If you can’t be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, you can still slip out of bed like a hapless reptile or a drunken noodle and crawl toward the promise of a better morning.
Best-selling author, personal development coachand motivational speaker Mel Robbins has taken to TikTok to share her therapist-recommended hack for getting out of bed when feelings of guilt and anxiety make moving the lid seem impossible.
“For most of my life, every morning when I woke up, I just felt this overwhelming sense of dread,” Robbins admitted.
Wisely, she sought the advice of her therapist, who introduced her to a “life-changing technique” known as sliding.
Robbins demonstrated the technique in her video, starting by lying down before slowly pulling her body toward the floor. She advised her followers to “embrace” the heaviness they feel, allowing it to consume them to the point where they have no choice but to get out of bed.
“You’ll think about letting the weight of emotion fall off your bed. Now I’m dripping on the side of the bed. No joke, I’m going down on the floor.”
When you reach the floor, Robbins suggested twisting your body into different shapes, including a cat/cow yoga move. Stretch, she said, “until you start to feel the fall break up.”
Robbins admitted that in her first trials with the gliding technique, she would lie on the floor for minutes. Eventually, she promised, “what starts to happen is that frozen kind of fear starts to dissolve based on your movement, and then suddenly what you’ll feel is this ability to sit or roll over.”
She explained that while you may feel like you can stand up, don’t, as the point is to push through the feeling.
And moving through feeling feels like getting on all fours and crawling across the floor like a sleepy pet or exotic dancer: “Slowly, like a dog or a cat, you’ll just crawl toward the bathroom.”
Robbins admitted that doing it under the watchful eyes of kids, roommates or partners can be embarrassing at best, but the procrastination is worth the reward.
“From the first time I tried this, by the time I got to the bathroom, all that heaviness was gone and something magical replaced it, this feeling of freedom.”
While she realizes the slide/crawl technique may seem dubious to the uninitiated, practicing it every morning for six weeks proved life-changing.
“I wanted to stand up, I wanted to face the day. I had moved with and through the heaviness that was no longer in me, and I felt something else, which was empowerment.”
She called the “miraculous” slide/crawl combination a somatic technique, a therapeutic approach that aims to heal trauma by focusing on stored sensation and experiences, essentially using the physical to process and release emotional pain.
“There are experiences in life that you remember in your subconscious mind, but they are also remembered in the body… to get rid of these negative and heavy sensations, you have to go from the neck down and process them in the body,” she. is explained.
An advocate of healing hacks, Robbins previously shared a simple move to transform chronic procrastinators into models of productivity.
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