Nervous System
topic on 4 shows · 9 statements across 5 episodes
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Sanchez: Top CEOs Stay Calm to Regulate the Room's Nervous System
“Top speakers or the people that you look up to or the CEOs you look up to in the world, they look pretty calm when they speak because they're actually trying to regulate the room's nervous system without anyone noticing.”
Johnson: Emotional isolation is biological trauma and triggers neural danger cues
“Emotional isolation is traumatizing for human beings. You're not wired for it. It's a danger cue for your nervous system.”
Boots: Computational AI tools will help decipher the human nervous system
“Ultimately I believe that
these sorts of tools, these mathematical tools and computational tools will allow us to understand the nervous system better rather than kind of thinking about it the other way around.”
Alexander: Breathing is the foundational regulator for stress and sleep
“Breath is, like, the foundation of everything. You know, so if you are feeling stressed out chronically, if you're feeling like sleep is challenging for you, if you're chronically having like tense muscles, hypertonicity, your breathing is going to be the foun…”
How Breathing Ratios Act as Nervous System Levers
“And so what scientists have discovered that when the exhale is twice as long as the inhale, it has a calming effect. And when the inhale is either more intense or twice as long as the exhale, it has an activating effect.”
Spontaneous Sighing Means Your Body Is Downshifting
“I'd also add that the sigh happens naturally as a result of doing these downshifting practices. So if you notice after you do, let's say the four four eight breathing, at the end you might naturally just want to let out a sigh and that's a signal that your bod…”
How Incomplete Stress Cycles Store Emotional Debt
“Yeah, so I'll tie this in with a concept that I call emotional debt, which is basically when our nervous system experiences stress, there's what's known as a mobilization cycle, and if that cycle isn't completed or we don't get to downshift or relax on the oth…”
Needing Wine to Unwind Signals High Emotional Debt
“What one really key sign actually is if you're not able to kind of naturally downshift or downregulate your nervous system at the end of a day without something like wine or CBD or some kind of like external substance, that's a sign that you're, you kind of re…”
Miller: Talk Therapy Fails to Resolve Nervous System Stress
“I'm not a big fan of talk therapy alone, or at least therapy that doesn't have a somatic or body-based component. And from my understanding of the nervous system and how we store this stress, just talking about things and keeping things on the level of the int…”