Optimize Your Nervous System for Longevity

So number 5 is nervous system optimization. Many of my clients have heard me say that I think all of life comes down to one thing, and that one thing is actually optimizing our nervous system, how we think, what we feel, what we believe is true. And recently I've gotten involved with some of Carl Jung's shadow work. In other words, these are the things that are in the background, that are running in the background, that we may not even be aware of. Some of them we're aware of, like we suffered a particular trauma or a particular incident, but some of it's running in the background and we don't actually fully comprehend comprehend that they're there. And his famous statement is that if you don't identify what's in the shadow, you're destined to live in response to it, and you're going to call your life fate. So in order to break that cycle, identifying what's in the shadow is really important. And the way we go about that is basically by finding things that we react to. Like if something makes us angry, if something makes us sad, if something makes us super happy, if something makes us excited— any of these responses we can look at, okay, what is that response doing for me? Where is that coming from? What's making me not feel safe? What's making me feel safe? And when you start to understand those things and you bring the shadows into the light, so to speak, what's in the shadows into the light, it then allows your nervous system to integrate that into itself where it's no longer kind of unobserved. It's like, oh, I get it. This is what's happening. This is why. And the net effect of that integration is that it's very empowering. All of a sudden you are very empowered to go about life fully in control of your nervous system.