The Science of Happiness

Happiness Break: Embodying Resilience, With Prentis Hemphill


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What if you could tap into your inherent resilience at any time? Prentis Hemphill guides a meditation to turn good memories into a state of resilience.

How To Do This Practice:

  1. Get Comfortable in Your Body: Find a position, seated, standing, or lying down, that feels right. Move, shake, or sound out anything that helps you arrive in your body.
  2. Conjure a Resilient Memory: Call to mind a moment, place, or experience that makes you feel strong, creative, or connected, something that reminds you of your resilience.
  3. Let It Fill You Up: Notice where that memory lives in your body, and let it expand into your arms, legs, face, and breath until it energizes your whole being.
  4. Turn It Up: Amplify the sensation by 20%, letting it spill through your muscles and cells. Notice shifts in breath, posture, and energy.
  5. Turn It Down: Gently reduce the sensation, bit by bit, and observe what changes. What stories re-emerge, how your body responds, and how you make that shift.
  6. Carry It With You: Return to the present moment with the option to bring that resilience with you at the volume and intensity you need, knowing it’s always available.

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    Today’s Happiness Break Guide:

    PRENTIS HEMPHILL is the founder of the Embodiment Institute, and a writer and therapist who prioritizes the body in their approach to healing.

    Learn More About the Embodiment Institute: https://www.theembodimentinstitute.org/about

    Check out Prentis’ website: https://prentishemphill.com

    Follow Prentis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prentishemphill

    Follow Prentis on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/4d99f4xs

    Related Happiness Break episodes:

    Make Uncertainty Part of the Process: https://tinyurl.com/234u5ds7

    Pause to Look at the Sky: https://tinyurl.com/4jttkbw3

    A Self-Compassion Meditation For Burnout: https://tinyurl.com/485y3b4y

    Related Science of Happiness episodes:

    How Holding Yourself Can Reduce Stress: https://tinyurl.com/2hvhkwe6

    Breathe Away Anxiety: https://tinyurl.com/3u7vsrr5

    Are You Remembering the Good Times: https://tinyurl.com/483bkk2h

    Follow us on Instagram: @ScienceOfHappinessPod

    We’d love to hear about your experience with this practice! Share your thoughts at [email protected] or use the hashtag #happinesspod.

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