Maria Arpa
This week
Are you excited?
Plus…
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness
and
The Wednesday Whisper
The words we use matter to our body
We have come to interchange the word excited with happiness and pleasure. Instead of looking forward to a holiday or treat, we say we’re excited.
The true meaning of excitement is to be in a heightened energetic state which could also mean stimulated, aroused or charged.
These states might be great for instant pleasure, but it is not helpful to our nervous system to perpetuate the state of excitement, and given that language is the software in our brains that we use to tell us what to do, regular use of the word excited will disturb a naturally peaceful state.
This is just one example of how language shapes our state of being. One exercise I to do when a participant or client is unable to articulate their feelings, is to read a list of feelings words out loud. I ask them to stand, close their eyes, ground themselves and feel the resonance of the words in their body as I read them out slowly and deliberately. It is then possible for the participant to tell me which ones landed in their body.
Maria’s Midweek Mindfulness
The DRM focuses on precision with language. We notice how words affect us, how they set the tone, how they ground us or provoke us. The DRM guides us towards the philosophy of nonviolence as one entry point into our nervous system and limbic system. We come to recognise how much violence we have normalised and how that keeps us stimulated and ‘excited’.
The Wednesday Whisper
How often are you excited? Does it benefit you? What would it be like to exchange that word for something calmer?
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