Ella Mills

It doesn't need to be demonized.

but the issue sets in when you become in this more chronic stressed state that's what's not good for our health too much of that sympathetic activation and as we said in the world we live in today where the tube is busy you know the street is busy there's loud noises and honking and then your phone's beeping all day and you're constantly stimulated and you're exhausted it's actually so normal to basically be stuck feeling stressed all the time and kind of completely forget like how can i just sit and be

And so, you know, we do and I do feel strongly that then introducing like specific tools to help you switch into that more parasympathetic, that rest and digest state are really important.

And there's so many different things you can do.

Singing is actually an amazing one.

You know, and that's what obviously helps.

Oh yeah.

Oh my God.

Catch me on a dog walk.

So out of tune.

It's unbelievable.

You know, and it might be coloring.

It might be gentle baking as in like really like slow, lovely, mindful stuff.

But breath work, I personally believe is a really interesting entry point.

Meditation can be very confronting to people because you are sitting there thinking,

with your own thoughts.

And when you are not used to sitting still and you live a very fast-paced life and you are in that slightly stuck, overstimulated state, sitting with your thoughts for 20 minutes is really confronting.

disconnecting from that i mean yeah to just sit still is it's quite a contrast and i think what i like about breath work as an entry point is it's more focused you know if you're sitting there and you're constantly controlling and counting the breath you're quite busy in your mind so you don't have that same kind of confrontation of yourself and that's why i think it's really interesting and yeah it's very well researched um various different mostly just kind of slow breathing and

in terms of helping support your nervous system because it helps you get into that parasympathetic, that restful state.

Meditation and kind of mindful meditation as well is incredibly well researched.