autonomic

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“It seems that practicing some control over your respiration is a kind of entry into one way of controlling your autonomic activity.”

From Washington Post

A seizure is an episode of abnormal brain activity, and the temporal lobe is in close communication with the autonomic nervous system, which can trigger sweating.

From New York Times

It’s an approach based on Estes’ theory of sensory resonance, which posits that the body’s autonomic nervous system can essentially be “reset” by synchronizing all of the major sensory mechanisms together — visual, aural and vibrational.

From Los Angeles Times

But those, too, result from nerve dysfunction, often in the autonomic nervous system, which directs our bodies to breathe and digest food and generally runs our organs on autopilot.

From Scientific American

Less variability is a sign that your body is under greater stress and that the balance in your autonomic nervous system is tipping toward the sympathetic branch being in charge.

From Salon