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Jonny Miller

Curious Humans & Nervous System Mastery

Championing adventures in radical inquiry & self-experimentation.

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Announcing... Nervous System Quotient (NSQ) Self-Assessment v2

Hello Curious Humans — greetings from a snowy Boulder! ☃️ Today, I'm excited to visit a neurofeedback lab in town to run some experiments with vagus nerve stimulation devices and explore how practicing non-sleep-deep-rest might shift my brainwaves... I'll report back what I discover in a few weeks time! 🧠 ~~ 1/ ✔️ A Self-Assessment to Track Your Nervous System Regulation For the past few months, I've been working on creating a robust and practical self-assessment that strives to give insight...

3 months ago • 2 min read

When experiencing nervous system dysregulation, most people try to solve the problem 'from within.' But there’s something a lot of us forget: The stimuli in our surroundings also have a tremendous influence in our nervous system. In fact, it is accurate to say that we are constantly ‘co-regulating’ with our environment, taking external cues from all the sounds, the visuals, even the smells — and then tuning our internal state accordingly. The issue? Most of us don’t put enough thought into...

3 months ago • 2 min read

There’s a pervasive myth—particularly in the tech industry—that listening to our rational, logic-oriented left brain is superior to acting in response to fluctuating emotions. Life might be simpler if this were the case. Emotions are messy, and in some circumstances they can cloud our judgment. Even the neuroscientists studying them have struggled to understand how they work. Which is why, to this day, there is still no scientific consensus on a precise definition of what an emotion actually...

3 months ago • 4 min read

Hey! Jonny here with some more practical thoughts on how to become an active operator of your nervous system. Today I’d like to share with you a very powerful, zero-cost protocol for self-regulating your inner state during stressful or intense situations. But first, I’d like to give you a little bit of context to make sure you understand why self-regulation is such an important skill to master (so you can overcome the nervous system regulation challenges you’ve been experiencing). Why...

3 months ago • 5 min read

What if you could completely reset your nervous system in just 15 minutes? Well, today I’m going to share with you a science-based protocol to do just that! But first, I’d also like to share you a little bit of context to make sure you understand why working on your Interoceptive Capacity is crucial for overcoming the nervous system regulation challenges you’ve been experiencing lately. Let’s dive in. A Quick Primer On Interoception In a nutshell, Interoception refers to our body's ability to...

3 months ago • 3 min read

👨🎓 Increase your Nervous System Capacity, Rewire your Stress Response & Explore Your Inner Landscape I receive, on average, a couple of messages per week from past students of nervous system mastery, mentioning various ways in which the tools or perspective shifts have been rippling out into their lives many months or even years after the training ends — as I was sharing with my Pathless Path friend Paul yesterday on a hike, I feel absurdly grateful to call this work my 'career' and that, in...

4 months ago • 2 min read

Happy 2024 Curious Humans! As David Whyte likes to say:'“What you can plan is too small for you to live. What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough for the vitality hidden in your sleep.” So this year, may you remember to make space for curiosity & remain open to a future more wondrous than your present self could comprehend. —Jonny 🎙️ David Whyte on Courage as a Measure of Our Heartfelt Participation with Life I'm starting the year by republishing a conversation with the...

5 months ago • 4 min read

Does personal growth feel like paddling against a storm or drifting with the current? 🎙️ The Reason Self Development is Fundamentally Flawed with Aletheia Founder Steve March Steve March is the founder of the coaching methodology Aletheia, although maybe lesser known in the public sphere, is, to my mind, a revolutionary innovation in the realm of human development and how we orient to personal growth. Consider this question for yourself: 'What if nothing is missing? What if you are already...

5 months ago • 3 min read

There is a Māori proverb "Ka mua, ka muri" which roughly translates to 'Walking backwards into the future' — credit also to Jan Chipchase for coining the term 'Reflecting Forwards' 🎙️ Reflecting Forwards Annual Review Template (2024 Edition) For the past ten years I’ve set aside time to reflect on how the previous year unfolded with the aim of noticing nuggets of self-insight as well as setting clear intentions for the year to come. Each year the questions and format have evolved and been...

6 months ago • 2 min read

👋 Greetings from a rather wintery Boulder! 🏔️ I've found myself enjoying these periods of spaciousness in between running cohorts of Nervous System Mastery & allowing my mind to wander somewhat — focusing on connections, creativity and recording many more podcast conversations. 🎙️In the coming weeks, I'll be releasing podcast episodes with inspiring folks like Khe Hy, Jerry Colonna, Steve March, and the MAPS lead therapist Marcela Ot’alora, so stay tuned for these in the weeks to come. That's...

6 months ago • 3 min read
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