Part 2: The Practice- Relaxing Your Nervous System To Heal 

Strange how that is, isnt it? I wish continued healing 🙏🏼

Many people are addicted to being in fight or flight- its more of a ramped up state than a deep relaxed calmed state

Oh I am non stop in a fight/flight zone I realise this now very hard to change I keep trying calming myself down with your help

It’s the fear of emotions

​@thepainpt 3:18 bro farted

Yes ur right that’s what it does. Talk to your limbic brain you need to convince it you are safe. Use evidence and logic the prefrontal cortex needs to regulate and keep in check this amygdala that can run wild (amygdala hijack). Let whatever the amygdala creates flow and go. Let the tension unwind gradually. You need to face the ptsd symptoms from a place that confronts them with exposure and mental messaging as well as working with the emotions. Reach out if you need more help

Yes Layers of tension and stress coming up and peeling off keep going!

I get this type of reaction it seems every couple hours throughout the day...especially when trying to relax my system. It starts with an uncomfortable sense of impending doom followed by sweating/hot flash. At times burning skin follows this. It’s such an uncomfortable response that it adds to my resistance to relaxing but I push through it hoping in time it’ll settle more and these reactions won’t happy as my limbic system trusts I really am safe. These episodes are exhausting though and I’m trying to stay as calm as I can through them! I also get them right upon waking in the morning..

Yes no problem!!!

I always tell people it’s not what you do but how you do it!

What are your chronic symptoms. And how can you do what you do with pain? 😑

@@MsAnchovey will power to survive. Practicing indifference , so not supposed to talk about symptoms. Self talk that im ok. Mini breaks to calm down.

@@cdracos1 u got this. The not talking part cann be soo tough sometimes and the indifference during a flare up.

@@DHRUVISM2016 breath, meditation, calming down, safety messages.

Yes sounds like a reaction from the limbic brain. Just relax more deeply this will pass. The limbic brain does not trust that you are ok yet and is reacting back thinking there is still danger or a threat. By relaxing and calming you are teaching it everything is actually ok

Funny you should ask. We’ve been having a lot of work done on our house so I put the backdrop on because guys are moving furniture and stuff all over the place. My wife commented that you’re wearing a jacket even though it looks like you’re at the beach :) it’s actually a real photo we took when we were down in Mexico last year pre-pandemic

The whole point of this IS getting off the couch. It's not what you do but how you do it. Meaning carrying an inner state of peace and relaxation while you do anything you want in the world is the key. I always tell people you can being as fast you want in life but still be relaxed on the inside. This is the practice- relax into everything you do and feel! Especially since we know with confidence from the research people with chronic conditions aren't keeping their rest digest and relax nervous system turned on

@@thepainpt I have spinal cord damage and I don't walk well. I only walk short distances. When I walk I have neuropathic pain in my feet. I couldn't walk for 4 years now I can walk for like 15 minutes. I can not stand for long. So I can not live my normal old life and I'm scared of walking. How can I tell my brain I'm ok? I have been scared to walk for years.

Call it what you want- it is shifting autonomic nervous system to the parasympathetic- then trying to do that as much as you can throughout the day- thats the key!

Hey Ann you can do it after your work out if you want. Because it’s geared more towards the parasympathetic you might feel a little more sleepy etc. while workouts are really stimulating IThe sympathetic nervous system

Can be good for working with the nervous system and clearing stress

Might be repressing or suppressing. Have it to let it flow to go have to let the stuff pass before it settles

@@thepainpt don't understand your answer sorry