Healing our relationship with money can turn on and activate many internal stories, sensations and responses in our physical bodies. To support your journey through this experience, here are some nervous system healing tools you can employ at any time during this program and beyond.
Be in a quiet space. Uncross your legs. Close your eyes. Take a couple deep breaths. What is a part of your body that feels stable right NOW? When you find that part, put your attention on that place in your body, and notice what the sensation of stability feels like. Breathe into that place. Notice the feeling of stability. Wiggle your toes, refresh your posture, inhale, exhale, and open your eyes. You can use this every day.
Shaking is a pattern interrupt. Shake your hands, your feet, ankles, legs, body, your entire body…shake it out for a full minute or more. Flailing your arms, bending your back, really moving your body; make a noise as you do this. Then notice the sensation once you stop shaking.
Take a moment to get still. Put your hands on your back ribs at your waist. As you take a deep belly breath into your body, send the breath intentionally to your lower back and ribs.
Dancing, moving, walking, shaking as mentioned last week, rhythmic movement, running, exercise. Move your body to send your signal to your body that it is SAFE for me right now.
When you practice breathwork, exhale with intentional sound. Tears – crying when you need to and knowing you are safe and not in fight or flight is very healing and healthy.
Put your arms out in front of you and look at your two index fingers and spread them apart slowly, but move your arms to the edge of your peripheral vision and bring them back to the edge where you can still see them. Bring them back and see how you feel.
As many times as you want to, every day, say this prayer, either out loud or in your mind, and when you finish it, think the word RELEASE: “I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you, I love you.”
Think of the thought that is a limiting belief around money. Rock back and forth, side by side, and find a calm place in your body. Hug your body if that feels good.
Revisit your thought now once you are done swaying.
What would be a more supportive or more true thought you could think?
Sing a song that brings you comfort. In our shared practice we sang “Please Prepare Me” by Beautiful Chorus
Cross your arms across your chest and place hands on opposite shoulders. Then rhythmically tap one hand to shoulder at a time.
Place your hands on the wall, floor or desk and bend elbows and straighten in a pushup rhythm.
Stand on the floor and lift and lower your heels from the floor, lifting up onto the balls of your feet.
With the tips of your fingers, run them over your lips as if you were applying lip balm.
Reflect on your own money story. Can you feel where it exists in your body? Can you recognize the parts of you that come forward and perhaps the developmental stage of that version of you? Thank the parts that come forward. One at a time
Use the Emotional Freedom Technique to calm your nervous system around one topic at a time. See the Tapping Solution App.