Open Up October: Bad Nerves

The weather is rocking and reeling in some parts of the country. Life is rocking and reeling this month in many of our lives or people we know. Many say they can’t seem to nail things down. It feels like nothing is stable. The world isn’t stable. Our worlds aren’t stable. There is an upheaveling and as soon as you catch your breath, there is something else. October is like, bring on the drama, the trauma, and fights. It’s bring on the sadness, the finishings, the heart aches and breaks. It’s emotional and mental disturbance. And this, this is what is making us feel as thought we can’t get or keep our feet on the ground. This is what making our “nerves bad”.

The nervous system is taking a direct hit from all the things going on. How can we calm the nervous system?

• Yoga, yin yoga for the nervous system
• Walking in nature. Sitting in nature. Meditating in nature. Mediation period.
• Ginger tea of any variation
• Breathing techniques and exdercises
• Aromatheraphy
• Tai Chi
• Cold plunges, cold showers
• Incorporate more a Mediterranean Diet (less sugar, less caffeine, less sodium, less alcohol) What you eat becomes the building blocks for your body to create neurotransmitters and other chemicals that regulate your nervous system.
• Celery (whole or juiced or added to meals)
• A massage
• Limit the news and social media
• Sleep

You can also eliminate stressors or avoid them. What does this look like?

• Less outings with people that irritate the Hell out of you
• Less conversations with people you know are with the drama, tauma (mute them, send them to voicemail, wait until they call you twice, text back the next day)
• Get someone else to do it. Whatever the “it” is, if it can be delegated, DO IT.
• Prepare people for your unavailability. “I will be unavailable this weekend so you may need to get someone else to do whatever you need done. I will not be taking phone calls or I will call you in the morning and at night but remember, it’s just to check in on you. Only call me if it’s urgent (describe urgent).
• I’m not coming to Thanksgiving (event) this year. Don’t give an explanation or you will may be talked into or guilt tripped into why you should come. Don’t want to lie? Tell them you are sick. Technically, you are sick of their BULL. Or say, I don’t want to be bothered. I don’t want to talk about. I need some down time, time to myself. YES. TODAY. ON CHRISTMAS.
• Limited time. Set the timer for a 20 minute conversation or an hour at an event. “Yeah, that’s my other line. I will talk to you soon.”

I hope this helps! It’s Tai Chi for me tonight.

~Nikki