Our fight/flight/freeze/fawn response from an Ayurvedic perspective.
I am putting some pieces together from my own life experience and educational background. I'm so curious if other people will resonate with this idea:
Is a Limbic System Impairment a long standing Vata imbalance?
Quick review of Vata:
One of the 3 Doshas in Ayurveda. A Dosha is a category of energy. Vata embodies the natures of air and is cold, dark, dry, quick, sporadic, creative, light and expansive.
In your body, Vata is responsible for movement, transportation, circulation & communication
Common triggers for imbalance include high stress, a fast-paced lifestyle, a diet of cold, hard, and light foods, and a natural body constitution that is Vata in nature.
Now let's look at a Limbic System Impairment:
Our Limbic System is here to protect us from danger. An evolutional ally for our ancestors, it still reacts to today's stressors (stress, job loss, divorce, an angry parent/partner, etc.) as if it were protecting us from a wild animal attack. While I'm not discounting the high stress levels that accompany common stressors in today's world, we are not as likely to DIE as our ancestors were when getting chased. But our limbic systems doesn't differentiate between these scenarios, thus a parent yelling at us kicks our brain into fight or flight.
When survival mode becomes the mode of daily operation, our fight or flight button can get stuck in the ON position.
Here's what a Limbic Impairment has felt like for me:
chronic high anxiety levels
reacting to situations with a doomsday approach
'waiting for the other shoe to drop' type feeling
chronic muscle pain/jaw pain/TMJ
easily exhausted and needing to retreat to a quiet space often
an overreaction to strong odors (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities)
not ever feeling safe
Does a longstanding Vata imbalance create the perfect environment for a Limbic Impairment, given the right trigger? Usually a Limbic Impairment is triggered by an event such as toxic mold exposure, Lyme Disease, infections, accumulated heavy metals or another trauma. I am venturing to say that a longstanding Vata imbalance creates an internal environment that is more susceptible to these triggers, thus resulting in a chronic state of fight or flight when exposed to one of these triggers.
The healing work on my Limbic Impairment has been transformative in reducing my Vata imbalance symptoms.
The things that have helped the most are also all Vata reducing tips:
regular daily meditation and creative visualization
warm and grounding foods at regular times
soaking in warm water
redirecting negative past thought patterns to new positive pathways
eliminating as much stress as possible
adopting a slower pace of life
utilizing DNRS Dynamic Neural Retraining Systems
healing inner child work
abhyangha - warm oil massage
I see a Vata imbalance going hand in hand with a Limbic Impairment and find it so encouraging that healing one helps heal the other.
Warm up. Slow down. Breathe. Sleep. Trust. Celebrate. Create. Let go. Enjoy.
Does this resonate with your experience?
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