nervous system

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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…”

“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.”