Podcast Summary
Healing the Nervous System with Applied Neurology and NSI: Applied Neurology and NSI offer practical tools to reconnect and repair neural networks, focusing on all input systems to move from protective responses to performance mode, ensuring both expansion and contraction, rest, and safety.
Applied Neurology and Neuro Somatic Intelligence (NSI) tools offer practical, implementable actions to heal and drive positive change in the nervous system, especially for those dealing with complex trauma. These tools focus on reconnecting and repairing neural networks and support natural brain processes like integration. NSI goes beyond just addressing the vagus nerve, training all input systems to help individuals move from protective responses to performance mode, ensuring both expansion and contraction, rest, and safety. By understanding and utilizing these tools, one can create a life of felt safety and expansion.
Improving Brain Function through Applied Neurology: Applied Neurology focuses on clear sensory inputs to improve brain function, leading to better performance outputs and overall well-being.
Applied Neurology is a science-based approach to improving brain and nervous system function by focusing on the quality of sensory inputs and the brain's interpretation of those inputs. Our brains take in information from various systems, including visual, vestibular, proprioceptive, and interoceptive, and generate an output based on that interpretation. High-quality, clear inputs lead to desirable performance outputs, such as increased connection, strength, and clarity of thought. Conversely, threatening or unclear inputs result in protective outputs, like pain, dizziness, or anxiety. Applied Neurology, through the use of Neuro Somatic Intelligence tools, aims to improve input quality and accuracy, leading to a safer, more functional brain and nervous system. This approach is rooted in neuroscience and brain research and offers a simple yet effective way to improve overall well-being.
Understanding the role of the nervous system in brain health: The nervous system's ability to generate accurate predictions is compromised by unclear or incomplete information, leading to a survival state and hindering healing. Body indicators like posture and gait can help assess nervous system function, and healing held traumas and emotions is essential for optimal brain health.
Our brain's primary job is to ensure our survival, and it does this by taking in information from various input systems and generating a prediction based on that information. However, if the information is unclear or incomplete due to deficits in certain input systems, especially those related to complex trauma, the brain's ability to generate accurate predictions is compromised, keeping us in a state of survival and making it difficult to evolve to higher levels of healing. The body, specifically posture and gait, can provide valuable indicators of nervous system function and help guide our work with individuals. Additionally, unhealed traumas and emotions stored in the body can create further deficits, compounding stress on the body and contributing to illness and disease. In summary, addressing deficits in our nervous system and healing held traumas and emotions is crucial for optimal brain health and overall well-being.
Understanding and supporting nervous system health: Practice nervous system hygiene through intentional exercises and sensory stimuli to prevent protective responses and improve overall quality of life.
Deficits in various parts of the nervous system, whether caused by injury or trauma, can make the world feel smaller by triggering protective responses. This can manifest as changes in gait, reduced body awareness, or heightened stress responses. To prevent these protective responses, it's essential to practice nervous system hygiene through intentional exercises and sensory stimuli. This is not just important for individuals with trauma but for everyone, as we all have habitual patterns that can negatively impact our nervous system. Understanding how our nervous system operates and implementing daily practices to support its health can lead to increased awareness, improved regulation, and a better overall quality of life.
Neuro Somatic Intelligence tools for daily practice and stress relief: These tools promote nervous system regulation, create positive change, and help move from protective responses to thriving in joy and pleasure. They support our bodies' natural desire to heal and adapt.
Neuro Somatic Intelligence (NSI) tools offer practical ways to interrupt patterned responses and promote nervous system regulation. These tools serve two functions: daily practice for creating positive change and "rescue" tools for reregulating during high-stress states. The speaker personally uses Athletic Greens, a daily supplement, for nutritional support and credits it for improved vitamin and mineral levels. NSI tools can help us move from protective responses to thriving in joy and pleasure by creating a daily practice of safety and positive change. The consciousness that designed us desires our thriving and growth, and our bodies are intelligent systems that want to heal and adapt. NSI tools can help us develop clearer intuition, better boundaries, and sovereignty, making it easier to manifest our desires. Our bodies and nervous systems want to heal and move out of protective modes, and with the right support, we can experience the natural growth and expansion we're designed for.
Providing the right stimuli for our nervous system: Focusing on eye stimuli, balance, body mapping, and neurosomatic work can help improve emotional regulation and physical healing by reprogramming the nervous system
Our nervous system plays a crucial role in our overall health and well-being. When we provide it with the right stimuli and create a foundation of safety, our brain and body can learn to trust and adapt, leading to improved emotional regulation and physical healing. By focusing on giving our eyes, balance system, and body mapping system the necessary stimuli for safety, pleasure, rest, and movement, we can help our brain learn that certain experiences are possible and safe. This can lead to transformative moments of self-discovery and the ability to express suppressed emotions, ultimately contributing to better emotional resilience and overall health. Neurosomatic work, which helps reprogram the nervous system, can be an effective tool in managing emotional dysregulation and developing new responses to triggers.
