Podcast Summary
Experience Presence: Connect with Self, Others, and Environment: Practicing presence through techniques like deep breathing and mindfulness helps regulate the nervous system, creating a stronger sense of self, improving relationships, and enhancing overall well-being.
Presence is a state of consciousness where one experiences a continuity of awareness and regulation of the body. It involves being fully engaged in the present moment through sensing and feeling, allowing us to connect with ourselves, others, and the environment. Presence is essential for healthy relationships and overall well-being, but it can be challenging to cultivate due to trauma and dissociation. Practicing presence through techniques like deep breathing and mindfulness can help us regulate our nervous systems and create a new reality for ourselves. The Neuro Somatic Intelligence certification offers practical tools for coaches to integrate neuro somatic components into their work, enabling them to help clients develop a stronger sense of presence. By focusing on presence, we can improve our health, relationships, and overall quality of life.
Neuro-Somatic Intelligence tools for accurate brain stimulation and emotion regulation: Presence allows for effective attunement to others and accurate interpretation of signals, filtering out past emotional responses and misinterpretations, and enabling healing from complex trauma by integrating and regulating the nervous system in the present moment.
Neuro-Somatic Intelligence (NSI) tools enable a fully immersive virtual experience, allowing for accurate brain stimulation and emotion regulation. This sense of presence is crucial for accurate attunement to others, as it allows us to read and interpret their signals effectively. Presence also helps us filter out past emotional responses and misinterpretations, enabling us to interact with people and environments as they truly are. This ability to be present is a form of healing from complex trauma, allowing us to integrate and regulate our nervous system in the present moment. By being consciously aware of our surroundings and responding in real time, we become the creators of our reality and can reshape our beliefs and experiences. For those who have spent a long time in their survival brain, realizing the importance of presence can be a transformative moment, enabling us to engage with the world around us in a more mindful and effective way.
Understanding the Impact of Past Experiences on Present Moment: Through intentional effort and training, we can learn to be present by recognizing and releasing priming, predictions, and projections. Manage triggers by understanding their origins and changing our response to them, and train areas of the brain responsible for fear and trauma responses to change our experience of presence.
Our past experiences shape how we perceive and respond to the present moment through survival responses and triggers. The brain is a prediction machine that prepares us for the next moment based on past experiences, and this can lead to automatic reactions and dissociation. However, through intentional effort and training, we can learn to be present by recognizing and releasing our priming, predictions, and projections. Triggers, which are present-moment resurfacing of past experiences, can be managed by understanding their origins and changing our response to them. The areas of the brain responsible for fear and trauma responses are trainable, allowing us to change our experience of presence and bypass some subconscious reactions. For individuals with complex trauma, this ability to reclaim presence and respond differently to triggers can be a powerful tool for growth and healing.
Intentional training for presence in complex trauma: Practicing presence through body awareness, neurosomatic tools, and intentional brain stimulation helps individuals with complex trauma regulate emotions, create new neural pathways, and be fully engaged in their human experience.
Intentional training of the nervous system is crucial for individuals with complex trauma to experience presence and fully engage in the human experience. Presence is the opposite of self-abandonment and requires conscious effort to regulate feelings and sensations in the body. This can be achieved through practices like dropping into the body for brief periods, using neurosomatic tools for safety and regulation, and intentional stimulation of the brain. Over time, these practices help create new neural pathways and enable individuals to be present in their bodies despite potential emotional flashbacks or triggers. Ultimately, the ability to be present is a skill that can be learned and mastered, allowing individuals to choose themselves and break free from deeply ingrained patterns of trauma responses.
Protective response to trauma: Dissociation: Dissociation is a coping mechanism for trauma, but reconnecting to emotions and memories is essential for healing. Presence and nervous system work help in processing previously inaccessible experiences, leading to personal growth.
Dissociation is a protective response to traumatic experiences that involves disconnecting from bodily sensations and emotions. Reconnecting to these sensations and memories can be overwhelming, but it's an essential part of healing as it allows us to process emotions and release repressed experiences. Presence, or being fully embodied, is a powerful tool in this process, but it's important to remember that it's a gradual journey and not to push ourselves beyond our limits. By working on our nervous system and establishing a baseline level of safety, we can begin to process emotions and memories that were previously inaccessible, leading to a greater sense of self-awareness and personal growth.
