The first step to regulating your emotions is to recognize, and become aware of, your own nervous system. Learning to differentiate what is you, and what is a dis-regulated nervous system, is a huge step toward feeling better. One way to increase your awareness is to develop a sense of how the nervous system is impacted by both your internal and external worlds. Once you develop a relationship with your body, you’re no longer at its mercy. When mind, body, and soul become team players, life becomes so much more enjoyable!
The nervous system lives in the core of the spine and sends messages to the body via nerve bundles bathed in the cerebral spinal fluid. A free flow of this fluid is required for optimal message delivery. The nervous system is the central command center. It has its own intelligence, and can be seen as a sentient being in its own right. It’s incredibly sensitive, and is constantly taking in all kinds of information. A good exercise is to visualize your nervous system. What does it look like? I envision it as the tentacles of a jellyfish, freely floating in fluid, sending sparks of light messengers to instruct and fulfill different needs of the body.
