Hello and welcome back to our day today we will be tapping into a really interesting and very cool concept called neuroplasticity you might have heard of this concept it is so fascinating i absolutely love researching about this i love talking about it because it's just actually is the fundamentals of how we operate and show up in the world So neuroplasticity is our brain.
And the function of the brain when we perceive certain scenarios.
Now the brain is designed to wire together and fire together certain neurons.
And these neurons then start to form little grooves in the brain.
So if,
For example,
We wake up.
With our heavy to-do list.
That first thought of,
Oh my gosh,
I have so much to do.
What happens is we fire up our nervous system,
Our neuroplasticity,
The memory of waking up a few days ago.
And feeling that exact same feeling about,
Oh my gosh,
I have so much to do.
Then the brain has something to go on.
It's like,
Oh yeah,
I remember the other day I did this,
And this is how I felt.
So all of a sudden you are feeling those same feelings of overwhelm and anxiety,
Even though maybe you didn't feel that when you woke up.
You might have just gone,
Oh,
There is a lot for me to do today.
But the brain went,
Oh yeah,
Let me just go back into the archives here.
That's how I felt when I heard that saying,
Oh my gosh,
I have so much to do.
Let's flood the body with those same feelings and the same reactions.
All of a sudden you're clenching your jaw,
Your shoulders are tight,
And maybe all of a sudden you have a headache and you haven't even gotten out of bed.
Okay so neuroplasticity is the brain's ability to find patterns and start to form grooves in the brain so the more the grooves are almost like a footpath so if you think about walking on grass The first time you walk on grass,
You won't really make an impact.
However,
If you continue walking in the same path on the grass,
You are going to start creating a pathway.
The grass is going to die and it's going to create a groove,
Right?
So same thing here.
If every morning we wake up with that same feeling,
Oh my gosh,
I have too much to do,
That groove is going to get deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper.
Even knowing or thinking about,
Oh,
I have so much to do.
The trigger now is just I'm waking up and I'm waking up anxious.
So what we want to do is we want to reprogram those grooves into a better way of reacting to stressful situations.
So this is almost finding calm in chaos.
And I think this is such a good lesson in resilience and such a good thing to have in our toolbox because We can get so anxious and so stressed about the most smallest little things.
So what I'd like for you to do today is just think about the fact that if my brain created a pathway and I'm living in a stress.
Response.
Effect absolutely every single day.
And my brain has created that.
Then i can also create the opposite this is how powerful this is we can absolutely change our brains and the way we think act and feel every single day can create that possibility for us So we want to change our neuroplasticity,
These grooves and patterns in the brain.
We want to change them to feel more.
How we want to feel.
So.
What I'd like for you to do is close down your eyes for a moment here.
Let's take a few couple nice deep breaths.
Just let your body settle for a moment.
There's this opportunity for you to gently just deep in into the space.
Feel your breath.
And just let your body become heavier and heavier.
And I'd like for you to just know that right now you are safe,
You are grounded,
You are here with me listening or watching this video.
You are safe in a safe contained environment.
Keep that in mind as I take you through just a gentle visualization.
So I'd like for you to just feel how your body feels as it sits here,
Safe.
Calm,
Grounded.
Take a moment,
Maybe.
It might feel restless,
Maybe it feels a little bit unsure of what we are doing and that's more than fine.
What I'd like for you to focus on is Feeling your sit bones on your chair or the floor.
Feeling yourself nice and heavy.
And then start to notice the emotions around that.
It might take a moment.
Let your body adjust to that heaviness.
Groundedness.
Safety.
Wanted you to think I am safe.
I am here.
I am safe.
I am grounded.
I am supported.
Beautiful.
Now I'd like for you to visualize yourself driving in a car.
You're driving down the road.
It's a beautiful day.
The sun is shining.
And all of a sudden someone cuts you off.
Just notice now the emotional response to that experience.
Just a reminder that you are safe in this.
Little experiment,
But I'd like for you to just notice how your body reacts.
To that fact that someone has just cut you off.
They almost had an accident.
What is going through your mind?
What are your thoughts?
What are you feeling?
What are you saying?
Are you swearing?
What is happening in that scenario?
I can immediately feel my heart is racing a little bit faster.
I can feel almost a bit of an adrenaline response flowing through my body.
Yeah,
So just tap into that,
Knowing that you are completely safe.
This is just a little experiment.
So just notice how we don't even have to be in that situation,
But our bodies.
Can take us there.
Into that stressful situation straight away.
So let's just.
.
.
Take a beautiful blue light and just imagine smoothing over that sensation,
That feeling,
Smoothing over with blue lights over that scenario,
Almost like you're wiping it off a board.
The blue is going to just contain all those emotions.
So just wipe that clean and then come back.
I would like for you to come back to that experience of feeling grounded,
Feeling safe,
Feeling supported.
So wiggle your sit bones and your neck.
Just come back to being here,
Here in your body.
Breathing deeply.
And now I'd like for you to imagine how you would like to feel in that scenario.
We probably won't feel the direct opposite.
But maybe you want to feel calm.
Maybe you want to feel collected.
Maybe you want to not have an anger response.
So again,
Just imagine.
.
.
The feelings of what that might be.
I am calm.
I am collected.
This was just a one thing.
I am safe.
Nothing happened.
I can move on with my day.
I can move on.
I am free.
I am safe.
I am free,
I am safe Just feel into the sensations.
I am free,
I am safe Beautiful.
We'll slowly keep that beautiful freedom and safety in mind as we start to come back.
Rub your palms together.
We'll bring the hands over the eyes.
And then gently,
Slowly release your hands away from your face,
Coming back into the room.
You are free.
You are safe.
Okay.
So let that just settle in.
Allow your nervous system to be here.
What I'd like for you today is to come up with a mantra that you can say every time you have that stress response.
It might not be that you've been cut off,
But maybe you're late for work,
Or maybe you lost your keys,
Or maybe.
.
.
I don't know,
I'm leaving house.
So I'm thinking about all the things that I need to get done in a month.
Which is crazy but maybe there's just something in your life that triggers that fight flight response um in your body And you might notice that fight flight by yourself tensing up,
By getting anxious.
You might feel your heart being in like a container or something.
Maybe you've got that extra heartbeat or butterflies in your stomach.
Figure out what that fight flight freeze response is for you.
And then what I'd like for you to do is every single time you feel that this week,
I would like for you to say your mantra.
And you can borrow mine.
I am safe.
I am free,
I am safe,
I am free.
Whatever that is for you.
I'd love to hear what your mantra is in our chat.
Thank you so much for being here today.
And I hope this lesson has given you some great understanding and great power knowing that we can rewire our brains into feeling more at peace and calm.
Namaste,
My friend.
