5 Tools to Reduce the Stress Response   

1. Breathe - Just focus on breathing: do this in whatever way works best for you. Go to the FOCUS page  or to the Working with Breath section for more on this.

• stress naturally comes down with breathing

• when you focus on breathing you are interrupting the amygdala by placing attention on something else

2. Notice your contact with what you are sitting, standing or lying on. Focus on that contact and feeling your weight.

3. Determine HOW, and on what, YOUR brain likes to FOCUS on. Then practice this often. It helps stabilize the mind and also serves to interrupt the signalling from the amygdala. Once interrupted, you can then bring in calming tools. 

4. Calming and restorative practices - explore  Mindfulness  and  Quiet Mind. If you don't connect with imagery in one, try another. Imagery matters. It strengthens or repells connection. Here are just a few restorative practices to try:

• •  Connecting with AWE 

    • • NeuroMeditation

      • Brain Exercise

  • Anchoring Bi-Lateral 

    • • NeuroMeditation

      • Brain Exercise

  • Breathing with the Tree of Life

    • • NeuroMeditation

      • Brain Exercises

5. Develop and spend time in YOUR Cave of Safety and soak in the feeling of being completely safe, protected, and unconditionally loved, valued and supported. Give yourself time in this space to build the foundational feeling of safety. Strengthening the root of it. 

• Preparation for the Cave of Safety - Creating YOURS

• The Cave of Safety 

  • • NeuroMeditation

    • Brain Exercise