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Anxiety is not just in your head; it’s in your body. And specifically, it’s triggered in your nervous system. Today we’re going to talk about how you can use heart rate variability as one way to get a numerical measure of how resilient your nervous system is and how you can use HRV to actually train your nervous system to calm anxiety more efficiently.
In the last video we talked about biofeedback for anxiety. In this video we’re going to dive a little deeper into heart rate variability and how you can use it to improve anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and a bunch of other health concerns. You’re going to learn what tools you can use to measure HRV. You’ll learn about coherence or resonant frequency and one specific skill that improves HRV and anxiety. This is essentially a measure of your vagal tone.
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In therapy I use a combination of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Systems Theory, positive psychology, and a bio-psycho-social approach to treating mental illness and other challenges we all face in life. The ideas from my videos are frequently adapted from multiple sources. Many of them come from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, especially the work of Steven Hayes, Jason Luoma, and Russ Harris. The sections on stress and the mind-body connection derive from the work of Stephen Porges (the Polyvagal theory), Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing) Francine Shapiro (EMDR), and Bessel Van Der Kolk. I also rely heavily on the work of the Arbinger institute for my overall understanding of our ability to choose our life's direction.
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