Nervous System Reset
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You may need a nervous system reset, if you wake up exhausted despite sleeping eight hours. Your heart races during meditation. You feel spiritually connected yet emotionally depleted. Sound familiar? You’re not alone, and you’re not broken; your nervous system just simply needs a reset.
No one likes feeling stressed out. A natural response to feeling overwhelmed is to form habits that help us cope, such as watching television, eating chocolate, or drinking a glass of wine. You may have noticed how stress affects your energy, cravings, mood, eating habits, and sleep. How do your eating habits change when stressed? These habits might help you relax in the moment but do little to benefit us in the long run.
Stress is common in daily life and demands often lead to emotional unrest and tension. You might feel stressed by external factors (such as too much work, children misbehaving, flight delays, or a tight deadline from your boss) and by internal triggers (like your thoughts about external events, feeling pressured to act, or fearing failure). The more significant the outcome, the more stressed you may feel, and you might reach your limit.
The Hidden Crisis: When Spiritual Awakening Meets Nervous System Dysregulation
Here’s what no one tells you about the spiritual journey: awakening doesn’t automatically heal your nervous system. In fact, many spiritually aware people find themselves stuck in a paradox, deeply connected to their soul’s purpose but often overwhelmed, anxious, or burnt out.
This isn’t a character flaw or spiritual failing. It’s your nervous system operating from outdated survival patterns while your soul longs for expansion and peace. The ancient wisdom traditions understood this link between nervous system regulation and spiritual embodiment, but modern life has broken this sacred connection.
Stress can also cause physical changes in the body that may have long-term effects. Persistent stress triggers a series of hormonal responses that can lead to inflammation, irritability, anger, cravings, weight gain, addictions, insomnia, chronic illnesses, and mental health issues such as anxiety and depression.
Stress has two main components – thinking and feeling, which can influence your mood and behaviour, and result in poor concentration, forgetfulness, indecisiveness, apathy, and hopelessness.
The thinking part of stress can lead to negative thoughts,
such as “I can’t cope with this”, or “I can’t do this, it’s too much”.
The telltale signs your nervous system needs a reset:
- Feeling “wired but tired” despite spiritual practices
- Emotional reactivity that doesn’t match your spiritual awareness
- Difficulty staying present during meditation or sacred rituals
- Chronic fatigue paired with racing thoughts
- Feeling disconnected from your body despite being heart-centred
The longer you ignore these signals, the more entrenched the patterns become. Your nervous system, designed to protect you, begins to see even beautiful experiences as threats. Prayer becomes performance. Meditation becomes another task to complete. Your sacred practices lose their power because your system is stuck in a state of survival mode.
This dysregulation doesn’t just influence your spiritual life—it affects every relationship, every creative project, and every moment of potential joy. You may find yourself:
- Saying yes when you mean no, then resenting the commitment
- Feeling overwhelmed by the very people and activities you love
- Experiencing physical symptoms that doctors can’t explain
- Struggling to trust your intuition because your body feels unreliable
- Feeling like you’re living someone else’s life despite your spiritual awareness
The cost of an unregulated nervous system goes beyond personal suffering. When you’re dysregulated, you can’t hold space for others’ growth, can’t receive the abundance meant for you, and can’t embody the peace you want to share with the world.
Sacred Science to Reclaim Your Inner Sanctuary
What if I told you that nervous system regulation isn’t just about managing stress, it’s about creating the best conditions for your soul to thrive? This is what I call “soul regulation”, the sacred practice of syncing your nervous system to support your highest spiritual nature.
If you are suffering from stress, the best way to break the vicious negative cycle is to try to handle those stressful times with as much knowledge, awareness, gentleness, and patience as possible. Knowing what your internal alarm bells are is important so we can recognise when we are feeling the pressure and increase our stress strategies.
