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Nervous System Regulation: What It Actually Means and How to Do It

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Nervous System Regulation: What It Actually Means and How to Do It
Calm Is Contagious: A Touching Story from the Classroom
Relationships & Family

Calm Is Contagious: A Touching Story from the Classroom

There’s a story I heard a while back that I still think about all the time. It comes from a classroom, and it starts with a little...

By Nick Ortner

Nervous System Debt: The Debt You Don’t Know You’re Carrying
Nervous System

Nervous System Debt: The Debt You Don’t Know You’re Carrying

You had a decent night's sleep. You ate something that wasn't terrible. Maybe you even got outside for a walk. By all accounts, ...

By Nick Ortner

Why Your Brain Gets Stuck on a Thought, and How to Break the Loop
Nervous System

Why Your Brain Gets Stuck on a Thought, and How to Break the Loop

You're lying in bed and a thought arrives, uninvited. Something someone said to you, or something you said to them. A decision you...

By Nick Ortner

The Science Behind the Core 5 Gestures: Why Every Session Starts and Ends With Your Hands
Nervous System

The Science Behind the Core 5 Gestures: Why Every Session Starts and Ends With Your Hands

If you've tried the Core 5 Tapping meditations in The Tapping Solution App, you've likely noticed something different right ...

By Nick Ortner

How to Calm Your Nervous System: What Works in Minutes, and What Works for Good
Nervous System

How to Calm Your Nervous System: What Works in Minutes, and What Works for Good

Shoulders somewhere near your ears. A jaw that aches by evening, though you don't remember clenching it. Sleep that doesn't ...

By Nick Ortner

Nervous System Dysregulation: 12 Signs and How to Recover
Nervous System

Nervous System Dysregulation: 12 Signs and How to Recover

The vacation you waited eight months for, and you spent the first three days unable to sit still on the beach. The tiny comment ...

By Nick Ortner

5 Surprising Ways Winter Affects Your Nervous System (And What You Can Do About It)
Nervous System

5 Surprising Ways Winter Affects Your Nervous System (And What You Can Do About It)

Have you ever noticed how you feel just a little bit... heavier once the days get shorter? Last week, I caught myself sighing for ...

By Nick Ortner

Vagus Nerve Exercises: 12 Science-Backed Ways to Activate Your Calm
Nervous System

Vagus Nerve Exercises: 12 Science-Backed Ways to Activate Your Calm

The vagus nerve is the main line of your parasympathetic ("rest-and-digest") nervous system, wandering from your brainstem to your...

By Nick Ortner

Somatic Exercises for Trauma: Releasing What the Body Holds
Trauma & Grief

Somatic Exercises for Trauma: Releasing What the Body Holds

Somatic exercises for trauma are gentle, body-based practices (grounding, orienting, self-holding, breathwork, tapping, and ...

By Nick Ortner

Somatic Exercises for Anxiety: 9 Body-First Techniques That Actually Work
Anxiety & Stress

Somatic Exercises for Anxiety: 9 Body-First Techniques That Actually Work

Your chest is tight. Your thoughts are sprinting three sentences ahead of whatever you're actually doing. And somewhere in there, ...

By Nick Ortner

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