Woo HOO! We’re at our final day of orientation, almost ready to dive in using these delicious tools to navigate all sorts of things together. 🙂 Yay!
Today’s work is about understanding our Evolutionary Emotional Wiring and its impact on how we interpret everything and everyone we encounter in our lives. First, a vid:
See, we are evolutionarily wired for negative emotions as they contribute to our survival far more than positive ones. When I dug in on the science behind this I was of course elated to learn that it’s not a PROBLEM that we “go negative” so often. In fact, it means we’re fighting to survive — exactly as we’re designed to do from an evolutionary perspective. Rewiring the convo is a part of our modern evolution. This is how we break out of survival mode and into our next-tier reality as the new normal… without upper-limit problems.
Put another way, but saying the same thing… a quick vid from Kerwin Rae.
Next up, a bit of visualization. If you’re at a place where you can close your eyes and let me guide you through this, that’s awesome.
If you’d like a text-based walk-through, here ya go!
Sit still.
Close your eyes.
Hand on heart.
Hand on gut.
Deep breath.
Then another.
And one more — exhales longer than the inhales.
Now… sit in that stillness.
Thank your body for showing up.
Feel any emotion that tries to wash over you for that simple “thank you” you just felt.
Be curious and observant. No judgment.
THEN… one more deep breath.
Ask your body — “Where am I holding stress today?”
Write about your experiences, observations, revelations, emotions, thoughts in your Expansive Capacity journal. The body-emotion connection is a biggie in our work together, so journaling after doing this type of visualization is a way to get clear on your baseline.
Share in the comments — which will be open on our monthly pages — anything you’d like to workshop with us. We can also explore your realizations in our monthly group Zoom sessions. Notice if you have a different “read” somewhere in your body every time you do this. For most folks, stress lives in one or two main “pockets” in our bodies most of the time.
Finally, starting tonight, I’d love for you to begin a ritual of going to bed with a few nice, soothing breaths, and self-talk along the lines of, “Thank you for showing up for me today, body. Thank you, heart and soul, for running the show. Brain, thank you for coordinating so much so effortlessly. Thank you, _______ [put your name in there], for uniting all of these bits of magic into your YOUness. You are enough. WE are enough. *I* am enough. Thank you.”
Starting in the morning, wake up with a few nice, soothing breaths and a big stretch, and self-talk along the lines of, “Hey. How ya’ doin’? Checkin’ in on ya, bod. Heart. Soul. Brain. Next-tier me? You there? Got any messages for me? Ready for us to do this? Thank you, _______ [put your name in there], for all we’ll learn together today. We are — I am — enough.” Notice what you wake up knowing.
Yes, this might be hard. Journal about it. But even if it’s hard, do it anyway. Journal about how it starts out hard but gets easier (because it will). And if doing this tiny moment of stuff before and after you’re asleep is massively emotional, write about that. Share it in the dojo if you’d like. This is where no one will think you’re weird for having your emotions. This is — in fact — where your emotions are invited *before* your thoughts.
Because everything we feel is trying to teach us something about who we’re trying to become.
Who we’re meant to become.
That next-tier version of ourselves with all the storytelling gifts laid out for the world to experience so freakin’ fully! Enjoying all the health and wellness and love and riches and happiness that goes with living a life ready to receive it all! Yaaaaasssssssss!
So excited for all we’ll do together, lovely. I’m so glad you’re here!
All my love,
