Dr. Jay Wiles

And so within seconds, they'll start to make these really beautiful oscillations in their heart rate.

They may be small initially, but within seconds, it starts to respond.

Funny thing enough is that the parasympathetic nervous system, so again, the parachute brings us down, the relaxation response, works much faster than the sympathetic nervous system.

It's even quicker.

And so it's not to say that the sympathetic nervous system isn't fast.

It's really fast.

However, the parasympathetic nervous system is much faster.

Because when we think about the vagus nerve, which is our wandering nerve, it innervates basically every part of our body and sends communication up to the medulla in the brain.

which is like basically a control system of our central nervous system.

It responds immensely quickly.

And one of the fastest ways that we can shift that state is just breathing.

So with, for you within a single breath, you can actually start to enhance that vagal activation, which is a pretty incredible feature that we have as human beings is to be able to use something as simple as our breath to adapt that quickly and,

Yeah, you can breathe right now.

And the thing is, too, is that you can do it in a controlled environment where nobody's watching you and you can be using a device or an apparatus.

Great.

You can do it that way.

But you can also do it, you know, in an environment where there's plenty of people and no one's really knowing that you're

sitting there regulating your nervous system i've been trying to do it here you know since we've been talking it's just slow the pace of my breathing down because as people probably hear like i tend to get quite excited and i can talk fast so when i slow my breathing down that can actually increase my overall mental acuity and then therefore why does it increase mental acuity

So that probably takes a little bit of time just to explain the science behind this.

And you can kind of like slap me for going like a little bit too much.