Let That Shift Go
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Let That Shift Go
Divine Discontent : What If It's Not Just Burnout or Frustration?
We're navigating the intense feelings of discomfort that many of us are experiencing lately as a call for change and growth. The conversation uncovers methods to process unease, embrace self-awareness, and ultimately transform our challenges into opportunities for personal evolution.
• Emphasizing the feeling of being 'squeezed' by life
• Discussing the concept of divine discontent and personal evolution
• Importance of self-reflection and emotional processing tools
• Anecdotes highlighting unexpected triggers and unresolved emotions
• Recognizing signs of discomfort and addressing personal needs
• Guided breathwork session to connect with emotions
• Encouraging shared experiences and the journey of self-discovery
Hello and welcome to the Let that Shift Go podcast. I'm Noel.
Speaker 2:And I'm Lina.
Speaker 1:And this is where we talk about the good, the bad and all the shift in between.
Speaker 2:We just talk mad shift.
Speaker 1:Let's get into it and on this week's episode, when the noise gets too loud, the call for change. I'm feeling the squeeze, feeling the squeeze. Yeah, it's getting a little hectic around life. Yep, odd pressure is just kind of confounding all around.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like nails on a chalkboard. Not sure what it is all the time, but it's there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you almost feel like you're like I've been trying to get away from like self-help kind of books lately, cause I'm just too overwhelmed with things. So trying to like watch Korean dramas or TV shows or like different kinds of music to make me laugh, kind of thing, but somehow I still see some sort of message Still finds you? Yeah, still finds me. But first let's get into these skin Deep cards. You want to go first?
Speaker 2:Sure, Okay, so my card is from the Healing Deck and the question is if you could make a tagline for our relationship, what would it be?
Speaker 1:A tagline Ready or not, here we come.
Speaker 2:I like buckle up, it's going to get bumpy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I like that too. That's even better. Buckle up, it's about to get bumpy. Yeah, all right. My question is what do you think has the greatest influence on our relationship, do you?
Speaker 2:think has the greatest influence on our relationship. Oh, the greatest influence our relationship is, I would say it's our need to evolve or to discover more about ourselves, and one of the biggest influences is probably, you know things, that like change thing we're talking about right now. Change that comes up is something that influences our relationship for the good, because we're, you know, I think we're both at a point now where, like what?
Speaker 1:is this about.
Speaker 2:What do we need to learn from this?
Speaker 1:When it's too uncomfortable to stay the same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's like all right, we got to go in. So I think that is definitely something that has affected our relationship for the good, because it's from a level of awareness that there's something to be gained from whatever happens.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know, like I've had friends or family and and or people in our lives or in my life specifically that you know, I don't know. I guess I would say like the best way to describe it is it's almost like celebrating the sin, or celebrating or glorifying, kind of like drama, drama kind of a thing in our lives and it almost feels, like I see of a thing in our lives and it almost feels like I see people staying stuck, yeah, like as if they're still in the 90s and they're living that type of lifestyle and it's like you know one.
Speaker 1:It gives me, you know, some time to self-reflect and see how far I've come, but also, too, it just inspires me to keep growing becauselect and see how far I've come, but also, too, it just it, it inspires me to keep growing, because I remember a time when I was like I changed for nobody. You know what I mean. This is just me, like you're. I mean I may rub you the wrong way, but this is how I am.
Speaker 2:This is just how I am.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's a cop out, it is because that's how I was. It was like what. You don't like that, I'm like what.
Speaker 2:Take it or leave it Take it or leave it.
Speaker 1:This is who I am and lost plenty of friendships along the way.
Speaker 2:And probably lost part of yourself.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Or the opportunity to figure something else out, or to grow or change, because it's like I don't have to. You know, this is who I am. That's such. Yeah, it's a life sentence. It's a life sentence is what it felt, like it can be a life sentence.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not on parole now you know good behavior I'm trying to get out.
Speaker 2:You're getting there.
Speaker 1:You're getting there, so let's talk about this episode.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:What brought it up for you?
Speaker 2:You know what I realized, like just working one-on-one clients, whether it's with breathwork or coaching, and just even my own experience of of today, of what's going on right now, and what I'm noticing is that it's more and more people, more of us, more of even myself, are feeling this squeeze Like why am I so uncomfortable? You know, a lot of people are having trouble sleeping lately. If you, you know, talk to astrologers or people they're like, well, the vibration of the planet is changing and so it's just affecting your energy.
