SHIFTING YOUR GEARS: Emotional Balancing and Release Technique
Energy release exercises can be significantly beneficial when faced with challenging emotions and dysregulation. Most anger, anxiety, and stress that we experience are actually the result of a mind/body dysregulation in which the mind is thinking of something that does not exist in this very moment, but eliciting a physical response as if it is (i.e. emotions). Once the body and mind recognize that the mental event does not currently exist and that the body’s reactivity is counterproductive, then we can effectively move back towards a state of health and balance. Here is a quick and effective technique for calming and balancing during time of dysregulation. Bringing awareness of the mind/body dysregulation is the most crucial part of this process. Without awareness of our mind and body, we tend to react in unconscious survival-based patterns. My “monkey mind” drives my life when I don’t catch this; and as we all well know… monkeys aren’t very good drivers. Once you are aware