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Podcast 455: How to turn stress into strength in 7 days

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

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How to Get Out of Yellow Mind

Sally Kohn: We have red mind which is that active acute stress response and boy, do we need that none of us would be here if we didn't have that for our survival. And then there's the yellow state where you're probably not dealing with some acute stress or might be having thoughts of it. So a question is just asking yourself what level of tension you're holding your body right now. She says doing the slow breathing particularly slow exhalations is probably the fastest most direct way to release embodied stress.Kohn: There are a lot of different ways that we can get at our tonic or our kind of chronic level of holding tension. It's that can take

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