This is a simple tool to get started with being able to build a “yes” “no” communication with your team that pulls you out of your head and out of those thought processes. It allows you to bring yourself into a tangible physical response from your team.

The first step, especially in the beginning, is that you’re going to want to sit or lay down in a comfortable spot with your arms and legs uncrossed. Next, you’re going to take a quick baseline off your body to see what it feels like. Explore how your clothing feels on you that you’re in. Explore how your body feels against whatever you’re sitting on. You’re just going to take a baseline to know what your body is feeling without influence, it should only take about 2 minutes to do this. If you’re nervous, take as much time as you like just to scan over the top of your body and see how everything feels.

Next, inside your mind, you’re going to ask your team to show you the answer “yes” in a part of your body. Then you’re simply going to wait and keep your attention focused on your body, like your peripheral vision or you’re just looking out of the side of your eyes so to speak for a difference in that baseline that you established before. If you get a solid physical response you’re going to move on and ask the exact same question except you’re going to ask for them to show you the answer “no”, somewhere in your body

Now this can be a bit of a process so you may not get it the first time out of the chute, or you might get a stronger response right off the bat. Either way it doesn’t matter merely give it the time and the respect that it deserves and practice until you’re able to do this when you’re walking, when you’re standing or even when you’re in conversation with somebody else. In the beginning, we always recommend to be laying or sitting somewhere quiet where you can really focus in on your body and there’s very little static. As you start to work with this, I want you to challenge yourself to do it in other situations where there’s more static, so this tool becomes usable no matter what you’re doing.

One of the biggest top sides to this tool is it gives you a moment to step out of your thought process or out of your intuition in that moment and verify with something tangible and physical. This can be very beneficial to mute a lot of the over thinking that this is just something that you’re making up in your head. So, practice, practice, practice…