Take Control of Your Nervous System | Dr. Mariel Buqué

What are a few strategies someone can do to, I guess, work with their nervous system around people that trigger them?

The three practices that I like the most, I like them because they're accessible, because you can do them anywhere, and because they actually work. The three are breath work.

Okay, so number one.

Breath work.

Breath work.

Yeah, and breath work that is at least for five minutes. So the nervous system needs at least that amount of time to actually catch up. And it's important to value breath work, even though, you know, we have so many ways in which it's been, I think, think overdone or people just like discounted. But the thing about breath work is that eventually your nervous system can't operate in the stress response and in the breathing response simultaneously.

It has to relax.

It's gonna have to. And so you keep it going until you feel that. For trauma survivors, it, you know, it can take a little bit longer because there's a lot of undoing, a lot of decades, right? And so the breath work is gonna be key.