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Bi-Lateral Stimulation (May Mini's Series)
Show Notes
Our brains are made up of 2 hemispheres - right and left - which operate relatively separately from one another. These two halves are connected by a bundle of nerves (the corpus collosum) which acts as a relay station, passing information back and forth and helping your brain to organize and be responsive to information. Like any relay station, your corpus collosum can get bombarded with too much data and this can cause it to slow down and overload. To help it we can do a couple of quick and easy exercises that can support it in getting information flowing more efficiently and effectively, meaning your brain can get back to giving you its best. Known as bi-lateral stimulation, these couple of skills are used commonly in trauma therapy and have been incorporated into protocols for EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), a well-known and highly effective therapeutic treatment intervention for trauma processing along with other mental health treatment and benefits. While it looks "stupidly simple", it can do a ton to help our brains give back to us -- try it!!
Episode Challenge:
Try using these bi-lateral stimulation exercises whenever your stress, anxiety or reactive responses (ie. triggering, etc.) starts to ramp up. If you were to put your stress/anxiety/etc. on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is no stress and 10 is the worst most devastating degree of stress, these tools do best in the 4-7 range, although can also be useful at the higher end along with other grounding skills (refer to previous May Mini's episodes).
Struggling with emotions, mood and dysregulation? Feeling not yourself and having a hard time snapping out of it?? Use our free Beating the Breaking Point Indicators Checklist & Triage Guide to self-assess your risks for burnout and to make some adjustments to support resilience, wellness and sustainability.
Additional Resources:
Learn more about the Beating the Breaking Point Resilience Series & Survival Guide – a complete program that offers a step by step road map to build a plan for sustainability and wellness, designed just for First Responders & Front Line Workers and the challenges you face. This program was painstakingly developed to fill the gaps in your training and shows you how to invest strategically in YOU, so that you can continue to invest so much into others and your community. We make registering for this program as risk free as possible, and offer group pricing for 10+ participant staff training. Click the link above to learn more and register, or reach out to [email protected] with any questions and for group rates.
Connect, Rate, Review, Subscribe & Share!
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, or email me at [email protected]. I love hearing from you! Subscribe and share this podcast with those you know. I appreciate every like, rating and review – every single one helps this podcast to be seen by other First Responders & Front Line Workers out there. Please share to those you know and help me on my mission to help others just like you to not only survive, but to thrive – both on the job and off.
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By Lindsay Faas
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Show Notes
Our brains are made up of 2 hemispheres - right and left - which operate relatively separately from one another. These two halves are connected by a bundle of nerves (the corpus collosum) which acts as a relay station, passing information back and forth and helping your brain to organize and be responsive to information. Like any relay station, your corpus collosum can get bombarded with too much data and this can cause it to slow down and overload. To help it we can do a couple of quick and easy exercises that can support it in getting information flowing more efficiently and effectively, meaning your brain can get back to giving you its best. Known as bi-lateral stimulation, these couple of skills are used commonly in trauma therapy and have been incorporated into protocols for EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing), a well-known and highly effective therapeutic treatment intervention for trauma processing along with other mental health treatment and benefits. While it looks "stupidly simple", it can do a ton to help our brains give back to us -- try it!!
Episode Challenge:
Try using these bi-lateral stimulation exercises whenever your stress, anxiety or reactive responses (ie. triggering, etc.) starts to ramp up. If you were to put your stress/anxiety/etc. on a scale of 1-10, where 1 is no stress and 10 is the worst most devastating degree of stress, these tools do best in the 4-7 range, although can also be useful at the higher end along with other grounding skills (refer to previous May Mini's episodes).
Struggling with emotions, mood and dysregulation? Feeling not yourself and having a hard time snapping out of it?? Use our free Beating the Breaking Point Indicators Checklist & Triage Guide to self-assess your risks for burnout and to make some adjustments to support resilience, wellness and sustainability.
Additional Resources:
Learn more about the Beating the Breaking Point Resilience Series & Survival Guide – a complete program that offers a step by step road map to build a plan for sustainability and wellness, designed just for First Responders & Front Line Workers and the challenges you face. This program was painstakingly developed to fill the gaps in your training and shows you how to invest strategically in YOU, so that you can continue to invest so much into others and your community. We make registering for this program as risk free as possible, and offer group pricing for 10+ participant staff training. Click the link above to learn more and register, or reach out to [email protected] with any questions and for group rates.
Connect, Rate, Review, Subscribe & Share!
Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram, or email me at [email protected]. I love hearing from you! Subscribe and share this podcast with those you know. I appreciate every like, rating and review – every single one helps this podcast to be seen by other First Responders & Front Line Workers out there. Please share to those you know and help me on my mission to help others just like you to not only survive, but to thrive – both on the job and off.