Announcing The Mindful VICTUS Playscape: Our private Skool to BREAK FREE & BE FREE this Independence Day!
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In my STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT☕️🍵, we’re doing a deep-dive into our Book Club selection! This week is the Introduction of REWIRED: The Breakthrough Tapping Method to Stop Overthinking, Calm Your Body, and Finally Feel at Ease by Nick, Jessica, & Alex Ortner.
But before we dive into that…
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It’s finally time to announce our new
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It’s the safe place for us to
BREAK FREE & BE FREE
to be who we are meant to be!
🥁Why join The Mindful VICTUS Playscape?🥁
As we’ve studied books like the ones we’ve selected for our STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT☕️🍵, I’ve incorporated them into the THINK portion of The VICTUS Method, to Think-Do-&-Be my way to who I’m meant to be:
- THE ARTIST’S WAY: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy by Julia Cameron
- BEYOND ANXIETY: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose, by Dr. Martha Beck
- ON BECOMING AN ARTIST: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity by Dr. Ellen J. Langer
But, the more these teachers have inspired us to Think & Re-Think, to question who we are and who we want to be…
The more I realize how important it is for us to get out of our head, drop into our heart, and MOVE…
To the next step in the VICTUS Method: DO.
Because thinking — without action — doesn’t have the power to bring us peace.
It’s knowledge without wisdom.
It’s the mind, paralyzed.
It’s potential, moving in circles.
Always on standby.
Never embodied.
Not lived.
YES, it’s the DOING that needs to be done.
We need “to do, the DO.” Not later. Now.
But, anything worth doing asks us to go beyond our comfort zone.
Uncomfortable emotions — like regret & the imposter syndrome — can keep us stuck.
MY MINDFUL REFLECTION:
Q: How can we bridge the divide between Thinking vs. Doing?
A: We need to bring SYNERGY to what we THINK + DO.
By getting not just our minds, but our bodies, involved.
That’s why I chose the Ortners’ Book — REWIRED: The Breakthrough Tapping Method to Stop Overthinking, Calm Your Body, and Finally Feel at Ease — for our STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT☕️🍵
So we’re not only reading about Better Ways of Being, but also doing the DO: tapping our way to becoming the Creatives we are meant to be.
We all deserve to experience peace, joy, and freedom.
And, because I strongly believe that we are stronger together, I’m encouraging us to “do the DO” as a community, in a safe & private space for Creatives to embrace Becoming in all of its messy glory: 🥳🎉The Mindful VICTUS Playscape! 🎉 🥳
Let’s BREAK FREE, together.
I hope you’ll join me on this Journey of Becoming & tap your way to success.
Together, we can apply the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) with an open mind.
As the Ortners make clear in the Introduction to REWIRED:
You don’t have to be who you’ve always been.
You don’t have to feel how you’ve always felt.
You don’t have to do what you’ve always done.
And it doesn’t have to take years of therapy to gain peace in the present moment.
In fact, the Ortners begin the book with an amazing story, about a mom who’s with her family at the airport. The intercom’s calling for all passengers to board. And she’s just about to abandon their trip to London. She’s panicking. Frozen with fear. She has aerophobia.
But, she’s not alone.
A stranger sees her suffering.
And, instead of staying silent, she invites her to listen & tap along to the Ortners’ guided recording for the fear-of-flying.
It works so well, she boards the plane after 10 minutes of tapping.
😳 TEN MINUTES!
Ten minutes to BREAK FREE of the mental loop that’s kept her imprisoned for years.
Not by being someone she’s not.
Not by suppressing the fear and anxiety she has.
But, by acknowledging her emotions.
By recognizing, “Yes, I’m afraid and anxious.”
And taking back control with tapping.
She taps on her meridian acupoints…
Repeating, again and again, “Even though I’m anxious and afraid to fly, I love and accept myself.”
She taps until the fear and anxiety dissipates.
Tapping the acupressure points scrambles the message of ALARM coursing through her Nervous System…
Sending a message of CALM to her Nervous System instead.
Her fear and anxiety fade away like smoke.
Tapping’s the water that’s cooled her body down.
The ten-alarm siren’s silenced.
It’s a somatic experience that’s felt…inside her body, her mind, her heart…
Until she’s able to look up and say, “I think I can do this.”
As the Ortners tell it, “the once-terrified woman boards the plane first. She gives the kind stranger a thumbs-up as she passes in the aisle. Everyone goes to London, and no one is left behind.”
All from tapping.
Transforming such a strong phobia, with real concrete action to overcome it, this fast!?
I’m intrigued & hopeful!
Because I’ve already researched the science behind why tapping works, and I had promising results with EFT during a few migraines with anxiety, so — on a scale of 1 (highly skeptical) to 10 (true believer) — I’m already a 7.
