In this episode, we dive deep into grounding and its pivotal role in cultivating inner resilience, regulating the nervous system, and reprogramming the subconscious mind. You’ll learn why grounding is more than just a buzzword and how it can transform your ability to navigate stress and build long-lasting emotional strength.

Key topics we cover:

• What Is Grounding? A clear breakdown of grounding practices and why they matter.

• Stress as a Teacher: Understanding the role of stress in our lives and why it isn’t inherently negative.

• The Nervous System & Subconscious Connection: How the state of your nervous system influences your subconscious patterns and behaviours.

• Tools for Grounding Practices: Four powerful grounding techniques you can use in as little as 30 seconds to 10 minutes.

• Sympathetic vs. Parasympathetic Systems: How to work with both systems to balance stress and relaxation.

• Creating Inner Resilience: Strategies for using stress and safety cues to build a strong inner foundation.

• The Role of Hypnotherapy: How hypnotherapy integrates with nervous system regulation and subconscious reprogramming for deeper healing.

• Overcoming Resistance: Why resistance often arises when starting grounding practices and how to move past it.

• The Neuroscience Behind Grounding: Insights into the brain-body connection that make grounding so effective.

• Your Environment Matters: How to create a grounding-friendly environment that supports nervous system regulation.

• Habits for Self-Support: Practical ways to make grounding and self-soothing part of your daily routine.

This episode is packed with actionable insights and tools to help you regulate your nervous system, reprogram your subconscious mind, and cultivate resilience from the inside out. Whether you’re new to grounding or looking to deepen your practice, this episode is for you!

Tune in to learn how to ground yourself, build resilience, and harness the power of your subconscious mind for a more balanced and empowered life.

Resources Mentioned:

• The Bloom Method: 4-month small group container for subconscious transformation

• TEDX Talk: How To Make Stress Your Friend, Kelly McGonigal

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Podcast: Seed Your Subconscious

 Hello my loves and welcome to another episode of Seed Your Subconscious. Today we are going to explore why grounding is essential for sustainable long term growth, the role of stress when it comes to nervous system resilience and regulation, how our environments shape our ability to ground, practical practices and so much more.

To get started today, I would love for you, if you have the ability to close down your eyes, if not, that's completely fine too, but what you're going to do is visualize a strong towering tree. And just noticing what first comes to mind when you visualize this image. Perhaps it's the height, the trunk itself.

the leaves or the branches. But what we don't often see as the very first thing is the intricate root system beneath the surface. Maybe for you, you did, but a lot of the time we don't see that as the very first thing. Now we all know the importance of the root system for trees and just how essential they are.

They anchor the tree, providing stability during storms. They allow the tree to draw up nourishment from deep within the earth or the soil. And without a strong foundation, we know that this tree simply would not survive, let alone thrive and flourish. Now I want you, you can open your eyes now if you have had them closed down, but think about your own life and see your roots as the practices and the inner work that creates stability, strength, and provide you with a sense of nourishment, as well as this capacity to weather life's challenges. Before you can flourish outwardly into visible success, your roots need to grow deeply and establish themselves. And I believe that consistently coming back to practices that allow you to connect with yourself, the present moment and your environment. is what grounding is all about.

Now that I've shared with you my definition of grounding, we're going to delve into some of the neuroscience behind this topic.

The nervous system and the subconscious mind are deeply intertwined. Forming a feedback loop that shapes how you think, feel, act, what your beliefs are. That's the storehouse of the subconscious mind, our beliefs, our habits, our emotional patterns, while the nervous system regulates your physiological state.

Whether you feel calm and safe or stressed and reactive. The key is this. If your nervous system is dysregulated, it is almost impossible to access and start to rewire the subconscious mind effectively in the way that you're wanting to. Why is this? Because a stressed or activated nervous system signals danger to the body, shutting down parts of the brain that are responsible for growth, reflection, and creativity.

When the nervous system is in that fight flight mode, the brain prioritizes survival over everything. This means that your subconscious mind is focused on reinforcing the same protective patterns that have always kept you safe. even if those patterns look like avoidance, self doubt, overthinking, and are perceived by you as the things that aren't actually serving you anymore.

