This week on the Anxiety Slayer Podcast, we're sharing tips for how you can calm your

nervous system to better regulate your emotional responses to all that life

brings you. Welcome back to Anxiety Slayer. I'm Shan

Banderleak here with my wonderful friend and co-host Ananga Severe.

And today we're answering or discussing a listener question, how do you calm your nervous system?

And there's a wealth of information available on calming the nervous system from the teachings of iurveda and other wisdom

traditions to research into childhood trauma burnout and even neuroplasticity.

So we'll dig into some of this and hope that we can give you a road map to how you can

care for your nervous system. According to Iraveda how we care for our nervous system. According to Iraveda how we care for our nervous system is

very similar to how we care for anxiety. So some of what we'll be sharing

this week won't be new information, although we're going to look at it from a different

angle. Aravada teaches that the nervous system is governed by the Vata, Dosa, and that's the same energy that provokes anxiety when we're out of balance.

So for new listeners we're talking about Iraveda India's ancient science of life and if you look through our archives you'll find lots of information.

The first stage in looking after our nervous system is in protecting it and that means understanding

what affects our nervous system negatively and protecting it from harm to identify and minimize sources of stress in your life as much as possible.

So that really starts with looking and noticing.

And some of the things that you want to look out for include over-stimulation,

whether that be from the news, social media, intense drama, anything that's happening on the screen.

Also, lack of sleep and irregular sleeping habits.

Stimulants, we talk about that a lot,

stimulants like caffeine.

There's all of these energy drinks on the market that really can contribute to frying your nervous system.

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