If you're feeling numb right now or paralyzed,
Don't worry.
I got you.
And actually,
You know what?
You also got this.
So let's just do this little practice together,
Okay?
Sit down or stand up,
Whatever feels right to you right now.
And just focus a little bit,
Like,
How does this numbness or paralyzation show up in your body?
Maybe it sits in a specific place or maybe it just looks like something or feels like something,
A color or material.
Just notice and just soak all of this information in.
And now that you are okay,
We got this,
We get you out of this.
So to start,
I would like you to slowly bend forward,
One vertebrae after the other,
One vertebrae after the other,
Slowly bending forward and inward,
Kind of like a snail.
And then you get back up again,
Trying to straighten your your backbone.
You can do this even when you're lying down.
You can do it in whatever position.
And when you're up,
You're doing it again.
What you're doing here right now is you are basically massaging the muscles that are around a part of the vagus nerve that is activated when you feel numb or in paralyzation.
So we're trying to move that area more so that part gets stimulated,
Which is sending different signals to your vagus nerve,
Which will then in turn stop the sensation of paralyzation.
So continue moving up and down.
And when you are back up again,
Try and move sideways a little bit.
Just sway from one side to the other.
You're doing so great.
You're doing so well.
And just know that that feeling of paralyzation and the difficulty of doing decisions and that is actually just a way of your body trying to protect you in this situation.
But you got this.
Your body doesn't need to protect you from anything.
You know what to do.
Maybe not the first obvious idea in your head is what to do,
But you know.
And trust your instinct.
Trust your gut in this.
Just move from side to side.
And now I'd like you to do a little twist.
If you are familiar with yoga,
Then it's kind of like a twisted pose.
If not,
You can just just twist and try to look over your left shoulders far to the back as you can.
And then you do the same on the right side.
If you're feeling better here already,
That's great.
Then you can just come to rest and observe.
If you feel like you need more movement,
Get up and move.
Do the movements that feel right to your body right now and do them as long as you need to feel like you're more activated and coming back to yourself.
You're doing so great.
I'm so proud of you.
You got this.
And you can always come back to this practice if you need.