Practice excitement and calming
To get more time in a calm state.
You may be someone who is stuck in states of alarm, worry, unrest, nervousness, PTSD, ruminating, and needing distractions. You might be feeling that the pleasant parts of living are fleeting. The desired connection to joy is missing, rare, and more a thought located in your head than a vibrancy in located in your body.
I suffered through about a 3 years long stretch of severe PTSD myself. During that time I experienced continuous states of distress with short periods of relatively less distress but not much embodied calm or joy or fun. In fact, my experience of my body was dramatically and negatively altered for years. It wasn’t a passing mood….it was a total alteration in how I experienced life.
I absolutely needed trauma therapy to help me recover. I was treated by Somatic Experiencing Practitioners including the creator of this powerful methodology, Dr. Peter Levine himself. I trained and became a practitioner of this therapy. Being a PT, I taught myself how to apply trauma healing principles into my Physical Therapy mindset. I also developed myself as my own therapist. By these means my life was saved.
In the process of healing from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, studying how to treat it, and my curiosity about how to stay connected to a vibrant, pleasant, joyful, playful, empowered life, I learned that it’s worthwhile to explore the dynamic between the edge of relative calm and increasing excitement in a state of curiosity.
One key is to control, by careful awareness of your senses, only little shifts in your comfort. Compulsive exposure to danger, panic, and fear is not helpful. But exploring the edge of alertness is useful.
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