How is your balance?

Today is Day 50 of my daily posts on Biodynamic Meditation. I’m halfway to my original goal of making 100 posts on Instagram/Facebook so that the hashtag #biodynamicmeditation will have 100+ posts. :-) Gotta start somewhere, right? It’s a first step in making this practice something that exists in the world, something that has a name and can be learned. At some point, if the right conditions converge, I’d like to begin teaching it in person. For now, I’m sharing my daily practice while considering who needs this and how to teach it. I’ve learned a lot about the autonomic nervous system in various trainings and from personal experience. This practice has helped me experience — not just cognitively understand — the difference when I’m in sympathetic mode (fight or flight, anxiety, taking action) and when I’m in parasympathetic mode (rest and digest, building resources, self-healing). When I am feeling anxious about some threat that’s only in my mind, not in the present moment, what’s that about? Do you do that too? Why do we do that, anyway? Are we rehearsing for potential dangers? Is it useful, or does it just add stress and sap healing resources from our lives? Because when you’re in sympathetic mode, your resources are ready to take action. When you’re in parasympathetic mode, your resources can maintain, repair, and heal. I’ve learned that many people are chronically anxious, and it can contribute to other health issues, which then further the anxiety. How do we break that cycle? This practice of Biodynamic Meditation can help you distinguish your experience of these states. It can help you learn to switch from an anxious state to a calm state… …just by bringing your attention into your body and sensing your tide, for a start. But first, it takes practice. #craniosacralbiodynamics #craniosacraltherapy #autonomicnervoussystem #sympatheticnervoussystem #parasympatheticnervoussystem #practice #anxiety #healthissues #resources #breakthecycle #attention #interoception #tide https://www.instagram.com/p/CmwotYJJ4ZA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Posted @withrepost • @journey_to_wellness_ Your fight response is your nervous systems way of trying to keep you safe. It's just another threat response state - as valid and normal as flight, freeze and fawn. But sometimes the feeling of anger can make us feel a great sense of resistance - it feels scary and overwhelming and that it might just swallow us up. And in that, we try to push it away or deny it. Anger, like any emotion, needs space to be felt and processed. #anger #fightflightfreeze #fightresponse #sympatheticnervoussystem #nervoussystemregulation https://www.instagram.com/p/CkqThAyufkE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#polyvagaltheory is how #anxiety works. #dorsalvagal #sympatheticnervoussystem #ventralvagal #fightorflight #freeze #connect #mentalhealth #panicattacks #counsellor #counselling #gedlingcounsellor #gedling #carlton #carltoncounselling #carltonhill #mapperleycounselling #mapperley #netherfield #netherfieldcounsellor #ng4counselling #ng4 #nottingham #nottinghamcounselling #elainebondcounselling (at Elaine Bond Counselling Services) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZbyGOtMhmQ/?utm_medium=tumblr

#trauma puts in to #fightorflight or worse still freeze. We become #exhausted by being trapped in the #sympatheticnervoussystem and a #fighttosurvive even after the trauma is over. #rest and #recover . (at Elaine Bond Counselling Services) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKLjlFDlKlz/?igshid=v6zb4uui9o3