Your internal environment

Dear Leader,

When we confront challenges, navigate resistance, or experience an upset, it can be easy to judge or blame the circumstances that surround us.

In such instances, we may draw our focus to the faults and flaws within our environments and relationships. We may zero in on our concerns about other people and their decisions. We may even default into shame and worry about ourselves.

This experience is normal. This experience is human.
𝙔𝙤𝙪 are normal. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 are human.

Our nervous system responds to the external environment by creating 𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 within us.

🧠 Our wise brains make meaning of our challenges so that we can survive them.
💪 Our wise bodies activate resistance as a way to protect us from harm.
💗 Our wise emotions awaken our awareness of the deeper truths of our heart.

Thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations all occur 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴, which brings us a tremendous amount of navigational power. Our inner experience can serve as a compass and guide for the direction we want to take, especially if we are 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 of how our nervous system is reacting.

If you find yourself encountering judgment or blame of your 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, I invite you to tune into your 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩. Herein lies a wealth of insight and communication that, when given a bit of space, can help you return to your own power and choice in any given moment.

While we may not control the external environments and circumstances that surround us, with deepened awareness of our default reactions, we can restore our own authority in how we relate and respond to those environments.

Default reactions to life’s circumstances are part of our evolutionary biology that keeps us alert and alive. We can be grateful for that physiology, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 we can also get curious about the ways our survival tendencies limit us from truly thriving.

When we can be in a compassionate practice of noticing our default patterns, we can activate an empowered practice of choosing and creating the patterns that give us the experience of life we truly want.

To navigate any 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 environment, begin with exploring the wisdom of your 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 environment. Here, you’ll find answers, clarity, and the possibility that your challenge is an opening, your resistance is a path, and your upset is a set-up for the next level.