You're hearing more and more these days about having a regulated nervous system.

There's this quote I see on social media all the time.

You can have all the skills you want, the plans, the vision.

But if your body is constantly in fight or flight or freeze mode, you're going to struggle

to focus, you're going to struggle to trust yourself, and you're definitely not going to

be able to follow through.

A lot of the time

it's not that you're incapable of doing amazing things or being an amazing partner or having

amazing ideas. It's that you have a dysregulated nervous system and therefore you're constantly

being pulled away from what's truly important and toward things and people and experiences that end up being time

wasters and energy drains. Now, obviously, this is not what anybody wants. Nobody wants to get in

their own way and live life on hard mode. The good news is that it's never been easier to regulate

your nervous system. We have more tools than ever to get centered, which is really a

byproduct of restoring balance to your nervous system. And in today's episode, I'm going to go over

three simple, painless tools that you can use to start the process of restoring balance to

your nervous system. The first two tools are quick resets that you can do

in the moment, and the last one is more of a foundational practice that helps to solidify balance

for the long term so you become less and less reliant on those first two tools. But first,

let's talk about what we mean when we say dysregulated nervous system and how it gets out of whack. By the way,

if you're new here, my name is Light Watkins. I'm a longtime wellness practitioner, and I started this

channel to help other people who identify as spiritual to understand how to view seemingly

non-spiritual life situations that sometimes trip us up through a spiritual lens or what I often refer to as

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