Glimmers: The opposite of triggers + how to find them
The Dr. Leaf Show
Dr. Caroline Leaf
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys it's Beatrice Sharon and Tammy here from the uncut podcast which is currently being sponsored by NHS blood and transplant as you may know here in the UK |
| 0:09.6 | September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month. Sickle cell can affect anyone, but is more common in people of Black heritage |
| 0:16.8 | and is the fastest growing inherited blood disorder in the UK. |
| 0:20.4 | We urgently need new donors of Black Heritage to help fight sickle cell and regularly give blood to help save and improve lives. |
| 0:28.0 | The good news is that giving blood is quick and easy. |
| 0:31.0 | It takes just one hour to save up to three lives. It's in our blood to help fight |
| 0:35.2 | sickle cell. Book now at blood.co. UK. Hi, I'm your host Dr Caroline Leaf and welcome to my podcast Cleaning Up the Mental |
| 0:50.0 | Mess. Most of us are familiar with the concept of a trigger, which is a cue from your environment |
| 0:56.0 | that activates your body via the nervous system and your mind-brain body connection, |
| 1:00.8 | based on your knowledge and past experiences, and then your nervous system moves into a stress response, a toxic stress response when it sends us danger to help you fight, run away from or freeze in the face of a threat. |
| 1:13.0 | But did you know that there's a different kind of cue |
| 1:16.0 | that can move your body out of the fight-flight freeze state, |
| 1:20.0 | in fact your whole mind-me-body network, |
| 1:22.0 | aka your sympathetic nervous system and into |
| 1:25.2 | rest digestate or your parasympathetic nervous system. In other words to activate your mind-ven body |
| 1:31.1 | network in the correct way and it's called a glimmer. |
| 1:35.0 | Glimers can be a huge support to recovering from the daily stresses that lead to burnout and luckily |
| 1:40.5 | you have the power in your mind to invite them into your life anytime, anywhere. |
| 1:46.2 | It just takes a little bit of focus and in today's podcast I'm going to help you learn |
| 1:50.8 | how all about glimmers and how to spend your energy looking for what's good |
| 1:54.6 | around you so you can release stress settle your nervous system and slowly rewire your |
| 2:00.1 | brains. Just a quick note if you want to listen to the full version, you can watch |
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