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Do you ever wish you could time-travel, Reader?
Whenever you experience anxiety that's exactly what you're doing.
Because when you encounter a stressful situation that you can't escape, don't have the opportunity to process afterwards, or find yourself in repeatedly, the memory of that stress gets stored in your nervous system as a pattern. This stress-pattern is then reactivated whenever you find yourself in a similar situation moving forward, and it clouds your ability to see —and respond to— the present moment clearly.
Now you're time-traveling.
So in order to heal anxiety and meet life open-heartedly, with the joy and eagerness you want, you have to change the patterns in your nervous system. You have to learn how to feel safe in the moment you're in.
How can you retrain your nervous system?
For most people, both in the mind and the body have to be involved in order to notice real, lasting change. And this is why talk therapy alone so often falls short of helping people feel better. Understanding why you feel the way you do intellectually is not the same thing as changing the way you feel viscerally.
To change the feelings, you also have go to the place the feelings are stored: within the body.
Something as simple as 20 minutes of qigong for 3 weeks can create a big shift inside you.
But that's just a start, Reader.
Healing is like peeling away the layers of an onion, and different strategies work for different people at different times. So if you really want to heal the root causes of stress and anxiety, you're going to need a more extensive toolbox to support you as you do your inner-work.
I'm making some (phenomenal) upgrades to the program, and the next time the doors open the price will go up significantly to accommodate these changes.
This is great news for you, because anyone who enrolls has lifetime access to all the material, —including any improvements,— as long as the program is active.
I can't wait to see where it takes you.
Warmly,
Katerina
Katerina Baratta, MS, LAc
✨Mind✨Body✨Spirit✨Medicine✨ Join more than 800+ subscribers who have already signed up for the newsletter, and get holistic mental health and wellness strategy and inspiration in your inbox every week. ✨ ✨✨ Check out the links to download your (FREE) copy of the Bliss Kit and learn 4 life-changing strategies to help you cultivate more ease, joy, and inner peace. I can't wait to see where it takes you!
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