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Okay, on to your nervous system.
Monday I led a guided Remembrance for the Community, as we do every Monday, this time on the topic of “I’ve got the too-many-details, everything’s-riding-on-it, ain’t-nobody-but-me, blues…”
Although it was a heart-centered meditation, I started it off by really making space for a truth about our nervous systems: they didn’t evolve to handle this.
*This* meaning this modern life. The amount of complexity and the number of details someone in an industrialized, modernized nation deals with far exceeds what we are meant to handle.
Bills, passwords, paperwork, complex taxes, complex schedules, keeping the machines in our life running (cars, blenders, toilets, stoves, lights)…
Over this past weekend I was out at White Hawk Ecovillage, where our home is nearly completed (can’t wait.) and noticed how quiet it was.
I walked out through the trail behind our house, out to the pine tree where our little Kira cat is buried (she died just a few weeks ago) and just listened. Listened to the wind and the birds. To the water moving in the earth. To all the subtle sounds and presences around me.
Your nervous system, my nervous system, all of us need more spaciousness, more time, more forgiveness and compassion and gentleness. More than we tend to give it.
Double up on what you need if you’re in business and are dealing with all the stresses of doing that.
Although the Monday Remembrance was for our Community and has been added to the library of topic-related guided Remembrances there, I wanted to share this past Monday’s Remembrance with you.
I encourage you to take the 15 minutes to open your heart, bring some spaciousness to your nervous system and your business, and connect.
Listen here: Guided Remembrance on Too Many Details
What do you notice about your body and your business reading this? If you listened to the Remembrance, what did you notice?
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10 Responses
Mark, how wonderful to know that this silence and nurturing from the natural world is soon to be there for you to replenish and rebalance all the nervous system stress. I feel such a big gladness for you as I read this post. I’ve been able to slip into the sea each day (it’s still very warm here in NZ) and the relief is instant – so soothing and cleansing. Your Remembrance really helped me with acceptance and also reminded me that conscious effort is needed to keep connecting with the land and the water.
Juliet- oh yes, I’m so grateful… only probably 5 weeks until we’re in! And your swimming sounds delightful. Just a few months away for us here!
What a gift…thank you Mark, great to be led by your heart and voice again. And love how you framed the nervous system as “not being designed for this”, a frame I’ll borrow in teaching my meditation and self-care classes. Love and blessings to you.
Sharon- You are so welcome! 🙂
Along with busyness generally, I find that any pull toward multi-tasking sends my whole body-mind into a stressed out, anxious place. Add in too much social media and/or too much driving, and effect multiplies ten-fold.
Until a few years ago, I didn’t have a car or a mobile phone with internet access. I walked or biked nearly everywhere…and my current “phone/email” checking habit was non-existent. The impact on my nervous system—and mood—of driving lots (which thankfully ended after moving in January) and always being online (which is continuing) is huge and unwelcome. I’m also clear that these sorts of things (busyness, multitasking, tons of social media use) create very real changes in the brain.
So appreciate this call to bring space and care to all this. In doing the Remembrance, I found the edges starting to soften. Also appreciate the reminder to spend more time listening, outside in nature–such a powerful antidote. Thank you, Mark.
Dana- yes! sounds amazing to return to a more nourishing pattern… here’s to that!
Thanks Mark! I’ve listened to this several times, as it is SO on the mark for what’s going on in my life. When I listen, when I let my heart listen, there is space and more than that, in that space, there is a totally different perspective. Before entering remembrance, my vision felt very narrow, claustrophobic, and my heart & breathing compromised. By the time I open my eyes, I’m breathing deeper & with more ease, my desk suddenly has space around it, & literally my peripheral vision is available, and I have a sense of myself & My Place in The Universe.
Very generous of you to share this in this way, and have it be available to anyone. I appreciate that & will forward to several friends. Warmly, Amy
Amy- yes, I think it’s so on for so many of us, eh? I’m glad the Remembrance was so nourishing for you.
Amen!!! Thank you Mark!
Amen, Laurel!