I am writing this because of the need for support that I am hearing/sensing from all quarters given the events in our nation's Capitol yesterday.
The events of yesterday 1/6/2021 and the reactions I’ve heard and seen in my world have really affirmed for me the importance of the things I share with individual clients and the participants to my various workshop. To say that I see a need for more capacity for safe embodiment is, at the least, an understatement. It is times like these when our very structure seems unstable that we most often recognize the importance of a regular practice of our resources. A regular practice that includes things like constructive thinking, The Check-in and active self-care during the settled times is the foundational work that helps us expand our capacity to be more resilient in times of great unknown and transition.
I invite you to remember, as we all move together through these turbulent, transitional times, that you have support., if you choose to access it.
At the most basic, you have the support of your breath, of the Earth under your feet, and of your sensory body to orient you into the present moment.
You have the support of your personal practice.
If you choose to, you have the support of a therapeutic relationship.
You have support.
I invite you to remember, you have the capacity to shift how you feel inside.
When the danger that is causing dysregulation is not actually near us and is a creation of our mind, we CAN choose to practice nourishing our nervous system instead of accumulating more pain/stress.
We practice nourishing our nervous systems so that they are able to perform as they are designed, to allow us to rest, digest, recuperate and to be actively responsible for our self-care. We practice nourishing our nervous systems SO THAT they can more readily react in cases where our body is actually in danger, when we truly need the chemicals of adrenalin, cortisol and epinephrine to help us survive and get to safety.
I invite you to remember, that you have support.
We can choose to practice deepening our relationship with the actions of breath, centering, grounding and orienting. These are the resources of our eternal selves. They were gifts given to us at birth to help our nervous systems regulate.
We can choose to practice self-regulation. We can choose to be the thermostat of our life, rather than the thermometer.
I invite you to remember you have the capacity to think constructively, instead of destructively.
I invite you to remember, you are free to choose.
By actively doing the practice of recognizing and choosing where you put your focus throughout your day AND by observing HOW your whole Self is affected by what you choose to focus on (intentionally or unintentionally.), you can continually deepen your ability to make choices about your focus and your actions that further help you to co-regulate and self-regulate.
I invite you to remember, you have the capacity to learn and repattern.
We learn to self-regulate not simply to reclaim our place in our Comfort Zone.
We learn to self-regulate in order to ALSO be able to more safely go into the places in our lives that bring up challenging sensations, emotions, actions, beliefs and stories.
We learn to self-regulate in order to help us be able to grow and learn with less overwhelm or panic.
You can choose to self-regulate so that you can have more energy to change the things you can have some effect upon.
You can choose to self-regulate to increase your capacity to let go of what does not serve you and what you can not change.
You can learn to self-regulate so that you can better access attunement and reason within your Self, regardless of what is happening in the world outside of your skin container.
We each practice self-regulating so that we can give care to ourselves, our loved ones, each other and our community. We practice self-regulation to give space for ease and compassion to ourselves and to others.
I invite you to remember, you have support. We are all in this together.
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If you do not feel like you have the capacity to feel and/or access the support available to you or to explore these practices on your own, please contact me or another somatic therapist to help you deepen your practice of embodiment with professional support.