Self regulation means we have the capacity to move from reactivity to response. When we self-regulate it means we are taking care of our own system by learning ways to centre, even when we are in difficult circumstances. It is a vital skill to develop when we are promoting internal change.
On Feeling Into Fear
Fear, I believe, is our most predominant emotion as it’s driven from our survival instinct. We are navigated through life by our threat detection mechanism; our nervous system, our primeval brain, our mammalian nature; checking experience (or future experience) out as either physically and emotionally safe, not safe or potentially not safe. Our need for safety drives our personality and behaviour towards being self-protective; dominating our natural capacity to respond from an open place of calm and compassion towards others (and self). Fear is a fundamental disallowing of ourselves to be available for connection or totally open to the present moment. Fear is live…
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