Episode 002: You Are ONE Breath Away From A Better Response (Exercise At Episode's End)
Description
ONE breath, my friends, can be the great wedge that takes you from low to high, sad to happy, angry to calm.
Herein rests the epic secret that we all forgot about at some point in our lives: your physiology directs your psychology.
With a single breath, we can shift ourselves from our default state to our elevated state--recalibrating to who we want to show up in the world as.
If you ever feel that you do the following too much:
-lose your cool
-react to unimportant things
-project onto people
-get overwhelmed
THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU.
We all have room for improvement in being our highest selves more consistently.
One way that we quite easily get misaligned and fall into the pockets of in behavior is when we REACT rather than RESPOND.
Both a reaction and a response can only be expressed at the level of our current physiological state. This is the highest common denominator/great equalizer for all of our best communication practices.
Without creating a better/worse dichotomy, we can agree that we have the opportunity to behave in better alignment with our highest selves when we RESPOND RATHER THAN REACT--this is precisely what I'll empower you with the guidance to do today.
A very simple way to get great at responding is by practicing conscious breathing.
By taking ONE breath you can expand the space between trigger and response, and reset your system to the conditions you need to thrive as your highest self.
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+1 Practice of the Pod (POP): Be the steadfast scanner of your body throughout the day. Notice when you feel your nervous system getting excited to the point of "I feel overwhelmed." When this emerges, perform this protocol:
a) Notice your physical state:
-what color are you filled with?
-what color are your emanating?
-what is the temperature of your body?
b) Take ONE complete breath into your low belly. Repeat if it feels welcome by your body.
c) Notice the shift:
-what color are you filled with?
-what color are you emanating?
-what is the temperature of your body?
-do you even care anymore about what was bothering you? do you feel unattached now?
YOU did that! By tapping into your inborn machinery. Good work :D.
If you take no more than this from this episode, I'll be wildly inspired: YOU ARE ONE BREATH AWAY FROM REMEMBERING WHO YOU ARE.
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Episode Resources:
Book: Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Quote (from above book): "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
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Tune out of the non-sense and tune into your inner sense of brilliance.
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With Love,
Abbs
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