Good morning, everybody.
It is day 12 of Self-Caremas and Happy Christmas Eve to everyone celebrating.
My name is Heather Evans.
I'm a self-care and empowerment coach and for the best advice on how you can take care
of yourself during this festive season, remember to subscribe to my channel and click on that
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It is day 12 of Self-Caremas and our invitation today is to tune in, to tune in and check
in with ourselves to see how we're doing physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
It can be really easy to become ungrounded during this time of year and it's really important
that we take a few moments to check in, to ask ourselves how are we doing?
Is there anything we need in terms of support, in terms of self-care?
To begin with this, I'd like to invite us to walk through the five, four, three, two,
one grounding exercise.
I've done a video on this before.
I'll include a link to that in the corner above as well as in the description below.
But using this technique can really help us come back to center so that we can then do
a tune in.
So how this works is we count down five, four, three, two, one, but we notice things as we're
doing that and the prompts work like this.
What are five things you can see?
What are four things you can touch?
What are three things you can hear?
What are two things you can smell and what is one thing you can taste?
So I'd like to invite you to join me right now in this moment.
Put down whatever it is you're doing.
If you're in the kitchen and you're working on stuff, hit pause, put stuff down.
If you're reading a book, if you have another browser window open, I encourage you to shut
it.
This is your moment to come back to center, to come back to yourself.
I'll encourage you to either sit on the floor or sit upright.
I don't encourage you to lay down for this one if at all possible, but I like to put
both feet firmly on the ground and then I like to put my palms face down on my thighs.
That's what feels most comfortable for me.
You might choose something different.
Then I'm going to ask us the questions and you can answer for yourself as we work through
the five, four, three, two, one grounding exercise.
Here we go.
What are five things I can see?
What are four things I can touch?
What are three things I can hear?
What are two things I can smell?
What is one thing I can taste?
Now taking a moment to feel into how the system has responded.
I know I feel calmer.
You can tell the cadence of my voice has slowed.
My voice is a bit deeper.
I feel my shoulders have relaxed.
You are maybe having your own sensations.
You also might not feel any shift at all and that's okay, but just noticing for a moment
what that has done for your system.
Then from this place, checking in with yourself, tuning in.
How are things going?
You can ask yourself, how am I feeling physically?
Okay.
How am I feeling emotionally?
How am I feeling spiritually, if that's something you subscribe to.
How am I feeling energetically?
You get to answer these questions for yourself.
There's no right or wrong answer.
There's no good or bad and there's nothing you need to compare to.
It's your own personal experience in your system.
When we ask ourselves those questions from a deregulated system, because we've walked
through the five, four, three, two, one grounding exercise, our parasympathetic nervous system
has switched on so that we can actually listen to what the body is telling us, to what our
subtle energetics are telling us.
It's easy to get taken off center or out of balance during the season, and using five,
four, three, two, one and then checking in with yourself is a great way to assess how
you're doing.
I'm wishing all of you a very happy holiday and a very merry festive season.
I hope this has been helpful.
If it has been, please be sure to like this video, subscribe to the channel and click
on that bell to get notified when I release new videos every other day in the month of
December.
Just so you know, there will be a bonus video for tomorrow to help you stay present on the
big day.
Stay ignited out there and grounded out there.
I will see you soon.
Bye.