Joanne Smith says stop over-promising yourself. Instead, make commitments you can actually keep. She teaches four physical moves that reduce hidden tension: drop your shoulders, relax your jaw, create a gap between your back molars, and keep your tongue off the roof of your mouth. Releasing these muscle holds calms your body and helps you follow through.
Don't make promises to yourself that you can't keep. Make a promise that you know you can see through, because again, safety, you know. You did well, you did really well. I talked a bit about physiology at the beginning with like smiling, like, but I'm gonna just enhance on it a little bit more. So calm the body, like drop the shoulders, the jaw, In the beginning, I did have to do a lot of, like, consciously, like, realizing, oh, you're holding your jaw quite, you know, tense. Or I'd just kind of, like, let my teeth at the back, teeth, the back molars, have a little gap between them, make sure my tongue's, like, not pushed up to the roof of my mouth, all those kind of things, just to ease any pressure or tension that's in the body that I didn't even know I was holding.
