What A Healthy Nervous System Actually Looks Like

If you spend enough time in the somatic health & wellness world, you probably know the importance of having a regulated nervous system since that in itself is what controls our body’s everyday functioning in all areas of our well-being.

The way I have come to experience Acupuncture for myself & other’s is that it guides you to be “back in” your body so you can lead yourself with trust, sovereignty, and self-compassion through the unknowns ~ in all of its shades and intensities. 

Because in those portals of change or chaos, a healthy nervous system isn’t perpetually balanced or calm.

It’s dynamic.

It’s adaptable.

It’s downright resilient.

It allows you to oscillate through your range of instinctual responses at appropriate, summoned times because:

The goal isn’t to ever be triggered again…

Nor should it. Can we shift the intensity, frequency, or ways those triggers are expressed? Absolutely.

I for one am not about perpetuating the idea we are able to - or should - bypass our body’s responses to threats, thresholds of stress, or violations of limits no matter what our Heart perceives. If the Heart is alerting us to our uncertainty, agitation, or old aching wounds, so be it. Being triggered and reactive shows us we are sentient, empathetic beings with pain to be processed. It’s all information. 

So rather than spiraling deeper into self-inflicted shame over what sets us off, let’s get curious instead…

This receptivity and courage to explore the undercurrents beneath our symptoms and reactions - THIS is where our work lies…

To cultivate the capacity to meet yourself with compassion in those triggers with the instilled CAPACITY (via Acupuncture) to CHOOSE a different way. 

As this client mentioned (among those whose tendencies are to be in “fight” she was able “to respond instead of react.” 

For clients stuck in a state of fawning to fit in, they they summon the ability to say no - to set that boundary - have the hard talk - to break from the pack they never belonged to anyways - shedding the need to manage other people’s perceptions & emotions…

For clients stuck in freeze or flight, we focus on cultivating the safety and courage to make the decision, take that first step, trust that you’ve got yourself no matter what you choose — or stay present in conflict or discomfort without shutting down…

We all have the capacity to choose a new path.

The caveat is, we can only do so when we are ready to reconcile our current circumstances, our conditioning, and say “no more.”  

That declaration of “no more,” is often when the new path and/or mentor appears. 

So if you’re reading this, it is my privilege to walk alongside you in your renewal.

Your becoming.

Lauren