Tone Your Nervous System

We spend time toning our muscles and thinking we should be getting fit by going to the gym. Our culture even pursues fitness goals that move the body to its extremes – take the Olympics as a fine example.

Perhaps, what we now need the most is to be able to take the mind to similar heightened levels of training and in doing so, tone our nervous system which is so connected to the way we think. Our minds need such fine training ~ and so do our nervous systems.

When the nervous system is under stress, our immunity depletes, our digestion, sleep and reproductive cycles are altered.

Our nervous system and vagal tone is an imperative part of our health, so much so that vagal nerve stimulation is now an effective treatment for depression with neuropsychiatric medical devices.

But, what we all need to understand most deeply is that…
Yoga and Meditation take the VERY best care of our nervous system naturally. Yoga and Meditation have some incredibly precise ways of toning your nervous system.

Find out how to tone your nervous system:
ON AIR ABC Radio tomorrow night with Sarah Howells and Celia Roberts.
7.30pm Thursday 29th September 612 ABC.