When it’s too much

There’s a concept I come back to a lot: the window of Menuchas Hanefesh. The range within which your nervous system can be with an experience without being overtaken by it.

The way that many of us “do” Purim has a way of pushing us to the edge of that window. Sometimes past it.

When that happens — when you’ve gotten overwhelmed, or snapped, or retreated — the first move is to notice it. “I notice all this activation. I notice all this overwhelm. There’s a me noticing all of this.”

The moment there’s “a me noticing” — there’s already a part of you that isn’t completely inside the storm. That’s the beginning of coming back to yourself.

Your body was created with the capacity to return to regulation. It’s always trying to do that.

If you’re reading this from a shelter, or from a place where the overwhelm this week has nothing to do with noise and sugar — this is still for you. Maybe especially for you. The window of Menuchas Hanefesh doesn’t only apply to Purim chaos. It applies to sirens, to fear, to the helplessness of waiting. “I notice all this activation” is something you can say anywhere. It works in a shelter. It works when you can’t stop checking the news. The noticing is still the beginning of coming back.

Right now, in this moment — where in your body are you feeling the activation? Can you just notice it, without trying to change it?

Supporting your sensitivity,
Rena

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