Tools for Managing Stress & Anxiety

Medium-term stress can last from several days to weeks. You can use HIIT, cold showers and other programs to increase your stress threshold by disassociating the mind and the body (relaxing the mind while the body experiences stress). By deliberately widening your gaze, you can calm your mind but keep the body output high. A high stress threshold h... See more

The physiological si (two inhales, one long exhale) is the most effective method to calm the body down and decrease the level of alertness ⇒ exhale focused breathing. This can also put you to sleep.

The sympathetic chain ganglia run from the neck to the naval and when something stresses out they become excited and release asidocoline at various sides in the body.

It’s a generic system designed to mobilize resources in the body. It’s based on hardwired biological mechanisms.

When our internal states of stress or calm match (mismatch) the demands on us, we tend to interpret these as good (bad). Alertness vs. stressors as a driver of emotions.

If your inhales are longer than your exhaled, you are speeding up your heart. When you inhale, the diaphram moves down and the volume of the heart grows. Then the heart moves slower in that bigger volume and the neurons register the slower blood flow. The brain then signals the heart to speed up the blood flow by increasing the heart rate. The same... See more

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The post ganlianic neurons respond to the asidocoline and release epinephrine at particular organs. This acts in two different ways - muscles, heart, and other things that need to be active when you are stressed have a Beta receptor that causes the dialation of blood vessels, speeding up of heart rate,… Other receptors on luxuries we do not need wh... See more

Short-term stress and the release of epinephrine are important for combatting infection through inflammation. It also brings certain aspects of your brain alive to narrow your focus to do intentionally actions. Epinephrine releases the killer cells in the immune system that clean the system. Super-oxygenation breathing (Wim Hoff) liberates epinephr... See more