HOW CHRONIC STRESS REWIRES THE BRAIN (AND HOW TO REVERSE IT)

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]Looking at your phone for the first 30 minutes of every morning gives you as much information input as the average human received in a week of being alive in the 1950s.

[00:00:09]>> Wow.

[00:00:10]>> There are two ways we learn. It's [music] not just people tell me stuff or I read it in a book and I remember it and then put it into practice. That's one way [music] of learning.

[00:00:18]>> Our nervous system and our bodies, they're the magic carpet. They're always going to be ahead of us.

[00:00:24]>> When we're in deep in REM sleep states, we're completely physically vulnerable.

[00:00:27]Like we can't respond [music] to threat when it comes. Our bodies are paralyzed.

[00:00:31]>> It can be challenging to go through integration, right? You can have some ups and downs and some emotionality and this is certainly not about stunting anybody's emotion. They should have their emotion. They should express or have some tears or have some laughter or whatever may be coming up.

[00:00:42]>> When we experience scary stuff, the body's going to learn a certain amount of fear and to preserve safety, right?

[00:00:50]That's [music] the goal. That's how our bodies are adapting to the stress or the potential threat.