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

This Habit Triggers Your Relaxation Response #shorts #mindbody #podcast

18 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Dr. Juna Bobby explains how interrupting your stream of thoughts triggers the relaxation response, the physiological opposite of stress. Breaking the mental loop downregulates your sympathetic nervous system and activates your parasympathetic nervous system, shifting you into a state of calm.

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Hello there. I'm Dr. Juna Bobby MD. I'm a board-certified radiologist and lifestyle medicine physician, and this is the Mind Body Space Podcast where we talk about the science of resilience. And literally just by listening, you can become more resilient. 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.