Jonny MillerFounder of Nervous System Mastery

How to stay calm (without toxic positivity)

Name: How to stay calm (without toxic positivity)
Uploaded: 2024-09-13T15:00:42+00:00
Duration: 49 s
Channel: Jonny Miller
Description: Jonny Miller explains how to shift your emotional state through physiology rather than positive thinking. He contrasts breathing techniques with…

13 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Jonny Miller explains how to shift your emotional state through physiology rather than positive thinking. He contrasts breathing techniques with mindfulness reframes, noting that your body sends four times more signals to your brain than your brain sends to your body. Changing your physiology cascades into changes in thoughts and feelings.

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Most people, when they try to calm down, they use kind of tactical reframes, or maybe mindfulness, or maybe reframing the situation in a positive light. But in my experience, working with the physiology, using what's known as a bottom up approach, primarily using the breath, it's such a rapidly more effective way at shifting your state. We have what's known as afferent and efferent neurons going up and down our body, and there's four times more afferent neurons going from the body to the brain as from the brain to the body, a superhighway of traffic up to the brain, and four times less going from the brain to the body. So if you change your state first by learning how to pull on the levers of our physiology, then there's a cascading effect which changes your thoughts and feelings.