36. How to Reduce Stress & Lower Emotions (Part 1 & 2)

Master's Message children's class discussion topic of the week.

This topic is to be covered over two weeks to allow time to practice the exercises in class.

Lower emotions and lower feelings feel terrible.

Some common lower emotions and feelings that people feel are:

Stress Worry Sadness Anger

Confusion

Jealousy Fear Rejection

Martial Arts Masters such as the Shaolin Fighting Monks use specific mental martial arts techniques to fight these lower emotions.

These techniques include deep breathing, meditation, and intense martial arts physical training, to release these emotions and stress from their body and replace them with 'higher' emotions, such as peace and happiness.

You can release ugly feeling emotions from your body by using any or all of the following techniques for one minute or more, any time you feel that you need to:

Deep Breathing: Take slow, deep breaths. Inhale deeply through the nose and exhale slowly through the mouth.

Let's try and focus on this now for 30 seconds.

Meditation: Examples:
Focus on the feeling of your stomach going in and out as you breathe.

Let's try and focus on this now for 30 seconds. Focus on a sound in nature, such as the wind, water flowing, birds chirping, or leaves rustling.

Let's see what sounds we can hear now for 30 seconds, even if they are not sounds of nature.

PART 2 NEXT WEEK:
Grounding / Earthing:

Stand or sit with bare feet in nature, such as on grass, soil, or your feet in a river or the ocean, and feel and imagine/visualise the ugly lower emotions drain out from your feet into the soil, grass, or water, each time you breath out. Visualise lower emotions as a dark colour such as brown. Then breathe in good energy visualising the colour white.

Let's try and focus on this now for 30 seconds.
Physical Activity: Physical training such as martial arts, running, dancing, weightlifting, and playing outside.

Exercise reduces lower emotion energy and stress by burning it up for energy and improving your mood through the release of 'happy' hormones.
Creativity:

Such as drawing, painting, crafting, building something, renovating, and planning.
Talking About Feelings:

With somebody you can trust who will support you positively.
Visualisation:

Such as imagining a peaceful place, an imaginary place, or a favorite memory.

Let's try and focus on this now for 30 seconds.