What do your manual therapy practice, your Vagus nerve and Ukraine war have to do with each other?
For some of us this war is happening on the tv screen. Does it, really, only there?
Have you noticed what is happening in your body, while watching the news?
Or are you avoiding watching the news from the war zone?
Whatever you have chosen, take a breath through your heart, one more, one more breathing cycle through the heart. Now, visit your body - your hips, your tummy, your rib cage, now your throat - swallow even to ask your throat how it feels, now visit the space between your ears, now the top of your head.
Ask each of these parts what’s happening there.
Count your breaths.
Count your heart beats.
If they are still above 16 and 70, then I wish you this:
“ Just slow down.
Slow down your speech
Slow down your breathing
Slow down your walking
Slow down your eating
And let this slower, steadier pace
Perfume your mind.
Just slow down .”(~ Doko Taika )
Then, see what’s happening in the circle connecting your hands and your heart, like this:
Then, if you feel you have anchored Peace in your body, you are ready to enter the therapy session and lay your hands on your patient’s body.
And if you still feel you haven’t done enough to anchor and emanate peace, then see this:
More about Personal zen: https://personalzen.com/
Or if you feel you want to do more for the lives, all lives on Ukraine land to survive, check this UN relief project:
https://www.foundationforunitednations.org/
I don’t have a bank to freeze his assets or “sanction “ Russia. But I have a heart that beats in proximity of the hearts of my patients and everyone in 4 feet around. That’s how, as biological oscillators, we can anchor peace and entrain peace at each others’ bodies.
I wish you peace ♥️
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3389%2Ffnins.2020.579365
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Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 141–153, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12160-009-9101-z
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