learn about your nervous system
the science behind the system
these articles explain the science the aware system's mechanics are built on. bite-size versions of most of them are in the app. one question per article. every claim is cited, and where the evidence is emerging or contested, the article says so.
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- 02 interoception how you sense what is happening inside your own body
- 01 the autonomic nervous system the system that runs your organs without asking, and its two branches
- 09 how to regulate your nervous system regulation starts with seeing what your system is doing
your nervous system
how it is built and how it responds.
- 01 the autonomic nervous system the system that runs your organs without asking, and its two branches
- 02 interoception how you sense what is happening inside your own body
- 03 the stress response in the body what happens when demand arrives, and how it ends coming soon
- 04 what a dysregulated nervous system means what the term covers, and what the research can and cannot say coming soon
- 05 the freeze response the braked state between alert and shut down coming soon
- 06 the vagus nerve what is established about it, and what is contested coming soon
- 07 vagal tone what heart rate variability measures, and what it does not coming soon
- 08 breathing patterns and your nervous system how breathing rate and rhythm relate to state coming soon
nervous system regulation
what changes a state, and what the evidence supports.
- 09 how to regulate your nervous system regulation starts with seeing what your system is doing
- 10 how to get out of fight or flight mode what helps a system come back down after activation coming soon
- 11 how to stop overthinking when thinking repeats without moving forward coming soon
- 12 how to regulate emotions strategies, what the evidence shows, and how to choose between them coming soon
- 13 how to control your emotions in the moment what you can do in the seconds after a reaction starts coming soon
- 14 stress leaving the body a popular idea, checked against the evidence coming soon
conditioned response
how responses become automatic, and what changes them.
- 15 what a conditioned response is how a response gets attached to a cue, and why it can come back coming soon
- 16 how habits are formed why a repeated action stops needing a decision coming soon
- 17 emotional triggers why some cues land harder than others coming soon
- 18 why do i overreact to small things why the response arrives before the reason coming soon
- 19 memory reconsolidation when a recalled memory can change, and why the human evidence is not settled coming soon
self observation
why a record shows what memory misses.
- 20 a mood tracker for your nervous system recording more than mood: breath, body, mind, command, regulate coming soon
- 21 self observation why watching what you do tells you more than asking why coming soon
- 22 journaling what the research on writing shows, and how small the effect is coming soon