Juna Bobby MD, EdMFounder, MindBodySpace LLC · RELAX TO SOAR™️ Method Workshops • Mindbodyspace Podcast • NYU SOM M.D. • Harvard Ed.M. • Juilliard Resilience Faculty

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21 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, Dr. Juna Bobby explains a straightforward method to elicit the body's relaxation response: interrupting the continuous stream of everyday thoughts. By breaking this mental loop, the autonomic nervous system shifts from sympathetic dominance (stress response) to parasympathetic activation, resulting in lowered heart rate, slower breathing, reduced muscle tension, and a cascade of other calming physiological changes.

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Eliciting the relaxation response is rather simple. The bottom line is that we want to interrupt the train of everyday thinking, you know, all those thoughts that go on and on in our heads all day long. So when we interrupt that, we can elicit the relaxation response, which is the physiologic opposite of the stress response, meaning that we turn down the sympathetic nervous system and turn up the parasympathetic nervous system. So our heart rate lowers, our breathing rate lowers. We tend to relax muscle tension. Um, a whole host of things happen.