Quote I am leaning into
“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” Paulo Coelho
Online space I have been revisiting
One of my eternally favoured websites for beautiful prose and new perspectives on timeless wisdom ‘the Marginalian’
I have been diving into the archives and re-read this incredible piece this week
The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease
Esther Sternberg writes about the interaction of mind and body, hormones and neurons with such precision and clarity it is well worth diving into as a refresher or as a beginners guide to how our nervous system, mood and emotions are interlinked
She writes
“Mood is not homogeneous like cream soup. It is more like Swiss cheese, filled with holes. The triggers are highly specific, tripped by sudden trails of memory: a faint fragrance, a few bars of a tune, a vague silhouette that tapped into a sad memory buried deep, but not completely erased. These sensory inputs from the moment float through layers of time in the parts of the brain that control memory, and they pull out with them not only reminders of sense but also trails of the emotions that were first connected to the memory. These memories become connected to emotions, which are processed in other parts of the brain: the amygdala for fear, the nucleus accumbens for pleasure — those same parts that the anatomists had named for their shapes. And these emotional brain centers are linked by nerve pathways to the sensory parts of the brain and to the frontal lobe and hippocampus — the coordinating centers of thought and memory.
The same sensory input can trigger a negative emotion or a positive one, depending on the memories associated with it.”
and One More Thing
Happy Aries New Moon! Today at 06.24 UK
We are in the first sign of the Zodiac and playful, fiery, initiatory action taking is where it’s at!
Aries invites you to be brave. Decide that now is your time to be courageous and go for it. Aries wants you to choose you and wants you to win by doing just that. Focus on yourself, zoom in on what you need and where you are going, this energy wants your light on a pedestal bby 😉
If all in action is not your vibe right now perhaps try making a plan for the year ahead or for this quarter and allow the energy of this enthusiastic New Moon to infuse your plans with drive and determination
Aries is also the baby of the Zodiac – the youngest child – so spend some time connecting with the spontaneous, fun inner child – the one that wants to explore and play
Theme: Self-Leadership
How are you living as the Leader of your life?