Today try a walking meditation in a park or garden. Walk extra slowly, synchronizing your breathing with your steps, so with each step you take a breath in or out. This connects you with your body.
Are you constantly spinning your way through the week ?
Are you trying to juggle work, family, home and struggling to keep all balls in the air?!
Our bodies are still wired to prehistoric times, but our stressors have changed dramatically over thousands of years. Previously we would have encountered a deadly animal whilst walking out in the wild searching for food. The natural response here was fight or flight, do we stay and fight or do we run the hell out of there??!! Whatever decision is made a substance is released to stimulate the adrenals to release adrenaline and cortisol. This provides the body with everything it needs to react quickly.
Once the threat is gone, our adrenals stop pumping hormones and everything should return to normal.
Previously – YES!
In our lives today – NO!
Today we are not a spear-wielding attacker of a sabre tooth tiger, we are fighting deadlines, traffic and children! This means we are often functioning on a low-level chronic stress, so are in a constant state of over-production of adrenaline and cortisol.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
Have a great week.
Emma