Ella Mills

Like five minutes of breathwork can only do so much.

Like it sits with

The rest of your lifestyle in terms of that nervous system support, there is so much, again, I feel like about the nervous system online.

I think in a nutshell, you know, you've got your kind of two key branches of your autonomic nervous system.

You've got your sympathetic and you've got your parasympathetic.

Your sympathetic is your quote unquote stressed state.

Your parasympathetic is your rest and digest.

The reality is, and you know, people always use that analogy of like the modern mind doesn't know the difference between being chased by a tiger and my boss emailing me late at night.

No.

That's true though.

You know, that's kind of a beeping horn or an ambulance blaring.

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.