It's very important that people take control of their mind and their body in a way that

allows themselves to calm down, to reduce the so-called stress response.

You're too activated, you're too alert, you're too agitated and you want to be less alert,

less activated and less agitated.

When we're too activated and we want to calm down and we're trying to say,

we calm down, don't say the thing that you know you shouldn't say,

don't do the thing, you know, you shouldn't do.

And then there's the other kind of limbic friction which is the world is happening really fast

and we feel buried, we're overwhelmed and we need to get more activated.

We need more energy.

We need more energy, we need to be able to lean into life and we're feeling overwhelmed.

So the first thing for anyone trying to navigate stress and then we'll talk about drama

is to understand in what kind of stress they're dealing with,

are you exhausted in having a hard time getting your energy up?

Or is your energy too high and you're having a hard time getting your energy down?

Because the solutions to those are often quite different.

I'm trying to control the mind with the mind is like trying to grab fog.

It's vapors, you're never going to grab it.

The nervous system includes the brain but also all the connections with the body to act again.

And so when you can't control your mind, you want to do something purely mechanical.

All trauma, anxiety, fears, they all map back to stress in some way.

Now you can have stress without trauma.

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