004 Episode – What’s Your Autonomic Nervous System and How It Impacts You
This episode explores:
- What is your Autonomic Nervous System
- Stress Response Rollercoaster
- What to do about it
Autonomic Nervous System
- bodily functions not consciously directed, such as breathing, the heartbeat, and digestive processes
- Parasympathetic Nervous System, aka rest and digest system, conserves energy as it slows the heart rate, increases intestinal and gland activity
- Sympathetic Nervous System – activates our Fight and Flight systems
Fight, Flight, Freeze
- The model that currently seems to represent the research and personal experience best is the Stress Response Hill, which I believe came from TRP, Trauma Recovery Protocol in Denver, http://www.loveandtrauma.com/map
- Autonomic = involuntary, different activations, proteins in brain connected to triggers,
- Reptilian part of brain responds first to threat
- Evolutionary advantage, for those that responded quickest to threat, short term get to live, long term damage to system
- Stress Response Rollercoaster
- What the stress response rollercoaster looks like while hiking and what happens at each stage
- What is looks like in life
- Impacts on relationships, health
- What’s the point in learning more about stress response and increasing the ability to ground yourself? It will allow you to access your pre-frontal cortex – the birthplace of empathy, compassion*, and executive functioning**, such as good better best choices. How does this effect us
- guides you through experiential exercises so you can build up your strengths to walk through any fears.
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