when that limbic system gets fired and all of a sudden either fresh trauma is happening or triggers from past trauma or just something terribly upsetting is happening in our life you’ve taught me this and I think it is it has served me so well you’ve taught me that it takes 20 minutes for the amygdala part of our brain which is where our trauma and Deep Emotions are stored it takes 20 minutes for that to calm down so just give yourself a minute and during those 20 minutes get proactive about self-care and that’s not being selfish that’s
truly caring for yourself so that you can have a better response and not an immediate reaction so give yourself 20 minutes drink four ounces of water um I like to walk outside and look up and remind myself the sky is not falling because one of the Tendencies of my personality is worst case scenario and that’s part of what makes me all of a sudden get into such a panicked place that emotional immaturity starts really like presenting itself even though I’ve worked really hard to be an emotionally mature person and look what you just
said I use this all the time with people it’s it’s powerful let us use our bodies in good ways why we look down into our emotions and that trauma will be like cro-magdon man it will pull you over down and then we look up and how many times did the Jewish people in the Bible say I look up I look up and even we nothing wrong with praying our father and we go down and we pray fine if that’s what but the Jewish people so often lifted hands and they looked up we look down into our emotions whatever they may be but we’ve got to then look
up into the truth in the reality and it literally neurochemically works it changes our brain to look up and to walk is the other piece yeah and sometimes I’ll even take my shoes off you know and just like walk in the grass and that’s grounding you understand that part right you’re grounding in God’s this is our father’s day that I was doing good work here but no it really that’s important this is when you get your shoes off and that’s God’s Earth and get in the the whatever is emitted from the the in the grass and all that you’re literally most
