Growing Your Window Of Tolerance

Our "window of tolerance" is our capacity to be with whatever is happening in this present moment. Trauma, social injustice and life challenges narrow our window of tolerance. We can grow our "window" and our resilience by attending to our deep body and heart wisdom about our level of activation and presence at any given moment. We will practice growing our "window" through work with posture and anchors.

Reviews

So appreciated the level of sensitivity in this meditation, to where the edge of capacity lives in that moment and to give oneself permission for that to be ok. I had a profound insight into how I’ve been trained / socialized to give more importance to the outside stimuli - even if that’s the anchor. So, if I get uncomfortable I’ve learned then to prioritize the anchor over my own internal experience and so check out / dissociate / go into my head as an escape from the discomfort. This meditation was a wonderful invitation to spot that edge and to stab with my experience and prioritize that.

Really interesting and useful practice. Much to learn here, for me. I'm going to work on doing this meditation every day for a while and see how it goes. Thanks for the gift.

i love the concept of a window of tolerance. and the Goldilocks analogy. and explaining there are many ways to anchor myself was game changing. the breath doesn’t work for me. but noticing my feet firmly planted on the ground was very anchoring. 🙏💙🙏

Helpful guidance in finding one’s WOT - will use again and recommend to patients! Thank you 😊

Excellent!