Breath AS Medicine For Reducing Stress And Building Resilience @ Wellcoaches School of Coaching
Tue, Jan 15
|Wellcoaches Corporation
Therapeutic mindful breathing is arguably the most comprehensive approach we have to reducing stress and building physical & psychological resiliency. To appreciate the role of this mind/body strategy as a tool in stress reduction, it's important to understand the role of breath and ANS.
Time & Location
Jan 15, 2019, 2:00 PM
Wellcoaches Corporation, 19 Weston Rd, Wellesley, MA 02482, USA
About the event
Therapeutic mindful breathing is arguably the most comprehensive approach we have to reducing stress and building physical & psychological resiliency. To appreciate the role of this mind/body strategy as a tool in stress reduction, chronic illness, prevention and recovery as well as performance and productivity, it’s important to understand the relationship between the relaxation response and the function of the autonomic nervous system (ANS), which controls the function of the many of the systems and organs being negatively affected by stress AND the drivers of chronic illness.
Chronic stress and burnout negatively affect the parts of the brain responsible for self-regulation and the on/off switch from sympathetic (SNS) to parasympathetic (PNS) affecting our ability to be physically and psychologically “resilient”. In order to retrain the body/mind, we have to direct attention to balancing the ANS. Specifically, more tools and strategies initiating the PNS.
In Breath As Medicine, we will: