Human Givens:

A new approach to emotional health and clear thinking

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Unfortunately, as our incredible ability to create always keeps ahead of our ability to adapt, it may feel as if we are forever locked into a cycle of attempting to adjust to unprecedented situations.

Human Givens, Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell

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Human Givens Diploma - The Human Givens Diploma is a highly practical psychotherapy course that is revolutionising the successful treatment, understanding and prevention of the mental and emotional health issues that affect all human beings.

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7/11 breathing. A skill to use for anxiety. It’s recommended to do it for 10-15 minutes. Like any other skill it does require a lot of practice. I advice that you practice it when you are feeling calm so you are ready in a time of need. If you lose count, which is easily done, simply start again until you do 15 minutes. It will also help with distraction even if you don’t get it right the first hundred times.

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Breathing out longer than you breathe in actually activates your parasympathetic nervous system!

Anxiety is your sympathetic nervous system (“fight or flight”) setting off all the alarms, while breathing like this will set the parasympathetic system (“rest and digest”) into action shutting off the alarms and settling your nerves.

Other things that help: laughing, checking out what’s going on around you (moving head and eyes to orient to your surroundings), getting curious about something.

Take care, be safe.

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Please use this, guys, it can really help calm you while being triggered and when you’re in a stressful environment.

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7/11 breathing - How does deep breathing make you feel relaxed?

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Human Givens: The importance of our own subjective vision of reality. http://www.humangivenscollege.com/courses/index.html

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You are not in control if your emotional life is too strong. http://www.humangivenscollege.com/hg/index.html

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http://www.humangivenscollege.com/diploma/index.html

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People tend to feel first and reason second

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Human Givens: A new approach to emotional health and clear thinking

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Does this cycle seem familiar? - How to break the cycle of depression

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Why we evolved to dream. Human Givens: The new approach to emotional health and clear thinking

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Emotional arousal makes you stupid http://blog.humangivens.com/2014/05/emotional-arousal-makes-you-stupid.html

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Quote from the Human Givens Diploma manual http://www.humangivenscollege.com/diploma/index.html

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'If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.'

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"If our innate physical and emotional needs are being met well we cannot be mentally unhealthy." - Human Givens Diploma manual

What are our emotional needs?: http://www.humangivenscollege.com/hg/needs.html

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"We are the universe asking questions about itself" - Godhead: The Brain’s Big Bang - Joe Griffin & Ivan Tyrrell 

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Human Givens [New expanded edition 2013] The new approach to emotional health and clear thinking by Joe Griffin and Ivan Tyrrell