Whenever we talk about the nervous system or patterns or even manifestation, it can honestly start to feel like, okay, cool.

So I just need to fix everything, regulate perfectly,

heal everything, and then my life will work. No, no, no, that's not it. That's just another form of

pressure and another way of leaving yourself. Regulation is not about being calm all the time,

and it's not about never getting triggered, not about reaching

some state where you're always grounded and nothing affects you at all because you're

human right, you're going to feel anxious sometimes and overwhelmed and shut down sometimes.

That is not failure.

That's your nervous system, doing what it's designed to do. What actually matters is what happens next.

Hello, hello, magical friends, yommies.

My name is Raquel, and welcome to your own magic, a podcast for the creative and the curious soul. And today's episode is one of

those gentle perspective shifts, the kind that doesn't feel loud or life altering in the moment,

but something about it just lingers and starts to change the way you see things over time.

Because we're talking about your nervous system

one of my favorite topics this is also not a way that puts pressure on you to be calm all the

time or perfectly healed or endlessly high vibe this is just a little more honest than that because

your nervous system isn't just influencing how you feel day to day. It's shaping

how you interpret your life or how safe you feel receiving what you say you want, how you move

through relationships, opportunities, even your own thoughts. And in a really grounded way, it's influencing what you allow,

what you hold on to, what you walk away from, which when you zoom out starts to look a lot like

what people call manifestation, for example, not even the fluffy, unrealistic, or just super out there that doesn't feel in touch

with some people. We're going to talk about what's actually happening underneath that word

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