We completed our second session on the topic of worry. It's funny, I feel like since teaching this topic all my worries have been coming up like an initiation to prove that I am putting into practise everything I'm teaching - walking the walk, not just talking the talk. I guess worry is something that will always come up at some point.
One of the ways to help release worries is by speaking to someone about them. This is why, in my groups, I encourage the girls to share what is going on for them. We did a meditation to activate our throat energy centres. We used a turquoise crystal to connect to the energy of speaking with confidence and speaking our truth. When this energy centre is out of balance it can look like oversharing or remaining silent, physical ailments can be throat conditions such as tonsillitis or laryngitis. We observed our thoughts then did some free journaling where you write about the first things that come into your head. This can be a very enlightening activity. You will either give yourself advice you needed to hear, write about an experience or worry which gets it out of your head, or it could be complete nonsense which shows us that much of what the voice in our head says isn't worth paying attention to anyway. It just jabbers away relentlessly.
Wr recapped who the worry monster is and how it loves control, comfort and certainty. We talked about how if you are prone to worry you will be playing a lot of games of tug of war with the monster but it's time to consciously put down that rope. How? Well, one of the ways is by creating a worry wheel of control (which the girls called the doughnut of control based on what it looks like).
In the centre you write down all the things that are in your control such as what you wear, how you behave, the words you use, your hobbies. In the outside ring, you write down what isn't in your control such as your family members, your friend's actions, someone dying. The idea is we try to let go of the things that are outside of our control by using STOP (Stop, Take some breaths, Observe, Proceed if feeling better) and focus on those things we can control like our thoughts, words and actions.
Finally we listed things we could do to help take our mind off our worries. These included exercise, washing them away (literally), writing them down and putting them in a worry jar or doing something you enjoy.
Another way to say goodbye to worries is do something fun, so each week I am teaching the girls a game that they can play with their friends.
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