Are you feeling at the mercy of your nervous system these days? I understand. And don’t feel bad. Many people are. In everyday language you probably refer to it as “being stressed out.” If you’d like help not feeling at the mercy of a nervous system run amok, read on. I’m going to start real… [Continue Reading]
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Calming the **** down! (13 Steps for when everything feels like too much)
Sometimes it all seems like too much. Whether this happens to you once in a while or almost every day at some point, it can be very helpful to have some ways to calm yourself down. Here are some suggestions… 1. Take 10 slow, deep breaths. Allow those breaths to reach all the way down… [Continue Reading]
How discomfort can help you (feel connected to your body)
Keeping the Peace asks: “After a massage I feel very connected with my body. Is there anything I can do in between massages to maintain that connection?” Dear Keeping the Peace, I love that there are people like you in the world, people who want to feel connected to their bodies. Connection is about relationship,… [Continue Reading]
3 a.m. cribsheet (for when you can’t sleep because everything is too much)
Things may be hard. So hard they may be waking you up at 3 in the morning. You try to keep sleeping but no: now the soundtrack is going… you know, the soundtrack of all the things you suspect are related to how your shoulders feel so tight, not to mention that knot in your… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guest: Insomnia, again! (feat. Humpty Dumpty)
Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence. Slow down and down in always widening rings of being. Jelaluddin Rumi No to-do list is going to get me there. There? There. Where worry ends. There. Where it feels safe. There. Where… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guest: Insomnia (feat. Mary Oliver)
Hello, frustration! This morning it woke me up, coursing through my limbs at dark:thirty. Hard to ignore. Certainly hard to sleep through. When I finally “cried Uncle” and got up, I was tapped ever so lovingly on the shoulder by this line: tending as all things do, toward silence… Ahhh. And then I remembered (with… [Continue Reading]