Jake Burhans explains how worry triggers neuropeptides that keep you stressed, and how slowing your exhale longer than your inhale shifts your nervous system from fight-or-flight to rest-and-digest mode.
starts with understanding that a lot of us are addicted to stress and fear and all these things. We're addicted to them, chemically addicted to them. How is that possible? Just every time that you think these thoughts of fear and worry and anxiety, it's sending chemical cocktail, right? Neuropeptides to your body and it's programming your body to live in that state of being. That's how we literally condition our bodies to be in a certain emotion. Of anger or fear or stress or whatever, right? So now the good thing is we can reprogram our bodies. We can reprogram our bodies to live in peace and love and joy and abundance. Now the easiest way and the quickest way is the breath, okay? I mean, that's straight up science that the breath regulates the nervous system. Now, what you wanna do is just slowing your breath down slows your nervous system down. It makes sense 'cause when you're in fight or flight, you're, You're almost hyperventilating, like your heart's beating really quickly, like you're breathing really, really shallowly and quickly. So just by literally sitting down, and maybe your heart's just racing, you are freaking livid about something. You are angry, or you are upset, or XYZ, and heart's going. Just being aware of your breath and intentionally slowing your breath down. And furthermore, if your exhale can be longer than your inhale, you're gonna— you're going to reset your nervous system from a sympathetic state— they call sympathetic state, which is your fight or flight— back into the parasympathetic state, which is like the— where you're resting and what they call rest and digest. So resting and digesting and doing these things. So the breath is the single tool that regulates your entire nervous system, and it's free, and you can use it whenever you want, right?
