Fires Within and Without
Taking care of your eyes and your spirit....
Dear Beautiful One,
As an Angeleno, I’ve been through an emotional wringer these past few weeks with the fires in LA and social upheaval. If you’re on constant alert (whether for possible evacuation order, or fear of an explosion from a boss or family member, or history of trauma leading to hypervigilance, or being in war or fill-in-the-blank), you can easily enter a state of fight, flight or freeze that’s hard from which to escape. I was cycling between numbness, fear, anxiety, bravery, equanimity, and at some moments I did better than others. But there was also a lack of communal gathering to process together, and that leads to pent-up emotion within individuals.
So we process alone, so much of the time. But you don’t have to do it all alone, for body or spirit.
Given the fires and the emotional tool, I decided to dedicate Episode 3 of Within with Dr. Azadeh Khatibi, MD, MS, MPH to addressing basics of eyes, ear, nose and throat cleansing and clearing in the fire-ravaged areas. The carcinogens, allergens and toxic materials in the air are invisible much of the time, but they’re going to be with us for about 18 months in the air, it is estimated.
This episode is also great for anyone who wants to know how to clear their passages in general, not just fires. Great for allergies btw!
And I ended it with a focus on the spirit—a meditation for the face and neck and linking it to the rest of the body, with gratitude. So needed to calm the nervous system.
You can learn about cleansing and listen to the meditation here:
You can also listen on Spotify and most other places you like to listen!
I hope you enjoy it. Take a listen and let me know.
Hugs,
Dr. Azadeh