Dr. Jay Wiles

Increased heart rate, blood rushing kind of to places really quickly.

Like when blood pressure goes up, you may not be able to necessarily feel it if you don't have a high level of interoception or feeling of the body, right?

But if you do, then you can kind of notice how it impacts mental acuity for the most part.

So why does it impact mental acuity?

Is that that baroreflex response, when it becomes quite dysregulated, it changes basically like blood flow dynamics and vagal firing dynamics, which can cause that stress response to become quite heightened and almost like unruly and uncontrolled.

which basically will start to flood our nervous system to think that there's a threat that's within kind of like distance of us.

And so therefore, our mind is now trying to pursue all the different ways to kind of fight or flee and get out of there as opposed to kind of like locking in, getting into this night's deep flow state where blood pressure is really nicely managed in the way that it should be.

Yeah.

And the problem, though, is, is that the tiger may be all the people in front of you.

Am I going to embarrass myself?

Am I going to get into a situation where I don't land the deal or I don't say things the way that I'm supposed to?

And so now it's all this.

It's not a viable threat.

It's a perceived threat.

But it's having the impact on your physiology and your mental acuity like a viable threat would.

Yeah.

This is all going to come from the literature on resonance frequency biofeedback.

So resonance frequency is kind of a long-winded way or a very kind of complex way of saying is that we can modulate our breathing, like the speed of breathing, which is frequency and how fast we breathe to create physiological resonance in the body.

The resonance from a physiological perspective is when two or more systems are oscillating at the same speed.

So they're working in synergy with one another.