How to shift your nervous system from familiar habits to optimal living
Rewire your response,
Ever noticed that you can drive a familiar route without much effort, your thoughts could be miles away on what happened during your day, while you arrive safely at your destination?
Your nervous system fires and wires to save energy. Taking the same route day after day takes less energy. These familiar responses happen in physical movements, mental/emotional responses, and perceptions. The familiar patterns can be called "autopilot," or reactions, patterns, habits, or even your personality.
Your familiar pattern for driving, how to communicate, walk and more are incredibly valuable. It saves us time and energy that we do not need to relearn these skills when we need to use them.
Familiar patterns can represent our "bad habits," reactions that are not serving us, patterns that keep us spiraling in low vibrational emotions, or personality quirks that were not so fond of in ourselves. This is where it can be helpful to take the journey from familiar to optimal.
Here a few steps to stop repeating less than optimal "familiar" patterns & start creating optimal ones:
When you notice the old patterns coming on, create a PAUSE. This could be a breath, a walk, space in a difficult conversation to come back to, or even bodywork. It may be helpful to tell yourself "it's safe to take a pause & revisit this," or to "it's ok to slow down."
Resource yourself: list what you already have that is supporting you (people, places, breath, a strong body, etc). List what you'll need to overcome the familiar and to step into optimal (a steady routine, support from my loved ones, help from a professional, etc).
Journal about your old patterns, or automatic behaviors. Then journal about what an optimal response would be instead using all of your senses.
Open up your heart and mind to new possibility, through new experiences, meditations, bodywork, etc.
I just had the pleasure of recording a short podcast about familiar to optimal with a dear friend, I will share it with you when it is available! (I first heard the term familiar to optimal from a mentor, Sarah Tacy, whom has a beautiful podcast you may be inspired to tune into for more nervous system support!)
_________________________________
October weekend immersion
If this concept of familiar to optimal intrigues you - you may wish to be a part of my plan to take four wonderful folks through an intimate group experience where we will dive more into rewiring our response for optimal as well as equip you with the internal work (integration sessions, yes a series of them in the same day, to deepen the unwiring of familiar and rewiring of optimal) and the tools to keep choosing optimal in your life until it's your reality.
Because there will be a very limited availability of space for this opportunity, hit reply if you're interested and I'll add you to the waitlist so you'll be the first to know when seats open!
______________________
In gratitude & good health,
Dr. Jessica