I want to share a statement with you and I want you just to sit back and write down what you feel, sense and think!

What if I told you that anxiety is simply a habit that we’ve slipped into from a series of events?

What if I told you that you’re addicted to the hormones released by being in fight, flight or freeze mode?

And that hormone is CORTISOL - it’s your stress hormone and it serves an important job in your body. It's responsible for keeping your senses and reflexes, especially during fight or flight situations, at peak level. There are other hormones but we’re focusing on cortisol. Here is where we can get addicted to this surge of energy (like having 5 cups of coffee) that makes your body want to just move and creates a high level alertness – this particular energy surge is what’s needed for life or death situations, not everyday living. And it’s incredible the amount of people that live with this every single day of their lives. There’s no enjoyment or moments of peace, this energy surge is about scanning for danger meaning you are UNSAFE. You’ve trained your body, mind and heart to be constantly scanning on high alert for danger because you feel unsafe. Now we’re going to unlearn and un-train ourselves from this habit.

Once we’ve trained ourselves to feel unsafe, that’s all the mind, heart and body will scan for. It will specific search for what could be wrong and completely negate, what could be all good and right!

So how do we step out of this habit?  With awareness and by retraining these parts of ourselves to search for what’s good, safe and right!

We’re going to a gentle clearing exercise

Stress/Anxiety

1. I want you to think of something that stresses you out and just write it down in front of you
2. Now gently place your thumb and fingers on either side of your frontal lobe
3. Just focus on your breath as you do this

You will start to feel lighter and calmer.

What’s happening is the oxygen and the neural stimulation of these frontal lobes of the brain that helps to clear any stress or anxiety.             _________________

We’re going to do repeat this exercise again but do it differently. This part of the brain as I said above has a neurological effect of stimulating the blood flow and oxygen to the emotional centre of the brain in the frontal lobes of the brain where we create new associations. So this time I want you to think of something that you want to do but don’t want to e.g. exercise/eat healthy/study/go to bed early – write it down.

Motivation/Flow

1. Think about something you want to do but just don’t
2. Now place thumb and fingers on either side of your frontal lobe
3. Just breathe

You’re going to create good, calm and happy associations so what was once a struggle to get movitated, moves more in flow and ease.

*You can do this exercise daily to reduce any stress/anxiety OR to create good new associations to things you WANT to do! I’m encouraging you to do this one daily whether for motivation or destressing!

The Trigger Event

There is always one or a couple events that can tip us over to create a trigger. And a trigger simply means an event where you feel extremely stressed/anxious and don’t know how to manage it. A lot of the time during these stressful situations, we can go blank meaning our brain just freezes. All that’s happened is the brain goes into shutdown mode to protect you on some level.

This is what I call Shadow or Inner Child Work and what most of us try to avoid like the plague. We can’t sweep these parts of ourselves under the rug as we will trip over it at some stage in our life. I encourage each and everyone of you to step up and address it. The worst part is knowing it’s there on some level and still trying to pretend it’s not – this is the pressure cooker and resistance pressure that starts to impact you and again, confirm that UNSAFE feeling is real!

For many of us these events will have occurred from the ages 0-10 yrs old and after that patterns in relationships and situations will be repeated. Sometimes a trigger can be instigated in our later years but it’s usually started from when we’re younger. We’re going to do some timeline work to gently clear the event/s shortly.

I want you to think about a stressful event that you can remember and just write it down and let’s get to work…

This hypnosis recording is only meant to be done when you want to do work. It is not to be listened to daily or weekly. Anytime you use this recording, please allow 2 weeks to fully integrate.

* It’s important to note that anxiety can also be a vitamin/mineral deficiency If you’re female, going through peri/pre/meno or post menopause, then it’s a hormonal change and for men, you can also have a hormonal imbalance regarding your testosterone levels. All of the above can be found out with bloodwork through your Doctor.

Simonne xx

Our body holds every experience we’ve had from the within the womb up to this very moment. Just think about that for a moment, every amazing experience and challenging experience as well. We each challenging or stressful experience, the body steps into unsafety and that’s when the subconscious mind creates patterns/habits so the body can feel as safe as possible. Even if those habits begin to restrict your lifestyle – the habit has been created for a perceived danger.

These habits for safety, switch on hyper alertness within our nervous system which simply means, our thoughts, feelings and sensations are always scanning for danger.

What happens when this habit becomes ingrained?

We start living on what we think is ‘good’ energy but in laymen’s terms it’s nervous energy. We think we’re productive as we have to keep moving and the word ‘stillness’ seems so far away. In fact, the more you’re trained yourself to feel this stress/anxiety as means to get through your day and complete what needs to be done, means that ‘stillness’ actually brings a sense of chaos and magnifies this sense of unsafety.

By constantly moving, we distract ourselves from acknowledging we do not feel safe and thus becomes the norm. We understand physically that we’re living on adrenaline however energetically we become vulnerable as well. Our auric field instead of being strong, vibrant and expansive; it becomes exposed, fragile and contractive.

This means it’s easier for others to attach/dump/take energy from us as we have drained the exterior life force grid by not maintaining our spiritual hygiene. Our auric field will have tears, holes and be weak – no strong buffer between us and the outside world.

So, let’s repair our auric field now

Listen to this regularly to repair your auric field

One of the reasons our physical body can feel unsafe is because of past experiences (the body holds everything as a memory). It’s specific highly stressful experiences that will create these habits of protection, this over alertness. To change and shift this pattern we need to step up and be accountable and follow through for this change to stay.

So today we’re going to do a very soft and short breath work exercise. We’ll be following the Wim Hof beginner’s guide with 2 rounds only and will share the link on YouTube where he does 3 x rounds for 11 minutes that you can practice daily for yourself.

This style of breath work promotes happy hormones in the brain – dopamine (that happy high feeling we usually get from scrolling on our phones) and serotonin (creates calmness within our mind and body). Breathwork also resets our nervous system and invigorates our immune system. There are so many good reasons to do this 11 minute breath exercise. By resetting our nervous system, we reset stress and trauma in the body which most importantly reduces anxiety!

Let’s do some practice breaths – here’s the method

We’re going to take 2 breaths in and then 1 relaxed breath out

1. into the belly
2. into the chest
3. relaxed breath out

• No pausing between breathing in and out
• We want to see the breath going into the belly first, then into the chest second and finally one relaxed breath out
• You may get a dry mouth or cough – that’s ok
  • Just do a reset breath and continue
• Some may get some tingles, cramping or light headedness so you may want to lie down for this

Short breath work sessions allow you to shift and move stuck energy especially if you place an intention with it.

Let’s do some breath work

You can listen to your auric field repair and breath work – DAILY!

Here is the Wim Hof 11 minutes for Beginners’ link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BNejY1e9ik

Simonne xx