It's as if my sympathetic nervous system's programming for vigilance is too good. I can trick it into briefly relaxing for a little while with a particular technique, but then the SNS kicks back in, and that technique never works again. The SNS develops an immunity.
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"You may have gotten me with yoga once, but now I'm wise to your tricks! I won't fall for that again. Mindfulness?! HA! I've improved my security systems against that one." And so on.
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It's also in those times when my sympathetic nervous system lets up on its routine of vigilance that I feel, on a deep level, the compassion, empathy, and love that I have for others. I mean, I always know they're there, they're a part of me, but they're often obscured or buried.
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