The 28-Day Nervous System Reset
by Glenn Ostlund
The 28-Day Nervous System Reset is a guided meditation series designed to help you better understand your nervous system, recognize your emotional states, and practice moving toward greater calm, awareness, and choice.Created and hosted by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, a licensed therapist in Arizona, the series combines mindfulness, nervous system education, ACT-informed practices, polyvagal concepts, guided imagery, and binaural audio.Across 28 days, the podcast tells the story of the nervous system from its earliest evolutionary beginnings to the extraordinarily complex human experience of thought, emotion, relationship, memory, and self-awareness. Each episode offers a short reflection or meditation designed to help you notice what is happening inside you without immediately judging, fixing, or fighting it.The goal is not to eliminate difficult emotions. Fear, anger, grief, shutdown, anxiety, and stress are all part of a nervous system trying to protect and adapt. The practice
Episodes
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Bonus Meditation: The Purple Lantern — The First Question
Bonus Meditation: The Purple Lantern — The First Question Is courage the absence of fear? Or is courage something that becomes possible when we learn to experience fear differently? In this special bonus episode of The 28-Day Nervous System Reset, we introduce The Purple Lantern, a new immersive...
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Bonus Meditation - A Tale of Two Dows
In A Tale of Two Dows, Glenn responds to a message from his father through a story about family, Taoism, a childhood cactus patch, and what he has learned about the nervous system since launching the 28-Day Nervous System Reset. It’s an invitation to notice thoughts, feelings, and inherited...
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Bonus Meditation - Enjoying a Moment of Bliss on the Beach
Inspired by a listener’s email, this guided meditation explores what happens when we allow ourselves to fully receive a moment of peace, pleasure, and safety. Settle into the feeling of a blissful day at the beach and practice teaching your nervous system that this moment is safe to enjoy....
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Bonus Meditation - Stop Losing Yourself in Love: A Nervous System Meditation for Anxious Attachment
Love can become frightening when connection starts to feel tied to urgency, reassurance, or losing contact with yourself. This guided meditation explores anxious attachment through the nervous system, helping you recognize Red Zone activation, return toward Blue Zone safety, and practice staying...
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Bonus Meditation - A Polyvagal Roadmap of Emotions Meditation for Integrating Grief
Grief can move through the nervous system in many forms: tears, agitation, numbness, longing, exhaustion, and moments of unexpected connection. This guided binaural meditation uses the Polyvagal Roadmap of Emotions to help you make room for grief without demanding that it disappear. Headphones…
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Day 117 - Bathing With God Revisited: A World of Pure Imagination (A Binaural Meditation)
In this third episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 2, “A World of Pure Imagination,” examining how our sensory systems shape a highly restricted view of the world alongside neuroscientist David Eagleman’s concept of the umwelt and cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman’s...
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Day 117 - The Return of Quad (aka The Birth of Solivia)
What happens when imagination becomes a doorway into a different way of seeing yourself? In this episode of The 28-Day Nervous System Reset podcast, Quad—Glenn’s imaginary companion from the original Bathing with God—reaches out to Solivia, a newly imagined expression of one person’s deeper…
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Day 116 - Rub-a-dub-dub, What's That Voice in my Tub?
In this second episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn turns to Chapter 1, “Rub a Dub Dub, What’s That Voice in My Tub?”, examining its initial speculations on consciousness and subatomic energy alongside the work of journalist Steve Volk and physicist David Tong's insights on quantum field...
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Day 115 - Bathing With God Revisited: An Introduction
In this opening episode of Bathing with God Revisited, Glenn returns to the original introduction of Bathing with God, written in 2020, and compares its ideas with Neale Donald Walsch’s Conversations with God. Now a licensed therapist in Arizona, Glenn revisits the book in 2026 as a way of…
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Bonus Meditation - The Truth about Venting (aka "expressing without expressing")
Does expressing anger always help—or can repeatedly rehearsing it sometimes keep the nervous system activated? This guided meditation explores the difference between awareness, healthy expression, rumination, and emotional escalation while practicing ways to acknowledge anger without feeding the...
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Bonus Meditation - Thunder Storms and Ocean Waves for Deep Sleep (2Hz Delta)
Settle into a continuous soundscape of distant thunderstorms, rolling ocean waves, and delta binaural audio designed for deep relaxation and sleep. There is nothing to learn or accomplish here—just give your body permission to become still and let the sounds carry you toward rest. Headphones are...
