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5 Attachment: What It Is and Why It Matters So Much

The Place We Find Ourselves

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Are You Able to Attune to Your Body in Moments of Stress?

In moments of stress, are you able to maintain a sense of calm? Do your body automatically seem to quickly either shut down and go numb, or amp up and get anxious and panicked physiologically? This means in the case of amping up, which is called hyper arousal, that your heart beat increases. If you can attune to your body in those moments and check in with yourself, you will realize my heart is beating faster. My blood pressure is up. My breathing has changed. And conversely, if you attend in moments of stress to go towards the one and two range of the scale, that's called hypo arousal. The physiological correlates of that is a slowing of the

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