Discover four simple tools to activate your executive state, including secret words, nonverbal cues, and detecting someone's state from their words. Learn practical steps to reduce the survival state and tap into your better self. Explore the importance of empathy, curiosity, and effective communication in activating the executive state. Unlock your brain's hidden powers and break free from limitations through neurohacking.
Labeling your emotions separates you from them, empowering you to shift from survival to executive state.
Paying attention to nonverbal cues and speech patterns helps identify the state of others and maintain your executive state.
Deep dives
Step 1: Labeling Emotions to Activate Executive State
To activate your executive state, it's essential to learn the emotions associated with survival state and executive state. By labeling your emotions, you become aware of the emotions that trigger your survival state. This awareness gives you the power to take action in moving from survival to executive state. Recognizing that you 'feel sad' rather than 'I am sad' separates you from the emotion, allowing you to let go and shift into executive state.
Step 2: Understanding Physical Sensations for Restoring Balance
Recognizing the physical sensations associated with survival state and executive state is crucial for restoring balance in your body. Survival state triggers responses like increased heart rate, shallow breathing, and slowed digestion, while executive state promotes relaxation, healing, and optimal functioning of the body. Paying attention to muscle tension and other physical signs helps you identify when you're in survival state and take steps to shift into your executive state.
Step 3: Observing Nonverbal Expressions for Empathy
Paying attention to people's nonverbal expressions strengthens your empathy and keeps you in your executive state. Nonverbal cues, such as facial expressions and body language, indicate whether someone is in survival or executive state. By observing these expressions, you engage in empathetic understanding and connect with others from a place of empathy, fostering better outcomes and relationships.
Step 4: Listening to Speech Patterns for Curiosity
Listening to the way people speak allows you to identify their state—whether they are in survival or executive mode. Recognizing concern or curiosity in speech patterns, both in others and in yourself, enables you to stay in your executive state. It shifts the focus from self-concern to understanding others, improving communication and enhancing problem-solving capabilities.
In this week’s episode, dive deeper with Dr. Eugene into the science around four simple tools that activate your executive state.
We'll be covering:
1. The secret words to use to turn on your powerful executive state 2. One easy tip to signal the body to move towards rest and healing 3. Nonverbal ways to detect Survival State 4. How to tell what state someone is in from their words
Connect with Dr. Eugene: Website: https://destinyhacks.co/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/destinyhacks/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekchoi
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