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56 Affect Regulation: How Mindfulness Can Help Integrate (Heal) Your Brain
56 Affect Regulation: How Mindfulness Can Help Integrate (Heal) Your Brain
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Length:
27 minutes
Released:
Jan 13, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Trauma impairs integration in the brain. When you experience trauma, the neural circuits in various regions of your brain do not make enough connections with one another. Here’s the good news: there is something you can do to promote integration in your brain. In the book Aware, Dan Siegel shares a mindfulness practice that he developed called The Wheel of Awareness. The Wheel of Awareness helps people to integrate the various regions of their brain. And integration leads to emotional stability, which is to say affect regulation.
Released:
Jan 13, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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