Podcast Ep. 19 ~ How Stress Wrecks Your Brain and What to Do About It

This podcast episode is based on the article: How Stress Wrecks Your Brain (and How Yoga and Meditation Can Restore Brain Health)

It is divided into two parts.

1. The first is about how chronic, unresolved stress wrecks your brain.
2. The second is about how yoga and meditation repair the damaged brain.

The process of repair occurs in four stages:

1. basic repair of the damage
2. stabilizing normal function
3. building a stronger neural architecture
4. mastery – optimization of brain function.

The key takeaway

Chronic, unresolved stress creates an imbalance between the self-aware, rational, decision-making, and problem-solving parts of the brain (the pre-frontal cortex) and the emotion and memory-controlling parts of the brain (the amygdala and hippocampus).

Most importantly, when practiced in the correct sequence for an extended period of time, yoga and meditation can restore normal function, build stronger neural architecture, and optimize brain function in the final phase of mastery.

Stage 1 - Relaxation techniques such as  Three Easy Steps to Deep Relaxation guided meditation series and Yoga Nidra.

Stage 2 - Techniques such as Ajapa Japa and Meditations on the Third Eye of Intuition.

Stage 3 - Advanced methods of Chakra and Ajapa Japa meditation.

Stage 4 - Advanced Chakra and Kundalini Meditations.

Podcast transcript

Please go to the blog article for the transcript of this lecture. 

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