How to Balance Your Nervous System, Heal Burnout, and Improve Sleep
Let’s be honest… life can be a lot. Especially when you’re deeply invested in pursuing your goals and living your best life.
If you’re struggling with stress, burnout, anxiety, and disrupted sleep, you’re hardly alone. But you don’t have to keep living like this.
At Heal LA, we’re serious about longevity, health, and wellness on a deep level. Come with us for an honest look at why balancing your nervous system matters and how you can effectively heal burnout, reduce stress, and finally start sleeping better!
What happens to my body when I’m stressed, anxious, and burned out?
When you’re not sleeping well and struggling with stress, anxiety, and burnout, your body is stuck in a toxic feedback loop.
You’re essentially stuck in “fight or flight” mode. Your brain believes you’re in danger, so it releases stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline to help you stay alive. But you’re not really in danger, so instead of supporting you, these stress hormones create more stress and the cycle continues.
When your brain doesn’t get the message that you’re safe, your nervous system becomes dysregulated. Without intentional intervention, this dysregulation can continue causing mental, physical, and emotional problems with no end in sight.
Is it possible to not be stressed out?
Stress, anxiety, and burnout can feel like an inevitable, undesirable part of life.
But the goal isn’t to never experience stress or anxiety. Instead, we help men and women in Manhattan Beach learn how to manage stress, effectively treat anxiety, improve sleep, and balance the nervous system.
With the right treatments and habits, even the most ambitious, motivated professionals can experience a consistent sense of deep, meaningful calm.
Why should you balance your nervous system?
Stress, anxiety, and bad sleep can wreak havoc on your emotional, mental, and physical wellbeing. And once your body gets stuck in a dysregulated “fight or flight” cycle, it’s hard to regulate your nervous system on your own.
Negative effects of stress
Stress can impact your mental health, leading to an increase in anxiety and depression. Prolonged pressure often results in burnout, which leaves you feeling overwhelmed and unable to take action or complete the tasks you know you need to take care of.
It’s hard to focus when you’re stressed, which can make things like anxiety and burnout worse.
Stress can also contribute to increased irritability, which is really the last thing you want or need when you’re dealing with all of the other challenges stress can impose.
The physical effects of stress are serious:
- Increased blood pressure
- Elevated heart rate
- Suppressed immune response
- Fatigue or insomnia
- Nausea and digestion issues
- Increased risk of hypertension, heart disease, or stroke
Even physically healthy adults who prioritize exercise and a balanced diet can suffer from these symptoms of stress.
Negative effects of anxiety
Anxiety, like stress, triggers your body’s fight or flight response, dumping stress chemicals like cortisol and adrenaline into your system.
It can be hard to know whether stress causes your anxiety or vice-versa, but the reality is that they compound the other’s negative effects.
Anxiety can lead to troubling symptoms including a pounding heart rate, dizziness, trembling, shaking, headaches, dread, social strain, and mood changes.
Negative effects of disrupted sleep
Sleep is an integral part of your overall health and wellbeing. Optimizing your performance and longevity must always include prioritizing your sleep.
When you don’t get enough sleep, you’ll find yourself:
- Feeling more clumsy and prone to injury
- Struggling with focus and brain fog
- Experiencing an increase in anxiety and depression
- Dealing with dysregulated hunger hormones and a slower metabolism
- Getting sick more easily and frequently
Like stress and anxiety, disrupted sleep can impact every facet of your physical, mental, and emotional health.
It’s easy to see why you should avoid the negative effects and risks associated with stress, anxiety, and poor sleep. But knowing the why isn’t enough. You need to know how to balance your dysregulated system.
How can I reset my nervous system?
There’s no single solution or way to balance your nervous system. The goal is to develop short-term strategies that can help you re-center in the moment while building long-term or consistent habits to support your overall wellbeing.
Some of the simple ways to reset your nervous system include:
- Humming
- Chewing on ice
- Box breathing
- Taking a short, easy walk
- Getting outside and breathing fresh air
- Deep belly breaths in through the nose and out through the mouth
These are helpful strategies to use in a pinch, but they won’t solve chronic stress and anxiety or heal burnout.
In order to truly balance your nervous system and find a deep, inner sense of peace and calm, you need consistent treatments that target the root causes and give your body a genuine reset.
Balance your nervous system at Heal LA
If you’re looking for a wellness center that prioritizes a comprehensive approach to health, wellbeing, and longevity, you’ll love what you find at Heal LA in Manhattan Beach.
Our team of experts have curated 4 specific wellness stacks to efficiently and effectively target your specific needs and goals.
Our wellness stacks are designed to help you:
- Protect & repair
- Reset & ground
- Prime & focus
- Renew & signal
Each stack follows an evidence-based structure and sequence to deliver maximum benefits and compound the effects you experience from each treatment. Wellness stacks work better together than each treatment or technology can alone.
Reset & Ground
If you’re struggling with a dysregulated nervous system, stress, anxiety, burnout, and bad sleep — it’s time to reset and ground.
This wellness stack is designed to balance your nervous system and restore a deep sense of peace and calm.
It begins with a session in our HaloRed Sauna. The salt-purified air, infrared heat, and red light work to open your airways, restore your circulation, and bring your body to its first real exhale. (Can’t you already start to feel the relief?)
After the sauna, you’ll move to our exclusive Ammortal Chamber. This is your opportunity to experience truly cutting-edge technology. The Ammortal Chamber simultaneously delivers 5 synergistic, clinically-informed technologies to quiet your nervous system, recharge your cellular energy, and shift you from reactive to restored.
Your Reset & Ground protocol culminates with a 30-min VEMI session. Our Pure Wave VEMI bed is a full-body wellness system that supports the body’s return to a state of balance and rest. This technology anchors your reset so your feelings of peace, calm, restoration, and balance remain once you leave.
Ready to balance your nervous system?
A calm, regulated nervous system is the foundation of your health and wellness.
At Heal LA, we guide our clients to the best treatments and longevity technology to reset the nervous system and establish a consistent, proactive approach to wellbeing.
You can click here to learn more about our wellness stacks and curated, collaborative approach to living well, longer.
Questions about resetting your nervous system, healing stress and burnout, and improving your sleep?
Our team of experts are answering your biggest questions.
Who experiences stress and burnout?
Anyone, regardless of their level of physical health, can experience the negative effects of stress, anxiety, and burnout. Many high-achieving professionals find themselves struggling to focus, stay motivated, or remain healthy due to the consistent demands of their careers, personal lives, and family commitments. No one is immune to stress or potential burnout.
How long does it take to reset your nervous system?
Regulating your nervous system is rarely a linear process. Instead, it’s often a nuanced process that requires consistency in order to see results. You can use short-term techniques like deep breathing, box breathing, humming, or taking a walk to give yourself a quick reset.
For chronic stress, anxiety, and burnout, you’ll need to build specific habits and make key lifestyle changes in order to create meaningful change.
At Heal LA, we help our clients build a sustainable habit that supports their unique goals. If you’re focused on resetting your nervous system, our Manhattan Beach wellness center is a great place to start. Our team of experts will help you customize a tailored plan to meet your specific needs.
Does sleep reset your nervous system?
Sleep alone isn’t typically enough to regulate your nervous system, but it’s a key foundational element of a balanced nervous system. When you don’t get enough sleep, things like stress and anxiety tend to get worse. Consistently getting deep sleep for 7-9 hours a night is one of the best ways to give your body the rest it needs and optimize your performance.
At Heal LA, we offer several treatments to help you achieve more restful sleep. You can check out our advanced longevity technology here.
