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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll discuss some of the body-based techniques that you can use to quickly calm your nervous system.  If you've watched some of the earlier videos in this series, you already know that I talk with my clients a lot about neurobiology and specifically about the brain-body connection.  For a long time, psychologists have asserted that in order to feel better,  we have to change the way we think.  And that can certainly be true.  However, we now know that calming the body also calms the brain -- and this process is far faster and more efficient than the reverse.  In fact, for every 1 signal that your brain sends to your body, your body is sending 4 signals to your brain.  So, although you can TRY to get your body to calm down by changing the thoughts from your brain, it's far more efficient and effective to work on your body to calm your brain down.   I think of cognitive work as a one-lan

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video, I’ll walk through what I learned about myself during Dry January. Dry January, or the practice of abstaining from alcohol during the month of January, is an exercise that started in the UK about 10 years ago.  But recently it feels like more people are trying it out.  Or at least some form of it.  Some folks do a lesser version, which they call Damp January or Dampuary.  I have a close friend who has stopped drinking for a while, so I thought I’d do Dry January this year in solidarity.  As I near the end of this little experiment, I thought I’d reflect a bit on what I’ve learned.  First some Background - I grew up in a family where alcohol wasn’t important — no one drank much at all.  That said, in my high school, drinking was synonymous with independence and rebellion — neither of which I experimented with much until my senior year.  But college for me was entirely centered around drinking since I w