Tag: nervous system
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The reason why slowing down feels so triggering and what to do about it
I arrived at the tube platform the other day when a man in front of me animatedly sighed, because the tube was 4 minutes away. “Typical,” he huffed as he kicked the air. Because he had to wait four minutes. You know we have a problem with rushing as a society when you watch this…
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The link between our breath, mental health and emotions: a somatic interpretation of the nervous system
If you think to any past experience of deep emotion, your breath would have shifted in response. Be it a gasp in shock, a sob in grief, or an inhale in excitement, your breath would have changed. Those heart racing, eyes leaking, belly flipping things we call the feels, it all changes our breath. In…