4 Ways to Feel Expansive AF

**Hannah Summerhill** (0:00)
Welcome back, everybody, to The Hannah Summerhill Show. Thank you so much for being here. So happy to have you guys here in my space. I thought we could start today's episode by choosing a card from one of my favorite decks, the Super Attractor deck, and just kind of tune in to what the energy and message is for all of us today, whenever you're listening to this.
All right, let's see.
When I'm patient, I let the universe do for me what I cannot do for myself.
Clearly, a lot of you needed a reminder to be patient.
I can relate. I can relate. I'm not exactly known for my patience. Just ask my husband.
Okay, so today's episode is how to feel expansive as fuck. Four ways that you can expand your energy. Because if we're not feeling expansive, then it's really hard to manifest an expansive life. So I'm going to share the four things that are really simple that you can implement into your daily life to feel more elevated and more expansive and let that be your new baseline. One of the fastest ways to manifest is just to elevate and expand your energy and see what's possible. Truly. The problem is we resist doing that because our brains are like, oh, like elevated energy is just too unfamiliar, or it's too much of an energetic expense. Let's just stay comfortable at homeostasis. But to live magical lives, break out of the autopilot comfortable loops that we are so familiar with, we actually have to elevate and expand our energy. And that's the fastest way for me to manifest. Like sometimes I'll catch myself in kind of a down day and I'll be like, wait, all I need to do is elevate and expand my energy. And luckily, I have so many tools that I can pull from to do that. Now, the goal is always to expand, but contraction is normal too. Think about the universe. The universe is expanding, it contracts a little bit, but ultimately it expands. Think about being pregnant and giving birth. Contraction is part of the expansion of bringing life into the world. But the goal is to expand, so these tools will really help you.
We want to expand our horizons of joy, of love, of wealth, of worthiness. One of the biggest ways that I've trained myself to have a more expansive baseline is I literally intentionally celebrate and pre-celebrate everything. I've trained myself to celebrate. So I remember when I first signed up for the First Personal Development Mastery course, it was with Mama Gina at her School of Womenly Arts, and this was in 2013 or 2014
And she would have hundreds of women come to these big events that she would host in New York City. And she would have us do dance breaks every five minutes. She had a resident DJ, and the DJ would put on a song, and then after somebody would share something, Mama Gina would be like, dance break. And then the music would go up, and the expectation was that everybody stood and would start to dance. And I remember sitting in the audience there and being like, oh my gosh, another dance break. We have to dance again, because my body just wanted to stay at rest. And then I started to get addicted to the feeling of getting up and dancing. I ended up doing her program so many times, volunteering for her program, being a big sister, traveling all over the world with her. And you bet I was dancing my ass off, like literally naked a lot of the time, because it was just so freaking joyful. And I went from like resisting that joy to, I wasn't able to get enough of it, to fully embracing it. And it made me feel so, so expansive. Celebration, dance, joy makes you feel so expansive. But there is going to be that learning curve where at first you're like, I'm resisting this. I don't want this. Like, this made me feel silly or it's uncomfortable or whatever. The other night, I went to a concert by myself and nobody in my area was standing up and dancing the whole time, except for me and like one other person. I was like, it's the summer. It's a beautiful Friday night. We're watching live music. It's amazing. Like, how are people not standing up and dancing? And yeah, it was like a little uncomfortable for me to be the only one standing up and dancing, but I was like, nobody is going to rob me of this amazing, expansive feeling of being in my joy and celebrating and just like delighting and being alive.