Experience Anxiety? Create A Tea Ceremony
Find yourself feeling anxious and edgy often, even if you don’t know what set you off? Anxiety is very common and not something to keep quiet and ignore. It springs from an unregulated nervous system.
An unregulated nervous system is more subtle than immediate stressors and trauma. Although it is all interlinked, the reaction or reason won’t be obvious. It won’t be obvious until you start paying attention. An unregulated nervous systems can manifest with:
Lack of quality sleep
Poor digestion
Flight- ignoring and leaving things unsettled
Poor memory
Excess sleep
The good news is that to regulate the nervous system it requires loving, gentle, and regular activities that are very easy to integrate into your life. Ready to welcome better rest? Calm responses? A neutral untriggered mind? These simple intentional acts can invite in goodness into your everyday with tea.
Choose 1 or 2 teas that feel healthful and restorative. We encourage you to take a few deep breaths, put your hand on your heart, make the intention to connect to self, and browse through the tea selection. Tap into your intuition and feel which ones stand out.
Curate tea accessories for your ceremony. A beautiful mug, a nice teapot, a strainer, maybe a pretty tray?
Make time twice a week for your tea ceremony. I like Monday’s and Thursday’s as they are known as the sacred nights in Islam, but choose yours that feel right.
For your personal tea ceremony, wear something clean and flowy, wash your hands nicely, enter a quiet space, put your phone down.
Steep with care and attention. Put 1 tsp of the tea in your teapot. Observe the colour, scent, steam. Let the steeping time be a time of quiet and softening
Sip with the intention of grounding yourself and feeling mind-body-heart aligned.
Clean the tea ceremony to invite in an open space for goodness to enter- physically and spiritually.
A tea ceremony is a simple, intentional way to tend to your nervous system. It helps you calm down, remove distractions, be present, and invites attention to self. We hope Nia can be a part of your personal tea ceremony. Feel free to email us if you want recommendations for teas for your health!
