Yo, hey everyone, welcome back to the podcast, or should I say

bonjour, because I am currently in France.

I have been here all week, but don't worry, I am not even going to attempt to say anything

else in French.

So the reason I'm here is because I'm working and I've been delivering a presentation

all about well-being in the modern world. And throughout the week, I've spoken to different people,

delivered this presentation to different groups of people from different places around the world.

And after my presentation, I answered people's questions, of course, in the Q&A.

And I always enjoy that because it highlights to me which areas of the presentation were the most impactful, what people resonated with.

And it's always nice to be able to answer those questions.

So one of the things that I talk about in my presentation is about how the modern world is over-st It's hyper stimulating for us, for our senses. It's like sensory overload for most of us, most of the time.

And I talk about this term upregulating and down regulating our nervous system. Now, this is a term

that I have heard used many times for many years in the

wellbeing industry, but I'm aware that it might not be a term that everybody knows about and

really understands what that means and what that is. So in this episode, I really wanted to talk about

this idea of up-regulating and down-regulating our nervous systems, what it means, why it's important,

and what we can do each day to feel calmer, to feel less anxious, less stressed, to breathe a little

deeper, to drop our shoulders down and feel a little bit more relaxed, and to be able to rest,

recover, digest and sleep. Because sleep,

I know, is an issue for a lot of people. Most of us are not getting enough sleep. Many people

have sleep problems. They find it difficult to fall asleep at night. It might wake up in the

middle of the night and find it very difficult to get back to sleep. And even when the physical body

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