Joanne Smith argues that everyone has the same basic capabilities, and what matters is believing you can act. She explains how shifting from expecting danger to expecting safety can calm your nervous system and reduce pain that your body creates as overprotection.
You don't have to be a special kind of capable, because if you're a human, then you are capable. Like, nobody has got one more ability over another. Like, we're all capable of this. It's the way that we all work. Um, but you have to be willing to believe that you can take the steps and move in this direction. Because honestly, once the expectation shifts to more on the safety side than the everything is dangerous side, then gradually this unnecessary amount of protection which has been created via the symptoms and the pain as an alarm, as a warning, to somehow give us a message that we might not be understanding because we might be thinking that this is a physical issue, then we can actually— the nervous system changes. Just one little expectation at a time, that's all it needs to begin to go into a whole new direction.
