The Essential Skill to Regulate Your Nervous System - Relaxed Vigilance vs. Hypervigilance 21/30

To face situations. They train, practice and follow their routines until they feel confident in what they do. From then on, healthy people maintain a calm

nervous

system

even in life-threatening situations. In the full course, I will include a story about how I learned these things, if you want to hear an example from my life. OK. Then we return to the teacher. After learning to recognize the three states of the

nervous

system

, he began to notice how distressed and stressed she was throughout the day. I found this to happen especially before teaching, when answering emails, and during exams.

So he asked himself: what is the perceived risk? With a little exploration, he realized that he was afraid of rejection. She was afraid of not being loved. Once she realized that, she realized that she wasn't actually in danger. It's okay if some of her students don't like her. It is safe. So he set a timer on his phone to receive a little notification reminding him to

regulate

his nervous system. Sometimes he breathed slowly, other times he yawned. Sometimes he would do something small to relax his muscles. After a while, all it took for her to relax was for him to notice that she felt tense and tense.

She was smiling a little softly, softening a little. After a few weeks, she noticed that she started to have more energy after work. She wasn't as tired every day and she also started sleeping better. Over time, her stress levels decreased. She didn't feel like she carried such a heavy burden. So this simple ability to

regulate

the nervous system moment by moment is one of the most effective ways to manage anxiety throughout the day. When you calm

your

body, you send a message through the vagus nerve to

your

brain to calm your mind as well. While writing this video, I gave new meaning to this common phrase: Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass;

It is about learning to dance in the rain. And I was thinking about that. It's as if dancing is a parasympathetic signal. We can all learn to calm our nervous system, even when we have important, busy or stressful work to do. So give it a try and let me know how it goes. Thanks for watching and take care.