Brain chemistry to return to normal after the stress allows very simple psychological techniques, combined in "first aid" under the original name neurohacking.
What is this stress? A surge of cortisol in the brain. The hormone is secreted in large amounts, maintaining human activity. The oldest task of cortisol - to mobilize the body, enabling it to survive.
There are situations where the stress is really necessary:
- the competition in the sport;
- in a moment of danger;
- in cases where we have to act without thinking.
But in all other situations, stress - it is bad. Particularly, when the state becomes chronic phase. Then it no longer helps to overcome the "barrier", but simply worsens the quality of life.
In times of stress in the brain, the prefrontal cortex is reduced, and the amygdala, on the contrary, is growing, increasing the sensitivity, irritability and aggressiveness. brain hippocampus is also reduced, causing suffering memory. Moreover, collapsing the connection between neurons, reduced attention and concentration of a certain condition appears fixation.
neurohacking
What it is? First self-help themselves in times of stress. This system allows you to return the brain chemistry to normal.
1. Looking for sports activities in response to the production of cortisol. You can fool the brain, where it signals "Beat Run". Man begins to adapt. And his hormones back to normal.
2. You need to meditate. "Enable" conscious breathing and concentrate on the current status. Then, over time, will reduce the amygdala and prefrontal cortex to increase. So reduce tearfulness and aggression.
3. Bad habits will need to gradually change to the useful. Then form new neural connections, but they are capable of any person to pull out of stress.
4. Should play. Would you like - a guitar, and you want - with friends in the blind man's buff. In any case, the game activates the hippocampus. That is, the memory will be better balanced by the brain, and all of this will help to relive stress.
5. Speak friendly. That is, you need to speak with someone to talk to. Better, of course, with your friends. But do not just complain, and talk to the key "with me there was a terrible thing, but the Closed or ..." In any situation, you need to look for something useful and / silt pleasant.
psychologist's advice:Do not pull with neurohacking! Work! Launched stress is able to turn into a depression. If the self does not help, you should immediately contact a therapist.
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