Attending to body and mind and cultivating balance
To continue from where I left off yesterday… what is ‘the dance of the spirit and reptile?’ To put it simply, this is balancing the newest and oldest part of the brain, so your body and mind/spirit work in unison. To explain further bear with me while I recap and oversimplify some basic biology. The brain stem is the oldest part of the brain. Here lies our instinctual fears, and the reptiles, the first animals to walk the earth had only brain stems. Then the mammalian brain