The Neuroscience of Flotation Therapy | How it Calms Anxiety in Mind and Body

Anxiety is a common problem for athletes:00:00 Intro and how I got into somatic trauma work03:40 Chronic anxiety is a natural response to past experience stored in your body in a feedback loop with your limbic brain06:50 The body cannot lie - it will reveal the truth of your unmet emotional needs from childhood as symptoms09:20 Symptom suppression vs. root causes. Athletes can get symptoms of auto-immune, delayed healing, chronic pain, etc if underlying high achieving drivers become unbalanced. Ian's story.15:03 Autonomic nervous system controls the body and is regulated by emotions. Autonomic safety (calm connection or neuroception) is necessary for healing and neurological co-regulation.19:27 Trauma events can be one-off or more commonly complex PTSD from attachment wounding. Much more common with highly sensitive people (HSPs).24:00 Symptom labels are limited being descriptive only. An example from an athlete we have both worked with:1/ Betrayal of trust distorts your mindbody perception of self. Hyper-responsibility plays out as the child within unconsciously as feelings of shame transformed to worthiness.34:50 High sensitivity (sensory processing sensitivity) correspond to 20% of population. Present in the womb, is a trait you are born with. Their needs are greater in childhood. Porous boundaries create overwhelm.39:30 Adult reactions driven by past experience - coaches, trainers take the place of family but can be abusive relationships which retrigger past traumas.44:00 What's changed in our environment that anxiety is so huge - social media onslaught, schooling system based on competition, achievement. Inter-generational trauma has built up. See The Myth of Normal by Gabor Mate. Much more pressure, less support leads to being bathed in cortisol which destroys us.48:00 Competition vs. community. How the mind punishes the body if trained by trauma. Replacing despair with hope, love & gratitude is profoundly healing. Is a resonant system so emotions matter physiologically to restoring energy.54:00 Heart mind resonance. Heart is not just a physiological pump but a resonance electromagnetic organ to connect with other living beings and our environment via its sensory system. Allowing your vulnerability and reaching out for help. Heart connection in practice.59:00 How to connect with me. Books and courses. *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently.Catch the original paper I am referring to here which outlines the medical benefits https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245190221830049100:00 Intro to dark therapy/dark therapy/floatation (sometimes referred as sensory deprivation)01:30 The practical aspects of floating in salty water  - lighting, temperature are all controllable.03:05 Why it works - muscular relaxation from floating in Epsom salts high in magnesium, feedback loop to brain is changed - reduction in anxiety from quieting the Default Mode Network07:00 Neurological benefits - interoceptive feedback, increases heart rate variability HRV increases wellbeing09:30 The hynogogic state increases internal focus and changes the DMN coupling away from mental chatter towards internal homoestasis12:20 the effect of stress and changing your brainwaves. the importance of setting.17:00 summary and thanks Find me on alchemytherapies.co.uk *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

How Health is more than fixing the problem but engaging with a wider perspective - a truly wholistic vision of purpose, beliefs and connectionWe need to understand we are connected to a universal consciousness...Find me on alchemytherapies.co.uk and patriciaworby.com *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

In my review of this most important book Understanding Living Systems by brothers Raymond and Denis Noble I show you how biology is beginning to move beyond the concept of the 'selfish gene' and turning to a more co-operative view of life.Find out how cells are embedded in organisms and it is our intelligence and agency that allows us to modify our genes to achieve co-operation *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

I've been looking at innovative new therapies to help calm the mindbody as I'm writing my book Mind Medicine (soon to be published 6th September).Here I give a summary of how and why it works and what my experience was recently. *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

