It took me some time to realize that in order to truly help guide someone live their best life and do the things they love, I needed to be looking at their nervous system.
The body has so many compensation mechanisms and this is why symptoms don’t develop in 5 minutes, it takes years, sometime decades for disease to start manifesting physically but also even get a diagnosis. The body is amazing at compensating but at some point it won't be able to anymore. That is when people notice physical symptoms and have to address it. There are certain illnesses that are associated with certain stressors/traumas. On top of the current stressors, being diagnosed with a disease is a trauma in itself.
No matter how bad you think your situation is, there are things that you can do to strengthen your nervous system and your health. There are targeted ways for resolving these challenges effectively so the healing journey can be doing more efficiently.
My intention is to guide people to become unstuck. This process can be energy demanding but it is temporary.
What is keeping you stuck? Here are some 4 tips to strengthen your parasympathetic nervous system:
Awareness and willingness is key. You have become aware that what you are doing is not sustainable and if you want to heal, changes need to be made. If you continue to do the same thing that got you sick, then you probably won’t get better.
Have something to look forward to, something that you want to do, a dream, connect with your passions/purpose/meaning
Retrain the nervous system through daily practices. If you constantly work and activate the sympathetic nervous system over and over again, it gets stronger and activates more readily. If the other part of the nervous system, the parasympathetic nervous system, gets left behind you spend majority of your day in fight, flight, freeze or fawn. Your parasympathetic nervous system simply becomes limp and we need to train it back. It needs to be trained again to activate more readily when you don’t need to be in your sympathetic nervous system because of a perceived threat versus a real threat. Just like working out a muscle, it won’t work more readily if you don’t train it.
Be okay with just being. You may feel uncomfortable in being in the parasympathetic, rest and relaxation because you are so used to being in the sympathetic nervous system.
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