Loved reading your toolbox! And great to get the link about EFT, as I've heard it mentioned a lot but never properly looked into it.
I also love shaking it off (I really want to bring more dance into my day to day life) and hand-on-heart tuning in. I love self-compassion meditation as well (e.g. the self-compassion break, where you acknowledge your emotions and recognise that you are not alone in feeling that way, and then cultivate compassion for yourself. Or the RAIN meditation from Tara Brach- Recognise (your emotions/experience), Allow, Investigate (what exactly your feelings are), Nurture).
And also connecting with others, particularly if solidarity and laughter is involved!
Oh yes being surrounded by others can help with anxiety and in general, unless we’re introverts and draw energy from being alone I guess!
Great recommendation, will check out the meditations you suggested 💛
I’m really not an expert in EFT at all, sadly.
Heard about it years ago and it came back into my life regularly since.
Want to dive deeper at some point but for now already the tapping on my collar bone area helps a lot. And I love some good peer reviewed research on evidence based success.
Ah Carmen, I loved reading this and thank you so much for including my words, it really means a lot.
I completely relate to your annoyance at leaving behind the drink you had been looking forward to and really appreciated the honesty about your feelings alongside your insights and really helpful tools to help x
So glad it resonated, Lyndsay and also to hear I’m not the only one who would get upset when forgetting a drink or snack we were excited about. 🫣
I still find it hard sometimes to share honest feelings and emotions on Substack but I feel like that’s the thing that resonates the most with others 💛
Do you have any specific tools to stay grounded on days that aren’t going to plan?
I love these practices Carmen, I think it's so important to have your own 'toolbox' of things that work for you that you can bring out to use when you need to. Touching your heart is a great one as is tapping. I also find that focusing on my breath and just extending the in and out breath really helps.
Ashtanga, peloton and kettlebell swings. Ofcourse intentional sitting with spine straight and just breathing always works. Non reacting and questioning, is this true? Knowing the opposite of my preference is also true. Knowing all things pass and is subject to change. ❤️
Hi Carmen! Thank you so much for your embodiment toolbox! I went through each one slowly and felt myself really come back to myself after an anxious sort of morning. Amazing tools! I'm going to revisit these a lot. And then, imagine my surprise in seeing my name in your post! 🤗🥰🤗 Thank you for including me! You've made my day wonderful all around!
Beautiful Carmen, I loved reading this and thank you so much for sharing my words here too. I appreciate you and your support xx
And you won't believe it but the same thing happened to me last week 😂 I left a delicious cacao behind to only then be reminded by my babes that "mama didn't you just buy a cacao?" Lol I did turn the car around and went back but can very much relate to feeling like a headless chicken haha
Beautiful reflections!! I love that tapping technique too, it’s served me so well in peak moments of anxiety.
So glad it works for you too, Rachel. Thank you for sharing ✨
Loved reading your toolbox! And great to get the link about EFT, as I've heard it mentioned a lot but never properly looked into it.
I also love shaking it off (I really want to bring more dance into my day to day life) and hand-on-heart tuning in. I love self-compassion meditation as well (e.g. the self-compassion break, where you acknowledge your emotions and recognise that you are not alone in feeling that way, and then cultivate compassion for yourself. Or the RAIN meditation from Tara Brach- Recognise (your emotions/experience), Allow, Investigate (what exactly your feelings are), Nurture).
And also connecting with others, particularly if solidarity and laughter is involved!
Thank you Miriam!l for sharing your tools!
Oh yes being surrounded by others can help with anxiety and in general, unless we’re introverts and draw energy from being alone I guess!
Great recommendation, will check out the meditations you suggested 💛
I’m really not an expert in EFT at all, sadly.
Heard about it years ago and it came back into my life regularly since.
Want to dive deeper at some point but for now already the tapping on my collar bone area helps a lot. And I love some good peer reviewed research on evidence based success.
Nice!
Ah Carmen, I loved reading this and thank you so much for including my words, it really means a lot.
I completely relate to your annoyance at leaving behind the drink you had been looking forward to and really appreciated the honesty about your feelings alongside your insights and really helpful tools to help x
So glad it resonated, Lyndsay and also to hear I’m not the only one who would get upset when forgetting a drink or snack we were excited about. 🫣
I still find it hard sometimes to share honest feelings and emotions on Substack but I feel like that’s the thing that resonates the most with others 💛
Do you have any specific tools to stay grounded on days that aren’t going to plan?
I love these practices Carmen, I think it's so important to have your own 'toolbox' of things that work for you that you can bring out to use when you need to. Touching your heart is a great one as is tapping. I also find that focusing on my breath and just extending the in and out breath really helps.
Thank you for sharing Louise! 100% our breath is probably the most approachable “tool” we can use anywhere and any time. Simple and so powerful ✨
Ashtanga, peloton and kettlebell swings. Ofcourse intentional sitting with spine straight and just breathing always works. Non reacting and questioning, is this true? Knowing the opposite of my preference is also true. Knowing all things pass and is subject to change. ❤️
Thank you for sharing, Paolo! Oh yes, movement gets us back in our body, love a good workout too.
And yes, questioning our anxious mind on truth. Good point👌sounds like you have a helpful toolbox of various things to suit the situation 🥰
Hi Carmen! Thank you so much for your embodiment toolbox! I went through each one slowly and felt myself really come back to myself after an anxious sort of morning. Amazing tools! I'm going to revisit these a lot. And then, imagine my surprise in seeing my name in your post! 🤗🥰🤗 Thank you for including me! You've made my day wonderful all around!
Beautiful Carmen, I loved reading this and thank you so much for sharing my words here too. I appreciate you and your support xx
And you won't believe it but the same thing happened to me last week 😂 I left a delicious cacao behind to only then be reminded by my babes that "mama didn't you just buy a cacao?" Lol I did turn the car around and went back but can very much relate to feeling like a headless chicken haha
So much love to you xx
🤣 omg can’t believe this happened to you too, Claudia!
I’m so glad you share because it makes it less of a big deal to realise it happens to the best of us.
Glad your hot chocolate patiently waited for you and you were able to turn around to get it. Incredible how children are so aware when we are not. Xx
Ohhh this made my day! 😅 Thank you for sharing Jenna.
So glad the practices resonated and helped you calm down.
Keep me updated on how they evolved when you return to them in anxious moments. Always love how we create our own variations of embodiment practices.
I was humming earlier when I walked down the stairs at the office, one hand on my chest to connect again with myself after a long afternoon. ❤️