You can start over analyzing everything trying to protect yourself, every shift in tone, every delayed text, every subtle change in energy. And that's not

because you're dramatic. It's because your nervous system learn to stay alert. But not every fearful

thought is intuition. Sometimes it's protection speaking very loudly. And honestly, I think nervous

system work can actually strengthen intuition.

Because the more regulated you become, the easier it is to hear your actual inner knowing underneath the noise.

And I think this is the hopeful part of all of this.

Your nervous system can learn new experiences slowly and gently and through repetition.

Hello, hello, magical friends, young me. My name is Raquel and welcome to your own magic,

a podcast for the creative and to the curious soul. So last Monday, we talked

about the nervous system and how it quietly shapes our reality, not just through a mindset,

but through what our body feels safe, experiencing, and holding and receiving and allowing. And today I want to go a little deeper

because I think a lot of people logically understand their patterns, but their body is still

reacting from old conditioning. And this is important because sometimes people think healing means

I understand the lesson now, right? So why do I still

react this way? But understanding something mentally and feeling safe in it physically are two very,

very different things. Your mind can move on before your nervous system does. And I think that's why so many people feel frustrated

with themselves sometimes because consciously they want peace, of course, right? Healthy love,

abundance, rest, visibility. But subconsciously, their body still expects survival.

So today I want to talk about that, why we recreate familiar

patterns, why receiving can feel vulnerable, and why healing often looks much quieter than we expect

it to. And because it's Mental Health Awareness Month, it felt like the perfect time to

gently explore the nervous system,

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