Opening to the Greater Field: A Practice for Receiving Support
This week I found myself reflecting on the roots of how we receive support—and I felt moved to share a simple practice I use often. It nourishes the nervous system and grounds your being into the many layers of support available to you. I recently deepened into it during a recorded workshop by the late Ray Castellino, a pioneer in pre- and perinatal psychology.
What shapes our capacity to receive…
In the workshop, Ray Castellino shared this: an infant can only receive as much support as the mother or caretaker is supported. These early imprints shape our nervous system in ways that run deep, often reaching beyond the individual into our ancestral, relational, and collective fields.
This observation invites us to consider: how deeply are we supported in our own lives?
We all need layers of support to grow, thrive, and be in the world. It is a foundational truth of our nervous system, our humanity, and the web of life on this planet.
This practice is an invitation to feel those layers—to receive, to rest into the web of support that's already there, both seen and unseen.
Let this practice gently guide you to open up more space for receiving support, from this moment onward, across time, relationships, and unseen dimensions of being.
Internalise it in your own way. Trust how it wants to live in you. Make it yours.
Before you dive in, here are a few gentle ways to make this practice your own:
♢ You might want to turn it into a simple phrase, image, or sensation you can return to as an anchor—a felt sense of being held in a quiet ritual of self-connection.
♢ Or create a gesture like opening your arms to receive support from the greater healing intelligence anytime you need.
♢ Add friends and their layers of support to it, or pets and sacred places.
♢ Record your version of it in a voice memo you can listen to whenever you feel in need of a reminder.
Feeling layers of support becomes endless when we start to open up to this practice.
Receive the practice in voice or print:
You can listen to me reading it out, or print it out via the links below
✨Click here to read & download a printable version.
✨Click here to listen to me read it out aloud.
May this practice find its own rhythm in you — a gentle reminder of the unseen threads that hold you, far beyond what the rational mind can grasp
You are held by the field…
May this practice find its own rhythm in you — a gentle reminder of the unseen threads that hold you, far beyond what the rational mind can grasp. You don’t have to hold it all. The field is holding you too.
What might shift if you let yourself feel even more supported today…?
Mindfulness-based Embodiment Coach & Intuitive Transformational Guide
Your energy and presence are gifts to share with the world — even if they are deeply quiet. They are the very fuel that helps you transform your life and truly flourish.
You can tap into this when you ground in the essence of being you.
That’s what this blog is here to hold: reflections from my own long journey home to myself, interwoven with the insights I’ve gained through years of lived experience and training.
Warmly, Julia
♢ This Piece is Inspired by the Work of Ray Castellino
This piece draws from insights shared in The Teachings of Ray Castellino, a six-part series originally recorded in 2020 through the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).
Ray Castellino (1944–2020) was a pioneer in pre- and perinatal somatic psychology. His teachings have deeply influenced the way we understand early relational support and the imprint it leaves on our nervous system and life patterns.