Why Regulating Your Nervous System Is So Important

Your Autonomic Nervous System's (ANS) job is to keep you balanced and regulated, especially in the face of perceved threat. It's resonsible for your heart beating, respiratory rate, digestion, etc. 

Chronic stress and trauma can impact your ANS's natural resiliency and leave the body stuck in survival responses (e.g., fight,flight, fawn, freeze, collapse). 

When your body's baseline is a dysregulated state, you may find that you feel anxious, on edge, depressed, overwhelmed, angry, or fatigued even though nothing appears to be 'wrong.'

That need to constantly be going, doing, and acheiving, or your brain won't shut off? 

That's not being productive, it's a survival response that's further taxing your system. 

You may also notice that tight muscles (I'm looking at you shoulders and hips), digestive problems, chronic pain, and headaches feel like the norm. 

Learning to regulate our ANS so that it responds appropriately, overtime allows for a new baseline of genuine calm, ease, and spaciousness in your body. 

You may find that it leaves you feeling happier, more optimistic, and in flow. 

A regulated system that knows its safe is a flexible and resilient system.

Without it, you may lack the capacity to do the deep work required to heal old patterns, shed ingrained limiting beliefs, and embody the most authentic version of YOU. 

If you're talking about your stress, exercising it away, meditating, and crossing item after item off your to-do list but still wondering why things don't feel better..... 

It may be time to tune into your body's wisdom and needs. 

How would shifting from 'WTF is wrong with me' or 'I just need to be more disciplined' to 'Hmm, my body is in need of support right now' change things for you?