Nick Houpt: 0:02

Welcome back to the Life Well Balanced podcast, where we explore what it really means to live in harmony, mind, body, and soul. In this episode, we sit down with Linda Smiley, founder of Life Force Healing, for an eye-opening conversation about emotional wellness, energy work, and reconnecting with ourselves on a deeper level. Linda shares how her own health struggles led her from corporate sales into the world of body coding, emotion coding, and human design. Modalities that help people release stuck emotions and rebalance their lives from the inside out. In this episode, we cover how suppressed emotions can manifest as physical pain and how releasing them can change everything. Why everything is energy, and how understanding your body's unique signals can guide healing and balance. Discovering your energetic blueprint and learning to make decisions aligned with your body, not your busy mind. What really happens when you let go from tears to tiredness and why it's a sign of true healing. How slowing down, reconnecting with joy, and allowing yourself space to breathe can be the greatest act of self-care. It's a grounded, deeply human conversation about what it means to feel your emotions instead of fighting them, and to live a life that's not just productive, but truly well balanced. So take a breath, open your heart, and settle in. This is the Life Well Balance Podcast with Linda Smiley and me, your host, Nick Haup. This episode of the Life Well Balance Podcast is brought to you by Life Force Healing. If you've ever felt like your body is carrying stress, tension, or old patterns you just can't shake, body coating is a gentle, powerful process that helps identify and release trapped energy, restoring balance to your mind, body, and spirit. Life Force Healing is here to guide you toward realignment, resilience, and renewal. Because when your energy flows freely, you live freely. Learn more at lfhealing.com. We're also sponsored by IV LuxInfusion, a luxury mobile IV hydration service that brings wellness straight to your doorstep. Whether you're recovering from a long weekend, preparing for peak performance, or just need a boost, their licensed medical professionals deliver hydration and nutrients tailored to your body's needs. Think of it as a premium self-care administered safely and comfortably wherever you are. IV Luxinfusion, wellness redefined. Book your session today at IVLuxinfusion.com. And don't forget to use the promo code LIFEWELLBANC. Linda Smiley. I'm very happy to have you on the podcast on the Life Well Balanced Podcast. It's good to see you.

Linda Smiley: 3:28

Thank you. Yes, it's very good to see you. I'm very happy that you're having me as well. So thank you.

Nick Houpt: 3:33

It took a little bit, but we got you here. We had some stuff going on with the studio and everything, but we're all reset and we brought you in here. And I love the name Smiley because when I first met you, I walked in, you gave me a hug, you were smiling, and you just had this great energy. So your name fits you perfectly. It's almost like it was meant to be.

Linda Smiley: 3:51

Thank you. I get that a lot. I'm always told I can never change my last name.

Nick Houpt: 3:55

Yeah, right. That's great. It's good to see you. And I want to start by acknowledging you for the person you are, because like I said, you were very warm when we first met and we were connected through mutual friends and everything. And then you openly helped me with some stuff with my little girl with your energy healing and cleansing and different things of that nature, and we'll get into that. But I just want to acknowledge you for the giving heart that you have and the amazing energy that you bring into every room that you walk in?

Linda Smiley: 4:29

Thank you.

Nick Houpt: 4:30

So let's jump in here. When we start, we do who, what, and why, and it's a very big question, but we do it on purpose. So, who has inspired you to step into who you are today? What different experiences have you gone through that brought you to this point in your life? And why do you do what you do?

