Lately, I’ve been paying curious attention to how deep and wide my capacity is for connection. This means during a conversation where I am holding space to also track my nervous system, my heartbeat, my breath, my physical sensations, my embodied presence, my ability to truly listen and hold attention.

When I notice I start nodding off or checking out or feeling my nervous system amp up, I know I’m close to stretching my bandwith to take in and process anymore information. If I don’t say anything beyond this point, soon enough you’ll be taking at an energetically depleted autopilot zombie robot over capacity who has become oversaturated, tired, distracted, overwhelmed, and dissociated. *robot voice: i cannot compute*

Why even pretend? Nobody got time to waste for less than quality attention.

How do you listen and attune to what it is that you need for an authentic genuine connection that honors each others capacities?

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