Krishna Kumar

Have spent the last 3 years studying Somatics, Polyvagal theory and Nervous system regulation, in depth. Here's a Beginner level, introductory, EASY, FAST & EFFECTIVE EXERCISE TO RESET YOUR VAGUS NERVE and nervous system: You can do this sitting or laying down. I do it laying down. First, interlock/interweave your fingers and then bring them back and place them behind your head. This should look like your palms w/ interwoven fingers right behind your head at top of your neck at the base of your skull. Your thumbs should be pointing down the back of your neck with the rest of your fingers together and cradling the brainstem area of back side of your skull. This hold will naturally leave your arms up at head level, on sides of your head. Make sure your elbows are out on either side of your head, not near head but outward - pointed and facing opposite walls. Settle first into this position with a few normal deep breaths. Relax into it. Then, without moving your head even a half an inch you are going to turn only your eyes as far to the right as possible. Some people look at their right elbow tip and some try to move their eyes (without ANY movement of your neck or head or you're doing it wrong) all the way to the wall. Now HOLD this position for 1-3 minutes, eyes pinned to the right as far as you can get them to go without your head moving. You will hold this until your body gives you an autonomic sign that the vagus nerve has reset. This is usually a deep sigh, a deep breath coming or a or a big yawn. For me it's always a yawn. You want that sign and then let go and relax. If it doesn’t come, just keep breathing slowly and being calm and holding your eyes to the right as far as you can pin them without that movement of head or neck. When you’re ready, or after your vagus nerve resets and signals to you via those signs, repeat exactly on the other side, hands still behind your head, interwoven, head and neck unmoving, now moving your eyes as far to the left wall as you can pin them without true pain or movement. Wait again for that nervous system sign or signal: A sigh, a deep yawn, a deep relaxation of muscles or softening of flexibility. Practice often, daily, even a few times a day to start working with your own reset switch. Somatics, limbic retraining, vagus nerve and vagal toning and exercises within the umbrella of these terms and practices and within “Polyvagal Theory” continue to be the cutting edge of healing or reducing trauma as well as healing for anyone who has a long term (especially mysterious) chronic illness or autoimmune disorder. Enjoy x

Studying yourself will change your life. Most people don’t live consciously. They live in auto mode, in patterns. You react without knowing why. But the moment you observe yourself; your triggers, your thoughts, your habits, you create space. And in that space, you get a choice. To respond, not react. To let go, not hold on. To change, not repeat. Self-awareness isn’t always comfortable. But it turns unconscious patterns into conscious decisions. And that is how life changes. What is one pattern in your life you need to break? #Wisdom

Everything you've ever stressed about existed entirely inside 1.4 kilograms of electrical meat sitting in a dark skull that has never once directly touched the outside world. Your brain receives no raw reality. Zero. It gets compressed electrical signals from sensory organs and then constructs a simulation it presents to you as "life." The color red doesn't exist in the universe. Your brain invented it as a way to label a specific wavelength. The solidity of the floor beneath your feet is mostly empty space interpreted as resistance. The continuous movie of your life is actually discrete frames stitched together by a brain that fills the gaps without telling you. You are not experiencing reality. You are experiencing your brain's best guess at reality, filtered through every trauma, belief, language, and cultural program installed in you before you were old enough to consent to any of it. Now apply that to your suffering. That embarrassing memory from seven years ago that still visits you at 2am lives nowhere in the physical universe. It is a electrochemical pattern your brain keeps reconstructing and relabeling as present danger. Your anxiety about the future is a simulation of a simulation. A story about a story. The harshest truth is not that life is hard. It is that most of the life you are experiencing was authored by processes completely invisible to your conscious mind, and you have been treating that authored fiction as gospel reality your entire existence. You are not who you think you are. You are who your nervous system was trained to narrate. The cage was never real. Only the belief in it was.

placebo proves your entire life is just a function of your beliefs. you can bend reality however you want if you really tried. it's all malleable.

