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Behaviors Do Not Distract Yourself From Grief With Substances
“You're not trying to avoid thinking about it, you're not engaging in this counter-factual thinking, the what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if. What if you're not drowning it out with substances or delusion or with other ways of distracting yourself?”
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▶ 1:03:06 Do Not Distract Yourself From Grief With Substances Behaviors “You're not trying to avoid thinking about it, you're not engaging in this counter-factual thinking, the what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if, what-if. What if you're not drowning it out with substances or delusion or with other ways of distracting yourself?” ▷ 1:03:27 Seek A Trained Professional For Grief Behaviors “There is absolutely a place for working with a trained professional to move through grief, especially these situations, these one in 10 people who deal with what's called complicated grief or very prolonged grief.” ▷ 1:18:46 Use Grief Questionnaires Behaviors “There's actually a set of questionnaires that I invite you to answer if you like. They were provided, or I should say I accessed them through a public site on Mary Frances O'Connor's webpage.” ▷ 1:21:43 Use Stress-Reduction Tools To Lower Adrenaline Behaviors “Utilizing tools to adjust your epinephrine, your adrenaline levels down has a number of important benefits, improving sleep, health metrics, et cetera. There are tools to do that.” ▷ 1:30:32 Emotional Disclosure Writing Behaviors “What this study explored was whether or not written disclosure of the emotional connection to somebody that was lost would be effective as a way for people to move through the grieving process.” ▷ 1:33:59 Brief Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Practice Behaviors “You can actually train this by consciously thinking about slowing your heart rate while you exhale and consciously thinking about increasing your heart rate as you inhale. You can literally strengthen these pathways.” ▷ 1:43:37 Get Adequate Sleep At Night Behaviors “Nonetheless, human beings are diurnal. We were really designed to be awake mostly in the day and asleep at night.” ▷ 1:48:58 Morning Sunlight Exposure Behaviors “But the most powerful way to do this is to view sunlight very close to waking. It does not have to be right at sunrise.” ▷ 1:52:43 Avoid Bright Artificial Light In The Evening Behaviors “And I should also say avoiding bright lights from artificial sources in the evening, generally 10 p.m. to 4 a.m., but certainly in the evening.” ▷ 1:58:24 NSDR Behaviors “But neuroplasticity, the literal rewiring of connections occurs during deep sleep and in what I call non-sleep deep rest or NSDR. And you can find NSDR scripts. These are short behavioral protocols that you do for 10 to 30 minutes at some point throughout the day, maybe even multiple times today that have been shown to accelerate neuroplasticity.” ▷ 2:01:09 Join A Bereavement Group Behaviors “It is often important to access a trained professional psychologist or psychiatrist, or both, or bereavement group, or all of the above in order to get the proper support for grieving.”