So in fact, they are serving you, they're just not serving perhaps your higher self version of you or the goals that you have for yourself. In order to make real change in the subconscious mind, or not even real change, but the change that you desire within the subconscious mind, you first need to regulate the nervous system.

This honestly is something that I wish I knew much sooner, but more so to that, I wish that once I knew it, I was actually taking action and practicing it much sooner and much more consistently than I was. When your nervous system is calm, you create an internal environment where the mind and the body both feel safe enough to start to explore new beliefs, behaviors, and emotional responses, and start to create new habits in your reality.

This really is the foundation for rewiring and reprogramming, and honestly, a state of transformation, right? Grounding practices help to signal to your nervous system that it's safe to relax. In this state, your mind is then able to again move out of the survival mode and into a state of openness and receptivity.

It's like shifting from turbulence to smooth sailing. Only when the waters are calm can you really start to chart a new course in the direction that you're hoping to move . This connection became really clear to me.

and was very painfully obvious that it was something that I needed to master in a way when I began building my business and as I grow and evolve in my business and in this space. At first when I'd launch a new offering, speak publicly on social media or take bold action or even think about these things, remembering our mind doesn't understand, our subconscious doesn't understand the difference between imagination and reality.

So even when I would imagine these things, especially at the start it was completely dysregulating for me because these things were so unfamiliar, therefore they felt really unsafe and it immediately, the thought of it, let alone the action would trigger this fight flight response in me. I would get stuck in this stress response, spiraling into overwhelm

and it would take me a really long time to reground before I could take that next step again, or even think about taking that next step. Over time, however, I realised that by focusing on regulating my nervous system, Before taking the action, or before thinking about taking the action, I was able to start to change my subconscious patterns more effectively and also much faster.

So through consistent grounding practices, I really trained my system to recover from stress quickly and then create the space for rewiring and growth. So at the time that looked like grounding, taking the action, re grounding. Now sometimes it can look like grounding, taking the action, and then sometimes I'm okay after those things.

I don't have to rely on that so much. So when I feel stress arise now, which I think a lot of the time as well, we probably need to differentiate between. something being stressful and maybe something just being uncomfortable. But when I feel, say, a discomfort or maybe feel my stress response triggered, whether it is preparing for a big event or speaking on a podcast, launching something new, teaching on a retreat, whatever that looks like for me, or maybe something else entirely that I haven't actually stepped into yet, I can turn to grounding techniques to help me to regulate and to connect back with myself so I can move forward with greater levels of ease.

This allows me to shift out of that survival mode, take the aligned action, like I said, from a space of calm. In the last six months alone, this approach has massively helped me to take some of the boldest actions that I've taken in my business so far, such as launching this podcast, running new events, creating new programs, running retreats.

There's been so much that really prioritizing grounding practices and regulating my nervous system. Has allowed me to do. I've actually spent less time in the action taking and more time in the grounding and in doing so have actually gotten more done, which is wild.

The difference in this is profound. Early on, the gap between feeling triggered and then being able to return to a grounded state was much longer. There was much more space in between these two. I'd stay stuck in the old patterns, as I said, and feel really unable to move forward a lot of the time.

But again, by prioritizing nervous system regulation and then taking the action immediately after, I've been able to create this new subconscious pattern, this new pattern within my mind, within my body, that allows me to move through stress faster. And I know that I've been really repetitive in sharing this, and that is with intention.

It's to really get the message across of the importance of. grounding practices and regulating your nervous system when you are in a state of growth, when you are doing uncomfortable things, when you are experiencing a lot of stress, because there's a lot of unfamiliarity, there's a lot of newness.

It's really important that you double down on these practices. any time that you're moving through experiences, even this is actually going to come out on Christmas day funnily enough, even let's say it has nothing to do with business. Perhaps Christmas is a really triggering time for you where there's a lot going on.

And again, the importance of having these practices where you can take yourself away for one minute reground, come back into yourself, and then go back out there. I assure you, you're going to get so much more out of the interactions that you're in and the experience that you're in as a result of it. I just can't stress the importance of it really.

