Nick Veit

I took part in a training this week on the "Felt Sense Polyvagal Model" and I'm very pleased to see the field of Somatics advancing the way it is.

I've worked with the subconscious for years and keep deepening my reverence for the body's intelligence.

Anyone who does trauma work can tell you how deeply our experiences can inscribe themselves on our ways of being, and how complexly the nervous system can adapt and change, but I've never seen such a clear presentation on the practicality of depathologizing trauma and addiction.

So much behaviour these days is unconscious, and this can make it hard to humanize ourselves when we don't have a dignified lens through which to observe our motives and habits.

Check out this paper by the Author and Steven Porges, originator of Polyvagal Theory. It shows a new approach to treating trauma and addiction.

It has to be incorporated in an embodied way, but the paradigm is truly ground-breaking, and echoes systems of values that have existed for thousands of years in cultures who have holistically out-lived many manifestations of false consciousness.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oSL5K8aaLXFrYe5D1Q7HogPPTisaAj1r/view?usp=sharing

"You may not always feel it, but you are always loved. Your feelings matter."

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We are in a period of great awakening.

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The spiritual community of the future is built on an entirely different basis than default predispositions for identity or anywhere that the song of the Earth's heartbeat is glazed over in apathetic confusion, fixation or vain sentimentality.

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Spiritual community, rightly understood, expresses the most natural of values, but its manifestations (if they were perceived) appear entirely miraculous and convoluted to the materialistic mind (which we all have) which is precisely the forboding admonition that meets with our egoism from across the cognitive threshold and reminds us that celebration is an act of true love and devotion, not something to merely reflect back into yourself.

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It is about sharing values, not words or identities.

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The language of the future is not primarily based on the conveying of information, but upon the demarcation of intention and awareness so that people may sustain themselves in rhythmic in*******se with benevolent spiritual powers—as well as to awaken resoluteness to articulate and express particular human needs for resourcing and safety: to manifest self-compassion in face of values we think we have to abandon ourselves for.

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"You may not always feel it, but you are always loved. Your feelings matter."