Applying Embodiment Techniques to Decrease Stress & Overwhelm

When the world seems WAY too overwhelming, try this

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*DISCLAIMER This article is not meant to replace formal health or medical advice. If you’re in the middle of a medical crisis, these techniques may be helpful; they will not restart an interrupted heartbeat or reopen a clogged vessel. If you’re having trouble breathing, or experiencing other serious acute symptoms, please call 911.

There are a lot of us going through a lot of change and upheaval lately.

• May of the ways we handle money are changing from centralized to decentralized. This means instead of central banks holding all of the controls — we are having to dream up new peer-to-peer relationships with finance.
• The ways we deal with race, gender, and orientation are changing drastically as previously marginalized folks demand to be seen, heard, and respected.
• The inequitable distribution of unpaid labor is demanding attention and evolution.
• Compassionate men are starting to embrace previously-coded-as-feminine caregiving work and self-compassion.
• We’re being inundated with a tsunami of AI-related technology, even as we start to learn about the mental and attentional health-based challenges of…