When You're Kept Awake by Worries
Do you ever start the day a little rough around the edges? Me too.
For quite a few years now, my middle-of-the-night worries have been about the loss of our natural environment, the very web of life that supports our life. Which impacts everything: refugees, racial conflict, all of the -isms that tear us apart.
In that place of worry, there are two options:
Feed the worry and freak out
Find a way to co-exist with the concerns
#2 sounds like a better option! But it's hard to find a way to co-exist with concerns when your mind is consumed in worry. How do you get rest from a worried mind? How do you get more space, more perspective?
My favorite way is to take my worries directly to the places I love...
This is where my mind can have moments of rest. With the raucous pace of modern life, we so need rest.
I wish for you, too, time to be with what you love in life.
If the worries are loud, use the practices I walk you through in the video, orienting to your environment, body-mindful awareness, allowing your whole self to be amidst what you love.
Love makes no false promises that troubles will go away. It's much more than that. Love is being with the concerns, in touch with the pain and joy of living. Undaunted. Even when you get a little worried now and then.
Amy Shoko Brown (MS, SEP, ISP, RCST) is a trauma resolution specialist and body-mind guide with over 33 years of training deeply rooted in compassionate mindfulness and creative process. She helps people struggling with health or trauma issues who want relief, strength and resilience so they can be their best selves. In private practice, she offers the modalities of Somatic Experiencing, Integral Somatic Psychology, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and QiGong to support healing and transformation. She also enjoys smiling :-)