63: 3 Nervous System Regulation Practices Nobody Talks About

So on that note, I want to start out by presenting a situation that you may have found yourself in.

Maybe the details are a little bit differently, but you know those days when nothing super catastrophic has happened.

But by around 4 p.m. or later in the afternoon, you feel like you want everyone to just stop talking to you.

Have you had that? I know that I've had many days like that.

Maybe somebody sent you a text that sent you over the edge, totally irritated you.

One minute you were normal, you received a text message, and all of a sudden you feel this dysregulation of your nervous system.

Or you just feel this boiling of emotion come to the surface.

Maybe you agreed to something you didn't want to do, or maybe you've been thinking about an awkward conversation for the last three or four days, or your calendar is fuller than you want it to be, or you're hungry and you just keep pushing through and keep working.

Maybe somebody said something to you that bothered you, but you told yourself that it wasn't a big deal, that you were just being overly sensitive.

Have you experienced any of that? When people talk about nervous system regulation, we hear those same recommendations that I just mentioned.

Hey, you just got to do some breath work.

Hey, you just got to get your feet in the grass.

Hey, you got to get out in the sun.

And while all of those are very helpful tools and techniques to do, they don't help really get to the root of things that are going on.

So while they may bring our nervous system down just a little bit, they don't address the deeper issues.

So you have stuff festering under the surface that is only there to be resurfaced again the next time you receive that text that irritates you or somebody says something that bothers you or you finally reach a breaking point by 4 p.m. and you are just over everybody.

You just want to go and hide in a hole despite the fact that nothing seriously happened.

So friend, we have to talk about the things that are so important to our nervous system regulation, that are so important to stress management, that can be very hard to do.

But once you take that first small step in doing these things that I'm going to be talking about today, you will see some incredible shifts in your body.

And I'm telling you, some incredible shifts in your nervous system and how you can handle more and more things.

Because it's not about not having stressful days.

It's not about having irritating text messages coming through or working past your hunger cues.

Those things happen.

We have situations where those circumstances are okay to have happened, but we can't get into a rhythm where we're constantly running our nervous system at red line and every little thing is tipping us off.

We've got to bring that nervous system down, that sympathetic fight-flight-free system down so that when stress does present itself, we are more resilient, we can handle it so much better, and we have peace and harmony in our body when it's happening.