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The Operating Manual for Your Nervous System
To activate the sympathetic nervous system: narrow your vision. Go into “Portrait Mode” and let everything else fall into the background. To activate the parasympathetic nervous system: widen your visual field. See as much of your environment as you can.
Charlotte Grysolle • Breathwork Fallacies, How to Tap Into Your ANS & a Slow Breathing Exercise
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Jonny Millerx.comWhen we feel anxiety, our sympathetic nervous system is in action. It energizes the body to be alert. It increases the heart rate, the pace at which we are breathing to oxygenate our muscles and how quickly we are thinking.
The parasympathetic nervous system is the one that calm us down after being in a state of alertness. The quickest way to calm
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