Sitting with our Restlessness
We don't even know how to sit with our own feelings of loss and pain and anger and jealousy, and, instead of acting on them, simply learn how to be with them, somatically; we don't know how to sit with our feelings and let them teach us about ourselves. Instead we run to cope: with alcohol, with drugs, with social media. I've been there, you've been there, we've all been there. We're out here trying to change systems, meanwhile our own system is running on autopilot. We want to reform hundred-year old institutions but what about our own million-year old constitutions? What about our limbic system? It's 150 million years old. How about we work on that system? How's that for reform?
I’ve been thinking about this. We need to talk more about how our nervous systems interact with our immune systems. We’re obsessed with shots and pills, but the whole field of psychoneuroimmunology tells us that we’re overlooking one of the most powerful, ancient tools we have for supporting a strong, balanced immune response, and that’s balancing and nurturing our own minds and nervous systems.
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