How to Do the 'Whole-Body Yes' Check: Learning to Pay Attention to Your Body and Feelings

Diana Chapman is a co-founder of the Conscious Leadership Group and a co-author of the book The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. Her passion is to help organizational leaders and their teams eliminate drama in the workplace and beyond. She has worked with more than 1,000 CEOs and is a well-respected facilitator for the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), working with their forums and chapters worldwide.

She has been a speaker at TEDx, Mindful Leadership Summit, Wisdom 2.0, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and more.

When Diana is not with her clients, she can often be found gardening at her suburban homestead in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California. She lives there with her husband of over 30 years.

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About Tim Ferriss:
Tim Ferriss is one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and an early-stage tech investor/advisor in Uber, Facebook, Twitter, Shopify, Duolingo, Alibaba, and 50+ other companies. He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers: The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, The 4-Hour Chef, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. The Observer and other media have named him “the Oprah of audio” due to the influence of his podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, which has exceeded 700 million downloads and been selected for “Best of Apple Podcasts” three years running.

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[LenkaSaratoga]

The way this woman speaks agrees with me. I do feel the yes response in my body.

[RagTagg]

This is POWERFUL stuff, Tim. Thanks for bringing this golden nugget of wisdom to YouTube, and thank you, Diana, for the work that you do!

[kimb]

Thank you! If I could give a double thumbs up I would.

[MelanieSakowski]

Ah when those gifted people guide us home, it’s amazing Grace. Thank you

[natureofnow]

Editing on this is masterful. I had no idea she was edited at all when listening to this on the podcast. Nice work! Also, this whole body yes practice is beautiful and so so powerful.

[moonchild]

Great interview @Tim - I really enjoyed doing the BQ exercise & is such a practical tool to tune into your body.

[mnothem]

For the yes, I imagined running this 50 mile mountain race back in 2017 where I did very well. The flow was upward toward my head and I was relatively cool. The no is much harder for me to find. I have been offered alcohol many times in my life (I do not drink) and each time I have said no the energy flows toward the trunk my neck and chest, the temperature seems to be imperceptible. The kinda no, was deciding to not lay with women I didn't know and feeling the energy in my face and head, temperature was maybe warmer. I feel like I might be making up this in my head and need more data and the data would need to be taken after or during various encounters with yes, no and sort of no

[danascully]

I have no idea what you're trying to sell here but it makes me want to say a subtle "yes. "

Omg. I couldn’t even come up with a yes memory 😭

[marisasuarez]

does Diana have her own practice? where to connect with her directly?

[DenHenson]

When faced with a binary where neither option produces a full body yes, how do you proceed? I’ve had this question ready for Tim for years

[mariannepheeb]

Is there a continuation of this video?...

[dankindcom]

2:03 Guided "Whole-Body Yes" check

[JonathanOvnat]

My body said "no" about going through with the guided meditation 🤷‍♂️

[blanctonia]

This is good but I also think it’s akin to prayer

[JeremyDWilliamsOfficial]

Honestly? No offence but the the subtle ‘no’ turned into a very loud NO by about the 5 minute mark. Not going to lie 🤷‍♂️

Sorry - this one really missed the mark Tim.