Joe and Me: An Education in Fishing and Friendship by James Prosek

By James Prosek

Whilst James Prosek was once simply fifteen, a ranger named Joe Haines stuck him fishing with out a enable in a circulation close to Prosek's domestic in Connecticut. yet rather than commencing along with his fishing blood brother, James placed down his rod and surrendered. It used to be a circulation that will swap his existence perpetually. awaiting a small wonderful and a lecture, James in its place obtained adequate wisdom approximately fishing and the good open air to final a lifetime.

The tale of an not likely friendship, Joe and Me is a publication in the event you take into accout the mentor of their existence, the one that replaced the way in which they give the impression of being on the world.

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When you get input from other people’s faces and voices telling you that these people are safe, the smart vagus sends a message to the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, telling them to turn off. In effect, the smart vagus says, “I’m with friends and everything is going to be okay. ” The smart vagus is one reason we feel less stress when we’re around people we trust. When you feel safe, the smart vagus also lets your muscles do the motor work that’s necessary for engaging with the people around you.

It runs throughout your entire body, innervating muscles, organ systems, and glands. We used to think that our autonomic nervous system was a lot like Uncle Milty’s, with only two major parts: The sympathetic nervous system, which is responsible for the famous fight-or-flight response. The parasympathetic nervous system, which leads to the freeze response. In other words, scientists believed that when you feel surprised or threatened, your body automatically responds in one of two ways: either your sympathetic nervous system revs up, providing you with the energy and focus needed to fight or flee; or your parasympathetic nervous system activates, slowing your body processes down so that you freeze and play dead.

Eventually it will lose its good tone and become weak—leaving you with a loud and hypersensitive set of stress responses that perceives other people as basically dangerous and unkind, no matter what the reality. That’s a tragedy, because we are built to use safe relationships as a way of reducing stress. Without this ability, we may look more independent, but in reality we are weaker and sicker. Happily, there are plenty of ways to improve the tone of your smart vagus. Later in the book, I’ll describe these methods in detail.

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