Elizabeth Munoz shares a three-step morning routine to reset before speaking: stretch and offer gratitude, journal about yesterday's triggers and regrets, then process trapped emotional memories in your nervous system. She explains how unprocessed intense memories cause dysregulation and offers tools to move them so they stop dominating your present.
So one of the things that, that I think is important to note is a lot of us have all seen babies, right? At least seen them if we don't have them of our own. And even pets, right? Dogs, cats. The first thing they do when they wake up is they stretch, right? But yet as adults, we don't do that. As adults, we forget that the first thing we're supposed to do when we get up is really move our bodies. And so another thing is that movement and remembering that when you get out of bed in the morning, I like to sit there and I will get up right when I wake up and I sit up and then I just sit there and I just give gratitude for being awake because there's people who didn't wake up this morning. And so really that appreciation, it's a Tibetan practice that I learned a long time ago and it's You live your day as if each day was your last because we don't really know, right? And so before you go to bed at night, you're kind of processing through everything and imagine, I'm not gonna wake up tomorrow. If I didn't wake up tomorrow, are there any regrets I would have? And so you can even do inventory if you wanted to journal. I don't— I'm not big on journaling, but I like audio journaling. And so I'll sit there with my phone and I'll do voice memos and record. And but whatever works for you, and— or if you just want to wait till the morning. But essentially you just think of what can I— what really came up for me today, what were real big triggers, and what are the things that if I could go back I would. And so when you wake up in the morning, it's like you're getting a new shot at life. And so you get the chance to go back and work on whatever was a regret maybe from the day before. And so just realizing in that situation that every moment we have a moment to change. And as human beings, we have this incredible ability to have memory. Yeah. And our memory calls on to the past, but we're not meant to live in our memories. And the problem with, with cognitive dissonance and dysregulation in our nervous system is our body gets trapped in past memories. The emotion was so strong, and we didn't know at the time because we didn't have the tools to process through it, that it got trapped and stored. And so what we're doing now is working on moving that through. And so whenever one of those memories does come up, being able to— have the tools to be able to process through. So what I'm gonna do right in this moment, and you guys can take a seat,
