Jonny Miller on Nervous System Mastery

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Mar 11, 2022

Jonny Miller, host of the Curious Humans Podcast and TEDx speaker, dives deep into Nervous System Mastery. He shares his personal journey through grief, emphasizing how it led to emotional growth and awareness. The discussion introduces interoception and the importance of recognizing 'emotional debt' from unprocessed trauma. Breathwork techniques like bellows breathing and the Wim Hof method are explored for emotional regulation. The conversation emphasizes embracing discomfort for resilience and self-discovery, offering practical insights for personal growth.

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INSIGHT

Feeding Both Wolves

Jonny Miller initially focused on cultivating positivity ("feeding the good wolf").
He later realized the importance of exploring and integrating "negative" emotions ("feeding the bad wolf").

ANECDOTE

Sophie's Passing and Jonny's Journey

Jonny Miller's fiance, Sophie, died by suicide after a bipolar episode.
This led him on a journey of exploring grief and his inner landscape through meditation, plant medicine, and breathwork.

INSIGHT

Nervous System Mastery

Nervous system mastery involves interoception (awareness of inner landscape) and self-regulation (controlling inner state).
Bottom-up approaches (breathwork) are more effective for changing the nervous system than top-down (thoughts).

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Jonny Miller is best known for hosting the Curious Humans Podcast and for his TEDx talk on “The Gifts of Grief” Jonny coaches ambitious founders to scale themselves and runs an online cohort-based training called Nervous System Mastery. He is also the co-founder of Maptia, a global visual storytelling platform.

In this episode, Eric and Jonny discuss his important work with Nervous System Mastery

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Jonny Miller and I Discuss Nervous System Mastery and…

His podcast, Curious Humans
His tragic story of the death of his fiance that led to his TEDx Talk
Learning to surrender and getting curious about his grief and pain
His program, Nervous System Mastery
Interoception is the journey to becoming aware of everything in your body
How physical sensations may correlate with certain thought patterns
How the nervous systems stores the traumatic experiences
“Emotional debt” occurs when trauma isn’t processed in the body and leads to burnout
The more interoception we have, the more we can recognize our emotional debt
Self-regulation is about up-regulating or down-regulating our nervous system
Breathwork is a powerful tool in downregulating our nervous system
Other tools, such as bellows breathing, for energizing and stimulating our nervous system
How our nervous system is neuroplastic and we can increase or decrease our tolerance
The common barriers and the practices for emotional resilience

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Curious Humans Podcast

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