Resilient Vagus: Using Stress to Train Your Nervous System

The goal is not to calm the ocean of your life, but to build a better boat.We live in a culture that treats stress as a design flaw—a symptom of a "e;broken"e; life that we must engineer away with meditation apps and weighted blankets. We have been sold a seductive but damaging myth: that a healthy life is a stress-free life. In our pursuit of permanent calm, we have inadvertently created a new fo...