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Parasympathetic nervous system
The parasympathetic nervous system is the body's system of relaxation and the first key to meditation: calming the body quiets the mind from behind. The parasympathetic nervous system splits into the ventral vagal complex in front, for safe engagement, and the dorsal vagal complex in back, which brings the freeze response. HRV resonance awakens it; the Four Proofs confirm it.
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The First Key To Meditation - Yogi Explains
Explains why calming the body comes before the mind, how the vagus splits into front and back complexes, and how HRV resonance brings the Four Proofs and the freeze response.
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4 steps: How to Meditate for Beginners - Easy at Home Practice
Four simple steps to switch the system on at home, with hot, heavy hands as the sign that it is working. What is the correct posture? How to slow down our breathrate? Why should we sit still? Why is it important to notice any of the four proofs?
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How Much Should I Fill the Lungs? - Resonant Breathing
Reduces meditation to two ingredients: an easy, comfortable parasympathetic state and right-brain expansion. A good belly laugh is a manifestation of the front parasympathetic system, aka ventral vagal system.
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00:21“So let's get into why the parasympathetic system is that very first key.”09:49“One, the parasympathetic system, and what is the parasympathetic system?”02:51“I have arrived at the correct place, and that is the parasympathetic system itself.”06:02“I want to rest in the parasympathetic system and allow that to deepen the state automatically, naturally.”01:01“And it's just your parasympathetic system.”02:37“And establishing that parasympathetic again and again and again, this is the true progress.”04:40“We just start with the parasympathetic.”01:35“What we're trying to do in meditation, number one, before I even attempt to control my mind, I just want to get into the parasympathetic system.”03:06“The parasympathetic is the calm.”07:01“We're meant to retreat back into peace, back into the parasympathetic system.”07:08“If you get any of that, if you can awaken your parasympathetic system in five or ten or fifteen minutes every single day, oh my God, your meditations are a raging success, raging success.”04:40“We just want a wave of parasympathetic relaxation to flow through the body.”12:48“Most of us have to be drugged up and knocked out with sleep in order to get into the parasympathetic system, and you just established it in five minutes.”02:59“It has to grow from your parasympathetic system, from deep core relaxation, right?”04:37“But sit and soak in your own parasympathetic system.”03:34“You want a long breath so that the out breath, especially, can begin to awaken the parasympathetic system.”05:17“You are entering successfully into the parasympathetic system, and if you feel it elsewhere, great, also good, also the awakening of your parasympathetic and the opening of the arteries, which opens up that heat in the body.”01:20“It begins with your parasympathetic nervous system, and that's what we get into.”00:41“He said, "Not pushing, not straining, just engaging the parasympathetic system and inducing these deep states has given me so much freedom.”07:49“It gives you an extra hit of the parasympathetic system.”02:44“That's the job of the parasympathetic system.”06:59“But if you only have the first proof, I just have hands hot and heavy, that is enough proof that you are in the parasympathetic system.”02:57“That beautiful parasympathetic vagus nerve, the healing system, the parasympathetic system, right?”11:37“There is something amiss, because every single kriya lineage, every single meditation that we have should elicit the parasympathetic nervous system.”13:21“What matters is the parasympathetic system is coming online.”07:04“So it's all about the parasympathetic.”22:23“You have to awaken the parasympathetic system.”01:43“It's the very deep system of relaxation, rejuvenation, and healing.”07:14“Okay, so the parasympathetic system is the system in the body of relaxation.”02:57“You have to keep the parasympathetic system.”02:08“All of those are indicators that you are coming out of the sympathetic system, stimulating the wonderful deep parasympathetic system, and it's having an effect on your body.”03:47“And as we get into more and more of the parasympathetic nervous system, those turbinates are going to curl in and withdraw.”05:20“We're looking for the parasympathetic, and so it has to be comfortable.”00:42“That in breath is actually stimulating the sympathetic system, and that out breath is stimulating the parasympathetic system.”16:03“It's going to be this way all the time, and we have to have something which is 100% reliable, and that's your parasympathetic nervous system.”03:29“And for the yogi, it's such an amazing thing because really what you're rescuing is your parasympathetic nervous system.”10:15“He's showing you that he is accentuating the parasympathetic system.”08:03“We have a theory now with two parasympathetic systems, very different, but still both parasympathetic systems.”10:18“That's the parasympathetic system, and we just put them in balance.”01:30“We want to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system, the system of relaxation, so that we can bring both systems into balance.”15:20“He said that just flowing with the parasympathetic and inducing these deep states has taken a great weight, a great burden, off of his consciousness and his practice.”04:33“I need to awaken my parasympathetic.”07:27“You have found the miracle of your own parasympathetic system.”06:57“I need that parasympathetic established.”05:08“Freeze response, natural response in your parasympathetic system, and we're using it in the most healthy, the most positive way.”04:37“So when you can do that in any moment, any stressful moment, especially, it will automatically calm you, awaken your parasympathetic system, and ground your entire body all in one.”06:02“You've really let go, and this offers the body the chance to get really deep into the parasympathetic system to heal and restore itself, and for the conscious mind, it offers a reset.”04:11“Because I'm contacting the parasympathetic system over and over, day after day, the