Releasing Tension Returning to Body ~ Guided Experience

Arejay addresses the collective anxiety and stress experienced by many due to recent events, particularly those who are energetically sensitive. They propose a guided exercise to help release pent-up emotions, ground, and calm the body.

Episode Transcript

Unknown (00:07):
It's January, and there's been a lot going on.
People have been feeling a lotof fear, a lot of anxiety, a lot
of stress, confusion, and thelist goes on. And with this, a
lot of those of you who are alsoenergetic, energetically

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sensitive, you, your body's beenon a bit of a roller coaster,
right? Some of us are havingharder times grounding. A lot of
people are, you know, in thiskind of frozen with fear in
their body. And so I thoughttoday, instead of doing the

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normal, you know, story share,we're just speaking with you
guys, I wanted to do somethingto help release some of that
from the body and allow you guysto have a way to help calm some

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of the anxiety, release some ofthe pent up emotions that we're
feeling, and just kind of groundback into your body and settle
back into your power and andrestabilize a bit. So if you are
in a space where it is safe todo so, then I invite you to do

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this along with me. If you arenot then just save this and come
back and play it later. When youare in a area where you have
space to move your body a bit,you can close your eyes and it's
safe and appropriate to do so,okay, so go ahead and stand up

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and make sure you have somespace around you, I would say,
like arms length is going to begreat, and just be aware of
what's around you. But go aheadand stand up and really feel
your feet right. This is goingto be even better if you can

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actually be barefoot so yourfeet can get the feedback from
the ground. But if not, that'sfine, but stand and really just
make sure you can feel yourfeet. Put a slight bend in your
knees, because you may belocking those if you're tense,

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and just go ahead and start tosway your hips gently, just a
little gentle rock back andforth. And we're going to go
ahead and we're going to addsome more intentional breathing
on top of this. Now, instead ofstarting with the inhale, I want
you to actually start with theexhale. You're going to exhale

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out the mouth. Your inhale isgoing to come in through the
nose, so you're going to startthat exhale. And as you're
exhaling, it is pushingeverything out. So your stomach
should be contracting inwardtoward your spine. So go ahead
and exhale. Let it be audible.Let it come out. We're keeping
that gentle sway. And then whenyou're ready, go ahead and

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inhale, nice, deep inhalethrough the nose.

Arejay (03:30):
And go ahead and exhale naturally. And go ahead and just
keep that going for a couplemore breaths, if you feel you
need it if you're okay and youprefer to go back to normal
breathing, that's fine, so we'rekeeping this way. And now go
ahead and gently tilt your headback, opening the front of the

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throat,
allowing yourself to feel thatstretch a little bit. And then
come back, bring your head backup to center,
and then go ahead and let itfold forward, gently tucking
your chin toward your chest.

Unknown (04:15):
You can keep your gentle sway if you want, or if
you prefer to be steady andstill, you can switch to that
now you'll go ahead and bringyour head back to center, and
then we're going to take ourright ear and try to touch it to
down to our right shoulder,allow yourself to feel that
stretch on the opposite side,bring it Back to center. And

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then we're going to go ahead andtry and take our left ear to our
left shoulder again, feeling thestretch in the opposite side.

Arejay (04:52):
Go ahead and bring it back to center. Now I want to
take your focus to your hands. Ijust want you to open and close
them. So you're going to makefists, then un ball them and
stretch them out.

Unknown (05:07):
Go ahead and keep that going. And now we're going to
switch from making fists. I wantyou to just wiggle your fingers
so your hands are open and justwiggling the fingers. And now we
move from wiggling the fingersto actually just shaking the
hands out entirely, letting anytension that they're holding be

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released, getting them nice andjust flowy and floaty. Right? So

Arejay (05:43):
and turn our attention to our shoulders, we're going to
let our hands come to stillness,and as we shift our attention to
our shoulders, we're going toscoop those up toward our ears.
Hold that. Hold it and let itdrop right and it's okay. If you
sigh heavy, if they drop, that'seven better. You want it to just

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be loose. Let it fall, howeverthey fall, okay. And we're in a
one more time. Take theshoulders up towards the ears,
hold total and drop, okay. Andnow we're going to focus to our
hips. So if you have, if you'recoming from stationary, it'll be

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super easy. If you're swaying,go ahead and come back to center
with it, so you have a stablefoundation to work with. And
you're going to go ahead andjust take your right hip out
toward the right,

Unknown (06:43):
keeping both feet still flat, come back to center. Take
your left hip out toward yourleft again. Feet staying flat,
come back to center and takeyour butt to the back. Not so
much that you pull yourself offbalance. If you need to bend

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slightly at the waist, that'sfine. Come back to center, front
of pelvis, forward, beingmindful of the lower back that
you're not extending that pelvistoo far. Feet still flat. Come
back center. Now we're justgoing to shake our hips, shake

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our hips, shake our butt, justwiggle it out. And if your hands
want to join in on the wiggle,let that happen. Your arms and
shoulders want to join in thewiggle. Let that happen too.
We're just wiggling some of thatpent up energy out of the body,

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letting it travel down yourarms, down your fingertips, and
just letting it out. Same thing,hips, letting it travel down to
the legs, down to the feet, justletting that out, then we're
going to take another breathhere, and I want you to start
with exhale again. So we'regoing to exhale, and I want you

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to actually, purposely blow it'snot so forceful that it's hard,
but blow it out,
and then hold the out breath fora beat or two, and now deep
inhale through the nose. Goahead and stretch your arms up

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to the sky. Keep your breathinghowever you need it to be for
you. And go ahead and begin tomove your feet so we're once
again swaying, but this timewe're picking up our feet, and

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as each foot is free, go aheadand circle the ankle a little
bit, just saying hello,acknowledging that, it carries a
lot too. And then now I want youto go ahead and step back into

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your feet. So now we're kind ofmarching in place, but your
knees not coming up very high,right? And just with each step,
feel that connection to theground. Feel that connection to
Mother Earth. Feel that supportin every step that you take.

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Get out any last Wiggles, anylast breaths. Thank you guys for
playing along with me. I hopeyou're feeling more relaxed,
less tense, and I hope youcontinue to have a wonderful

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rest of your day.