Top Down and Bottom Up
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"The Body Keeps the Score"
Knowing the difference between top down and bottom up regulation is central for understanding and treating traumatic stress.
Top-down regulation involves strengthening the capacity of the watchtower to monitor your body’s sensations.
Mindfulness meditation and yoga can help with this.
Bottom-up regulation involves recalibrating the autonomic nervous system, (which, as we have seen, originates in the brain stem).
We can access the ANS ( Autonomic Nervous System) through breath, movement, or touch.
Breathing is one of the few body functions under both conscious and autonomic control.
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