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Sacred Fire Practices: How to Stop Being a Neurological Candle When You Were Born to Be a Bonfire

Rituals for When Your Nervous System Needs to Remember It's Not Running on AAA Batteries

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Dea Devidas
Sep 04, 2025
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Your nervous system, that exquisite web of lightning beneath your skin, was designed to carry the voltage of your wildest becoming. We’re talking full electrical capacity here. High-definition aliveness. The kind of charge that makes your hair stand up and your life make sense at the same time.

But somewhere along the way, your wiring learned to whisper when it was meant to roar. To trickle when it was born to flood. Your body dimmed its own lights to fit into rooms that couldn’t handle your wattage, and now you’ve forgotten you ever had a different setting.

These ancient practices are not cute exercises you screenshot and never do. They’re not content for your “wellness” folder that’s been unopened since 2019. They are rememberings. Invitations for your flesh to recall its capacity for the current that wants to move through you like honey mixed with lightning: slow and sweet and absolutely electrifying.

Your vagus nerve has been waiting for this. Your spine has been taking notes. Let’s …

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