![]() ![]() Our bright, beautiful spirit is always spacious, always open to holding our fears, anxieties, pain, tightness, and brokenness. Skip up and down the hallway or sidewalk. One of the things we can do, as we do in the Process and Hoffman Essentials, is stand up, shake our arms, legs, torso stretch our neck and back. Am I wearing tight clothes? Do I sit with my shoulders hunched up, my fists clenched, my muscles tightened? Am I grinding my teeth, clenching my jaw? All these physical reactions are indications that we have taken on the woes around us. Deep Breaths for Spaciousnessīody spaciousness is more physical. How I would love to scream with excitement and joy at the end of the day and feel my negative emotions lifting from my shoulders! Releasing and feeling are ways to create space in those constrictive rooms in which we live. I find that if I am reacting to something (like the neighbor kids screaming at the top of their lungs), I have the option to step back and appreciate that they are letting off steam after being cooped up indoors all day. ![]() Our emotional self can feel spacious if given the chance not to trip on patterns. If they are coming from patterns, we have the opportunity to air them out, give them space, and let them go. When we are operating from spirit, thoughts can be motivating and inspiring. It can choose to stop a thought and ponder it, activate it, or keep it moving right on out the door. The intellect is a command center of thoughts coming and going. Feeling spacious intellectually means I can make room for thoughts. I like this word because it has lots of angles to it. Last Friday’s “feeling” word was spacious. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are certainly in the business of mental health awareness and support. In case you’re wondering about the recent blogs that focus on a feeling, we’re doing Feeling Fridays on our social media channels ( Instagram and Facebook). ![]()
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