01/19/2026
Let's talk about the Nervous System:
The Nervous System controls our actions and responses, either voluntarily or involuntarily.
The involuntary controls are not only things like breathing, blinking and your heart beating - But, overtime we also develop learned involuntary actions.
For example if you rearrange your kitchen after years of having it one way, you are likely to walk to the place your refrigerator was a handful of times - not because you forgot you moved it, but because without thinking you went to that spot hundreds of times before, it's become a muscle memory response to take that action- you do it without even thinking. It's a learned auto wired neurological reaponse.
The same happens for emotional responses. If you have experience with someone who becomes explosive when confronted with things that make them uncomfortable, you may either learn to respond in a more explosive manner over time or you could behind to shut down and learn to not bring up things that may make them uncomfortable to avoid an explosive situation.
Some responses are very good for us, like naturally closing your eyes when dirt or sand is blowing into your face. Some responses are not very good for us, like the emotional response to the explosive person.
Most times, we are not aware of the patterns we have created for ourselves through life. But, something remarkable about this is that we can "hack" our nervous system to create new pathways, new responses, new emotional relationships to different circumstances.
Our body's job is to protect us, physically and emotionally. If we experience a trauma, the body will naturally do everything it can to prevent us from experiencing that trauma again. It analyzes everything in our surroundings and guides us to keep us safe.
The body remembers everything even if the mind doesn't - this is why people have flash backs to things that happened to them that they have forgotten when they begin to calm the nervous system and go on deep healing journeys.
If you are not programming your Nervous System then it is being programmed for you automatically as you live.
This week we will talk about HOW we can rewire our Nervous System, WHY we want to, and WHAT it can look like if we don't and if we DO.
You are a being of infinite power and potential, this is the year we will step into it.
Let's become the best versions of ourselves!
So much love and light 💛
Dakota
