3-4-5 Reset Trick

It's important to be aware enough to find yourself reacting to something that may be a trigger response. You could yell at a driver for cutting you off, but it's not the driver, it could have been something that happened earlier in the day you never processed. Meditation is a way to slow that response time, but also, look inward with breathing. Next time you find yourself frustrated in line, or in a hurry, try the 3-4-5 Reset. It'll work wonders for your day.

Transcript

I want to share with you a little trick that I've used in different scenarios in my life where I've been in a state of fight or flight. Now you've learned a little bit about the beta waves where we're in this space where the bear's chasing us and we think we're going to die and we're just, We're ready to fight. Cortisol's running through our system, The stress hormone, And we just don't, We don't know what to do. We're not thinking clearly. And if you haven't checked that video out, Check it out. It's called Brainwaves. It's my kind of explanation as just a musician that has explored it and read books about it. Hopefully it makes sense. It was fun talking about it. I'm a nerd. I nerd out on it. I love it. But it's, I think it's important to understand brainwaves and how they function. So one of the little tricks that I have, If you can think about the different scenarios throughout your day. Now, One of the things that is really interesting about, Before I go there, The interesting thing about our daily activities is that we'll find ourselves taking things out on people that don't deserve it, Find ourselves getting frustrated or mad at people that don't deserve it, Because we haven't processed through the things that really are causing those problems. And it could be things that have built up over the course of a long time, Or they could have just happened. You might have got up, Your boss might have said, Hey, You're, You're, Whatever you submitted. I use an example of like, I write music for ads. And it's like, If I submitted something, They're like, Yeah, We're gonna go and maybe we need you to go in this direction. You just spent five hours on this ad. I'm frustrated. Okay. I don't want to, I, This is, I'm gonna have to take more time. I go out and I get dinner and I'm sitting there in a line and I'm mad. I'm like, I just want to eat, I'm hungry, Or angry, As some people would say. I just want to, I just want to eat, You know, And I'm frustrated and I may get to the till and I may be short with the person that's taking my order, But it's not her, It's me. And I came up with this concept of the 3-4-5 reset. And what it is, Is a breath in, And then a breath out. It's that simple. But here's what's happening scientifically. So when you, There's a really great book called Breathe. And he talks about breathing through your nose as opposed to your mouth. If you breathe through your nose, You're getting a lot more oxygen because it's going through a lot more area. And you're filling your body with oxygen. And then what you can do on your breath out is get rid of the stress, Which is the cortisol. Getting rid of that stress, Getting that oxygen into your system and slowing yourself down and slowing your brainwaves out of beta, Like we've talked about into alpha, You're going to get to a space where you're going to be aware. You're going to pause. You're going to take a moment and you're going to just reset. Now all it is, Is in for 3-4-5 and out for 3-4-5. In through your nose, Out through your mouth. So let's try it together. I'll do it again and I'll count this time, 3-4-5, 3-4-5. One more, 3-4-5, 3-4-5. You can already hear in my voice that everything just changed and I hope you feel the same way. Like you just literally took your brain and you just went down with the waves. Things slowed, Immediately slowed and you became more self-aware of your actions. So here's a little trick. The very first thing is you have to be aware that you're in a space where you're reacting in a place that's not from your true self. You're reacting from a space of trauma or you're reacting from a trigger, Which is your true self, I understand that, But it's not the self that you want to bring outwards. You want to let that stuff out so that you can be at peace and understand the situation for what it is. So I challenge you, If you're in line, Get cut off, You get a bad phone call, Something happens that triggers you, I challenge you to just stop, 3-4-5 in through your nose, 3-4-5 out through your mouth. Oxygen in, Cortisol out, Do that four times, Four times, That's it. Just four, 3-4-5, Four times, And you're going to immediately feel a sense of peace that you didn't feel before and you're going to see the situation for what it actually is and not what your beta fight or flight brainwaves are telling you it is. Thank you for listening. Thank you for being here. Peace and love and I'll talk to you soon.

Reviews

Following! Currently delighting in reading BREATH.

Thank you for this simple, highly effective technique to ease many life situations. 🧡

Thank you! Loved this, so helpful and the piano is a beautiful calming touch too. Have a great day.