The 'hot brain' explained by a behavioural psychologist
Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
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The Real-Time Podcast - Is Your Cold Brain Really Helping You?
The real-time podcast was giving you a behavior or practice that was going to help you know. The first thing is to take a breath which activates the vagus nerve it helps us to feel grounded, slows down our heart rate and increases oxygen levels for us. There's a practice that I use where I call it the ground beneath my feet so if I'm going into a situation that is I'm anticipating is going to be stressful I can't think of anything else but just breathe in slowly breathing out slowly as we're doing this. Just make your body tell your body things are okay there is no threat telling your body there isNo threat through movement and getting feeling really really grounded like
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