can you give us a step by step of how to heal/fix/balance our nervous system?
1) The nervous system language is called the felt-sense. It is all you feel at physical sensation level. For example if you are angry or afraid or sad, this is not the language of the ANS but of the limbic/emotional brain. Then if you ask your self "how do I know I am angry or afraid or sad? How and where do I feel this is my body?", then the answer comes from the ANS.
2) Instead of a scale, I want as an image the seesaw: we are all the time going up and down, and this is the balance, we need to be adapted to what happens, act when we do sport, relax when we go to sleep. If you fix the nervous system, it goes like the straight line of light we see in films when in hospital they monitor a heart, and want to make understand the person is dead. ----------------- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
I can also represent htis by saying that if you do a hair test and you ar a balanced metabolic type, then it allows you to choose: you can be a fast 4 when you run for your life, a slow 4 during anesthesia, and a slow-just-what-is-needed when you are a the hammock on the coconut beach! The goal of being balanced is to never stay stuck in one state.
3) So we need to learn how to be more resilient, how to let our body do its job, as it is autonomic, we do not make it happen with our thinking mind. We interfere too much when we are not in contact with our felt-sense, our body sensations, our somatic feeling. It would be easy if it was only this! The problem by not having done this properly all our life, is that we have a stock of past activations that heve not been discharged, and that it prevents the automatic proper balance to happen well. Just thank our culture for this....
4) So we need to do this step by step. Let go water from the dam to make electricity without rupturing the dam with too much at a time.
5) I will give ways to help this, I an thinking about how to do it. But beofre this, to let you know what is possible, I will let you know what is not: a step by step cannot do anything. It would be as if you asked for all what you have to say during the day at your job, what do you answer when somebody ask you "how are you" or "where do you come from". Ok..., when you learn a language, this is useful, and then you become autonomous and can make your own sentences...!
6) But the truth is that you already speak this language! You have to listen to it more, and you have to remember to ask yourself these questions I suggested when you have emotions: how do you know you have this emotion and where do you feel it in the body? This language is talking to you like a child who pulls mother's skirt and ask for attention. Put your attention on it and let it happen and you will notice that the felt sense evolves and changes in a few minutes. Our ANS is quite slow when it can. It is super quick when needed, like removing your hand from the hot stove! But who pays attention to the coming down to a calm state after having succeeded in avoiding the burn? Nobody, and it should be everybody...
In meditation they will always first tell you to notice your breathing without changing it. The first step is then to pay attention as much as possible to what happens in your body.