And I'm sharing this as well from a place of if I can do it, you can do it too. I hear so many people say things like this and I was absolutely someone in the past who used to speak like this too, where I would say things such as I'm so overwhelmed, I'm such an anxious person, I'm such a stress head, my leg would constantly be shaking when I was doing tasks, I would always feel a little on edge, super reactive some would even call me highly strung.

And now I can't even believe and begin to tell you how many people compliment me on my energy and presence and say things like how grounding and calming I feel. I had a girl recently tell me I was like one of those calming stress stones.

It was so weird to me at first when I started to hear these things, when I was doing these practices, but I, it wasn't fully integrated yet. Oh, are we, yeah, are you talking about me? I don't know. But over time, I can feel these changes in my body. I can see the changes in my behavior and I believe it too.

I know that. I am someone who can rebound really quickly from stressful situations now, much faster than I ever could before. I know that I don't need to stay stuck in that stress response, and I'm really familiar and have built up this beautiful toolkit of things that helps me to ground. Some quicker than others, but I feel resourced and like I have the neural infrastructure, because I've done the work around my beliefs, as well as the tangible evidence of taking these actions that I can regulate really quickly.

So again, if you are someone who maybe has that envy around people that seem to be able to bounce back really quickly or navigate stressful or challenging situations effectively, or seem generally really calm, And you want that, but you don't currently identify as someone who is experiencing that. You can do it. Science tells you that you can do it, and I am also living proof , you can freaking do it, I promise you, you can if it's something that you really desire and crave and want.

All right. it's really important that you're actually regulating the nervous system before you even try to rewire the mind, it is also important to still understand the role in . Rewiring the mind, not just focusing solely on nervous system regulation. There is another part to that is really important to do, which is to look at the belief systems that are linked with the stress that you're experiencing.

And this is where hypnotherapy comes into play. So once you have regulated your nervous system, you can use tools such as hypnotherapy to rewire those subconscious beliefs and patterns. By accessing the subconscious directly, you can tap into those things and start to create new neural pathways around the emotional responses and behaviors that you're experiencing.

I want to ground this in an example. For me, one of the tracks that I actually listened to, a hypnotic meditation that I created for myself, when I was focusing on rewiring my mind surrounding stress responses specifically, was that I have the inner tools, resources, and strength to navigate challenging situations with ease, with grace.

I can hold this experience. A belief that was replaced by one which sounded more I don't have the capacity or the space to deal with this. Which was a belief and also something that I was catching myself saying. Lots, way too much. I don't have the space. I don't have the capacity. I was honestly on repeat and I will still hear myself say that sometimes.

And I'm very quickly to reframe it and catch it because if you are constantly, like me telling yourself, I don't have the space, I don't have the capacity. I can't deal with it. Your mind and your body will work to prove that to be true. We know that by now. Your reticular activating system will start looking for evidence to affirm, okay, no, you don't have the capacity or the space to deal with this.

You can't handle this situation. Think of how different my experience or how different your experience can be when you shift a belief like that to, I have the inner tools, resources, and strength to navigate challenging situations, and I can hold this. I've got this. This honestly, alone, doing the reprogramming work around this made me feel so much more grounded, resilient, and confident when I started stepping outside of my comfort zone more and more.

When you step outside of your comfort zone, when you're in unfamiliar spaces, new challenges arise and beliefs such as this, when rooted in the subconscious, allow us to respond to them, in a way that feels more graceful, more aligned, more easeful than what would have happened if we had have just knuckled down and pushed through and then, shit hits the fan, so to speak.

And then you're like, the belief that you're operating off is I don't have the capacity or the space to deal with this and then the spiral happens and then we're just spiraling in anxiety and in stress. It's taking us much longer to bounce back and take the next action and get out of this.

Something that I really want to highlight and that I feel I speak to a lot in the content that I've created in the past and when I'm speaking with clients is that the goal is not to stay grounded and regulated all of the time. Please don't even have that as your intention. There is no way that you can 100 percent avoid anything and everything that's going to make you feel stressed and dysregulated.

