This technique is one that you can do very quickly.
This can work to interrupt and to recalibrate your mind very fast.
When you're stressed,
When your mind's going 90 miles an hour,
You're up in your head thinking about what could go wrong,
You're afraid of this,
And your mind is spinning out of control.
Part of that running anxiety is,
I've got a mental warehouse of unresolved anger or hurt or disappointment.
But even when you have that,
You can interrupt it.
You can start taking your power back.
This is a powerful technique.
I started doing this in my 20s automatically to help me when I was feeling stressed.
I'd be driving a car,
And I would just start doing this.
I would just take in a really big deep breath and hold my breath,
Hold it for a moment,
Feel the tension,
And then I would hum the exhale.
And that feeling of the vibration of humming in my chest,
In my throat,
Somehow got me centered and focused out of my head back into my body.
And I want you to do it along with me here,
Okay?
You can close your eyes if you want to,
You don't have to,
But taking a full deep breath,
Setting your intention.
Every time you do it,
I want to get centered and focused.
And then just hum your exhale and feel it in your body.
Put your awareness into your center of your chest as you're humming the exhale very slowly and feeling it.
That's going to ground you back into the present moment,
Okay?
Let's do it.
You do that two or three times with the intention of getting centered and balanced.
I'm feeling scattered and my mind's racing.
I'm just going to take a deep breath in.
I'm going to hum.
I'm going to feel it in my body.
I'm going to ground myself,
Feel the frequency,
Get very centered.
And I didn't know this at the time when this technique came to me,
And I was doing it automatically years ago.
But now we know that that humming vibration actually stimulates the vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve changes the feeling in the autonomic nervous system,
But actually has now scientific proof that this can be very effective.
You can do this with your eyes open or closed.
Like I said,
I used to drive a car and I'd just be stressed.
I'd just take a deep breath in and I'd hum and exhale and feel the vibration as I'm driving.
Take another deep breath and I'd do it three times.
And I would just feel so much more clear,
Focused,
And in the present moment.
So that technique is valuable.
And here's the thing,
Just like anything with the subconscious,
It pays attention because it's like,
I've never done this before.
Your subconscious mind's like,
What are they doing?
All of a sudden you're doing something out of the ordinary.
When you're doing your old patterns,
Repeating your life,
Your subconscious mind's back there just taking a nap,
Filing its fingernails,
But not paying attention until you start doing something different.
And all of a sudden it's like,
What are they doing?
What is their intention for doing this?
And your intention then is,
I want to get centered and focused.
The more you do it,
The more your subconscious mind goes,
Oh,
They want to relax and let go of the stress,
So I will help them.
But you have to educate and re-educate your subconscious mind by doing this consistently with your intention,
Setting your intention.
Every time you do it,
I want to get centered and focused.
You can also,
As you're taking that deep breath in and as you're humming the exhale,
You can mentally say an affirmation like,
I am centered,
Focused,
And relaxed.
I'm centered,
Focused,
And relaxed.
As you're humming,
Silently in your mind,
Repeating the affirmation to give the subconscious mind very clear instruction.
You can just do the humming and get centered with your intention or you can also add more direction to your subconscious mind.
Practice it.
Do it.
It works.
So much so that I've been doing this for decades now that I remember once I had to go to some important meeting and I was feeling a little bit anxious and stressed and wasn't very well prepared for the meeting back then.
And I was in a conference room of people and I couldn't sit there and take a deep breath and hum in front of everybody.
But what I did was I did it in my imagination while they were doing their thing in the meeting.
I'd take a deep breath in,
But I would imagine and hear in my imagination that humming vibration,
Even though I wasn't physically humming,
But it had the same effect because I had conditioned my subconscious mind of what I wanted.
So I could do this very discreetly in a public place like on an airplane because I had already reprogrammed my subconscious mind.
And again,
Your imagination is so powerful when you do it with focus.
