In this episode of Serial Stress Killer Podcast, Chris Hackett chats with Paula Ruane, a stress and resilience expert, to help you combat stress by using a stress management plan based on HearthMath results. When dealing with stress, trace your way to its physiological effects. Discover how important it is to understand first how our body works in managing stress levels – how your brain reacts, what hormone is responsible for stress, and what’s the benefits of sleep.
Chris also took the test before this episode to find out what Paula has to say about his’ brain holograms, organ systems, and even the external factors that could affect the body.
Aside from these, Chris and Paula also talk about how people nowadays are dependent on technology and how different the lifestyle of the millennials are from older people. Even the types and levels of stress are different for the generations.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
HearthMath Training increases the capacity to prepare for, recover from, and adapt in the phase stress, challenge, and adversary.
Social media is not going away. We don’t want it to go away despite the dangers it presents. Most are on it 24/7. We should learn how to manage the time we allot on looking at our phones, PCs, etc.
Paula suggests to go out and appreciate nature. It improves your mind, body, and well-being. It gets you away from the technology’s toxicity.
“Nothing can beat eyeball-to-eyeball.” Meeting people personally – compared to chatting with them through any tech – tightens the trust, understanding, and honesty in a relationship. It lessens relationship issues that can cause stress.
Brain Functions:
2 Risk Assessment Centers of our brain: amygdala (quick to react but not accurate) and thalamus (slower but accurate)
Amygdala hijack – immediate emotional response; shuts off our thinking
Reptilian brain – controls the body’s vital functions
Cerebral cortex – clever bit; what we need to empathize, evaluate, or solve problems
Get enough sleep and stay away from blue screens an hour before rest time. It’s a good reset to recover energy so you can deal with what’s thrown at you. Keep distractions away from the bedroom. “The only tablets that should be in the bedroom are those you have to swallow with water.”
Use stress as a source of adrenaline rush to get you going. In fact, cortisol, the biggest stress hormone, is at its most from 4AM to 9AM because that’s what gets us out of the bed.
Heart Rate Variability is when beat per beat, the rate changes. It’s what gives the trace line. So, when we’re triggered, there’s a chaotic line.
BEST MOMENTS
“Certainly, there is an awakening now. And, people are realizing so we’re putting in our own measures to self-regulate because we can’t get away from using our phone – a weapon of mass distraction.”
“Just being in nature produces useful chemicals for the body.”
“The stress triggers may be different but the ways our bodies react is the same.”
VALUABLE RESOURCES
HeartMath
ABOUT THE HOST
After many years of dealing (badly) with personal stress for over 20 years, Chris Hackett is on a mission to help people understand and overcome stress and anxiety by tackling the problem head-on.
“Stress is the enemy and you are the killer.”
ABOUT THE GUEST (PAULA RUANE)
Paula Ruane is a trained specialist who works with ground-breaking technology to accurately relieve stress levels.
She is an accredited HeartMath provider, which means Paula’s approach is at the cutting edge of stress management. Using this innovative, science-based technology, Paula utilises the data provided by HeartMath and then uses it to create a customised stress management plan for each of her clients.
She has been helping organisations and individuals strengthen their resilience and improve their performance in both a personal and professional capacity for over 15 years.
CONTACT METHOD
Paula Ruane
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