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Day 112 - Superman: Keno’s Landslide & Kent Captured by the Wolf
Keno’s Landslide & Kent Captured by the Wolf 6 Hz Theta Binaural Meditation Originally broadcast on February 16 and 19, 1940, these chapters continue Clark Kent’s first investigation for the Daily Planet. In Keno’s Landslide, the Wolf orders his henchman Keno to cripple the railroads, leading...
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Day 111 - X-Minus One: Universe
Universe 6 Hz Theta Binaural Meditation Originally broadcast on May 15, 1955, Universe was the fourth regular episode of NBC's acclaimed science fiction series X Minus One. Adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's classic story Universe, it tells of a generation ship whose inhabitants have lived aboard...
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Day 110 - Superman: The Baby From Krypton & Clark Kent, Reporter
The Baby From Krypton & Clark Kent, Reporter 6 Hz Theta Binaural Meditation Originally broadcast on February 12 and 14, 1940, these opening chapters of The Adventures of Superman tell the hero’s origin. The Baby From Krypton follows Jor-L and Lara as they send their infant son to Earth before...
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Day 109 - The Tell-Tale Heart (The Inner Sanctum 1941)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1941) – Boris Karloff | 6 Hz Theta Binaural Meditation Step through the creaking door of Inner Sanctum and experience Edgar Allan Poe's timeless tale of guilt, obsession, and psychological unraveling, brought to life in a haunting 1941 performance featuring the legendary…
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Day 108 - X-Minus One: Mars is Heaven
Mars Is Heaven Originally broadcast on May 8, 1955, Mars Is Heaven was the third regular episode of NBC's acclaimed science fiction series X Minus One. Adapted from Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, the story follows an expedition to Mars that discovers a quiet Midwestern town where deceased...
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Day 107 - X-Minus One: No Contact
No Contact 6 Hz Theta Binaural Meditation Originally broadcast on April 24, 1955, No Contact was the premiere episode of NBC's groundbreaking science fiction series X Minus One. Written specifically for radio by George Lefferts, the story follows an Earth spaceship that repeatedly collides with…
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Day 106 - X-Minus One: And the Moon Be Still as Bright
And the Moon Be Still as Bright 6 Hz Theta Binaural Meditation First broadcast on April 22, 1955, And the Moon Be Still as Bright served as the audition episode for NBC's legendary radio series X Minus One. Adapted from Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, the story follows an expedition to…
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Day 102 - Evidence-Based Parenting Strategies for Children with ADHD
Dedicated to Janine, this special healing episode explores evidence-based parenting strategies for children with ADHD, emphasizing that a strong relationship is the foundation of effective treatment. We delve into how mindful, warm presence and non-hostile responding foster better child...
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Bonus Meditation - Cats Purring, Children Giggling, Thunder Thundering, Water Running (120Hz Theta)
Some sounds naturally invite the nervous system to soften. This immersive binaural sound meditation surrounds you with gentle auditory cues associated with comfort, connection, play, and safety, creating space to rest without needing to analyze or accomplish anything. ★ Support this podcast on...
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Bonus Meditation - A 15-Min Guide to Quieting the Hyper Self-Critical Voice
In this 15-minute guided meditation, you’ll learn how to step out of the grip of harsh inner criticism and reconnect with a steadier, more grounded awareness. Blending insights from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Polyvagal Theory, this practice helps you create space from…
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Day 99 - A Meditation on Noticing and Loving the Evolving You
This mediation blends healing traditions like the Chakra system and the Ho'opnopono to scan and soothe the nervous system while exploring our most ancient beginnings. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Bonus Meditation - Please Help Me Manage My Anger
Anger is not automatically a problem; it is information from a nervous system preparing for action. This guided meditation helps you notice the body sensations, thoughts, and impulses that accompany anger while practicing ways to create enough space to choose how you want to respond. ★ Support…
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Bonus Meditation - Rewiring the Mountain: A Meditation on Changing Your Inner Pathways
Change rarely happens in one dramatic moment. Like creating a new trail across a mountain, repeated thoughts, behaviors, and regulated experiences gradually make some pathways easier to travel. This meditation explores neuroplasticity, repetition, and the small choices that help create lasting...
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Day 91 - Crossing the Dream Threshold: The Visitor Arrives
In this reflective meditation, Glenn explores a dream that arrives not as a problem to solve, but as an experience to enter. Beginning with a feeling—light, anticipation, a quiet sense that something is on its way—the dream unfolds as a living landscape where meaning is not explained, but…
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Day 90 - The Essence of Life
In this reflective meditation, Glenn explores a quiet but expansive question: What is the essence of life, and what are thoughts, really? Beginning with the image of a flashlight in a dark room, we trace the arc of human experience from infancy to adulthood—where an open, curious awareness...
