Dr. James Doty
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 29 Jul
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But I answered her questions.
And after a while, she said to me, she said, you know, I really like you.
I think I can teach you something that could really help you.
And what she taught me was what we would now call a mindfulness practice.
Because as you know, talking about baggage, when you grow up in an unpredictable, chaotic environment,
you're essentially in a war zone every day.
As a result, it chronically stimulates your sympathetic nervous system or your flight, fight, or fear response.
And what happens is that affects your brain in the sense that it cuts down options because you're looking at the shortest distance you have to go to survive.
As a result, you can never relax.
You're always fidgety.
You're always looking around because you never know what's going to happen next.
So she taught me a technique, what we'd call a body survey now, how to relax your body.
And then she taught me how to concentrate, in this case, by looking at a candle and doing a breathing exercise.
And these are the fundamental techniques associated with the mindfulness practice because then it shifts you from engagement of your sympathetic nervous system to engagement of your parasympathetic nervous system, which is really where we should live.
You're open.
You're thoughtful.
You have access to your executive controllers and the brain in terms of memory and experience.
And you're much more creative.
And so when you're able to make that shift, that changes how you look at the world.
The other problem is from these types of backgrounds, but I would say essentially everyone.
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