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

This is Day 21 from my online course Break the Anxiety Cycle in 30 Days- Buy the full course here: This is seriously one of the most powerful interventions I know of for chronic anxiety. It uses a bottom-up approach, a body first approach to regulate your nervous system to reduce stress and anxiety throughout the day. And it’s pretty simple to learn. Stress is a nervous system response, it’s your ANS autonomic nervous system responding to perceived threats, whether they be in your environment (dog barking) or in your head (What if no one likes me). We also have a counterbalancing response, the parasympathetic response, para as in parachute, it slows things down and helps restore a sense of calm, both in our mind and in our body. We don’t have direct control over our autonomic nervous system, but we can influence it in a powerful way. Microtriggers When it comes to anxiety, the stress response isn’t kicking on due to a huge immediate threat-