What is Neurosomatic Intelligence?
Neurosomatic Intelligence (NSI) is a method of regulating and rewiring the nervous system, using the body's innate capabilities.
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It is "the ability to recognize how sensory and cognitive inputs are affecting the nervous system and to be able to intentionally change inputs to produce positive adaptation in the nervous system that allows for increased regulation, performance, behavior change and trauma repatterning."
How does NSI work?
Your brain has the ability to change its function and structure in response to new stimulus. This is called "neuroplasticity" and it is with you throughout your life. This means that by your nature, you are a flexible and fluid being with the ability to change! But most of us have not been taught how to work with our nervous systems to access this flexibility.
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Your nervous system is your operating system and the lens through which you perceive and interpret the world. The language that it speaks is the language of sensory inputs (like sight, smell, touch etc...) and it is constantly responding to its environment in real time. NSI uses short, simple, but potent exercises targeted to provide specific sensory stimulus designed to create regulation and safety in the nervous system.
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Working from an NSI perspective also recognizes that every nervous system is different because it has been shaped by genetics, epigenetics, and a lifetime of unique experiences. This is why it also employs a method for assessing each exercise to make sure that it will be right for your specific body.
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This is not about will power, pushing past your boundaries, forcing the process, or taking big actions. This is about working within your existing capacity to create safety and resilience that allows you to naturally and sustainably expand until your healing and your goals become a byproduct of the practice.
The Importance of Neurosomatics
Neurosomatic Intelligence has a wide range of applications because neuro-somatic tools bridge the gap between mindset and body. This allows you to build resilience and make changes that put your mind and body back on the same page without risking side-effects of overwhelm that can happen with large somatic releases, or hitting the limitations of talk therapy.
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Because the nervous system is such an ever-present structure of human experience, working with it can create changes in:
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Cognition, beliefs, thoughts, and actions
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Mood, mindset, emotions, reactivity and bias
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Physical performance, and brain integration
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Mental and physical symptoms resulting from living in chronic survival response
NSI offers a path towards wholeness that does not require you to revisit the past.
Nervous System Outputs
What are outputs? You can think of them as the nervous system's unconscious decision about how to best respond to a given situation, event or stimulus (including things originating inside of you). Some outputs free up space and energy for embodiment, flexibility and clarity, while others are designed to deal with a perceived threat.
Very often the outputs our body uses are ones that kept you alive when you were a child, long before you had the tools and wisdom you have today. And since they are already so familiar your unconscious brain just keeps using them!
Pain
Anxiety
Depression
Fatigue
Fight, Flight, Freeze...
Immobility
Migraines Inflammation
Neuroticism
Brain Fog
Insomnia
Clear Thinking
Regulation
Presence
Logical Decisions
Pain Free Movement
Strength & Speed
Coordination
Great Balance
Immune &
Hormones
Health
Great Sleep
*This is by no means a comprehensive list.
Your past shaped your nervous system and now your nervous system determines who you are... With neurosomatic training you get to decide who you will be.
