09/04/2025
The world and all of its factors, physical, chemical, and emotional, are happening all around us externally, all the time. Those factors impact us internally based on how we interpret and respond to them.
The main system that facilitates this process is the nervous system. Take any physical factor that we are exposed to whether it causes pain or pleasure, we feel it, respond to it biochemically, and it makes us feel a certain way emotionally.
All of that is coordinated through the nervous system.
Let’s flip it around a little bit. Take any chemical factor we are exposed to, good or bad, we respond to it, we feel it, and it makes us feel a certain way. How about emotional factors or stressors? Same thing, it makes us feel a certain way, we respond to it biochemically, and we can feel it physically.
Think about an emotional challenge you’ve been through. That absolutely affected your biochemistry and how you felt physically.
Minimizing physical, chemical, and emotional stressors is a logical approach to facilitate a higher state of wellness or well-being, but what if we could increase our capacity to adapt to those stressors?
To do that, we would need to focus on strengthening the functional capacity of the nervous system itself.
Stimulating the nervous system in specific ways can have a direct impact on the state we find ourselves in, or something researchers refer to as “sense of coherence.”
Without getting into the technical components that make up one’s sense of coherence, it revolves around how we feel in our own bodies and how we relate to our environments. Those with a higher sense of coherence are more resilient to daily stressors and tend to improve their health.
– Justin Ohm, DC