tranquil breath arises.”02:14“We come into the parasympathetic system.”03:17“We want to go deep into that parasympathetic system.”08:19“You're getting an internal massage, and it's putting you into the parasympathetic system, and it's all because we're maximizing that out breath and just really, really allowing that massage internally to take place.”04:38“I'm going to get to know my parasympathetic system.”04:06“I start dropping down into my own parasympathetic system.”02:27“HRV resonance, sitting very still, noticing the four proofs, which is your parasympathetic system.”01:58“We get into our parasympathetic system.”04:46“That is the thing which gets you into the parasympathetic.”06:38“Maybe your entire skin will begin to tingle, and now you're really getting deep into the parasympathetic system.”06:20“I can notice those four proofs and know that I have hooked into my own parasympathetic nervous system, and I can do all of that very, very easily.”06:10“We want to do the action, do the yoga, do the thing which is going to get us into the parasympathetic system, and then let go into the parasympathetic system, begin to enjoy it.”02:06“And you will get into the parasympathetic system because of that.”10:10“All right, for just a minute, I did get into my parasympathetic system.”06:14“Get yourself towards the parasympathetic, and you're going to start to feel it.”00:11“Both of those are your parasympathetic system.”02:23“I'm gonna make the exhale a little bit longer and accentuate the parasympathetic.”08:10“They're proving to you that your parasympathetic system has turned on.”01:14“So it can be almost equal, but that outbreath ought to be a little bit longer, and that will ensure that you're actually awakening the parasympathetic system right from the very first Kriya breath.”06:11“Once you have the parasympathetic system online, you've induced HRV resonance.”02:03“And this will create signs in the body that the parasympathetic system has turned on, that it is working inside of us.”02:38“It might be as simple as knowing that the parasympathetic system has turned on.”14:50“All the sitting very still, all the four proofs, all the parasympathetic, all the HRV resonant breathing, all the freeze response, that is to prepare you to enter into the deep brain, where you expand.”01:38“We get deeper into the parasympathetic system, and so the mind slows down some more”03:11“I wanted my parasympathetic system to show up and it did.”03:12“We're making our out breath nice and long, and that is awakening the parasympathetic system within.”07:26“Ah, we totally messed up because I'm trying to grow in the parasympathetic.”12:18“You have to pick the parasympathetic system.”04:13“It means your parasympathetic system is awake.”04:01“If we have any of those four proofs, we have activated the parasympathetic system, and our meditation is a success because of that.”10:02“And and they just wander around in the dark, and sometimes they hit on the parasympathetic system, right?”03:30“They are proofs that you are awakening your parasympathetic system, the healing system in the body.”10:03“Nervous system inside of me, which is the parasympathetic, the dorsal parasympathetic, and I'm feeling great.”03:58“The dorsal vagal parasympathetic, parasympathetic means healing, restorative, the parasympathetic system.”04:16“This is a proof, right, of the parasympathetic system.”13:18“Meditation is purely a parasympathetic system mostly.”16:47“That's our signal that we are in the parasympathetic system.”07:56“So when you're in a stress state they cringe and they they close down the nose to protect you, and when you're in a parasympathetic state they open up more and more and more, and the airway gets bigger and bigger.”03:12“Sometimes my whole hand feels as if it's swelling, the whole, and then the then the arms will begin to swell, and then they'll get so warm and so pleasurable,ly full of the parasympathetic system opening up the veins and the arteries.”07:10“And so he will have the mother bring the son, and one of his students will will teach the child this heart rate variability resonant breathing, and from that the stomach issue will disappear because it takes the the child out of the sympathetic nervous system into the parasympathetic nervous system, and the stomach issue dissolves automatically.”07:17“We want a parasympathetic advancement, not a sympathetic advancement.”04:48“It's going to balance both the sympathetic and the parasympathetic response so that your body is working optimally, and it's going to keep us.”16:47“They all talk about this feeling of being lifted up because the parasympathetic system is divided into the lower parasympathetic down near the base of the spine and the upper parasympathetic system from the heart upwards.”1:02:42“We're going to make sure that we hit the parasympathetic nervous system every single time we sit, or you could do this standing as well.”05:09“Breath goes out and we enjoy that as we stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system and the heart rate goes down very very gently and naturally.”00:36“That way you'll dip into that parasympathetic system that is accentuated on every outbreath, and that's creating that resonance between the heart rate and the breath.”00:24“And as we breathe out, we want to accentuate that down breath because it's turning on the parasympathetic system.”09:38“We want to get into the parasympathetic system, so that on the out breath we can slide down into that parasympathetic system.”08:45“You you kind of corner yourself into that dorsal vagal aspect and make sure you actually stimulate that parasympathetic nervous system inside of you.”09:29“So that is a positive response of the body, and it's done by the not by the sympathetic, but by the parasympathetic nerve, the dorsal vagal nerve.”02:06“It begins when the two nerves, the two primary nervous systems of sympathetic and parasympathetic, when they begin to come into balance.”02:20“They're backing up your meditation and inducing that dorsal parasympathetic nervous system.”14:14“It's going to do something to your brain and your concentration, and you can touch the nerve endings in the left nostril and in the right nostril, and as you do so, you will begin to balance the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system to a degree that you've never balanced it before, and that is that is humongous.”00:42“We want the parasympathetic.”02:02“We want the parasympathetic.”