Sentences with phrase «reduced reactivity»

Teachers in the Schussler et al. (2016) study reported increased emotional awareness and reduced reactivity in emotional situations; the breathing and emotion awareness exercises learned as part of the MBI were commonly utilised by teachers to effect this outcome.

Women who held hands with their partners during this experience subsequently showed improved emotional regulation in the face of the threat, as detected by reduced reactivity within the brain.

Another way to reduce reactivity is by rubbing your hands together vigorously for about 10 seconds and then placing one palm on your forehead and the other hand on top of the hand already on your forehead.

When you concentrate on this one sense, sight, you simultaneously reduce the reactivity of your four other senses.

Mindfulness training, for example, can increase working memory and reduce reactivity.

Isolation panels and guillotine closures reduce reactivity and stress triggers that can do serious mental harm to dogs in the long term.

Tammy also has experience applying the STARR method (as developed and described by Team Education in Animal Behavior) which can help reduce reactivity in dogs using simple clicker training techniques.

Clicker Expo 2014 - 3 day training workshop - took courses on canine behavior, training complex tasks and concepts, teaching a dog creativity to reduce reactivity

Irvine, California — November 12, 2016 Emotional Reconditioning: Practices that Reduce Reactivity and Prime the Attachment System.

I help couples improve communication that enhances closeness, deepens understanding and reduces reactivity.

Subsequently, the clinicians helps the client identify positive coping skills, intentionally change thoughts and actions, develop strategies to reduce reactivity to the traumatic stressor (s).

Using a structured process to talk about important things, especially touchy issues or conflict, can help you reduce reactivity, understand each other better, and ultimately create win - win strategies.

Martha will describe and demonstrate mindfulness practices that can be used to reduce reactivity in those with chronic pain.

As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), he utilizes both ancient and modern techniques helping couples reduce reactivity, restore balance and healthy boundaries and enhance the real source of unconditional love and peace, which is acceptance.

There is a pattern of increase in the left prefrontal cortex (seen in people that are happy and experience less anxiety and depression), stronger immune response, reduces reactivity to stress, and increases self - esteem and feelings of control.

Patients who practice mindfulness develop metacognitive awareness of their emotions which, in turn, reduces their reactivity to negative affect.

Not exact matches

The researchers added: «Other bioactive compounds present in nuts, including micronutrients, fibre, and phytochemicals, may also contribute to their cardio - protective effect by reducing inflammation, improving vascular reactivity as well as fasting glucose and insulin sensitivity, and by lowering oxidative stress status.

Dr. Bell's research is focused on oxytocin, a neurohormone important in birth and lactation, as well as maintaining positive mood, healthy attachment, and reduced stress reactivity.

Generally speaking, the theory predicts that tensile strain should increase reactivity, while compression should reduce it.

After using the enzyme to cause rod cell death in the fish, the researchers added the anti-inflammatory drug to the water to reduce microglia reactivity.

However, in response to TBI, the knockout mice showed greatly reduced astrocyte reactivity compared with controls.

Anti-HIF-1-alpha unpurified antibody (ab51608) reactivity with reduced Hep3B cell lysate after transient transfection of scrambled siRNA (lanes1 - 3 and 7 - 9) or HIF -1-alpha siRNA (lanes 4 - 6 and 10 - 12).

Long - term intake of resistant starch can also reduce colonic and systemic immune reactivity.

If your skin is very reactive to foods high in histamines such as aged foods, alcohol, citrus, and smoked foods, reducing these foods can reduce your skin's reactivity.

Mindfulness meditation helps focus on the present moment as well as various positive psychological effects, including reduced psychological symptoms and emotional reactivity.

Garlic also lowers blood pressure; inhibits platelet aggregation; promotes fibrinolysis; reduces plasma viscosity; prevents LDL oxidation; and exerts positive effects on endothelial function, vascular reactivity, and peripheral blood flow.

Dr. Bullock's BREATHE program provides essential skills that will enable you reduce your stress and reactivity, improve your communication skills and be more effective in your personal and professional relationships.

Creswell's group is now testing the possibility that mindfulness can become more automatic and easy to use with long - term mindfulness meditation training, which may result in reduced cortisol reactivity.

Regular mindfulness practices and skills reduce negative thinking, negative emotional reactivity, and thus negative classroom and school climate.

The results show that behavioral interventions designed to reduce emotional reactivity are beneficial to people suffering from chronic inflammatory conditions.

