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Module 6: Energize Your Body

Welcome to Module 6

So far, we’ve spent the majority of this program talking about optimizing your thinking because believe it or not, our thoughts are often the biggest culprit in leading us to exhaustion. But because there is a real mind-body connection, we must look at how stress and burnout impact the body and how to recover and regain your energy.

Objectives:

  • Overcome unconscious blocks to self-healing and mindset obstacles to self-care.
  • Release physical tension from your body.
  • Build up healthy routines to maintain your energy and sanity so you can show up for your work and family more effectively.
  • Ground your energy so you can feel more centered and balanced.
  • Learn a powerful technique to melt away any built-up stress.
  • Discover ways to manage, recover, and protect your energy.

Psychological Reversals:

  • Psychological Reversals (PRs) are unconscious blocks that keep us stuck.
  • There are 4 main themes to PRs: (deserving, possibility, safety, identity).

Clearing Psychological Reversals:

  1. Identify whether the block is a belief or a feeling
  2. Rate it 0-10 (how much do you believe it if it’s a belief or how strongly do you feel it if it’s a feeling)?
  3. Do you have a sense of what might be blocking you? Identify theme (deserving, possibility, safety, or identity) and rate it 0-10
  4. Tap sides of hand together (x 3 for specific block or x1 for all PRs): If, for instance, your PR is a fear of change, you would say: Even though I am scared to change…I love completely myself/I want to be completely free of this problem.
  5. Re-rate 0-10
    1. If 0 => Congratulations!
    2. If >0 => keep working on PR

3 Steps to Clear Mindset Obstacles with a Mantra:

1. Identify the underlying reason why you might believe you don’t deserve self-care.

2. On a 100-point scale (0 = not at all; 100 = completely true), how much do you believe this limiting belief now?

3. Practice the mantra, “I am worth it” multiple times a day and check weekly to see if the believability factor (0-100) has gone up.

10 Ways to Release Physical Tension from the Body:

  1. Epsom salt baths
  2. Cold/Hot showers
  3. Cross crawl
  4. Walk it off
  5. Breathing (box breath vs. Too)
  6. Yawning
  7. Progressive muscle relaxation
  8. Aromatherapy
  9. Soothing music
  10. Restorative pose: legs up the wall

10 Ways to Ground Your Energy:

  1. Walk barefoot on the beach
  2. Wear leather shoes instead of plastic
  3. Take slow deep breaths
  4. Drink a hot non-caffeinated beverage
  5. Eat something healthy and heavy: root vegetables, meat
  6. Connect mentally with an affirmation: I am connected to the earth; I am safe and supported
  7. Focus on how supported you feel by the earth
  8. Go into nature
  9. Wrap yourself in heavy blanket
  10. Guided imagery

Healthy Routines to Build Up:

  1. Exercise: 30 min x 4/week, moderate difficulty
  2. Meditation: 15 min/day 5-7x week
  3. Sleep: 8 hours
  4. Yoga
  5. Drinking water
  6. Priming

EFT (Tapping) to Melt Away Stress:

  1. Pick an area to work on and rate it from 0-10
  2. Choose a setup phrase
  3. Tap about the problem
  4. Tap to release
  5. Reassess distress level

Repeat 4-5 times or until you get to a 0.

This Week’s Tasks

Continue:

  • Organizing your space
  • Reviewing your day and jotting down notes
  • Practicing gratitude
  • Eliminating energy drains
  • Focusing on what you can control
  • Prioritize the most important things (you)!
  • Cultivate self-compassion

This Week’s Challenge

    • Clear mindset obstacles and engage in self-care.

Resources:

  • Identifying risks table for clearing PRs
  • Script for clearing PRs

So much good stuff this week!