parasympathetic nervous system
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Sep 11, 2026
Gerry HusseyHOST
It takes us out of sympathetic and puts us back into parasympathetic.
Gerry HusseyHOST
Sympathetic is fight or flight.
Gerry HusseyHOST
Parasympathetic is rest, repair.
Gerry HusseyHOST
So follow that breath.
Gerry HusseyHOST
Now, as we're breathing, I want you to place your right hand on your heart, and in the next few moments, we're going to release all pressure and expectations that you have placed on yourself.
JaneHOST
Right.
JaneHOST
So to be in parasympathetic, did I have that right or did I reverse it? I think you reversed it.
JaneHOST
Parasympathetic.
JaneHOST
I said, help us somebody.
JaneHOST
Oh, for whatever.
JaneHOST
I think I actually had it right, but then I'm going to listen back when I edit and laugh at myself.
JaneHOST
Sympathetic is fight or flight.
JaneHOST
Parasympathetic is rest and digest.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
Is not only do we have to find it and then heal it, but then what? Guess what? We get to have a lot of fun.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
It's like, okay, where is the happiness? Where is the joy? Because when we are in our parasympathetic nervous system, it's really fascinating what the brain does.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
We actually have access.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
It opens up.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
And when we do that, we're assessing for threat everywhere.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
So guess what? The world is a little bit more nasty.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
People are a perfectly, but its job is to protect you, right? The second we can actually get into our parasympathetic nervous system and we can start leaning into different physical feelings and emotions in our body, that 15% opens to 85% and all of a sudden a new career is possible.
Deserae KofoedGUEST
A new relationship is possible.
Katharina BötschGUEST
But roughly speaking, it is the autonomic nervous system, i.e. our autonomous nervous system.
Katharina BötschGUEST
That system consists of Sympathicus, Fight of Light and Parasympathicus.
Katharina BötschGUEST
Actually, everyone knows this Rest and Digest.
Katharina BötschGUEST
So I'm chilled or I'm in high stress and I'm struggling or I'm running away.
Michael PlattGUEST
I will put a plug out there.
Michael PlattGUEST
I'm writing another book right now due out next year, and it's literally called PAWS, Parasympathetic Intelligence for the Modern Leader.
Michael PlattGUEST
And it's all built around how the solution to an environment that's getting ever faster, ever busier, more uncertain, is to actually slow down and step back.
Ben PakulskiHOST
It's a beautiful segue into the next question that I was going to pull out for you.
Ben PetersonGUEST
Now what this does is it's a direct assault on the nervous system.
Ben PetersonGUEST
So we have the parasympathetic and then the sympathetic parts of our nervous system.
Ben PetersonGUEST
Parasympathetic is the ability to rest and digest and be at peace.
Ben PetersonGUEST
And then the sympathetic is the fight or flight part of our nervous system where we're saying, I either need to fight this or I need to get away from it.
Ben PetersonGUEST
So like when you get triggered with your husband, Diane, right? And you just wanna either get away from him or you wanna fight him, that's your sympathetic that's engaged, right? When we constantly scroll, when we constantly engage in social media, it spools up our sympathetic part of our nervous system.
Karen ArmesGUEST
And this is what shifted everything.
Karen ArmesGUEST
Parasympathetic is rest and digest.
Karen ArmesGUEST
Now we can think clearly.
Karen ArmesGUEST
We're not making irrational decisions.
Karen ArmesGUEST
So at two in the morning, at three in the morning, when you wake up with a fear about something, you say to yourself, What if I don't do that? What if I simply don't write that letter? What if I just don't take that anymore and I look for something different? Well, what would happen if I blank? What else could I do blank? The questions stop.
Karen ArmesGUEST
It literally stops the sympathetic autonomic nervous system, SANS, and it throws you into parasympathetic because all of a sudden you're like, okay, oh, that's right, possibility.
Karen ArmesGUEST
P for possibility, right? Parasympathetic, P for possibility.
Karen ArmesGUEST
Now I could make a salad.
Kate WatersGUEST
So if we think about the nervous system as being part of it, there's lots of different parts of the nervous system, but one part of it's called the autonomic nervous system, and it has two components to that.
Kate WatersGUEST
There's the parasympathetic and the sympathetic.
Kate WatersGUEST
Parasympathetic is your rest and digest.
Kate WatersGUEST
Sympathetic is your fight or flight.
Kate WatersGUEST
Now, here I am being interviewed, so I'm definitely in fight or flight at the moment.
Anne TuckerGUEST
I didn't know what she was talking about.
Anne TuckerGUEST
Parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system.
Alex FerrariHOST
Mm-hmm.
Anne TuckerGUEST
She and the, and the, the field of creation she creates is like that.
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