Linda Smiley: 4:56

Yeah, that's a big question for me, I think. Really, how I got into doing what I was doing is my own healing journey and just navigating some health issues that I had and not really knowing, not getting the answers, I guess, that I was looking for. I was having some like stomach issues, and it just was very uncomfortable. And of course, at the time, I was working a very high-pressure sales job in corporate America as well. So when I started going down the path of the traditional medical route and going and getting tests done and trying to figure out is this my gallbladder, is this my appendix? What is this? And nothing was coming up. Everyone was just telling me that I was completely fine. I'm young, I'm healthy, just go about your day, but I did not feel fine. So I actually got in a connection with a chiropractor. Her name is Dr. Dana Goss. And after sitting down with her, she acts like a functional medicine doctor as well. And she really sits down and goes through your history and really makes you feel heard. So working with her and the different techniques that she was using along with that chiropractic, I was seeing a lot of the changes. So I started asking questions of what she was doing because she was using the kinesiology. She was doing the muscle testing. It was a technique called NET, which is neuroemotional technique. And I had never experienced anything even to the fact that when she would even go to adjust me, she would know exactly like where my body needed adjusted. And it was because she was doing the muscle testing. So I was asking questions like, how can I learn how to do this with releasing some of like with the neuroemotional technique, she was releasing some of the emotional energies. It could be anything from your stressful job, which I was going through, I gone through a divorce, all of kind of that weighing down on me. Just bought a new house, the pressure of finances and just everyday life. So when I started asking her questions, she recommended looking into the emotion code and body code, which is a method of the muscle testing, but speaking with your body subconsciously to release stuck, trapped emotional energies. So I did, I went down that route, started looking into what all it would take to learn this method of muscle testing and speaking with your subconscious and really releasing these energies that we know they're there, but we don't know they're there. But I think we're taught so much that when we have our emotions, or if we're in public, we're raised to stuff those down and to be nice, to be happy, to be the people pleaser, and not to really speak up and say anything because you may hurt that person's feelings, or you're just supposed to go about life and not upset the other person. That's a lot of how I was raised. I think a lot of women are raised that way. So whenever I started really looking into this, and I was like, wow, if that's all those different emotions that I wasn't expressing and you're shoving them down, they have to go somewhere. So they get stuck in your body. And there's actually a book by Vessel, Vessel Vanderhoof, his name, it's The Body Keeps the Score. And he really talks about that same concept. If you aren't releasing these emotions, they're gonna get stuck. So that's how I got down that route. I found the emotion code and body code. It's you can get certified through the through Discover Healing. And he is a retired chiropractor who used this in his practice for years and just saw the results. So it's like when people ask me, What all are you doing, or what do you do for your job? I like to say that you go to the chiropractor for a physical adjustment, you would come to me for an emotional adjustment. So I feel like I'm the emotional chiropractor to help you release those emotional energies that may be causing may not just be the stress or overwhelm. It could also be the body aches and pains, the autoimmune diseases, a lot of times too. There's starting to be some evidence popping up there too, where it has to do with suppressing kind of those emotional energies. So once I started just getting into it and learning it, I fell in love. I was hooked. I could see the results for me. And part of the journey of getting certified is practicing with others and doing, I think I had to do 60 60 sessions, just as practice sessions, not only on people, but on pets too. So it works with animals as well, children. And I was just amazed at the feedback that I was getting, the results that people were having, and just feeling better and lighter and issues were resolving in people that they had had for years. And I was able to help them with it just with doing the energy work with the emotion code and body code. It was just so amazing to me.

Nick Houpt: 10:15

I know when you did one for us, my wife and I were both like, how did she know that when you were going through things with my wife's body and everything? We were just like, There's no way she would have known that at all. That's really cool. Can you, for our listeners, can you go a little deeper into what exactly is body coding and emotion coding?

Linda Smiley: 10:41

Yeah, it's that's a reaction I usually get, or like, how did you know that? It's not something that I just innately know. It's me tapping into your energy. So it's I have to have your permission. And that's one of the very first things that I tell people to, and you sign a release saying you give me permission to access your energy field, which I do basically like sending a prayer of intention to connect in with you. And then it's me using my body as a vessel. So I'm muscle testing using myself, but it's speaking to your energy field and your subconscious. So it's like speaking to your subconscious. So it's really asking those yes and no questions. And the concept with kinesiology and muscle testing is that your muscle response will hold strong for a yes or something that's gonna be positive for your body. Some people may be familiar, I know they'll do it with food where they'll just hold the food and there's a sway test where if you just stand up and you'll naturally sway back and forth. But if you state something that's true that your subconscious knows that it's true, if you say your name, most likely you're gonna sway forward. That's your muscle response, or it's the same concept of that your body saying, Yes, this is gonna be beneficial for me. Whereas if it's not, like you could even hold a food, say, uh, for instance, I react to bananas. I have a banana allergy. So if I were to hold a banana, my body's gonna go back because it's not something that's beneficial for me. I have an allergic reaction to it. So it's that innate knowing our bodies know it's this program, what's gonna be good for us and what isn't. So it's not really me knowing, it's kind of that connection into your energy and your subconscious. So it's your body speaking to me.

Nick Houpt: 12:32

And what's that word, that K word you said?

Linda Smiley: 12:35

Kinesiology.

Nick Houpt: 12:36

What is that?

Linda Smiley: 12:37

So kinesiology is it's muscle testing. So it is the concept of that your muscle response will hold strong to something that is gonna be positive or beneficial for your body. If it's not, your muscle is gonna go weak. I don't know if you've ever heard of nutrition response testing. I know there's a couple of functional medicine doctors in the area that will do nutritional response. It's NRT. And that is the nutritional aspect of what I do. So you can even test for heavy metal toxins or parasites, or what supplement does my body need? What am I lacking? Because I even test myself daily for my vitamins and my minerals, because I sometimes like my trace minerals or my B12s, I need more of versus others. It just, I think for me, it depends on what I'm eating that day. If I'm really busy, I'm not eating as healthy as I should be. I I may need more of those supplements. It's my body's way of telling me, yeah, I need more of this. And even when I take it, I can feel it. I feel different. So it's experimenting too with yourself to prove the system with kinesiology if it works. But it's it really truly does. It's just energy. But you don't. I think I was speaking to somebody yesterday and I said, I guess a good analogy would be you're you're not connecting. You can't turn the light on unless you have it plugged in. So if you're once it's connected in and plugged in, you're able to turn the switch on. So it's like me connecting in. So once I'm able to connect in, I'm able to have that energy and that electricity and being able to listen to your body and your body's response.

