Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Achieve nervous system sovereignty 🧠 #mentalhealth #breathwork #somatichealing #podcast

9 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Speaker argues that thought content is shaped by bodily state: a contracted (fear) body state grounds contracted ideas and limits clear thinking. The speaker links amygdala-driven fear states to impaired cognition and promotes "nervous system sovereignty" — returning to the body and using conscious breathwork to shift out of contracted fear states. Breath is framed as unique in that it operates both consciously and unconsciously; becoming aware of breath can change one’s state and reduce unconscious reactivity toward close others.

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Your thoughts are happening based on the state of your body, a lot of people want to expand their consciousness. Well, if your body is stuck in a contracted state, you're going to be picking up on contracted ideas. Hence, if I hijack your amygdala and I keep you in a fear state, then you are going to be in a contracted state. Physically, you're probably not going to be able to think clearly. Nervous system sovereignty coming back to their body, being able to use the breath to move out of these contracted fear states, because it's all a choice. A lot of people ask me, what's the best daily breath work practice? Well, it's, it's not just a practice. It's. Your breath is the only thing that you can do consciously and unconsciously. And can you become conscious of your breath to change your state when you're starting to be in that fear state? When you start to feel in your body that you are in a contracted state? And a lot of the times we take it out on the people that we're the closest to unconsciously, Unconsciously, very unconsciously.