5 Ways to Relax Your Mind (and Down-Regulate Your Nervous System)
Release Date: 08/12/2025
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In this episode of Even Better, Sinikka Waugh is joined by Jana Mitzoda for a conversation about when life moves at full speed, slowing down can feel impossible—but your mind and body need it. Jana joins us to share five simple, powerful ways to quiet your mind and soothe your nervous system. From the permission to truly stop, to the grounding power of your breath, to finding your own body’s version of relaxation, these practices invite you back into balance. Discover how connecting with nature can restore your circadian rhythm, and how play—yes, play—can instantly shift your energy and bring joy back to your day.
Tune in and learn how to create moments of calm that help you feel even better.
Jana is a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation and a certified facilitator through the Oxford Institute for Organizational Science and Mindfulness. She is trained and accredited by author and guru W. Timothy Gallwey on The Inner Game method. She has extensive experience with positive leadership and conscious presence, creating and facilitating hundreds of workshops with participants from more than 90 countries. Jana has accompanied people from all over the world on the path to finding meaning in life and in discovering their natural talents. She supports her clients in increasing their awareness and in assuming full responsibility for their state of mind, body, and energy, while guiding them to realize their life mission. She believes that consciously steering our ship on our personal sea of dreams is essential for our fulfillment. Relying on the depth of her experience and well-honed intuition, Jana helps individuals activate their inner wisdom, and to remember who they really are, what unique gifts they bring, and how to best apply them. Her business and leadership world coalesced with the gift of lucid dreaming, something Jana developed as a child and which she has continued to hone, also by completing a 3-year Active Dreaming program with Robert Moss. Her lifelong hobby of dreaming was the foundation upon which she fulfilled her desire to become a Dream coach. Jana leads public events, residential retreats, guided group meditations and dream circles. She also accompanies vision quests and communicates with dolphins and whales. She is the author of Through the Eye of the Whale, available as an e-book and audiobook, in both Czech and English. You can find more about her work at lamurai.com.