Do you ever feel constantly on edge, struggling to relax even when you see you have nothing to stress about? Maybe you wake up tired, your shoulders always feel tight, feeling the pain in joints or that your mind just won’t switch off. If this sounds familiar, your nervous system could be stuck in fight or flight mode — a state of constant reactive stress mode that many people don’t even realise they’re in, and accepting ‘it is just normal life’.
This isn’t just a modern issue. Our bodies are wired by memory for survival, and in moments of real danger, this response is essential. But in today’s world, everyday stressors — work pressures, phone notifications, financial worries, emotional overwhelm — can keep your body locked in a reactive survival mode. Over time, this can lead to chronic stress, anxiety, fatigue, digestive issues, poor cognitive capacity and eventual pain.
The good news? There are natural, proven ways to help your nervous system shift out of overdrive and into a state of calm, balance, and deep healing.
What Happens When You’re Stuck in Fight or Flight?
Your nervous system has two main states:
-
- Fight or Flight (Sympathetic Nervous System Activation): This is your body’s stress response. Do you stand up or run away? Your heart rate increases, digestion slows, muscles tense, and stress hormones flood your system to keep you alert and ready for action, a hypervigilant state.
-
- Rest and Digest (Parasympathetic Nervous System Activation): This is where true healing happens. Your body can properly digest what is happening and is calm. It can digest and absorb nourishment in food, repair cells, regulate hormones, and restore energy levels to a balanced state.
The problem? Many people live what they have learned from childhood, a learned response to a perceived threatening environment. The effect is fight or flight without realising it. This means your body never fully relaxes, it is unable to recover, or reset to a healthier level. Symptoms can include:
-
- Feeling constantly wired, driven, but exhausted, but feeling it’s never enough.
-
- Retention of toxic fluid, causing stiffness, tight muscles, jaw clenching, headaches, joint pain.
-
- Shallow breathing or holding your breath
-
- Digestive issues like bloating or sluggish digestion, cravings for sugars. Disturbed sleep. Dehydration, thirsty, malabsorption issues and dry or itching shin.
-
- Brain fog and difficulty concentrating, procrastination
-
- Frequent colds or slow healing
If any of this sounds familiar, you’re not alone. At Natural Health Therapy, Clare has worked with countless clients who have unknowingly been stuck in this reactive cycle. Through a holistic approach, she helps people become more aware of their belief creating the experience and gently relieve their symptoms in a process that retrains their nervous systems to be more at ease and comfortable being in a relaxed state. The techniques easily release tension, and restore balance.
How to Reset Your Nervous System Naturally
The key to getting out of survival mode isn’t about pushing harder, or doing more and more — it’s about giving your body/mind states understanding, and allowing yourself to slow down, pause, and feel safe in being true to yourself. It is often a new unfamiliar feeling, very nurturing, invigorating, completely calm and centered in yourself. ‘Being IT’. Here’s how natural therapies can help:
-
- Reflexology: The Power of Nerve Stimulation
Reflexology works by applying gentle pressure to specific points on the feet that correspond with different areas of the body. This signals the nervous system to shift into a relaxed state, helping to lower stress hormones and improve circulation. Clare’s techniques also find the source of the condition, that chemical energy of the memory triggering the fear responses. You change the communication within the cellular memory to freedom from the old patterns.
-
- Massage Therapy: Releasing Tension Stored in the Body
Chronic stress often shows up as tight shoulders, a stiff neck, or lower back pain. Tingling or burning in the fingers, feet and legs. The Massage includes some reflexology with essential oils that helps to release stored tension and sites of pain. Massage increases circulation improving oxygen in your blood flow, and activates the parasympathetic nervous system, allowing the body to truly relax and the mind to let go. You feel at ease on all levels.
-
- Breathwork and Aromatherapy: Calming the Mind Instantly
Certain essential oils like lavender, frankincense, and chamomile can work wonders in shifting the body into relaxation mode. Pairing this with deep, mindful breathing tells the nervous system it’s safe to unwind.
-
- Kinesiology and Energy Healing: Releasing Emotional Stress
Many people hold onto emotional tension without realising it, which can keep their bodies in a stress response. Kinesiology and energy healing can help identify and release emotional blockages that contribute to ongoing stress. Kinesiology also supports uncovering any blockages to absorbing what is beneficial to your health and well-being.
-
- Gentle Movement and Self-Care Practices
Things like yoga, stretching, grounding exercises, and even a short walk outside can make a big difference in calming the nervous system. Clare often recommends small, manageable lifestyle shifts that support long-term healing.
You Don’t Have to Stay Stuck in Survival Mode
If you’ve been feeling constantly exhausted, tense, or overwhelmed, your body may be asking for support. You don’t have to just push through or accept stress as a normal part of life.
Natural therapies like massage, reflexology, energy healing and importantly learning mindfulness techniques can help your whole body, all systems find its way back to balance, clarity and a calm state of being — gently, naturally, and without forcing anything.
If you’re ready to feel calm, clear, and truly rested again, brimming with enthusiasm, book a session today.
Call 0435 845 394 or click here to get started.