Therapist Shari B. Kaplan explains how to regulate your nervous system to improve focus. You need to up-regulate when exhausted to generate energy, and down-regulate to stay calm. A body out of balance blocks mental clarity.
I teach people how to master their body and focus their mind. And what I mean by that is if you can learn how to deal with your stress response, if you know, my body's so tired, this is how I upregulate my central nervous system to give me energy, and this is how I calm it down and downregulate it so that I can stay calm and grounded, then you can focus their mind. Because their mind can't be focused if their body's all wonky.
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