Hey, it’s Barb and Nick and I wanna share something that happened this week. It is just one of those little things, but it was a great reminder for me. I like to take. Online courses, and I usually take, you know, one or two a year. , Because number one, I like to learn. And number two, I always love to see what the other people are doing and how they do it.
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Hey, it’s Barb and Nick and I wanna share something that happened this week. It is just one of those little things, but it was a great reminder for me. I like to take. Online courses, and I usually take, you know, one or two a year. , Because number one, I like to learn. And number two, I always love to see what the other people are doing and how they do it.
And that helps me, gives me ideas. And so I always take getting ready to take this online class yesterday. And the first thing that she did is that she just said, okay, I know that. Sometimes you’re busy buzzing around trying to make the zoom call and you don’t have your camera on, and maybe you’re gonna do something else behind the camera while you’re doing this, but I just wanna start this class with just making a transition to being here and being present so that your brain and your body.
Can receive this information. So then we did a short meditation, just, , focus on our breathing and it was just really lovely and it reminded me that as much as I’ve done all of, not all, much of this work about the nervous system and focusing. That piece about making the transition to be present for what you’re about to do is so important for our writing, and it’s important, and it can be practiced at a lesson, it can be, , it’s absolutely necessary at a show.
And I wanna share with you just an easy, easy two step process that you can do The first. Is that you get grounded. And by grounded what I mean is that you feel slow on the inside. Now, grounded does not mean like relaxed watching Netflix. That’s kind of when your brain is a bit disengaged in your just, just, and all that’s good.
But this is more like letting go. Of the moments before and any kind of hectic kind of pace, and just taking some moments without any agenda. And by agenda I’m talking about any focus at all and just slowing down on the inside, which also slows our brainwaves, slows our heart rate, relaxes our muscle tension, and there are two pieces to that.
One is breathing and you don’t have to do any fancy, by fancy I mean like strict process, just consciously bringing air in and exhaling. And if you exhale through your body, it gets you connected to your body. And the other thing that you can do is just feel your shoulders. And, you know, roll your shoulders, maybe breathe into your shoulders, and also feel your hands on the reins.
Sometimes, you know, we can get on and, and we’re just, we don’t even realize it, but we’re, we’re liny, you know, there’s just all this extra tension here, and if you can just take a moment before you, even, before you get on, and then when you get on to let that melt away. So that’s the first thing. The second thing is just to take a moment and set an intention for your ride, you know, to stay, , present and to, to keep bringing yourself back to the moment, whatever it is that you wanna do, the small goal for that day, but just to review it, to review the steps, to review what you’re about to do.
Again, these two things, getting your mind and body present in the moment and your brain and your body really tuned into what you’re about to do and keep breathing and you can even mentally review what you’re about to do. For many of the different little pieces, but the main thing is to become at ease and to become immersed in the moment.
So that’s what I’ve got for you today. Lesson show doesn’t really matter. First, get grounded and then become immersed in what you’re about to do by mentally rehearsing it. Just a bit. Okay. So I hope that you have a great week, and don’t forget to leave a comment for me.