It’s supposed to be an interruption 💥
Why you need a time-out NOW 😊
Good morning, bright souls! Thank you opening my message to you on this otherwise dreary morning ☁️
I had a really lovely weekend in Wisconsin celebrating my wedding anniversary with my husband, Josh ✨🚗✨
Not only was it my third wedding anniversary, but it is also the fourth anniversary of my dad’s passing away.
We hiked to Gibraltar Rock on Saturday, which is one of the places my mom and I had sprinkled some of my dad’s ashes ✨💙🌀🌍
Time is so precious! I’m so grateful every week that you have chosen to spend time with me, adding your energy and aliveness to New Day and everyone who is part of this practice ⌛️💖
The time you spend getting care with me is not a small commitment ☀️
Even though 30 minutes in and out of New Day might not always seem like much (it’s about .3 percent of your life!), there’s the time you spend going to and from here as well. And then the time you DON’T spend doing other things because you are coming here.
So it does make sense when when a newer client at New Day expresses a sense of stress and fear about the idea of coming to see me for care. They’re already feeling tight on time– how will they fit this in?
“And now she’s telling me to come to Intro to Care?!” 😱 It can be overwhelming sometimes.
On another level though, I see this perception of scarcity around time and energy as a symptom of how much the person can benefit from Network Spinal care.
The care you receive from me isn’t a battering ram that we use to force you to get better (whether you like it or not) 😱😂🙏
It’s a PATTERN INTERRUPTION 💥
Especially in the very beginning with Network Spinal, coming in for care twice a week (or more!) is creating a NECESSARY interruption to the life that you’re living.
That’s right. It’s supposed to force you to have a time-out, interrupting your life and giving you space for another type of experience ✨☀️🌀🌍
You may have heard the term “pattern interruption” before (I also talk about this at Intro to Care!). A pattern interruption is a technique to capture a person’t attention, and/or stop their old, routine ways of thinking, doing, and BE-ing right in their tracks 🛑
My every adjustment to your spine is a pattern interruption for a nervous system in fight-or-flight 💥
For example, when you’re laying on the table, and your nervous system is continuing to run the same stress-based programming in your body (tension, restricted breath, repetitive thoughts and emotions), the adjustment throws a little baby-wrench into the stress machinery 😰🔧💥✨🌀💗
When you suddenly take a breath, or you suddenly move, or you suddenly notice something different in your body besides the pain you’ve been fixated on, your old patterns are being interrupted.
You probably know all this intuitively from your experience of Network Spinal care so far, without me having to explain it right now.
But what I’m trying to tell you is that in addition to each adjustment interrupting your patterns, part of the reason the care works is because coming here is a pattern interruption to the life you’re living.
The more panicked and insistent someone seems to be that they don’t have time to come here, the more likely I am to think that they probably need care even more than they originally thought 😂🙏💕
Intro to Care is one of those “pattern interruptions.”
All too often our brains are so conditioned by stress hormones and a constant sense of scarcity around time and energy, that we just can’t imagine making time for something else.
It’s always such a joy to see clients benefit from this time with me at the Intro to Care, sometimes beginning to feel MUCH more relaxed and trusting as a result 💞
November 23rd is the last Intro to Care I will be able to host until after the new year! You can sign up on the scheduling site if you aren’t signed up and need to be ✨💖🏡☀️
The book Atomic Habits brought us the term “habit stacking” as a way to get momentum on healthy habits and transformation.
With habit stacking, you take a good habit that you already have, and add something else good to it 💥🍎💥☀️💥🏃♀️➡️
For example, you could use the days that you get adjusted at New Day to spark off some other healthy habit, like a work out, a walk, yoga, or a healthy meal.
You could call someone you care about on the drive home from New Day and further that sense of belonging and connection by sharing your energy-rich state with others 👯♀️
Have an amazing day and week, New Day sunshines! Don’t forget that next week I will only be open Monday-Wednesday due to the holiday (so hurry up and schedule your care now 🤗
