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How to Use Polyvagal Theory to Shift Your Nervous System with Deb Dana

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How to Get Your Body Moving When You're Having a Panic Attack

I invite people to just let your body do what it needs to do. Your body knows the way back to ventral, right? And you could even imagine, say you're in a meeting and you're noticing yourself getting really stressed, you could imagine yourself maybe doing a sun salutation in your own head. Imagery can activate our body in the same way as actually doing that thing. So that's powerful. Another one that I do often with people that are having panic attacks is take a, take a walk around the room which changes your perspective and also gets your body moving because it's so flooded with catacolamines.

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