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Rewiring Stress: How Your Breath Can Calm Your Nervous System A sensation of panic, unable to get enough oxygen, heart racing; overwhelmed with tasks, deadlines, responsibilities. Perhaps feeling emotionally unsettled, mentally paralyzed to the point of inertia, unable to sleep, relax or enjoy life. Sound familiar? Those are just some
For a lot of different reasons, we feel a pressure to be ok. Maybe it is because you are in a helping profession and people wrongly put that on you, you’re a parent who doesn’t see space for you to not be ok, or a person who has been told
Simply put stress is an adaptive response, which means it’s your body’s way of rising to pressure and occurs whether or not that obstacle is good or bad. Organizing and packing for a long-awaited vacation and preparing for a high-pressure presentation can both be stressful situations. As an example, short-term