This episode discusses the importance of relaxation in relation to weight management and overall health and happiness. Relaxation is a powerful tool for weight loss, weight management, and weight mastery to be viewed in a holistic sense, similar to the stock market, with many pieces influencing weight, including the nervous system. When the sympathetic fight or flight response is activated, energy is pulled away from the prefrontal cortex, preventing the use of executive functioning, logic, creativity, and wisdom, and instead causing a reactionary response.