Speaker 1:And it's like Southern California has been affected by fires. Oh, everything yeah.
Speaker 2:I mean, there's just so much going on, and I feel like, though, when I get excited because there's this opportunity, then to look at your discomfort and to see, well, what needs to evolve, what needs to change, and I think that more and more people are just feeling this literal squeeze of the things that you know you've been tolerating.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't think people are excited like you are. I think, I think you know that takes, you know, some self-work to be excited about those things, because the squeeze yeah, or maybe just a like a level of confidence that you can do it. I love that you're excited about it.
Speaker 2:I'm excited. I mean this. You know, digging at your triggers excites me because it's like you have a treasure that is laying right underneath that trigger. Let's go see what it is, let's go get it. And it seems like for the most part, we've been just floating along and people don't really need to look at it. And you know, we, you, can just tolerate the things that are there, that maybe are decisions you regret, or things that you know, people around you, or relationships that you've formed, or the job you took, and it's like, well, it's not that bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we can also kind of distract ourselves with other things to keep us occupied.
Speaker 2:But it feels like now, like the volume is getting turned up. So, whether it's on things that are dormant you know that you've just been oh, I didn't even really, I don't really think about that but maybe there's this calling for, you know, an evolution of you and those things can't go with you.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the volume keeps getting turned up louder and louder it feels right now like the volume keeps getting turned up louder and louder. Yeah, it feels right now Like the volume is getting turned up. We're feeling more stress, we're feeling more uncomfortable, and that's what. That's what I've been noticing. So when we were thinking about an episode for today, I was like I'm telling you, I'm not the only one that feels this way. It's not just people that come here. I think that this is collectively something that's happening, that we are being pushed to look at ourselves. We're being pushed to go in Right, because there's so much fear. There's just even the smallest things that you've just been like well, you know, I don't really have to change that, and it's like, yeah, you do. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because you're not even aware of how that programming is running in your undercurrent.
Speaker 1:Yeah Well, I mean just a little anecdote. I yeah well, I mean just a little anecdote. I was, like I said earlier, I was trying to kind of get away from self-help and so I kind of dove into like a Korean drama and then I also watch the TV show Suits and somehow, both of which are full of drama.
Speaker 1:So you know, I guess I you know I don't know what I was thinking, but I was trying to get away from the self-help part, but several one of the episodes involved suicide and you know we've had people in our lives affected with that and I really hadn't had to deal with kind of how that affected me.
Speaker 1:And I've seen, you know, plenty of shows with suicides involved, because a lot of them will have like a message in the beginning that says if you're thinking about this, you know, call 1-800, the 1-800 number for Suicide Hotline, and but this, this episode, I wasn't watching it for that, it wasn't even supposed to be, but it just happened to be in there and it just I just started feeling really emotional and I didn't really know why until it just then I started playing flashbacks of kind of memories and I realized that I never gave myself time to grieve that particular time in my life and the, the loss or the sense of loss that I felt, and you know it brought up such this abandonment issues and all these things and I was like, wow, why is this coming up so heavy?
Speaker 1:And then I was just trying to watch TV, yeah, and I was just trying to watch TV. And then I'm watching suits and it happens to be about like everybody in the main character. Harvey's life is like leaving and going and taking different paths and finding that they have to move on with their lives. And he's dealing with this abandonment thing and I'm like why is everything?
Speaker 1:I'm crying at Suits like this is this is not what's supposed to be happening to me. So the squeeze I think I feel, like what you're saying is things are just kind of right up at the surface and things that I didn't realize were really there are being triggered, if you will, by things I would never expect. But the beauty was I was able to kind of process something that I had never even thought about, that I needed to even process. It just was something that I skipped over, and finding that this stuff is just popping up even when I least expect it, when I'm not looking to try to heal something, is maybe evidence to what you're talking about.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's something that they, they call it. You know the they, whoever they are, is divine discontent.
Speaker 1:What's that?
Speaker 2:It's a deep, unshakable knowing that something has to change, and I think that there's just that alone a deep, unshakable knowing that something has to change. So there's this feeling of being restless, impatient, or even like time is running out. So what we want to do is talk about like, why is this happening? Yeah, how do you move through it? And what do you do when you realize you just can't unsee what you see? Now, like you're watching that show and suddenly your body is having a reaction, you're going into emotion, you can't unsee what's now being brought to your attention yeah and so there's.
