What Rewiring Your Nervous System Really Means
Rewiring the nervous system does involve active rehabilitation for rest, deep breathing, and reduction of stimuli. But it also requires recognizing the ways in which our bodies were made to compress into the stressed workaholic machines they are today. It’s identity work and its ancestral puzzle piecing. It’s recognizing the full story that connects the dots between oppression and nervous system dysregulation.
Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1: A Review of East Asian-Anglo Societal and Psychological Themes
Bridgerton Season 4 centers on Sophie Baek, who is an East Asian woman who is also a domestic servant. This archetype is loaded with history and discrimination. It is also insidious and invisible. Invisibility is racially internalized, and the individual ceases to see themselves in the full spectrum of humanhood because their East Asian appearance and societal identity.
How Asian Family Patterns Affect Your Worth and Financial Abundance
Even if one Asian generation is passing on wealth to the next generation, the abundance transference will be distorted if they are, at the same time, passing on messages and lessons of unworthiness, prostituting one’s sovereignty to others, and the camouflaging of vigilance as virtue.
The Frost before the Buds of Growth
This is the original maze. The incarnational maze. We all get set up with these trick mirrors that bring illusions and the side doors that lead us for another detour. My maze was believing that all I could ever be, all I could ever hope for, was to be accepted amongst my Asian family and community. Wandering in the maze, I was willing to give up my body, my soul, and my dreams to feel what I thought was ‘Love’.
Chinese American Family Cut Offs
The distortion of the family unit being more important than your life has origins in the principles that Confucius on-record listed of Ritual 禮 pronounced “Li” and Filial Piety 孝順 pronounced “Xiao Shun”. On surface-level read, it seems to be a nice theoretical concept. However, when we incorporate the understanding that this world order placed men above women and chronologically older people above those who have incarnated later, we run into oppressive constructs of patriarchy and scarcity mindset/territorialism.