November is a month of gratitude.
Today I am grateful for the parasympathetic nervous system. (Now that’s a sentence I never expected to write!) The world out there likes to encourage me to be best buddies with my sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for stress reactions like the fight-or-flight response. But my parasympathetic nervous system offers a respite from that.
Tapping into deep breathing allows me to relax and heal, to rest, to repair the results of the day’s stresses, even if those stresses are good things like a hard workout, a challenging situation well-resolved, or a novel experience.
What’s your favorite way to find relaxation?
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