The brain sees something that’s dangerous.

🌟Use your eyes and look around the room and see what you see.

🌟How does the neck feel the breathing feel? Focus on one object, then.

🌟Feel the body's weight on the chair or couch while maintaining eye contact with the object you are looking at.

🌟Notice if breathing changes, shoulders drop, etc.

🌟Look around the room again, noticing what you see as you are in your body now. Now, notice what’s different.

Restore balance to get the body out of survival mode.

Begin asking yourself these questions to increase your bodily, mind-body awareness.

When you're healing from anxiety or trauma or are experiencing emotional triggers, it can be challenging to feel like your body is supporting you.

However, an essential element in healing and getting stronger is inviting your body to help you, to be a resource.

Body scan

This can reset the nervous system.

Close your eyes and perform an internal body scan from head to toe. I like to use white columns of light coming down from the top of my head and “scanning” my body, looking for light and dark, heavy and light, or cold and warm areas.

Make a note of any areas that feel light and open or heavy or dense or void sucked in and empty. Void areas are a priority, followed by dense or heavy areas.

Place a hand on an area and start tapping or rubbing it while breathing.

Then, question the physical sensation. What is this about? For example, fear, loss, or anger. How has this sensation changed or moved elsewhere?

What’s the quality of that physical sensation now? Start tapping or rubbing the area to support it and chase the pain.

What’s the one best word that describes this? What’s the struggle here?

Don’t let your mind get involved.

Then, ask questions about the physical sensation, such as what’s wrong here?

What are you trying to tell me?

What do you want to express or say?

In these moments, you’ll wait for the answer to come from a deeper physical place rather than let your mind get involved. You will know when the correct answer pops up because you will experience some physical shift or release!

For example, the client has low back pain with squats. You have them scan their body and then notice their lower back feels heavy or dense. They feel like their butt isn’t there, and their feet are heavy. You have them focus on the butt area as it feels void, get some breathing going, and have them pay attention to the physical sensations happening anywhere in their body. You have them do this for about 15 to 20 seconds. Stop tapping, have them explore that area again, and notice physical sensations. Then, rescan the body to see what has changed. They notice their feet feel grounded and open; their back is relaxed but light and airy, and their emotional state has changed.

When working with emotions, we want to find patterns and dig deeper than just a single or multiple emotions. The goal is to get to the root cause as best as possible. We can use the AO bio-resonance system to do this! It can find the emotion trapped in the body according to length of time and priority.

Utilizing the emotional chart

We want to identify the primary issue (neck pain, relationships, money). You then want to ask what the primary emotional imbalance is for inserting the problem here. Find the first emotion, then dig deeper and identify all the feelings underneath the first emotion. Clear with breath until you feel something shift. Retest to make sure emotions are clear. Then, check the issue to see how much better it is now. Clear until there’s no more left. This is a basic protocol that can be used. I use a vagal clearing technique in my Quantum Shifting program.

Grounding exercise

Take a white light coming down to the crown or top of your head; it will fill every square inch of your body; breathing in this white light, bathing all of your cells will drive down into the feet. From the feet, it will go down into the earth and down into the earth’s core. When grounding, you want to ground from your heart; you can have your aura be a white egg; it can be a grounding cord into the earth anchored by a boulder.

It all starts with connecting to the feelings and sensations in your body, whether that’s anxiety, a pit in your stomach, depression, or it feels like nothing at all. Even that feeling of nothing is a feeling.

As you connect to these feelings, your body starts to "thaw." The more you do this, the more you open up and start feeling again as your body becomes safer.

Combine this with clearing out the connected beliefs, and you start to see miracles and finally realize you can get "unstuck"

Next time you feel triggered, practice this 6-step somatic exercise to help you process the experience and experience relief. Practicing this may also help you identify the stimuli that contributed to the change in "homeostasis" so that you can have awareness for the future.

A 6-step somatic exercise:

Notice.

Inhale and exhale. Notice what you feel on, in, and around your body—breath speed, heart rate, and body temperature.

2. Think back to safety.

Remember a recent moment when you felt most calm, safe, and like your “self.”

3. Identify.

Identify at what point and which part of your body began experiencing disturbance or stress.

4. Replay.

Replay the scenario from calm to stressed in slow motion (like watching a slow movie). Identify people, conversations, objects, or behaviors that may have made you stressed and uncomfortable or stand out to you as you replicate your recent event(s).

5. Tune in.

Tune in to your body sensations as you recall the event(s) and slow down and notice if there is any shift in your body, a feeling of tingling, tensing, warming, numbing, or cooling in your chest, arms, legs, face or an overall change in body temperature.

6. Healing Energy

Place your hand on the area that has experienced a shift or change, and breathe deeply. If it's an overall feeling, you can touch your heart.

Doing this allows the body to process the bodily experience and creates a passageway to release the tension.

Notice if something comes up, an image, sensation, awareness, or understanding that clarifies the situation. If nothing comes up, that's ok. Simply slowing down, pacing your breath, and raising awareness is progress and helpful.

I encourage you to practice this after an upsetting experience to allow your body to process the emotions and communications of your body. You may also practice this before a stressful situation to identify potential triggers and plan ways to support yourself.