The Somatic Side of Meditation

Breathing is a much more effective like bridge in. If your initial goal is to feel more grounded and feel more calm, which I think for many people getting into meditation, that's really what they kind of aim at. And when we are trying to change our thoughts or using meditation or even like affirmations or reframing, we're essentially like using the mind to change the mind. So you can essentially upshift or downshift your nervous system. It's almost like a remote control. Like it's such an important toolkit for, um, for self regulation and therefore feel like greater agency. In my experience, I feel more confident and more conviction to go into challenging,

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