When you don’t take time for yourself and live in a constant state of doing, your brain, body and mind: your nervous system run purely on adrenaline.
And when that happens, you open the door for stress, anxiety, sleepless nights, worry, fear…you get the picture.
But how do you know if you’re in this state?
It may be obvious to some however, if you’ve been living like this for most of your life, it won’t be.
Fight or Flight for the nervous system.
Have you heard of the fight or flight mode? AKA Stress response.
I think it’s ancestral and was lovingly handed down to us from caveman times when those big woolly mammoths & sabre tooth tigers were chasing us.
So let’s do a little visualization…
I want you to imagine you’re back in cavepeople times.
In a field happily plucking berries from a bush, when all of a sudden you see movement in the distance in a bigger bush.
Your heart starts to pound, your stomach turns and your mouth goes dry…
Those changes to your body are the fight or flight response.
And right now adrenaline and cortisol are flooding into your system causing your blood pressure to rise, and your muscles to tense for action.
Do you run or stay and fight?
As you’re deciding what to do in that split nanosecond, sugar is being released into your bloodstream to give you energy, and telling your immune system to be on high alert.
The bushes continue to move and before you can sprint away as fast as Usain Bolt…
You realise it’s your best mate literally beating around in the bushes just to scare the lion’s cloth pants off you.
Cheers mate!
After you’ve finished beating said mate over the head with a boulder and calling them a tw*t, your heart rate returns to normal.
Your stomach settles and you can swallow again as the adrenaline & cortisol subside.
Relief.
Now, imagine being in that high alert state ALL THE TIME.
You use so much energy, your body and mind has no opportunity to recover.
And when it doesn’t get the chance, guess what, you crash and burn.
Anxiety, overwhelm, overthinking, and depression take over.
You feel exhausted and peri-menopause symptoms get a lot worse.
It can feel like there is no way out.
But there is a way out.
Regulate with Reiki
You can regulate your nervous system by practicing Reiki.
With self-healing, breathing exercises, meditation, energy practices, life precepts and mindfulness: Reiki has all the tools you need.
The meditation and breathing exercises are proven to relax, re-centre and ground.
As well as lower the heart rate and blood pressure, it leaves you feeling calm and able to sleep soundly.
The energy practises, precepts and mindfulness focus your mind on the present. As you visualise the universal energy being drawn into your body, flowing through your cells and organs then back out into the universe.
And as a result; you heal yourself.
Then one day, you realise things don’t bother you like they used to.
You take what used to be stressful situations in your stride.
Anger becomes a thing of the past and you can’t remember why you worried so much.
Until finally, your nervous system is consistently regulated.
Reiki really works but it does take practise, time and consistency.
Although I wouldn’t like to put it to the test by having a sabre tooth tiger chasing me.
If you’d like to regulate your nervous system, then join the Reiki revolution and learn Original Japanese Reiki. The course takes place online over two days on LIVE Zoom calls. Then you’ll be fully supported for a further three weeks as you begin a 21 Day Journey so you can explore the practises on a deeper level and receive a further empowerment. Click here to find out more.
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