The Giants Shoulder #67 Mind-Body Expert: The New Science of Emotion, Nervous System Mastery & Psychedelics!
Jonny Miller is the creator of Nervous System Mastery, a transformative training program that teaches thousands of people how to regulate stress, unlock emotional resilience, and reconnect with their bodies. He’s also the host of The Inner Frontier podcast and a TEDx speaker whose work bridges neuroscience, trauma, and the physiology of calm.
Emotions aren’t what you think they are — they don’t live in your “mind,” but in the dynamic language of your body. Jonny’s journey from burnout and grief to embodied mastery reveals that the key to peace, creativity, and connection lies not in suppressing emotion, but in learning to listen to it.
Expect to learn why emotions are predictions from the body, not reactions from the brain, how interoception and the vagus nerve shape your inner world, what really causes anxiety and how to retrain your nervous system to feel safe again, why emotional suppression creates “debt” in the body, the hidden physiology of flow states, how blood flow and micro-constriction may encode our sense of control, why co-regulation with others is the most powerful stress medicine, how to build real resilience instead of numbness — and much more…
Timestamps:
03:00 Mastering the Nervous System
05:53 The Impact of a Chaotic Nervous System
08:51 Agency and Nervous System Regulation
11:33 Personal Journey and Life Events
14:48 Grief and Emotional Mastery
17:45 Introspection and Self-Regulation
20:44 Emotional Fluidity and Processing
23:48 Navigating Rejection and Fear
26:41 The Role of Relationships in Regulation
37:47 Understanding Loneliness and Connection
39:09 Nervous System Mastery Practices
42:03 The Relational Dojo: Practicing Connection
42:51 Descriptive Experience Sampling: Inner Awareness
44:27 Interoception and Self-Understanding
47:04 Emotions, Sensations, and Decision Making
48:58 Flow States and Central Nervous System Optimization
54:47 The Body's Predictive Processing
59:08 Connection Between Body and Mind
01:04:19 Meditation Practices and Overcoming Box-Ticking
01:09:34 Exploring Meditative Practices
01:10:34 The Role of Psychedelics in Personal Growth
01:12:36 Therapeutic Benefits of MDMA and Ketamine
01:15:01 Navigating Risks and Benefits of Psychedelics
01:17:49 Psychedelics and Personal Pathways
01:20:15 The Intersection of Psychedelics and Meaning
01:23:28 Legislating Psychedelics: A New Approach
01:26:39 The Future of Psychedelics and AI
01:29:15 Exciting Frontiers in Neuroscience and Parenting
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