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Healing Through Rest: Balancing Your Nervous System [REWIND]

Balanced Black Girl

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The Importance of Rest

Many of us have experienced our sympathetic nervous system being in overdrive. We need rest and we often think that the work is the work, but the rest is also the work. Our muscles don't actually get stronger when we lift weights or when we work out. Lifting weights and working out actually breaks down our muscles. It breaks down our fibers and creates little tears in our muscles. When we rest, that is when that muscle actually replenishes and is fed. That's when the tears are repaired. And that's when they go back, grow back stronger.

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