Recovery Signal
Balance Your Nervous System
Tools and techniques that enable your nervous system to recover, build resilience and maintain good energy levels.
What is Recovery?
Recovery is anything that promotes the parasympathetic nervous system. It can range from what I call slivers of recovery such as daydreaming for a few minutes, meditating, or having a quiet weekend at home or taking a holiday. When we’re in recovery mode, our minds and bodies are recharging.
What Does Improved Recovery Look Like?
Recovery is as important as the effort you put into life. Recovery promotes better health outcomes, stress management and healthspan, and means you have more fun in life. Many of us expect to perform at a high level all year round, but this isn’t sustainable. We need those small moments of enjoyment, relaxation and distraction if we are to avoid becoming chronically stressed or burnt out.
How to Improve Your Recovery
Sleep
The most democratically available, performance-enhancing strategy you can adopt for improved recovery.
Sleep
Mental Health
Techniques such as breathwork and meditation help to manage good mental health, reduce blood pressure and resting heart rate, and develop better internal stress recovery.
Mental Health
Thinking small
recovery is about doing less not more, and it can take just 1-2 minutes to do. Small but sustainable habits can have a big impact over time.
Thinking small
Re-energise
Identify what people, places and things energise you and ensure there’s time in the diary to do those things on a regular basis. That’s a big part of recovery.
Re-energise
The Stress Rucksack
Imagine you have a built-in rucksack on your back that contains bricks, each brick being a stressful event. If the rucksack gets too heavy, you’ll either have to stop and rest or remove some of the bricks in order to keep going.
The Stress Rucksack