Resetting Your Nervous System When You're Anxious, Hurting, or Just Powering Through | Johanna Franzel

Hey, hey, welcome to the Ten Percent Happier Podcast. I'm your host, Dan Harris. As somebody who's been dealing with uh anxiety pretty much his entire life, I am very interested in how to regulate my nervous system, which seems to be on high alert all the time, mostly for no good reason. So I'm very excited to talk to my guest today who's an expert in this. Her name is Johanna Franzel, and she's the author of a book called Write Yourself Home. She's also a teacher and a somatic practitioner. I will let her uh describe exactly what a submatic practitioner is. Johanna. Welcome to the show.

Thanks, Dan. I'm delighted to be here. Why are Our nervous systems on tilt. So much of the time. Uh you know, it just it feels to me like Things can happen.

And my body's reacting as if it's a life or death threat, but it's you know, just a bad email. That's a great question. I had a teacher who liked to say, you can have lunch a thousand times, you get to be lunch once. You know, there is a kind of physiological disposition to scan for what is the threat out here. It really does take practice, I think, to cultivate the ballast, let's say, to be able to kind of move through that. And then and then we could throw in modernity and socialization and capitalism, right? And the an attention that is constantly splintered, ways that we're pulled in a million different directions. And so our nervous system can end up feeling incredibly fractured. And you know, the less regulated we are sometimes, the more we're sort of like looking for strategies in the mind.

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