Every woman I have ever worked with came to me carrying a story.
Not the story she told me about her goals or her habits or her history with dieting.
The deeper one.
The one that ran underneath everything else, often unspoken, sometimes unexamined.
“This is just what happens when you get older.”
“I’ve always struggled with my weight. That’s just who I am.”
“I’ve tried everything. My body just doesn’t respond the way it used to.”
“I’d love results like that. But I’m not sure it works for someone like me.”
These aren’t laziness. They aren’t pessimism.
They are the product of years of evidence, real lived experience, real disappointments, real cultural messaging that has quietly calcified into belief.
And belief, as we’re going to explore today, isn’t just psychological.
It is physiological.
It shapes what the body does.
In yogic philosophy, this is the domain of the Third Eye Chakra.
And understanding it might change everything.
The Third Eye Chakra: AJNA
In yogic tradition, the Third Eye Chakra (Ajna) sits at the centre of the forehead, between and slightly above the eyebrows.
Its name means “to perceive” or “to command.”
Ajna governs:
- Inner vision — the ability to see beyond surface appearances
- Intuition — the body’s deep knowing, independent of logic
- Clarity of perception — seeing yourself and your reality accurately
- Imagination and visualisation — the capacity to see what is not yet real
- Discernment — distinguishing truth from noise
- The relationship between the mind and the body
When balanced, a woman:
- Trusts her own perception and inner knowing
- Sees herself clearly — not through the lens of the inner critic
- Can hold a vision of what she’s working towards and believe it
- Filters external noise and conflicting information with ease
- Feels connected to a sense of direction and purpose
When blocked or distorted:
- The inner critic is the loudest voice in the room
- She sees only what’s “wrong” with her body, never what’s right
- Limiting beliefs about ageing, capability and change feel like facts
- She is overwhelmed by conflicting health information and can’t trust herself
- The life and body she wants feel like they belong to someone else
The Ageing Myth That Is Holding You Back
Here is one of the most pervasive beliefs I encounter in women over 40:
That the body is on a one-way trajectory downward.
That decline is not just possible, it is inevitable. Expected. Already underway.
That the window for transformation has, in some fundamental way, closed.
I want to be very direct about this:
This belief is not supported by the evidence.
In fact, the research says something that genuinely surprises most women when they first hear it.
Studies including a 2025 analysis published in the Journal of Physiology found that postmenopausal women responded to resistance training with significant increases in lean muscle mass and strength — nearly matching gains seen in younger control groups.
A meta-analysis drawing on 26 studies of postmenopausal women showed that strength training consistently produced muscle mass gains in women between the ages of 50 and 80.
Research shows that women who have never trained with progressive resistance before may be the strongest they have ever been in their lives within 12 to 18 months of beginning — surpassing what they achieved in their twenties, when most women were not training at all.
Let that land.
The body you have at 45, 52, 60 with the right conditions, the right nourishment and the right training is not a diminished version of the body you had at 25.
It may become the strongest version you have ever inhabited.
But here is the problem.
If you don’t believe that is possible for you, you will never create the conditions to find out.
The belief comes first. The actions come next. The transformation follows.
Sign Your Third Eye Chakra May Need Attention
In how you see yourself:
- Body dysmorphia or hyper-focus on flaws — unable to see the whole picture, only what feels wrong
- The mirror is never kind — you look and see only what isn’t there yet, never what is
- Comparing your body to an earlier version of yourself — with grief rather than curiosity
- Feeling invisible — as if the woman you used to be has been replaced by someone you don’t recognise
In how you see what’s possible:
- “I’ve tried everything” — the belief that your particular body is the exception to what works
- “It’s too late for me” — the conviction that the window has closed
- “I’d love that, but…” — the habitual qualifier that precedes every vision of change
- Distrust of your own body’s signals — overriding hunger, fatigue and intuition because you don’t trust what you’re feeling
In how you navigate health information:
- Analysis paralysis — too much conflicting advice, unable to know what to trust
- Outsourcing your body wisdom entirely — to apps, scales, plans and external authorities rather than your own signals
- The all-or-nothing lens — seeing any deviation as failure rather than data
- Inability to visualise the outcome — the goal feels abstract because believing in it feels unsafe
Why Belief Is Not Just Mindset – It’s Biology
There is a body of research in psychoneuroimmunology – the study of how thoughts and beliefs affect physiology, that is profoundly relevant here.
What we believe about our bodies influences our hormonal environment, our stress response, our inflammatory pathways and our capacity to change.
Studies on expectation and exercise outcomes have found that participants who believed their training would be effective showed measurably better results than those who didn’t, even when the training was identical.
Research on self-perception and ageing has shown that older adults who held positive beliefs about their own ageing lived on average 7.5 years longer than those with negative beliefs, a difference larger than the benefit of not smoking or exercising regularly.
The inner narrative is not separate from the body.
It is running through it, shaping it, at every moment.
This is why the first block I encounter with almost every woman who comes to the Strong Calm Lean Method isn’t physical.
It’s perceptual.
