 I learned so much in my days of studying femininity and through the woman's circles and retreats I have hosted and attended. Why I wrote my book really, It was the first time I came across the parasympathetic nervous system and regulating it. I learned of oxytocin and how it is the restorer.
At this time, with all that is going on, I find this is the key to really having a good day and health. The world wants us in driving forward, "hurry up, it's a crisis, you are behind, speed it up, don't be late or you'll fall behind", just a crazy, untrue energy. When we operate here, our body never has a chance to renew, rejuvenate. Then our immune system is unable to run properly. Rest and down time has lost its place. It is the health crisis. I believe quality water and learning to regulate your nervous system are the health hacks in our time. My book shares a perspective on how to do this in our world. By knowing our feminine gifts and engaging in those things with artistry, pleasure and fun, we can daily reset. We do small things we enjoy and they give our system a rest from survival to pleasure. That changes huge chunks of your day. If you can enjoy the simple pleasures, you reset your body from the wind of endless adrenaline. I left Colorado and was traveling for 5 months deciding where to move, and that had its ungrounded, crisis feeling underneath. I did things deliberately and daily to bring in pleasure. Tai chi, enjoying cooking and eating. Nature, I worked at a lake or outside where the tone of birds and earth emfs, could counterbalance the stress of moving around. As the world heats up even more with the information that is coming out, we have to be concerned about the stress, fear and panic it creates. To feel oxytocin, the parasympathetic nervous system, right vibe or frequency, you need to know how good feels in the body. Most don't even know that feeling. It is not a my life is fine, all is good mentally. It is the peaceful, relaxed feeling that you can stop for a minute, take a reset break and breathe deep. Taste food you are eating or tea your drinking, really appreciating presence. Feeling this oxytocin first, then discovering how do you personally bring it in. When you consistently become aware, you change the body system consciously. If I am wired or speeding up, then I know to stop and reset. Slow my pace down so it doesn't wind up. Excitement has the adrenal rush in it. Enthusiasm is a better, more regulated world. Over excited is like panic in the body. I do presentations and meetings that take up energy. After so many, I feel energized but I start to get into the wirery over charged feeling so I stop and slow down. I hope before the wirery feeling keeps tightening. The biggest issue is the body hasn't caught up and integrated all the actions, all the perceptions and emotions I have experienced. For me, I need to take breaks and resets between things if I want to stay out of the stress cycle. Bring my body back to calm, alert. This is huge for me and I glide rather than wire out and crash. As you become aware, reset, get back to flow over fly, you create habits. The body likes the parasympathetic system so that it can also rebuild and renew the body. As you slow down in moments and give this state time, the body naturally starts to bring it back in automatically. I share this for at this time, I feel the stress around me, my own stress and the stress of others. I have learned to keep my state calm and alert ,so I am available and respond in ways that work for me. This was the best practice and understanding I learned from the studies. We can always bring greater joy and reset stress doing our feminine favs: nourishing others, taking care of ourselves, making our home beautiful, having great smells and colors and fabrics around us that we notice and enjoy. Dressing to feel good, cooking what tastes incredible, really enjoy communicating with others. As we get the pleasure out of these daily actions, we start to have a regulated nervous system more of the time. It is a posture that you face the world with. Love to us all in this disrupting transfiguration we are in. Slow down, breath and hydrate well.
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 With the world in such influx, simplify seems the best route to take. I have always enjoyed many projects and different venues of expression. As I ground in here in NC, I find I am closing out many chapters that were so me. They are still part of me and my core, but I am staying in one lane these days professionally. I will still do my coaching when it comes up, woman's circles and the delights I love but they are no longer open windows.
I must say there is a grief as I close down certain avenues of expression as they are my soul callings. Yet as I go deeper into embodiment, deeper into a lovely life, they are more hobby fun. All the principles I learned about sacred femininity come down to living in the body. My body doesn't like a lot of windows open as my mind does. It gets exhausted going from this to that in too much span across projects. To have a magical life, I need open space to flow into what the day wants to bring rather than the many things I always did. I love all my projects, my writing, my sharing. I will continue but on a simpler form. It is funny as the world gets more chaotic, I realize that I need to be less chaotic. I need to have clearer focus and be doing one thing at a time in full presence. I think that was always what we were to do but to align all your pieces means that you need space in between things to check in and align. When there is a plethora of obligations or projects, the space to feel narrows and less relax and enjoy happens. I am sure I am not alone in this mission. I imagine many are simplifying with the larger field effecting us in its intense chaos. I want to really enjoy each day, really embody that magical life of flow and fun. The more chores I have the less flow I get. The more filled up life is, the less spontaneity can happen. The crazier the world is, the less crazy I want to be. Anyone who is sensitive is probably on this same path. Some can do and do and do. I am not that person. It is exhausts me not to have free space between things. It is actually overwhelming. So I make the choice for me. I am that bright spirit who loves things esoteric. It is always part of my life. I just will participate and contribute more than lead. We have so many leaders and the world of woowoo has grounded with the world of science. I don't need to hold the space of that any longer. I can join communities rather than create them. It is freeing for creating them is a lot of work, at least it was. Now the next crew of leaders is being born and I can just engage in their work and as I said contribute all I know without carrying it all. I simplified life into a small cottage that is so perfect for me in the mountains. I don't have all the things I had on a large flower farm anymore. I simplified to just sharing on water quality for I think it is the key to health, beauty and flow. I now have more time to meet people, engage, enjoy the mountains and really savor my life. My hours aren't all filled up. I can even write when inspired. Not as a job but because I want to and it settles me. I am not sure where the world will go and I can only add health, beauty and kindness to it. I think feeling spacious, strong and stable are what we all are seeking now as the world shifts of it's own. I inspire you too to find greater simplicity in life. The pace has picked up so much and we were riding with it but it will not work to be so fast in the long run. It is the mental problems many have, the fight or flight stress many live with and the body just can't keep up. We get to choose our values, our pace, our joys and let the rest go. To simply live a life of joy is the goal. Vitality is not in how many things we do but in how good we feel in doing them. These years have been full of surprises. The control we have is within our small worlds so make it work for you. Flow is energy filling you in a constant stream at less speed. It has more adaptability and less rigid structure. Simplicity supports that. Blessings for a flowing spring! |
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