Went down the rabbit hole on this one. Your brain burns 20% of your body's total energy. It weighs 2% of your mass. Per gram, it costs 10 times as much to run as muscle. And it barely changes its energy consumption whether you're solving calculus or staring at a wall. A focused mental task increases brain energy use by less than 5%. The difference between "thinking hard" and "doing nothing" is not how much fuel you burn. It's where the fuel goes. When you don't give your brain a specific task, it defaults to something neuroscientists call the Default Mode Network, a set of brain regions that fire up when you're not focused on anything external. It runs your inner monologue. Rehashes old conversations. Simulates future arguments you'll probably never have. Replays embarrassing moments from 2014. A 2010 Harvard study tracked 2,250 people via a smartphone app, pinging them at random moments to ask what they were doing and thinking. Result: our minds wander 47% of our waking hours. Nearly half your conscious life, your brain is somewhere else. And the people whose minds wandered most were consistently the least happy, regardless of what they were doing. How often your mind drifts predicted your happiness 2x better than whatever activity you were doing at the time. When you give the brain a goal, the entire system reorganizes. The prefrontal cortex takes over, activating your brain's reward and motivation pathways. A 2022 Nature Communications study found that goal-relevant information enters through the prefrontal cortex, triggers dopamine neurons, and creates a self-reinforcing motivation loop. Your brain literally rewards itself for pursuing something meaningful. A 2026 review in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience found that flow states, those moments of complete task absorption, partially quiet the Default Mode Network. Less DMN activity meant less self-evaluation, less rumination, and lower anxiety. A twin study of over 9,000 people found that people who experienced flow more often had lower rates of depression, anxiety, and roughly 4% lower risk of heart disease, even after controlling for genetics. The longevity data makes it real. A 2022 Harvard study tracked 13,000+ adults aged 50+ for 8 years. People with the strongest sense of purpose had a 15.2% mortality rate over that period. Lowest sense of purpose: 36.5%. More than double. The effect held across race, ethnicity, and gender. A separate meta-analysis of 136,000+ people found that a strong purpose was linked to a 17% lower risk of death from any cause. Purposeful people were 24% less likely to become physically inactive and 33% less likely to develop sleep problems. Dan Koe compressed a lot of neuroscience into one sentence. The brain doesn't idle when you don't give it a goal. It defaults to a mode that burns the same 20 watts but points them inward, toward rumination and anxiety. Give it a direction, and those same watts start building motivation loops, quieting your inner critic, and apparently adding years to your life.

Hasslers: A hassler is someone who repeatedly creates unnecessary stress in your life. Types of Hasslers 1. The Constant Critic: Always pointing out what is wrong. Rarely satisfied. 2. The Chronic Complainer: Always unhappy, always venting, but rarely willing to change anything. 3. The Boundary Breaker: Always testing and crossing your boundaries. 4. The Drama Creator Turns small issues into big conflicts. Thrives on emotional chaos. 5. The Energy Drainer Leaves you mentally exhausted after every interaction. You cannot control a hassler’s behavior. But you can control how much access they have to your attention and energy. Sometimes the healthiest response is not confrontation. It is distance, boundaries, and emotional detachment. #Wisdom

The art of letting someone be in a bad mood will completely change your life.

A student asked a Zen master, “Why do intelligent people still ruin their lives?” The master lit a candle and placed it before the student. Then he suddenly blew it out. The room went dark. The student asked, “Why did you do that?” The master replied, “Knowledge is the flame. Emotion is the wind. Without learning to manage the wind, even a bright flame cannot stay lit.” ............ Intelligence opens doors. But success depends on the ability to manage emotions. You can be brilliant and still struggle in life because you cannot handle frustration, rejection, criticism, or uncertainty. Anger ruins relationships. Fear avoids opportunities. We spend years teaching children mathematics, science, and language. But almost no one teaches them how to calm anger, tolerate disappointment, handle criticism, or sit with uncertainty. So people grow up educated in many subjects, but uneducated in their own emotions. And that quietly sabotages careers, marriages, and health. #Wisdom

I get blown away every time I read this paragraph by Carl Jung: To love someone else is easy, but to love what you are, the thing that is yourself, is just as if you were embracing a glowing red-hot iron: it burns into you and that is very painful. Therefore, to love somebody else in the first place is always an escape which we all hope for, and we all enjoy it when we are capable of it. But in the long run, it comes back on us. You cannot stay away from yourself forever, you have to return, have to come to that experiment, to know whether you really can love. That is the question-whether you can love yourself, and that will be the test.

- Put it on the resume - Say it in the interview - Nod confidently in meetings - Tell coworkers you’ve done it before - Get the job - Open the documentation - Google everything - Watch 12 YouTube tutorials - Figure it out at 2:37 AM - Ship the feature Welcome to the tech industry.

If you’re between 25-29, you’ve reached an age where you’re starting to feel like giving up on yourself, thinking it’s too late to start anew as you see people around you settling down. Don’t let that energy influence you. This phase is crucial; persevere through it.

You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don’t get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

A mentor once told me this: Life will test you with the same challenge until you learn the lesson. The same fight in every relationship. The same burnout in every job. The same regret in every missed chance. Until you do the inner work, the outer world won’t change.

One of the realest advice to come out the show.

“What do you have to lose when nothing in the world belongs to you?” —Marcus Aurelius

Most of your problems in life come from lack of communication skills. How to say what you mean and get what you want:

the PEAK male experience is landing in a new city, walking the streets with no plan and eating dinner alone somewhere you’ve never been. nothing better. it’s spiritual.

Learnt this trick from someone - Everytime you replace “I’m overwhelmed” with “I need to decide what matters most and go slow,” your brain stops sounding alarm signals and starts organizing again.

He literally explained the Black Coffee Theory and why it changes how you approach life.

When you're around someone with low emotional regulation their mood becomes your problem and you feel chronically anxious in their presence.