~ musings on feeling, sensing, breathing, moving & being ~
NEUROCEPTION
/A term coined by Dr. Stephen Porges in the early 90’s, NEUROCEPTION is our BODY’s ability to detect risk outside the realm of our own awareness, and triage our organ function, and nervous response, accordingly.
Read MoreDeepening Your Breath Capacity - Part 2
/Tension in the mind = tension in the body = tension in the breath.
These can cyclically become the cause AND effect of each other in an unending, life-long perpetuating trap that has its own impact on how we experience and respond to stress.
Deepening your breath capacity - Part 1
/The way you breathe has a direct effect on your mental-emotional state, and the opposite is also true: like a catch 22, an anxious state triggers shallow dissociated breathing, which in turn increases your body’s fear response, experienced often as what we call anxiety.
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