Jonny Miller is the creator of Nervous System Mastery, a transformative training program that teaches thousands of people how to regulate stress, unlock emotional resilience, and reconnect with their bodies. He’s also the host of The Inner Frontier podcast and a TEDx speaker whose work bridges neuroscience, trauma, and the physiology of calm.

Emotions aren’t what you think they are — they don’t live in your “mind,” but in the dynamic language of your body. Jonny’s journey from burnout and grief to embodied mastery reveals that the key to peace, creativity, and connection lies not in suppressing emotion, but in learning to listen to it.

Expect to learn why emotions are predictions from the body, not reactions from the brain, how interoception and the vagus nerve shape your inner world, what really causes anxiety and how to retrain your nervous system to feel safe again, why emotional suppression creates “debt” in the body, the hidden physiology of flow states, how blood flow and micro-constriction may encode our sense of control, why co-regulation with others is the most powerful stress medicine, how to build real resilience instead of numbness — and much more…

Timestamps:

03:00 Mastering the Nervous System

05:53 The Impact of a Chaotic Nervous System

08:51 Agency and Nervous System Regulation

11:33 Personal Journey and Life Events

14:48 Grief and Emotional Mastery

17:45 Introspection and Self-Regulation

20:44 Emotional Fluidity and Processing

23:48 Navigating Rejection and Fear

26:41 The Role of Relationships in Regulation

37:47 Understanding Loneliness and Connection

39:09 Nervous System Mastery Practices

42:03 The Relational Dojo: Practicing Connection

42:51 Descriptive Experience Sampling: Inner Awareness

44:27 Interoception and Self-Understanding

47:04 Emotions, Sensations, and Decision Making

48:58 Flow States and Central Nervous System Optimization

54:47 The Body's Predictive Processing

59:08 Connection Between Body and Mind

01:04:19 Meditation Practices and Overcoming Box-Ticking

01:09:34 Exploring Meditative Practices

01:10:34 The Role of Psychedelics in Personal Growth

01:12:36 Therapeutic Benefits of MDMA and Ketamine

01:15:01 Navigating Risks and Benefits of Psychedelics

01:17:49 Psychedelics and Personal Pathways

01:20:15 The Intersection of Psychedelics and Meaning

01:23:28 Legislating Psychedelics: A New Approach

01:26:39 The Future of Psychedelics and AI

01:29:15 Exciting Frontiers in Neuroscience and Parenting

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