Capacity Determines the Pace of Healing

As your nervous system capacity grows, you will be presented with MORE opportunities to meet your trauma.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

You cannot meet or heal your deepest traumas with a small capacity.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Your nervous system is more intelligent than that.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

So when your deepest wounds start to surface, you can recognize this as an indication that you actually have CAPACITY to start integrating some of these things.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

That there is enough SAFETY for these things to bubble up to be seen.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

When we push ourselves to meet our trauma before we have enough capacity, it can be re-traumatizing.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Because once again, it simply overwhelms the nervous system in the same way we initially experienced.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

So as we integrate trauma, our capacity grows.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠ And as our capacity grows, we have the opportunity to integrate more trauma.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠...⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

It is the reason why we default into unconscious patterns.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Because when the capacity becomes overwhelmed —> literally the ONLY option becomes the expression of the unconscious pattern.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

There is zero capacity to consciously choose differently.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧...⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Recognizing that everyone is doing their best, with their current capacity.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

Because no one CHOOSES to have a low capacity.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

And yet a low capacity is exactly what inhibits someone from behaving consciously.⁠ ⁠ ⁠ ⁠

The beautiful thing is that as YOUR capacity grows, you can extend greater safety & compassion to others, which will support their capacity to grow as well.⁠ ⁠