A Seasonal message from susan
Autumn 2023 - Commit
This Autumn message contains a theme we have stayed with: taking care of yourself during times of chaos and great transformation. These are those times! They are not going away soon.... yes, in the near future of 4-7 years, higher consciousness will be more evident. Until there is more ease, it will be necessary to take MORE care of yourself than you have done in the past.
These are not the 80's, 90's, or first decade of the millennium, when it was easier to balance oneself and one's life. Now it is time to develop habits that take care of self in new, profound ways.
Trauma-
Many events and people at this time can trigger Trauma - the flight, fight, freeze response. It is crucial to be aware when this happens within you. It may be a surge of adrenaline (fight), a strong need to recoil (flight). a desire to stop all the input (freeze), a tight stomach, a spaciness, a rage. These responses are All natural upon hearing or seeing violence, political rhetoric and/or discord, earthly disasters, the dissolution of institutions, war, and more. Trauma may exist without a one-time devastating experience. Trauma may be a daily dose of lower grade stress.
If you watch, listen to media reports of world activities, you are receiving trauma. If your sympathetic nervous system is being triggered almost daily, what is your plan to help balance/heal yourself? How may you slow down or reduce some trauma triggers in the atmosphere? Are you willing to commit to taking care of yourself in new ways ...commit to your own well-being?
One very simple way is to do "Conscious Breathing", which relaxes the sympathetic nervous system, which is activated by trauma.
Breathing - "3-4-5 Technique" (one version)
1. Take a deep belly breath (belly extends as you inhale). Hold for count of three. Exhale to count of 6-8 as belly retracts. Do 3 times.
2. Take deep belly breath and hold for 4 seconds. Release to count of 6-8 as belly retracts. Do 4x.
3. Take deep belly breath & hold for 5 seconds. Release to count of 6-8 , as belly retracts. Do this 5 times.
Notice how much calmer you feel! Notice how the shoulders have relaxed. This will stay with you for hours!
Doing this 2x a day will promote a deep, centering experience and help counter the Trauma triggers in the atmosphere in these times.
Commiting
Breathing helps to let go of what is chaotic and beyond your control. When a plant is through flowering, do you grasp the plant and say, "Don't change yet, it's too hard for me!" When autumn arrives and leaves are falling, do you say, "Stop changing and dropping!" These are small examples, of course, but they show how letting go of that beyond our control, be it nature's cycles, political power moves, war and its victims, etc, allows us to maintain our calm. If you are calm & centered, that is the energy you radiate and it expands to others.
By being willing to take 10 min a day to do Conscious Breathing 2x daily, you are actively bringing more peace to your self and life, your environment and away. You are demonstrating a new level of commitment to how you live your life. This is a step in conscious responsibility. Your calm does radiate.
The more people willing to do this, the more calmness will be present on earth.
Breathe=Commit=Consciousness=Calm
One calm person (YOU!) makes a difference! ❤️
Blessings.........
