Satori Center Modalities

Lazy 8's, Infinity 8's -- Integrating Strength

The benefit: As well as helping to shift beliefs, thought patterns and frequencies, this process is great for improving reading skills such as remembering words and keeping one's place. Lazy 8's connect the left and the right sides of the brain, enhancing learning ability, memory retention, and quick thinking.  For athletes, dancers, and actors, Infinity 8's enhance high-level body coordination, especially in stressful situations.

The technique: 

To change your response to a situation, think of something you would like to resist less, or have less difficulty with.  On a scale of 1 - 10, 10 being something gnarly, pick something in the 3 to 5 range.  Note to yourself where it falls on the scale and how you know you're resistant or having difficulty -- as in, tight jaw, shallow breath, hard eyes, etc. 

• you can do this sitting or standing.
• throughout the movements, move your eyes only, not your nose.
• 'First' Movement: 
  • hold your hand out in front of you, chest height, looking at your thumbnail or at an item you're holding. 
  • keeping your head still, follow your thumb with your eyes as you slowly lift your hand and circle up, out to the right , down, back to the center, and up to where you started.
• 'Second' Movement: 
  • keeping your head still, follow your thumb with your eyes as you slowly lift your hand and circle up, out to the left , down, back to the center, and up to where you started.
• Continue!  Do this 5 times as slow as you can stand it.
• If you like, 
  • go slower when you get to glitchy spots.  This allows the brain to figure out what to do about them.
  • stop if you find a sweet spot - a spot where you have a '0' on the 1-10 scale, 10 being gnarly.   This sweet spot is a place of resource, where you are storing the solution to whatever is bothering you.  By staying here, you're allowing the solution to 'come online' and permeate throughout your brain.
  • You can do big Lazy 8's, little Lazy 8's, wide ones, narrow ones, tall ones, etc.  closer in, farther out.  as you're moving your eye focus through different places you're accessing different parts of your brain.  The more places you access the further reaching your creative response to releasing the resistance/glitch/emotion/etc.
• After your 5 or so Lazy 8's, check in with yourself and see if your resistance and/or annoyance is less now.  You can repeat this as you like until you get it to 0 or near 0.

In a session I would tailor situation/statement to use.

I find this is a great technique if I have chores to do but I'm dragging my feet.  A minute or so per chore and I'm ready to sail through the day!

Other ways this is useful is with relationships.  My approach is to think of the person 'in general' and do 5 or so Lazy 8's.  After that, I think of a particular situation and release on that.  

With horses, it's useful in the big 'relationship' sense and also in the day-to-day training sense.  I can do the Lazy 8 for me or I can do it by proxy for specific things for my horse - for instance 'Left Hind Leg is a little bit late.'

Personal Note:  As you do this more often, the body kind of figures out where you're going with it and you'll get results more quickly.   

What benefits have you noticed?

Blessings,
 

Lynn

01/18/16

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