Dr. Elissa Epel
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631 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 23 Jun
Dr. Elissa Epel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You're slower breathing.
And you can do visualizations.
You can imagine warmness or kindness in your heart or other visualizations that allow you to feel release and more of a loving tone, like bringing in kindness, kind thoughts.
and love, and that just softens everything.
And you can actually watch this little monitor and see if your vagal tone is increasing.
Now there's some proprietary formula for heart math in particular, but in general, what we're trying to do is increase our heart rate variability.
You know, the bottom line, Rangan, is just slowing our breathing.
Like if there's just one thing that we all tend to do right before bed that works for most people, it's just slowing the breathing.
Yeah.
I use it on and off.
So there's this tension between the reality that
if we can be more tuned into our body, increase our interoceptive awareness, our reading of the body sensations, our awareness of the feelings and signals from our body, that is so powerful.
And we don't need technology to do that if we're being mindful and doing these check-ins.
So where are we placing our attention?
Right now, if you just tune into your body and notice,
sensations, tension, that just automatically slows our breathing, right?
We just all of a sudden are getting into our sensory world.
Very, very powerful.
It's almost impossible to
be really worried and cognitively stressed and problem solving while at the same time focusing on our breathing or releasing our muscle tension.
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