Navigating from the nervous system discusses a perspective and a collection of tools designed to rewire my brain to change my physiological responses to stressful situations. I can respond to triggers rather that react and be stuck in a state of high alert.

Writing is personal to me and difficult. I’m choosing my words over ai.

Having enjoyed a few years of solid, restorative deep sleep, I find myself in a cycle of sleep disturbance, restless nights and dysfunctional days. This article explores going through my days and my sleep checklists to help improve my sleep.

Exploring through digital fatigue.

Tacking the stress of the holidays and family gatherings by remembering to focus on the breathing.

In addition to removing carbon dioxide and creating oxygen, trees provide mental and physical health benefits, calming anxiety, improving depression and lowering blood pressure.

Maintaining nasal breathing and mouth taping through a recent bout of covid required diligent effort.

Nasal breathing can be used as an effective tool to improve athletic performance.

While breathing is an autonomic function of the central nervous system, we can be attuned to the quality of our breathing and use that awareness to improve our breathing and our health.

Consistent, quality sleep is essential to health and well being. There are many tools we can utilize to improve the quality of our sleep.

Breath work can be a powerful tool to enhance cognitive functions by activating the parasympathetic nervous system.

My understanding of how profoundly the quality of my breath affects my health continues to grow.

Breathing is so essential we have a primary system, our noses, and a back-up system, our mouths. Each of these systems has capabilities that the other does not, which gives us a clear indication which system is the most beneficial to the body for breathing: It’s the nose.