Video: Speak Your Emotions
Dr. Sunshine can let stress get the best of her- leading to anxiety. She finds it so helpful to take a moment to really delve into the emotions behind the anxiety and express them.
Find the word- express the emotion
Share with a trusted person.
Find space and time to move. Use clumsy, funky movements or dance it out. Use a mirror if possible.
Allow your body to re-wire how you are holding the emotion.
Consciously re-direct the brain to a new leading energy.
When the emotion comes up. Name it again. Move thru it again. And redirect the brain toward energy that is supportive.
In Dr. Sunshine’s example:
She realized her anxiety and stress was not about elderberry.
Her anxiety was actually about fearing that everyone would think she was an idiot.
Name it: Fear that I’ll be seen as a fool.
Shared the fear with Jody (this required stopping other distracting busy work that Dr. Sunshine was doing in order to solve the believed cause of the stress).
Move thru it: released with tears, hugs, weighted blanket.
Re-wire it: meditation and qigong work to recognize how uptight the body had become.
Conscious re-direction: She conjured the sensation of self-honor and cultivated a loving honor for the inner wisdom in all the people who might question her idiocy.
Repeat: When the stress thoughts returned, she named the fear of being thought an idiot. And re-placed that thought with honor for truth and the inner wisdom of well-meaning people.
10,000 times: Repeat with creative expressions to rewire body.