Life will inevitably challenge you and stress will arise. The goal is to have the tools to regulate, to start creating and embedding the neural infrastructure that you can handle these things and these challenges. And in doing so, you get to return to a state of groundedness and safety and regulation.

There's a really incredible TED talk by a lady called Kelly McGonigal.

I watched this when I was actually doing my coaching certification, in evidence based psychology practices. And in one of the subjects where we actually go really deep into nervous system, regulation, mindfulness, grounding, all of the things, this TED Talk was actually played and I loved it.

It's called Make Stress Your Friend I'll link it in the show notes. and she actually speaks about the importance of stress. and how stress isn't actually necessarily the thing that kills people. The thing that actually is more likely to kill people or make people sick, is. Your beliefs about stress, which obviously I love as a hypnotherapist, as someone who's speaking to beliefs constantly, your beliefs about stress is actually more important than the stress itself.

So if you believe that stress is killing you, that belief will be reinforced. Whereas the people who believe that stress is an essential and necessary part of life and it helps you to grow and flourish and thrive. Guess what? That is also being proved and reinforced mind blowing. There's a distinction from that, that I want to speak about.

Let's see stress again as inevitable. We're going to move through it. So it's not it that we're trying to avoid it. It's that we're trying to change the way we respond to it, to change the way we think about it, to change our beliefs around it. There's this distinction between nervous system regulation and nervous system resilience that I want to make.

Again, the goal is not to be regulated 100 percent of the time, but it is to build resilience within the nervous system. Regulation is about calming the nervous system, coming back to the moment, coming back to yourself, coming back to that state of safety. Beautiful, important. Resilience, on the other hand, is about expanding your capacity to actually handle stresses and challenges over time.

So that you can experience more of life, whether that's greater levels of joy, whether it's greater levels of hardship, whatever that is, it expands your capacity to hold things, to have things, to experience things. And when you swing between regulation and dysregulation, so a state of safety, a state of stress, a state of safety, a state of stress.

This is what builds resilience. They have a word for this, I think it's called your rebound rate how quickly do you rebound between, those things, between being in a stressful state and then coming back into regulation. So this is what really fosters and creates a deeper capacity for growth, for transformation, is this process.

So again, the goal for everyone in my perspective really should be not maintaining the regulator nervous system, but building resilience in the nervous system.

Think about a challenging time in your life that you've navigated through. Now you've come out the other side, perhaps not always, but most of the time when you ask people about these times, upon reflection, they will also share with you how much they got out of this experience, how it shaped them, and sometimes even how they're grateful for it.

And I bet that you are no different. it's likely that the thing that now allows you to move through challenges with greater levels of confidence, grace, and ease are a byproduct of the challenges that you have navigated through because you are able to acquire tools, techniques, new perspectives, and potentially even the mindset to support yourself on an even deeper level.

I know that is certainly true for me and it's proven to be true for so many other people too. There is significant research around this topic. and it even speaks to something called post traumatic growth, which indicates when you've gone through a traumatic or a hardship, a challenging situation, individuals often experience significant personal development following that adversity.

So this growth can manifest as an enhanced appreciation for life. improvement in relationships, increased personal strength, recognition of new possibilities, or even spiritual deepening. Again, perhaps this isn't true for you, and it really is relative a lot of the time as well, depending on the severity of what you've actually experienced.

So just taking note of those things as well. But just exploring, is this true for you? Is this not true for you? And looking into that, getting curious about what is behind that. Maybe what are some of the lessons that you've learned? What is coming up for you when you hear that? Has it shaped you? Would you take it back?

Would you not? There's no wrong or right, it's just getting curious about you, your experiences, and the transformation that you did experience based on the hardship and the challenges in your life.

We've spoken about grounding, the importance of and the relationship between dysregulation and regulation, the role of stress, the subconscious mind, and a lot of other things in between. I want to share now some powerful grounding practices that are relatively quick to do. And also backed by science, known to be really impactful as well when it comes to regulating the nervous system and allowing you and supporting you to ground. Number one, I'm sure we all would have heard this, but going for a walk in nature.

