Jonny Miller

Maybe it's time to take a bit of a break.

And then there's maybe a brick, which could be you wake up feeling exhausted.

Maybe you've got brain fog.

Maybe you can't really perform at work.

And then for some people, it takes a dump truck, which might be maybe it's like an intense breakup or it's like a health crisis.

And it's often, unfortunately, the dump truck, which gets people to really tune in.

But it's really just the body giving you feedback.

Yeah, beautiful.

I mean, anxiety, I think it's a really good example.

And it actually, the word anxiety comes from the Latin ango, which literally means to constrict.

And a lot of people try and manage anxiety or like conquer anxiety, but it's really just our reaction to a kind of an underlying emotion.

And so it can be really helpful to kind of learn to notice the constriction in the body and kind of like allow it to open up.

And, you know, there's a number of different practices for that.

Yeah, it's kind of like a defensive strategy that our nervous system has to constrict against.

I think about almost like a hosepipe.

You can turn on the tap really strongly and the water will kind of go through.

And if your system is kind of unclenched and doesn't have tension, it'll kind of flow cleanly.

But if you're...

resisting some aspect of your experience.

It could be anger, it could be sadness, it could be frustration, whatever it is.