Dr. Nicole LePera

I mean, as simple as this sounds, are you feeling your muscles, feeling your heels impact the earth or kind of where you're sitting?

Are you feeling embodied or are you so lost in thought and ideas, distracted?

that that could be the first choice you make without judging and being like, oh, I'm not connected to my body at all.

What body?

I'm just a bobblehead.

Taking a moment to refocus your attention.

Again, those three points are great anchors because they give us information as to how stressed our body is.

If you drop in right now and you're like, oh my God, I'm a ball of tension.

My jaw is clenched and my fists are clenched and my shoulders are up to my ears.

Chances are your body is in a state of

stress right now.

Similarly, if you notice, oh, I'm holding my breath, or I'm breathing so short and quick from my chest, those are markers that your body is under stress.

That then impacts your heart rate, right?

Feeling elevated, beating out of your chest.

All of that is giving you information that your body is under stress right now.

So once we have then that information, we can make small shifts in our physiology.

We can begin to slow and deepen our breath, right?

Elongating our exhale just a little longer than our inhale, right?

If our movements are really quick, we can slow them down.

If we're holding tension, we could practice releasing it.