Soul regulation recognises that your nervous system isn’t separate from your spiritual body. When you reset your nervous system through trauma-informed, spiritually aligned practices, you create space for:
Embodied Presence: Moving from thinking about spirituality to living it through your regulated nervous system
Intuitive Clarity: Accessing your inner wisdom without the static of dysregulation
Sustainable Service: Giving from overflow rather than depletion
Sacred Boundaries: Honouring your rhythms without guilt or explanation
Authentic Expression: Allowing your soul’s truth to move through a regulated system
The ancient yogis described this state as “sthira sukham”—steady and easeful. Modern neuroscience affirms what mystics have always understood: when your nervous system is balanced, you naturally reach states of coherence, creativity, and connection.
This isn’t about perfection or lasting happiness. It’s about developing the skills to face life’s unavoidable challenges from a state of centred awareness, rather than reacting impulsively. You learn to see your nervous system as a sacred ally instead of an enemy to conquer.
The practices of soul regulation are both ancient and scientifically backed:
Vagus Nerve Activation: Sacred breathwork that activates your body’s natural reset mechanism
Somatic Awareness: Tuning into your body’s wisdom to recognise regulation and dysregulation
Rhythmic Living: Honouring your natural cycles rather than forcing productivity
Trauma-Informed Spirituality: Addressing stored trauma that blocks spiritual embodiment
Nervous System Codes: Understanding your unique patterns and triggers
Nutrition, diet, herbal medicine, mind-body therapies, and natural healing can support the treatment of stress and related health conditions, making a positive difference in your life.
When you embrace nervous system reset as a spiritual practice, you’re not only healing yourself, you’re helping the collective healing our world desperately needs. Calm nervous systems lead to balanced communities, and balanced communities create the space for genuine spiritual growth.
Nervous System Regulation Toolbox
The best stress management techniques engage a person holistically, focusing on all the physical, emotional and spiritual components.
Diet: Making simple diet changes, such as reducing your alcohol, caffeine and sugar intake is a proven way of reducing stress. By eating high-quality super-foods, including herbs, spices, vegetables and seeds will reduce inflammation in the body.
Gut repair: Over 2000 years ago, Hippocrates, the father of medicine, noted “all disease begins in the gut”. Research since the early 1900’s has shown that our gut flora performs pivotal roles in mental health, metabolism, nutrient digestion, absorption and synthesis, as well as immune function, hormonal regulation and disease prevention.
Exercise: Reduces stress and increases serotonin to elevate your mood, go outside in the garden, and take a walk in nature.
Herbal medicine: Plants that we know as ‘adaptogens’ were first used in Ayurveda (India) and in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and help to restore the nervous system.
Meditation: Studies show just 10-minutes daily has significant benefits. Mindfulness meditation has three basic principles: intention, attention and attitude. Focusing on the present moment in a nonjudgmental and accepting way has been proven to dramatically reduce stress and inflammation while increasing feelings of hope, overall well-being, and an increased sense of spiritual connectedness.
Breathing exercises: Respiratory rhythm directly affects the central nervous system, by regulating the breath it decreases stress, I recommend using an app, such as calm.
Sleep: A good night’s sleep is fundamental for recharging and dealing with stressful situations.
Self-care: Prioritise activities and hobbies that you feel are expansive, where you learn and grow.
Affirmation: Try “I am relaxed and calm” or “in this moment I am safe”.
Gratitude practice: Journal 5 things you are grateful for daily
Celebrate the small things: Turn the big goals in to several smaller ones and celebrate the daily wins.
Your Sacred Reset Starts Now
Your nervous system has been waiting for this moment of recognition. Every sensation, every overwhelm, every moment of exhaustion has been an invitation to return home to your regulated, embodied self.
This is more than stress management, this is soul reclamation. Your nervous system reset isn’t just about feeling better; it’s about becoming available for the joy, creativity, and service your soul came here to express.
Are you ready to dive deeper for your sacred reset today?
Contact me to discover the perfect way to begin your nervous system reset.
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