31/05/2022
A learning agenda for actualising our potential:
1. Understand the nervous system and how it quietly informs and shapes your presence and decisions. 80% of the information travels from the body to the brain - hence our biology creates our psychology.
2. Understand the impact of stress and how it significantly influences our inner conditions and reduces our capacity to be creative, spontaneous and available for connection. Flow is not the absence of stress, it is the presence of resources that enable us to feel connected to who we are in the here and now.
3. Understand that we all carry unprocessed emotions and trauma and that our bodies keep the score. The embodied memories of past hurt stay in our bodies as neuromuscular patterns of tension and they keep fueling limiting, protective patterns. We repeat what we don’t resolve. The unconcious avoidance of pain is what continues to create more pain long after what initially hurt us happened.
4. Understand that conscious choice is the trademark of embodied awareness. Unless we recognize when we are functioning from the survival mode of our nervous system, essentially running on fear, and when we actually feel safe in our bodies, confortable with the healthy exploration of our inner and outer world, our choices will lack the sense of true freedom. Without the embodied awareness of here and now, our choices will reflect our “culture”, our “habits”, our “expectations”, our “history” and so on. Concious choice is not an expression of will power, rather an authentic response to the here and now informed by our embodied awareness.
5. Understand that the evolution of our consciousness reflects in how we show up in all aspects of our life. Understand that this is essentially spiritual growth. Evolution is moving up the ladder from fear and more primal, instinctual drives to more sophisticated, socially engaging aspirations that require presence, connection and creativity. Evolution enables us to actualise more of our potential in the world.
Some final thoughts:
We evolve by learning to consciously regulate our nervous system, so that we are able to be with ourselves and with others in ways that serve connection and creativity.
We evolve by learning how to live in our bodies, connected with our heart and intution. The mind is a distributed intelligence living in each cell. Living as part of the ecosystem means we connect with our whole organism, not just with our heads. The separation of mind and body is not “scientific”, it’s just the reality of collective trauma and how far we are from nature and our true nature.
We evolve by learning to be awake with our senses wide open, attuned to the inner and outer world. This enables us to make conscious choices, informed by the direct experience of being present and living each moment, not by the inner dialogue of us analysing each moment and filtering it through our learned patterns.