a Embodied Mindfulness for Anxiety

…. and Lingering, Stress-Induced Symptoms

I’m Steve Templin, a retired Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Acupuncturist, and Biofeedback practitioner. Now I teach individually tailored, embodied mindfulness skills to help individuals overcome anxiety, and other lingering, stress-induced symptoms.

There’s a new scientific understanding, a new medical model, of the cause and best treatment of anxiety and many other lingering conditions. These conditions often resist all variety of treatment, and are caused by stress or trauma-induced disruptions to the autonomic nervous system (ANS), known as autonomic dysregulation.

(More background: Autonomic nervous system issues respond to balancing the ANS with self-regulation practices rather than the symptomatic treatment of individual symptoms. Here are just a few examples of symptoms resulting for ANS dysregulation: anxiety, depression, foggy thinking, hypertension, irritable bowel syndrome, GERD, constipation, sleep disturbances, some forms of sleep apnea, restless leg, and much chronic pain. There are potentially dozens of symptoms resulting from ANS dysregulation.)

These ANS generated symptoms are also described as ‘neuroplastic’, meaning that they’re driven by brain pathways that respond to self-regulatoin practices. This form of brain training is called self-directed neuroplasticity.

The more consciously embodied and present we become the less defined we are by the early life trauma and adversity that neurologically program our adult health and well-being.

Embodied Mindfulness for Anxiety is based on 35 years of my clinical work, trauma-related neuroscience, Energy Medicine, Somatic Psychology, and the HeartMath Institute’s science and practices. This practice is particularly well suited to the sensitivity and needs of the highly sensitive person (HSP).

I’ve validated this approach with thousands of heart rate variability (ANS biofeedback) sessions and positive client outcomes.