Speaker 2:there comes a point where there's a choice. Then you can either process it, metabolize it, feel it which is metabolize it Right and do some self-inquiry and ask, like what is it that you need and why is this here, and address that. That was very impactful, that there there was literally an impact wound that somebody just put a bandaid over and now it's like that's still there. That scar is there, you know, and maybe there's something to be learned from it and something like a perspective to be gained by looking at it.
Speaker 1:And that's like alchemy right, changing something hurt into love.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Yep, something that you know, metal into gold, yeah, which?
Speaker 1:isn't easy, cause when I was in the middle of it, you know, just crying watching this show that's not supposed to be a show that affected me in that way. It was hard to see that, you know right away. Yeah. And just recognizing what it was and being able to identify it was helpful.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then using-.
Speaker 2:Awareness. Yeah, you became aware of what it is. Yeah.
Speaker 1:Then I did some breathing and just used my tools to kind of self-regulate and kind of what was that about? Did some writing and spoke about it with my therapist and it was just. All of these things kind of came from the forefront and afterwards was like wow, I'm so grateful, yeah, that I was watching that show that I didn't know was going to lead me into self-help. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:You thought you were getting away from self-help.
Speaker 1:That's what my intention was. And then you hear a song and then it's like, you know, it's one of those things like ah, this song's got some kind of and I've heard it a hundred times. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, one of the tools I love to use when you're having an emotion like that and we've talked about it before in past episodes is the RAIN method. The TeraB Brock. So that's that recognize that something is happening and then allow R-A. Allow and allowing is really letting that feeling be in your body. Don't stop it, don't stop it Don't be like. I got to get. I'm going to go turn the channel.
Speaker 1:My first intention was to like pause this show. I got to. I got to. What is this?
Speaker 2:Don't feel it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't want to feel this. And I was like, nope, I'm going to let it go, I'm going to what is this? And then, once I just opened to it, man, then I started flooding with memories and it was like ooh, then the memories hit and it got way more real. And then I had something, a thread to pull at, at least that's it you A thread to pull at, at least that's it. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2:You went right into investigate. Yeah, R-A-I investigate and investigate is pulling at the thread and leaning in. Leaning in asking, like, what is this about? How familiar is this feeling that I'm having right now? When was the first time I felt it Right? And then just letting yourself be with that memory, See it like a movie in your mind, and then comes N nurturing no-transcript yourself as a child or as a young man, whatever time that was, and being like, hey, what do you need and you're safe.
Speaker 1:What would have been helpful to hear.
Speaker 2:What would have been helpful to hear If you had just the most knowledgeable friend or someone you trusted and loved and they came to you. What would have been helpful for them to say? What would they have said yeah, and you do that for yourself. Right, it's. It's reparenting, it's repairing, it's reassigning a new emotional the scary word inner child.
Speaker 2:Yep, definitely, but that's a tool that you can use. So when you're feeling squeezed right now or there's some, you know that divine discontent is starting to come up. You know, instead of panicking, right Is just to get really curious. That's going to be the thing that is going to lead to healing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, don't push down those subtle nudges.
Speaker 2:Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Yeah, we tolerate discomfort and discomfort until we can't anymore. And right now it feels like the time of we can't anymore, right, and life is going to nudge you until you finally listen. So you were trying to not go into any kind of self-help and life's like nudge, nudge.
Speaker 1:You can't outgrow a situation. You need to grow into it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, grow through it.
Speaker 1:Grow through it, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah that something needs to change. It's not random.
Speaker 1:Cause I kind of feel like you know, you know when your parents are like when you get older, you're understand you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like I'm old now, I don't, I still don't, yeah.
Speaker 1:Like ah well, I'll outgrow that fear or that, but you don't outgrow them.
Speaker 2:You don't? You don't that especially fear? Fear is a very primal emotion, you know, so you're not going to outgrow it. Why don't you just lean into it, see what it's? You know a lot of it is just it's happening when maybe you've outgrown a situation, so even being, you know, in a job that you just you've never liked right, or you're still in it and you've outgrown it a long time ago. But you know what it pays the bills yeah, you don't feel supported, or yeah?
