How Does The Autonomic Nervous System On Our Mood?
In the nervous system of mammals, there are two relatively independent functional components:
* The somatic nervous system (voluntary) and
* Autonomic (involuntary).
Skeletal muscles, such as those that move the limbs are innervated by fibers of the nervous system voluntary.
But much of our behavior depends on an involuntary nervous system that operates without our noticing it, why it’s called “autonomous”.
But research on biofeedback have shown that the autonomic nervous system can be controlled voluntarily.
This explains why using relaxation techniques and breathing muscles can restore the state of calm.
The autonomic nervous system innervating the endocrine glands, heart and smooth muscles found in the stomach wall, blood vessels, intestines, kidneys and other organs.
This system is further divided into two sections:
sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system which in some cases, act in mutual antagonism, others in unison.
When stimulated the section of the sympathetic accelerates heart rate, dilated pupils, inhibit gastrointestinal activity, increases the electrodermal responses and initiate other glandular and smooth muscle, all to prepare the body to support a sudden phase of activity and stress. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aug 19th, 2010
Address Change To Win Anxiety
Beating Anxiety: decide to recover
To achieve the change we need to design it: provide the basis to be aware of our expectations about the process and content of that change.
Provide the basis means, first, gain awareness of a disease and understand it or recognize it in its current manifestation, but also try to reconstruct the origin.
Hence it is essential to the acceptance of the problem it means to be willing and able to react, take, therefore, the responsibility for change.
This is a decision-making process that begins and ends with the inspiration to achieve the objective psychological recovery.
To begin the decision-making process must:
1. evaluate the information we have or what are the alternatives that could result from each outcome;
2. choose a method suitable for shooting us what works for others does not necessarily work for us;
3. analyze the advantages and limits of the possible solutions;
4. determine our preferences and how we cope with uncertainty.
We must remember that we can not know in advance the consequences of each action, we can not adopt a completely rational decision, but we have to accept a choice to opt for “good enough”.
The decision process requires, therefore, to distinguish between the alternatives associated with an acceptable level of risk and those associated with an unacceptable level of risk. Read the rest of this entry »
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Aug 16th, 2010