S2 Episode 13 - Brain, Body, And The Quest For Connection

Purpose Highway®

HIGHLIGHTS

04:07 Applied/functional neurology is a training system for the nervous system

08:02 Societal change causes our brains to move into protective outputs to keep us safe

13:30 Elisabeth used the lessons of applied neurology to cope with her own challenges and dysregulation

22:22 Protecting the vagus nerve and regulation as disease prevention

27:32 Trauma and the myriad causes of dysregulation in society today

32:57 Our own experiences allow us to send a unique message to the world

36:21 Moving down from brain to the body and listening for your purpose

39:15 Path to healing: Be curious and stimulate your vagus nerve

43:25 Change is possible by healing the patterns of the past

44:24 Connect with Elisabeth

QUOTES

08:31 "As things change, that is inherently threatening to our brain and to our nervous system. Not our prefrontal cortex, but our old brain, our survival brain, because our brain functions on pattern recognition and it uses that pattern recognition to generate predictions and to generate an output that again is intended to keep us alive."

10:02 "If you want to avoid moving into those protective outputs, you have to learn tools to regulate your nervous system in the times of change and to move that stress through your body so that you can handle it."

13:42 "Does that mean that all the time you're going to be resilient? All the time you're going to bounce back right away? No, but you will be able to handle more and you'll be able to come back onto the beam quicker if you take the time to regulate yourself, to learn tools for self regulation and to took practice daily."

21:33 "A dysregulated nervous system that goes on for too long creates chronic stress, cortisol pumping through the body all of the time. All of that cortisol erodes the vessels,

it damages the nerves, it creates inflammation, it creates a toxic environment in your body. And that is where 75 to 95% of disease comes from, from chronic stress."

29:26 "Trauma is not the event itself. It's what happens inside of our body. Trauma is how you feel inside and what happens again when you're re-triggered by something. So again it's that sense of your heart racing, your immune response kicking up, inflammation, tension in your muscles, emotional reactivity."

41:31 "I teach people to follow your dysregulation and that will lead you to your path of healing. So where you are stuck in those behaviors or those outputs that you can't get out of, that's your signal to come into that place and start to learn to heal your nervous system there."

To find out more about Elisabeth, please see the links below.

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/elisabeth-kristof-0859612/
• Website - https://brainbased-wellness.com/

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