Dr. Elissa Epel
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But I guess my point is chronic stress can, as we were talking about at the beginning, reset baselines.
It can rewire things so that our body is now...
even in its rest state, still in a somewhat chronically stressed state.
And that we'll see that in our sleep.
We'll see that in our food choices, even in our ability to like really connect and relax when we're in social situations and related to other people.
Right.
And that was a big emphasis in our research paper led by Alexander Croswell on blue mind states.
This idea of really being able to turn on restorative physiology partly depends on our perception of safety.
For us to really be able to let down our guard.
we need to feel that sense of physical and social safety.
Once we feel that, we can actually really shift gears into that state that we call better than relaxation, that deep rest state.
The parasympathetic nervous system inhibits the sympathetic nervous system or the stress response.
And so when we...
feel stressed, we release the parasympathetic nervous system.
We have lower vagal tone.
That's how we get this big boost in sympathetic activity.
But back to your question.
Yes, the parasympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system mostly map onto these mind states in the way you described.
I think it's the hidden epidemic.
the disappearance of through relaxation.
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