By special request - more info from the book The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg on the importance of the myelin sheath in transmission of energy throughout the body - and what can go wrong with Electromagnetic pollution.00:00 Intro to the book02:00 The importance of electrical energy in healing damaged tissue - porphyrins as transmitters of energy within cells - haemoglobin in red blood cells05:16 Electrical polarity of the brain can be reversed to cause anaesthesia, pain reduction and healing08:00 Porphyrins are energy transmitters in the mitochondria (as cytochrome c in the electron transport chain) but also those in the myelin sheath complexed with zinc, (chlorophyll uses magnesium, haem uses Iron). 11:00 With a porphyrin manufacture problem excess precursors builds up in tissue along with excess zinc causing hyper excitability of the neurons - predisposes to electro-sensitivity and chronic fatigue syndrome?13:06 Robert Becker's investigation in bioelectric healing in bone and nerves - electro-chemical transmission allows much of our activity16:25 'Currents of injury' - point to another information system that allows regeneration and healing18:17 Myelin sheaths/Schwann/glial cells are intimately involved in signal transmission and energy production in the brain and nervous system19:45 Electro-chemical sensitivity may interact with high zinc in brain and nerves, and other parts of body. EDTA (a chelators) complexes Zn and will take it out the body and can reverse cognitive decline22:00 90% of oxygen consumption occurs in brain from glial cells - myelin may be the major energy powerhouse completely independent of mitochondria24:02 Excess zinc is everywhere in the environment, car tyres a major factor along with denture cream, water supply, etc. 25:40 Are highly sensitive people (HSP's) the canaries in the coalmine with problems in the porphyrin pathways? What can we do to protect ourselves particularly during sleep and add highly coloured foods into our diet.*Watch another video**THE INVISIBLE RAINBOW PART 1 https://youtu.be/CYZFxL57paMTHE INVISIBLE RAINBOW PART 2 https://youtu.be/VgWSzIPBgHAHEAL YOUR SPIRIT TO HEAL CFS/ME https://youtu.be/hXGaOjrV6PAWHATS THE MATTER WITH MEDICINE - IAIN MCGILCHRIST https://youtu.be/CdE1QphYKoUHOW TO HEAL BIRTH TRAUMA WITH EMDR  https://youtu.be/JmtarRiGsgYEMOTIONAL RESILIENCE  https://youtu.be/E5TYi9dEBEUWHY ANXIETY IS NOT A MIND ISSUE https://youtu.be/Ty-J2pu37tAHOW CHILDHOOD EMOTIONS STILL AFFECT YOU: https://youtu.be/8LzR8yhR8u8 *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

A book review and interpretation of Martha Beck's wonderfully illuminating book The Way of Integrity based on Dante's The Divine Comedy as a book of an existential midlife crisis!Martha takes us through the process of recovery from this throughThe Dark Wood of ErrorThe InfernoPurgatoryParadisebased on her experience and the lessons she learned about being true to yourself.My take on this is told through the lens of the people I have worked with as well as my own experienceA great book. Find out why.Find Martha Beck in conversation about the book with Elizabeth Gilbert herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O9mggILVkAIt's quite literally scintillating (full of light) *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

Chronic or persistent pain is very different to acute pain both in origin and management. Find out the secret to overcoming this debilitating condition00:00 Intro - reminder acute vs. chronic pain (nocioceptive, neuropathic vs. psychogenic)03:41 Failures of inhibition pain signals - allodynia05:00 Stress build up from unheard/ unacceptable emotions cause symptoms as a distractions08:00 Unlearn your pain & other programs *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

Healing is an act of self-organising feedback resonance within the body.Here I explain how I came to learn this and what you can do to promote it within your body.Here is the video I talk about extensively The Secret Life of Chaos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEHbdrpy_LgFind me on alchemytherapies.co.uk *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com

Here I review the understanding put forward in the book The Divided Mind by Dr John Sarno as long ago as 2006. Doctor Sarno was one of the first medical doctors to embrace the idea of psychosomatic medicine which he dubbed mind body disorder to avoid the negative connotation that psychosomatic was all in your head.We now find many common conditions relate to what he referred to as TMS or Tension myoneural syndrome commonly expressed as chronic fatigue syndrome or Fibromyalgia but embracing many medically unexplained symptoms00:00 Sarno's revolutionary ideas of psycho-somatic (mindbody) medicine02:45 The divided mind - pain and emotional centres in the brain are closely linked04:20 Unconscious emotions from early childhood repressed by personality traits of goodism, perfectionism as unacceptable06:52 My story of unconscious repression of rage/ anger or rebellion plus guilt, fear or grief09:25 The need for control - narcissism and the dismay when illness, divorce, etc strikes12:16 past  & present experience accumulate to speak for you - the symptom imperative14:42 Biomedical medicine treats the body symptoms only15:11 Other recommended books - including mine The Scar that won't Heal, The Hidden Psychology of Pain16:29 Mainstream medicine slowly taking on this view. Accept the brain creates pain and deal with underlying emotions *If you're suffering from Chronic pain, fatigue or anxiety, I CAN HELP*CONTACT ME: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/Alchemy Therapies & Emotional MasterclassOTHER USEFUL RESOURCESGroup Healing Program: http://myemotionalaudit.comAuthor/Book site: https//patriciaworby.comPodcast: https://www.alchemytherapies.co.uk/po...121 and group therapy and training for stress related conditions like anxiety, fatigue and pain: https://alchemytherapies.co.ukSee in particular: Thrive! - an introductory mindbody connection program and The Emotional Audit for more intensive training.COMING SOON:Intensive Training Program: https://emotionalmasterclass.com