Dave Wood

By doing that practice and shifting into a deep, calm recovery state, activating the parasympathetic vision of your nervous system, you are strengthening that division of your nervous system rather than just constantly strengthening the red part.

And so the more you do it, the more reps you get in, the more balance you bring.

And then you can tether it to things like, you know, I don't know, before you get in the car and go home, before you start the engine, you run a two, three minute breathing flow.

These are simple things that have profound effects.

So with the clients I work with, it's all integrated into the calendar and it's getting them to understand that if you leave it to chance, it will not happen.

Your brain will come up with every reason not to do it.

Yeah, the work that I do is around stress control.

Stress control is just regulating your physical and mental state under pressure.

So what I mean by that, regulating your physical and mental state under pressure.

Under pressure, your heart rate's up, your blood pressure's up, your breathing's up, pupils are dilated, blood flow's shunted out from your core to your peripheries.

Why?

To get you ready to meet threat, challenge and demand.

So stress control is regulating that state because you don't always want to be in a high stress state, right?

You want to be able to grab the dimmer switch if you feel like you're too far in the red and dim it back a little bit.

That is the essence of performance, being able to control your energy.

So that's the work that I do and remaining calm under pressure, and those things are tightly connected.

Having good stress control and remaining calm under pressure are very important skills.

If you take an athlete, for example, you can be the most skilled athlete and have all the attributes that you need to be a winner and a champion, but if you don't have good stress control and you can't regulate your thoughts, thinking, and emotions under pressure, then you're not going to be able to execute.

And that's the same with business.

Yeah, multiple ways.