Daily Unwind: Your Power Is Not Where You Think It Is 💥

We live in a world that encourages us to solve, strategize, analyze, and push our way forward. But what if your greatest source of power doesn't come from effort?

In today's Daily Unwind, we explore a different possibility.

As your body relaxes, you'll journey below the busy thinking mind and reconnect with one of the deeper sources of wisdom within you—your heart. Together, we'll explore the difference between striving and allowing, and discover a quieter, steadier kind of strength that has been with you all along.  

Enjoy your power!! 

Transcript

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Hi everybody, this is Jessica, and welcome to your daily Unwind, where we take roughly 15 minutes to come home to ourselves, explore relaxation, and pose the question: what do we find when we unwind? Thank you so much for being here on this adventure. It is in its early stages, so I really need your feedback. So please reach out to me on whatever podcast platform you're using or Patreon where I'm creating a sort of world behind the world. My website, Instagram. You can find me anywhere. I'm easy. So I'd love to hear from you and uh let me know how these daily unwinds are doing. Okay. So before I begin my official intro, please get yourself in a safe and comfortable position. Close your eyes. Just make sure that your neck is supported. It's really difficult to relax if you're trying to keep your head steady and erect. So just allow your neck to relax, your head to relax, and I'm just gonna talk while you go deeper and deeper. So, today we're talking about your power. And that your power isn't necessarily where you've been looking for it, or at least not all of it. You see, we live in a world that asks us to kind of triple down on our conscious minds. We're asked to analyze and strategize and use willpower. In fact, the messages we get all the time, both consciously and unconsciously, are stuff like just do it, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, take the bull by the horns. Ugh, it stresses me out just saying that stuff. The message is that all of your power is in your conscious mind, and if you just try harder, but that's not the whole story. So bring your awareness to your breath for a moment. And as you connect with your breath, just hanging out on that lovely wave within your body, that lovely wave of your breath, you're beginning to sink with other rhythms within you. And as you hang out with your breath, you're sinking with rhythms outside of you. Natural rhythms and waves in the world. So now I'd like you to allow your awareness to move up into your eyes, noticing that your eyelids are feeling very, very heavy. And as they're relaxing, you imagine a warm, relaxed feeling moving all around your eyes. All the muscles around your eyes letting go. And as your eyes relax, your whole nervous system is letting go. And now I want you to pretend that your eyes are so relaxed they cannot open. And now lift your eyebrows while your eyes remain shut. Good. So there's a lot to be said for your conscious mind. It does a lot of interesting things. But it's understood in the world of hypnotherapy that the conscious mind, the part of you that's gritting its teeth and willing things to happen, it's sort of weak compared to your subconscious mind. Most of your power comes from a place much deeper than your thinking or willing or forcing. It comes from deeper inside of you, deeper in your body. Just notice now that as your jaw is relaxing, your belly is relaxing, that they're connected. So as your face is letting go, your body is letting go. You know, your mind doesn't end at your brainstem. Your whole central nervous system moves down your spine and is connected to your heart and to your gut. It's branching off into your legs and arms. As you give and receive energy from every single nerve in your body. So the power you bring to the world is not only about the ideas you think up or the problems you solve. It's the energy you bring into the room. It's the force you're carrying from within your body. It's your vibe. Your head is feeling heavy, like a bowling ball. And your breath is getting deeper, easily, comfortably. As the relaxation moves down through your neck, down into your shoulders and arms. Your arms are feeling nice and heavy.

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Heavy. And any sounds that you may notice going on around you are taking you deeper and even deeper. And you notice that as you practice unwinding on a regular basis, it's becoming easier and easier to let go. And the relaxation is moving down now into your legs, all the way down into your feet, into your toes. As you go deeper and deeper, your body feeling heavy and relaxed. And now you bring your awareness back up into your chest, into your chest cavity surrounding and supporting your heart. Your heart has power. Not only is your heart an organ doing its job, your heart has a magnetic field. In fact, your lovely heart creates the biggest magnetic field of your whole body. Bigger than your brain's. While your mind tends to be dualistic, seeing black and white, your heart is holistic, connecting with the entire rainbow of existence. While your brain is seeking answers, your heart is giving energy and love. While your brain is rushing between the future and the past, your heart is here now again and again. Simply being connecting. This is a special power. So imagine the force field of your heart expanding now. Really imagine it expanding. And now I'd like you to imagine one thing that you care about. Really appreciate. Maybe it's a person, a pet, a thing. Doesn't matter what it is. Just experience your appreciation. Or love. Feel the connection you have with this being or thing. Just enjoy it. Just enjoy the positive feeling you're experiencing. And the force field of your heart is becoming positively charged. You are emitting positive energy into your immediate surroundings. That's power. This positive energy is changing your life, your relationships, your choices. It can even influence the people around you. And this power doesn't require striving. It isn't strategic or competitive. It simply is. And everyone around you feels it. Whether consciously or unconsciously. And then something else. And something else. It's an endless chain of positive energy that feeds itself. And you have the power to create this energy at any time. Just as you are experiencing it right now. In a moment, I'm going to count from one to five. And on the count of five, allow your eyes to open, emerging from this experience, coming back to the room, feeling wonderful. And this lovely, positive power that you've cultivated here will move with you into your day. And every time you unwind, you'll come back to this place more easily, more quickly. One. Two, energy coming back into your hands, your feet, your head. Three. Thank you for unwinding with me. Let's do it again soon.