Daily Unwind: Reconnecting with Your Why ⛽

Reconnecting with Your Why ⛽ 

In the rush of everyday life, it's easy to lose sight of why we're doing what we're doing.

We become busy, distracted, caffeinated, productive... and somewhere along the way, we can lose touch with the deeper motivations that give our lives meaning and direction.

In this Daily Unwind, you'll first settle into a deeply relaxed state before gently exploring one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves: What truly fuels me?

As your body relaxes and your subconscious mind becomes more receptive, you'll reconnect with the quiet source of your own authentic energy, allowing your "why" to become a source of clarity, motivation, and peace.

Sometimes we need to become still in order to remember why we're moving.

This Unwind includes: Reconnecting with your purpose, discovering your "why,"  nervous system regulation, parasympathetic activation, motivation, deep relaxation, stress relief, self-reflection, hypnosis for motivation, and intention setting.

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:01

Hey everybody, this is Jessica, and welcome to your daily Unwind, a podcast where we take about 15 minutes to come back to ourselves, explore relaxation, and ask the question: what do we find when we unwind? Thank you all for being here. Thanks for making this transition to this new thing I'm doing. I really, really appreciate that you're here, and I want to hear from you about how you're doing with all of this. So you can reach out to me by leaving a review on the podcast platforms, Instagram, my website, and Patreon where I'm doing a sort of behind-the-scenes thing. I look forward to hearing from you. Today, reconnecting with your why. So before we go on, as I discuss this topic, I'd like you to get yourself into a comfortable position. Maybe you're listening in the middle of the day and you're just seated. That's fine. Just make sure that your neck is supported so it can relax. Because when your neck relaxes, your body can let go. Good. Close your eyes. As you bring your awareness back to your body. And as you hear my voice, allow the sound of my voice to take you deeper and deeper. Good. It's so easy for us to run around, get stressed out, get super caffeinated, functioning from our heads, and forget why we're doing what we're doing. And I hear it a lot lately as a common question regarding motivation. What is your why? What's driving you? What's your fuel? So now I'd like you to bring your awareness down to your lips, into your lower lip specifically. Just allow all of your awareness to drop down into your lower lip. As your world becomes very small. Just being in that lower lip. And as your awareness hangs out down there, your lip might feel heavy or swollen. Good. And you might notice that your jaw is letting go. Just allow your jaw to release. Let it unwind. Your jaw holds a lot of energy.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

It feels good to let it go.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

I think examining our why is a very important thing every once in a while. I remember a hypnosis teacher telling me once that the biggest factor in hypnotic success, the most important driver of it, is the client's desire for results. And desire is that inner fuel. And that fuel is intimately connected to the why, the reason the client wants to change. Desire in the client is more important than the hypnotist or the environment or the suggestions themselves. Because if we want something, we have to have the fuel to get it. And your why connects you with that fuel. You're using your why to distribute that fuel into your life. Allow your awareness to be back in your lower lip again. And as your lip becomes heavy and relaxed, your belly is letting go. Your mouth and your belly are connected deep inside. So as you allow your belly to relax, your whole body is going deeper and deeper. As you imagine that relaxation in your lip now, moving up to your eyes, as the muscles around your eyes and in your eyelids are becoming soft and heavy. And as your eyelids are becoming heavier and heavier, you pretend that your eyelids are so relaxed they cannot open. You're just pretending. Good. As this lovely relaxed feeling moves down into your shoulders and down into your arms. And your arms are becoming nice and heavy. Heaviness moving into your hand, down into your fingers. Good. And now your pelvis is feeling very heavy in the chair or the bed. As you imagine the heaviness moving all the way down your legs, down into your feet and your toes. As you bring your awareness to any sounds that may be happening around you, and you allow those sounds to take you deeper and even deeper. And the sound of my voice is also taking you deeper and deeper.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

Good.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

So now that you are relaxed, we're going to connect with your why, your motivation. So you can tap into your fuel, your clean, burning, beautiful energy. Desire. In a moment, I'm going to be asking you some questions. But before I do, let me make one thing clear. There are no right or wrong answers here. We are motivated by all sorts of things. Noble and mundane, selfish and altruistic. And that's okay. So when I ask you a question, just allow your subconscious mind to respond, giving whatever answer it needs to give. Because we don't control our wise. Okay, so I'd like you to imagine that your day is unfolding. Imagine yourself doing something relatively important to you in your daily life. A task that has meaning to you. Maybe it's caring for another person or teaching a class or making a big decision. Just choose a moment in your day and be in this moment. And now you are in this moment, and at the same time, you are very, very relaxed. So as you hang out in this moment, I'm going to be asking you some questions. And I'd like you to listen to how your body responds. If you feel connected to a question, energized by it, it's probably part of your why. Okay. So as you are doing this thing in your day, are you doing it for your family? To contribute to your household? Just listen to your body. Yes or no? Are you doing this thing to realize some dream that you've had? Maybe for a long time? Yes or no? Are you doing it for your own growth and expansion? Your own development? Yes or no? Are you doing it in order to take care of yourself? Pay your bills? To survive in the world? Yes or no? Are you doing it because you enjoy this thing that you're doing? You feel good when you do it. Yes or no? Are you doing it to impress others? To feel a certain way about yourself? To achieve a certain status? Yes or no? Are you doing it to heal wounds from your past? To feel okay about yourself? Or to prove something to someone else? Yes or no? Are you doing this thing to be of service to others or to the world? Yes or no? Notice how you responded to the questions. Perhaps you've gathered new information. Or maybe you've always been in touch with your motivation or motivations. And maybe you didn't have any particular response at all.

SPEAKER_01 14:33

That's okay.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

As you continue to relax while I speak. The one that felt closest to your truth. And now imagine that motivation, that why, that reason is represented by a liquid in a fuel tank. And your motivation is written on the tank. Maybe it says family or survival or fame or service. Whatever it is. Now I want you to embrace that fuel tank. Imagine putting your arms around it and connect with it. Accept it. Let it in. And to receive the energy it's bringing. And now the tank is shrinking down, becoming small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. Now you bring the palm of your hand to your heart. And the little tank moves into your heart. Because this is where it lives. And you are at peace with your why. As you use your clean, pure fuel.

SPEAKER_01 17:12

It feels good.

SPEAKER_00 17:25

In a moment, I'm going to count from one to five, and on the count of five, your eyes will open, and you'll come back to the room and move into your day, fueled by this clean, pure energy of your why. One. Two. Coming closer and closer to your conscious waking state. Three. Energy moving into your hands, your feet, your head. Four. And five. Allow your eyes to open, coming back to the room, feeling wonderful. Thank you for unwinding with me. Let's do it again soon.