Located at the brain stem, the Reticular Activating System’s (RAS) main job is to filter unnecessary noise from the environment to let the important stuff get through. Ever wonder how you can hear someone call your name even in a large crowded area?

With all the pressures of working from home or losing a job, everyone at home family life, and making sure to wash your hands, it’s easy for the workout, healthy eating and relaxing to go by the wayside. Fortunately, there are some quick practices you can learn to help reset that “fight or flight” signal in the brain with the help of the vagus nerve.

So how are those goals going? Are you rocking it or already struggling to find the motivation to keep going after it? Life got in the way? You took on to large a chunk? Didn’t have enough support? Or maybe you set a goal that is symbolic of what you want rather than...