What if this frequency will unlock your true power?
In a world tuned to the sharp key of urgency,
rest can feel like a radical act.
But in both ancient yoga philosophy and modern neuroscience, one truth echoes clearly:
Rest isn’t a reward. It’s a requirement for expansion.
This may seem counterintuitive. It did to me for the longest time as I piled more items on my to-do list and couldn't figure out why it wasn't working.
I kept pushing through, doing it all, feeling like that wasn't enough so doing more. Saying yes to everything. And ultimately, I was in a perpetual state of an activated sympathetic nervous system.
Meaning, I was putting myself in survival mode—all the time.
I was literally, subconsciously, self-sabotaging. Surviving isn't thriving. By definition.
✨ Subtle Body Vitality
An element of ASAP seemed to always exist when I was in this mode. Everything was always urgent. I always had some place to go and something to be doing. To an extreme. It was like swimming down a river that was already quickly flowing.
In yogic science, we speak of prana — life force — flowing through unseen rivers called nadis.
When we move constantly without pause, these energetic channels constrict.
And when we constrict like that, we are not creating the space in our lives to hold expansion. In fact, the exact opposite. We are telling the universe that we already have too much and can't do more. Hell, can't even fully invest ourselves in what we are currently doing b/c we're thinking about the next thing on the list. Not at what's right before us.
Only when we consciously slow do the waters of vitality begin to flow freely again.
✨ It's Not Just Woo ... It's Science
When we are in an activated state, our bodies produce stress hormones like adreneline, cortisol, and norepinephrine. Which, in small amounts is great. It's part of what gives us energy.
The issue is that our bodies treat a deadline and running for our lives as the same level of threat to our survival.
And I don't know about you, but if I have a deadline, I don't need (or want) enough energy to outrun a lion. In fact, my deadline's require I sit in a chair behind a computer.
So all of that energy becomes extra and is stored.
And holding onto all of that frenetic energy, is exhausting.
It burns us out. Wrecks our nervous system. Frazzles our brain. Creates chronic illness & disease. And eventually consumes our lives.
