Would you like to feel more resilient? To feel calmer and more connected? These five strategies will help you harness our understanding of the nervous system to create a greater sense of wellbeing.

Thriveworks reports that a dysregulated nervous system leads to heightened or dulled stress responses, affecting mental and emotional health.

What are some of your earliest scent-based childhood memories? In Remembrance of Things Past, Marcel Proust famously describes the ability of a distinctive smell to bring back a wave of long-forgotten ...

Feeling stressed? Learn the 'cyclic sigh,' a simple breathing exercise backed by Stanford research shown to be highly effective at reducing anxiety in minutes.

We’ve seen plenty of hacks that analyze biometric signals as measures of athletic performance, but maybe not as many hacks that are trying to study behavior. Well, that’s exactly what developmental ...

In order for your body to work properly, your nervous system needs to be working properly. Your nervous system is responsible for helping your brain communicate with your body and helping your body ...

New research on heart rate variability suggests that composure isn’t a personality trait. It’s a physiological skill the nervous system can train—one that may determine who thrives when the stakes are ...

Your sympathetic nervous system is one of the branches of your autonomic nervous system. It controls functions under unconscious control related to “fight or flight.” Your nervous system plays a ...

Holding hands offers a moderate yet meaningful way for humans to connect, signaling trust, safety, and empathy. This simple act regulates stress, synchronizes physiological responses, and reinforces ...

For most people, telling themselves to calm down in the face of a crisis only increases their level of distress. We all know that keeping ourselves calm will help us to think more clearly and deal ...