Lesson Eight

Promise for this lesson:

You will be able to check-in with yourself before reacting with negative habitual emotions.

Somatic Grief Relief® Principle:

Trust the wisdom of Wellbeing within.

How is your golden Buddha?

When our Golden Buddha selves are revealed through self-care, acceptance, and reconnection with the body’s wisdom, the clay of false beliefs, outdated values, and toxic attitudes will crumble.  

A New Mourning: Discovering the Gifts in Grief (pp. 78-79)  

When was the last time you were triggered with a negative emotion?

What are some emotional experiences you encountered since we last met?  

Become aware – what is the emotion?

Did this experience add to your Energy Budget©

How old do you feel?  

Think- What would I like to have happen?  

Where do you feel it in your body?

What color is it? 

NEGATIVE Feelings

• AFRAID
• PANICKED
• WORRIED
• IMPATIENT
• IRRITATED
• ANGRY
• RESENTFUL
• CONFUSED
• TORN
• DISCONNECTED
• WITHDRAWN
• UNCOMFORTABLE
• EMBARRASSED
• FATIGUED
• PAIN
• SAD
• TENSE
• VULNERABLE
• JEALOUS
• LONGING

Activity: MY RELEASING MANTRA

(Left arm out )          I release my belief in __________ 

(Right arm out )       I release my need to __________  

(Arms up in praise)  I am Grateful

(Palms together)      LIFE is

(Palms to Heart)       The ________________ I AM!!

Activity: Fear to Freedom Meditation

Purpose: To deepen Faith by affirming the Truth and releasing ‘errors’ from our belief systems.

Find a place where you are comfortable and feeling fully supported by your chair. … (Pause)

Next, bring your awareness to your breathing… Notice as you watch your breath that it becomes deeper and fuller and more balanced. … (Pause) The breath is the eternal cycle of reception and release within our physical bodies… It is the eternal activity of ‘God in us.’ … (Pause) With every breath you now become more aware and more conscious of the indwelling Presence of God…

Which is your ‘Higher Wisdom Self.’ … (Pause)

Now, let your breath serve as a pathway to your heart … (Pause)

Allow your awareness to move into your heart… For it is here that you begin to see with the ‘Eye of the Heart’… Which is the ‘Eye of Wisdom’… The ‘Eye of Love.’ … (Pause)

And now, in the silence of your heart, ask your ‘Higher Wisdom Self’ to guide you through this process… Ask to have revealed to you, everything that you need to know for your highest good and healing…

Right here and right now… (Long Pause)

Activity: Fear to Freedom Exercise

Adapted from Fear to Faith by Rev. Lloyd Strom & Rev Marcia Sutton

Visualization Script

What is the current situation or condition that you would like to change?

How are you feeling about it?

What I hope will happen is:

Pick the Above the Line Word that most resonates with you:

Abundance – Balance – Beauty – Freedom – Joy – Love – Order – Peace Power – Unity – Wholeness – Wisdom

What I fear will happen is: 

Pick the Below the Line Word that describes your current negative belief:

Lack – Debt – Conflict – Limitation – Ignorance – Rejection – Death – Chaos Judgment – Dependency – Duality – Disease – Poverty

The word that describes my usual “resistance” reaction:

Control – Hide – Anger – Attachment – Flee – Appease – Whine – Depression – Confusion – Lose – Withdraw – Rebel – Confront