Dr. Jay Wiles

But then if I don't ever go back to the gym again, it's like, well, I had that nice, great workout.

That was a great state change for that period of time.

But I didn't make these adaptations.

My muscles didn't get stronger because of that.

They didn't get larger because of that.

The nervous system works in the exact same way.

So it's like when I do a lot of these practices that I'm sure we'll get into, I think about me every single time.

It's like me going to the nervous system gym.

And every breath that I take, that's like a rep.

It's like every time I do 10 minutes of this breathing practice, that's like a workout.

And I know that as I compound workouts across time, the research has demonstrated that we actually experience more longitudinal or trait changes.

Our nervous system's thermostat starts to actually dial in the direction that we're training it.

And that's when we can, and that's when we've made a nervous system that's flexible and can handle a lot of the things that stress, that life throws at us like stress.

A lot of it depends on how long they've been doing it and how consistently.

But let's say, let's take it from this person's never heard of resonance breathing.

They've never done a single resonance breath.

And I know we have to unpack what resonance breathing actually is, but let's just say they've never done it.

Okay.

Their nervous system will begin to respond.

So vagal firing, the 10th cranial nerve, the vagus nerve will begin firing almost instantaneously.