Typically, we have hot heads and cold guts. By reversing this improper circulation using the “water up, fire down” principle, you can bring the “fire” in your head down to heat up your core and bring the cold gut energy back up to your head for a calm, cool mind. By exercising your intestines, you’re pumping fresh oxygen, increasing blood flow, better absorbing nutrients, and processing undigested waste to achieve the proper “water up, fire down” circulation. You’ll know you have proper energy circulation if you heat up, sweat, or form saliva in your mouth.
Now imagine one of your happiest memories. Who’s around you? Where are you? What songs and smells surround you? How does it feel? Saturate every cell in your body with the energy of that happy memory. Now go back to the pain. Ask yourself, “What color is the pain now? What shape? What texture? What movement?” My clients who practice this are able to shift their unwanted feeling’s shape, color, and movement—sometimes disappearing the unwanted emotion altogether. The more you master your emotions, the quicker you’ll be able to develop your emotional resilience as a leader.
without having to question or regret the decision.
The more you practice, the easier your body and heart can communicate clearer messages and the more power you’ll have to simply notice your thoughts, feelings, and body sensations passing through rather than getting lost in them.
Mastery Requires Practice
Before you can experience peace, it’s critical to bring your awareness from outside yourself into your body. Then bring that energy down from your head into your core. You’ve now aligned your body, heart, mind, and soul in just a few minutes. By focusing inward, you’ll build your inner guidance system more strongly to guide you through uncertainty. You’ll be the calm in the eye of the storm, no matter how chaotic it gets inside or out. You can choose the most aligned response at each moment. When you have the courage to practice these moments of peace of moving meditations, mastering your emotions, and listening within, you will not only find peace amid chaos; you will become a source of peace in the chaos of our world. By embodying peace in any chaos, you can access an abundant, infinite supply of energy to serve your team, your customers, your stakeholders, and, most importantly, yourself.
Master Your Emotions
Other exercises can really allow you to master your emotions by embracing the “bad” or unwanted emotions like anger, sadness, or jealousy. This practice takes five minutes or less and keeps your focus on observing the emotion rather than becoming or identifying as the emotion itself. There are many exercises, but here’s a sample of one exercise that has proven very powerful with my business leader clients. Close your eyes. Scan your body from your head to your toes. Where do you notice tension, pain, or unwanted emotions? Ask yourself, “What color is the pain or unwanted emotion? What shape? What texture? What movement?”
Listen Within
The final exercise to access peace in chaos is listening within.
Simply close your eyes, take a few deep breaths, and ask your heart, “What’s my message for today?” Continue asking and listening. Often, the response is simple in just a few words. You can talk not only to your heart but any organ or area of pain, as well. By tapping into your own inner wisdom to listen within, you’ll get very aligned answers to decisions you need to make
This article was originally published on Forbes.com.
Anna Choi, Founder and CEO of SolJoy, Forbes Author, and TEDx Speaker, serves high achieving, creative, conscious business leaders who want to quiet the mind chatter, cut through distractions, and tap into boundless energy to create leaders with more health, happiness, and peace. Learn more at www.annasunchoi.com/media
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