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What Can Neuro-Tools Do For YOU?
What Can Neuro-Tools Do For YOU?
Basic Info about FOCUS Neuro-Tools & When to Use Them
Basic Info about FOCUS Neuro-Tools & When to Use Them
When to Use Focus Practices
When to Use Focus Practices
If you live with PTSD and Anxiety Disorders
As a tool to interrupt the amygdala: if you experience panic attacks and/or regular Fight/Flight/Freeze activation
If you have ADHD
If you have trouble calming a racing mind
To strengthen mental stability
To increase brain plasticity when feeling "stuck"
Our reactions get stronger over time and can become quite rigid. Focus meditation helps form new neural pathways which open the opportunity for building new responses.
For Depression when you are in an active depression.
Go to the Depression Page for more info
Basic Flow of All FOCUS Meditations, NeuroMeditations OR Brain Exercises -
Find the target that works best for YOUR brain. This varies for every person, so play with various routes and notice which you connect with best.
Step 1: Choose a target
Step 2: Place ALL of your attention on the target
Step 3: When your mind wanders (and it will) JUST NOTICE
Step 4: Return your attention to the target
The KEY to Discovering How YOUR Brain Likes to FOCUS
The KEY to Discovering How YOUR Brain Likes to FOCUS
Explore your senses and see which is strongest or easiest to focus on, or which most fully engages your mind/attention.
Then explore within that sense WHAT it likes to focus on. A couple examples:
If your strongest sense is Vision = explore WHAT your brain likes to look at.
If it is Hearing/Auditory = explore WHAT your brain likes to listen to most.
Explore Breath: there are countless ways to do this, and no ONE way is best for everyone. *Just like the Styles of Practice* Take time to try different methods or approaches to find which fully engages your attention MOST.
Here are just a few ways:
Focus on breath as color, illumination or light
Focus on breath as flowers, birds, musical notes, mathematical equations - something you LIKE
Focus on physical anchors of the body - the ribs, lungs, belly and chest. Noticing the expansion and contraction, the rising and falling.
Focus on your hand and trace it with your breath * See image at left*
Go to 5 Neuro-Tools for Working with Breath for more info
Explore Focusing on Parts of the Brain:
A couple of my favorites (links in the Focus Neuro-Tools below):
Molly's Dancing the Cingulate - look at the graphic at left to help you engage with this practice
Anchoring Bi-Lateral
To learn more about the various ways to focus - consider taking a course. Go to the Learning Center link below.
FOCUS Neuro-Tools
My favorite FOCUS NeuroMeditation from the NMI: "Dancing the Cingulate"
My favorite FOCUS NeuroMeditation from the NMI: "Dancing the Cingulate"
If you don't have Insight Timer Click Here to download the FREE app *choose the free version* Then open the link above.
Helpful for:
interrupting the amygdala when activated/nervous system arousal
calming an overactive/reactive amygdala
preparing for any stressful situation
interrupting the racing mind
gaining greater ability to focus
building brain plasticity
increasing the ability to self regulate
balancing the mind
lifting the system when in an active depression
shifting the system up out of HYPO/Freeze states
Molly's Dancing the Cingulate
Molly's Dancing the Cingulate
Use this practice to balance the mind, increase focus and attention, and most importantly to interrupt the signaling from the amygdala so that you can bring your system into CALM. This practice is my personal adaptation of the 'Dancing on the Cingulate' protocol developed by the NeuroMeditation Institute.
Music: Limitless Focus - 40 Hz by Study Sonic Focus on YouTube
Combination Practices - FOCUS is a component of each of these
Attuning to the Body
This practice guides you through shifting your attention inward to build connection with and awareness of what is happening in the body (interoception), to increase awareness of nervous system state, which can help you determine which tools, or interventions, to turn to. Regular practice increases your ability to listen and notice.
Music: Beyond by Zen Celesta on YouTube
Anchoring Bi-Lateral
Anchoring Bi-Lateral
This practice anchors you into your stable, rooted self through the vagus nerve; balances the mind and the nervous system. Regular practice increases your connection with, and awareness of, your Vagus Nerve and nervous system state.
Music: Deep Meditative State -Find Stillness & Inner Peace by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Breathing with the Tree of Life
Breathing with the Tree of Life
This practice uses imagery of the tree of life; drawing energy up from your roots and down from your limbs and leaves, allowing them to mingle, grow and connect you with the vitality and force of life.
Music: Tree of Life by Inner Lotus Music on YouTube
Connecting with AWE
Awe is beneficial for everyone, especially when dealing with anything difficult. Connecting with this feeling is restorative for the brain and the nervous system (for heart, mind and body). Do this often - even for a few minutes when you are stressed/overwhelmed/hurting. This practice guides you through remembering, with all of your senses, an experience of being in a place where you FELT AWE.
Music: Innerself by Zen Celesta on YouTube
For more Exploration
For more Exploration
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