After reviewing the benefits of mindfulness practices — like reduced stress, boosted working memory, and lowered emotional reactivity — it was no longer a nice - to - have, but rather a necessity.

Separation Anxiety Aggression Fear Barking Reactivity Over Arousal Sensitivity Fear of Thunder Storms or Traveling Pulling on the leash Aging Pets Reducing Physical Pain Behavior Problems

Are We Excited Yet: Reducing Dog Reactivity and Arousal in a Shelter Environment (Dr. Carley Faughn, Mike Kaviani)

She is successful using the clicker to mark moments of calm engagement and disengagement from triggers (Read Reducing Leash Reactivity: The Engage - Disengage Game to learn more about Alice's protocols.)

Excess reactivity produces expansion and reduced neutron flux.

A higher amount means a higher reactivity and a reduced OH lifetime.

We'll focus on mediation, conflict transformation and resolution theory and skills, with an emphasis on fostering self - awareness to reduce personal reactivity, as well as reflection and active listening techniques to facilitate communication.

Children in the FCG had blunted SBP and PEP reactivity during the speech and math components of the TSST and reduced DBP reactivity during all portions of the TSST (Fig. 1 and Table S3), as well as blunted cortisol reactivity across the study session (Fig. 3 and Table S4).

Children exposed to institutional rearing exhibited reduced SNS activation to social stressors, blunted vagal withdrawal to a nonsocial stressor, and blunted cortisol reactivity, indicating a consistent pattern of reduced engagement of stress response systems to environmental challenges following early psychosocial deprivation.

Rhesus and squirrel monkeys exposed to prolonged early - life maternal deprivation exhibit elevated basal levels of cortisol (7 ⇓ — 9), enhanced glucocorticoid feedback sensitivity (10), and heightened cortisol reactivity to social stress in some studies (11, 12), but lower basal cortisol and reduced cortisol reactivity in others (9, 13, 14).

In addition to their ability to maintain sensitivity to unexpected events against a background of expected stressors, Novel rats also exhibit reduced emotional reactivity measured in the open field (11, 22), enhanced HPA negative feedback control as indicated by a greater CORT suppression of hippocampal field potentials (23), and a reduced basal CORT concentration (13).

Maternal presence reduces activation of the HPA axis and ANS in young rodents exposed to a stressor (51), and in humans, the presence of a supportive caregiver is associated with reduced HPA axis reactivity in young children (52).

After reviewing the benefits of mindfulness practices — like reduced stress, boosted working memory, and lowered emotional reactivity — it was no longer a nice - to - have, but rather a necessity.

Promoting Resilience and Reducing Secondary Trauma Among Child Welfare Staff (PDF - 1116 KB) ACS - NYU Children's Trauma Institute Describes a project to mitigate the impact of secondary traumatic stress among child protective staff in New York City, and thereby increase staff job satisfaction, resilience, optimism, self - care and social support, and decrease staff attrition, stress reactivity and burnout.

The mind is known to be a factor in stress and stress - related disorders, and meditation has been shown to positively effect a range of autonomic physiological processes, such as lowering blood pressure and reducing overall arousal and emotional reactivity.

Several of the basic mindfulness techniques are hypothesized to reduce emotional reactivity: mindful listening (i.e., listening attentively in a non-reactive and non-judgemental way); acknowledging and labeling emotional states in a non-personal way, in order to avoid being swept up in a negative emotional cycle («there is anger»); noting feelings as passing mental events; viewing partner's angry statements as «just words» rather than facts; and having the intention to act compassionately towards one's partner, even while angry.

Mindful parenting interventions are hypothesized to help reduce interparental conflict by lowering partners» emotional reactivity to each other, thereby preventing couples from a negative spiral of anger and blame during discussions of conflict.

There is preliminary evidence that mindful parenting programs reduce parental stress and resulting parental reactivity (process 1), reduce aspects of child mental disorder (process 2), and improve marital functioning and co-parenting (process 6).

The design and small power of this pilot study prohibits further analysis of mediation of change mechanisms, but one direction of research would be to investigate whether reduction of parental stress is the mechanism through which parental reactivity towards the child is reduced.

Results provide some preliminary support for two of the six proposed pathways of change by mindful parenting in a mental health care context: reducing parental stress and the assumed effect on parental reactivity and improving marital functioning and co-parenting.