Embody Your Power
Embody Your Power is an integrative model that bridges science, spirituality and ancient wisdom to give you the resources needed to live your fullest potential. As a psychotherapist for over 16 years and now as a coach, I help people know, reclaim, and embody their power on all levels.
It is my mission to help you connect to your unshakable resilience, to know true power and freedom, to be sovereign and to remember your divine nature.
If you’re wanting to learn tools to release layers of conditioning, heal from trauma, feel at home in your body, have inner peace, expand your capacity for joy, connect spiritually, and take a journey with me to embody your power… then this podcast is for you.
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Together let’s raise our consciousness to help evolve humanity.
Embody Your Power
Feel At Home In Your Body
In this episode I’ll guide you to feel more at home in your body. Our body is our vessel or vehicle for our spirit in this life, so let’s look at how you can feel at home in it.
Has anyone taught you how to regulate your internal state so that you can shift gears between feeling too revved up and too sluggish, to cruising at a good pace, where life feels manageable? I’d venture to say most people haven’t been taught how to use their awareness to regulate their Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS) and Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) which I’m going to refer to as the gas and brake on your car.
Let’s look at the SNS as the GAS on your car which gives you the energy, the drive, the go. This is the system that’s in charge of your fight and flight response as well. Let's look at the PNS as the BRAKE on your car which allows you to slow down, rest, digest, and relax.
A regulated nervous system looks like driving your car in an easeful way where you’re easily pressing on the gas and easily pressing on the brake. The ride is smooth. You feel comfortable in the car. There’s no stress. It’s a relaxed enjoyable ride. That’s the experience we want to have in our body!
What does it feel like in your body when you’re pressing on the GAS too much?: You can feel overwhelm, anxiety, panic, insomnia, rage, hyper-vigilance, mania, increased heart rate, cold sweats, difficulty breathing, and muscle tension.
What it feels like in your body when you’re pressing on the BRAKE too much?: overwhelm, depression, stuck, apathetic, fatigue, lack of motivation, lack of energy, disconnection, low muscle tone, poor digestion, decreased immune system, low heart rate or low blood pressure.
I also explore happens if you have the GAS and BRAKE on full throttle.
I will introduce you to 2 Exercises to learn how to regulate your Nervous System.
There are many benefits of knowing how to regulate your body, being aware of the sensations in our body, and feeling a sense of ease in your body. Some benefits include: stress reduction, emotional regulation, self awareness, resilience, pain management, calm mind, and spiritual connection.
Knowing how to regulate your body and cultivating presence and ease within it can significantly improve your quality of life and contribute to your overall happiness and well-being. Putting in the time and effort is well worth it as it can have a profound and positive impact on all aspects of your life.
At the end of this episode I offer some exercises to try:
- Scan your body and notice what sensations are present.
- Bring your awareness to the sensation in your body that feels the most relaxed. You’re not trying to make anything happen, you’re trying to be curious to see what naturally happens.
- Recall a time when you felt relaxed. Bring yourself back to that time and include all of your senses (what you can feel, taste, touch, smell, hear…).
- Find time throughout the day to do this for a minute or two to prevent your nervous system from getting overwhelmed.
Thank you for listening!
With gratitude, Danielle Carron