Let's get back to basics.

What are your ethics of how you interact in your life, in your relationships, in your work and with your Spiritual connection?

There are times where things untangle and become extremely uncomfortable. Times where we may feel abandoned by everything that is familiar and safe.  

What I find really helpful in times of immense stress and feeling uncomfortable, is to go back to basics.  Where I feel supported and safe.  Simple practices that regulate my nervous system and help me feel the emotions that are being triggered.

There are my basics:

• Breathing. Try box breath:
  •  In for four - hold for four - out for four - hold for four.  This calms your nervous system and brings you into calm.
• Grounding - going outside, take off shoes and feel the connection with your feet on the earth. Close your eyes and rooting yourself in Mother Earth.
• Sitting or lying on the earth helps immensely - this is where you can visualize and feel the pulse and rhythm of the earth connected with your own heartbeat.  
• Prayer - Mantra - singing and chanting mantras with intention and feeling connected within.  Repeating the same prayer over and over - try 108 times 
  • (According to Ayurveda, we have 108 marma points (vital points of life forces) in your body. When you chant 108 times, each chant represents a journey from our material self towards our highest spiritual self.)
• Drinking a glass of water that you have blessed and thanked for its healing and calming gifts. 
• Gentle walking and paying attention to all that is around you. Listening to the sound of your feet walking on the earth. Seeing the beauty of nature.

These are basic, embodiment practices that give you space and time to connect with yourself and calm your nervous system.  

Check-in with yourself right now. What are your basics?

When you can respond to life from a calm and self compassionate place, then the untangling and dealing with what you need to deal with flows with more ease. And you are taking care of yourself.