Bonus points if you can do it barefoot, if not, that's completely fine too. But going for a walk in nature. While you're walking in nature, you're actually known to naturally move your eyes from left to right. if you've heard of EMDR before, this is also something that they invite clients to do in EMDR.

Which is this side to side eye movement. What this does is when you're looking left to right. it actually deactivates the amygdala and reduces our stress response. Which is phenomenal. If you want to go for a really short walk and you're not sure if you'll get the most out of this, what I personally do sometimes is pop a pair of sunglasses on, go out for your walk, and actively look left to right.

It is so powerful if you can also pair this experience with an affirmation such as, I am safe, or if that doesn't feel true for you in the moment, I am choosing to feel safe in my mind, in my body. I'm choosing to feel safe in my mind, in my body. Repeating that to yourself while you're walking, while you're doing your eyes left to right.

You could do that for a couple of minutes and honestly, you will feel how powerful that is in reducing stress, reducing anxiety, switching out of fight flight and into a state of regulation and calm. So that's number one. Number two is breathwork. There's obviously so many different breathwork practices and techniques that would be supportive, but we're going to speak to one that's incredibly simple.

It's been made popular by a neuroscientist called Andrew Huberman, and it's called the physiological sigh. What you are going to do is take two inhales through the nose, followed by a long exhale throughout the mouth. So a short inhale through the nose, followed by a longer one. exhaling out the mouth. It's going to sound, I don't know if this is going to come across in the podcast, but it's going to sound like this.

Let's see if that lands. Benefits of this, it lowers your breathing rate quickly. So obviously when we're stressed, our breathing becomes shallow and fast. It's going to slow that down. It also regulates your CO2 levels, which can help balance your emotions. And it activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is that rest and digest state that we're really looking for.

That's number two. Number three, which is something that I've been doing actually pretty much every day now, and I love it so much is body shaking. I personally jump up and down and I shake my whole body. You only need to do this for anywhere from one to five minutes, Again, everyone has that time.

What this helps to do is release stark tension, activates the parasympathetic nervous system, which is what we're after. It also releases endorphins. Those feel good energy and vibes amazing. And it increases oxygen and blood flow throughout the body. Body shaking. Amazing. You can do it in silence.

You could do it with some vibey music on. I do both. Whatever you feel called to do, make it fun. I think another thing that I'm actually just going to whack a random fact in here, but The other thing that is really important with this stuff, I would say, is to make it as fun as possible.

I might butcher this study, but there is a new study that's been released that says when you're in a state of play, fun, joy, that energy , it actually increases your ability to rewire the mind by 400. Times 400. That's insane. So making things feel fun, enjoyable, playful can be really beautiful as well.

Whatever that looks like for you. The fourth one is humming. Again, only need to do this from two to five minutes. I've tried to really share ones that are very quick and powerful because I think most of us And this just might be me projecting, some of my challenges onto you all, but something that really preventing me from doing a lot of self care or a lot of grounding practices is I thought that I needed, hours on end to do a hundred different things before I could feel grounded and regulated.

And sometimes that's true. Sometimes we really need longer in these practices. What I would. Say is that doing them daily, even when you think you don't need to be doing them, and consistently for one to two minutes a day, is going to be more effective than not doing them for months on end and then giving yourself a week to do them, which is how we're programmed in society, right?

It's like work and hustle, for 50 weeks and then you get two weeks off in the year. That's not what we're after here. Anyways, I digress. So humming two to five minutes. Humming actually stimulates the vagus nerve, which is directly linked to the parasympathetic nervous system. It also improves heart rate variability, which is a key marker when it comes to nervous system health and resilience.

And the vibration of it, if you want to get a little bit woo, but I'm sure there's loads of science around this, actually creates , a resonance and coherence throughout the body via that sound wave. It can also improve digestion, immune function, reduce inflammation, and enhance neuroplasticity .

The vagus nerve is so powerful. Honestly, we could do a whole potty around it, but there's so much more benefits to humming. It really is such a simple practice. So if that interests you, I would definitely dive into that a little bit more too.

