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Calming your brain during conflict...

23/2/2016

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Calming Your Brain During Conflict
Four steps to get out of “fight or flight.”
by Diane Musho Hamilton


"Conflict wreaks havoc on our brains. We are groomed by evolution to protect ourselves whenever we sense a threat. In our modern context, we don’t fight like a badger with a coyote, or run away like a rabbit from a fox. But our basic impulse to protect ourselves is automatic and unconscious....Mindfulness is the perfect awareness technique to employ when a conflict arises — whether it’s at work or home. It allows us to override the conditioned nervous system with conscious awareness. Instead of attacking or recoiling, and later justifying our reactions, we can learn to stay present, participate in regulating our own nervous system, and eventually, develop new, more free and helpful ways of interacting."

read the full article here
https://hbr.org/2015/12/calming-your-brain-during-conflict

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