138: How to regulate your nervous system

It's easy to get caught up in the busy-ness and feel like your body is falling apart. Stress, anxiety and trauma take a serious toll on the nervous system, affecting everything from your hormones to your digestion. When our bodies are taxed, we tend to reach for external solutions rather than turn inward. We look for ways to ease the ache of chronic pain or remedy sleep issues with medications that suppress symptoms instead of treating the underlying issue. But drugs aren't solving our health problem; they're just masking it. The real solution lies in tuning in to what your body is telling you -- or rather, signaling you through physical sensations -- so that you can learn how to calm yourself down at a cellular level. In todays episode I will talk about how to create a somatic practice toolkit! Remember: your nervous system exists to help you live a healthy life, so don’t be afraid of it in fact it’s imperative that you learn how to take care of !