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Understanding that our brains and bodies are instruments that react to our environments and experiences, we can see that enduring chronic stress and trauma may cause us to have reactions to small stresses that don’t necessarily match our experiences.
By understanding ourselves better, we can recognize when our physical state becomes agitated and triggered. Often times this is experienced as a felt sensation of anxiety, irritability, stress and physical tension.
For some, being in a prolong state of survival mode can often cause us to become emotionally exhausted, shut down and with low mood, or feelings of depression.
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Recognizing our stress response can help us to use the tools of meditation and breath work to regulate our nervous system. These tools can keep us present and grounded when our bodies are experiencing distress, by overriding our conditioning, and calming our nervous system.
Incorporating these practices can be helpful in transforming our ability to choose our response to life, instead of reacting through unhealthy patterns.
Although we may not have the power to control the challenges we must face, we do have the power to grow in strength and resilience, and respond to life with the understanding and compassion necessary to experience peace and well-being.
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”
-Victor Frankl