Nick Houpt: 14:15

If I'm a listener at home, is there anything that I can do to be more connected to myself to understand more of what my body needs or doesn't need?

Linda Smiley: 14:28

Yeah. I think that's just the slowing down, the meditating, the actual deep breathing, taking those pauses throughout the day and or even scheduling them throughout your day. I really got in a habit of doing that myself, putting alarms on my phone. If you go, you're so busy, and you do, a lot of times you will push aside those feelings, even being hungry, pushing that aside and not listening to your body when you're hungry because you're busy. So I think it's really just that that slowing down and listening to yourself. Now I know if your nervous system is very heightened, that's going to be hard. So I think that's where these types of modalities with the emotion code and body code can come into play because it can take off some of that emotional charge. And it's not talk therapy. You don't even have to talk about it. We don't have to ask any questions or anything. If you want to share, you can share if you don't have to. But it's once you release, I think, some of that emotional charge and those energies, then you're able to sit and quiet yourself and listen to your body more.

Nick Houpt: 15:31

And I think there's studies that are coming out more and more now about the energy release when you do let that happen, right?

Linda Smiley: 15:37

Yeah. And even so, Dr. Bradley Nelson, he's the founder of Discover Healing, where I get all my certifications from, and they're conducting scientific studies now with morning sickness. So pregnant women and morning sickness, and the belief is it's a disconnect between mama and baby. So we're able to use body code to re do that connection, and the morning sickness is going away. And women aren't having the morning sickness. So I'll be excited when that comes out too to be able to share.

Nick Houpt: 16:07

If I'm someone listening and I'm thinking to myself, what is she talking about? This is I don't believe this. What is something that you would say to someone that has that stigma of, oh, this woman's just making stuff up?

Linda Smiley: 16:27

It depends on the person, I think, and their beliefs and their background. Because I do get approached a lot by people and asking me how this is Christian, how does this go along with Christian beliefs? There, I think a lot of times are raised that they're not supposed to dabble in this or it's I'm acting as a god. I think I've gotten questioned questions like that before. It's it's like a prayer, really. If you're I tell people if you're praying for somebody that is sick or is going through a hard time, this is pretty much what this is. It's an intentional prayer, but it's that it's super intentional, really, super directed to pinpoint, hey, what exactly is your subconscious saying that needs to be released? So a lot of times I tell people it's like praying for another person and helping them out, or watch the Gaia channel. And there's so many different documentaries on Gaia, too, that explain quantum physics and your energy field, your bioenergy field, your aura. There's so many different studies that are coming out now that do prove the aspects of energy, just because we can't see it doesn't mean it's not there. We're all energy beings, we're all made of energy, everything is made of energy. So it's really working with that frequency. If you're able to change one frequency, but if multiple people are carrying that frequency, you can change it for everybody. So it's like when you're not even only if you're working on yourself, you're also working on others because if you've all of us have been in relationship or our family, so it's even like carrying DNA for diseases. They alcoholism is they say that it could be inherited. It's the same with emotions. You can inherit emotions from your family members, and things can be trapped passed down, or if you've gone through the same emotional events with others, you can have shared emotions too. So it's that same frequency. So if you're changing it, you're changing it for everyone.

Nick Houpt: 18:39

Go deeper on that with the emotions that can be passed down through generations and stuff.

Linda Smiley: 18:46

So it just it sh would just be like inheriting DNA. It's it's something that's can be really ingrained in us, even if you think about all the wars and everything that we've gone through and in our history as just collective beings, and we all are connected. So that's still that energy is it can be passed down from generation to generation. It's just like a disease.

Nick Houpt: 19:17

I we were watching a documentary on Gaia, and I don't remember what it was called, but it was about they were testing meditation and prayer energy to see if it could actually change outcomes in places. I think you know what I'm talking about. And there was one where they had thousands of people and they were focused on one area in civil war, and the civil war stopped. And it was just very interesting that people are starting to study this energy and everything now. And what I want to talk about too, when we when we're talking about these emotional energies that we hold inside, what does that play on our physical body?

