The mind perceives the trauma and responds with signals and chemicals, the body receives the chemicals and signals from the brain. The body has a response to the electrical and chemical signals. The mind feels the response of the body and selects thoughts that match the feeling... the memory of the trauma is re-lived in the mind, the mind produces chemicals and signals and sends them to the body - and a cycle of suffering is established and it become difficult to achieve your goals.

Breaking The Crisis-Suffering Loop

Finding good feeling thoughts is difficult when the body is feeling the pain of suffering, no matter if it is physical pain or emotional pain.

Calm The Body To Ease The Mind

Hot Yoga is an effective way to begin breaking the chemical components in the cycle of suffering from stress and other emotional traumas. Drinking lots of water and then sweating profusely is an excellent way to clean toxins from the body. Deep breathing will also help with a subtle detox of volatile chemicals.

More importantly, the mind is distracted from the analytical process and High Beta brainwaves begin to calm. The poses with the rhythm of deep slow breath help to shift the thinking brain into a trance-like state of sensing instead of analyzing and predicting.

Guided Meditation To Redirect And Retrain The Mind

The brain cannot tell the difference between reality and that which is vividly imagined. This is why mental rehearsal has become an important part of elite athletes, performers, public speakers and many more endeavors. It can also be of great benefit to those experiencing dramatic live challenges and changes.

By combining the calming effect of Hot Yoga with guided meditations that focus on mentally rehearsing thoughts future possibilities and the feelings such possibilities would bring - put together a powerful two-step method to deal with trauma, crisis and loss.