Healing your nervous system begins with recognizing that your nervous system is dysregulated.
Your nervous system is the “information highway” from your brain to your body. The connection runs both ways. For example, when your brain interprets everything as “danger,” it doesn’t allow the body to process it and vice versa.
Nervous system dysregulation happens when your body is stuck in danger mode. Your mind constantly sends signals of danger, creating more physical, mental, and emotional symptoms.
When your nervous system is dysregulated, you can experience fatigue, chronic pain, anxiety, depression, physical illness, and eating disorders. These symptoms are just a few of the many signs you need to start regulating your nervous system.
Thankfully, there is a simple 4-step process for nervous system regulation:
How to Heal Your Nervous System
To calm and heal your mental and physical symptoms, you have to start to teach your body that it’s okay and tell your brain it’s not in danger. To make progress, you need to consistently work towards your goal and support yourself.
The best way to begin is by using my simple 4-step framework designed for regulating your system:
Step #1: Learn
To start healing your nervous system, you need to learn how your nervous system’s signals impact you specifically.
Dive deep into the relationship between your brain and chronic system to discover what is going on. By unraveling and understanding this connection, you empower yourself with the knowledge to navigate the path to healing.
Step #2: Use Mindbody
Use Mindbody healing tools like nervous system regulation and brain training skills to help calm your brain and body.
The Mindbody Healing Method is a program that’s targeted at healing the root of your pain by regulating your nervous system and retraining your brain.
This looks like targeted meditation techniques, breath practices, brain training scripts, and energy regulation.
Step #3: Healing
For many people, healing and regulating the nervous system includes working through trauma or other painful experiences. You can do that using therapeutic principles and emotion regulation.
Emotional health plays a large role in nervous system regulation. Regulation goes beyond physical, it involves your mental, emotional, and physical health.
Step #4: Integrate
The final step in healing your nervous system is integrating this framework (steps #1-#3) into your daily life. Daily practice is where this framework does most of its work.
By learning how to sustainably use these principles, you will begin to see daily progress and help your brain realize that you are not in danger.
4 Benefits Of Healing Your Nervous System
Healing your nervous system from trauma and retraining your brain take time and patience, but the benefits of healing can leave you feeling rejuvenated and relaxed.
As you prepare to work toward a regulated nervous system, I want to share with you the four benefits of healing and what to expect as you move forward:
Benefit #1: Reduced Brain Fog
Brain fog is when you feel confused, forgetful, and unable to focus or lack mental clarity. As you work on healing, your brain fog may start to lift and your concentration improve.
Benefit #2: Feeling Like Your Body is Healing, Not Fighting
A primary problem that stems from a dysregulated nervous system is being stuck in the “fight or flight” response. Your body is constantly feeling on edge, ready for danger.
As your nervous system heals, you spend less time stuck in this response. You will begin to feel like your body and mind are healing, rather than fighting for survival.
Benefit #3: Wake Up Without Anxiety
It’s not normal to wake up with anxiety every morning and shouldn’t be disregarded when considering the health of your nervous system. While you may consider it a part of daily life, one of the benefits many people notice is waking up with less anxiety.
Benefit #4: Emotional Stability
Emotional stability is the ability to maintain your emotional balance under stressful circumstances. When our nervous system is suffering, we lack the ability to successfully manage our emotions.
After healing, you can experience more emotional stability, meaning you’re better able to tolerate the minor stresses and situations of your day-to-day life without experiencing emotional strain, such as becoming upset, anxious, nervous, tense, or angry.
What’s Possible When You Heal Your Dysregulated Nervous System?
Healing your dysregulated nervous system will allow you to experience more benefits than the ones I mentioned above. Once you heal your nervous system, you have the possibility of waking up and not even thinking about what will trigger you.
You may spend less of your day thinking about your symptoms, and you could be able to move your body without fear and have the energy to do so. Keep your doctor in the loop along the way, especially before changing any medication or treatment.
Healing your nervous system is finding the way out, not just “managing” your symptoms.
If you’re ready to start healing your physical and emotional pain and feel better on a daily basis, apply for my Mindbody Program today -> Apply Here.