My Sensate Device
MY SENSATE – This is my all time favorite go-to tech device for leap-frogging into a true sense of relaxation. This is the vagal nerve stimulation (relaxation) technology device that I use daily. It jettisons me into a parasympathetic state in just minutes. The parasympathetic is our “rest & digest” or “tend & befriend” state…. where we want to be when seeking relaxation… creativity… higher thinking… connection, etc. For me, it makes me so relaxed that I can fall right to sleep, so I also use it for that purpose at times.
Mind you, I have gone through Mindfulness Teacher Training, and hundreds of hours of mindfulness and yoga practice over the years– but NOTHING (non pharmaceutical) relaxes me as quickly as this does.
Here are some details about how it works:
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WHAT it is: an electronic device coupled with resonant sound/ vibration, designed to activate your vagal nerve (Vagus, baby!)
WHERE: to be placed on your chest.
WHY: to calm your fight-flight-freeze response, to relax you in the moment and to improve your stress resilience over time.
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HOW: It utilizes sound and vibration to soothe your nerves by triggering your parasympathetic (rest and digest/ tend and befriend response) as you relax and feel the sonic resonance which can benefit wellbeing.
Excited to share that @mysensate is now offering my friends 20% off on their SENSATE device. …Click below to go to their website and read about their studies, or to purchase.
My Sensate https://www.getsensate.com/michelle
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Links:
Watch on Binge Networks – Video / WHAT I MEANT TO SAY with “Host Wendy Jones/ Be Better Media”
Listen on Apple – Use this link to link directly to the podcast episode
I was honored to be a guest on WHAT I MEANT TO SAY, hosted by Wendy Jones– where we discussed topics such as:
and quite frankly…all kinds of oversharing (um…me) and tangential rabbit holes! I spill a LOT. #truth #vulnerabilityhangover
So here are resources for some of the references…because we chatted at warped speed, and some of these experts and their work deserve to be explored. So good!
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Host: WENDY JONES/ Be Better Media/ https://bebettermedia.tv/what-i-meant-to-say-the-podcast/
WHAT I MEANT TO SAY PODCAST (Apple) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-i-meant-to-say/id1613411802
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PANDAS – https://med.stanford.edu/pans.html
Like PANS, children with Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) have an acute onset – within 2 to 3 days – of neuropsychiatric symptoms, specifically OCD or tics (involuntary, purposeless movements). However, PANDAS patients test positive for a recent streptococcal infection, such as strep throat, peri-anal strep or scarlet fever. Like PANS patients, they also may suffer from uncontrollable emotions, irritability, anxiety and loss of academic ability and handwriting skills. Although PANDAS was identified as a medical syndrome more than a decade before PANS, it has been classified as a subset of PANS. To date, PANDAS is the only known subset of PANS, but we may discover more causes in the future.
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BYRON KATIE – MIND-SHIFTING BY DOING “THE WORK” – https://thework.com
In 2003, Byron Katie first introduced the world to The Work with the publication of Loving What Is. Nearly twenty years later, Loving What Iscontinues to inspire people all over the world to do The Work; to listen to the answers they find inside themselves; and to open their minds to profound, spacious, and life-transforming insights. The Work is simply four questions that, when applied to a specific problem, enable you to see what is troubling you in an entirely different light.
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BIG TRAUMA/ SMALL TRAUMA – Oprah & Dr. Bruce Perry discusshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUAL8RVvkyY
Oprah Winfrey and leading child psychiatrist and neuroscientist Bruce Perry, MD, PhD explore the impact of childhood trauma on who we become, the decisions we make, and how healing must start with one question ‘what happened to you?’ in anticipation of a new co-authored book of the same name. Winfrey and Dr. Perry focus on understanding how shifting the approach to trauma and allowing understanding of the past allows for an opening of the door to resilience and healing in a proven, powerful way.#WhatHappenedToYou
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ATTACHMENT STYLES – https://www.attachmentproject.com/attachment-style-quiz/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/attachment-styles.html
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GRANDIOSITY (+ shame) – TERRY REAL with Esther Perel – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c34KVNegzss
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MICHAEL GERVAIS – THE ENERGY CRISIS (Interview w/ Wendy Jones!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qTU3Pp6qmc
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ACES SCORE (CHILDHOOD TRAUMAS) AND HOW IT CAN AFFECT YOUR HEALTH – https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/02/387007941/take-the-ace-quiz-and-learn-what-it-does-and-doesnt-mean
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YOU ARE NOT WHAT YOU DO – PETER CRONE – https://www.petercrone.com/
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QUOTES REFERENCED IN SHOW …
“YOUR BIOLOGY BECOMES YOUR PSYCHOLOGY“
“THAT’S OLD PATTERN”
“CULTIVATE CALM”
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