Control Stress and Regulate Your Nervous System in 5 Steps – Lisa Wimberger with Dave Asprey – #771

• What’s it like to get struck by lightning? – 2:06
•  It was the gift. It was a gift because it’s the reason I do my life’s work. But it was really, really a rough time. – 5:37
• It heightened pretty much everything, including my maladaptive disorders like dissociation. It heightened intuition, it heightened fantastical perception, it heightened some kinds of synesthesia, and it heightened the dissociation and delusion, definitely heightened delusion. – 8:08
• I absolutely benefited from the ascension techniques. – 11:02
  
• I’ve gotten to be a part of some cool studies at CU Boulder and the Energy Engineering Labs. – 13:19
  
• He says, you’re vasovagal extreme syncope. I’m like, “Well, I don’t understand any of those words.” So, I left with a diagnosis, which caused me to go find out what that meant. That’s what pushed me towards neuroscience. – 18:16
  
• Meditation can be dangerous for people who have maladaptive vagal tone.  – 18:48
  
• Coming back from those seizures was so painful and so embarrassing and humiliating. Why would I want more of these? – 20:01
  
• Meditation can be dangerous for people who have maladaptive vagal tone.  – 25:29
  
• When you hear the word meditation, it’s not one size fits all. There’s all different kinds and you kind of have to know what works for your body. – 28:48
  
• What’s dangerous about being a freeze predisposed person and not really knowing anything about it, is that it’s extremely socially compliance. – 30:05
  
• There’s an induction that’s necessary in hypnosis that gets you safe, comfortable, and building trust. That’s missing in most meditation forms I’ve ever studied. – 32:32
  
• The five steps with neurosculpting, the first two steps are to create that induced brain state through words, through guidance, that you can then do on your own. There is a checklist that quiets the midbrain. – 34:04
  
• The things that get the prefrontal cortex really activated, novelty, humor, wander creativity. In neurosculpting, if I were guiding you through an induction, I would ask you for three to five minutes to just notice your comfortable cushion, soft texture of your shirt, your breath is breathing itself, your environment is as you like it, and then I would slam you into your prefrontal cortex. – 35:40
  
• At the end, you’ve got a trigger word, you’ve got a trigger hand gesture, and you’ve laid down the content in a ripe, receptive, nervous system because you followed an induction, and that is phase one. That’s the five steps. – 39:32
  
• Neuro practice app will give you a library of guided meditations. It’s not an instructional platform, it’s an experiential platform. – 40:39
  
• The benefits are you still get to hack into your nervous system and you get to file down the sharp edges of any thought that might have triggered you into arousal at any point in time, or you can create brand new thoughts. Neuroplasticity doesn’t care if it’s an experience you’ve never had or an experience you’ve had. It only cares that you’re programming it with buy-in, and it’s going to store that in your mind as a pattern. – 42:32
  
• I’ve been able to get paraplegics and quadriplegics to move again, which I did not start out expecting that. But it stemmed from my first case, which was a quad. My dear, dear friend, Heather. – 46:19
  
• Three recommendations to retrain my brain. – 55:24

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