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So your autonomic nervous system mind basically fluctuates between states of energy, arousal, activation,

and the secondary or the other setting of inhibition, deactivating, limiting energy and alertness.

So those are the two broad settings, things that amp us up, mobilize

us, get us ready to survive, and those settings that essentially wind us down, deactivate us, soon settle.

The sympathetic nervous system is the branch of your nervous system that is associated with

arousal, alertness, taking an action, mobilizing so that you can survive a difficult

situation. When we have it plays a very fundamentally good role in human life the ability to go out in our species history, hunt for food, which was very, very dangerous.

It was the time that you could be killed.

Required you to have a sympathetic nervous system that would produce neurotransmitters that made you

feel very powerful, like adrenaline, also reward reward dopamine. It's any sexual excitement any time you play a game, any time you exercise,

any time you do anything that requires exertion

or activity, you are moving your autonomic system to sympathetic to arousal. Of course, if you stay too

long in the sympathetic nervous system you eventually run out of

adrenaline and dopamine and then you start releasing your hypothermalmus triggers the release of from your

genome glands of cortisol which is a stress hormone that's very

actually bad for us when it's released for any period of time.

When we are in prolonged states of stress,

which means we're constantly alert, we're constantly vigilant,

constantly in a state of active engagement with something

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