🌉 BRIDGING THE GAP –5 min Mindful Somatic Breathing Practice

Episode 34: Don’t Make Assumptions: ⁠https://youtu.be/OLuqzSMstbM⁠

✨ “Ask. Clarify. Connect. Free yourself from the suffering of stories.”

🧠 The Neuroscience of Assumption & Curiosity

• 🔄 Our brains are wired to fill in gaps — it’s how we predict danger and stay safe. But when we assume, the amygdala fires before truth arrives.

• 🧩 Assumptions become “mental shortcuts,” activating our brain’s error-detection system and often triggering anxiety or defensiveness.

• 🌱 Neuroplasticity reminds us that we can train curiosity instead of conclusion. When we slow down, breathe, and ask, we create new pathways for trust and understanding.

• 🌍 Each time we choose curiosity over assumption, we shift from fear-based reactivity to relational safety — a calm, open state where connection can grow.

🌬️ Somatic Practice & Breath Meditation

• 🌿 Inhale openness. Exhale certainty.

• 🪞 Bring to mind a moment when you assumed someone’s intent. Notice what happens in your body — the tightness in the chest, the clenching of the jaw, the heat of defensiveness

• 🌬️ Now, breathe deeply into those sensations. Imagine softening around them, letting oxygen bring clarity where tension once lived.

• 💫 As you exhale, imagine asking instead of assuming: “Can you tell me more?” or “I might be misunderstanding — can we clarify?”

• 🕯️ Ground through your senses: feel the weight of your body on the chair, notice a texture that soothes you, or hold a grounding stone. Let the nervous system know — you are safe to be curious.

❤️ Mind & Heart Integration

• 🌊 Curiosity is connection in motion. Each question you ask builds a bridge between perception and truth.

• 🛤 This week, notice when your mind starts to write a story — pause, breathe, and replace assumption with inquiry.

• ✨ Somatically, curiosity lowers cortisol and activates the ventral vagal system — the part of your nervous system linked to safety and social engagement.

• 🔗 Each act of clarification rewires the brain toward trust, compassion, and secure connection.

💭 “Find the courage to ask the questions others fear. Curiosity is the antidote to assumption, and compassion is the bridge to understanding.” — Don Miguel Ruiz

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