How to Strengthen Your Nervous System and Build Resilience

This exercise starts at the 3:40-minute mark. In this short, simple, guided exercise and explanation of it, Boaz Feldman shows us how to strengthen your nervous system. You can do it on your own anywhere and throughout your day. Health care providers, activists, leaders, and coaches can use this activity with their clients.
Strengthening your nervous system increases your resiliency to work with fight, flight or freeze; expand your capacity to be in pain or pleasure; empower your relationships with more intimate connections, and be present to build a stronger community.
The key to the success of this somatic exercise is in softening your body to broaden the quality of your attention. Watch and learn as Boaz shows us how to do this practice in a way that leads to Somatic Self Care for Systemic Change.
Boaz explains two theoretic frameworks that support this exercise:
1) Dr. Stephen Porges' polyvagal theory
2) Barbara Fredrickson's broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions
This post is a part of our "Somatic Self Care” Series. This episode has been brought to you in part by the Swiss Institute of Mindfulness and presents to you a bit about their NeuroSystemics Methodology. It is a community-based methodology bridging ancient wisdom traditions, evolutionary neurosciences, and systemic understanding to offer an integrative path to resilient healing, passionate living, and awakening.
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Presenter Bio
Boaz B. Feldman, PgC, SEP, MSc
Co-Founder of NeuroSystemics
Boaz is an experienced psychologist, keynote speaker and trauma trainer acting for worldwide positive change. He has worked with numerous international organizations (UNHCR, UNOCHA, WHO, Doctors Without Borders) in a variety of humanitarian contexts such as conflict-affected regions (Afghanistan, Burkina Faso), low-income contexts (Eastern Europe) and natural emergencies (Thailand). Trained in Mindfulness for over 15 years, Boaz first ordained as a Buddhist Monk in Thailand and then studied at the University of Bangor. He is also a graduate in Somatic Experiencing, assisted in SE trainings in Europe, and went on to be the European faculty for Organic Intelligence. Based in Switzerland, he works at a multi-disciplinary practice, trains trauma-sensitive Mindfulness therapists, and conducts Mindfulness and compassion research at the National Research Center for Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva.
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[@Rezal19]

Really loved this, thank you from Norway!

[@loahyvalley9797]

Wonderful exercise. Thank you so much❣

[@marciaharms465]

Really liked the information. Exercise actually opened up my nervous system with yawning, always my clue it is working well. Thanks for the tieing it to the polyvagal theory. Ties nicely also to Daniel Siegels work and others articulating a means to ground and broaden our awarness through the softening into the ventral vagus healing nerve. Thanks Liam and Boaz.

[@USABP]

Thanks for sharing your experience Marcia.

[@neurosystemics328]

With pleasure Marcia, we're glad you liked it! We are proposing more seminars with the USABP soon, stay tuned!

[@Truerealism747]

It's fear what damges nervous system I been told