19/07/2024
Just love what this man writes 🌸💝🤗
It’s an act of kindness to take a few moments each day to slow down, rest our minds and downregulate our nervous systems, re-attune to the feeling-body and the earthy ground, and give ourselves the space to metabolize what it is we’ve been experiencing.
If we aren’t able to do this, our experience will remain undigested, or only partly digested, which can end up depleting us over time – our physical bodies as well as in more subtle ways, our emotional and energy-bodies.
Experience which is overwhelming and not properly assimilated gets held in bodily and subcortical circuitry, located into our cell tissue, muscles, organs, and patterns of breathing, and stored into the underworld of the somatic unconscious.
In our increasingly frenetic and dysregulated world, it can take some devotional effort to cut into the trance as it requires a shift in our psychic center of gravity, as well as an experiential differentiation from the collective, which is dense and seductive.
It’s not going to be possible without a conscious, embodied, compassionate relationship with our own unfelt grief, buried shame and rage, and other ghosts of our unlived lives.
To take a few conscious breaths, ground into the earth, sense the aliveness in our hands and feet, and soften our bellies. To come back into center and reconnect with the nonconceptual intelligence of the heart.
To take a break from the ongoing commentary about our experience and return into embodied, sensual immediacy; into the empty cup and to the wisdom of not-knowing.
Over time, these micro moments will start to encode new circuitry, updating grooves in our neural network, cutting into billions of previous moments of self-abandonment, self-aggression, and disembodiment, strategies that were once adaptive and necessary to keep us safe.
To see if they are still required or if there are new resources available – from the seen and unseen worlds – that possess the mercy and grace to rewire the pathways, organizing them around empathy, embodiment, spaciousness, and kindness.
And in this we can become a more transparent, open vehicle or vessel for these qualities to incarnate and embody here, which it seems our planet could really use about now.
