In this episode, I
- share 12 ways to signal safety to your nervous system and why these signals are so nourishing to our nervous systems
- discuss our current culture of urgency, hustling, and capitalism as the opposite of safety; it is a huge source of our individual and collective dysregulation
- share that slowing way down is how we give the middle finger to hustle culture
- talk about how the nervous system doesn't operate on our schedules or care about our convenience
- discuss conforming our lifestyles to support the body rather than demanding the body to conform to unsustainable lifestyles
- talk about the flight state and the emotions and unconscious behaviors of this state (which is the state for which slowness is the most beneficial)
- share ways to practice slowness with intention
- elaborate on the role of personal responsibility in structuring a life that is supportive to healing and regulating the nervous system
Nervous System 101 Waitlist
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
The Long Descent: User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age by John Michael Greer