When our nervous system is functioning optimally, our brain and body are in good communication, meaning that our perception of our worlds, both within and without, is clearer, we feel more at home within ourselves, we have bandwidth to adapt to the (constant) bombardment of stimuli that simply IS 2022, we can express health and vitality, and perhaps most critically, we can heal. 

Growing up, were you the kid who was always too run down to get out and run around and, oh, I don’t know, simply be a kid? How badly did you wish that for just make it through one week (just one week!) without a cough, cold, sneeze, stomachache, or sleepless night? With today’s increase in food sensitivities and allergies in young kiddos, this is becoming especially real.

What if, what if , we chose to pay attention, and to honor the feelings that arise from the inside. How much energy could be freed in the future if we address these feelings as they show up, as opposed to spending extensive amounts of energy and time to shove them back down to where the very feelings arose? Deep, deep, deep down. Which is where?

Without our nervous system, we would not be able to perceive our external environments that tell us where and how we are in space and time, or our internal environment, that lets us know how we are feeling mentally and physically. Without our nervous system, we wouldn’t know up from down, in from out. We would cease to live a life with any meaning or purpose if we were lacking in this perception, we would feel disconnected.