ESR - Emotional Stress Release
ESR - Emotional Stress Release Practice
This practice is a really great technique to have in your tool kit for those times when you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious and burdened by decisions.
It aids in rebalancing our emotions and releasing pent up energy.
The physical effects of ESR include a general sense of lightness and relaxation and a lifting of mental fog.
Your vision will feel clearer and your hearing more acute.
Children respond quickly and easily to ESR so it is great to use regularly.
This technique works by activating reflexes called neuro-vascular points which bring more blood to the frontal lobes of the brain.
Back brain thinking is our survival response mode, when we are caught here we are moving from automatic reactions based on our alarm and vigilance response as well as responses based on past experiences.
Frontal brain thinking is creative so from this space we can generate new options and new ways of looking at old problems, as well as new possibilities and alternative solutions.
Our stress chemicals seem to have the effect of reducing front brain/back brain and left brain/right brain integration and thus prevents us thinking creatively under stress.
This technique reverses this process and has the effect of reducing or erasing the biochemical trigger to the old stress memories and therefore relieves stress.
