How to Regulate Without Trying Harder
How two minutes of the right thing beats two hours of the wrong thing.
You know that feeling where you need to do something, you want to do something, and yet… the motivation doesn’t come?
We stare at the task. We open the tab. We close the tab. We make another brew.
And then we start asking: what’s flippin’ wrong with me?!
So we push. We white-knuckle our way through it. And by 4pm we’re face-down on the sofa wondering why we’re so exhausted when we didn’t even do that much.
Are we totally lacking in motivation? Are we actually a bit broken?
No.
We’re probably dysregulated, and we tried to think our way out of a body problem.
Motivation doesn’t come first, it comes after our nervous systems feel safe enough, settled enough, and regulated enough to actually engage with reality.
We can’t discipline our way into that state, but we can learn to work with it.
The class: Do Nothing, Restore Everything (23 mins)
This is a twenty minute yoga nidra, no movement required.
You lie down. That’s it.
I know it sounds like a nap, but it’s not. Yoga nidra is one of the most deeply restorative practices there is, and the research behind it is genuinely wild. Twenty minutes can feel like hours of sleep for your nervous system.
Get supremely comfortable and let me take it from there…
