Expressing Yourself

Hello Creatures!

This week’s episode is going to be about Expressing yourself. Particularly, your non human aspects. So, a short blurb on why that’s important to you and your mental health.

For therians and otherkin especially, finding and implementing ways to express and exercise yourself are very important. Without that expression, your non human identity can cause subconscious issues that effect you. Repressing yourself automatically creates some internal stress. You might not recognize it right away, but over time that’s going to build up.

It can display as bouts of anxiety, irritability, and absent mindedness. In therians and otherkin, we have the unique issue of our repressed non human breaking out and forcing self expression in random, awkward, and sometimes socially or physically dangerous ways. A mental shift at work, school, or with family without warning or preparation can cause a slew of problems.

And it’s avoidable! It’s something that regular expression or activity can fairly easily address. Fel calls it “walking his wolf”. Something that engages his wolfish inner nature. Anything from walking in nature and allowing the wolf mentality out under his terms, to daily meditation and visualization. Connecting the human and wolf spectrums of mentality go a long way toward keeping the non human aspects engaged and active.

Gear, stuffed animals, even a toy or two are great toward helping yourself bring out the inner side of yourself in a helpful way. Hoping this helps, and please, share how you go for a walk :)

Autumn and Fel

Beginner Meditation guide

Meditation brief

Meditation is a useful tool for spiritual and emotional health. Much like any tool, it varies from function to function on if it’s right one. Here, we are going to go over a few basic meditations, and their purpose.

Concentration meditation is the very most basic method and type. Simply focusing on a thought, object, or action at the exclusion of all else, to clear the mind. One sits or lies in a comfortable, relaxed position. Then choose a focus. It can be a candle, your breath, a small stone, or thought of an object like an orange. Whenever a thought enters your mind, consciously refocus on your chosen object. This is a great beginning meditation, one to help clear the mind for more in depth meditation after, or to relax.

The next is Mindfulness. This is to help understand your own thinking, to see how your mind works. It starts similar to the first. But, you focus on your breath for about 10 inhaled and exhaled. Really feel your body. Now, let your thoughts flow freely. Don’t focus, don’t judge. Acknowledge each thought, and let it go. After some time, you simply breathe deep, stretch, and come back.

Guided Meditation is what we are working on in Inner Wild. This is simply a mapped meditation, if you will. It’s the easiest for a beginner, and can often help to guide a meditation path. We are going to focus at first on bringing your inner, non human self to your human, and help the two interact for a time. We will do more as time goes on, but this is our start.

A few tips for success. No light or dim light is often helpful. Even with closed eyes, light can often penetrate and distract. Find a place as quiet as can be, or wear headphones/earplugs (depending on the meditation). Sound is very easily distracting. I personally also recommend laying down, or reclining. Sitting can be bothersome on the posture, and body aches can be very demanding of attention.

There’s always more of course, but I don’t want to bore you yet! Maybe some more in the future <3. For now, keep these in mind. If undirected try using your inner creature as a focus.

Love you creatures.

Autumn and Fel