Linda Smiley: 20:07

It could be a lot. It could be anything from your back feeling like it's out to I really believe causing cancers, causing the autoimmunes. I think it can really I for me, I was having all kinds of pain on like my left side of my stomach. I was calling it my spleen pain. Like it's like where my spleen would be. This is so weird. And I would almost I couldn't even do yoga. If I was doing down dogs or any kind of bending over, I could feel something, felt like there was something in there moving. And but once I started doing this work and releasing, all that went away. So it's just really interesting to me. I feel like I am very intuitive and feeling, I feel my way through life. So I am very in tune with things that will go on in my body. So I think so in tune where I was even a child, I would be like, they're like, just forget about that. You because I would notice everything. So I just really think that it can really, it can cause anything. Even Dr. Brad will say that he's got to the point where he's like, anything can cause anything. I had my big toe was extremely painful two years ago. I couldn't even walk on it. Like, what it wasn't broken or anything. But I I think it was something emotional. And that has to go along with the different energy meridians, too, that run throughout your body. It's a concept in Chinese medicine that we have these different meridians that that carry the energy in even our blood, our cheek, it circulates everything throughout our body. And the big toe is along like your liver meridian, and your liver is responsible for anger or frustration. And that was a time in my life where I was going through a divorce. And so it was just kind of interesting. My big toe, liver. So it's it can all be connected. Just because it's in your foot, it doesn't matter. It could be connected to your heart. It's we're all one being, everything can be connected to the other. You just sometimes don't know what's gonna what it's gonna affect in your body.

Nick Houpt: 22:17

What can you talk a little more about those Chinese concepts of what that is?

Linda Smiley: 22:23

So the meridians, there's different energy meridians that surround your body. I actually, when I'm releasing the emotional energies, when I work with individuals, I swipe the governant meridian, which it runs from the top of your lip over your head all the way down to your spine. So if I'm working with you even in person, I like to swipe all the way down your back because that's that kind of that it's one of our main energy meridians that kind of connect everything from your feet up. So you have your conception meridian and then your governant meridian. So it's just these, it's just that information that's traveling in our bodies and being able to speak, have all the parts speak and to work correctly. So you have these different meridians that run throughout your body. It's also with concept with acupuncture. So when you're getting acupuncture, that's what they're doing. They're tapping into these different energy meridians on your body. And when the needle's going into that spot, it's changing that energy and that frequency. It's making it flow. It's, we say, bringing more qi to that area. So if you've ever had acupuncture done, you've probably felt that energy. Those are your meridians.

Nick Houpt: 23:34

And how does that interact with our nervous system? What does that look like?

Linda Smiley: 23:39

It's everything with our nervous system. It's the information that's running through our nervous system. It's what's communicating to our body parts and making our body run and operate.

Nick Houpt: 23:51

Let's talk about when you do release some energies because I know you did some work with Steven too, and he was like, we did a money energy release, and then people just started handing me money and stuff. So is there uh when you do these releases, do you automatically start seeing changes? Does it take time? What does that look like?

Linda Smiley: 24:16

I think it's individual. It really depends on the person. I think one, it really depends on how open-minded they are. If you're not willing to accept it or not be open to it, it's not it's not gonna work.

Nick Houpt: 24:28

Which is kind of in the first place.

Linda Smiley: 24:31

Yeah, it's all in how much you're willing, I think, to let it work. And I also think it it's all in how much emotional energy are you holding? How many layers are there? Have you done any other type of work? Have you done acupuncture? Have you done chiropractic? Do you work out regularly? Are you moving energy regularly? I feel like individuals who are doing that seem to have easier processing symptoms, is what we call it, because you can have a physical effect from this, even though it's we're doing energy work. I've had people get physically sick, cold-like, flu-like symptoms, feeling worse before they feel better, inflammation, all those things can happen. It's if your body has been offline for so long and not like energetically speaking correctly to you, to the other systems, and then we go in and do this work, it's like we're reconnecting those connections. So it's like it's coming back online, and then your body's whoa, okay, this there's some toxicity in here. There's stuff that we need to let go. So part of those symptoms, too, is it's releasing. So with getting physically sick, vomiting, diarrhea, if it's that severe, there it could be potential. It could happen.

Nick Houpt: 25:52

Is that like your body getting everything out?

Linda Smiley: 25:54

Yeah, it's like purging.

Nick Houpt: 25:56

Because I know when we gave up alcohol and we stopped drinking, then we went and got massages. And after our massages, we felt physically sick for a couple of days. And it was our body was just pumping all the toxins out and everything. So it's like the same thing can happen to people depending on their how in touch to their energies they were. Am I understanding that correctly?

