Ep #3: Body First | An Overview of the Autonomic Nervous System
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What You’ll Learn from this Episode:
Learn what is the number one skill that rules them all when it comes to creating success in any area of your life [00:01:00]
What the difference is between awareness and mindfulness (it’s often touted marketing by-word) and how they’re interrelated [00:01:54]
Discover what the autonomic nervous system is, what it does, what is the difference between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic systems and why it’s foundational to the overall concept of awareness [00:09:47]
The importance of having a sense of what is happening inside your own body so that you’re able to better regulate your and choose your own behaviors rather than just reacting with how your nervous system wants you to react. [00:17:34]
A quick self-rating scale that I share with you so that you’re better able to judge where your nervous system sits currently. [00:10:34]
Some real-world examples that hopefully will crystallize this knowledge for you in a more pragmatic way. [00:19:00]
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Resources + Research:
How to Stay Calm When You Know You’ll Be Stressed - Daniel Levitin - Ted Global
How Your Nervous System Works & Changes - Huberman Lab - Andrew Huberman
You Will Never Be Stressed Again - Be Inspired - Excerpted from Huberman Lab with Physiological Sigh
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Their Best & Worst by Robert Sapolsky
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