08/13/2025
🔅Here are the top 5 ways your nervous system might be telling you it’s overwhelmed, along with what each can feel like in your body:
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1. Constant Muscle Tension
🔅What it feels like: Tight neck, shoulders, jaw, or low back even when you’re “resting.” You may clench your teeth or grind them at night.
🔆Why it happens: Your body stays in a low-level “fight or flight” mode, keeping muscles ready for action.
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2. Digestive Upset
🌀What it feels like: Bloating, nausea, constipation, diarrhea, or “butterflies” in your stomach for no obvious reason.
🌀Why it happens: Stress hormones redirect blood flow away from digestion, slowing or disrupting normal gut function.
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3. Racing Thoughts or Mental Fog
❌What it feels like: Your mind won’t stop, you replay conversations, or you feel mentally “checked out” and can’t focus.
❌Why it happens: An overstimulated nervous system keeps the brain in hyper-alert mode, or, conversely, shifts it into protective shutdown.
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4. Sleep Disturbances
✔️What it feels like: Trouble falling asleep, waking up in the night, vivid dreams, or feeling wired but exhausted.
✔️Why it happens: Elevated cortisol or adrenaline makes it hard for your body to shift into deep rest-and-repair mode.
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5. Heart & Breath Changes
🔻What it feels like: Rapid heartbeat, shallow breathing, chest tightness, or feeling like you “can’t catch your breath.”
🔻Why it happens: Your autonomic nervous system is activating your fight-or-flight response, preparing your body for perceived danger.
🔵And the moral of the story is … these are also signs your nervous system needs an adjustment.
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