She doesn’t yet believe the result is available to her.
And until we address that, everything else is building on an unstable foundation.
The Strong Calm Lean Approach: From Tracking To Trusting
I want to share how the Strong Calm Lean Method actually works because on the surface, it might seem to contradict everything I’ve just said about intuition and inner knowing.
We start with tracking. We end with trusting. And understanding why makes all the difference.
Phase 1: Education and healing
Most women arrive at the program having been chronically under-nourished, over-stressed and running on scrambled body signals for years. Hunger is unreliable. Cravings are loud. Energy is unpredictable. Telling a body in that state to “eat intuitively” is like asking someone to navigate a new city without a map, in the dark. So first, we build the map.
Macro tracking is not a permanent practic, it is a short-term educational tool. It teaches you, often for the first time, what your body actually needs. How much protein. What carbohydrate timing looks like for your energy. How fat supports your hormones.
From week three, women have the option to wear a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM) for a period of time. This is entirely optional, and it is temporary. What it does is make the invisible visible, showing in real time how your body responds to food, stress, sleep and movement. It is not a permanent tool. It is a short-term data-gathering exercise that builds a level of body literacy most women have never had access to before. Many describe it as genuinely life-changing.
Gut healing, nervous system regulation, cortisol work, all of this happens alongside the nutrition and training. Because a gut that isn’t absorbing nutrients, and a nervous system running on cortisol, cannot use any of the good work you’re putting in.
Phase 2: The subconscious shift
This is where the Third Eye work comes in.
Through PSYCH-K® – a process that works directly at the subconscious level, we begin to identify and shift the beliefs that have been running the show. This profound 1:1 work is available to women on the Platinum program, and for those who experience it, it is often the piece they describe as the most transformative of everything they do.
“My metabolism is broken.”
“I always struggle with my weight.”
“This is just what ageing looks like.”
“I don’t think this will work for me.”
These are not truths. They are programmes. And programmes can be updated.
When the subconscious belief shifts, when the woman begins to genuinely see herself as someone for whom transformation is possible, the behaviour follows naturally. Not through force. Through alignment.
This is also where visualisation becomes a practice rather than a platitude. Seeing the outcome clearly. Feeling it. Making it real in the body before it is real in the mirror.
Phase 3: Intuition
This is the destination that most people assume is where you start.
It isn’t. It’s where you arrive.
By the end of the program, if a woman has done the work, the nutrition education, the gut healing, the nervous system regulation, the subconscious belief work, the progressive strength training, something remarkable has happened.
She is holding significantly more lean muscle. Her metabolism is running more efficiently. Her cortisol is calm. Her insulin sensitivity has been restored. Her gut is absorbing nutrients. Her cravings have quieted because her body is actually nourished.
At this point, she no longer needs to track.
She knows what her body needs because her body is finally speaking clearly, and she has learned to trust it.
That is intuitive eating. Not a starting philosophy, an earned destination. The natural state of a body that has been properly educated, healed and nourished.
The Third Eye is open.
And the woman looking back from the mirror is one she recognises.
Practices To Open and Balance The Third Eye
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The belief audit
Write down every belief you hold about your body, your age and what is possible for you.
Not what you hope. What you actually believe, in the quiet moments.
Now ask: is this a fact , or is it a story I’ve been telling for so long it feels like one?
Most of what we believe about our bodies is not fact. It is accumulated narrative. And narrative can change.
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Visualisation – done properly
This is not wishful thinking. It is a neuroscience-backed practice.
Research shows that vivid mental rehearsal activates the same neural pathways as physical experience. Athletes use it. Surgeons use it. You can too.
Each morning, spend three minutes seeing yourself clearly in the life you’re building. Not vaguely. Specifically. How do you move? How do you feel in your body? What are you doing with your energy and strength?
Make it real before it is real.
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An information fast
For one week, stop consuming health content that isn’t in direct service of what you’re already doing.
No new diets. No new studies. No comparison scrolling.
The Third Eye becomes distorted by noise. Clarity comes from stillness.
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Third Eye yoga and meditation practices
- Child’s pose with the forehead resting on the mat – gentle pressure on the third eye point
- Trataka – the yogic practice of focused candle gazing, which develops single-pointed concentration
- Yoga nidra – a guided relaxation that works at the level of the subconscious
- Alternate nostril breathing (Nadi Shodhana) – balances the brain hemispheres and quiets mental noise
The journalling prompt
If I truly believed transformation was available to me, not for other women, but specifically for me, in this body, at this age, what would I do differently today?
Sit with it. The answer is your next step.
If you recognised yourself in the beliefs described in this article, if some part of you is still not sure this could work for you, I want that to be the first thing we talk about.
In your complimentary 30-minute Roadmap Call, we’ll look at exactly what’s happening in your body, identify what’s been holding you back, and map out the most effective path forward for you.
And if I feel I can support your goals, I’ll share some options for working with me inside the Strong Calm Lean Method.
You’ve given so much of yourself to others. It’s time to give a little back to yourself.
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