Finding Your Baseline
Your body has a baseline — a natural rhythm it returns to when it feels safe.
But after years of living in alert mode, tension starts to feel familiar. Most people mistake that tension for normal.
When you finally slow down, your system doesn’t recognize it as safety. It reads calm as threat, and quiet as wrong.
Today’s work is to remember what “settled” actually feels like.
How to Notice Your Baseline
Sit somewhere quiet. Notice your breath exactly as it is — not deeper, not slower, just as it moves.
Where do you feel it? What parts of your body move with the inhale, and what stays still?
Observe without fixing. If your mind wanders, return to the physical sensation of your breath entering and leaving your body.
Stay for five minutes.
Your baseline isn’t something to create — it’s something to remember. Beneath the tension and noise, your body already knows what safety feels like.
When you witness it without trying to change it, your nervous system begins to regulate on its own.
What to Do After You Notice It
Your baseline is your body’s signal that says, “This is me when I’m safe.”
When you feel that quiet shift — the breath that finally drops lower, the shoulders that stop guarding — mark it.
You can place a hand on your chest and remind yourself:
This is what calm feels like.
This is what home feels like.
Return to that feeling before you respond, decide, or push through. That’s what it means to regulate — not forcing yourself into peace, but remembering what peace feels like.
If your baseline feels hard to find, your body might just need a reset.
Book an Energy Reset Session to help your system remember what safe truly feels like again.