Linda Smiley: 26:21

Or what well, yes and no, because I just think everyone's made differently. Like, for instance, like for me, I don't I have our time taking antibiotics. My body doesn't like them, it reacts harshly to them, where another person is fine with them. So I think everyone's a little bit different. I think it's just really in how our makeup is, and that's where I would probably go down the rabbit hole of human design, because I do the human design too, where I could actually see your human design chart and know where potentially you're picking up energies from others or where you are consistently defined where you have that natural energy and where you don't. So I think it all depends on that too, if you naturally have it or if you're getting it from the transits or other people. So I think it's really individual because I've worked with people who were like, wow, I was really tired afterwards. I had to go take a nap, but then I felt amazing. Like I felt great. I had tons of energy, I felt lighter, I felt happier. But then I've had others who were even when I was on the phone with them or I do virtual sessions, I do everything virtually. They're like, oh my God, I feel like I I feel like I'm gonna cry right now. I'm like, well, cry. That's a release. It's no judgment. That's what you that's what your body needs. Or they're like, I have to go lay down while we're doing this. Go lay down.

Nick Houpt: 27:42

So Do you see a correlation with people that are so busy on the go all the time? And then they're like, Oh, I need to lay down. You you allowed me to tell myself I can go take a nap or something.

Linda Smiley: 27:53

Yeah, because I I have worked with people like on a lunch break during their work day, and they're like, Okay, yeah, we need to change the time because I couldn't work. I had to like literally my eyes, my eyes were so heavy I was falling asleep at my computer. Yeah, I think it it's it can be just individual. I think it's everyone's different.

Nick Houpt: 28:14

You mentioned human design. Let's talk about that. What is human design?

Linda Smiley: 28:18

So, human design, it's it's a system, it's based off of like your birth, date, time, and place, but it's a mixture between, I would say, that astrological astronomy component with the personality Myers-Briggs, like a personality test. It's actually a system designed to help you make decisions based off of your profile type. So depending on what you your profile is. So for instance, like I'm a generator, I'm a two-four generator. So then you have like your numbers, which kind of give you it's like being like I'm an Aries sun sign for my in astrology, but my moon, I'm a Libra. So that it's like the two four in human design. It's the two is the hermit or like the introvert, and the four is the opportunist. So those are just strengths within me and how I'm made, but it's a system that really will teach you your strategy and your authority. So since I'm a generator, my aura is very open and enveloping, kind of what you described at the beginning. You felt that presence, that energy. My aura does, it pulls things in. The downside to that is it can also pull things in that are not beneficial for me. So it just is always pulling things in. So that's where human design gives me the direction of okay, you're a generator. I have sacral energy. And I can actually see this on my charts. It's based off of nine centers. It has the nine different centers. And as a generator or a manifesting generator, that's a subset of a generator. When you have that sacral life force energy and you're pulling everything in, I am to use that sacral energy. Energy to decipher. It's my body's response to when something comes into me. Is this a yes or a no? Just like muscle testing. It's that it's pulling me forward or it's pulling me back. But a lot of times I think generators, and you'll notice this now too. I think if you're out and about in meetings or just talking to people, we make a lot of, oh yeah. Yeah. No, no. Yeah. Those kind of noises. Those are like, those are body response noises. So it's even before my mind has a chance to think of it. My body's making these. Oh, yep. So those are those little cues to really listen to. So it's really getting more into your body instead of the monkey mind and listening to your brain and just really listening more to that body response. Is this going to be good for me or not? And everyone's different. There's generators, there's protectors, there's manifestors, and then there's reflectors. I know we're all raised to be manifestors. Everyone, I so many people have read the book The Secret, and everyone wants to be a manifester, which we all can manifest, yes. But once you know your profile and design and human design, it gives you an opportunity to know when is best for you to manifest.

Nick Houpt: 31:14

I haven't heard that before. Can you go a little deeper on time frames of best practices for manifesting?

Linda Smiley: 31:23

You would have to know your design for one. So how do you do that?

Nick Houpt: 31:27

Talking to someone like that.

Linda Smiley: 31:28

Yeah, like talking to like somebody like me, and I can even send you like a free, I usually do like an intro profile overview so you can see your chart, what it looks like, and it will I'll give you an overview of what centers you have defined, what does that mean, what you don't have defined, and what does that mean, what your profile is, and what's your strategy and authority, how you're supposed to be making decisions. But it can go so much deeper. It's you can use human design down to figure out what's the best environment for you to live in and types of foods that you should be eating. Should you be listening to soft music while you're eating foods? But also you can use it in business. I did a business partner analysis a couple weeks ago for two business owners who are running a business. What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? What are the challenges that you may possibly run into as a couple running this together? Because we're all different. And these two people individually, it was funny. It was huge aha moments for them because one person makes decisions differently than the other. Because 50% of the population is emotionally defined, 50% of the population is not emotionally defined. And when you're emotionally defined, there's no truth in now. So that's the conundrum. You have to ride that emotional wave and keep checking in with yourself before you make that split second decision. You shouldn't do that if you're emotional. That's where the whole sleep on it comes in. You should really tune in, listen to your body, and kind of decipher is this going to be a good thing for me or not.

