Tuesday Truths – January 30, 2024
You know how a human hug can calm anxiety, stress, or negative emotions?
A “Butterfly Hug”…… is a simple and easy technique to calm yourself when you feel panicky or need to relax your body a bit. It can only take a few minutes.
Practicing the Butterfly Hug will help you connect to the calmer side, your parasympathetic nervous system. Opposite of the flight and light (SNS). You can only be in one or the other system, never both! https://www.today.com/today/amp/rcna24055
Here are 6 Easy Steps to do a Butterfly Hug:
https://www.quara.com
- Engage in some intentional deep breath work. Next….
- Draw awareness of your emotions with a mindful intention and without judgment…… while continuing your breathing work.
- Cross your hands over your chest (like a bird shadow puppet) and lock your thumbs together to feel anchored to your collarbone.
- You can close your eyes and … begin slowly, tapping, alternating left and right, and continue for 30 seconds …..to a few minutes ……until you feel calm and grounded.
- Add “I am” affirmations, for example: “I am safe,” I am loved,” and “I am enough” while tapping.
- Continue to hold self-awareness….. slowing the mind and body with each breath, letting all emotions come up.
How was that for you?
I love the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for a deeper approach to relieving physical pain and emotional distress symptoms.
I studied this technique a few years ago when I began my Health and Life Coaching journey, called “tapping or psychological acupressure.”
Based on Chinese medicine, EFT focuses on the meridian points or energy hot spots to restore your body’s energy. https://www.healthline.com/health/eft-tapping#treatment
Check out one of my early blogs on tapping from March 14, 2021, on my website. https://michelerase.com/what-is-tapping/
Embracing the simple yet……profound act of Butterfly Hugs can be a transformative gift to yourself, especially in moments of anxiety or stress.
As you open your arms wide and gently cross them over your chest, connecting with the soothing rhythm of your breath, you unlock a powerful tool for self-calming.
Allow the Butterfly Hug to be the wings that carry you through the storms, leaving you stronger, more centered, and connected to the beauty of your resilience.
Bye for now. I hope you found this to be a short and sweet practice!
