t worn, plant a vegetable, go for a bike ride, walk on the beach
• Open up to what’s possible: optimism in practice, how optimism is practical
• Lighten up: celebrate your your success- big or small, you can be on your own team, cultivate gratitude and grow the good- even if that means uprooting the obstacles

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Full Transcript Here 

Julie: Spring is in the air and across cultures spring represents creation, vitality, growth, and development.

Justin: Yeah. Think green blooms enthusiasm and new beginnings in life. It’s the season where less is more like, you know, spring cleaning, cleaning everything out, get everything nice and orderly. And we have the opportunity to let go of the old and make room for the new.

Kirstin: Oh my gosh. I feel like we just put together a mantra for this Wednesday. We would like to welcome back Dr. Brooke Stewart, now to the News6 at nine desk. You’ve been here with us before and we’re so excited to talk to you about spring and holistic healing. So first, for people who are not familiar, can you talk about holistic medicine?

Brooke: Absolutely. So in my practice, I create personalized treatment plans for my patients and then basically partner with them to make it happen using a combination of holistic counseling and functional medicine where we can address the root cause, but also dive deep into the fundamentals where we’re looking at things like mindset, diet, lifestyle. And obviously growth is a big part of that because that can be such a motivator and such a driver to achieve health, to support those experiences. 

Julie: Yeah. And you talk about letting go of the old to make room for the new, and I think that’s such an important concept because so many people think, oh, I’ll dabble in this until something better comes along, whether it’s a job or a relationship. Why is it important to have trust to let go of things that aren’t working for you?

Brooke: So it’s so important to look at both sides of the equation, right? When we’re looking at letting go, that’s all untapped potential. When something isn’t working in our lives and we are able to uproot it, it’s basically like a whole new space that we can have to bring in new experiences.

But equally, if we’re able to grow and have that driver to move forward, it’s more exciting, it’s more creative. So if we’re able to do both, we can kind of lessen the fallback point and move forward in a way where we’re just moving forward, not doing that whole dance of one step forward, two steps back sort of thing.

Justin: Yeah. Because it seems some people have a hard time letting things go, where people go. And so what would be the best way for you to, if you have advice for them to start that process, what would be the best way where to start? 

Brooke: Absolutely. So I think it’s really important to be able to take a step back and when we are in pain, or if we are contracted, or if we’re moved or feeling powerless or reactive, it’s really important to look at that as material, as kind of clues to what isn’t working in our lives. And just that awareness alone and being able to observe without judging those experiences. That connection versus the division of judgment is that bridge to the other side versus if we’re constantly judging ourselves for the things that aren’t working, we’re creating dividers and it’s very hard to move through a brick wall, you know what I mean?  

Kirstin: Well, and I like that the brick wall and I also like what you said earlier, it’s like you’re not opening a new door and closing the other. You’re just opening it and absolutely, letting everything stay open. One question I have for you is specifics, people are probably at home nodding their heads along. What can we do? What are some activities that can help us? So we can do so many things? 

Brooke: I mean, it’s so much about intention and then focusing in on what we can do and having that commitment. So for example, if the intention is growth, what we can do is if our closet’s a disaster, let’s clean it up. Let’s donate clothes. If we’re feeling like we need to be in nature or outside or disconnected from the environment, maybe we go plant a vegetable. If we feel like we need to move and bring in more flow and kind of break up that stagnation, maybe go for a bike ride, take a walk on the beach, shift into that parasympathetic state. You know, get out of that fight flight or freeze, interrupt the pattern, get present in terms of like really, really noticing where you’re going, where you’re being stuck, returning to the moment, and then just focusing on what you can do and allowing those possibilities to open up.

Julie: And you talk about being on your own team and kinda being your cheerleader.There’s a school of thought that the universe gives you what you deserve or what you believe you deserve. How do you get into that mindset of really believing that you deserve the best and abundance for yourself?

Brooke: Absolutely. I think it’s a lot about how you begin to communicate with your own self and that you begin to really, once again, observe rather than judge you are 24/7 medicine. How you see yourself, how you relate to the world, that is perspective is medicine. 

Think about it this way. If you’re thinking about life is happening completely “to you” versus “for you”, that “to you” mentality is so powerless, it’s so reactive, it creates a complete contracted state versus if it’s “for you”, it’s far more interesting and you can expand into that. So just things like that, being on your own team and really observing versus judging yourself and having the awareness to shift that in the moment is really powerful. 

Justin: And I think it is important to just remind people watching that this is like growing a plant, it takes time and it takes absolutely patience because it’s not something that we can just change overnight. You have to start and just have that image in your head. Little changes here and there. And then over time it really grows into something.

Brooke: Absolutely. It’s all landscape, right? It’s all journey. And the more we come into the reality of that, the more we can actually work within the context of reality and the truth of life, the process.

Justin: Awesome. Awesome.

Brooke: Thank You.

Julie: Wonderful. Thank you so much for being here. We always love talking to you. Thank you so much.   

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