Nick Houpt: 32:56

Where does emotional intelligence tie into all of this?

Linda Smiley: 32:59

Yeah. A lot with the human design. I think that was a huge eye-opener for me, even just to see my chart. They say in human design, the true empaths are ones that have a completely open solar plexus center where you don't have any consistent energy in your solar plexus, which that's that is me. I don't have anything activated. Because when you see your chart, it gives a center, then there's these little gates and channels that come off, and each one has like their own theme and nuance. And if you don't have anything activated in that center, say it's just white, that's gonna be like your shadow part or something that you're here to be wise about. Instance for me, I having that completely open solar plexus, I'm here to be wise about emotion. So it's really learning about those emotions because I don't have set consistent energy when it comes to the two emotions. I pick it up from others. So I feel others' emotional energy, but I could also have the potential of amplifying it back to you. So I could be that mirror.

Nick Houpt: 34:06

Let's touch on that because I've always felt like I could pick up on people's emotions. And I've my whole life I've felt like that. And my wife is really good with that. She's had it to a point where she reached out to people to check in on them, and they have responded with, How did you know to check in on me? Because I was really contemplating a long-term decision. And it made them feel better that someone cared and everything. So how I feel like there's a lot of people that are like that. So I've gone through different scenarios where just walking past someone and I've been like, Are you alright? What can you tell someone that feels like that? Do they act on it? Do they hold it in? You know what I'm do you know what I'm trying to say? Like, what should someone do with that energetic information?

Linda Smiley: 35:08

Yeah, if you know your human design, that really helps you with that. So really based off of your profile type, kind of how you operate, if that feels for me as a generator, I'm supposed to wait to respond. And what that means is to wait to respond is my body saying, is this yes or is this no? I would share if it felt right to me. Because if it's if my body's saying yes, you should share with that person, it's probably going to be well received. But if I'm getting that gut feeling not so much, and then I go ahead and share anyway, I'm probably gonna be met with resistance.

Nick Houpt: 35:47

Okay.

Linda Smiley: 35:47

So it's really listening to yourself too, and then sharing. So it goes the same way for if you're a projector too, a projector is supposed to wait for the invitation. So if what's that look like? It would be somebody reaching out to you being and asking you a question, or so it's like because projectors have more of a a probing aura. They're not necessarily really interested about themselves or they're more interested in the other. Projectors are more like our guidance, our advisors. They don't have that sacral energy, so they don't have the energy like a manifestor would, or even a generator. So for them, it would be if somebody reached out to them, or like even, hey, what are you doing tonight? Well, that's even an imitation. So then does that feel good to me? Does do I want to do something tonight? And then engage once you've waited for that. So I think it's I think it's just knowing more and listening to your body. If it feels right to share, then I would share. If not, maybe not so much because it's probably not gonna be very well received.

Nick Houpt: 36:57

Okay. What are some daily routines or habits or practices that people can put into place to be in touch with their energies and feeling as healthy as they can?

Linda Smiley: 37:14

I think it's just self-care. The pause, the slowing down, scheduling time for yourself, making sure you are doing exercising, doing yoga, doing breath work, making time for doing sessions with emotion code, body code, acupuncture, even chiropractic, I think is helpful for that. And that just, I think more of that awareness, just really recognizing that in yourself and taking care of yourself and not putting it aside. It's the whole airplane oxygen mask thing that we all are aware of, but we don't practice it. We always go to try to help somebody first, somebody else that before helping ourselves. And then we wear ourselves down, don't have the energy to help others.

Nick Houpt: 38:03

Yeah. So where does play tie into that? How can people add more play into their world and creativity? Because I feel that if we have more people tapping into more of themselves, if that makes sense, and adding more play and creativity into what they're doing, I feel like that would release some good energy. Yep. So, what can you tell people about not being so serious all the time and adding some play into what they do throughout the day?

Linda Smiley: 38:35

Yeah, I think that's really important. I think that's just even making connections with community and friends and making time to do things that you enjoy. Play for me may be completely different for you. Play for me is going to the Florida Herbal Conference. It's like a doll camp for me. I'm like, let's go shoot guns. Right. It's do I think it's do things that you loved when you were a child or got yelled at for a child.

Nick Houpt: 39:05

Okay. Do what you used to get yelled at.

