I’m giddy as I write this. Maybe a little stir crazy from the rainy days, a forced cuarantena and too much social media.

The sympathetic nervous system, you know it well. If you’re a human in the 21st century of work hard, play hard, sleep never, stress always, hide your truth, people please, dream big, but never take inspired action, then you know. Or your body knows. And your nervous system for sure knows.

The fight, flight, freeze or fawn has had its day. The days of running away from tigers and getting the same stress reaction from sitting in traffic or arguing with your partner is over. Or is slowly feeling the air leak away. The bubble has busted. The domino has fallen.

This new day, this new dawn, this new life is ready for action or rather inaction. The parasympathetic paradigm is strolling in, chill as Willie Nelson on his porch in the Hill Country. It’s the rest, digest, calm and connect aspect of our nervous system. Where all the magic and miracles happen. Our souls are finally getting their moment, to sing and play all day.

Some people likes lists, sometimes I do, so I will start with two:

Sympathetic Society:

• Busyness is king and queen
• Strong work ethic is imperative
• Governing, Medicine, Education, Spirit/Religion, Finances are all outside of us
• IQ
• Competition, “Dog Eat Dog”, Hierarchy, Power 
• Masks and Inauthentic Representations
• Endeavored To Make An Impression
• Scarcity Mindset
• One Person’s Gain is Another’s Loss
• Experts were outside of us.
• We were told what to believe and who to follow
• Only a certain select few held the answers- leaders and gurus
• Secrets were kept and stored away
• Intellect is everything
• Health from outside
• Thinking mind rules our lives
• Observe and follow others
• Constant resentment about the past
• Worry and anxiety of the future
• Force and pressure to get things done
• Human Doing

Parasympathetic Paradgim

• Information, connections and networks
• Rest, restoration, calm and connection is king and queen.
• Let things come to you
• Everything we need is within us
• Emotions and feelings lead our decisions
• Truth and authenticity reign
• Full self-sovereignty. We are our own government, medicine, education, spirit/religion.
• Prosper in the business of being ourselves
• Love and trust of ourselves becomes the foundation for love and trust of others
• Empowered to live by your own inner compass
• Observe our own thoughts, ideas, feelings and intuition and follow it religiously
• Heart-led living
• Wisdom is everything
• True equality
• Self-healing
• Accepting self truly and fully, not having to believe in something outside for validation
• Leader of one person: self
• The power of now, presence is key
• Alignment and flow and the art of allowing
• Human being

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There are about 50 other things that are in both our current sympathetic society and coming as the parasympathetic moves in, so this isn’t an exhaustive list. Things like peace-mealing your income together in a variety of ways instead of the 8-5 work until you retire lifestyle of today. You’ll look more like our friend and Micah’s morning bestie, Jess. She ‘works’ as nanny, hanging out with kiddos, walking and playing with them and also is a marketing extraordinaire, a mermaid, an actress, nanny educator, a yoga teacher, a jewelry maker, an event manager and a few other specialities she hasn’t shared with us. There will be no defined ‘job’ in the parasympathetic paradigm, as the soul feels hindered by structure and labels. Also, artists, creators, innovators and inventors will be the models for our new world. Everyone will be treated as heroes and sovereign beings. This is already happening as you see us bow to healthcare workers, postal service and the grocery clerks with the same reverence. 

So as you can see, this is why going within is so dang important. In the parasympathetic paradigm, we’re asked to reconcile everything that we’ve been taught, been conditioned to believe, all the people we follow and are influenced by, the ladders we’ve climbed, the title’s we’ve gathered, all the things that we’ve done as we endeavored to impress the heck out of the outside world. And when that is being questioned and we look around at what really matters, going within is the only way out to this new world.

Having a spiritual practice is imperative right now. Even my morning routine of yoga, meditation, breathwork that I’ve been doing for almost eight years is requiring an upgrade. I find myself going to the 5-6 times meditation a day that I was doing during Beanies creation. 

I’ve been channeling, talking, discussing, debating and creating this idea for a long while now. I would talk to friends and colleagues about it and my last visit with my chiropractor two weeks ago solidified it for me. I put it out there and expected a ‘you going crazy, Erica?’, but instead, we discussed it and noodled over it for a long while. We both left excited about the future. 

I’m putting all of myself on the table these days and I love it. I used to be fearful, worried about what others would think/say/feel about me. My mind used to say “you’re not practicing in medicine right now so you have no authority to speak out” or “there goes woowoo witch Erica with her deep breaths and mindful medicine” or “maybe I don’t know what I’m talking about and this really is the end of the world”.

But something happened after my daughter was born, the only world I could imagine we would be working towards is one where she will thrive. Where children are recognized for who they are and not what they can contribute to society. Not forced to make the grades, be the best, make us proud for their accomplishments. Children are innate learners and are FILLED with mirror neurons. They learn everything from watching us, hearing us, feeling us and all the said and unsaid things we do from day to day. They follow their curiosity and find awe in the most simple, everyday things and experiences. So I will do anything to build, create, live in a world where she maintains her joy, her bliss, her voice, her spirit without apology or shame. And that’s what I’m sure most parents want for their kiddos.

And the other thing that is keeping me fearless to speak and write, (besides the feeling to get as much as I can out there to uplift and bring inspiration and faith to all) is that I know that you know. Your inner being, your soul knows. All that hoopla of fear, worry, resentment, shame, drama, anger, negativity, apocalyptic thought, scarcity mindset is just your mind, your ego, your conditioning, your subconscious. We’re addicted to drama, feeling miserable and in the thick of our worry is familiar and familiar for the brain is safe. It’s finds security with the familiar and known. It’s how our wiring has unfolded in the past few centuries. Follow The Holistic Psychologist- Nicole DePera to understand more on this. 

But that 5% of all that is, that limitless source, your spirit, your soul, your consciousness knows that it’s not the end of the world, its the beginning of a new one. And you don’t have to trust me, as I’ve asked you to do in the past. All you have to do is trust that inner knowing, that super wise teacher within. But first you have to go within. 

Our inside world colors our outside one. Use the tools that are available all over the internet, on your phone, in your emails to just sit and really tap into that soul mama or papa. It knows that all is well and all will be well. It’s honestly the only thing. 

And if you want assistance facilitating your inner voice, call on me. I’ve been doing this for years for patients, my ‘spa day for the underserved’ is now available to everyone and anyone, on the phone or in real life (and I can still be 6 feet away if that’s your jam).

Sending you so much love. Get in there, y’all. I promise the view is phenomenal. 

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