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the fasting experience with paced breathing you can detraumatize your nervous
systems relationship with hunger
e Stop eating when you feel satiated
e Only start eating when you feel at least hungry
e People with copious dormant muscle must diet to a stressinducing extent to maintain a
healthy weight Reviving dormant muscle using antirigidity will increase your
metabolism
e Most people have an extensive reservoir of dormant abdominal muscle Your stomach
will become much leaner if you rehabilitate this muscle with massage and antilaxity and
antirigidity exercises
Chapter Healthy Eating Patterns
Chapter Endnotes
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Chapter The Amygdala Cortisol
and Chronic Stress
Trigger warning this chapter discusses some disturbing emotionally difficult material
Traumatic Incidents Affect Your Inner Mammal
woke up in my bed at am to a bright flash of light and an explosion It was the loudest
sound have ever heard could feel the force of the blast resound in my chest At first
assumed there was someone in my bedroom with a shotgun leaped out of bed for cover and
then heard footsteps and yelling just outside my bedroom window didnt know what to do
My home had been burglarized before and even experienced a robbery a few months prior
so assumed was experiencing a home invasion After a halfhour of walking around
maniacally with a baseball bat finally got the local watch commander on the phone He told
me police had served a warrant next door and used stun grenades to gain entry
It had never crossed my mind that law enforcement caused the situation As soon as knew
the explosions were not criminal started to calm down At least the conscious part of me
knew was no longer in danger On the other hand my cat Niko couldnt understand this
He engaged in all kinds of nervous behavior that had never seen from him looking over his
shoulder pawing at the ground and shaking tried my best to calm him but didnt know how
to communicate to him that we were safe now got dressed and took the bus to work There
were no empty seats that morning so stood up feeling the ice in my blood and the tremors
shoot down my spine Holding the rail asked myself How am going to face my colleagues
and give my talk this afternoon At the time knew next to nothing about diaphragmatic
breathing and hadnt developed any Program Peace exercises so struggled through it
The audience could tell was overwhelmed
That night couldnt sleep My conscious self knew was completely safe But my
unconscious brain areasthat like my cat dont speak Englishdidnt know this Like small
scared animals these brain modules continued to be emotional because they do not have
access to the conscious declarative knowledge that there never was any real threat Evolution
kept these brain modules in the dark because the organism cannot afford to trust the semantic
belief that Im pretty sure Im safe now You may not be able to talk to or reason with these
modules but you can communicate with them using your breath Deep breathing persuades
them to cool off didnt have paced breathing back then to help me keep the trauma from
sinking in but was able to use it years later to dig it out
My overreaction to that situation was shaped by prior experiences have been violently
assaulted several times in my life have been held up at knifepoint and seen people stabbed
shot at and beaten have never received an official diagnosis but believe these experiences
caused me to develop a form of PTSD even if a subclinical one Panicking didnt help me in any
of these situations The heightened anxiety from one did not serve me in the next The morning
after would wake up with my teeth heavily clenched eyes squinted into slits lumbar spine
contorted and shoulders up around my ears Many people suffer heinous traumatic incidents
much worse than these that go on to desecrate modules throughout their body have a few
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friends that were jumped and beaten by groups of individuals The neurological toll this takes
can be ruinous especially if it happens multiple times
Car accidents mugging battery rape gruesome injury childhood abuse and anything that
involves an incapacity to stop a terrible thing from happening can plant the seeds of trauma
Feelings of entrapment immobilization and helplessness make it worse But it is when we
allow these feelings to persist through time that the real damage occurs Obsessive rumination
bracing and distressed breathing occurring well after the actual event itself are what prime the
body for suboptimality These three things turn stress into trauma by proving to your
unconscious that things have not gotten better Alleviating them starts with the breath because