Your parasympathetic nervous system is your body's off switch, activated by things like baths and meditation. But modern life keeps you stuck in constant activation instead, leaving your body dysregulated and worn out.
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The parasympathetic system turns it off. What is the parasympathetic system? It's the system that comes into place to help you to recover. So when you're doing things like taking a nice relaxing bath and meditating, you're turning on your parasympathetic system. The problem is most people don't turn that system on because they racing all day and they doing this and they doing that and they ripping and running and they solving other people's problems and they gotta finish their work and they trying to pay bills and they taking care of their kids. And there's never a place of recovery. And so people's bodies are not functioning well because they're not utilizing the parasympathetic, the off switch.