Could you tell me a time you felt disconnected?

When I take a driving test I feel like I physically leave my body, there is no other way to describe it. There is no other situation where I do or have felt quite like I do when I am in that test car. I believe it is a disconnect caused by stress.

I can now recognise that there is a different way I disconnect when I feel stress or fear or sadness. It is clearly how my body and mind react and I feel I am learning to understand it more and more. 

When life gets overwhelming and things seem too hard to handle I am aware I can disconnect myself from the issues in a way, I can find the switch for a certain situation or problem and turn it off, pretend it’s gone. Saying it like that makes it sound pretty handy, but switching that one switch can have a domino affect on so many other switches and before I know it I’ve disconnected to so many parts of my world and so many people without really realising.

My passion is yoga, and for me, yoga all about connection. It connects breath to movement, body to mind and my goodness it has connected me to so many fricking amazing humans and continues to do so. I took my passion further when I decided to train and study to become an instructor and it is, hands down, the best move I ever made. Practicing yoga and teaching yoga grounds me and it reconnects me. 

We humans crave connection, whether that is human to human, human to animal, human to nature or human to self, we need it! So when I feel this disconnect creep in I know that I must not switch switches to off, I must search for the correct switch to switch on. That switch that is going to give me the correct connection I need for that moment.

Stay connected to what will support you, stay connected to those that love you, stay connected to what you love, stay connected to nature and stay connected to yourself.

Perhaps it’s time I book that driving test again  :)