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One way to achieve a better mental and emotional quality is through the autonomic nervous system. It affects pretty much everything within our body we don’t control directly – from digestion to heart rate and breath. It is autonomic in the sense that you can’t manage it with your own will – for example, a human can’t tell their own body to dilate pupils, or release certain hormones, or not sneeze. The autonomic nervous system takes over all these involuntary regulations.

Key to understanding mental wellness is knowing what is hard-wired in our autonomic nervous system. It is a very old structure we inherited from our earliest predecessors – and it still largely operates in that prehistoric mode. For thousands of years, our ancestors had to rely on their strong muscles or fast legs to survive – and they had to choose quickly, without involving the creative, but slow brain!

This ‘Fight-or-flight’ response is hard-coded in our neurons to launch a specific biological sequence – hormone emission, muscle contractions and so on.
Advancement of human civilization has made it largely obsolete, as we don’t have to rely on it in everyday life. Still, this sequence can be triggered by any stimulus – both from the environment or from within our own body. The ‘fight-or-flight’ response now feels inadequate – this is why we feel anxiety and stress. They can heavily reduce quality of living, contributing to pre-existing conditions or even triggering new ones.

Therapeutic techniques and approaches we offer in Exceptional HEROES can counter this response, keep the autonomic nervous system in check and maintain the balance between it and the brain.