Living and working in a modern world can fill our bodies with stress. We might even feel like we’re under threat, as if we were cave people responding to some tiger or bear waiting to attack us.

Our cortisol levels might be rising, but there is no beast waiting for us. Our bodies do have a system for relaxing, the parasympathetic system. When it’s activated, the body knows it doesn’t need to outrun a lion, so it focuses on more subtle things, like the immune system or just feeling happy.

We can activate it at any time simply by sitting, and listening to what’s around us.

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