Announcing a special invitation for our dear friends and fellow members of PACEs Connection.
If you would love more juice for reviving your waning idealism and longing for collective well-being, please join us for this month's Neuroscience and Resonance seminar, Warmth for Disillusionment: The Traumas of Political Disaffection
($20, September 27 @ 7pm PDT).
https://sarahpeyton.com/produc...for-disillusionment/
We'll be looking at some of the ways we can use relational neuroscience to cultivate personal resilience and reimagine how we might best serve peace and well-being for the planet.
Do you long to live in a world where we understand that all the flawed ways human beings behave when we are afraid, defensive and under-resourced are expressions of the astounding amounts of childhood and collective trauma we are holding?
And when you're exhausted and dismayed, do you worry you might not recover from the weight of your own disenchantment with how humans are managing the finite resources of our planet?
We are living in challenging times. As I read the news and encounter the divisiveness and violence that have become normalized in our world, I continue to lean into neuroscience and resonance as ways to understand and find compassion for myself, and for all beings caught up in the widespread collective trauma of this historical moment.
It can be very difficult to nourish our idealism and ground our activism in a world that holds up disconnection and self-preservation as desirable states.
When I feel myself tipping into fury, incomprehension, or despair, it helps me to remember two things: the first is that we are bodies within systems, and when we allow ourselves to zoom out and think systemically, we're able to see that there is a direct line from personal to systemic (often inter-generational) trauma.
The second, very practical way I orient is to be mindful of how I acknowledge, name and take care of my own nervous system needs. When we are able to be gentle and affectionate with ourselves, our nervous system relaxes, our immune cells are more effective, our brain is more integrated, and our whole system starts running on oxygen.
Acknowledging our own agitated grief by naming it is a very important way we can offer our bodies some relief, build a neuroception of safety, and turn our energy towards the world again.
Join us for this dive into the relational neuroscience.
#Neuroscience #Resonance #Power #Privilege
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