Balancing Your Adrenals

I feel very strongly about this topic as it seems the work of the hour for woman. Our world is so fast and we are trained to be running at top speed. There is no pill or support that will allow balance without some awareness and practices. Being in panic, fear, anxiety, even low level takes awareness to realize there is no emergency. Your body trained to be in one so your work to support it back to balance. Yes, there are wild yams to support hormones, SP adrenal supplements, and the thoughts listed above that will help but you too must do the noticing. 

As one who runs low level panic most of my life, I have been in a journey with this. After traveling for 5 months with no home and finding the place to land, adrenal stress could of run me. Fortunately, as I have written a book, learned from the feminine mysteries and shared with many woman's groups, there are solutions that require you to notice and then reset yourself. I do not know of any other way to get back to flow that doesn't require us to be aware of our state and then take actions to change it. Life is participatory. Erika and I created a class 20 Ways to Oxytocin Pleasure for that is what is needed. You are in charge of your state. 

Breathe, breathing is very important in this. I know we have all heard about breathing but it is paramount if you want to ride in the parasympathetic nervous system. Your breath pace is the indicator of what nervous system you will ride, fight or reset. It is really that simple. Practical too for it is an easy practice we can notice throughout our day. As I traveled and even as I was in a bit of fear in Colorado during shut down, breathe was my ally.  We all say we know that and write it off. I have found it is the most powerful practice besides hydrating with good water that will create health. Simple, practical, doable.

So much has changed for me and it continues too. I am in a new space, new community and I have to root in and find the spaces I belong. I am not as good at that as others for I lived mostly in Doylestown the majority of my life. I do know that being in fear, will not get me anywhere good. Not in state, not in finding my place, not in health. Therefore, this breathing and setting up my nervous system is important as I walk continually into new situations. The adrenals could be overactive so I work to bring calm clarity moment to moment.

Many offer supplements, cleanses. lots of ideas on how to clear the adrenals and get back to flow. If you don't have a practice of what is my state? Do I need to be in panic or rush? If not, how to I regulate back to flow and enjoyment? No additive will work fully, It is a behavior pattern of stress that has to be retrained. This is how I live and the breath matters. The inhale, considered the active space, the intent, the action, the production vector. The exhale is the release, the balance to action, the night to day. These two need to balance in our life and why moving slow is key to health. We have forgotten this release vector. Then, there is the pause after the exhale. This is the powerful space of fullness. Of all possibility and almost a rest as the next breath conjures up the action of inhale. 

The rest of fullness is the key power point in our breathing. It is the pregnant space where new ideas, the next action, the flow is ridden. Our world so set on this inhale vector, this production and  2/3 of the cycle is left out of whack. It is killing our bodies all because we don't value the exhale, the rest and the rejuvenation step. Breathing shallow and fast, halts and shortens the most powerful vectors of breathing.
I am not one who does breath work other than natural understanding of breathe as we flow through life. It is a basic yet powerful transmission that allows me to flow through it all.

I, too, continually learn more and mastery of this. The exhale, the pause is where mind will stop and relax. It is where you ground and connect with the larger field of life. I have been so trained in the production to fear even. If I am not moving in a direction, I am falling back. That is so untrue. If you want to work with the larger field, with the larger world, you are only a piece of it. You have to catch the rhythm happening and flow in it. You are not doing everything. You could address it that way, but then you are not working with the magic of all we are part of. We are to ride the wave, the larger field, to act when it is time, not before or after. That requires awareness and the breath the easiest, quickest way to align with this.

I have spent the last 5 months in movement, the inhale, the flex of being where ever I was as I sought out where to be. This was very unstabilizing in some ways and it was very teaching in how to find balance and grounding without a cocoon to go too. To me my own space so important and I had none really other than my awareness and breathe. Now that I landed, I am in the full exhale vector and sit in the rest. It is quite challenging as move was the order for months and now sit is the measure. To balance all the adjustment, grounding, settling, the exhale is being relearned for me. There is no hurry, rush or looking for stability. It is here so I now train my body to this new rhythm which at this moment, is heavy in sitting, grounding, not acting. We all know how challenging that can feel. We want to move but my body says let us reset and rest here. All possibility is available, let us sit in them before acting. The exhale and the rest between. 

Perhas this seems basic and simple yet that is how I see energy and offer it to you so you can be aware. This is basic and normal. We are fields of energy and the more responsible you can be for yourself and field, the less stress you will live with. We have let the outside world run us, we have been trained that way. With the outside world swirling, we learn to not swirl and choose where to jump into that swirl or we will get sick. We will burn out our adrenals which most have. This is some simple view on how to ride it differently. 

In math or the Codex terms by Robert Grant for those who want logic, life is a spiral creation. A triangle in movement. All is just geometry swirling and interacting. There is the x vector, production, action, doing. There is the y vector, receiving, resting, downloading, listening, clearing and the line that connects the two, the hold in opportunity. This is the balance point where the x and y are in zero point, this gives the direction. We are off in our action vector so our spiral wobbles. The inhale the x, the exhale the y, the space inbetween, the field of creativity and gestation. Our world has forgotten the two most important segments of the spiral that bring in direction and creativity. Now wonder we are worn out.

It is also tied to the divine feminine as that is the exhale, y vector of receiving. We do, we receive. This is an equal spiral.  I think the pause is scary for us as we think, how will it get done forgetting we are part of the larger field breathing us. At least that is how I see all this living in flow. As one designed to want to act and move, panic and rush, it has been a huge transformation to learn this and put it in practice. Allowing is another word we are not so good at. Allowing things to order without our action but our intention. Yes this is a new way of living we are now embodying. It is different than just masculine production. 

Reach out if you need support, practices or coaching as you shift into flow. There are definitely physical things like good water for that alone teaches you about flow. Fluidity supports this new way that is not so rigid and structured. Many dehydrated so it is even harder when your body isn't in flow. That is why it is my mission to educate others on quality water. It is a problem the water we drink and a simple shift can add tremendous health. The rest is awareness and practice in settling down and floating almost. Yes act when action is called for but watch and enjoy 2/3 of the time, allowing the world to do its part too. We are part of an integrated, flowing system that doesn't take all our energy to work in. Let us ride in this new way and find greater health. 

The world is a changing and I see it as good. Slow down, watch, see where your energy belongs and impacts. Massive action is not needed to achieve. Aligned, focus action is and in the rest of the time, pleasure and joy watching goodness in life is a healthy past time. What we all seek anyway! No it is not so easy as I am one of action but without the divine inspiration, action is just doing and often fruitless. Allow the inward voice to speak. Listening seems what is called for more often these days and thus I am. 

​Blessings to us all as we ride through this changing time! Love to all!