Breaking the pattern of shame: Using neuro-somatic tools to change physiology and repattern response to criticism or rejection, reducing shame's impact on daily life and improving well-being
Emotions, including protective ones like shame, serve a purpose but can become debilitating when they are hypervigilant due to unmet needs during childhood. Shame is a protective response that ensures we keep social bonds intact, but for those with complex or developmental trauma, it can become a well-worn path leading to immobilizing freeze states. To break this pattern, using neuro-somatic tools to change the physiology of our response to criticism or perceived rejection can help us move out of shame and repattern our response. These tools, such as finger circles, breathing exercises, and precise movements, can be practiced in various settings and can help us train our nervous system to respond differently to triggers. By doing so, we can reduce the impact of shame and criticism on our daily lives and improve our overall well-being.
Developing neuro-somatic intelligence through vocal toning: Vocal toning improves confidence, pelvic floor health, and nervous system understanding. It promotes safety, assessment, and better outcomes in growth and healing practices.
Developing a neuro-somatic intelligence practice, such as vocal toning, can lead to increased confidence in using one's voice, improved pelvic floor health, and a deeper understanding of one's nervous system. This practice allows individuals to assess and reassess what their body needs and determine if it's creating positive change. By having a foundational practice of working with and training the nervous system, individuals can create a safer environment for healing other deficits in their respiration, interceptive, and visual systems, leading to better outcomes from various growth and healing modalities. The ability to read the signals from one's nervous system is crucial to avoid getting stuck in negative loops and pushing oneself into practices that may worsen nervous system outputs. Neuro-somatic intelligence tools like vocal toning set growth and healing practices apart by providing a relationship with the nervous system and promoting safety and assessment.
Sensory mismatch causes stress and negative emotions: Sensory mismatch occurs when body systems send conflicting signals to the brain, leading to stress, anxiety, panic disorders, and depression. Address underlying deficits to reduce negative effects.
Sensory mismatch, when different systems in our body send conflicting information to the brain, can lead to significant stress and negative emotional responses such as anxiety, panic disorders, and depression. This is because our brain must constantly decide which signal to believe, leading to increased threat load and a high-stress environment. Sensory mismatch can occur due to various reasons, including deficits in the eyes or body mapping systems and the effects of medications. An example of sensory mismatch is using a treadmill, where the eyes signal standing still, the vestibular system senses movement, and the proprioceptive system responds to movement but senses no forward progress. This confusion can lead to weakness, limited range of motion, and protective outputs like pain or nausea. Studies have shown that sensory mismatch can even diminish strength and generate other protective responses. Motion sickness is another example of sensory mismatch, where the brain receives conflicting signals about the horizon's position and movement. To reduce the negative effects of sensory mismatch, it's crucial to address the underlying deficits and provide a solid foundation for growth and change.
Learning new ways to interpret and integrate inputs for better outputs: The nervous system generates outputs based on sensory inputs and brain interpretation, but it takes energy to create new outputs. Applied neurology techniques help us learn new ways to interpret and integrate inputs for more aligned and desirable outputs. Sign up for a free video series or attend a training to get started.
Our nervous system constantly generates outputs based on the sensory inputs it receives and the brain's interpretation of those inputs. These outputs can range from protective responses like nausea or depression to performance outputs like increased energy and focus. However, our nervous system can only generate one output at a time, and it prefers the status quo, which means it takes a lot of energy for the brain to generate a new output. Applied neurology, which includes techniques like the Brain Based Dash Wellness program, can help us learn new ways of interpreting and integrating inputs to generate more aligned and desirable outputs. Start by signing up for the free 2-week video series and booking a consultation to experience the benefits firsthand. For practitioners, consider attending the upcoming NSI training in March to learn practical tools for reducing stress, anxiety, pain, and improving overall well-being.
Healing from complex trauma, anxiety, and stress involves working with the nervous system: Working with the nervous system is crucial for healing from complex trauma, anxiety, and stress. Practical methods can help, but private neuro somatic coaching offers a more tailored approach. Healing happens in community, and support is available for those experiencing protective outputs or harsh inner critics.
Healing from complex trauma, anxiety, and stress involves working with the nervous system. While some people may find relief through practical methods, others may benefit from private neuro somatic coaching for a more tailored approach. The journey towards healing can be challenging, and it's essential to remember that it's not something to be done alone. Healing happens in community, and there's support available. If you're experiencing protective outputs such as dissociation, freeze, perfectionism, chronic fatigue, pain, lack of presence, or numbing out, or if you have social anxiety or a harsh inner critic, know that there's hope. Your healing lies within you, and neuroplasticity makes it possible. However, it's not easy to do alone. For practical tools to help relieve stress, anxiety, and pain, check out the free 2-week video series at brainbasedwellness.com. If you're a practitioner looking to help your clients achieve faster, more lasting change and resilience, consider learning neuro somatic tools. Join the free workshop on February 4th with vagus nerve expert Melanie Weller and the speaker to learn more.