Speaker 1:you don't feel you can tolerate it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can. You can just show up every day. But when you start to, you know, get these kind of nudgings and this pushing and you start to really feel it in your body, which I feel is what's happening. Um, is that there? This is a time to look at what needs to change, what needs to grow. What part of this feeling can't go with you into what you're becoming? You know it's no longer just what you're doing and how you're just surviving, it's.
Speaker 1:There is a becoming that's happening, being really honest with yourself.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and really leaning in. So some of the signs that you're experiencing this divine discontent and I love how you phrase it as divine discontent, because it just sounds a little bit more approachable or like you don't want to run from it, that it's something that's divinely appointed for you, not at you is feeling drained in certain spaces. Feeling drained in certain spaces. So, whether it's in a group of friends, whether it's at a job, whatever it is, if it, if you feel drained by something, you're probably not being nurtured by it. You know, and you deserve to be nurtured. You don't just have to survive something. You can. You can thrive. That's possible.
Speaker 2:You start fantasizing about drastic changes. So if you're the person who's like I'm going to go buy 10 acres in some remote town, or I'm going to move to the mountains and I'm going to cut off all social media these are some drastic things. I'm going to leave this, move from here. If you're starting to fantasize about that, you're probably uncomfortable. It's nudging you to look for something different. Or this feeling like time's running out, I have to, I've got to. It's like this impending doom, Right, and I think that's another thing that people are feeling right now.
Speaker 1:You know a lot of people ask themselves or say I got to find the time? But I also heard somebody say nobody finds time, you make time. Yeah, definitely If you don't make time, you'll never find it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's that nagging feeling. Something needs to change, and if you don't make the time now, the time will be made right. If you don't address your wellness, you will address your illness.
Speaker 1:Because one of the three Ds will hit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Death diagnosis, divorce and that's usually what makes us uncomfortable and makes us like, okay, I've got to change now. But, I feel like right now, it's not necessarily just the three D's showing up that are getting people uncomfortable. It's you're watching a show or you're just noticing how you feel in a space, and normally you can just distract from it, but suddenly it's like I just can't do this anymore. I think I've got to move to the woods raise chickens, or you got to make a change, grow my own food, and well, yes, you should do all those things.
Speaker 2:But it's like, does it feel like you're trying to make a drastic change rather than maybe even just something that can be subtle, and that subtle thing can just be leaning in? That can be subtle, you know, and that subtle thing can just be leaning in, it just can be leaning in and just getting curious. So what do you do when you feel this way? What do you?
Speaker 1:think Well, I think you got to go in into the body.
Speaker 2:Definitely.
Speaker 1:Right Recognize In and through it, in and through the body.
Speaker 2:Only way out is through, uh, recognizing what it is, maybe actually what is making the noise, what is the thing that's calling your attention to it, that it just feels like that, like we said, like that nails on a chalkboard yeah right. Instead of getting umicked, get curious. Yeah, I think curiosity and openness is really the gate to walk through, and also like giving yourself permission to grieve what's ending?
Speaker 1:Yeah, let it go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, and it's okay to be sad about it. You know, yeah, I mean, and it's okay to be sad about it. You know it's okay to be like. You know this friendship, this job, whatever it is the relationship like, it's okay to be, to grieve and let it, let it end, instead of trying to hold on and trying to fit into the discomfort or make the discomfort. You know something that you can live with.
Speaker 1:Because these things don't go away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah for sure. Then the one big thing, too, is making peace with uncertainty, Because a lot of times what we don't change is because we're afraid of the unknown. You know, we've known it one way for a long time and we've talked about before. We will likely choose the uncomfortable hell over the unknown heaven and maybe just getting to a place where you know it's okay that I don't know how this is going to go.
Speaker 2:Be okay with uncertainty, yeah, and that's one of the hardest things because, you know, many of us have this need to control. You know, I want to control the situation. I need to make a plan that is A to B, to B, to C, to C to D, and then I'll feel okay and then I'll change. But maybe it doesn't look like that. Maybe it just looks like, you know, accepting that something needs to change and not necessarily knowing how, but just leaning into the work of clearing it, the work of you know Curiosity of going in, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely so. Rain method, I think, is something that could definitely work for this squeeze. And you know this loud, it's just going to get louder until it cracks, and then you have to listen. Right, you can run from it as much as you want. Just know you're not alone. Like a lot of people are going through this right now, because we're evolving and we're being forced to look at the discomfort and lean in in order to clear what is not really us, what's really not the self, because there is, there is this great becoming that's happening. You know, and don't be afraid, just lean in.
