91: Grounding Your Nervous System with Amisha Klawonn

Episode Notes:

• When we started to get people into their bodies, into their breath, and just feeling what they needed to feel, they got better, and faster.
• Yoga Therapy really looks at the person as a whole.
•  We all have these different sides and these different pieces of us. But sometimes we look at them separately. Therapy helps you look at all of those different pieces of yourself.

Nervous System Grounding:

• Our nervous system is the piece of us that gives us the resilience and the bandwidth to deal with things that happen in our lives. And so any sort of trauma, any sort of trauma is going to activate that system. 
• And so your nervous system is on alert all the time. So what that's going to look like is little things that make you that that normally would not have made you anxious might make you anxious, 

Ways in Grounding your Nervous System:

1. Try a Guided  Meditation/ Sit in silence
2. Walking meditation
3. Body Scan
4. Breath Work ( Stimulating Breath Work and Calming Breath Work)

• For example, Alternate Nostril Breathing ( Do it 10 times every morning, before anxiety is at its peak.)

How to get restorative sleep:

1. As soon as you get up, get sunlight. This starts to set up your circadian rhythm.
2. Get out of bed, put your feet on the ground, and take a couple of deep breaths.
3. Work with a mantra. ( I am strong. I am in control today. I am safe. I am okay.)
4. Move your body at least 30 minutes a day.
5. Get off the screen two hours before bedtime.
6. Get blue blocker glasses/blue light glasses.

You can connect with Amisha through the following:

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/centered_mama/

Facebook page:  https://www.facebook.com/Onenessphysicaltherapy/

Website: www.onenesspt.com

Her Recommended Books:

1. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
2. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy

If you want more tools to help you, I have a workshop called Stop Talking Start Feeling, it’s a workshop that dives into emotions, what they are, and how you can begin to feel and process them and get them out of your body instead of stuffing them down. It also goes specifically into processing and releasing the emotions of guilt and sadness. You can get access to this workshop and all the extra things I have in there for only $27. Go to www.meganhillukka.com/workshop to check it out. 

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