Dr. Mike Pierce

And we believe that God gave us both for a reason.

There's moments in my day when I want a sympathetic nervous system.

The other day, I walked in the room and my one-year-old had a marker walking towards the wall.

I want a sympathetic nervous system to give me energy to run towards him and not let him color on the wall, right?

But then there's a moment when it's like, okay, I don't want to live there.

You shouldn't have your body staying in that state.

It's not healthy to have your nervous system firing on all cylinders all the time.

But I think today, a lot of us, that's where we live.

We go to bed looking at emails and then we go to sleep and then we wake up, more emails, more social media.

Do I feel validated by my likes?

Oh my gosh.

And then we go into work and then we're always on something.

And we're just so driven all the time that you can see someone, they're just like their shoulders are so stuck here and they can't even relax and breathe.

That's me.

And we look at this, it's like they don't know how to breathe.

Like they've lost the art of belly breathing and calming their body down because they're just stuck like this all day.

I do think it's healthy to have moments of both, right?

Like you want to have both, but you don't want to be in a state where you're constantly just like in this fight or flight zone.

Like, is the tiger coming for me?

When you come in, a over-sympathetic nervous system, if that's where you're at, when you get an adjustment, what an adjustment actually does, the way I like to say it is it recalibrates the nerve system to then calm it back down.