Pretty much all the experts agree, that having a specific gratitude practice is an important tool for keeping ourselves regulated. The human brain naturally defaults to worry and comparison, and that often leads us to wallow in feelings of inadequacy and 'not enoughness'. Even billionaires often focus on what they do not have instead of what they DO have. This can be a motivating factor to help us drive forward towards what we want, but it can also be a great barrier to feeling satisfied and fulfilled with our lives. Life itself has a lot to be grateful for. The sun shines without asking for a thing. The sky and the earth support us. Our bodies go on breathing, hearts beating, microbiome digesting...it really is a fantastic thing to contemplate. If you find yourself focusing on lack, and feeling a sense of what you do not have, welcome to the natural human experience. I suggest spending at least a few minutes every day contemplating/focusing on the feeling of gratitude for all you have in this life. This can be done by writing things down or simply thinking or speaking out loud, but the real key is to FEEL the feeling of gratitude for the things you are grateful for. I have been practicing heart coherence for a few years now, and it still amazes me how much more coherent my Heart Math sensor shows me that my heart and brain are more coherent when I focus on feeling grateful. For me, this also includes a deliberate relaxing, letting go of tension, and smiling, internally and externally. I challenge you to make your gratitude practice more deliberate. If you don't already have a deliberate practice, try seven minutes a day (or more) for the next 7 days. You can simply close your eyes, breathe deeply and steadily, and focus on feeling love and gratitude for this life. If your brain starts to overthink or wanders to what you lack, simply smile and relax and come back to a feeling of love and gratitude. If you can, do a little journaling about your experience (and especially practice listing the things, people, experiences and feelings you are grateful for), and notice the difference it makes to your nervous system.

Apologies for the last minute cancellation. I have not heard from anyone else planning to attend...I will check back on the half hour and pop in if anyone else is interested.

Yesterday I posted a quick poll about the different ways we can become dysregulated. Maybe you recognized yourself immediately. Maybe you're rotating through all of them depending on the hour. The state itself isn't the problem. Fight energy built civilizations. Freeze kept our ancestors alive in the grass. Fawn wove communities together. Arousal creates art, babies, and breakthroughs. Even the shutdown fog has a job — it's your system saying this is too much, I need to go offline for a minute. The question isn't so much which state you're in. The question is: who's driving? When you're regulated, high-activation feels like flow. You're lit up, moving fast, taking risks — and you can stop. You can sleep. The energy has a direction. Sometimes the right move at speed is actually to accelerate through rather than brake — a skilled driver knows the difference. That's what regulation gives you: options. When you're dysregulated, the same activation feels like being dragged. The intensity has an edge of desperation. You can't stop even when you want to. And the higher the activation, the less margin for error — because your system will rebalance either way. The only question is whether you manage that rebalancing gradually, or whether it happens to you all at once. Rest is rebalancing. Sleep is rebalancing. A slow morning after a big push is rebalancing. A good cry can be rebalancing. These aren't weaknesses or wasted time — they're skilled driving. That's what we're working with in the "Get Unstuck" Reset this weekend. The goal of this Reset isn't to make you calmer or smaller. It's to widen your bandwidth — more range, more awareness, more choice about when to floor it and when to ease off. One question to carry into all three days: Whatever state I'm in right now — do I have the wheel, or does it have me? See you tomorrow.

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