When we experience stress or even what seems to be small moments of trauma, our bodies take it in. Our stress hormone increases, and we can find ourselves not sleeping, feeling jumpy at the slightest thing, mentally foggy, over-emotional or checked out, and just not present. We believe our faith should be enough to overcome these things. Yet when our faith is not embodied by our entire beings, then we relegate our faith to the limits of our mental and intellectual understanding.
In this episode we will identify an experience of stress and notice how it shows up as tension in our bodies, shortened or shallow breath, and what emotions it creates. Then we will release the effects that the stress has on us by settling our bodies, tuning into the present moment, inhaling and exhaling to bring our stress hormone down, letting go, and listening to our souls as we connect to our source.
Our Listening portion today is from Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
