Resetting our Nervous System

How big is your sensing radius these days? For most people, after the last year-and-a-half, their circle of sensation has gotten bigger. We necessarily got used to taking in lots of information and adapting the patterns of our nervous system in order to be more vigilant. There’s some irony there, because since there were so many restrictions on activity, on in-person contact, on gathering with others, we might have really quieted and settled, even become under-stimulated. But it is a rare person I meet today who speaks about the pandemic time in truly restful terms. We might have been doing less, but we were sensing more, and it was mostly an anxious sensing.