Learn THIS And You’ll Become Impossible To Trigger

Jonny Miller (0:00)

Most people haven't experienced an emotion without the clenching. The mistake that I made was mistaking calm on the surface for kind of not being triggered. When we're in this adrenalized, kind of sympathetic go-go-go state, the adrenaline and cortisol literally numbs the interception. So it's harder to listen to your body tickled with a feather, and then it's a brick, you lose your job, and then maybe the dump truck chronic health issue or something majorly breaks. I'm obsessed with freediving. I think of it as actually like high stakes meditation. There are significant non-trivial consequences if you clench 100 feet plus under water. For me, usually the tension is kind of my ****, it's like drop in there and then relax it, and then the breath can go and I can keep going down. One of the most effective ways to access deep parasympathetic is by having a weight on your ****, and I went from having a 90 second breath hold to six and a half minutes.

Dave Asprey (0:47)

Jonny Miller, he taught more than a thousand people how to master their nervous systems.

Jonny Miller (0:52)

So much of what I teach with Nervous System Mastery can be boiled down to, can you notice the tension, learn how to unclench.

Dave Asprey (1:00)

You're listening to The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey.

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We're going to talk about Nervous System Mastery, which is something that is critical for longevity. So if you're into biohacking, you're into longevity, and you think, oh, I take the right supplements, I intermittent fast, I've got my hot, my cold, my red lights, all this stuff, your peptides even, but your nervous system is just all over the place, you're doing it wrong. So we're going to go deep on that. Jonny, welcome to the show.