Jenny Taitz
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 30 Mar
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A body reset could also change your mind because you change your body, you could change your mind. But a popular body one, I'm just giving you one. There's many out here, many work for different people. It's like sometimes you need a tweezer, sometimes you need a hammer, different skills at different times. But if you were really stressed, if you took a salad bowl and filled it with ice,
water held your breath set a timer for 30 seconds and submerge your face in ice water we have all these incredible features within us that we forget like our body is truly our own walking pharmacy and so if you submerge your face in ice water while holding your breath your heart rate automatically slows down it activates like a parasympathetic response so your heart rate would probably go down like 20 beats per minute on an apple watch you would redirect blood flow to your brain and to your heart
Totally. And also, how can you possibly be ruminating in that moment? I don't think you should be doing this all the time, but I think just even metaphorically realizing like there's something that can help you in seconds. We have our own control, alt, delete functions within us.
If we know what those are, yes, they take a little bit of work, but they also come with this priceless feeling of knowing you can count on yourself.
I really like the breathing in for five and out for five, coherent breathing or paced breathing.
Yeah, we could do this together.
Sorry, my feet don't reach the floor.
So if you gently close your lips and breathe in for five seconds, I hope everyone tries this while they're listening. Breathe in for five, one, two, three, four, five, and out for five also through your nose. If you want to tack onto this, you could ever so slightly raise the upper corners of your lips into like a half smile, which is like a facial expression of acceptance.
Monica has like such a model half smile.
No, I think the smiling is shockingly. And it's a half smile and it's for you. It's like I accept this moment. So the half smile plus the slow breathing, it's like, yeah, even if you're getting a root canal, maybe you can't smile, but there's something about this slow breathing.
It did feel nice. Five minutes of doing this slow breathing reduces blood pressure. Doing it for 20 minutes a day is known to affect your nervous system, helps with things like IBS. I interviewed a bunch of people for the book, obviously, and there's a couple, they're both psychiatrists and based out of Columbia University in New York. They actually became so mesmerized by it.
Wow. Yeah. And again, this takes seconds. Instead of picking my nail, I could have half smiled and slow breathed and done some sort of gesture of you got this. It's OK.
And then maybe that would have led to like some sort of problem solving of, OK, let's try to rework why I feel overwhelmed.
Back to this thing of like, do you want to be right or do you want to be effective?
Even planning pleasant things, a lot of times we're like, oh no, I'm too busy to do something nice. But actually doing positive experiences and really learning to savor them and relive them.
Right. So walk is totally a behavior reset. Even learning how to assert yourself, like if you're annoyed with someone instead of stewing in it, I can give you a formula for how to ask for what you want. Say no. So you're not overthinking it.
It's from DBT, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and it's called DEAR MAN. And it's an acronym for describe the facts. Express how you feel. Ask for what you want. Reward like what's in it for the other person. Be mindful. Act confident. Negotiate as needed. Walk us through it. Can you give us a hard example? Yeah, give me something hard. Someone that's really annoying you.
Okay, there's so many times that people think, oh my God, these people want to stay with me for like two weeks when they're in town for the holidays. Most people default to hosting them begrudgingly or making up a lie.
Yeah, a lot of people have this. Yeah, but if you're like, okay, I'm so thrilled that you're coming to town. I can't wait to see you. I realize that it's a bit easier this time of year to just keep our house to our family and really want to spend some quality time with people that we don't get to see that are going to be in town at the same time. to plan a couple of really fun dinners.
And I can also totally help you with some great local options of hotels that are right near me or Airbnbs that have good options for extended stays.
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