Dr. Tara Swart
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 24 May
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So the silverback gorillas' stress levels affect the other gorillas more than gorillas of the same status. And so it happens in business, and so it happens in the home.
the leader in quote marks of the entity their stress levels will impact other people more than the other way around or people of equal status so you know the highly stressed boss as an example the the highly stressed parent interesting yeah well makes sense because if you think about it whether it's in the example of the silverback or you take a family system or you take a work system
Well, I think the answer to that is both how do you reduce your own stress if you're the stressed person and how do you protect yourself from other people's stress? It's mostly through mindfulness activities. So activities that connect the brain and the body, because like I said, the glands in the brain. are talking to the adrenal glands and creating this stress situation.
So the way to decrease their activity is through activities like meditation, yoga, time in nature, journaling, gratitude, all of those things that reduce levels of cortisol. Move your autonomic nervous system, which is a nervous system in your body rather than your brain, from sympathetic, which is fright, flight, fight, to parasympathetic, which is rest and recover.
And, you know, lower your heartbeat, lower your blood pressure.
Yes, but with both versions of it, whether it's your own or others, addressing the root cause is important because what you don't want to be doing is just continually shielding yourself from something that's not changing.
Stitcher.
Well, neuroscience doesn't tell us anything about that or much, let's say, about that at the moment. But that's why I'm probably going to write another book, which I said I would never do. But I'm just so fascinated by this. So when I get back to London, I'm going to start like properly doing the research on this. So far, it's being kind of something I'm interested in.
And I have to say, I wasn't sure if my book publisher would be okay with it.
Yeah.
And I think that it coming from a neuroscientist is a new angle. It's not that there aren't books out there on this kind of thing. But I really want to open up that conversation as well, because there's a lot of people suffering. And like I said, you can sound like you're crazy if you start talking about stuff like this. So I want to open up the conversation
Being open, but trying to keep it as rigorous as possible to give people permission to come forward and share these stories. Because I think that's only going to be good for everyone.
I feel like what it says, and somebody said this to me actually the last time I was in LA, but it had to land really emotionally for me to believe it. And that's what I want for everyone, is it tells you that you are being guided and it tells you that you're safe and protected.
And one of the things I picked up from you a couple of years ago was that you said, sometimes, you know, if I'm feeling like in an emotional crisis, I just say to myself, I'm safe, I'm safe, I'm safe. And I can't tell you how many times I've used that in the last two years.
But that's kind of like self-soothing the inner child, right?
With this kind of interest and more esoteric things that I've had, like since I met you that time, I'd like to think that it's not, I'm not just safe because I tell myself I'm safe, but I'm safe because I believe in something greater and I'm tapping into it and I'm allowing it to make me feel safe. Because however good you become psychologically at soothing yourself, you can still feel very alone.
So feeling like,
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that's what I meant to say.
No. Really?
So this is really about inner child and shadow, right? So I think people understand that you've got an inner child that maybe didn't get over things that you experienced in your childhood. Shadow is about the parts of yourself that you've rejected because as a young child, you rely on your primary caregivers for survival.
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