SLRC QUARTER 1, MODULE 12

PRACTICE GUIDE

The Five Keys of Power In this module’s practices, you get to work with power and to learn how to

make it go into an upward spiral.

In the first practice, you will explore and work with your boundaries. Setting a

good boundary is not only important for power and empowerment, but also for

reversing the cultural history that tells women to say yes to others and no to

themselves.

In the second practice, you will activate your pleasure as a source of power.

In the third practice, you will find power in your body, experience the fighting

nature of your body and explore your capacity to defend yourself.

In the fourth practice, you will use grounding as a power tool.

And lastly, in the fifth practice, you will explore your truth, since one of the ways

we tremendously disempower ourselves is to not see all that is great and utterly

amazing about ourselves.

Grounding practices

Being grounded is a tremendous source of power!

And being grounded is literally, on the most foundational level, about having

presence and awareness in the lower parts of your body. So it means having

awareness of your feet, legs, pelvis and lower belly.

And it’s also about feeling present here and now. There is a heaviness to it and a

kind of density that you can feel in people who are grounded.

Being grounded helps you take practical steps to get what you want and make

things happen. No matter how much potential or talent a person has, this has

to be grounded to become real power, in order for that person to really get or

create what they want.

Being grounded helps you slow down and realize you can take things step by

step, and there is great power in knowing what the next step is and knowing

how to take it. Part of the way of you get there is by slowing down, being in your

body and having that kind of directional ability.

The three grounding practices in this module come from the Taoist tradition

and from Mantak Chia, which say that you can build up all this amazing energy,

but if you don’t ground it, it just goes out and heats up the room. Instead, you

want to bring that energy into to your body and have it:

• Feed your cells, bones and blood

• Light you up from the inside out

• Make you feel substantial and present, moment to moment

Another aspect of grounding practices you should know about is that when

people do energy activation practices - for example, working with kundalini

energy or doing jade egg practices - when you or your clients start to activate

energy, if there is a lot of unprocessed stuff in the unconscious, it can keep you

awake at night. There will be a buzzing, like a high, and there can be a whole

lot of energy in your head that makes it hard to sleep.

Sometimes there is really nothing you can do, and in these situations, try to put

yourself in a resting trance state by breathing slowly and staying connected to

your felt sense all through the body.

But oftentimes, with all this energy running around your system, what you need

is to ground, to be able to go to sleep and to sleep well. And this will also help

relieve the feeling of, “I’m buzzing, I’m high.” Do the grounding practices about

an hour before bedtime to really drop into the body.

You find the three grounding practices in practice four this week and they are:

• Grounded hip and pelvis exercise

• Kidney foot massage

• Bone breathing

Power process

For each of the five days, after you have done a specialized practice, you will

end the practice with the power process. This will support you to empower

yourself in the most rapid and efficient way possible - but it will also inspire you

to think about what it takes to step out and have a career and business.

You will focus on:

• Feeling powerful - and allowing yourself to be loved, to have safety and to

belong

• Being radiant - and allowing yourself to be loved, to have safety and to belong

• To be seen - and allowing yourself to be loved, to have safety and to belong

Many of us act small because we are terrified that if we were to be as powerful,

radiant or be fully seen as we are capable of being, we would lose one or all of

these qualities. It’s really empowering to feel in your body as a lived reality that

you can have both experiences at the same time.

Body empowerment process

You will do this process to be really present in your body, and especially in the

lower part of the body. Being present in the lower part of the body, in your

pussy, womb and lower belly, changes the way you experience yourself and the

way others perceive you.

In this process, you work on feeling yourself from these parts of your body and

feeling present inside them. You will nurture this quality of being at home and

present in the lower parts of the body. That’s very important!

And you will also do self-pleasuring with an empowering statement, because

when you mix affirmations with pleasure, there is a kind alchemy that happens

inside the body and makes the transformation more powerful.

Storing energy

This is a classical Taoist process of storing energy. There are two different ways

to store energy.

1. Drink it into the cells

This is a more advanced process for people who have stabilised energy and

generally are coming from a clear and empowered place. When you already

have a body that is balanced and integrated, this is definitely possible.

2. Store it in the Tan tien

When you want to create stability and you don’t want energy buzzing around,

store the energy the in the Tan tien, right below the belly button in your center

of gravity (so, in the center of your body below the belly button). This will create

a grounding experience for you.

In the Taoist tradition, you store the energy right below the belly button if you

want to be grounded in a material way. If you want to have success and use

your energy for physical things, like being healthy, making money, building a

career, raising children, etc., then store it here.

If you want to store energy for your spiritual purposes, like spiritual awakening

or activation, then instead store it right in the belly button area.

In women, you store the energy by going counter-clockwise. Go up on the left

and down on the right and feel the energy collecting and pulling in, and collect

it in the Tan tien. And then go clockwise and you feel it store itself in a ball.

For men, the directions are the opposite in the Taoist tradition - so a clockwise

motion collects the energy and a counter-clockwise motion will store it.

This also focuses your energy so that what you are creating and cultivating in

these processes gives you personal power in your life.

Therefore, it’s a beautiful way to end your practices, symbolizing to your primal

brain: we are using all of this energy to nourish our lives, to say yes to our

desires, to build what we came here to build within our lifetime.