Nervous System Regulation - What it means Energetically

Being in chronic fight or flight is my jam. What I mean when I say that is that I know how to do it REALLY well. My body can start to relax in meditation or yoga and then my brain goes into the old story reel. I imagine these little gremlins in my mind looking through the past videos like in some dusty library in a section with a big neon sign flashing FEAR. It plays one of the old videos that I can always depend on to get me right back into my fear state that is comfortable and that I have grown to know.

This past September I thought I would try hot yoga to help me regulate my nervous system. When I got a rash three times in January on my face, I didn’t know what was happening. It would go away and then I would try again. Until one day it didn’t. That night it got so red and I was in so much pain. I called 811 to ask for help and the Dr had said my body had elevated histamine and this is why it was reacting like this. The next morning I woke up with intense nerve pain across the right side of my face, down my neck and it started to go down my right arm. I to antivirals for shingles for the third time. I was going to hot yoga and doing 90 minute classes three times a week. The style of yoga is very militant and has a strong energy about it. I was living in the masculine energy and needed to honour my feminine. There was no balance. I had completely shot my adrenals with the 105 degree hit and going so often.

Some people can go every day and seem to have no issues. I, on the other hand have a very fragile system that needs a lot of de-escalation and that feminine calming energy.

I grew up in fight or flight. I had a front row seat to my parents marriage crumbling when I was a teen, as the oldest they dragged me through it. Then they decided to get back together and we were never allowed to talk about. At 10 years old I was diagnosed with ulcers and would go to bed every night holding my stomach and crying. Guilt lived in my stomach. I felt the pressure to be a certain person and the expectation was too much for my little body. In 2010 I was in a terrible accident where I was on a peddle bike and was hit by a truck, my body was thrown into the street. I suffered a broken leg and was diagnosed with ptsd. I had a hard time walking by myself crossing traffic without my body shaking.

I have come a LONG way! The things that I have learned throughout my life are the things that I teach my clients. What last month taught me was that I could let what happened take me or teach me. How could I rise to the lesson and dissect it even more and learn what I needed to do in order to improve so that I could teach other people.

While listening to Joe Dispenza’s book Becoming Supernatural he talks about fight or flight and how it lives in the first three energy centres. These energy centres are primal, they are about basic needs. When out of balance and in fight or flight these centres will become stuck so the movement of energy can’t flow through the body. Fight or flight in particular lives in the sacral. This makes so much sense for my situation and having ulcers as a 10 year old. My sacral was affected by the energy getting stuck and not being able to move which caused sickness and disease in my stomach lining.

One of the things that I have been doing to help move my energy is Hatha yoga daily, meditation and thanking my body for all of the hard work that it is doing to keep me safe. But Also telling it that it can release. Doing EFT emotional freedom technique to help release stuck emotions in the body. Journaling on a memory that comes up and what is the root of it and how it makes me feel and does it serve a purpose now?

When we go back to that memory and we live in it our brain doesn’t know the difference between the memory and the present moment. The emotions that are stored in our body from that memory get fired up again and it is as if we are living it in the present moment. When we are in chronic fight or flight or bodies will look for ways to bring us into this state, like I said those gremlins looking for the perfect video that will help get us into that comfortable state of fear.

I really believe as Eckhart Tolle speaks of that we are moving into a New Earth. This earth is the same as the one we live on but it is at a high consciousness, it vibrates differently. There are people who will come and join this New Earth and others who will remain in the lower vibration.

If you have been experiencing symptoms of the fight or flight in your body wreaking all kinds of havoc recently, I really believe it is because your body is preparing for this new earth. It is your time to get out of the old and release old patterns and step into the higher vibration. We, as a society have been living in the solar chakra that is the third chakra in that fight or flight that has a very hustle, ambition energy. Society is moving into our heart chakra and is more of a feminine essence. In order for us to prepare for the New Earth we need to release living in those first three chakras and begin to move into the heart allowing the energy to flow.

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