BITESIZE | How To Become Less Reactive & Cultivate A Deep Sense Of Calm | Jonny Miller #653

Welcome to Feel Better Live More Bite Size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 569 of the podcast with Johnny Miller, founder of Nervous System Mastery. In this clip, he shares why learning to work with your body can change how you respond to stress. reduce reactivity and help you move from overwhelm to calm. We don't see the world as it is, we see the world as we are.

So why is there this internal conflict? We know who we are, we know we want to be kind and compassionate, yet we end up being reactive and stressed. And one of the reasons I think, which I think very much mirrors what you're saying, is that if you're chronically stressed, the way you view the world also changes, right? Because when you're stressed, your body thinks it's under threat, right?

So the focus comes in, you're looking for threat, you're looking for problems, you become hypervigilant, right? You're not having this wide perspective, taking the other viewpoint, going, oh, I wonder what they were thinking there. Do you know what I mean? So it It feels like it's a vicious cycle from both sides.

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