You know what it’s like to experience stress. It can, and usually does, happen when you least expect it. You’re peacefully going about your day, and suddenly, someone or something leaps in front of you or sneaks up behind you. Where you want to go and how you want to get there have been derailed. Worse, who you think you are may even feel at risk. How can life go from calm and steady to chaotic and distressing in the blink of an eye?

Your body is designed for these kinds of surprisingly stressful moments. You have systems in place that make it possible for you to fight, flee, or freeze. You also have more evolved resources that enable you to manage threats, of any size. You may have heard about your Autonomic Nervous System. It’s the biological resource for handling threats and keeping many important functions in balance.

Your vagus nerve is the superstar of your ANS. It plays a key role in responses to threat and trauma. Dr. Stephen Porges has deepened the understanding of this amazing conduit through his work on what he calls the PolyVagal Theory.

All you need to know in order to benefit from this extraordinary sensory communicator within you is that it’s always working FOR you.

So, let’s return to that stress-inducing moment. It’s upsetting. It can feel disorienting. However, it can be even more troubling if you don’t know why you react in the way that you do. It’s difficult enough when other people behave in ways that are disappointing. It’s even worse to feel that you’ve disappointed yourself.

You may be judging yourself for the ways you react to stress, fear, or even pain. Fortunately, there are things you may not yet know that will eliminate any judgment, blame, or shame and give you the freedom to feel good.

Think Of It This Way

Current events trigger old wounds that are wired throughout your body causing your fight, flight, or freeze system to light up like a Christmas tree. The natural processes in this guide allow you to draw upon your body’s wisdom and ‘unplug’ the lights and allow your system to relax, re-member, and restore.

Your body is a most faithful messenger and storehouse of all the wisdom you possess. It’s been said that the body never forgets and it never lies. If you don’t connect easily to this wisdom, you were most likely conditioned to ignore what your body tells you.

Allow yourself to be present to whatever arises with kind curiosity and trust that each story you hear within contains wisdom for you that will be revealed in time as you partner with your body.

There are 5 key benefits to tapping into your body’s natural wisdom:

• Clear your mind in order to be fresh for the day.
• Nourish your mind with centeredness and calm.
• Grow a sense of trust in yourself because you’re demonstrating self-love on a daily basis.
• Generate neurochemicals that improve your mood, perspective, and ability to come up with solutions to challenges.
• Enhance your intuition and inner wisdom.

While there are virtually an unlimited number of ways to access the wisdom of your body, this guide introduces five that are extremely simple, time-tested, and have demonstrated powerful results.

5 Natural & Simple Reservoirs of Wisdom

It’s common to see these types of techniques as being outside of you and yet, each of these resources owes its effectiveness to the fact that your body is designed to support you in meeting moments of stress, fear, or even pain.**

Another way to say this is that nothing outside of you will ever be more powerful than what’s inside you. This is a subtle but important shift. You’re not fixing yourself. You’re learning how better to optimize what’s already within you.

All of these processes deliver the greatest benefits when practiced with regularity. They’re organized here by the amount of time each one takes, from shortest to longest.

I. Pranayama Breathing 4-7-8 Technique – <1 minute

II. Vagus Nerve Reset – 1 minute

III. 9 Gamut Procedure – 1 minute

IV. Body Sense Meditation – 2 minutes

V. Emotional Freedom Technique, also known as Tapping – 10 to 30 minutes

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The Status Quo & Your Story

Your body is extraordinary. They communicate with you constantly and have a wealth of richness and wisdom.

Every sensory system has a profound purpose and is always in service of your well-being.

Unfortunately, from early on your social conditioning and constraints often taught you to ignore the messages they give you.

Now, you’re feeling and hearing the calls to restore your natural connection to the Wisdom of Your Body.

Test out at least one of these resources. If you feel resistance, rejection, or a critical voice within, you can trust that this is a good sign. It means that you’re considering changing the status quo and with it your story.

It’s natural that the part of you responsible for maintaining that status is sending you messages, trying to warn you off. Changing the story you have about yourself and the way things are is risky. It’s also essential.

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