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How to Regulate Your Nervous System

This fantastic graphic breaks down some key strategies for regulating your nervous system. Which of these do you already practice, and which are you excited to try?

✨ How to Regulate Your Nervous System: ✨

  1. ☀️🌳 Nature + Sunshine: Get outside! Forest bathing and sunshine are like medicine for your nervous system.
  2. 🔇 Turn Down the Volume: Reduce unnecessary stimuli to activate your calming parasympathetic nervous system.
  3. 🫂💕 Hug, Cuddle + Embrace: Boost those feel-good endorphins and oxytocin with connection!
  4. 🦶🦶 Ground: Try a weighted blanket or walk barefoot. It helps relieve anxiety and ground you.
  5. ✈️ Make Time for Space: Tend to your needs, and do activities that feed your soul.
  6. 🎶💃 Shake It Off: Physically move your body to release built-up energy.
  7. ❄️ Cold Plunges: Cold water plunges or ice baths alleviate inflammation and boost repair.
  8. 🐟🥑 Eat Healthy Fats: Essential for building nerve tissue (brain + nerves) and hormones!
  9. 😴🌙 Good Sleep: Aim for 8 hours to get all the benefits of body and mind rest.

Which of these resonates most with you today? Share your go-to nervous system hacks in the comments below! Let’s support each other in finding more calm and resilience. 👇