Antidote to Corona Virus – how to build a healthy immune system by calming the nervous system.
In this video I will guide you through a somatic body based mindfulness practise to
calm your nervous system down, ease irrational fear and anxiety and optimise your immune system.
What do you get when you socially isolate hundreds of millions of people, encourage them to stay indoors as much as possible and make it difficult for them to find meaningful work, regular exercise, and healthy nutrition?
That’s right, a lot of depressed, anxious people stuck in a survival stress response.
A lot has been said about the global lockdown’s effect on the economy, but little has been said about the impending mental health crisis we’re all likely going to face in the coming months. I already feel myself slightly cracking every few days, and we’re only a couple weeks in. Imagine three months from now.
Retraining your nervous system is more important than ever
Your Nervous System does not want to be hyper vigilant, survival stress compromises immune system and need resources to create calm safe embodied which is why I am showing up to give you more resources to practice and retrain your brain.
Social isolation, lack of exercise, and financial uncertainty will almost certainly lead to deteriorating mental health around the world. But you can take steps today to soften the blThe core of trauma is not being seen… or known… or heard… or validated.
Basically, everyone’s childhood.
You see, when we are not “known” or when our inner reality isn’t able to be shared, even if we are surrounded by people, we are utterly disconnected and alone.
Loneliness and depression stem from this core disconnection.
We are social creatures. We’ve evolved to need community and each other to survive and thrive.
The brain is a social organ and good quality mental health is directly related to the quality of our relationships and our levels of being able to be seen, known, heard and validated.
We miss each other in so many ways.
It’s really important to slow down, especially in the core relationships of your life, and acknowledge, take in and empathize with the experience of others.
Notice, I did not say agree.
You can acknowledge someone’s experience as real and valid, without agreeing with the conclusion they came to because of that experience.
The more you can get away from needing to agree on what everything means with the core people in your life, and instead really start to tap in to what an experience was like for them, you will take a massive leap in your relationships, healing and your life.
Relationships can be hard work in the best of circumstances, now with social isolation family dynamics that were dysfunctional to begin with are being stretched to the limit of abuse and it’s got to change now.
Again, I can’t stress this enough: we all want safety connection and belonging in fact we cannot survive without it.
And yet it takes work to get it right because –
You get two people together with all their inherent temperamental and preferential differences, you add work, money struggles, commutes, waxing and waning libidos, aging bodies, sleep-deprived minds, kids, mortgages, work stressors, student loan payments, seemingly endless laundry, dishes, and grocery shopping on top of it all, and your relationship, at times, will likely feel quite hard.
Again, think of the Hedgehogs in the parable: we try to move towards each other for warmth when we’re cold, but the inherent pricks of us and life can often sting and drive us apart.
And again, I stress, that’s relationship in the best of circumstances.
For more resources to calm your body and heal your nervous system:
The negativity Bias –
how to have anything you want – positivity bias –
Why you don’t do what you say you will –
Healing from the Mother wound –
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