Steven Kotler | Aging and Peak Performance: How Flow Can Help You Thrive at Any Age
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How to Calm Down in a Challenging Situation
When we are looking at the world through very intensely focused vision, right, staring at the thing in front of us with full concentration, that's what the eyes do during fight or flight. So regulating your nervous system is really important for these kind of harder challenges on a daily basis. You can use things like a gratitude practice or a mindful map practice or regular exercises to regulate your nervous system. But in scarier situations, you need stuff that's going to work immediately. Sometimes breath work will do it. Sometimes reframe and we'll do it. sometimes you need a more physiological based intervention.
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