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How to Never Get Overstimulated Again - by Noah Ryan

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Do you ever feel too tired to work but too wired to relax? Brain fog, scattered thoughts, inability to focus no matter how hard you try. Do you ruminate? Are noises distracting and overwhelming? When was the last time you felt joy? Do the things you used to love now feel like “meh”? You, my friend, might be chronically overstimulated. Your fight or flight is stuck on ON mode. Total sympathetic nervous system dominance. In short, your central nervous system is shot. You’re not alone. Its impossible to not be overstimulated in this day & age. We’ve normalized a state of constant neural bombardment that would have one-shotted a Victorian era child. Reels, feeds, screens, notifications, noises. You wake up, immediately grab your phone, scroll through 50 pages of content before your brain even knows its up, check emails while brushing your teeth, listen to a podcast at 1.5x speed during your commute, watch Youtube while housing your double steak slop bowl for lunch, and wonder why you can’t

Do you ever feel too tired to work but too wired to relax? Brain fog, scattered thoughts, inability to focus no matter how hard you try. Do you ruminate? Are noises distracting and overwhelming? When was the last time you felt joy? Do the things you used to love now feel like “meh”? You, my friend, might be chronically overstimulated. Your fight or flight is stuck on ON mode. Total sympathetic nervous system dominance. In short, your central nervous system is shot. You’re not alone. Its impossible to not be overstimulated in this day & age. We’ve normalized a state of constant neural…

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