Lesson 3: Listening to Your Inner Voice & Building Confidence
Harness your peak energy for confidence and performance. Learn to trust your inner voice during your most radiant phase.
Learning Objectives
Trust Your Inner Voice
Develop self-trust and authentic self-expression through body awareness and confidence practices.
Harness Peak Energy
Learn to build and channel confidence during your highest energy phase for peak performance.
Embrace Your Radiance
Understand how vulnerability and sensitivity enhance your creative abilities and connections.
Biology Focus: Ovulatory Phase
✨ Peak Hormonal State
- • Estrogen reaches its highest point
- • Natural confidence and radiance
- • Biologically designed to feel attractive
- • Enhanced communication abilities
🎯 Enhanced Abilities
- • Increased creative and productive energy
- • Stronger desire to socialize and connect
- • Enhanced concentration and focus
- • Peak time for public speaking and presentations
🌕 Full Moon Connection
Just as the full moon shines brightest and is most visible, your ovulatory phase is when your confidence and creative abilities are at their peak. This is your time to shine and share your gifts with the world.
Engineering Confidence & Peak Performance
🏗️ Building Confidence as a Skill
During your ovulatory phase, you can practice using your peak energy for great achievements and difficult tasks. Confidence may look natural to some people, but personal confidence doesn't just happen by luck - it's a skill you can learn, practice, and perfect.
Some people find that the ovulatory days are great for creativity and productivity. They may find that their ability to work, concentrate, and produce creative work increases. Many find it easier to persevere, increase focus intensity, or do things requiring confidence like public speaking.
💫 Your Natural Radiance
Ovulatory hormones are biologically designed to make us attractive. This makes ovulation one of the most enjoyable phases of the cycle, since you often feel high on energy, feminine, confident, or generally more capable of taking things on.
During ovulation, you may experience a stronger desire to socialize and connect. You may also experience an increase in your desire to exchange or share ideas with other people. Many find they are most generous with their time and gifts during ovulation.
🌸 Treasuring Vulnerability
While this is your high-energy phase, remember that vulnerability and sensitivity are also gifts. The ability to feel deeply and express authentically makes you stronger, not weaker. Your emotions during any phase are powerful messengers worth listening to.
Yoga Practices for Peak Performance
Build and Channel Energy for Confidence
Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose)
Purpose: Engineering Confidence & Peak Performance
If you teach your body to gather energy, you can let it build up and then release it. This is useful when you feel nervous and need to deliver a performance or speak in public.
This pose is your training ground for building confidence step by step, then using all that energy at once to project power outwards.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Start by lying on your back.
Bend your knees and keep your feet on the ground. You should be able to tickle the backs of your heels with your fingers.
Let your arms lie straight by your sides, palms facing down.
Press your palms down onto the floor, tuck your tailbone under, and slowly lift your hips off the ground.
Clasp your hands behind your back, and wriggle your shoulders so the outside of your arms is on the floor.
Keep your knees parallel and push them forwards. Keep pushing your hips up, but try to unclench your buttock muscles.
Push your arms and shoulders into the floor so your chest lifts as high as possible toward the ceiling.
Gather all your energy into the lowest part of your belly, and when it's 'charged', radiate all your energy throughout the pose.
To exit: unclasp your hands, let your shoulders lie normally, and gently lower down from the top of your back.
Janu Sirsasana (Head-to-Knee Pose)
Purpose: Treasuring Vulnerability & Deep Listening
Even during your powerful ovulatory phase, this pose helps you dive deep into yourself to access your inner wisdom and future vision. It's a beautiful balance to your outer radiance.
Step-by-Step Instructions
Sit on the ground with both legs out in front of you. Sit up straight on your sitting bones.
Bend the right knee and place the sole of the right foot on the inside of the left leg, above the knee.
Push both feet hard - left heel kicks out, right heel pushes into left leg.
Lift both arms above your head, and fold forward.
Place your hands on each side of your straight leg, let your head hang freely. Only go as far as you can stay for 5 breaths or more.
Close your eyes and listen to what you're feeling. Create a picture in your head of what you want for your future.
To exit: gently return to straight back, extend the right foot, then switch sides and repeat.
💫 What These Practices Give You
Bridge Pose: By building the pose step by step and using all steps at once, you find energy deep within yourself to project outwards. The effect is magical - by exerting power in the pose, you begin to feel more powerful yourself.
Head-to-Knee Pose: This helps you turn inward and understand what you want and need. You're better equipped with self-knowledge, which helps you take on the world when you feel ready.
Empowering Affirmations
"Your voice matters—let it guide you."
"Confidence is built with each small step you take in alignment with your goals."
"The full moon reflects your rising energy—step confidently into your potential."
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