Your Beautiful Nervous System and Anxiety
If you’re struggling with anxiety, try my Anxiety and the Brain Master Class. The link is at the bottom of the page.
Anxiety is part of the normal stress response, which can cause intense feelings of fear or worry. This is how our body was designed to react in times of danger. When our body triggers the fear response, our hormones and nervous system respond by increasing our heart rate, dilating our pupils so we can see better, and releasing glucose for a quick getaway. If we trigger this response daily or often, it can lead to chronic anxiety, depression, weight issues, sleep issues, and much more.
The fear response is something we don’t want to turn off completely, as it is essential in keeping us safe. However, we also don’t want to over-trigger our responses to everyday stuff like a toxic boss, being stuck in traffic, or a difficult relationship. We need to use these signs of stress to build a positive relationship with our fear responses, realize the symptoms, and deploy techniques to help us cope with the stress—reframing the thoughts and transmuting the energy.
When dealing with anxiety, I find it helpful to understand more about how the nervous system works, which consists of your brain, spinal cord, and nerves. It is a highly complex system of interconnected electrical impulses or signals that manage most of your physical actions and processes. That’s right; your brain is just sending electrical signals back and forth in your body and storing memories in the brain for future responses. At the core, it is all just energy.
Think of the brain as the command center of your body. Right now, and I do mean right now, your nervous system is sending thousands of electrical impulses, including:
Reading the room's temperature, should we sweat to cool us down or shiver to warm us up?;
Identifying the amount of light in the room, is it time for us to go to sleep? Time for the pineal gland to start secreting melatonin;
Down to your digestive tract, is it time to go to the bathroom or eat?
A strong nervous system helps us adapt quickly and respond to stimuli. However, in our modern-day world, our nervous system becomes overtaxed, and we become vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and illness.
To learn more about managing your anxiety, take my Anxiety and the Brain Master Class. You’ll learn more about the nervous system, the brain, and the expressions of the nervous system that are there to help us deal with difficult situations.
The class is online and self-paced. Please contact me if you have any questions before purchasing the course or while taking it.
Anxiety can be isolating and make you feel like it has control over you. You don’t have to go about it alone. Please know there are a multitude of resources available to you.
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With love,
Jeri
Originally Posted: August 29th, 2023 Updated: December 14th, 2024
