Ella Mills

And the constant notifications on your phone and things like that.

You know, our brain, you know, the amygdala in our brain is always scanning for danger.

Like we're looking for danger.

Our nervous system's looking to see like, am I in danger?

Do I need to respond?

And the interesting thing is, and we know this, like chronic stress is so bad for us.

And, you know, stress isn't bad.

Stress is normal.

It's like the stress hormone cortisol, as Rui always says, like that's what gets you out of bed in the morning.

Like it's kind of demonized.

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.