(Vlog) Your Wild Nervous System Forests and Handling the Unexpected
(Vlog) Your Wild Nervous System Forests and Handling the Unexpected
I was invited down to beautiful Dartmoor by a friend last weekend. Those moors and the wild woods are places I’ve been wanting to visit for years, I just never made it down before. And I discovered it is so lovely! We went exploring down ancient, sunken stone-lined country lanes, then hiked out across the bare moors under their vast sky. Spring was starting to emerge everywhere here, softening the wet winter landscape with flowering daffodils and fresh green leaves.
While there I was thinking of you so filmed this video tip for you of a way I use to help my nervous system in intense times – one that can calm down and nourish the very wild core of our nervous system, whatever happening around.
For these are times of such wild and unexpected change, triggering deep feelings of danger in all our wild and ancient nervous system, which has trouble handling all the input we’re receiving each day.
How has your nervous system been feeling?
Have you, like so many of my clients and friends have shared recently with me, been sleeping poorly, worrying more, finding yourself more reactive to what’s happening around you, listening to too much news, can’t stop thinking about what’s happening in all countries and situations where people are suffering now. Or maybe your stresses are more visible, closer to home. They all affect our bodies.
For our body, our nervous system, is wild – it’s the same one our ancient ancestors had – and it reacts to threats (close or distant) in the same intense way. Only our ancestors only had to deal with threats they could see, that were real and close by, but our nervous system has to also deal with all we read, watch, listen to of the many dangers and intense situations happening around our whole planet – and these are overloading them.
So I wanted to take you along with me into this beautiful springwood in wild Dartmoor, Devon, for natural places like this are where you can try this easy way that will give your wild nervous system something of what’s it might be longing for…