Linda Smiley: 39:09

Because most times it was something that you enjoy, but that parent probably just didn't enjoy. You like playing on your drums and being loud, go play on the drums.

Nick Houpt: 39:17

Okay. I like that. What are some practices that people can implement to give themselves some rest?

Linda Smiley: 39:24

I think it's again doing things they enjoy, finding for me, rest is hardened. I'm what I'm go. I do have a lot of energy. So I think it's just really finding things that you enjoy and building, making that time. You have to schedule the time to rest. Because even someone told me the other day, they're like, to even calm your nervous system. It's you may be thinking that you're resting and doing stuff that you enjoy, but sometimes you just need to sit, not like you're sleeping, but just close your eyes and just like that meditative state, but just relax and breathe and just letting your body rest. And try not to think about anything else and get away from all of it.

Nick Houpt: 40:10

Yeah, sometimes nature.

Linda Smiley: 40:12

Get in nature.

Nick Houpt: 40:13

We were just talking about that on the last episode, too, doing nature baths and everything. Let's talk about. I know you go, what's the place you go to all the time that has like a salt room?

Linda Smiley: 40:24

Oh, yes. Earth salt stone. It's on Hendrix Avenue. It's in San Marco. So they have a salt cave and they do all kinds of events there too. You can just buy a session and go sit in the salt cave.

Nick Houpt: 40:37

And what does that do?

Linda Smiley: 40:38

The salt is very healing. It's antimicrobial, antibacterial, I think antifungal. I know she has a lot of people who come in that allergies, asthma, children who weren't able to go to school, we know even because all the scents and everything they were reacting to different foods and different scents. And when they're coming into the salt cave, it's helping clear all of that.

Nick Houpt: 41:02

Is it grounding too?

Linda Smiley: 41:04

Yeah. Yeah. It's oh, and it even just to walk in, you can just feel the energy of it. Um, I don't know if you've ever done like a foot bath where it's with the salt and it's an ionized foot bath. It's the same concept and it will pull toxins out of your body through your feet, and the water will be different colors, black, orange. You'll see.

Nick Houpt: 41:24

Interesting.

Linda Smiley: 41:24

And everyone's different. But I've actually experienced where I've I did yoga in the salt cave and I came out and I went to put on my flip-flops, and they were like a harder surface, and I was like, bottom of my feet were a little bit wet. There was black on the bottom of my feet, it was pulling toxins out of my body.

Nick Houpt: 41:42

Interesting. Now, for our listeners out there, if there's one thing that you want them to take away from hearing you today, what would that be?

Linda Smiley: 41:56

I feel like it's a big question. I think it's the importance of slowing down, listening to your body, and taking care of yourself and releasing any of those stuck energies. I just feel like when you have that overwhelm and you just don't know what to do with it, but once you find the method of releasing it, it's a game changer.

Nick Houpt: 42:23

So what if someone's, I can't slow down. I have three kids, I work full-time, I do this, I do that. Are there like micro slowdowns?

Linda Smiley: 42:32

Yeah. Even like a session, if you schedule a body code session with me, it's probably gonna be 30 minutes.

Nick Houpt: 42:38

Okay.

Linda Smiley: 42:39

You could do a motion code session in probably 20 minutes. Most people have 20 minutes where they can step away and do something. So I think that's huge too. Just having that 20 minute, hey, let's go in, let's see what emotions we can take off. Boom, boom. Or even like a heart wall session, which heart wall is specifically you we're focusing on are there emotions that you've built up around your heart, which most people do we go through really trying times. We're gonna build that wall around. It's but it's it's a protective measure. It needs to be there at that time, but then it stays. And then when you want to branch out, you want to have a new relationship, and you're struggling to do that, it could be because you have those heart wall emotions up. So let's release those. That could be 20 minutes.

Nick Houpt: 43:27

Okay. So you can implement some things in a short period of time.

Linda Smiley: 43:32

And even like the human design readings, and my my full readings are usually an hour and 15, but I'm offering like little 15-minute sessions, half hour sessions. If you just want to dive in, if you're feeling off for the day, we can even see what energy is coming in for the day, maybe why you're feeling it based off of your profile type, giving you clarity. So then you're not beating yourself up so hard, too. It's oh, I have a reason. It's a little bit, I'm very logical, so I like to know the why. And I think that's why I like human design so much because it does. It gives me a visual and I can see the why.

Nick Houpt: 44:06

Interesting. So where can people find you?

Linda Smiley: 44:09

They can visit me on my website. It's lfhealing.com, or I'm on social media as Life Force Healing Linda. I'm on LinkedIn as well, Life Force Healing Linda.

Nick Houpt: 44:22

Very cool. So, with being on the Life Balance podcast, we like to ask: what does a life well balanced look like for you?

