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Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Diana - 02-27-2012
I have a simple exercise that has been developed (not by me) to interrupt the limbic brain (fight or flight, survival) responses to situations. So if you find yourself reacting unwisely or melodramatically to a situation, try this:
1) Put your arms straight out in front of you.
2) Cross your arms and turn your palms outward, so that your thumbs point toward the floor.
3) Clasp your hands together interlacing the fingers.
4) Pull your hands down and in toward your belly, then fold them up along your midline to under your chin (doesn't have to touch your chin, just relax in this position).
5) Stand on one leg for twenty seconds.
5) Stand on the other leg for twenty seconds.
In case anyone is thinking that this is some new age la-la stuff, it isn't. I learned this in a conference which included scientists, and some of the smartest people on the planet.
While I was going to this (week-long) conference, I woke up in the middle of the night because I was having trouble breathing. When I opened my eyes, I could barely see. My boyfriend had been cooking something on the stove and gone out to his office (we both work at home and often work late in the night), which is attached to the garage and separated by the patio from the house.
He forgot about the stuff cooking on the stove, and it had been cooking so long it had liquified and had filled the house with smoke (our alarms were disabled). After alerting him, I went into my walk-in closet, shut the door and did that exercise. It worked. I stayed calm and unreactive. Normally I would have hit the roof with melodrama from being woken up that way, as I had to get up super-early to make it to the conference. My business partner had an incident that very same night for which she used the exercise successfully (a conflict with her daughter).
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - BrownEye - 02-27-2012
For some reason i got this image of doing yoga in a closet while the house burns down LoL.
Gonna try this when i get home. The moves, not the house.
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Ruth - 02-27-2012
Diana - thank you for this. I am a very calm person by nature, and almost never get angry. But I do occasionally get anxious, if I've let my mouth overload my butt. I've actually seen this exercise somewhere - might have been at a seminar a while back - and I recall that it does, indeed, work!
Love and light!
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Oceania - 02-27-2012
can you show a picture of how to do this?
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Diana - 02-27-2012
(02-27-2012, 08:33 PM)Oceania Wrote: can you show a picture of how to do this?
I am going to do a sketch. In the meantime, I am going to ask Steve how to post a jpeg of the sketch (I don't like having to got through the internet sites for photo shares). I do have some photos, but they are being used in my products and I don't want to throw them out to public consumption (and the model release does not allow that).
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Diana - 02-28-2012
Here is a sketch of what it looks like when you are at the point of standing on one leg:
![[Image: 01B8q.jpg]](http://i.imgur.com/01B8q.jpg)
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Bring4th_Austin - 02-28-2012
I'm wondering what the science behind this is?
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Unbound - 02-28-2012
Aha Activate the Conscious Mind, and it disrupts the emotional stimulation by the input of an over-riding energy, since the Will is more powerful than instinctually reactive energies.
Simple, but effective, although you could just as easily do jumping jacks, stand on your head, or the like, but good idea!
One must be careful though, because un-expressed/suppressed emotions always need to be expressed at some point.
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - abstrktion - 02-28-2012
So you think a whole classroom full of high schoolers would think it odd if I did this when one of them asks the same question I just answered twice?
...Wait, it would probably be a lot more use to me in the faculty lounge...the kids are great; it's usually the adults causing the real problems...More seriously--thanks for the idea Diana, and the rationale Azrael.
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Unbound - 02-28-2012
Although, this technique seems to be a little more than just a "conscious shock".
From the sounds of the description it acts to basically spread the excess energy focused within the Solar Plexus around the body which releases the tension of the center. Very interesting!
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Oceania - 02-29-2012
thanks Diana, that's a great sketch, are you an artsit?
RE: Useful exercise to interrupt the limbic brain (reactive emotions) - Diana - 02-29-2012
(02-28-2012, 10:47 PM)abridgetoofar Wrote: I'm wondering what the science behind this is?
I will get the exact science for you.
(02-29-2012, 04:45 AM)Oceania Wrote: thanks Diana, that's a great sketch, are you an artsit?
Thanks.
Yes, but not a working artist. I have been an illustrator since the eighties. I still illustrate, but do more writing now.