It’s a kind of ongoing inner homelessness. Fight-flight-freeze systems in the body get activated, and experiences of fear, anger, loneliness, shame, and spite occur in the mind.īut in times of chronic stress, like these – in which the body gets worn down and depleted, and the mind gets frazzled, pressured, prickly, worried, and blue – becomes the new normal. We are engaged with the world, participating with pleasure and passion, but on the basis of a background sense of safety, sufficiency, and connection.īut when body or mind are disturbed – as most of us have experienced in recent weeks – Mother Nature has endowed us with hair-trigger mechanisms that drive us from that resting state. When the body is not disturbed by hunger, thirst, pain, or illness, and when the mind is not disturbed by threat, frustration, or rejection, then most people settle into this resting state: true home. That’s because our true home is not a physical location but our fundamental nature as human beings, the resting state of body and mind. And yet, paradoxically, many of us are also feeling less at home. Right now, many of us are spending much more time at home than we are used to.
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