The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
I think we could all benefit from doing regardless of age. The other reason is that when you start to understand that you have this kind of see-saw system in your body, this autonomic nervous system that takes you from alert and calm to stressed to full-blown panic, it has that capacity, or from sleepy and drowsy to passing out tired to God forbid, let's hope never, but a coma, right?
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it's the balance of the two that dictates one's emotional state and alertness um level of stress Etc
The sympathetic nervous system is generally responsible for increasing our levels of alertness, everything from being alert, like I am now, all the way up to full-blown panic attack, which fortunately I'm not right now. The parasympathetic nervous system is responsible for putting us into a calm and relaxed state or a deep sleep state, or a coma state, if it were to be hyperactivated.
One is the so-called sympathetic autonomic nervous system. Has nothing to do with sympathy. Has everything to do with increasing alertness. The other branch of the autonomic nervous system is the so-called parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. The parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system are the cells and neurons and chemicals and other aspects of your brain and body that are involved in the calming nervous system.