LIFE is not meant to be lived in ‘Survival Mode’

Learning to decompress

Our Society and Western Culture is so obsessed with “the hustle”, so obsessed with “keeping busy”.

We mask our aches and pains so we can push forward.

We take medication to keep our bodies going after we have neglected it and ignored the signs for years and years.

Our society is obsessed with living in survival mode.

Let me explain something to you….

We CANNOT HEAL when we are living in survival mode.

Survival mode is quite literally our sympathetic nervous system, our ‘fight or flight’. It is our “always on alert” mode.

I ask you… when was the last time you did absolutely nothing?

Nothing, nothing - alone with your thoughts nothing.

If there is a TV on, a book in your hand or you are scrolling social media - that doesn’t count. That is doing something.

You cannot hear your thoughts or feel your feelings if you are tuned into a book or screen.

Do you make this a regular part of your day or is it something that comes far and few between?

Do you only stop and do nothing when you are sick, injured or burnt out?

What would happen if you started doing nothing for 5 minutes a day?

What if our kids witnessed us slow down and do nothing for 5 minutes?

I’ll tell you right now - this is going to be an area of discomfort if you haven’t done this before.

This is like picking up a hockey stick when you have never even heard of hockey before.

This is like being asked to do a triple axel and you have never put on ice skates before.

It’s going to be uncomfortable!!

So let’s take a moment and take a lesson from our children… Our sweet children who get up and fall 100 times before they get the hang of walking. The ones who cling to the furniture to feel that sense of steadiness as they lift themselves up to their feet.

We always say to each other when we are starting new things, “baby steps”.

Learning how to decompress your nervous system takes baby steps.

It takes time.

It takes awareness.

It take falling

and getting up again.

It take patience.

It take discipline.

It takes change.

It takes courage.

It takes commitment.

I takes self love.

It take pouring into your own cup BEFORE emptying it into others.

Before you know it, this 5 minutes a day will breeze by and will become easy.

They will ask you for a triple axel and you will do a bunny hop with pride!

Baby Steps <3