How Stillness Balances your Nervous System
Stillness teaches your nervous system to hang out less in your “dorsal vagal” response- your body's natural tendency to shut down and dissociate when we are overwhelmed by stress.
Finding Calm in the Chaos
Overwhelming sensations and emotions that you experience are there for a reason, and are natural. They aren’t bad, and you shouldn’t fear them. Our body experiences no matter how extreme and uncomfortable, are not to be seen as negative, or something to try to get rid of (unless you want to get into trouble in the future). They are an opportunity for us to grow and learn.
Healing Freeze
Just as nature comes out of the winter hibernation, so too does our systems come out of the longer unconscious states of freeze.
Proprioception & The Nervous System
Our sensory system is the key to restoring nervous system regulation.
On Exhaustion
Long term survival is exhausting. It depletes and dysregulates. Our system is in a state of survival and suppression rather than safety and authenticity. It takes a lot of energy for a system to be and function in survival, always scanning for threats, tensing, contracting, disconnecting, being in hyper-vigilance, protecting and hiding. The more dysregulated and overwhelmed a system is, the more exhausted, disconnected and fatigued we will feel.
Resource List
A list I personally put together of professional services and products of a wide variety to support your Soma.