636. Language of the Heart: How to use HRV as a Compass for Nervous System Health w/ Salim Najjar
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with engineer-turned-nervous-system guide Salim Najjar for a deep exploration into nervous system sovereignty, HRV mastery, and the inner architecture of human consciousness. Salim brings a rare perspective, equal parts scientific, spiritual, and experiential, shaped by his own journey transforming his HRV from 32 to over 100 and developing his signature framework, The A.R.T. of the Heart.
We get into everything from his life-altering 5-MeO Bufo experience to the powerful realizations that came through global travel, sacred sites, and studying with spiritual masters. Salim breaks down how attachment patterns, family wounds, and emotional imprints show up in the body, and how learning to read our physiological signals (rather than override them) creates the sovereignty most of us are unconsciously seeking.
We also dive into the reframes and nervous system pathways that helped Salim unwind old programs, dissolve judgment, and shift into a state where stress becomes an ally rather than an adversary. If you’ve ever wondered how HRV actually reflects your inner state, why your body is the fastest route to clarity and alignment, or how to consciously choose the “timeline” you’re operating in, Salim brings illuminating and immediately applicable insights.
For anyone navigating stress, burnout, emotional patterns, or the desire for deeper self-mastery, this conversation offers a grounded yet expansive roadmap back to your own innate wisdom. Salim’s message is simple but profound: your body is the guru, and learning to listen changes everything.
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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
(00:00:00) The Bufo Experience That Changed Everything
(00:13:20) Perceived Stress, Quantum Reality, & the Stories We Tell
(00:26:49) Lineage, Soul Contracts, & Breaking Generational Patterns
(00:39:33) How to Measure HRV & Understand Your Nervous System’s “Language”
(00:54:59) Hormetic Stress, Biohacks, & Training to Be an Emotional Athlete
(01:18:20) Reframing Stress, Meaning, & Synchronicity
(01:34:34) Community, Co-Regulation, & Why Relationships Heal the Nervous System
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| 0:00.0 | At the end of the day, we all are mirrors walking each other home in co-regulation. |
| 0:04.5 | Has scientifically been proven to be a thing. |
| 0:07.0 | Hearts synchronize with the nervous systems around them. |
| 0:11.0 | And when you say like people get upset when you trigger them if you're so calm, that's their medicine. |
| 0:16.0 | And over time, their nervous system will start to sink. |
| 0:19.0 | The heart is the largest magnet, literally like a metronome. |
| 0:22.6 | We sink to who's around us, to be open and vulnerable and feel all those feelings and be witnessed. |
| 0:27.6 | Just amplifies the regulation. |
| 0:29.6 | The body, the longest study in human history, the 80-year-plus Harvard study. |
| 0:33.6 | They spent over 80 years, I think over 72 youth from Boston, 18 year old boys following |
| 0:39.3 | every aspect of their life, following their medical records, their jobs, their spouses, interviewing |
| 0:44.7 | everything, three generations of scientists, unimaginable amount of data, all to find what led to a longer, |
| 0:49.5 | healthier, happier life. And after all of that, they came back with one thing. And it was and not quantity, but |
| 0:57.2 | quality. It's led to a longer, healthier life. And that's the foundational pillar of all five |
| 1:03.6 | blue zones. What was the craziest thing you saw or heard or experienced in a plant medicine ceremony? |
| 1:15.0 | First thing that comes to mind is my first 5MEO Foufo ceremony. |
| 1:18.3 | I'll do it. |
| 1:19.0 | That'll do it. |
| 1:20.2 | And I went in with the intention to really viscerly feel what I call my core wound or my master program around my mom, my brother, |
| 1:30.9 | and my sister and my attachment to them and thinking I need to support and provide and sacrifice |
| 1:35.0 | for them. |
| 1:36.2 | And this was two and a half years ago. |
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