Friday, January 20, 2017

Physiological and Psychological Resilience + Executive Function

Responding to anxiety and distress can be regulated via two levels
1) Physiological resilience - the body becomes stronger towards stress after repeated exposure (but manageable) stress
2) Psychological resilience - the mind develops resilience towards stress after repeated exposure (but manageable) stress
3) Executive Intervention (such as mindfulness, meditation, "letting go", diversion of though) - regulation via the executive part of the brain (per-frontal cortex) through cognitive functions.

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