Weekly Musing

The following is an article written by Logan Barone. If you can relate to this article, and would like to have someone to talk to about it, please know we are here for you.

“For years, my nervous system felt like it was at war with life itself. I lived in a constant state of vigilance, always scanning, bracing, and anticipating the next threat. My body was tense, my sleep was shallow, and my mind was restless. No matter how much I tried to relax, something deep inside me stayed on edge. It was not just mental; it was biological. My body had learned to live in survival. I tried every nervous system regulation tool I could find but nothing ever lasted. Each practice brought temporary calm, yet eventually I would find myself right back where I started, tense and anxious, wondering why peace never stayed.

It took me years to realize that the nervous system is not the root. It is the response. The nervous system is the mirror of the subconscious. It does not create the story of “I am not safe,” “I am not enough,” or “something is wrong with me.” It simply reacts to those beliefs. Beneath every fight-or-flight impulse lies a deeper identity about who you believe yourself to be in the world. If your subconscious identity is built on danger, shame, or inadequacy, your nervous system will continuously respond as if the world is a threat. You can calm the body for a moment, but until you see through those false identities, it will always return to the frequency of the beliefs it serves.

It is like waking from a nightmare. When you open your eyes after being chased in a dream, your heart races as though the danger were real. The body cannot tell the difference between imagined and actual threat. Only when you look around, see the light, and realize that you are safe does the body settle naturally. In the same way, when you begin to see that the stories of unworthiness and unsafety are illusions created by the mind, the nervous system begins to rest. Safety becomes the natural consequence of truth.

From that point on, regulation becomes a lifestyle rather than a technique. This is where all the external practices finally make sense. Sunlight in the morning restores the body’s circadian rhythm and reconnects biology to the rhythm of the Earth. Grounding allows the body to exchange charge with the soil, balancing its electrical state. Avoiding blue light at night honors the natural rhythm of darkness, melatonin, and cellular repair. Walking, conscious breathing, and exposure to both heat and cold synchronize the body with nature’s design. The difference is that you are no longer doing these things to fix yourself. You are doing them as an expression of the peace that already exists within you.

When I stopped trying to regulate my nervous system and began dissolving the false beliefs that made me feel unsafe, everything changed. My body began to trust life again. My energy softened. My health improved. My magnetism expanded. I was no longer chasing calm; I was living from it. True regulation is not something you create. It is what naturally unfolds when the subconscious returns to the truth that you were never in danger and never broken. You simply forgot that you were already safe in existence itself.”