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Joe Dispenza ON: Why Stress and Overthinking Negatively Impacts Your Brain and Heart & How to Change Your Habits on Autopilot

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

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The Impact of One Minute Breath Work on Anxiety

Stress is actually created when you can't predict something. You switch on that primitive nervous system, the fight or flight nervous system. As you shift your attention to each one of these elements in your brain, your brain starts firing very incoherently. If there's less energy in the brain, you're going to default to some of those reflexive systems. When we're in stress, we overthink things. We overanalyze. That actually makes the brain worse. It actually makes the heart regulate more out of order. Even if you could learn how to rest your breathing for a minute, you could begin to change your brainwaves. Regulate your breath, slowing it down and

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