21 Stress Reduction Tips fromNeuroscience during COVID-19
What
you'll learn
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Breathing and movement
exercises scientifically verified to improve your health, a basic neuroscience
framework for emotional intelligence, new perspectives on stress, how to
develop resilience, content specific to the Coronavirus
Requirements
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A body to participate and a mind to learn!
Description
This
class features a unique combination of stress reduction exercises and
informative science to improve your health during the Coronavirus. Who doesn't
want to learn while also relaxing and having fun? Voted my best neuroscience
lecture because you learn while lowering your stress. This also means that you
will retain the material better, (since "affect-loaded experiences have a
greater likelihood of being retained by the brain than cognitive based material,"
[Beaudoin and Zimmerman, 2011, p.12]).
The
class demonstrates 21 exercises to improve mood and immunity, (with the bonus
exercise and handouts [located in the "Settling in" and "Tip
#4" sections] the course includes a total of 40 exercises). The free preview
ends discussing the definition of integration which is high differentiation and
high linkage. In the relational neuroscience framework being taught,
integration equals health and is what you need in order to become more
resilient to stress. Every exercise you practice during this class involves
differentiating (separating from) and linking in various ways. The more you
differentiate and link, the more integrated you become; the higher the level of
your integration, the more you experience positive emotions. This class is
intending to both teach and give an experience of integration.
Many
of these exercises highlight the breath because it is a tool to help merge the
sympathetic nervous system (breathing in) and the parasympathetic nervous
system (which comes more strongly online with long exhales). You're taught both
practical exercises, (a more left hemispheric focus,) and visualization methods
especially focused on kindness and self-compassion, (based on compassion
researchers and educators like Dr. Kelly McGonical, Tara Brach, and Dr. Kristin
Neff).
Immediately
after the explanation on integration, you learn about how to widen what's
called your "window of tolerance" or "optimal arousal
zone," and how a wider window means an increased capacity to tolerate and
manage stress. Since this is not intended to be a more in-depth class on relational
neuroscience (interpersonal neurobiology,) the explanation is brief and quickly
moves into more relaxation exercises. (Additional handouts are included for
those who want more information.) The class focus is cultivating that
rest and digest, parasympathetic state, then also educating the listener on the
quickest and easiest ways according to science to get there and stay there.
Highlights:
Getting you into a relaxed state, practicing together as you learn exercises
that you can use throughout your life, an explanation for Dr. Dan Siegel's 3
Pillars of Mind Training especially kind intention and why kindness is the
quickest path to achieving your brain's capacity for excellent executive
function, a breathing technique from an ER physician to prepare for or fight
COVID-19, a scientist's guided light meditation evoking the endorphin-producing
capacities of the periaqueductal gray.
Who
this course is for:
Busy professionals who
value neuroscience and mindfulness research, anyone needing some stress reduction
now
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