How Movement Can Help You Find Yourself — Taryn Toomey, The Class
New Happy Hero Taryn Toomey is the founder of The Class, a transformative workout for your body and your mind. Buried beneath the layers of societal conditioning, limiting mindsets, and unprocessed pain is your true self. Meeting that authentic self is essential for living a life of happiness and fulfillment. Taryn teaches us how to find our home within ourselves through the power of intentional movement, and how when we do, we are more equipped to be our best, compassionate selves for the world around us. In this episode, we talk about Taryn's journey of discovering her New Happy and creating The Class, coping with our challenging emotions and discomfort, balancing the flow of going inward and sharing outward, and embodying authenticity and integrity in your work and your life.
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Key Takeaways
Moving our bodies is a way to process our emotions, shift thought patterns, shake up our mindsets about discomfort, and connect with our authentic selves. This practice becomes even more important in this challenging time we’re all facing with the current pandemic, where there are even more stressors to face and deal with than before.
When we feel stressed, our internal energy builds up rapidly, which in the past was used to help us either fight off or flee from an enemy. In our modern world, we’re being stressed out hundreds of times a day, and we don’t have a use for that energy. Scientists believe that this energy has to be ‘ventilated out’ through exercise and movement. When you are feeling stressed, to ventilate that energy through a minute of jumping jacks, shadow boxing, or going on a quick walk. To go deeper and learn how to use the power of movement to its fullest extent, I highly recommend trying out The Class’ online offerings, which are streamed live multiple times a day.
Taryn shows us what it looks like to discover and live your New Happy, and there are a few really helpful tips in here.
We can’t copy someone else’s playbook: each of us have our own special gifts and experiences that can benefit the world, and trying to copy someone else’s is just going to lead us away from it.
Her story also helps us to dispel the myth that when you discover your purpose, there’s a clear roadmap laid out in front of you: as she says, she simply followed the steps as they were laid out in front of her. Discovering your New Happy is more about listening to the tiny hints laid before you and trusting that the path will continue to unfold as you walk down it.
Third, Taryn teaches us to navigate the ups and downs, the ebbs and flows, the knowing and the not knowing, of human life. Some days, we will discover that we need to go inward and take care of ourselves; other days, we are renewed and able to be there to help out others. As she teaches us, it becomes easier to ride these waves when we are practiced with tuning into ourselves and to our needs. One very simple and powerful way to do this is to take a few minutes each morning to check in with yourself and ask, “What do I need today?”
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