Last week, the GGTG Collective met to discuss the GGTG Daily Practices. We discussed the why and how of each so that participants feel more empowered to select GGTG Daily Practices that work for them. This will support our daily commitment to ourselves, empowering us to embody our Goddess more of the time. The replay is available on the GGTG online community for GGTG Collective members.
The GGTG Program asks participants to commit to at least one GGTG Daily Practice. Over time, this daily commitment to oneself creates afoundation on which you can build more in service to the path from Good Girl to Goddess, coming into more authenticity, joy and peace.
In our most recent GGTG Collective discussion, we focused onthe why and how of our Daily Practices, which are:
- Meditation
- Coming back into the body
- Taking time for yourself
- Daily self-love
- Journaling
- Creation, imagination, and play!
These Daily Practices reflect a menu of options that each GGTG participant can select from to commit to giving back to themselves eachand every day.
In this article, we discuss the purpose behind each of these Daily Practices and the different ways they can be approached. This will allow participants to fit them into their schedule, their own sense of joy, and their unique sense of authenticity developed over time.
Last time we explored meditation to kick off a series of blog posts where we will explore the why and how of the GGTG Daily Practices. This blog explores coming back into the body.
Coming back into the body – Why?
We Good Girls can get stuck in heads a lot of the time – we work hard, so we think hard. Planning, thinking, and sometime ruminating, keeps us locked in our body above the neck and may leave us without a felt sensation of everything else.
Cultivating a felt sensation of the body allows us to feelinto the sense of being who we are. This is our own home frequency, and there is a great power unlocked as we get to know how it feels.
This also allows us the opportunity to practice regulating our nervous systems, which can create those precious few seconds of time between our triggers and our reactions. This permits us the space to observe the sensations, consider the situation, and what we can do to soften our response next time.
It also allows us to feel ourselves breathing – often we only breathe into the top of our lungs and rarely experience full belly breaths, which are incredibly rejuvenating, feeding the brain and muscles with much-needed oxygen.
Coming into the body – How?
Everyone is different, so embrace movement and coming back into your body in whatever way feels true to you.
Some suggestions:
Yoga: My favorite is kundalini yoga, and there are some very simple stretches and short kriyas available to us that unlock ourenergy and circulate it throughout the body. I prefer to do even a short set in the morning.
Dance: This is a really fun way to come back into the body! Try dancing on your own like no one is watching. Your mood will certainly improve as a result.
Walking: This is a magical way to move the body. We spend so much time sat behind our desks, even a quick, brisk walk can return usto our center. Even better if you can get a walk out in nature!
What are we trying to achieve?
Can you remember a time when you felt so excited you got head to toe tingles? Maybe you were excited about an event or project, or you were falling in love, or doing something that just felt right – this is your Goddess communicating with you that this is the thing, do this thing more!
It can become a way of orienting ourselves toward thingsthat make us feel joyful. We are aiming to feel this sensation more of the time, eventually most of the time. Noticing when you’re not feeling this sensation is just as important – what happened to dim your light?
How to find your bliss
Bliss is your unique signature frequency, and it can be felt as motivation, joyfulness, ecstasy – you can get yourself there with outactually having to do anything in the real world. The brain is very easy to trick, it doesn’t know the difference between what is real and what exists in your imagination, so think of something that made you feel that way, light yourself up, and become more familiar with what your bliss feels like.
The Bliss List
One tool we can use to maximize opportunities to feel bliss is to journal time when you felt bliss, and see what these things have incommon. For me, one of the attributes that the items on my list have in common is connection.
Creating The Bliss List can provide you with a powerful tool to use when we notice that the body has shut off and the brain is back in control again. Go to the list, pick something, and do it!
15 Minutes of Bliss
This is a really fun one! Instead of doing your feeling the hands meditation, sit quietly, come into your center and out of your head, light up your heart and start imagining something that makes you feel your signature bliss frequency. Think about your wildest dreams! It can be anything – your perfect job, your perfect romantic relationship, anything that really lights you up.
Notice as well whether you feel a reaction to this exercise – perhaps you get a lower vibrational feeling like you’re not worthy of your wildest dreams. This is also an important signal to pay attention to – you are worthy of happiness! Even if you can’t imagine feeling worthy of your wildest dreams, certainly you can believe you are worthy of imagining them for 15 minutes.
After the 15 minutes is over, let go of the images and record in your muscles the feeling of bliss – also notice if it starts to fade when your thoughts come rushing back in. For me, as I do it in the morning, I notice that my to do list materializes almost immediately and can cause my bliss to fade. I have started looking at my to do list as a list of tasks that I get to do, so I can get excited about them, rather than something I have to do, which feels like an obligation and dampens my bliss. I am also working on ways to reduce the number of things on the list that dampen my bliss in order to make more space for the things that light me up.
Final Thoughts
Coming back into the body is a valuable and fun daily practice. Our feelings of bliss can act as breadcrumbs from our Goddess, helping to orient us in our lives. Use a Bliss List for inspiration, and update/curate it over time. Using the 15 Minutes of Bliss exercise will allow you to cultivate a felt sensation of this unique vibrational frequency, which is different for everyone.
This will also have the valuable side effect of allowing us to calibrate to a baseline of what feels healthy in our bodies so we can catch any health issues before they become crises that can take us our of our lives for days or weeks if we don’t address the signals early on.
Keep track of your results in your journal and aim to orient yourself toward the activities and people that make you feel more blissful, more of the time.