Posts tagged 'Mindfulness'

After writing my previous article on the Autonomic nervous system, I travelled down a little Vagus nerve rabbit hole. The Vagus nerve is the main nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system and major pathway for the communication required between the brain and the body’s internal organs, such as the Heart, lungs and digestive system.

For many women, our monthly Period isn’t just a date on the calendar (or the prediction in our Period/cycle apps!), it’s a shifting tide of emotions, energy levels, physical sensations, and hormone changes that can feel so overwhelming or unpredictable. But with a little understanding and some natural tools, we can support ourselves through the cycle with more ease and compassion.

Have you ever got lost in your thoughts of what could be or what could have been? Have you ever got lost in a really good book and found that it’s all you think about and can’t put it down and then you actually FEEL all the emotions of the characters in the book? The same as a good series too, or film… Have you ever got lost in a Fantasy of a life that perhaps is not the one you’re living now?

I don’t know about you, but the older you get, the more reflective you become right, and you begin to be grateful for what before you would have considered “small things” and fret a lot less about stuff that would have bothered you previously. There are so many things that grab our attention away from ourselves (I've discussed detoxing from technology in my previous article) and whilst that is absolutely inevitable and indeed a part of life, I really do feel that it doesn’t have to be the only way for us.

I don’t know about you but this latest ‘trend’ really excites me! The concept of a ‘Sober Society’ that encourages more and more events, meetings, parties etc, all with ZERO alcohol involved! Now I know to some this sounds incredibly boring and tedious, which is why we shall explore the idea of normalising a more Sober society and encouraging Sober meet-ups; there are SO many benefits to giving alcohol a back seat and letting new ideas for gathering take front and centre!