Nervous system regulation · also called window of tolerance
why am I always on edge
Regulation is keeping your physiological arousal inside the range where you can still think clearly — not so activated you cannot reason, not so shut down you cannot act. It is trained through the body first: breath, movement, sleep and safety, rather than through insight.
What to do about it
Lengthen your exhale beyond your inhale for two minutes. The body leads the mind, not the reverse.
Books that work on this
Each is a 90-day programme. Start with the first — later books assume the work in the earlier ones.
The Nervous System Blueprint$6.99
No Backup Nervous$6.99
The Calm Operator$6.99
Calm Under Load$6.99
Decode The Body$6.99
The Calm Decade$6.99
The Calm Floor$6.99
Calm Decade Build$6.99Part of the Nervous System series.
How people say it
Nobody looks this up by its clinical name. These are the ways it actually gets said.
- why am I always on edge
- I cannot calm down
- my body reacts before I can think
- constant fight or flight
- I go numb under stress
- how to calm my nervous system
- why do I panic over small things
- stuck in survival mode
- panic attacks out of nowhere
- I cannot relax even when nothing is wrong
- my chest goes tight for no reason
Written by Brian Spiker, who has run Spiker Carpet and Tile Care since 2013 — the receipts. More terms in the encyclopedia.