Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
How our inner resilience will lead to outer world transformation
I'm going to say the quiet part out loud: We have a human nervous system. And we have been chronically living in inhumane times.
And I'm not going to get all doom and gloom - because that's not what I'm about or how I operate.
We don't have to simply succumb to collective dysfunction and mediocrity. We are coded with a nervous system that really wants to heal and has forgotten its way back to its original intention.
Yes, we can hack ourselves from the inside out. Yes, I did it. And Yes, we can use our nervous systems to help us respond and not unconsciously react to what is happening around us.
When we are taught and supported to wisely operate our nervous systems - we can become a glitch in our dysfunctional systems.
This glitch can disrupt patterns of personal and collective unprocessed Trauma.
So no we don't have to sit this lifetime out. Nor is our only option to stay in "Fight or Flight" mode until we burn out. There is another way. It takes some education, practice, and support - and it works.
Remember: our DNA and nervous system are also coded with HEALING RESPONSES, ancestral wisdom, resources, and inner solutions that have helped us evolve with the times, for millennia.
We don't have to wait around for someone to save us. We are in fact, the ones who will save us. Every single one of you who is working on healing and who is doing the work - that's our way forward.
Eventually these adults trapped in toddler-trantruming and immature teen bodies won't be leading us.
We, the wise inner healers will be leading us - with our flexible, resourceful, and resilient nervous systems.
Remember: Peace, connection, inclusion, curiosity, compassion, and collaboration are achievable nervous system states - that we can learn to embody.
And we don't have to deny reality - in fact, we can embrace the real world when we have a nervous system that can shift between states.
No dissociation or spiritual bypassing is required when we can trust our nervous systems and when we have support to learn how our nervous systems actually work.
What's even cooler is that by doing our own inner work to learn how our nervous system operates - is that our nervous system is connected to every single nervous system on the planet.
Dysfunctional systems want us to be unconscious and not know how our own bodies, minds, and spirits work. They seek to disempower us. Because they know when we are empowered and resourceful - the gig they have been running is up.
And I get why many folks are exhausted right now. Or stuck in a Trauma Response.
It's been a decade of a collective crisis on top of generations of systemic trauma.
Workplaces and sick systems are expecting folks to act as if parts of the world, their communities, and possibly their lives aren't on fire.
I've been self-employed for almost 15 years and the collective crisis we are in has grown exponentially during that time. Unprecedented crisis after unprecedented crisis. In fact, most of my lifetime (and likely yours too) has been spent enduring individual trauma, watching wars happen, and community and collective crises happen on top of on another.
And the under-employment rate is at astronomical levels. And Ai is about to create a tsunami that will wipe out entire industries
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It is more important than ever to really understand how our nervous systems work - and how our bodies are collected like a wave to the ocean to the larger systems in and around us.
The Metacrisis is far from over. And so many folks came into the last decade with heaping amounts of personal pain and Trauma to start with.
Individual Trauma meets Intergenerational Trauma meets Collective Trauma.
Everything. Everywhere. All at Once.
What can you do?
-Practice compassion
-Lean into your resources, values, and skills
-Look to nature, connection, nutrition, music, and pets for nervous system co-regulation
-Seek Trauma-Informed Care
-Remember your somatic practices
-Notice which nervous system state you are in and make choices to up or down regulate
-Remind yourself who you are and what you are about
-Boundaries, Boundaries, Boundaries - with yourself, with news sources, and with folks who are spiritually and emotionally immature (not your circus)
-And make choices that honor your goals
Repeat after me: "I will not let raggedy systems cause me to relapse or forget my skills."
What I know for sure is that raggedy systems will topple with wise nervous system operators. And I bow to each and every one of you who is doing their homework to learn, get curious about your unconscious patterns, and embody your innate wholeness.💫
➡️Want to learn more? At my website:
https://theintegrativepractitioner.com/ I have many free resources, YouTube videos, podcasts, and empowering posts across social media platforms. Currently, I am contemplating ways to expand service offerings and new collaborations - I hear the cries from the collective and I’m getting curious about how I may respond with what I can offer. For now, I have room to see current clients online.
- Resilient Right Along With You,
Shannon
