A PSA for whomever needs to hear this: Unless someone (or their loved one) is in physical danger, Urgency is always the old story. There's a saying "If it's hysterical, it's historical" Whenever you feel: "I need to fix this now, my kids have to be better now, I need to do all my trauma healing now, I need to get rid of this feeling now, I'm way too overwhelmed and need to fight/flight/freeze/people please/make it better Now" you are in an old story, and old pattern, an old wound.

Here are some practices to help orient you to the NOW, when the urgency part inside gets loud.

If your nervous system feels: dysregulated in an "up-regulated" way- (fight" or flight" mode), you feel an anxious/ impulse kind of urgency- try and see if you can come back to the present moment with simple practices like: grounding, feeling gravity pulling you down, keeping you here, orienting to the room you are in, using your five senses to bring yourself back to the "here and now", putting your hands or feeling your clothes on your body.

It's so important to stay present, especially as there are those in our collective who are actually in physical distress. The more regulated, present humans we have, the more we can create this safe world that we so desire.

We all affect each other so deeply, let our work to be present bring us back to what really matters: the Now, ourselves, each other, nature, God, our breath, and to love.

Here's to feeling within our window of tolerance, so that we can change our collective nervous system from the inside out.

If your nervous system processes the urgency as a "down-regulated" kind of dysregulation, - which can feel like a depressed, falling into "the abyss", freeze response kind of feeling (you may be feeling: I have so much urgency, I'll just freeze/ become numb/float away, or you may be feeling really lethargic, sad, tired and stiff) then a great simple practice to bring you back to presence would be moving your fingers and toes, and as you un-freeze a bit, moving your head from side to side, increasing your motor movements slowly can really help more capacity and aliveness return to your body.

(Remember: nervous system regulation is not being calm all the time. Staying within/expanding our window of tolerance means expanding our capacity to feel it ALL- while still remaining present, and in our bodies. It's not an eternal calmness that makes us regulated, but presence and feeling all that is.)