How to Use Mindfulness to Reduce Hypervigilance, PTSD, and Trauma, to Improve Your Mental Health

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hypervigilance is a heightened state of alertness where an individual constantly scans their environment for potential threats, often due to trauma or anxiety-related conditions. We discuss practical mindfulness strategies designed specifically for HSPs, trauma survivors, and those with PTSD, to shift from constant stress to a state of peace and presence. Discover how mindfulness can transform your emotional well-being and reduce the exhausting state of hypervigilance. Learn to manage triggers, embrace optimism, and cultivate an internal locus of control. This episode offers insights into the difference between mindfulness and hypervigilance, helping you foster emotional resilience, heal from past traumas, and improve your overall mental health. Perfect for those looking for self-help, therapy, and personal growth, this discussion will guide you towards a more balanced and mindful life. If you are interested in supporting us even more than a 5-star review, you can find Emotional Badass on Patreon where you will get hundreds of hours of bonus episodes, monthly video livestreams, discounts, and can join in the community. https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass Resources: Download the free Morning Routine PDF to learn our techniques to help conquer your day! https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning-routine Community & Exclusive Bonus Episodes & Video: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Narcissistic Abuse Workshop: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Email Newsletter: for weekly wellness emails where we share mental health tips, announcements, discount codes, and highlight past episodes: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter Check out our Guided Meditations narrated by Nikki available for sale: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations Follow us on Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emotionalbadass Thank you for supporting this show by supporting our sponsors: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/sponsors Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.3	mindful. I'm Nicky Eisenhower your host life, Life Coach and Psychotherapist, and on today's episode I'm exploring the difference between mindfulness and hypervigilance. vigilance. One of the hard truths of healing from a dysfunctional childhood is that many of us have lived a lifetime of hyper vigilance.
1:31.0	If we've lived a lifetime of hypervigilance, it can be very confusing to consider what it is to live outside of that hypervigilance.
1:41.0	And our hypervigilance really seems smart to those of us who have been in survival
1:47.0	mode over the course of a lifetime and it feels not the smart to put that hypervigilance down because we don't know how to feel safe when in a relaxed state.
2:00.0	So the core issue there is this belief that becomes this undercurrent of how we live.
2:07.0	That we believe from a wounded core place that we should always be hyper aware and on guard to be able to take care of ourselves
2:19.0	and that winds up backfiring by exhausting us, not just in the emotional sense, but in the physical sense by keeping
2:26.4	our system actually and truly fatigued.
2:31.0	And that's not a winning strategy over the course of a lifetime.
2:35.0	What I notice in working with highly sensitive people
2:39.0	is that we can often try to use mindfulness strategies through a lens of hyper-vigilance and that's why I want to do
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