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Day 89 - Personal Reflection: Processing My Best Friend's Death
In this guided meditation, Glenn responds to a client’s personal reflection request—an invitation to explore grief, shock, and a lingering sense of responsibility following the sudden loss of a close friend. Moving through a gentle “roll call” of emotions—shame, apathy, grief, fear, anger, pride,...
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Day 88 - The Glitch Is the Gift: Returning to the Beginning as Something New, P2
This episode is Chapter 18 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 87 - The Glitch Is the Gift: Returning to the Beginning as Something New, P1
This episode is Chapter 18 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 86 - Personal Reflection: Teenage Shame and Identity
In this guided meditation, Glenn responds to a client’s personal reflection request—an invitation to explore teenage shame and identity with compassion and curiosity. Moving through a gentle “roll call” of emotions—shame, apathy, grief, fear, anger, pride, courage, acceptance, love, and...
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Day 85 - The Tip of Whimsy and the Planetary Mind, P2
This episode is Chapter 17 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 84 - The Tip of Whimsy and the Planetary Mind, P1
This episode is Chapter 17 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 83 - The Ego, The Gods, and the Story that Shaped the Sky, P2
This episode is Chapter 16 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 82 - The Ego, The Gods, and the Story that Shaped the Sky, P1
This episode is Chapter 16 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 81 - Atlantis and the Neuron that Dreamed Itself Awake
This episode is Chapter 15 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC You can contact the author at [email protected] Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 80 - Lemuria and the Cell that Stayed
This episode is Chapter 14 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC You can contact the author at [email protected] Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 79 - The Nymph, the Void, and the Pattern That Paints Itself
This episode is Chapter 13 of You're Not Broken... Just Rewiring by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC You can contact the author at [email protected] Check out Glenn's Psychology Today profile here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
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Day 78 - "Are You Addicted to Your Personality?" Rewiring the Hidden Habits of the Mind
In this reflective meditation, Glenn explores a subtle and provocative question: Are we addicted—not to substances—but to our own personality? Beginning with a simple moment shared between friends, a passing comment becomes a doorway into deeper observation. Words move through the air, touch the...
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Day 77 - The Spiritual Dimension of the Beatles, P2
This reflective meditation explores hope, grief, and renewal through an unexpected constellation of ideas—astrology, the music of the Beatles, and the quiet intelligence of the nervous system. Beginning with the story of a friend who wrote The Spiritual Dimension of the Beatles, the meditation...
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Day 76 - The Spiritual Dimension of the Beatles, P1
In this reflective meditation, Glenn explores hope, grief, and renewal through an unexpected constellation of ideas—astrology, the music of the Beatles, and the quiet intelligence of the nervous system. Beginning with the story of a friend who wrote The Spiritual Dimension of the Beatles, the...
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Day 75 - King Arthur and the Round Table of Mind, P2
In this guided meditation, Glenn uses Notebook LM to create an AI Puppet Show to walk you through the neuroscience and philosophy behind the metaphor of King Arthur and the Round Table of Mind. Rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts or emotions, you’ll imagine the many voices within...
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Day 74 - King Arthur and the Round Table of Mind, P1
In this guided meditation, Glenn explores the mind through the myth of King Arthur and the Round Table. Rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts or emotions, you’ll imagine the many voices within you—fear, anger, shame, curiosity, compassion—as knights seated around a shared council....
About this show
The 28-Day Nervous System Reset is a guided meditation series designed to help you better understand your nervous system, recognize your emotional states, and practice moving toward greater calm, awareness, and choice.Created and hosted by Glenn Ostlund, MA, MS, LAC, a licensed therapist in Arizona, the series combines mindfulness, nervous system education, ACT-informed practices, polyvagal concepts, guided imagery, and binaural audio.Across 28 days, the podcast tells the story of the nervous system from its earliest evolutionary beginnings to the extraordinarily complex human experience of thought, emotion, relationship, memory, and self-awareness. Each episode offers a short reflection or meditation designed to help you notice what is happening inside you without immediately judging, fixing, or fighting it.The goal is not to eliminate difficult emotions. Fear, anger, grief, shutdown, anxiety, and stress are all part of a nervous system trying to protect and adapt. The practice
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