Reassure your brain that the world is a safe, sane place. Casual but friendly social interaction is the first external sign that the world is a safe place. Slow count of five, hold that breath for five, then exhale for a slow count of ten. slow breaths downregulate the stress response. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the stress response cycle. You should complete the stress response cycle on most days. Twenty and sixty minutes a day does it for most folks.Flight - more likely to survive by trying to escape.Sometimes the brain activates a stress response and you can’t do the thing it's trying to tell you to do. Wellness is thus not a state of being ist is a state of action.

Wellness is the freedom to move fluidly through the cycles of being human. Even if its just jumping up and down or a good old cry. Physical activity is the single most efficient strategy for completing the cycle. You have to deal with the stress to complete the circle. Just because you’ve dealt with a stressor, that doesn’t mean you have dealt with these tress itself. Here comes the lion, what do you do? You Flight. Its an evolutionarily adaptive response that helps us cope with things like being chased by a lion. Stress - is the neurological and physiological shift that happens in your body when you encounter one of these threats. Internal Stressors: self-criticisms, body image, identify, memories, The Future.These are external stressors: work, money, family, time, cultural norms and expectations, experiences of discrimination.Anything you see, hear, smell, touch, taste or imagine could do you harm.Stressors - are what activate the stress response in your body.

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