How To Stop Living Life In Your Head - Jonny Miller

Jonny Miller is a writer, nervous system coach and a podcaster. Emotions are scary. Feeling feelings and being truly connected to your life is hard. But what if the solution to these thinking problems doesn't lie in thinking more, but in fixing your body, nervous system and breath first? Expect to learn why it’s so hard to feel feelings, whether it’s possible to think your way out of overfeeling, how to use breathwork to master your nervous system, what the personal development industry gets wrong, why negative self-talk is holding you back, how to regain control after losing your temper and much more... - 00:00 Why is it So Hard to Feel Feelings? 05:19 Can You Think Your Way Into Feeling? 12:30 How the Nervous System Relates to Feelings 17:00 Modes of Reactivity in the Nervous System 21:04 How to Improve Your Interoception 34:02 Key Strategies for Self-Regulation 40:46 De-Regulating After Daily Experiences 46:31 Learning the Skill of Emotional Fluidity 51:37 Changing Your Traits Through Breathwork 58:04 The Trap of Avoiding Your Feelings 1:01:23 Over-Optimising Relaxation 1:07:07 How Your Inner Voice Impacts the Body 1:10:39 The Neuro-Aperture Hypothesis 1:18:18 Flaws of the Self-Development Industry 1:21:48 Protocols for Beginners 1:26:33 Questions That Have Broken Jonny’s Mind 1:28:17 Where to Find Jonny - Extra Stuff: Apply for the upcoming cohort of Nervous System Mastery and learn evidence backed protocols for rewiring reactivity - http://nsmastery.com/wisdom Take a free self-assessment to see how regulated your nervous system is - http://assessment.nsmastery.com/ Say hi or ask Jonny questions on twitter/X - http://x.com/jonnym1ller Free 14 minute NSDR recording to build interoception + relax - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXX2c72fYY - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

Chris WilliamsonhostJonny Millerguest

Aug 17, 20241h 29mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: August 17, 2024
Duration: 1h 29m
Channel: Modern Wisdom
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Jonny Miller is a writer, nervous system coach and a podcaster. Emotions are scary. Feeling feelings and being truly connected to your life is hard. But what if the solution to these thinking problems doesn't lie in thinking more, but in fixing your body, nervous system and breath first? Expect to learn why it’s so hard to feel feelings, whether it’s possible to think your way out of overfeeling, how to use breathwork to master your nervous system, what the personal development industry gets wrong, why negative self-talk is holding you back, how to regain control after losing your temper and much more... - 00:00 Why is it So Hard to Feel Feelings? 05:19 Can You Think Your Way Into Feeling? 12:30 How the Nervous System Relates to Feelings 17:00 Modes of Reactivity in the Nervous System 21:04 How to Improve Your Interoception 34:02 Key Strategies for Self-Regulation 40:46 De-Regulating After Daily Experiences 46:31 Learning the Skill of Emotional Fluidity 51:37 Changing Your Traits Through Breathwork 58:04 The Trap of Avoiding Your Feelings 1:01:23 Over-Optimising Relaxation 1:07:07 How Your Inner Voice Impacts the Body 1:10:39 The Neuro-Aperture Hypothesis 1:18:18 Flaws of the Self-Development Industry 1:21:48 Protocols for Beginners 1:26:33 Questions That Have Broken Jonny’s Mind 1:28:17 Where to Find Jonny - Extra Stuff: Apply for the upcoming cohort of Nervous System Mastery and learn evidence backed protocols for rewiring reactivity - http://nsmastery.com/wisdom Take a free self-assessment to see how regulated your nervous system is - http://assessment.nsmastery.com/ Say hi or ask Jonny questions on twitter/X - http://x.com/jonnym1ller Free 14 minute NSDR recording to build interoception + relax - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjXX2c72fYY - Get access to every episode 10 hours before YouTube by subscribing for free on Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2LSimPn or Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2MNqIgw Get my free Reading List of 100 life-changing books here - https://chriswillx.com/books/ Try my productivity energy drink Neutonic here - https://neutonic.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Email: https://chriswillx.com/contact/

SPEAKERS

Chris Williamson
host
Jonny Miller
guest

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Modern Wisdom, featuring Chris Williamson and Jonny Miller, How To Stop Living Life In Your Head - Jonny Miller explores unlocking Emotional Intelligence: Nervous System Skills For High-Agency Living Chris Williamson and Jonny Miller explore why so many people, especially high-achieving, cerebral types, live disconnected from their emotions and bodies. They frame emotional numbness and reactivity as nervous system issues rooted in safety, capacity, and unprocessed stress rather than simple mindset problems.

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