Stress and Your Brain’s Health
Drawing on Dr. Orloff's new book Emotional Freedom, she discusses how to harness the biology of your emotions for health and healing. A revelation of twenty first century science is that anxiety and loneliness aren't just feelings. Nor are love and hope. All emotional reactions trigger biological reactions that shape health just as distinctly as diet and exercise. Dr. Orloff will discuss how when you change your emotional reaction to a situation you change your biological reaction as well. This allows you to turn off your flight or flight stress response and stimulate your relaxation response and the endorphins, the feel good chemicals, that get released. How you react emotionally is a choice in any situation--and these cumulative choices effect brain health and overall well-being.
