Relaxing

Relax. Bringing your body and nervous system into regulation: I talk to my clients about different types of activities: Stimulating activities Overstimulating activities, Neuro-regulating activities, Under stimulating activities, And as a separate category that can combine activities, ‘checking out’ or ‘numbing out’ activities. Most of my clients benefit from making more room for neuro-regulating activities.

The activities each of us finds neuroregulating varies from person to person. We brainstorm my client’s best fit with possible neuroregulating activities, whether it be woodworking, reading, gardening, listening to music, napping, snuggling with their dog or cat or favorite person, meditating, or? It’s such a joy to see a client rediscover how amazing it feels to putter, to let their computer brain slide away, and to snuggle in.

The first thing though is to resist our culture’s push for more and more activities, and more stimulation per activity and equating that with having a good life and being a worthy person. No. Simply no. Recommit to your well-being by committing to making room for neuroregulating activities. Resist our cultural programming. Invest in your beautiful Self. The benefits to your emotional and physical Self are the true gold!

Questions to consider:

• What are your ‘best fit’ neuroregulating activities?

• How can you make space?

• How can you stand behind valuing your Self by giving this to your Self?

• How can you be firm with a culture that pushes you to be frenetic?

• Can you create a vision of what it would look/feel like to sink into this beautiful space?...can you describe it?

• Can you take one step toward it and then another?

Be gentle with these questions. And feel into them