Sarah 0:02
The high co regulation conversations Welcome back. I'm out on a beautiful summer day in Alaska. It's warm for the first time, and it feels so good. Yeah, maybe the first day of short weather that we've had. Yeah, I feel like I'm finally thawing out a bit from the long cold season. Very welcome. Feels great. great, so this episode today is a summer somatic snack, means I'm planning to keep it kind of short and sweet, and thinking of this as a part two to the episode that I just recorded about some post Columbia reflections, and this one is particularly focusing in if my creativity continues as planned to be talking about the ways that we can connect to the world as a resource, as a support. I really was recognizing this as the class wrapped up in Columbia. This, this may end the.. I mean, the backstory here. Maybe you know this because you've been along, as I've shared bits and pieces over the last few years, but this cohort of students, they have been studying together for the last like two, three years, and we had six different modules together, so we were all gathering for a week in this little mountain town in the Andes outside, four or so hours outside of Bogota, and it's at like 8000 feet, and really, really cute little cute spot with some incredible history, and also a big mountain behind town that we were.. I heard, you know, from various people that there was some sacredness to it, and some indigenous connection. There's a hike to a sacred lake that I did on one of these trips, and the was just really neat. How this mountain that was right behind the place where we were having class, a lot of students kept connecting to it as we were in our practice sessions, where and practicing things like orienting and resourcing, and feeling how for so many people, and myself as well, that connection to the land and to the mountain there was very anchoring and the nervous system, you know, as I think it does for many of us when we're outside, can find itself in a different rhythm when we're in wild places. I mean, I think that's why I'm out walking right now, because of how beautiful it is, and how the impact of connecting with that beauty, what that does in my own nervous system. So, maybe as I'm talking about that, there is something that comes to mind for you as well, if you're out somewhere that you can like connect to something right now, maybe I mean I'm just gonna like pause and take a picture for you of this view that I just walked upon and just pause for a moment to take in the. The experience of being in connection with land with beauty, maybe with a vista that has some vagueness to it. In Alaska, we have so many of these beautiful vistas that are just, you know, so expansive guys, ocean and mountains space, taking some time for that, if you, if you want. I mean, one of the mountains I can see from where I am right now is Denali, the great one, the biggest mountain in North America. What a powerhouse it is to just be able to like see her and remember there's that she's out there I I know not everyone will necessarily have that same sense of connection with mat land and space and mountains that rings so true for me, and this is an example of a take what works for you and leave the rest kind of moment, I you know, my intention is always to offer options, and the trick is to not feel any pressure that the things that I'm offering are the right way to do it. It's more like what the information that's important is what comes up for you when you, when I suggest things, or when you try things, and then you know that's always, that's always like that's always the important part, like what you're, what you're seeing and learning about, and noticing about yourself, and then also tracking the different impacts, you know, sometimes things feel supportive, and sometimes you just can let them go. Okay.
Sarah 7:33
Tangent, so connecting with the earth, connecting with the planet, I mean, I this little exercise we just did together is one that I lean on personally and suggest for clients when there is a sense of like a lot going on, and sometimes it can feel like there's so much activation, noise, stress, tension in your, in the body that it can, it's like my body's too small to hold it all. It's like that. Gosh, that's like so common with grief, when like grief comes in, really grief waves come in really strong or with fear or anger sometimes, so that can be anxiety connecting with like the bigness of a vista or with, yeah, what we just did, basically, that can be a way of connecting with the earth in finding, maybe, you know, and this is a couple ways I might explain how that might land, in case that's helpful, though sometimes it feels to me like the connecting with that spacious ocean mountain, like the bigness of nature helps almost like carry some of what I'm carrying, trying to carry in my little human body. It's like some of the land can help at least witness me or accompany me in it, maybe help carry some of the load. You might feel something like that, or sometimes people feel like, or share that it feels like their own body expands a bit, whether it's their physical body or like their energy body might feel like it expands a bit, so that there's room for all the things inside in a more spacious way. Yeah, so a. Okay, then I next place I want to go with this is talking about how there's a way we can connect with the world that this Columbia experience really opened up for me, and it is that I mean, so now I know that I know it's like 50 or so, forget what the numbers were, 4050, Colombians, and people who came to Colombia for this class from other countries, other Latin American countries, some from the US, some are other parts of the world, who are so amazing, like these people are brilliant, they're talented, they're open-hearted, they really care about healing and about each other and about like taking good care of our bodies and each other, and they're good at it, and they're so creative. You should have seen the talent show that happened at the end of the training, incredible, so there's a way now that that I have, like, a I perceive it as, like, a little tether or a spider web link to Columbia, and that nodule of very powerful people who connected with their and they're all going out to their own lives and communities and sharing with their people what we've been studying, so all of that just gives the sense that there are really talented, incredible people out there in the world doing really great work, so I wonder if there's something that happens already for you when I name that there is something for me for sure and you know maybe it's because I know these people and it feels especially like you know it's reminding me about the mr. Rogers quote, that is something like, look for the look for the helpers. It's so easy these days to be aware of all of the people out there doing shitty things in the world, and the like sense that the there's like global friction conflict, I mean, and that's real, and there are also people through like this organization that I'm supporting through like there's so there's trainings like this going on all across the world right now, and there's so many different other modalities that are also having, you know, building communities and skilled people of all different sorts who really care all across the globe, so I can almost visualize like that spider web network all all around the globe, you know. It's like kind of mind blowing when I feel into that and let it let the image come and kind of let my body orient to that part of the reality of the world.
Sarah 14:12
It's not a, it's not just a mindset trick that is where I'm trying to like convince myself of something that's not true, it is an actual reality that those people are out there doing really great things around the globe, so that's become one of my resources, it feels especially potent when I'm considering I feel just feeling like worried about the state of the world engaging with the intense news cycles that we're experiencing and back in and. Now, back in the US, and it really feels helpful. So, I'm curious now, for you as well, if there is a way that you can either borrow my experience of these people, or if you have also spent time in other parts of the world, have had embodied experiences with some real gems, some real amazing humans in other parts of the world that you can remember, and in an embodied way bring to mind what it was like to be with them, and if you can see them doing like really good work out there, then you have your own kind of grid that you might be able to, if you're a visual person, maybe bring that, like, see the visual aspects of that, maybe out on a map or on a globe in a somatic way, then you could also track what happens in your body when you connect with that, or maybe just when you spend time with the idea of that grid or that kind of connectivity or just those kind of helpers out there around the world, just notice what happens, and you know, I'm, I've always been a fan of Michael Jackson's Heal the World, and yeah, it sounds maybe some serious cheesiness there, but maybe also some possibility I Okay, thanks for being here for this conversation. I blocked my way back to my car. It's been great spending time with you, and until next time.
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