Yoga imparts a calming effect because it basically undoes the sympathetic nervous system’s quick, involuntary response to ...

Your autonomic nervous system—the part that handles all your unconscious bodily functions—operates in a delicate balance between its “fight-or-flight” sympathetic branch and its “rest ...

The rest of the body's main chakras are located down the five segments of the spine—cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx—which are governed by the sympathetic nervous system.

This system is divided into two parts that balance each other out. One part, called your sympathetic nervous system, helps you fight or run away in an emergency (also known as your "fight-or ...

⁶ Normally, the two primary divisions of the autonomic nervous system—the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems—operate in balance.⁶ They jointly manage the body’s reaction to stress ...

Virgil W. Blanchard, M.D.

When you're stressed, your body enters a ‘fight or flight’ response, activating the sympathetic nervous system. But you can counteract this with deep diaphragmatic breathing, which triggers ...

This article was originally published with the title “ Learning in the Autonomic Nervous System ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 222 No. 1 (January 1970), p. 30 doi:10.1038 ...

The nervous system consists of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (motor nerves, sensory nerves, cranial and spinal nerves, autonomic ganglia ...