As humans, we have achieved some fairly cool stuff in our time. From technological advances to medical ones. What we do for entertainment to what we can achieve physically. But along the way, the biggest skill we’ve lost? How to process emotions and, by extension, live in connection with ourselves. And what happens when we fail to notice, let alone process these feeling of ours, is that they have a tendency to get stuck and eventually manifest in all sorts of unpleasant ways like: illness, pain, anxiety, depression and panic. All is not lost, though. There are plenty of ways we can overcome this disconnection between our mind and our body.

Many of us are geared toward people-pleasing, pushing our own personal boundaries and ignoring the warning signs our bodies try to send us time after time. It might sound obvious from the outside, but when you’re in the ‘cycle of selflessness’, saying “yes” to everyone and everything around you means saying an emphatic “no” to yourself.