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Perfect Love and Imperfect Relationships
In couples dynamics, when you notice that both of you are caught up in a looping cycle over and over again, it can be rather frustrating. You may be feeling out of sorts, overwhelmed, helpless. It is like being stuck out in a stormy sea without the compass and tools to navigate. In addition, each of you are likely experiencing some fight-flight-freeze reactions, due to an activated sympathetic nervous system.
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Stimulating the vagus nerve for better mental health
In this blog, I’m pleased to share one of my all-time favourite articles about the benefits and ways to stimulate the longest cranial nerve in the body — the vagus nerve — which carries signals between your brain, heart and digestive system.
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To Relax in Your Body, Let’s Start with Grounding
My Tai Chi practice has taught me a thing or two about grounding. Our feet have to be rooted, and if the force is coming toward us, we are ready to change positions. Nothing is locked tightly i.e. jaws, shoulders, knees, so that the body can relax and feel supported by the solid grounding beneath us.
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Rest is to be practiced daily
In Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey, she notes that “rest must be practiced daily until it becomes our foundation.” She adds that many of us have been programmed to be “productive,” to be part of the “grind culture,” subjecting our bodies and minds to work at a “machine-level pace,” at the expense of our health. She reminds us that “We are enough” and that rest is a reclaiming of our true power.
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Focusing and Jazz Music
I just read this beautiful article featured in the June 2023 newsletter by the International Focusing Institute, where the author Karen Carmeli shares the correlation of jazz music and focusing-oriented therapy (the journey of exploring the felt sense in the body), and offers specific song examples to explore this connection. It really makes me appreciate the nuances of music and lyrics and the embodiment of the songwriter and singer.
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