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How Your Environment Is Impacting Your Nervous System

 

Tropical Cyclone Alfred has dominated our community this past week. Despite being downgraded before landfall, Alfred delivered damaging winds, heavy downpours, flooding, and widespread dysregul

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Breaking the Cycle of Overdrive and Shutdown

If your nervous system is dysregulated towards HYPERAROUSAL, the ways that you control your stress activation might be: striving, perfectionism, working more and trying harder.

This pattern of excess...

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Play Improves the Tone of Your Vagus Nerve

Play positively impacts on your nervous system by improving your inner resilience and self-regulation. It's a powerful way to exercise your vagal brake, which keeps you calm and balanced when you face...

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How Chronic Stress Drains Your Energy Like Too Many Apps Open on Your Phone

Just like having too many apps open effects the functioning of your phone, ongoing activation of your survival responses after periods of chronic or traumatic stress can drain your energy & effect how...

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Strengthen Your Vagal Brake for a Balanced Nervous System

Just like training your muscles so they're healthy and strong, you can learn to work with your nervous system to make it more adaptable, balanced, flexible and resilient. The key to this is the VAGUS ...

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Feeling Anxious? It’s Time to Reset Your Nervous System

Understanding your vagus nerve - and how to get it back to baseline - is a critical aspect of physical and mental wellbeing. 

Here’s the thing. Our brains aren’t optimised for rational thinking, or s...

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