Understanding and regulating our nervous systems for presence and safety: Committing to daily practices for nervous system regulation is essential for trauma resolution and living in the present moment.
Cultivating presence and safety in our lives requires a commitment to understanding and regulating our nervous systems. This can be challenging, especially when facing new experiences or relationships, as our nervous systems may not be immediately ready for the change. Having support from a neuro coach or community can be invaluable in this process. Trauma resolution goes beyond talking about the past and requires practical tools to rehabilitate the nervous system and live in the present moment. It's important to remember that trauma lives in the body and affects the present, and committing to daily practices can help us show up for growth and change. Trauma resolution is a continuous process, and it's essential to prioritize our nervous system regulation to fully embody presence.
The importance of being present and regulating our nervous systems: Being present allows us to feel the full range of emotions, process them, and create healthier relationships and behaviors. Neglecting our bodies and suppressing emotions can lead to disease and unwanted experiences. Being present can lead to better health outcomes, including longer telomere length.
Being present and regulating our nervous systems is essential for living the full human experience. It allows us to feel the joy and connection but also the discomfort and pain, helping us process emotions and create healthier relationships and behaviors. Neglecting our bodies and suppressing emotions can lead to disease and unwanted experiences. The human experience is not static, and being present enables us to shift our reality and create a different life. Additionally, being present can lead to better health outcomes, as evidenced by studies on telomere length. While it may be scary to face our emotions and be present in our bodies, the benefits far outweigh the fear.
Impact of experiences and stress on telomere length: Stress can shorten telomeres, but practices like mindfulness and interoceptive awareness can lengthen them, improving overall health and potentially increasing lifespan.
Telomeres, which protect our chromosomes and indicate our biological age, are influenced by our experiences and stress levels. While stress can shorten telomeres, practices that build stress resilience can lengthen them. However, the impact on telomere length isn't just about the activity itself, but also the level of presence during the activity. Being fully present in the moment, in the environment, and in the body is essential for positive health outcomes and stress resilience. People with complex trauma or high stress levels have shorter telomeres, potentially reducing their lifespan. To combat this, cultivating presence through practices like mindfulness and interoceptive awareness can help reap the full benefits of healing practices and improve overall health.
Understanding and practicing interoception for overall wellbeing: Interoception, the ability to feel and understand internal bodily sensations, is crucial for overall wellbeing. Practicing interoception involves calibrating and understanding the language of the nervous system to improve relationships and potentially prevent health issues.
Developing interoception, the ability to feel and understand internal bodily sensations, is crucial for overall wellbeing and potentially could have helped prevent health issues like breast cancer if detected earlier. Interoception goes beyond intellectual understanding and requires somatic feeling. Interoceptive deficits have been linked to various conditions such as eating disorders, severe panic, and PTSD. Practicing interoception requires calibrating and understanding the language of the nervous system, and using appropriate dosages to avoid unwanted therapeutic responses. Presence and attunement to others are also essential for healthy relationships, as they allow us to respond appropriately and be a safe container for them. By cultivating presence, we can feel when relationships are out of alignment and need boundaries, preventing us from repeating harmful relational patterns.
Staying present and aware in relationships: Cultivating presence and repatterning attachment styles leads to beneficial interpersonal relationships, while insecure attachment can hinder presence and result in harmful patterns. Join Neuro Somatic Intelligence Training for practical tools to help clients be embodied and present.
Being present and aware of our nervous system's signals is crucial for healthy relationships. Without this awareness, we may stay in unhealthy patterns and miss opportunities for growth. Secure attachment styles, which allow for flexibility and staying present, lead to beneficial interpersonal relationships. Conversely, insecure attachment styles can make it difficult to stay present and may result in harmful relational patterns. By cultivating presence and repatterning attachment styles, we can create safety and foster authentic communication in our relationships. If you're a coach, therapist, or practitioner looking to help clients be embodied and present in their work, consider joining the next cohort of Neuro Somatic Intelligence Training for a practical, actionable framework.