Nourish Your System

Written By Glenda Myles

How can you Nourish Your System?

When nourishing our nervous systems with care and attention, we function better overall and within relationships. Learning about how we operate and our own tendencies when put into stressful situations allows us to not only practice tools to support ourselves (build resiliency) but also that awareness is key for change.

Here are a few things we can do to nourish our system. From here, you can create your own plan that feels good for you, given where you are at in your life and health.

Self-Reliance: taking in everyday experiences to develop more inner strengths such as grit, confidence, kindness, emotional balance, happiness, patience, and self-awareness.

Rick Hanson, PhD

Body (Physical Space)

  • Movement

  • Good food - mostly plants, as organic as possible.

  • Water (more!)

  • Sleep (8 hours, dark, tech-free room) with direct sun within 1-3 hours of waking

  • Supplements as needed, and most of us need it

  • Skincare (biggest organ, takes in a lot of toxins, can show what is happening internally)

Breath (Prana Space)

  • Breathe less

  • Focus on nasal breathing

  • Pranayam practices (see breath practices for guidance)

Positive Self-Talk (Mental Space)

  • High 5 in mirror

  • Mantra

  • Affirmations

  • EFT with affirmation

Brain Health

  • Social time and laughter

  • Games - especially for hand/eye coordination as we age

  • Reducing toxins

  • Creativity

  • Supplementation

Connecting to your Higher Power (Spiritual Space)

  • Prayer

  • Gratitude

  • Meditation

  • Nature

Support Team

  • Doctors/Functional Health Specialists

  • Complementary Health: nutritionist, chiro, massage, etc

  • Mental Health Support

  • Community, family, friends

  • Intimate Partner/ besties

Glenda Myles
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