With me sharing those practices, depending on where you're at in your journey, you might be like amazing, another tool to add to the tool belt, you might already be doing all of those things and so much more, or you could be where I was some time ago and have a bunch of resistance rear its little head of All of the reasons and the excuses and the things of why we cannot be doing any of those.

This resistance is so important to cultivate awareness around. If you are someone who is in the resistance of it, I want you to feel seen with where you are and normalise it.

And , again, I can't even stress, I don't want to put myself up on a pedestal here. I knew the things long before I was doing them. I remember there was a time where I was, living, So close to the water and the beach and I wasn't even able to get out of bed to go on a nature walk even knowing how good it would be for me,

let alone breathwork, I've had that in the tool belt for years and not always actioning it and doing it. So there's a difference between knowing the information and actually being able to take action on it. And I do find that the resistance. Is what keeps us stuck in the knowing and the not doing.

Not actually embodying it. And so yeah, again, if you're someone who is really in the resistance and there's a lot coming up for you, maybe it's feeling embarrassed to do those things. I know I was definitely there with body shaking years ago. Like I was like, absolutely not, and even humming. It could be feeling embarrassed.

It could be , that's not for me. It could be I'm too lazy. Honestly anything that's coming up that's currently telling you why you can't do these things or other things. that's where the work is. And it's so important again to create awareness around this. If you're someone who really wants to embody and integrate this work, but is having that resistance and wants to dive deeper please check out the Bloom Method.

It is designed for you to not only give you the information, but to also support you with moving through the limiting beliefs, the resistance. the stuff that is coming up so that you can start to embody and reap the rewards of integrating and taking action on this work. Okay. Another tip that I would have if you are new to grounding is to start really small.

, it doesn't need to be a three hour routine. A two minute breathing exercise, a short walk, the things that I've just shared above, which go from anywhere from 30 seconds to 10 minutes, is more than enough to get you started. I would really strongly suggest. Celebrating yourself after taking the action every single time, regardless of how big or small it was.

Even if it's 30 seconds, celebrate yourself. Communicate to your brain, this was awesome. I'm so proud of myself for taking action on this and we want to do more of this. Engage your reticular activating system, the filteration system of your mind and it will start to seek out more opportunities and spaces throughout the day to do these practices and start to create familiarity and safety around it.

Amazing, that's what we're after.

Another thing that I want to speak to, which comes up with clients and has been asked many times before, it's also something that I've definitely navigated through, is I have practices like, maybe having a glass of wine or binging Netflix or, eating chocolate or something like that, that feels grounding to me.

Is that bad? I get asked that a lot. It's again, something that I navigated through to. I don't think that we can label things such as good or bad. What I would ask you is if it feels nourishing for you, if it feels aligned with your highest version of self, if it is something that you desire to continue doing.

I would say that these things are okay and perfectly fine in moderation, from my perspective. And I would say that the goal isn't necessarily to cut these things out cold turkey at all. That is likely going to create a lot of resistance. I'd say a big part of this is actually creating awareness around what is that thing giving you.

What is it giving you in terms of an emotional state? Does it make you feel calm, peaceful? And then I would say to start to identify other practices that can also give you that, that are potentially more nourishing. They're a bit of an up level of it. And just slowly start to introduce those things into your tool belt.

For example, it could be. One night you have a glass of wine, but then the next night you swap it out and you have your favourite cup of tea instead. It could be, instead of binging Netflix and going straight into that, before it, you actually do five minutes of journaling. Only, you know what to do.

the practices that you're currently doing to ground and self soothe are, only you can be honest with yourself about are they actually doing what you're hoping and intending for them to do or not, how they're actually making you feel, and what some of the new tools and practices might be that can really support you .

If you are maintaining and wanting to do the practices that are perceived bad, in terms of binging Netflix or having a glass of wine or whatever, I would just say to you, have a conscious pause before you take the action. I am someone who will shamelessly have a Netflix binge day, 100%, but it's not my go to every single time.

