We have a special guest today: Lisa Wimberger. Lisa is the creator of Neurosculpting, which is a self-directed neuroplasticity protocol. Specifically, it is a mental training process that quiets our fight-or-flight center and activates our prefrontal cortex, which is the mind’s seat of our compassion and empathy. Needless to say, we had a lot to talk about. In fact, We so many shared passions and inquiries in common with Lisa that we are airing this conversation as a 2-parter. Stay tuned next week. 

If you want more information on Neurosculpting you can visit neurosculptinginstitute.com

In this episode we are talking about: 

• How meditation and spiritual paths can be used to dissociate further into a freeze pattern of the nervous system.
• Lisa’s extreme experience of a nervous system caught in freeze, and how recovering from this adaptation is different than someone recovering from flight or fight patterns. 
• Why going from freeze to “bliss” is too big a step. 
• How to consciously choose when we need to be in our limbic nervous systems versus when we can move to a different state.
• How the stories we tell about our lives (internally to ourselves) are built on the foundation of what information our nervous system’s received when we were very young. 

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Have you ever worried that if you were to truly shine as bright as you could you would make others uncomfortable? Or have you noticed moments where you shut down your own potential or thriving? You also may believe that your needs, your emotions or your presence is just simply too much for people. The fear of “being too much” can be a very common one, especially in empathic circles, and can create patterns of inhibition that keep us settling for less-than. We’ve experienced this fear in our own lives, in our own ways, and that’s why in this episode we’re speaking about:

• How we can manage our own aliveness to make others comfortable 
• How fear can tell us that our thriving will take away from others or cost us our connection 
• How to spot those protective strategies and move through them into embodying more wholeness in your life  
• How sometimes we can be “too much” for others, but that has nothing to do with our essential self 

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Today we are talking about the rules we may have made in our lives, that at some point, gave us a frame of reference in how to navigate life in a sane and mature way. Also, those moments in life when we are asked to figure out if those rules are to be followed to the letter, or if a more subtle discernment is called for. 

In our discussion: 

• The benefit of “rules” and how they can help us navigate new territory.
• How rules can also keep us in needlessly small lives.
• How to discern the difference between a useful rule and one that no longer applies.
• Learning how to trust ourselves and have faith in our discernment.
• How to let go of holding on to, “I hope I don’t screw up” and move forward in life.

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• How a spiritual teacher can benefit us 
• Polyvagal theory
• Intergenerational trauma 
• Co-dependency 
• The importance of recognizing the humanity in awakened teachers