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have you ever wondered why emotions
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cause certain bodily
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reactions do you get hot when you get
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angry does your skin get flushed red or
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maybe your heart starts beating rapidly
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have you ever had stomach or digestive
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issues when you’re feeling stressed or
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anxious perhaps neither of those appli
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to you but this last one certainly will
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perhaps the most well-known reaction to
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an emotion would be
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tears in this video we’re going to do
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three things in relation to our emotions
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we’re going to reframe our thinking
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we’re going to learn how to see our
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bodies and our emotions
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differently two we’re going to find our
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why we’ll talk about the short and
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long-term effects of emotions on our
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bodies third we’re going to tune in
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we’re going to learn about ways to tune
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in to what we’re feeling and how it
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might be affecting us physically so
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stick around at the end of the episode
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first up we’re going to look at how our
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bodies store
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emotions now in this chapter Deborah F
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gives this analogy about our bodies as
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containers holding
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emotions now you’re probably familiar
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with how emotions make you feel but it’s
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important to note that emotions release
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neurochemical effects on our bodies and
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we can look at this in two ways uh we
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can look at our positive emotions they
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release feel-good chemicals into our
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bodies and we can look at negative
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emotions these release stress chemicals
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in our bodies all right let’s consider
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the short-term physical effects of
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emotions on our
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bodies now you may know how these
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emotions make you
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feel but it’s important to note the
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physical effects on our bodies for
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example anxiety often causes stomach or
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digestive issues anger will often cause
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physical heat flushing or increased
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heart rate third sadness often cause
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physical tears which is a self- soothing
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response all right let’s look at
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long-term physical effects of emotions
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on our bodies for this part I want to
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break it up into two categories positive
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emotions and negative emotions positive
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emotions have been linked to longer
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lifespans while negative emotions like
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stress or anxiety can cause a whole host
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of physical issues in our bodies I’m
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going to give some examples of these but
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there are a lot so first off memory loss
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or cognitive impairment second an
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impaired immune system which leads often
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to frequent illness third would be
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impaired heart function which would be
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our cardiovascular system system uh
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fourth would be impaired
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gastrointestinal system you may recall
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that in shortterm physical effects it
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also affects our gastrointestinal system
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here we see that it also has long-term
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effects and fifth we see impaired
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endocrine system think here hormonal
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imbalances the body skin activity in
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this chapter Deborah talks about a few
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ways that the body skin activity has
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been used for both children and adults
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in her own practice she describes how
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she has children drawn outline of their
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body and then she has them color in the
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areas where they feel certain
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emotions she goes on to talk about a
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scientific study where adults were asked
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to color in emotions in their body in
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response to visual stimuli that they
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were shown the scientists used this data
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to map out common emotions in different
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parts of the body she goes on to talk
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about how physical symptoms in our body
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is the body’s way of signaling emotions
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that need to be addressed all right
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let’s talk about the importance of body
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awareness scanning the body for
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emotional tension is an important
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process in this chapter Deborah talks
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about a technique called progressive
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muscle relaxation
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now this is a technique that helps us
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slow down and take time to pay attention
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to how our emotions might be affecting
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our bodies this exercise is meant to try
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to help and relieve some of that tension
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that we may have not been aware
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of Deborah goes on to talk about a
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common question that’s a asked in
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different settings and that is where do
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you carry your
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stress now certain areas of the body
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tend to tense up in response to other
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underlying emotions and this process of
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being in tune with our bodily signals is
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important because it helps us to be in
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tune with our emotions verse for
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reflection Psalms 1391
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13-14 it says you created me in my
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inmost being you knit me together in my
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mother’s womb I praise you because I am
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fearfully and wonderfully made your
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works are wonderful I know that full
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well
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let’s review what we’ve learned at the
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beginning of this episode I stated that
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we’re going to learn three things in
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relation to our bodies and our emotions
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first we’re going to reframe our
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thinking it’s important that we begin to
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see our bodies as containers holding
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emotions two we’re going to find our why
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if we lack motivation as to why emotions
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are important we’re going to think about
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the short and long-term physical effects
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of emotions on our bodies
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third we’re going to tune in we’re going
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to practice activities such as
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performing a body scan to help us be in
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tune with what we’re feeling and how our
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emotions might be affecting us
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physically
