Show Notes
Our brains and bodies operate on a feedback loop. When something stressful happens, our brain knows about it because our bodies give a cascade of responses that alert that something's up - and when our brain believes we're in stress, it tells our bodies to be on high alert. When we are in persistent stress, this feedback loop starts to have a hard time knowing what safety, calm and ok feel like. We can help teach our system to regulate and find a way back to ok, not in the BIG sweeping choices we make day to day, but in the little in-between moments. Today we're talking about ways to use our 5 senses to promote regulation for our bodies AND brains and use this feedback system to our advantage in giving ourselves an out from the stress cycle.
 
I mentioned "binaural beats" in this episode - check out your preferred app store and search binaural beats to try this out. Works best with headphones/earbuds!

Episode Challenge:
Get curious about what senses your body values and start EXPERIMENTING with different tools to see what helps. Here are the ground rules: you have to try something more than once to find out if it helps or hinders! These are small adjustments so you need to try for a bit before you can tell if it's making a difference. Compare it to eating salad one time and hoping you drop 10 pounds...it's not going to happen, but if you make that adjustment every day for several days and weeks, it will add up to getting you to your goal. This is the same deal, use these skills throughout the day and you'll see the pay off. 

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