Linda Smiley: 44:32

A life well balanced for me is having that balance, having the balance of work, having the balance of life, the balance of play, and just integrating all that, making sure I'm in touch with the community. Cause even as a small business owner working from home, that can be hard. I have to really be careful with getting myself out there too, because just because I have more of an introverted kind of personality as well. So for me, it's just really balancing that the connection with others, but also building my business and not just build all the time for my business and go. But getting out and having fun. Community connection and self-care.

Nick Houpt: 45:17

Awesome. Is there anything that we did not cover that you would like to share with people?

Linda Smiley: 45:24

To not be afraid of their emotions. I think that's just the big thing, especially men. I hear it a lot where men don't want to do the healing work because they don't want to cry.

Nick Houpt: 45:36

That's come up on the podcast quite a few times.

Linda Smiley: 45:38

They don't want to cry. And I'm like, I don't know what I can do to help men be okay with crying. I don't know. I just think that's a big unbalance in our society. Because even I did um a sound bath session in the Salt Cave a couple weeks ago, and there was there were it was probably 50-50 with men and women. And I'm the one that spoke up and I was like, all the guys are here, please tell all of your friends about this, and doing experiences like this because I do a lot of experiences like that, and I don't see many men. That was the most men I've ever seen doing something like that. And I think more men need to get involved and do things like that.

Nick Houpt: 46:19

Leave the ego and take care of your sin.

Linda Smiley: 46:22

And yeah, and not be afraid to cry. You don't have to cry in public. But yeah.

Nick Houpt: 46:28

You hear that, man? Let it out.

Linda Smiley: 46:30

Let it out. It's okay. Nobody's gonna judge you.

Nick Houpt: 46:34

So coming into the end here, we like to do a speed round and it's called balanced or unbalanced. And so I'm gonna ask you questions and say you'll say balanced or unbalanced. If you want to elaborate more, you can. Okay. If we want to just keep rolling through, we can do that too. You ready? Balanced or unbalanced, pushing through exhaustion to stay productive.

Linda Smiley: 46:58

Balance. Unbalanced.

Nick Houpt: 47:01

Feeling responsible for everyone else's energy.

Linda Smiley: 47:05

Balanced. I used to be unbalanced, but I'm balanced now.

Nick Houpt: 47:08

What about for other people?

Linda Smiley: 47:10

For other people?

Nick Houpt: 47:11

Yeah, so with balanced or unbalanced, it's what you feel is balanced or unbalanced.

Linda Smiley: 47:15

Oh, what I feel. Okay. Say that last one again.

Nick Houpt: 47:20

Feeling responsible for everyone else's energy.

Linda Smiley: 47:23

I think that's definitely unbalanced in our world.

Nick Houpt: 47:26

Starting the morning in stillness instead of on your phone. Unbalanced. Unbalanced to be in stillness in the morning?

Linda Smiley: 47:34

Oh no, it would be balanced to be in stillness, but I feel like people are on their phones a lot and are unbalanced.

Nick Houpt: 47:40

Yeah, agreed. We I think everyone talks about their phones and stuff too.

Linda Smiley: 47:44

That's the first thing I think everyone does in the morning is look at their phones.

Nick Houpt: 47:47

Yeah. You actually said this. Crying is a form of energetic release.

Linda Smiley: 47:53

Oh, that's balance. Of course. Yeah.

Nick Houpt: 47:56

Constant positivity is a coping mechanism.

Linda Smiley: 48:00

Unbalanced.

Nick Houpt: 48:02

Taking a full day of silence or solitude.

Linda Smiley: 48:06

Oh. That all depends. I think. If you do it all the time, unbalanced. But if you do it every once in a while, maybe yeah, balanced.

Nick Houpt: 48:13

Okay. Working while emotionally depleted. Unbalanced. Grounding barefoot outdoors.

Linda Smiley: 48:22

Unbalanced.

Nick Houpt: 48:23

Sharing your emotions openly with others.

Linda Smiley: 48:26

I think that's unbalanced in our society.

Nick Houpt: 48:29

When they're doing it on social media for attention.

Linda Smiley: 48:32

Or just shoving things down and not sharing at all. I think it's yeah, I think it goes from one spectrum to another with that.

Nick Houpt: 48:38

Yeah.

Linda Smiley: 48:38

There's I don't think there's a happy medium. Working toward it though.

Nick Houpt: 48:43

Balanced or unbalanced healing as a journey, not a quick fix.

Linda Smiley: 48:48

Oh, balanced. It's definitely a journey.

Nick Houpt: 48:51

Balanced or unbalanced coming on the Life Balanced Podcast.

Linda Smiley: 48:56

Balanced.

Nick Houpt: 49:02

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