Plus, I know for a fact that whenever I’ve adopted a somatic practice that involves my body — like my daily cold showers and yoga practice — it always works to shift my mental & emotional State.
I’m all for using absolutely anything in our arsenal to help motivate us.
And you know what else fuels my State, faster than anything else?
🎉🎵MUSIC🎵🎉
In the Mindful VICTUS Playscape, we’ll be using the power of MUSIC to elevate our State!
Why MUSIC?
There’s something so magical about music.
No matter who you are…
No matter how different we might be…
We are unified in our love for music.
Music can bridge any divide. Between us. And inside us.
The lyrics…the crescendos and decrescendos…the universal understanding it imparts in us.
The moment music meets our ears, it connects us and holds space for what was, what is, what could be, and what may never be.
Every emotion’s captured in its cadence, in its heartfelt expression.
Music touches our heart, enlivens our spirit, gives us the energy to dance with our highs, and supports us in our lowest of lows.
And it has a miraculous impact upon our internal State.
Where we might tremble in fear or uncertainty, it can embolden us. It can strengthen our resolve.
When heartbreak comes for us, it can support us in our sorrow.
When we want to shrink in shame, it lifts the mask behind which we hide and whispers, “It’s okay. I see you.”
When we think no one else is like us, it allows us to see ourselves in others.
We experience our shared humanity, through our senses.
It’s visceral.
It’s primal.
Like the beating of our hearts, it’s an ancient language of frequencies, tones, and notes embedded into our evolutionary DNA.
The MINDFUL VICTUS PLAYSCAPE is…
A safe place for members-only. Click HERE to join The Mindful VICTUS Playscape.
- Where we can TAP into the power of MUSIC to regulate our Nervous System, to:
- deactivate the Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn-or-Flop response of our Sympathetic Nervous System, and
- activate the Rest-&-Digest response of our Parasympathetic Nervous System, so we can all…
- Feel safe;
- Relax into our “Messy Middle”;
- Celebrate our Becoming;
- Champion our Highest Self;
- Honor our Inner Child (like how I’m healing the pain of abandoning piano lessons when I was a kid); and,
- Remember that, when we are Mindful, we have the power to CHOOSE what’s best for us.
What is best for us?
- To drop the mask,
- Abandon perfectionism, and
- PLAY!
Let’s co-create the world we wish to live in, so we can all LIVE our lives, wholeheartedly.
That’s why…
In The Mindful VICTUS Playscape, our motto is
Vita est pro victus!
which means “Life is for LIVING — Truly Living!”
Not as some shell of who we should be. But as our truest, most Authentic Self.
Here, we PLAY our way to success, using The VICTUS Method: the science-backed practice for us to THINK+DO+BE who we’re meant to be, by cultivating MINDFUL Creativity in Music, Art, Fitness, & Somatic Exercises to experience peace, joy, & flow.
Together, we’ll
• Silence our Inner Critic
• Elevate our State
• Experience safety in our body by regulating our nervous system
• Motivate ourselves with creative carrots, not punishing sticks
• Entrain our brains to adopt unstoppable self-belief
• Practice loving ourselves
• Stop taking ourselves so seriously
• Lower our stress
• ENJOY a Life that’s full of abundance & creativity!
Inside The Mindful VICTUS Playscape,
we can be who we CHOOSE to be.
Who we’re MEANT to be:
♾️ Happy & Healthy ♾️
♾️ Creating a life we LOVE ♾️
♾️ Full of Hope, Passion, & Purpose ♾️
Now, take a Mindful Minute, to ask yourself:
Are YOU ready to use EFT to step into the new Creative YOU, in a well-regulated way with me?
Then join The Mindful VICTUS Playscape so we can
EFT-our-way-to-Freedom this Independence Day!
I’ll never promise perfection. Only Authenticity.
As I tap the keys on my piano…
so we can EFT-Tap our way to wholeness.
Together, we’ll…
Like/Comment/Share our creative work, so ALL of us can grow as Creatives.
⭐️ Until we can all proclaim this wholeheartedly:
♥️ “I deserve to explore Better Ways of Being.”
♥️ “I champion my Creative Self.”
♥️ “No matter what I’m feeling, I can love & accept myself.”
See you inside!
- Choose a creative activity to pursue alongside me. Not necessarily the same creative practice as I’m choosing (music). But, the creative practice that YOU choose.
- Together, we will experiment and PLAY.
- P.S. No worries if you don’t have a Creative Practice yet. I’m planning fun ways to listen-to-learn piano, by going back to basics, so beginners will be right on time!
🧠🎨 The Mindful VICTUS Playscape in Me 🎨🧠
🧠🎨 honors & respects 🎨🧠
🧠🎨 The Mindful VICTUS Playscape in Each of You, 🎨🧠
Marisa
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