Notes from this week’s episode:
Ayurveda on hyper vigilance and hyper arousal
Ayurveda teaches that once we expertise shock or trauma, both as massive life-altering occasions, or as lesser traumas over time, the vata vitality of the physique is disturbed and impacts our nerves and psychological well-being.
Once we are hyper vigilant we’re caught on pink alert, and once we are hyper aroused we reply to common occasions as if they’re harmful, even life-threatening.
Once we’re in these hyper states we’re experiencing all the things as potential hazard and our nervous system turns into exhausted. The worry can go into our goals, {our relationships}, all areas of our life and each day occasions really feel threatening.
Shifting away from hyper states and on to a extra regulated and wholesome nervous system goes to take help over time. It’s not a fast repair. Fortuitously, there are lots of nice lecturers round who can provide us help and steerage on the best way. However we have to know that self-compassion and life-style modifications are wanted, and they are going to be wanted over time.
Some practices that may assist…
Oil Therapeutic massage
Because of the disturbance of vata, oil therapeutic massage is at all times useful. Whether or not it’s a full-body therapeutic massage with specialised oils you can get from Banyan Botanicals. Massaging the soles of your ft with oil, or if potential, discovering a practitioner in your space that gives oil therapeutic massage, or Shirodhara, a therapy the place heat medicated sesame oil like Brahmi oil is trickled on to the brow. This therapy may be very therapeutic for the nervous system.
Listening to your physique
Ayurveda recommends that we attend to the pure wants of the physique and don’t repress or delay responding bodily alerts like the necessity to go to the lavatory, sneeze, drink some water and so forth.
Once we’re in a hyper vigilant state we’re pushed by adrenalin and sometimes ignore or delay the necessity to eat, relaxation, drink water and go to the lavatory. This places the physique and nervous system beneath additional stress and sends a message that we’re not listening to, or trusting our physique.
One method to start calming hyper vigilance is to hearken to and attend to physique’s wants. Once we reply with care and a focus we change to the parasympathetic nervous system state which tells our physique and thoughts “I’ve obtained this” issues are regular and being being attended to.
Being with our experiences
Once we’re hyper vigilant, we will react in quite a lot of alternative ways, we’d try and dissociate, or we is perhaps proper there scanning all the things.
Both manner, there can be moments once we really feel okay, and we have to look out for these. We is perhaps laughing with a buddy, or really feel protected with our household, or be inquisitive about one thing for a couple of minutes.
In these moments, it’s useful to be with that have. However evenly, we don’t want to alter something, simply observe “on this second I’m okay” and see how that feels.
Bach Flower Cures
Aspen: is the treatment for when we have now a way of dread, however we will’t say what it’s. We is perhaps very anxious and shaky and preoccupied with feeling uneasy and on alert that one thing “dangerous” goes to occur.
Star of Bethlehem: is the treatment for when you may have skilled trauma, lately or up to now.
Rock Rose: is the treatment for feeling frozen in worry, or terror.
Rock Rose and Star of Bethlehem are each present in Bach Flowers Rescue Treatment which is a mix of 5 flower essences for occasions once we want some further help with stress or nervousness.
RNA Reset
Dr. Carolyn Dean’s ReMag Liquid Magnesium
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Calming practices
Affirmations
Affirmations are additionally really useful in Ayurveda to retrain the thoughts to really feel protected. Utilizing easy statements like “I’m protected, and I’m beloved” or “All is effectively, I’m protected.”
You will discover a Tapping Session on our Patreon to assist reprogram your thoughts from fearful considering.
Meridian Hug
One useful, and really straightforward observe, comes from Jin Shin Jyutsu an historic Japanese type of vitality therapeutic. It’s additionally been adopted by Donna Eden and others because the Triple Hotter Meridian Hug.
Place your proper hand beneath you left arm, about 4 inches down from the arm pit, and convey your left hand throughout your physique to carry your proper arm above the elbow. In case you’re sitting, uncross your legs and have each ft flat on the ground. Take just a few quiet minutes like this to breathe naturally, ensure that your in breath is pure, you’ll be able to lengthen your out breath a bit for added calm.
This observe calms the flight or struggle response and helps with feeling grounded and protected within the second.
Coming Quickly: Search for a guided model of this observe in our a Patreon.
The Calming Level
Each Ayurveda and Conventional Chinese language Drugs advocate this level for calming the guts and thoughts.
To seek out the purpose make a fist along with your left hand and search for the place your center finger touches your palm. Now press that time with the thumb of your proper hand for a couple of minute whilst you take deep regular breaths.
Loosen up your jaw and let your shoulders drop and loosen up as you maintain the purpose and maintain taking sluggish deep breaths.
SOS EFT Tapping
Tapping may help us really feel protected within the second when nervousness is working excessive. You will discover our SOS Guided Tapping Classes in our Freedom from Anxiety Attacks course and on our Patreon.
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