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21 hours agoA Light, Slow, Deep (LSD) Breathing Meditation
Light, Slow, Deep breathing technique helps to relax and expand breathing, improving focus and calming the nervous system.
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Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoPeople who are excellent in emergencies and fall apart during ordinary weeks aren't wired wrong. Their nervous system was calibrated for crisis, and calm registers as the absence of signal rather than the presence of safety. They function brilliantly when the house is burning because fire is the only temperature that feels familiar. - Silicon Canals
The autonomic nervous system has a social engagement system that affects how individuals respond to stress and calm.
Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
1 month agoThe Overview Effect, Body Literacy, and Well-Being Skills
All humans share the same biological stress-response system, but lived experience shapes how individual nervous systems develop and respond to threats, and learning nervous system regulation can create perspective shifts similar to the Overview Effect.
fromSilicon Canals
2 months agoWhy some of us feel relief when plans get canceled, and it has nothing to do with being antisocial. It's the first time all week our nervous system isn't bracing for something. - Silicon Canals
Your autonomic nervous system has been running a background process all day (or all week), quietly allocating resources toward an upcoming social event. Planning the outfit. Rehearsing potential conversations. Calculating travel time. Managing the micro-anxiety of 'Will I be interesting enough? Will I say something weird? Will I be too tired to be fun?' This is what psychologist and neuroscience researcher Stephen Porges calls neuroception: the way your nervous system scans for safety and threat below the level of conscious awareness.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoBreathwork has its uses but when it comes to unlocking your fullest human potential', beware the puffery | Antiviral
He has, as one advertising lackey puts it, gotten rich selling people air that's fresher' than the stinky stuff outside. If a recent proliferation of real-life courses, books and online search interest is anything to go by, the act of getting that air into one's lungs is also now commodified. Online and in-person breathwork sessions now abound, some charging hundreds of dollars to teach participants a skill most have already acquired as a prerequisite for life: how to breathe.
Wellness
fromPsychology Today
8 months agoTrauma, Arousal, and Addiction
Early trauma can have a multitude of detrimental effects and consequences-one of which is dysregulated arousal. Traumatic experiences can disrupt the normal functioning of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and cause arousal extremes through overactivation of the sympathetic or parasympathetic nervous system (SNS and PNS, respectively). Indeed, individuals with trauma histories can experience hyperarousal (fight or flight mode; SNS activation) or hypoarousal (freeze or numbing; PNS activation) in response to perceived threats (Corrigan et al., 2011; Ogden et al., 2006).
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