Mirror Exercises:
Heart Songs - Talking to myself
Listen to the WORDS. Words bring the emotion into a shareable form
*Note: Some of these songs have language and adult themes. Listen at your own discretion.
Home - Beetlejuice *longing
Go the Distance - Hercules *Hope
I’m Not That Girl - Wicked *Resignation
She Used to Be Mine - Waitress *Loving myself
On My Own - Les Miserables *Lonely
I Don’t Need Your Love - Six *Empowerment
Do This Thing - Mean Girls *Empowerment/confidence
Michael in the Bathroom - Be More Chill *Anxiety/panic
Lose Yourself - Eminem *Anger/Frustation/
I’ll Never Love Again - A Star is Born *Regret
Whole Body Moods
This is Me - Greatest Showman *Ownership/Acceptance
Never Enough - Greatest Showman *Understanding that transforms
Golden - K-pop Demon Hunters *Pure truth :)
Practice “Whole Picture” vs Detail Viewing of yourself (awareness of microexpressions and muscles while listening to a heart song) *Face and then Body
Youtube Music Playlist:
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg35Nkm_xQUQQPYUj-6Jj-e_eHKXhy6Yn&si=hn2Czg7swT6YhxeO
Directional flow of Energy: Power, Vulnerability and Human Connections
Through the eyes:
Inward/taking it into yourself vs. Outward/pushing towards someone
Through the body:
Upward (expansive) vs. Downward (smallness)
Run the moment with only the breath, then add the words
My definitions:
Feelings: the internal sensory experience - an experience the body has. Just the signals. The data.
Emotions: The narrative attached to a feeling from our early encounters with those feelings.
Adrenaline becomes anxiety when we doubt our capacity to deal with the problems.
You can only truly love something that you know. You can only love yourself if you know the truth about yourself first. And that takes some practice. Learning first to see yourself and learning to love every last piece of you, even the scary, or ugly, or broken bits. Because WE ALL HAVE THEM.
“You don’t build confidence. You unlearn fear.”
The moment your worth stops depending on reaction, peace takes over. And that peace looks like power to everyone still chasing approval.