Speaker 1:People trying to become the best versions of themselves.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you know what? The best versions of yourself probably don't include abandonment or unworthiness.
Speaker 1:I mean, I think you know, a lot of the work is just understanding ourselves and going into cognitive behavioral therapy and kind of just recognizing your behaviors and your thoughts and your emotions, like how that all kind of moves through. And it's really helped me to recognize when I start to have these thoughts that are not very helpful, these, you know, thoughts that are not very helpful. Right, and once those start to trigger, I'm able to then go, ooh, use these tools. What is that? Why? Why am I bringing this up? What you know, all those thoughts of like you know, especially what just happened when I, when I was thinking about these abandonment issues with the TV shows, it was like, oh, why did that really? You know, come up for me and I thought I really dealt with that, but I, ooh, I really haven't. And what?
Speaker 1:How does that affecting my relationships, my interpersonal relationships, today, and the more I kind of laid those things over my life, even today and in the in the in most recent years, it gives me the ability to make better choices and quicker to apologize.
Speaker 1:You know, finding these ways to just be better with all these things and allow them, it makes it easier for me to deal with, you know, with this cold plunge that we talked about, it's like it's. I'm so afraid to go into some of these things, but I find that the more I, you know, I just allow, you know and don't shut down this TV show making me cry, the more I just allow and don't shut down this TV show making me cry, the more I allow them to come in, the easier it is to kind of use those tools, find a way to emotionally regulate myself. Really, the emotion comes for 90 seconds, right. That chemical reaction in your body only lasts for 90 seconds. So if you can get past those 90 seconds, you actually have the capacity to take control of your emotions. You just have to get through that first 90 seconds of it's going to bounce me at wherever because all of these chemicals process just happen in my body.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think, in having you know some level of tenderness for yourself, you know that when things come up, instead of shaming yourself for feeling that way or like why am I, is it a moment of feeling weak or angry or whatever, it's just really having a moment of tenderness and compassion.
Speaker 1:It's something missing. You know, self-care is something that's missing from a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And self-care is not just getting a massage. No, yeah, or your nails done. It's actually listening, Finding joy yeah listening to yourself, finding joy, yeah, doing things that bring you joy, but not superficial joy. It's that like a deeper, I don't know. There's just something deeper in joy that is available to you when you take the time to come back to center, Come back to yourself and ask what do I really need right now? That self-care is asking what you need.
Speaker 1:You see, well, I did, you know, was reading all these self-help books and sometimes I'm like gosh, I can't take anymore. But see, when I I tried to find some other distraction, even an audio book, something will pop in and I'm like, oh you know this book is about this in the background and it has to do something about with what I'm dealing with. Or maybe it's just because I'm now looking for that.
Speaker 2:And you even you know the whole thought of like just constantly being in self-help. Sometimes it's its own distraction.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I think it can be and I was trying to look for something to kind of distract me, but I find the places that I found the most growth is in places where I find time to self-reflect and kind of, yeah, going in, going in, yeah.
Speaker 2:Like it's time to go in, and a lot of times just that you know, constantly being in the self-hope, I need another, I need someone else to tell me the answer. Well, maybe this thing will be. The answer Is instead, embody the things that you're learning, but really it's going to be going in. Going in is where you know you have this innate healer in you and sometimes, if you can just get quiet enough to listen to it and let it speak, there's just so much more to be gained there than looking outside of yourself.
Speaker 1:I think the fear for me was always that if I pull these things up and really feel them, it's going to change who I am like for the bad it makes. Because I feel like all of these quote unquote bad things that happened forced me to create this armor and this shell of a harder person, a persona yeah, a persona and I felt like I think the fear for me prior to doing some work was that it would make me worse. You know that I would be even crazier. You know what I mean, or meaner or something, because I allow it to affect me.
Speaker 2:Wow, yeah, I bet you're not alone in feeling that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was the absolute fear. Why would I want to go and do inner child work? No, I'm not doing that. Why? I've already dealt with that.
Speaker 2:I Child work.
