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The Art & Science of Leveraging Your Physiology with Aaron Alexander

Curious Humans with Jonny Miller

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How Do You Activate Your Parasympathetic System?

Don't be biased towards parasympathetic and like acknowledging the value of both sides of the coin. If you're huffing and puffing, that may or may not take you to some like cathartic release type scenario. A great way perhaps to access if a person is kind of more stuck on the throttle, like sympathetic could in fact be going deeper into the sympathetic. That's hollow, chalice breath work. And then you can breathe with that. You say, oh, I had no idea! So sometimes there's value in respecting both all the time. There's a time and a place to actually go deeper into the resistance response around your nervous system.

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