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Your nervous system and tools to increase your resilience

Your nervous system and tools to increase your resilience

From the course: Strengthening Your Inner IQ: Align Body and Mind for Optimal Results

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Your nervous system and tools to increase your resilience

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- Your nervous system controls how quickly you can move from a state of fight, flight, and freeze to state of peace. Therefore, it's very important to know how to be able to move from this sympathetic to parasympathetic state. What controls the speed with which you can move from one to another is the strength of your cranial nerves. One of the primary nerves that is involved is something called your vagus nerve. Your vagus nerve, also known as the 10th cranial nerve, is the longest nerve in your body. It connects your brain to almost every organ in your body. And as a matter of fact, it used to be how science thought the brain operated the body, but then they realized that 80 to 90% of the communications were coming from the body up to the brain. Oops, it works the other way around, as we talked about before. I'm sure all of you have had an experience where you had a big project due, and finally that project was done, and…

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