JUICE UP YOUR PSOAS #ByeByeBurnOut ®
Stress is not in your head, it is in your nervous system...
When you have been feeling stressed, you have probably been told: “Don't worry so much and just relax, it's all in your head!”
It would be nice if it were that simple. But it is not.
The stress response is not primarily in your head but in your autonomic nervous system, in the sympathetic side to be precise.
In stressful situations, your fight-or-flight response is triggered, causing the sympathetic part of the nervous system to spring into action. This part of the nervous system releases stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol to prepare your body to fight or flee.
How often do everyday stressful situations actually lead to fighting or fleeing? Probably not very often, but when nothing happens with the stress response in your body, those substances continue to circulate and the (sympathetic) nervous system remains alert. This prevents your body from relaxing.
The psoas plays an essential role in your autonomic nervous system; your psoas instinctively kicks in during the fight-or-flight response to keep you safe and sends signals about your state of anxiety, safety and stress.
In the next stressful situation, your body remembers the previous situation and goes into full stress mode as if it were in a life-threatening situation.
At some point, your body can no longer cope with all that stress and you burn out. We call this burnout...
For people with burnout, or those under stress, it is very important to restore balance to the nervous system and reduce the stress response so that your body can relax.
In the workshop Juice Up Your Psoas we will work on topics such as:
- What can you do and not do to bring peace to your body?
- How do you know when it is becoming too much?
- How do you give your psoas a rest in terms of posture and movement so that it can do what it is meant to do?
We will be doing this and more at the Juice Up Your Psoas workshop, because peace in your body -> peace in your mind.
So #ByeByeBurnOut ®
