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Nervous System Regulation
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items As someone who works with many families, I have found that emotional and nervous regulation have been of the top concerns to address. Check out the links below to help yourself with re-regulating your own nervous system.
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How Our Bodies React to Stress
How To Regulate Our Bodies
How Our Bodies React to Stress
It's super important to try to understand why our bodies react to certain stimuli in order to learn how to best help calm those reactions. Click the link to learn more.
Understanding the stress response
The vagus nerve effects our nervous system in so many ways. Check out the link for some general ways to stimulate your vagus nerve, and calm your nervous system.
Vagus Nerve: What It Is, Function, Location & Conditions
Stress effects on the body
How To Regulate Our Bodies
Shakti mats are amazing for stress relief if you need something for pain relief or require pain stimulation to calm your nervous system. This is a luxury model to choose from.
Luxury Shakti Mat
Affordable alternatives to the Shakti Mat brand, prosourcefit acupressure mats are great for pain relief and pain stimulation on a budget.
Affordable Acupressure Mat
If you're looking for an alternative to vaping, here is a safer way to regulate your nervous system
Aroma Flex PuffBar Hand Fidget Relief with Essential Oil
Fruit flavored alternative if you do not like mint.
Aroma Flex PuffBar Hand Fidget Relief with Essential Oil
Binaural beats are great if you're coping skill of choice is sound. It has a calming effect on the body and mind, and can even help you focus better on tasks.
Binaural Beats: Focus
Hydration is super important not just for living, but it can also help you calm your nervous system. Drinking cold water mindfully can help calm your body when you're feeling heated or mad. Why not have a cute water bottle to practice?
Enerbone 32oz Water Bottle with Straw & Strap
If you're not a fan of drinking plain water, this is a great alternative. If you do not have an issue with sucralose or other ingredients in the cirkul products, it can be a great way to make sure you're getting your hydration and your nervous system...
Cirkul 32oz Chameleon SS Bottle Kit w/ 2 Flavors
Journaling has been linked to nervous system regulation many times over. This journal was actually created by my sister who created it to help her go through recent changes in life. What better way to regulate than by journaling in a book created by ...
Gentle Celestial: 30 Days Grounding for Grief
If you love smell-good methods of regulation, I have heard great things about Young Living Essential Oils. It is one of the best options on the market for oils.
Young Living Deep Relief Roll-On 10ml
Thieves 5ml Essential Oil by Young Living
Lavender is one of my favorite scents to enjoy when I need some olfactory self-care.
Young Living Lavender Essential Oil 5ml
Young Living Stress Away™ Roll-On 10ml
Lately, even I have found that music is not always enough for our bodies to decompress. This sound is called brown noise, and it's very similar to the sound of a fan. I've found that this is a game-changer for the nervous system.
Super Deep Smoothed Brown Noise - 12 Hours
As someone who spends most of my day on devices for work, I know what it feels like to carry the weight of constant stimulation—the mental clutter, the exhaustion, and the frustration of trying to unwind when nothing seems to help.
Recently, I found...
How to cut down screen time to the extreme? : r/digitalminimalism