Your nervous system is your responsibility.
Most people do not have the sovereignty to self-soothe an activated nervous system under a vast range of life circumstances, and, our work as adults is to move in this direction.
Everybody has a reactivity blueprint. Not everybody knows they do.
If you think you don’t have reactions, chances are likely they’re just invisible.
To know yourself totally is to know god totally.
When we are willing to investigate all aspects of ourselves, and our behavior, we get free.
Transmuting indifference to live a better life.
Indifference and resignation are cues that we’re living someone else’s life. It’s a clue from our soul that we’ve veered off-track.
How to use cognitive dissonance for liberation.
What if I told you there was a way to be discerning but non-judgmental? What if I told you there was a way to be active without being activated?
Are you stressed out?
Did you know that the MAJORITY of the population is currently running in what is called "sympathetic dominance" which means that their sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight/freeze) is running on overdrive while the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and repair) has no energy left to do its job?
If you can feel it, it's true.
A lot of people ask me how they can know what their truth is. We live in a world where we are practically inundated by everyone else's truth from dawn until dusk, and often, we struggle to know what is true for ourselves.
13 defense mechanisms for the sophisticated high-achiever.
As humans evolve, we have grown to be more sophisticated in the ways in which we protect ourselves, perceiving threat (either real or imagined) while simultaneously being hyper attuned to socially acceptable behavioral mechanisms that will ensure our “safety.”