Self Compassion, Titration, Agency and Resourcing in Self Healing
It is how our nervous system has learned to process life.
One common adaptation:
- the adaptation towards intensity or intensity driven;
One common adaptation:
- the adaptation towards intensity or intensity driven;
be on high alert, scanning for threat, en-guard and defensive, overdoing, ruminating or replaying challenging experiences, imagining and projecting black and white scenarios, overwhelming emotions such as anger or rage.
This is a system that holds a high degree of unresolved stress and trauma. We resort to this coping mechanism because the nervous system has impaired capacity to process intensity and so, we remain on high alert. That unprocessed energy builds up creating more and more distress.
When we fail to recognize what drives high levels of intensity in our system we risk continuing patterns of making uninformed choices, forgetting or dismissing our boundaries and potentially retraumatising our central nervous system.
When we fail to modulate, slow down, centre and ground or listen to our own true Self, we may fail to recognise how our nervous system is processing life in the moment. We may then force a method or practice that is actually not what it needs right now.
A nervous system that struggles to process intensity needs to relearn how to be with life as it is right now, meaning learning to process little by little that activation or release it from the system. This is called titration, a slow release of often long trapped conditioning or trauma or patterns of survival. This titrated release of stale or no longer useful somatic energy ("trauma") then creates fresh space and allows central nervous system regulation and a homeostatic return to an aligned discernment.
When we fail to recognize what drives high levels of intensity in our system we risk continuing patterns of making uninformed choices, forgetting or dismissing our boundaries and potentially retraumatising our central nervous system.
When we fail to modulate, slow down, centre and ground or listen to our own true Self, we may fail to recognise how our nervous system is processing life in the moment. We may then force a method or practice that is actually not what it needs right now.
A nervous system that struggles to process intensity needs to relearn how to be with life as it is right now, meaning learning to process little by little that activation or release it from the system. This is called titration, a slow release of often long trapped conditioning or trauma or patterns of survival. This titrated release of stale or no longer useful somatic energy ("trauma") then creates fresh space and allows central nervous system regulation and a homeostatic return to an aligned discernment.
- resourcing more rather than focusing on healing
- lowering the level of activation in your life
- setting boundaries around what you consume, mentally, emotionally and relationally.
- accepting life as it is right now.
- accepting life as it is right now.
When we want life to be different than it is we feed the inner conflict which results in accumulation of stress.
- creating and repeating daily short practices that engage your nervous system with what is accessible in the moment
- connecting with nature, mindful movement and grounding with the earth
- creating and repeating daily short practices that engage your nervous system with what is accessible in the moment
- connecting with nature, mindful movement and grounding with the earth
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