I have other practices that I can lean on and rely on because if I'm being honest with myself, a lot of the time if I rely on a Netflix binge in order to re ground me, it actually depletes my energy over time more so than if I was going for a walk in nature. So it's still having that as something that is actually really supportive for me some days and some weeks, a hundred percent, but having that conscious moment of okay, Right now, I'm pausing, I'm asking myself what I need, I'm exploring all the practices, and then if I still, in, in the next five minutes, land on, no, I'm going for the wine, I'm going for the Netflix binge, or whatever that is, over perhaps the other tools that we've shared today, then beautiful.

The second part to that is so important, is understanding the energy in which you take that action. as well as the energy that you engage in after. If you have given yourself that conscious moment and a permission split, and a permission slip to have the glass of wine, to have the Netflix binge please give it to yourself.

Celebrate yourself for it. Because the shame or the guilt that some of us engage in after will rob you from any of the benefit that activity has just had. I hope that makes sense. No such thing as good or bad. There's just being honest with yourself. What are the practices? , what do you need right now?

How do you want to feel nourished? Is that actually the thing that's going to support you with where you're currently at? Having that conscious moment and then being really aware of the energy that you take into that. and the energy that you have during and after it as well. There's no guilting or shaming or should be doing this, shouldn't be doing that.

Really, that is the process and you will get so much out of these practices, whether society is deeming and telling you that it's good or bad or whatever.

Okay, the last thing that I want to speak into is the role of your environment and how this plays such a big part when it comes to your ability to ground. Have you ever walked into a chaotic, cluttered space and it makes you feel uneasy or you've stepped into a natural environment and you feel your shoulders relax?

Perhaps you step into your workplace and it makes you feel some sort of way versus maybe you have this sanctuary at home and again it makes you feel a certain way. Our surroundings influence our nervous system. Environments that feel unsafe, overstimulating or overwhelming can make grounding so much harder.

And on the flip side, creating spaces that feel calm, intentional, nurturing, can support your ability to ground. This could actually be something that you take on board and start to declutter your homes, maybe spend more time in nature, maybe really reassess it. the physical environments that you're in, whether it's your workplace, whether it's other people's homes or spaces, shopping centers, whatever that is for you, start to look at all those things, start to pay attention to how you're feeling, how you're showing up, what you're thinking when you're in certain environments that are different.

I found this out the other day through a neuroscience. Her name is M, Emily. And I found this so freaking fascinating, but there's actually neuroscience behind all of this too, which is so bloody cool. There's this thing called chemo signals that actually linger in a room. So when you go into a room and you feel like the vibe is off, it's because you're actually picking up on The vibe that was there before you.

And these chemo signals can linger for an indefinite period of time. They actually change your emotions, pending on what people have left behind. And when we sense this, they have the ability to bypass the conscious mind and trigger the limbic system. Which means that our emotions, our memories and behaviours can be triggered and cause us to start feeling or acting in a certain way based on the environment.

That is wild. So wild to me and so amazing and just really reinforces the importance of the environments that you're in and the energy of the people that are in those environments. They are changing who you are and how you're showing up. Wow. Honestly. Amazing. Okay. I mentioned it before for the people that were experiencing resistance to check out the bloom method, which has really been designed for you.

Before you can flourish, you have to ground and grow those roots deeply. This looks like nervous system regulation, subconscious reprogramming, and building a toolbox of practices that resource and nourish you, as well as support you to navigate through any resistance that might be coming up for you in order to introduce new habits, new beliefs, new perspectives into your day to day life.

In the Bloom Method, we don't just talk about grounding. We give you the tools to make it a reality, from hypnosis tracks to support you in breaking through any resistance, to practical exercises, self awareness, accountability buddies, and so much more. I cannot stress to you how phenomenal this is. this container is and is going to be.

And if it's something that piques your interest please reach out to me on Instagram at bloominwithin underscore. Okay. To wrap up today, I would love for you to take a moment to yourself and ask what practices you currently have that support you to ground. And what practices would you like to introduce or potentially reintroduce to allow you to feel more centered, stable, and connected to yourself?

Remember that growth takes time and you are right on time for you. Be patient with yourself and trust in the process. See you next time.