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I can’t tell you how many times someone has come to work with me in the hopes of learning “how to better manage their emotions.” This expectation makes so much sense in a colonized capitalist culture where there is a multi-generational paradigm that has taught us to relate to Life from a place of control and ‘power over’. It even permeates healing and wellness culture…
Having a yoga and/or meditation practice doesn’t necessarily equate to a spacious nervous system.
This is a visualization practice intended to support us any time we are feeling drained, small, resentful, or afraid. As we move through our day we can sometimes experience power leaks - we might be giving our power away through obsessing about a person or experience that we do not ultimately have control over.
Written by Katie Allcorn
33 days into my sobriety, I cried into my tuna sandwich. I was crying because with all the mercury and discarded by-catch, I didn’t believe in eating tuna but here I was, eating it anyway. I was crying because I felt ill-equipped to be a mother. I was crying because work stress wouldn’t give me a minute. But I was mostly crying because I was no longer comfortably numb, and I was feeling all the feels that could be felt.
We are in a space in time where the collective energy of fear is like a dark and heavy cloak we can find ourselves swimming in. In order to move through it we must first allow ourselves to feel it, and then ultimately allow that darkness to catalyze us to take action and return us to our values.