Your Nervous System is like Brendan Fraser in a loin cloth.

If you grew up in the 90s like me, you probably remember the movie George of the Jungle.

Shirtless Brendon Fraser hanging out with monkeys and swinging around on vines--what's not to love?

Towards the end of the movie George ventures out of the jungle and into modern civilization for the first time. 

As you would expect, it doesn't go great.

Since he was raised in a primitive environment, George is baffled by the modern world and the technology around him.  He simply can't deal with the phones and the noise and the food and he is so overwhelmed that he eventually has to go home to the wilderness where he feels safe and things make sense.

That is all of our nervous systems. 

 We are George.

The reason I bring this up is because it's easy to forget just how new and weird the way we spend our days is. 

Because your nervous system evolved to understand a world so far removed from the one you live in, it makes sense why it has a hard time occasionally regulating itself appropriately and helping you feel safe and calm.

Our society likes to pretend that mental health issues are due to some deficiency on your part, when in reality, in many cases, it is just your nervous system responding appropriately to spending 10 hours a day sitting at a tiny screen zoning out on zoom calls.

Instead of danger and attention only being given when a tiger was chasing you, your systems get stuck paying attention and responding to every car horn, frustrating email and mental rumination. 

That's the REAL reason why you need breathing, awareness and tension relief tools to reduce anxiety and build more resilience to stress--because your instincts don't work in modern cities.

But the great thing is that these mindfulness tools give you control to help regulate your system and build habits that actually help support your nervous system in this stressful, tech-filled world without going crazy.

So you can go back to the jungle like George, or learn some simple techniques to take back control.

The choice is yours. 

And if you're ready to get started, I'd love to chat with you and work together on some research supported mindset, breathing and habit building techniques to set you up for resilience.