The Role of the Nervous System in Your Spiritual Awakening
Working intelligently with your nervous system and staying connected TO THE BODY through your spiritual awakening is essential.
Many people begin receiving spiritual insights long before they begin integrating their core traumas.
This means that although they are receiving profound insights, they remain dissociated from their body (the common childhood response to trauma) and don't have CAPACITY to remain embodied whilst accessing the universal field of intelligence.
Thus many people start living in the "ethers" - ultimately disconnected from their body and losing the sense of being HERE, alive, in the body, on Earth.
In the earlier stages of my spiritual journey, I didn't realize how much time I spent NOT being present in my body.
From a young age something in me learned that it wasn't safe to be in my body.
My young nervous system didn't have capacity to be present to the traumas it experienced (and didn't have relational figures that could be fully present to me) - so it dissociated to create safety.
Building the capacity of my nervous system through:
✨embodiment practices
🔑somatic tools
👫co-regulating, resourcing & learning from those who have greater capacity than me
🤓understanding early trauma
🌳going slow & learning to be gentle
...Has not only allowed me to feel safe being IN my body once again,
It allows me to access universal intelligence THROUGH my body.
My entire body is alive with wisdom & intuition. It is attuned to the collective field around me.
In addition, when I connect with others it is not just our words that communicate to one another, our bodies "talk" to each other at an energetic level.
If you have read my other posts about cultivating the capacity of the inner masculine and wondered how to begin this cultivation, it has to do with exactly this...
Building the capacity of the nervous system to remain present (i.e. staying IN the body and resourcing your nervous system) while the feminine (energy, emotions, triggers, information) move through you.