Every process in your body has a priority.
And the gut is always first in line.
It’s your survival engine.
When something feels off in your gut, the rest of you — your heart, your mind — will quietly step back.
They wait until balance is restored.
It’s biology, not spiritual fluff.
Your nervous system (you know, that elegant dance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic, i.e. the stressed and the relaxed states) decides what gets power.
Fight or rest.
Survive or heal.
When danger appears, your sympathetic system takes the wheel.
Adrenaline floods in.
Muscles tighten.
You move. Fast.
That’s why when a car rushes toward you, you don’t think.
You react.
Your body keeps you alive before your brain can join the conversation.
And after the danger is gone — that’s when your parasympathetic system whispers:
“Breathe. Balance. Heal.”
The problem?
Most of us never let that part do its job.
We keep our bodies in permanent survival mode. Like driving a car on the lowest gear.
Always one email, one deadline, one fire to stop.
Our gut stays tense.
Our balance never returns.
That’s why you feel foggy after conflict.
Why your creativity disappears when you’re stressed.
Why your heart feels numb even when your calendar looks full.
Because your system is still in fight mode.
But here’s something I realized the hard way:
Stress isn’t the enemy. It’s meant to save you. It’s only when you don’t exit the stress state that it starts to destroy you.
The gut knows this.
It’s been managing your balance long before you learned to call it “stress management.”
So here’s my small GUT technique for today.
It’s so simple that everyone forgets about it.
But it’s so essential to our system.
When you finish a stressful task, don’t move to the next one.
Pause.
Let your system switch back.
Breathe slow. Eat real food. Feel your feet.
That’s not wasting time.
That’s restoring power.
That’s sharpening your axe for the next battle.
Because when your gut is calm, your heart opens.
And your mind starts to work again.
That’s how you win the battle.
It all starts with having some GUT time.
Yana
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