912: The Power of Gratitude: How It Affects the Reticular Activating System
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses a critical part of the brain involved in how sensory information affects your anxiety. Known as the reticular activating system or RAS, this brain system can be implicated in both hyperarousal and dysfunctional lack of arousal and awareness. Listen in to learn how to enhance your peace and calm through a better understanding of how this brain system affects your experience.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:12.9 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello, how welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach, Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as |
| 0:34.6 | together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 0:41.5 | peace and calm. |
| 0:43.5 | In today's episode, I'm talking about the power of gratitude, how it affects the reticular |
| 0:49.5 | activating system, the RAS. |
| 0:53.5 | So first off, we need to get familiar with what the RAS is. |
| 0:58.6 | If you're a science buff or someone who's interested in the brain and follow some of the podcasts |
| 1:06.2 | or YouTube's about the brain or even anxiety, you may already be familiar with the RAS. |
| 1:14.7 | But for everybody out there, I want to get you familiar. |
| 1:18.8 | So the reticular activating system, or RIS as I will be calling it throughout this |
| 1:23.7 | episode, is a part of the brain that helps regulate our level of consciousness and arousal. |
| 1:31.6 | It's like a switchboard that filters out unimportant sensory information and alerts the |
| 1:37.4 | brain to pay attention to the important things. |
| 1:41.5 | Think of it as a gatekeeper that decides which sensory inputs get sent to the brain for |
| 1:47.0 | processing in which ones can be let go of or ignored. |
| 1:51.9 | For example, when you're in a noisy room, the RIS filters out the background noise so |
| 1:57.4 | you can focus on your conversation. |
| 2:00.6 | Have you ever noticed when you're highly stressed or anxious and definitely when you're |
| 2:05.5 | in panic, it's hard to focus on what you want to pay attention to, the things that are |
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