The Truth About How Your Nervous System Operates

Jonny Miller
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February 6, 2025
The Truth About How Your Nervous System Operates

What most people don’t realize — is that they are constantly over-riding, ignoring or waging war with the state of their nervous system.

And what’s more — this inefficient resistance — this fighting of our internal state, exacerbates negative spirals, we waste so much energy fighting against or falling into vicious downward cycles.

Depending on how you are wired, you find yourself in spirals of negativity, fighting this feeling, which inevitably leads to even more frustration, anxiousness or panic.

Others will find themselves on the other end of the spectrum – experiencing dissociation, numbness, collapse or in extreme cases, total shutdown.

You’ve probably experienced this yourself at some point, to some degree. Frankly we all have.

So the real question is: What is the alternative? What can actually be done here? How do we avoid feeling like these perpetual victims of our nervous system state?

If you're interested in learning more about your nervous system and how to change your state, learn more about the upcoming cohort of Nervous System Mastery​.

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Week 1

Nervous System Fundamentals

1.1 Intro

What is Nervous System Mastery?

1.2 Context

Jonny’s Story

1.3 Theory

The R.I.S.E. Framework

1.4 Theory

Three Operating Modes

1.5 Exercise

Mapping Your Modes of Being

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Week 2

Interoception vs. Reactivity

2.1 Theory

The Art + Science of Interoception

2.2 Theory

Two Types of Reactivity

2.3 Reflection

Somatic Freediving

2.4 Theory

Daily ‘A.P.E.’ Training

2.5 Protocol

A.P.E. Exploration

2.6 Theory

Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest (NSDR)

2.7 Protocol v1

Afternoon Non-Sleep-Deep-Rest NSDR Practice (15 mins)

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Week 3

Shift Your State

3.1 Theory

Self-Regulation Strategies

3.2 Theory

Three Ways to Shift Your State

3.3 Theory

How You Breathe = How You Live

3.4 Protocol

Catch Reactivity with the 3 C’s

3.5 Theory

If [THIS] then [REGULATE]

3.6 Protocol

7 Minutes to Calm

3.7 Story

Thawing Dorsal Shutdown

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Week 4

Master Your Emotions

4.1 Theory

Emotional Neuroscience 101

4.2 Theory

Exploring Emotional Debt

4.3 Theory

Un-kinking the Hosepipe of E-Motion

4.4 Principles

Set & Setting

4.5 Protocol

Somatic Surfing

4.6 Practice

Write a Letter

4.8 Assignment

The NSM Edge Challenge

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Week 5

Environment Redesign

5.1 Theory

Lao Tzu’s Hollow Pot

5.2 Theory

Exteroceptive Audit

5.3 Exercise

Design Your Sleep Sanctuary

5.4 Design

Morning + Evening Rituals

5.5 Journal

Reflecting Forwards

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