8 Tips to Get More Out of Your Splankna Homework

If your like me, you want to get the most out of your Splankna work. I certainly want this for all of my clients! Investing in doing the homework that your practitioner assigns you is a great way to do that. Homework is not a part of every session, but it is highly valuable in laying down new tracks for your healing journey. We ask God in to fill in good things after we work on removing harmful and stuck patterns, feelings, and untrue beliefs that we were holding onto. Homework facilitates that transformation, and some homework can ready us for what is coming up in our healing pathway. Here are 8 tips from my experience as both a practitioner and as a client:

1. Understand the WHY for motivation. Your homework is targeting rewiring your nervous system and enabling the whole you for positive change. Homework uses the leverage of repetition along with body work tied to intention to advance the healing that began in your session OR to prepare your system for further healing or a growth spurt. Really, it could be doing both in some cases. Splankna practitioners lay out all the steps of the session, including homework, in prayer before the Lord for guidance for specifics of what will benefit you.

2. Set yourself up for consistency. Most of us need reminders to do this important work. Everyone has other critical things on their plate. My best tip for this is to set phone alarms for the number of times a day your practitioner has assigned for. Set the times for when you are very likely to be able to spend a minute or two in private focusing on the assignment. For me, this would be when I am getting ready in the morning, and the time that I am getting ready for bed. If I need a third time, during a lunch break or early evening are good choices. I like to have my phone speak out what the reminder is for, for example, " Growth Time." Another strategy is to plan to it paired with when you brush your teeth, and set the alarms a little later to check in on whether you did it as planned, or to do it after the alarm, if not.

   
   

3. Make the instructions easy to access. When you start a homework assignment, you will need to see the assignment instructions. I send my clients home with a sticky note with the assignment, or I text the assignment after a virtual session. I recommend having both a posted note AND a note or image in your phone, especially as you are getting used to the assignment. Notes alone without the phone alarms can become invisible to you rather quickly, if you are like me. You are keeping the instructions handy with this step.

   
   

4. Don't be held up by negative associations with the term, "homework." Remind yourself that the assignment or activity is VERY quick to do, often less than a minute. Challenge feeling of being too busy with this. You may want to reframe it as an "action step," "exercise," or "self care" instead of "homework". You can also think of it as free Splankna work, or a bonus, because you aren't on the clock with a practitioner when you do it.

   
   

5. Check in about the homework with your practitioner when you have your next session. What thoughts and emotions came up for you? How much did you do the homework? Did you like the homework? Was it easy or difficult? If you think that if they ask about your homework, you will be more consistent, you can ask them for that accountability.

6. Prayer is always a good thing to do along with your homework assignment. God cares about you and will help you heal. Connecting with Him and His love will help you in every aspect of your life. Splankna homework will be always be enhanced intentionally bringing the Lord Jesus into your mind and heart-posture. If you need help with this part, consider just asking Him to help you with your homework and growth, acknowledging that He is a loving, healing God, and saying thank you for what He is doing for you.

   
   

7. If you don't take advantage of the homework, go to your next session anyway. You are not getting a grade on your homework. It is not a requirement. You cannot fail. I never find this admission shocking from a client. We just pick up where we left off or onto something new. I am confident that it helps when a client does the homework, and I trust that if they don't do it God will meet us and help us anyway.

8. Keep track of homework assignments and consider them as possible tools to keep on-hand for down the road. I have clients who continue to use homework exercises and report that they notice a benefit of immediate emotional help and in transformation over time. If it seems to be bringing more freedom and ease, it is probably still helping.

   God bless you on your own healing journey! Feel free to look me up if you'd like to plan some work together in Colorado Springs or virtually. I am Lisa Bright at brightpathways.net.