Your adrenal health is the single biggest determinant
of how you can live your entire life,
how much you can engage with your own enjoyment in life,
how much you can feel like you're thriving easily,
rather than striving.
Now if you have not experienced any stress at all
in the last three months,
then you can stop this video now
because your adrenal health will be vibrant and vital
and awesome in your whole body.
If, however, you have had any stress
in the last three months,
and I'm thinking that probably means you,
then actually the exercise that I'm gonna get to
a little bit later on in this video
is gonna be great to start restoring your adrenal health.
My name is Prune Harris, I'm an energy expert.
I've been able to see energy since I was born,
and I've worked in clinical practice for over 20 years,
helping people really understand their energy
so that they can live their fullest lives,
their healthiest lives,
and if there was one thing that I saw in my practice
as the absolute baseline for health, for vitality,
for being able to engage with other people easily
and being able to engage with yourself easily,
then it's what your adrenal glands are doing.
So why?
Why are these little glands so important?
As part of your endocrine system,
they're responsible for releasing hormones into your body,
and your adrenal glands release two, especially,
two very powerful hormones.
One of them is adrenaline and the other one is cortisol.
Now, adrenaline is an amazing, amazing chemical
that comes in and it moves your body
so that you can either fight someone,
that you can run away from someone,
or that you can temporarily be hidden
before you have to fight or run away.
That of course is your fight, flight, and freeze response.
After the big peak of adrenaline,
cortisol comes in behind that
and ensures that you can sustain
that big push in your system,
and of course, this is a stress response.
This is so that you can stay alive.
But, the stresses that you have in your life right now
aren't necessarily life threatening.
They're stresses like how to pay bills,
how to get your work done effectively in the time you have,
how to manage your home life, your family life.
It's those stresses that so many of us
are living with and working with.
And your adrenal glands, sometimes, often,
can move you into fight, flight and freeze
because they recognize that there's stress in your life,
and actually, that's a really inappropriate stress response
to these modern stresses.
So, what I wanna give you here right now
is an exercise that helps calm
that overactivity of your adrenal glands.
It's a simple energy exercise
that works to really balance
your adrenal health at deeper levels.
And I'm gonna suggest, if you like doing it,
then do it a few times a day,
especially, if you're going through a stressful period,
you need to reprogram that stress response
so that actually when you're trying to
figure out your finances
or trying to figure out your family life,
if it's stressful for you,
then your whole body system says, okay, I've got this,
I don't have ramp up into survival strategies,
I can continue to be in balance, in wholeness
while we bring in these new strategies. All right.
So, you're gonna place your fingers on your bellybutton,
and from there, come out and inch and up an inch,
and you're gonna massage quite deeply into this area,
if it's really tender, then you can relax it some,
but you wanna be able to work with
these powerful adrenal gland access points
to actually begin to release and harmonize
your adrenal energy.
Ah, and it feels great.
Often times when you work with this point,
you immediately feel a drop of tension from your shoulders,
from around your neck area,
ah, and kind of an unraveling
of that tension in your abdomen.
All right, so now back to the bellybutton.
Out an inch, down an inch.
So, it may be out a couple of centimeters
and down a couple of centimeters.
These points here relate to the cortisol energy
that your body will be really holding,
especially if your under sustained stress at the moment,
and you probably find that
you can go into this a little bit deeper
with no tenderness.
Feels good to me.
So now, keep your fingers on that lower point
and pop your thumbs back in on that higher point.
If you need a reminder, bellybutton out an inch or so,
up and inch or so.
So now you're holding points
that relate to your adrenal gland health
and your cortisol health.
And from here take a good breath in
and really fill up your body with breath.
So you're gonna breathe into the lungs,
breathe into the belly.
And as you breathe out, you're gonna press quite deeply,
as deep as is comfortable on these four points.
Breathing in, just release them.
Breathing out, press in on those points.
And you find your own breath there,
so breathing in,
find your rhythm,
breathing in.
Releasing each time you breathe in
and really pressing into these each time you breathe out.
One last time.
Brilliant.
So you're doing a pumping action there.
And that sends messages through your energy systems
for the adrenal glands to start releasing,
rather than pumping that adrenaline all through your system,
it's gonna start bringing it back into harmony.
All right, and it's especially important right now.
I'm putting this video as we're moving into summer,
and summer brings a lot of heat in your system,
and that heat can really invite the adrenal glands
to get even more active, even more vigilant.
So as we move through summer,
that's a beautiful exercise for you to do,
to really bring peace back in.
You can find out more about adrenal health at my website,
pruneharris.com.
Thanks so much, bye-bye.