Mona SharmaCelebrity nutritionist and wellness advocate

Rewire Your Nervous System for Real Healing

20 May 2025 · 0 min

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In this segment of the video, Mona Sharma and a co‑speaker discuss how modern culture overlooks the body's innate ability to heal itself, focusing instead on external solutions. They highlight rising statistics on stress, anxiety, depression, and fear, attributing much of the problem to an over‑active sympathetic nervous system paired with an under‑active parasympathetic system. The co‑speaker introduces the phrase “science of fulfillment,” describing it as the practice of rebalancing the overstimulated sympathetic branch with the understimulated parasympathetic branch to promote genuine healing and well‑being.

I don't think we were ever taught that our bodies could heal itself. Living in this world, we just got stuck in looking for external things to heal us. When our bodies are, in fact, so resilient. Number the statistics around stress that are going up and anxiety and depression and worry and fear that are just going up. A focus is on the sympathetic nervous system, but the opposite can be true.
I like to call it the science of fulfillment. Ultimately, what you're doing is you're bringing the side of the sympathetic that's overstimulated to balance with the parasympathetic that's understimulated.