Interoception – Your Body Sensing Sense How do you know when to go to the bathroom? When to eat? When to drink? When to go to bed? When to breathe? How do you know when you’re upset? How do you know when you feel safe? Your body senses what’s happening inside you and sends a […]
Notice your breath to gain insight into your autonomic nervous system. Intentionally alter your breath to communicate to your unconscious body and your autonomic nervous system. Your autonomic nervous system controls your breathing pattern, your heart rate, your digestion, your hormones, your state of arousal, and your body’s involuntary actions that keep you alive. Your
What is anxiety and does breathing help? Anxiety is a feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease, typically about an imminent event or something an uncertain outcome. From psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Jud Brewer’s book, Unwinding Anxiety: Anxiety is everywhere. Many people don’t notice that they have anxiety since it hides in bad habits. Anxiety is
In our modern lives, we rarely have a truly life threatening event, we typically are NOT being chased down by a lion, bear, or violent invader. Yet we often feel like something major is happening, as we work on a big project at work, determine who to date, decide which product to buy, choose which
