How Does Your Body Keep Score?
How Does Your Body Keep Score? Why your nervous system is the historian of your life 🧠 Big Picture (Read This First) When we ask “how does the body keep score” , we’re really asking how our experiences—stress, joy, trauma, habits, and even inherited biology—get recorded in our nervous system, muscles, gut, and hormones over time. Your body isn’t just reacting to today; it’s constantly updating a running “scoreboard” of safety vs. threat, rest vs. overload, shaped by both your choices and your circumstances. Zooming Out Think of your body as both a flight recorder and a dashboard: it stores what has happened and also flashes signals when limits are reached. That’s why old stress can show up as new symptoms—tight shoulders, migraines, stomach issues, burnout. Genetics, family patterns, and social realities like poverty or discrimination all influence how sensitive this system is and how much load it carries. Understanding this mind–body “scorekeeping” helps you see symptoms l...