Speaker 1:No, I'm not doing that. Why? I've already dealt with that. I don't want to deal with it. I don't want to do it again. Yeah, why? But what I found is that in and through the body, right, the breath work. That first time I did breath work, experiencing it in that way and bringing up a memory in such a way, in an altered state of consciousness, through breath work, Metabolizing it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, totally shifted into like the way that I experienced it, because it's totally different than talking with a therapist about it, because you don't really feel it.
Speaker 2:And that's all it wants is to be felt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and similar, like I got into that same feeling just watching this show, because I was more open to it, because breathwork, I think, has opened up a pathway into like feeling things. These shows now boom, will pop up, and there it is.
Speaker 2:Your teacher's. Here the teacher's here In suits, shine your sign and I've been trying to get away.
Speaker 1:Oh, I don't want to read anymore. And then I watch a different TV. Oh, there's the matches still. It's still going to find me, and I think that's what this show is really about. Yeah. Is how things are just right at, and there's subtle signs that we keep ignoring or pushing down. But it's, it's your time, it's the time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree. Well, I think it's speaking of breath work. What if we did a little? You know, mini guided breath work journey? Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1:I like when you do these.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's do that. I love incorporating this and so if you're listening and you are able to be in a place where you're, you know, not driving or operating machinery or even you can just save this for later, but just being somewhere that you're safe and comfortable, let's go into just a quick, you know, cleansing, clearing and repatterning breath work. It's going to be 30 breaths activating, cleansing, clearing, with that sweeping with the broom, and then 30 breaths through the nose. So first one's through the mouth and then we're going to switch through the nose and I will lead you through that. So just find yourself in a comfortable position. You can be sitting up, spine straight, and just feel the ground beneath you. Imagine yourself like a tree, like a tree trunk, and below you are the roots and you can just feel those roots going down deep. And then imagine the tree, you know, with its leaves blowing in the wind, reaching up to the sky with the breath letting it go, feeling yourself in the space and just connect with your breath, become aware of your breath coming in and out, and just imagine that you have a balloon in your belly and you have a balloon in your chest and you're going to fill up both of those balloons so deep and then just let it go. And we're going to find that circular, connected breath. And so now, bringing your attention to your belly and your chest, let's take a deep breath in deep into the belly, bringing it all the way up into the chest, letting it go, all the effort on the inhale. We're going to do 30 breaths. Here we go, and with each inhale I want you to pull in clarity and momentum and with each exhale, release what's no longer aligned, feel that energy, build, move through the resistance.
Speaker 2:Nice, big inhales, letting the exhales go. Where are you holding any fear in your body? Any fear of change, the fear of a loss of control? Big breath in, let it go, deep inhale in all the way to the top and hold, hold and notice what's in your way, what's calling your attention, and release it with a sigh, sigh. Just pause here for a moment. We're going to start to breathe in through the nose 30 big breaths, repatterning, calling in. And here we go In and out through the nose, slow, deep inhales, soft exhales.
Speaker 2:Each breath is an invitation to allow yourself to receive Deep in through the nose, circular and connected. That's it. You've got it. What do you want to call in. What is this next becoming of you? What have you been tolerating that you want to let go of? Sweep it all up and, on the exhale, feel yourself letting it go Almost there.
Speaker 2:A few more big, deep breaths in through the nose, letting it all go and, as you exhale, trust that what's meant for you is already on its way.
Speaker 2:Two more big breaths, one more big breath in and let it go. Empty, empty, empty, slow and soft and holding here at empty, holding air at empty so you can receive and just notice, feel that connection with your body. And, when you're ready, take a big, deep inhale in through the nose and let it all go and just, keeping your eyes closed, feel the ground beneath you, feel the activation of energy in your body and just know you don't have to figure it all out right now. Sometimes just clearing space is enough and just trust that what you're feeling, what's rising up, is leading you where you need to be, and just slowly blink your eyes open, coming back into the space, maybe shaking out your hands, moving your neck from side to side, feeling that connection with your heart, with your center, and maybe right now just asking yourself or a journal prompt for later. What is one thing I've been tolerating that no longer serves me? When am I ready to let go of?
Speaker 1:All right, that's been another episode of Let that Shift Go podcast. I'm Noel.
Speaker 2:And I'm Lena. Let us know what your questions are and we'd love to use them on a future episode. Or check us out on Insta at Let that Shift Go, or visit our website, serenitycovetomeculacom.