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The significance of the nervous system
Your nervous system is the network of neurons that runs through your body that sends electrical & chemical signals to your body from your brain, sends signals to your brain from your body.
This sounds very simple, but the nervous system actually dictates your entire experience of life... Your thoughts, emotions, perception of pain, heartbeat, metabolism, breathing patterns, twitches, habits, trauma, ability to connect with people, even the strange coincidences that seem to follow you everywhere you go - is all determined by the signals that are happening in your nervous system network.
When your nervous system is disregulated, life starts to feel impossible, like nothing is working no matter how hard you try. When your nervous system is regulated, success feels inevitable. There are many ways anyone can regulate their nervous system and bring it back to equilibrium, but here are 3 you can try today:
- Box breathing (4 seconds in, hold 4 seconds, 4 seconds out, hold 4 seconds). The breath is one of the best ways to override the autonomic nervous system, and this breathing method triggers it to go into rest and digest mode.
- Mindfulness meditation: Your brain is the head of your central nervous system, and thoughts are a result of it. When you practice mindfulness, you separate your awareness and emotions from your thoughts, allowing everything to slowly but surely calm down and come back into alignment and balance.
- PNF stretching: When you feel stiffness or tension in your body, its usually not because your muscles or joins are stiff... its actually your nervous system being overactive and holding tension! PNF stretching deactivates this tension in your body and not only allows you to stretch deeper, but frees up your nervous system to direct its energy elsewhere.
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