Your Nervous System Is Overstimulated: Here’s a 60-Minute Reset

NAKH Wellness
Jun 11
3 min read

Updated: Jun 12

In a world of non-stop notifications, noise, and pressure to keep going, your body is quietly sending out distress signals. The headaches, fatigue, tight shoulders, shallow breathing, irritability, restless sleep? That’s not “just life”, that’s your nervous system on overload.

At NAKH Integrated Wellness in South Edmonton, we’ve spent over 30 years helping people hear what their bodies are really saying, and teaching them how to reset, naturally and holistically.

This blog is your guide to understanding what nervous system overload actually is, how it’s silently affecting your life, and how just 60 minutes of intentional care can change everything.

Nervous System Overload: What It Feels Like (Even If You Don’t Realize It)

Let’s be honest: modern life isn’t gentle. Between work stress, screen time, family demands, and the constant expectation to perform, your nervous system rarely gets to rest. Here’s how that overload might show up in your body:

Chronic tension in the neck, shoulders, or jaw
Anxiety or restlessness you can’t shake
Poor digestion or IBS symptoms
Feeling exhausted but unable to sleep deeply
Brain fog or trouble focusing
Mood swings, irritability, or emotional numbness
Overactive fight-or-flight response, feeling “on edge” all the time

Sound familiar? That’s your sympathetic nervous system (your stress response system) stuck in the "on" position.

And if you never switch into parasympathetic mode, rest and digest, your body never gets to repair, reset, or truly feel safe.

Why Your Nervous System Needs a Reset (and Not Just a Vacation)

You can’t just “rest harder” to fix a burnt-out system. What you need is an intentional nervous system reset, a way to communicate to your body that it’s safe to slow down, breathe deeply, and start healing.

At NAKH Integrated Wellness, we offer exactly that through targeted massage therapy and holistic healing modalities designed to calm your entire system, not just your muscles.

“This is the first time I’ve felt grounded in weeks,” one of our clients told us after a single 60-minute session. That’s the nervous system reset at work.

The 60-Minute Reset: What’s Happening Behind the Scenes

So what actually happens during a one-hour treatment at NAKH that resets your nervous system?

1. We activate your parasympathetic nervous system.

Within minutes of skilled, therapeutic touch, your heart rate slows, cortisol drops, and your body begins to exhale, literally and figuratively.

2. Your vagus nerve gets a boost.

This powerful nerve is key to regulating digestion, inflammation, and emotional balance. Massage and breathwork stimulate it, helping your body shift from “threat” mode into deep relaxation.

3. We use intentional, trauma aware touch.

Our Registered Massage Therapists (RMTs) are trained to work with people who carry emotional and physical tension. This isn’t just physical, it’s whole body wellness, grounded in compassion.

4. Your body releases serotonin and oxytocin.

These "feel good" chemicals don’t just improve your mood, they regulate sleep, ease pain, and increase your sense of connection and safety.

5. Energy flow is restored.

Through techniques like craniosacral therapy, lymphatic drainage, and fascia release, we release blocked energy, the stuff that makes you feel stuck or heavy, physically and emotionally.

The Real Results: After Your 60-Minute Reset

What happens after your session? Here’s what our clients report:

“I finally slept through the night.”
“My chest feels open and I can breathe again.”
“I didn’t realize how tightly I was holding my body.”
“I feel like myself again.”
“It was the first quiet moment I’ve had in ages.”

This isn’t just “nice.” It’s necessary. Your body is incredibly wise, it just needs a break from the noise to remember how to heal.

Why NAKH Is Different: We Treat the Whole You

At NAKH Integrated Wellness, we’re not your average massage clinic. We’ve built a healing sanctuary based on:

Over 30 years of experience in massage therapy
Registered Massage Therapists (RMTs) who specialize in trauma-informed, nervous-system supportive care
A warm, welcoming space that helps your body and mind feel safe
A wide range of holistic services including cupping, Reiki, craniosacral therapy, and lymphatic massage
A deep belief in treating the whole person, not just symptoms

Our mission is to balance the body, mind, and soul through holistic treatments, relieve pain, promote good health, and elevate your overall well being.

When your nervous system is calm, everything else improves: digestion, immunity, sleep, relationships, focus, and joy.