How Your Mind and Body Heal Each Other
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- Trauma can leave the alarm stuck on. Phil compares the brain’s fear response to a smoke detector: helpful when there’s real danger, exhausting when it keeps ringing over smoke that isn’t there.
- The brain can re-file a memory. Approaches like EMDR and cognitive processing therapy help the two sides of the brain “shake hands” and loosen the grip of a stuck experience. Research on these methods is encouraging for many people.
- The basics are not basic. A simple sleep rule (the bed is for sleep, not scrolling) plus regular movement give the mind real traction. As we say on the show, movement is medicine.
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