Eps 72: How to Turn Anger Into Power: Sharon Gung on Voice, Boundaries & Transformational Self-Defense🥋

i love that because i had a dysfunctional upbringing with violence in the home and to put me in that sort of stance i don't want to feel like that i've witnessed people putting their fists up ready to punch someone And I know the outcome to that or what that can lead to.

Of course I would defend myself and my family, but I don't want to go out with the intention of hurting people.

I want the intention of feeling empowered enough in myself that I can hold space to create change.

By using these techniques, you're doing that.

You're constantly working on your state of being to be able to hold space.

And then you have a language that you're saying stop because your hands don't stop.

Yes.

Take a breath.

Let's get out of these emotions and actually connect that it's beneficial to both of us.

And you haven't got time to say that, but your stance and the way you're holding your hands have.

I remember holding an event for young women when I was in an organization in schools.

And a lady who did martial arts was getting the girls to yell out, stop.

And she said the energy behind you saying stop out loud can take you out of that freeze and bring the adrenaline down so you can think and you can act.

Because if you're placed in a situation that sends your adrenaline through the roof very quickly, you will freeze.

Yeah, absolutely.

The voice freezes.

Just using the word stop, for instance.

So most people would naturally think you shout stop.

And so that one could come from the throat, the upper area of the body.

That's okay in itself.

But when you really drop into your solar plexus, into your place of empowerment, you activate the heart chakra.

You're speaking from truth.

And physically, you're actually working with the diaphragm.

It becomes much more deep.

It becomes guttural.