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you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling life. Let's go. All right. Welcome to episode 684. Hello, my friend. Welcome to a fresh new episode of New Mindset, Who Dis, as always. Thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, it's in the title, Love Should Feel Like an Exhale. I want to talk about what this means. Specifically, I want to talk about this idea in light of the new hotness, the new hot phrase that I'm seeing a lot around the internet, your nervous

system. I see it a lot about how a healthy relationship, the kind of relationship you deserve

that you've been waiting for and working toward how that relationship should make your nervous

system feel calm, your nervous system. And I'm not hating in any sense on people who use this phrase or how popular this idea

of your nervous system has become.

But I want to talk about what it actually means.

Because once I break it down, I think it'll be really clear how the body knows.

The body, your nervous system, knows a healthy relationship and an unhealthy relationship.

And I think it's important to consider this in light of knowing the types of people or friends or lovers that are right for you or that are not right for you by paying attention to your nervous system because the body knows.

Love should feel like an exhale.

Love should make your nervous system feel

supported. So what does that mean? Well, I think this idea of supporting your nervous system

to start, it certainly isn't about like poetic promises. It's not about some grand gesture.

It's quite literally about how your body feels in their presence. It's not about love

in the like heart racing and butterflies way that we've maybe been conditioned to expect. It's kind of

the opposite of that. In fact, this is all about ease. It's about having a nervous system that does not

feel like it's always bracing for impact. And I think this phrasing, the idea

of bracing for impact, is the best description because that's one that we feel in our body. And I'm going

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