Returning to Your Nature in Practice
Companion to Episode 14: What Your Body Remembers
This post is a practical and reflective companion to Episode 14 of our podcast, What Your Body Remembers – Reclaiming Presence in a World That Forgot.
You've listened to the episode. You’ve reflected.
Now you may be asking:
But how do I live this? How do I start to return? How to actually live what your body remembers?
If the episode stirred something in you, an ache, a softening, a recognition, this guide is here to meet you in the next breath.
These are real-life ways to begin re-rooting into your natural state, one pause at a time.
Practice Returning
Simple Ways to Reconnect with Your Natural State
In the episode, I spoke about how your body remembers, even if your mind forgets. But awareness alone isn’t enough. It has to be felt. Reconnection begins in your own breath, your own pace, your own pause.
Here are a few simple ways to begin. In the breath… in the pause.
Try This:
The 3-Minute Nature Check-In: Step outside (or sit by a window), close your eyes, and ask: What do I hear? What do I smell? What does my body feel?
Breath Awareness Practice: Spend 1 minute noticing your inhale and exhale without changing it. Let your breath show you where you're holding or resisting.
"Is This Me?" Inventory: As you move through your day, pause and ask, Is this action, thought, or reaction aligned with my true nature… or just familiar?
Break the Container
Identifying and Releasing Survival-Based Shapes
In the episode, we explored the image of the tree growing inside a container, twisting itself to fit, adapting not out of choice but necessity.
That shape becomes familiar, even when it's far from natural. You may be wondering how to begin breaking free from the container that shaped you. Most of these containers were inherited or unconsciously chosen.
The first step is noticing their shape.
Try This:
Write the Shape: On paper, draw or describe the “container” you were shaped by, family, culture, school, survival strategy. What were its rules? What did it demand from you?
Somatic Response Scan: When you think about stretching beyond that container (speaking up, resting, expressing a need), what happens in your body? That’s your signal. Start there.
Replanting Ritual: Choose one habit or space where you often shrink. Create a small ritual (breath, affirmation, movement) to help you consciously choose a different shape, even in micro-moments.
Shift the System
Living in Presence in a World that Rewards Disconnection
In the episode, I asked: Have we really evolved? Or have we simply become more efficient at disconnecting from ourselves?
True change begins not with a system, but with a nervous system.
Here’s how we start to shift from the inside out.
Try This:
Be the System You Wish Existed: Normalize rest, truth-telling, boundary-setting. Your nervous system becomes a mirror for others.
Redesign in Small Ways: In your family, classroom, or community, create rituals that honour slowness, emotion, and embodiment.
Question Cultural “Progress”: When a system rewards burnout or detachment, ask: Who benefits from this, and at what cost? Awareness is the seed of redesign.
Final Invitation
Returning to your natural state isn’t about doing more. It’s about undoing what was never yours to carry. It’s a practice of noticing, softening, listening, and allowing your body to lead.
You're not meant to do it all at once. But you are meant to remember.
