Be at home - have more energy

What is your deepest longing? To be at home. In this blog article you will find in the first part: "Why that's so important. "

And a little further below you can find the topic in Part two "a little exercise"

Human nature has developed over a long period of time and it is sometimes more than whimsical. Basically, we are good or bad - with a lot of nuances.

We are happy to settle down when the body is not disturbed by hunger, thirst or illness and if the brain is not prevented by threats, frustration or the feeling of being out.

The idle state is the fundamental basis of our existence and responsible for the balance in the system. In this mode, the body can “refuel” and repair itself: the mind feels safe, happy and connected.

As you have already noticed, I do not speak of a physical place where the mind feels happy, safe and connected but of a state. If we deal with the world from this state, we are equipped with a background feeling of security, well -being and the connection to other people.

No matter how crazy the world is, you have enough energy in you.

But when body and mind are disturbed - perhaps through revision, through illness, due to tiredness or threats, mother has given us nature with a mechanism that depicts us from this rest mode.

The “escape-combat rigid mode” is activated in the body in a matter of seconds-and unfortunately also the experiences associated with fear, anger, disappointment and loneliness. This can quickly take the upper hand in our system.

When we experience long-lasting chronic stress (regardless of which level of the burnout scale), the body is exhausted and worn out in this state, the mind continuously put under pressure, worried and confused.

It is a kind of internal “homelessness”

Dr. Rick Hanson, neuropsychologist, calls this state the “reactive mode”. It is a disorder of psychological and physical balance. But it also serves a good cause. This reactive mode helped our ancestors to survive and not be seen as a small snack at night.

Today, this reactive mode undermines, especially when it lasts long to build our opportunities to build resilience.

The fact is: to build a good life, to have and keep enough life energy, we need a stable basis. We should basically be in active mode, in the “green” state of the brain.

We don't always have the cheapest external conditions. The world gives us what it deals with. We only have the opportunity to choose which field we want to stay in: in the green standing or in the red “alarm, alarm” state.

Our deepest nature is peace.

No hatred, no greed, no resentment or shame, no confusion. You have the choice from the “escape-combat rigid mode” at any time and choose another level. If you develop a feeling for your natural home base ... then you are always only at home.

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2. A small exercise

Be at home in all your senses. Pay attention to the noises that penetrate your ear. Pay attention to the subtleties of the smells that flow into you and touch the table or bed cover with your fingers and perceive what you feel.

Choose a certain taste and enjoy it in the entire mouth - not as normally when eating - but very precise, very careful, completely familiar.

Your body, your mind always wants to arrive at home. Everything would like to refuel here again, get ready again to go out into the world. So let yourself be sinked down in the well -being of your own inner home. Let your human nature be peaceful, happy, loving and wise.

Like to be at home in your body. Breathe in and slowly, although you always stay relaxed. Get back the feeling of being in this body and fully inhabit it. It doesn't have to be in a very specific way. You alone need to know how you feel in you at home. Find presence, familiarity and well -being in your body.

Make all your actions in your home aware again. For example, how your fingers grab a cup. How your fingertips feel the heat that the contents of the cup emits to the outer. How your dusty cloth runs over the surfaces of your furniture.

Be present in everything that happens. Let a feeling of “arrival” grow in you. Do it again and again. This is important. Once is not once. Practice that again and again.

You have to know exactly what it feels like to be at home. Because if you can't find your way back to yourself in a stormy and dark night, then you need the feeling of “at home”, like a trail of snippets of paper to find back home. And then feel - it's good to be at home in me!