Breath-Touch-Movement
Simple Movements – Profound Insight
In one of my last webinars before I began this “sabbatical sort of”, I was teaching the power pose as I often do, a posture of tall, straight spine, arms raised overhead like the mountain pose in yoga or the Toyata feeling. And, in fact, as I usually do, teaching it moving from a posture […]
Resilience Expert Offers Three Ways to Tap into the Wisdom of the Body
I was happy to contribute this article to Mindful magazine’s April 8, 2020 digital issue, one of many, many helpful articles Mindful has been posting in this time of confusion and uncertainty. Their description: Linda Graham presents a full toolbox of practices to help you meet the chaos of life with awareness, acceptance, and deep […]
Radically Shifting from Anxiety to Strength and Calm
As this resource posts this morning, I would have been teaching Caring for the Brain – the Neuroscience of Well-Being at the 2020 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington, D.C. 3,900 mental health professionals gathered to learn how to help clients reduce stress and recover from trauma, among other things. Conference cancelled in the midst of […]
Move Your Body!
If you don’t have time for exercise, make sure you make time for illness. – sign in my doctor’s office We do know, from our own experience and from decades of scientific research, if we don’t move our bodies regularly, we get stiff and sore in our joints and lose strength and range of motion […]
Recovering Resilience by Resetting the Nervous System
As we learned in this interview with Deb Dana, a deliberate sigh can help re-set the nervous system. Here’s an exercise from Resilience in using a sigh to return the nervous system to a state that is calm, present, positive, and resilient. Exercise: A Deliberate Sigh Resets Your Nervous System You breathe all the time. […]
How Movement Can Help Us Recover Our Range of Resilience
There’s no question that movement – vigorous exercise, gentle yoga, the chores of daily living – is good for the optimal functioning of the brain. Our brains are organized through movement. As we introduce new patterns of movement, combined with attention, our brains being making thousands, millions, and even billions of new connections. These changes […]
Why Warm, Safe Touch Restores Our Resilience
One of the most exciting discoveries of modern neurobiology has been the role of oxytocin – the hormone released through warmth, touch, and movement – in generating feelings of deep connection and well-being. Oxytocin is the brain’s naturally occurring neurotransmitter of “calm and connect.” Oxytocin is what spurs us to “tend and befriend” rather than […]
The new Resilience…and B-r-e-a-t-h-i-n-g into Calm
The new Resilience: Powerful Practices for Bouncing Back from Disappointment, Difficulty, and Even Disaster is on its way. More than 100 evidenced based practices to strengthen your innate capacities to cope with anything, anything at all. Forthcoming September 15, 2018 from New World Library. You can learn more about the new book here. You can […]