Leaving my therapist last session she told me I should look into what a “low demand lifestyle” was. My first thought was “f u, no???” and my second thought was “okay but how do I actually incorporate these things?”
I would be grateful to hear how folks of all support need levels have incorporated this concept into their lives.
In my particular situation I have a huge amount of autonomy in my life so most of my struggles are from self demands. It’s a lot easier for me to act on demands from others (so long as I agree they are good demands, things that make sense or that I don’t really care about but care about the person asking so I can do it without too much resistance).
Oh and it is glorious, and very satisfying, when inspiration strikes and something just gets done.
I suspect a large part of that is due to neuro-chemical balance, mediated by the right vitamins, minerals, herbs, aromatherapy, sound therapy, environmental conditions, mood priming, etc, etc, etc.
I’ve oddly fought against to much of this, “preferring” more novelty, knowing how much more sensitive to change I get the more consistent things get. Kinda like keeping myself robust to change, with the neuroplasticity generated from the hormesis from novelty and lots of little changes and variety. … Though that in itself is fairly inconsistently applied. Some things like that, some things more reliably consistent. I found this helped me find more peaceful confidence in my ability to handle whatever curve balls were thrown at me in life. ~ At least, until the big one. Then I didn’t seem to have much choice about falling into a routine, and that atrophying, making changes (or even appointments) much (MUCH) more difficult to cope with again. Been dealing with coming out of an atrophied body. It takes a long time of gentle practice to start to see progress throughout the long dragged-out start. And then it accelerates. Much the same happens in our neurophysiology as in our muscles.
And it’s a glorious thing to get there, past the tight claustrophobic/myopic feedback loops that make it seem worse than it is.