Parasympathetic Activation is the best way to rewire your brain...
Brian Maierhofer@brianmaierhofer
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Aug 18, 2025
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Parasympathetic Activation is the best way to rewire your brain from toxic habits, heal stored trauma, and restore your nervous system to optimal health.
Here’s what it is and how to do it:🧵
Here’s what it is and how to do it:🧵
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The human nervous system has an incredible ability to heal itself, just like all living organisms.
But for healing to happen, your body needs to enter it's “healing state.”
That’s where Parasympathetic Activation comes in.
Let’s break it down ↓
But for healing to happen, your body needs to enter it's “healing state.”
That’s where Parasympathetic Activation comes in.
Let’s break it down ↓
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Your autonomic nervous system has 2 main parts:
• Parasympathetic (rest + digest): Repair, recover, and heal.
• Sympathetic (survival mode): Fight, flight, or freeze.
In ancient times, sympathetic activation helped us escape dangers (like running from a tiger).
But here’s the problem in modern life…
• Parasympathetic (rest + digest): Repair, recover, and heal.
• Sympathetic (survival mode): Fight, flight, or freeze.
In ancient times, sympathetic activation helped us escape dangers (like running from a tiger).
But here’s the problem in modern life…
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We’re often chronically stuck in fight-or-flight mode.
When this happens, you experience:
• Irritability
• Depression
• Crippling anxiety
• Feeling of hopelessness
• Brain fog, overwhelm, and poor memory
• Disassociation (disconnected from your thoughts & feelings)
When this happens, you experience:
• Irritability
• Depression
• Crippling anxiety
• Feeling of hopelessness
• Brain fog, overwhelm, and poor memory
• Disassociation (disconnected from your thoughts & feelings)
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It's important to have awareness of when you get stuck in survival mode.
Why?
Because the sooner you can shift from survival to relaxation, the better.
A relaxed state signals the brain to release oxytocin and other feel-good chemicals.
These chemicals heal the body and benefit the brain:
Why?
Because the sooner you can shift from survival to relaxation, the better.
A relaxed state signals the brain to release oxytocin and other feel-good chemicals.
These chemicals heal the body and benefit the brain:
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In this state, you experience:
1. Effortless Calm
2. Rock-Solid Focus
3. Immunity Upgrade
4. Deeper, Revitalizing Sleep
5. Effortless Emotional Control
6. Mental and Physical Healing
1. Effortless Calm
2. Rock-Solid Focus
3. Immunity Upgrade
4. Deeper, Revitalizing Sleep
5. Effortless Emotional Control
6. Mental and Physical Healing
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The deeper you relax the stronger the functions of your Parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) becomes.
Here are 4 ways to naturally activate the (PNS) and heal:
Here are 4 ways to naturally activate the (PNS) and heal:
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1. Tapping (EFT)
The Emotional Freedom Technique combines acupuncture and psychology.
A growing database of research indicates it can lead to profound transformation.
It involves gently tapping your fingertips along points on the body, primarily located along energy meridians.
The Emotional Freedom Technique combines acupuncture and psychology.
A growing database of research indicates it can lead to profound transformation.
It involves gently tapping your fingertips along points on the body, primarily located along energy meridians.
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2. Humming
A nerve in the back of your throat (the Vagus nerve) influences relaxation.
Polyvagal humming has been shown to boost:
• Immune function
• Cognitive clarity
• Digestive support
Here's how to do it:
A nerve in the back of your throat (the Vagus nerve) influences relaxation.
Polyvagal humming has been shown to boost:
• Immune function
• Cognitive clarity
• Digestive support
Here's how to do it:
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3. PMR (Progressive Muscle Relaxation)
This technique helps release physical tension and brings awareness to stress stored in different muscles.
Tense and relax muscles one by one to bring awareness to areas holding stress.
Progressively this promotes deep relaxation and healing.
This technique helps release physical tension and brings awareness to stress stored in different muscles.
Tense and relax muscles one by one to bring awareness to areas holding stress.
Progressively this promotes deep relaxation and healing.
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4. Somatic therapy
It combines psychology and neuroscience to rewire old patterns,
It helps you heal by tuning into the body’s sensations, where stress and trauma are stored.
It’s a powerful way to release tension and shift old emotional patterns from the brain:
It combines psychology and neuroscience to rewire old patterns,
It helps you heal by tuning into the body’s sensations, where stress and trauma are stored.
It’s a powerful way to release tension and shift old emotional patterns from the brain:
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Based on my years of experience as a therapist, somatic therapy stands out as the most effective:
These are the changes my clients consistently report:
• Improved sleep quality
• Boosted energy & vitality
• Healing from past trauma
• Increased mental clarity and focus
• Relief from chronic pain and tension
• Enhanced emotional regulation and well-being
These are the changes my clients consistently report:
• Improved sleep quality
• Boosted energy & vitality
• Healing from past trauma
• Increased mental clarity and focus
• Relief from chronic pain and tension
• Enhanced emotional regulation and well-being
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If you're interested in neuroscience based therapies,
Checkout my free email course here: bodymindaccelerator.com
Checkout my free email course here: bodymindaccelerator.com
