You might think the suggestions on 50 Ways To Calm Your Nervous System are too quick and simple to be effective. But they have all been shown by research to calm the nervous system when it is dysregulated. Even better, most of the things you do to calm your body in the moment also work to help your nervous system learn to calm down more quickly in the future. That's the job of your vagus nerve, which sends messages throughout the body to help you calm down once it feels safe. 

So over time as you use this list, you retrain your vagus nerve to be able to return you to calm more quickly. 

You're human, so you won't be able to stay calm at all times. But being able to notice when you get upset, and return yourself to calm quickly, is transformational. And you're modeling for your child, so you're giving them strategies to build a calmer nervous system starting in childhood!