Instincts

There is an interesting instinct inside of us all. It is an instinct for normalcy. Whoever you are and however you hold yourself in space, you need to accept that as normal or correct. Our heads would explode otherwise. If everyone walked around processing the mess that is our body we’d all be barking mad. Instead we accept our patterns as normal so that we can get through the day.

Even though you understand that there is a tilt your head, you don’t really beat yourself up about it. You just get it, my head tilts. It is an innate acceptance that we could use more of in our emotional realms.

The flip side of that is as adults we can say I’m not going to keep these patterns. I’m going to accept that my nervous system tells me this is right because it needs to get through the day but I’m going to try to retrain the nervous system.

Retraining the nervous system takes a full two years. It takes two years for a new pattern to get introduced into the nervous system effectively. It’s a pretty literal thing. The body needs to repeat a pattern for a very long time to fully integrate it into the body.