Skip a breath
As I recently started to spend more time at my mother-in-law’s place in the village up in the mountains, I started witnessing how amazing the fact of slow living is for my nervous system reset. I used to live in the village in Bali for 10 years, up in the jungle, really wild yet close to the civilization so to speak. And then last year we moved back to the city and it was hectic.Although me personally, I’m not involved in the hectic life of the surrounding environment, I am staying at home with the baby and taking care of the family and family layout. Yet it’s also the environment and the energy of the city itself is quite intense and I witnessing that as an empath. It influences me a lot and sometimes I don’t even notice how I suddenly start tightening up my pelvis or clenching my jaws or skipping the breaths and keeping my chest tight.When I go to visit my mother-in-law up in the village, I witness that she moves slowly. She goes with the breath, she is doing as much as the bodies permits. Yet it’s not because she is old, it’s because it is a lifestyle.Those 2-3 seconds that we win by running around with our a tongue out, they just give you the high level of cortisol for your bloodstream to pump, for your heart to work even harder than it’s supposed to. And it’s not beneficial for anything. You are not able to accomplish more. You are not able to be more productive, to be more aware, to be more successful. You’re just more tired.And then when you are moving slowly but steadily, you know exactly where you’re going, what you’re doing, what is your next step. You are alert and aware, awake and aware and witness everything that is happening in your body, in your nervous system, in your energy system. And if you see or feel interference, you witness without judgment, and then you allow it to be the way it wants to be. Yet you also allow yourself to make a little break, a stop here right now, and a breath in and out and witness the present moment. Witness what is around you.Witness what is happening within yourself, within the body, if you were suffering from any sorts of disease or body situations, health issues, these kind of things when you are keeping your body tight, like tight pelvis, clenched jaws, skipping the breath - once you release your locked shoulders, once you release the neck, once you spread your wings, - it is really beneficial for your health and for your mental condition as well.Yet if you go to the doctors, no doctors will tell you about it because they don’t know how it is to be within your body. And sometimes we are so used to live within this stressful bubble that we think that it is a normal way. It is a normal way to keep the head forward while using the phone all the time. It is a normal way to put the shoulders forward and just move around like a zombie.It is not ok, it’s not a normal way. It is the the way we’ve adapted to survive in the conditions where we are not supposed to survive yet. Once you slow down a little bit and witness how you stand on your feet, what is your posture, how you breathe, how you move, whether or not you notice the little things around you - the trees, the birds, the flowers, whether you allow this little things to make you happy or you just keep on moving.Profit, profit, profit. More, more, more.You know, abundance is amazing, but the abundance of life is much more important than the monetary exchange. We are attracting much more once we’re attuned to the gratitude, and once we’re attuned to the present moment, we are much more grateful for life. And this gratitude attracts whatever you only wish to attract.The flow of life is much more beautiful. It’s just effortless and you are more inspired to create, you’re more inspired to participate in projects, you are more inspired to communicate with those you were scared to communicate with, and you just feel more alive inside of yourself. Think about it, you don’t need to change anything, but yet you yourself can change everything.The quality of life can be very, very different once you allow yourself to breathe, once you allow yourself to be in the heart, once you allow yourself to be, which is essential and which is literally the most important thing. I’m inviting you to return back to the heart right now. Use the meditative guidance available.And if you are ready to go deeper, go into the Heart Space Sanctuary, which is the place where I help you to reset, where I help you to reactivate what was always there but yet was sleeping. Where I help you to remember and to open up for more.We’re here to be ourselves, but sometimes we just need a reminder. And this is your reminder for now. Talk to you soon. Bye bye. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit viktoriasuardi.substack.com
