![]() ![]() So for people that have experienced trauma, traumatic stress, often. When we have trauma, these get a little bit out of whack, and the breath is a key place that we are actually modulating that. And this gets into the interplay between the sympathetic and the parasympathetic nervous system, where sympathetic is the accelerator in many ways, allows us to really mobilize energy, and the parasympathetic is the brake. And in light of that, because of the trauma and the overwhelming experiences we might have, the breath.the breath can sometimes, for some people, actually not be a neutral place to bring one's attention back to. I'm either chucking out or this is too much," and that's what you can track. Those are the thresholds, and at either end, you start to notice like, "Whoa. My cognitive processing becomes a little bit disorganized." So that's. On the lower end, it can be more dissociative like, "I'm super tired. It's basically that feeling of it's too much energy in the system. But the basic signs are, at the upper level of the window of tolerance, one becomes hyper-vigilant, super anxious and has physiological reactions like sweating, flashbacks. ![]()
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