One of the biggest illnesses in society today is our inability to trust ourselves. And even if we were to trust ourselves, we often lack the experience and tools to understand and decipher what our body is trying to communicate to us. It takes time and a trial and error process that we have not invested into just yet. Additionally, most of us are so dissociated that we do not have the ability to recognize emotions unless they are alarming ones. This keeps us in a highly reactive and victimized reality. However, when we are no longer in dissociative states, our bodies will use the vagus nerves’ afferent signals to accurately cue the brain about stressors at the correct time and only then. This leaves us with a few minutes of space between our outside reality and how we want to feel them on the inside.
On a simple mechanical level, awareness of the outside of the body inspires the bodies internal awareness as well. Our experience and countless ancient practices show us that the internal body sensations are in fact the subconscious mind. Just like a computer coding system that controls a computer application, a bodily sensation controls our unconscious mind.
This will provide you with the groundwork to proactively address your past and future instead of taking a reactive and often ineffective approach. When combined with an Earths Edge Wellness practitioner, this will give you the awareness and internal language to use more subtle practices to change your bodies “cellular story and state”.
*DO NOT USE THESE TECHNIQUES if you are still having regular panic attacks or if you are not doing a daily Nervous system strengthening practice*
