Breathing for Stress
Brian discusses the impact of adrenaline spikes on genetic folding and behavioral patterns. He emphasizes the importance of deep breathing to regulate stress responses and enhance creativity. Understanding individual CO2 tolerance is crucial for effective breathing techniques.In this clip
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Breathing Your Way to Better Health & Performance with Expert Brian MacKenzie
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Am I right to think that if a fear response happens in my body and I am able to immediately afterward act on it by using breathwork like physiological sighing to calm the body and controlling my thoughts to reinforce a non-threat, non-fear-based thought, I would be in the optimal window for neuroplasticity to occur and to break the trigger-fear response pattern, as discussed in the episode What Your Brain Does in an Emergency & Solitude Vs Loneliness and the clip Overcoming Stress Responses?
Would a solution to calm the body with breathwork at the moment when a person has a fear or phobia and their body becomes reactive upon encountering a trigger, as discussed in the episode EPISODE #1017: How to Reclaim Feminine Divine Power – Kelly Brogan, M.D and the clip Micro Exposures, provide a different input to the nervous system so that over time it stops being activated by the original trigger?
Am I right to think that if a fear response happens in my body and I am able to immediately afterward act on it by using breathwork like physiological sighing to calm the body and controlling my thoughts to reinforce a non-threat, non-fear-based thought, I would be in the optimal window for neuroplasticity to occur and to break the trigger-fear response pattern, as discussed in the episode What Your Brain Does in an Emergency & Solitude Vs Loneliness and the clip Overcoming Stress Responses?