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<h1>HOW TO RELEASE EMOTIONS TRAPPED IN YOUR BODY (How to process emotions like trauma and anxiety)</h1>The way to change how you feel is to change how you think. For many people, they can’t think their way out of emotions but when you calm your nervous system, you can think clearly as well.<h2>Two types of responses in the nervous system</h2><ul><li>The natural alert response- the fight-flight-freeze response is an automatic reaction in the nervous system to respond to threats.</li><li>The natural calming response</li></ul>When we feel threatened and unsafe, our nervous system has a way to get activated in order to respond to threats. This is the sympathetic nervous system response. This is what leads to physiological changes in the body with the fight-flight-freeze response.The nervous system also has a response to calm down, it is called parasympathetic response. It slows things down and helps your body to return to a calm state. Parasympathetic response slows your heart rate, lowers blood pressure, turns back on digestion, loosen your muscles and soften your eyes. It is also known as rest and digest or feed and bread. It is the healing state. Your immune system gets back to work and your sense of peace and safety is restored.Physical activities are powerful at resetting the nervous system to healing anxiety and trauma. These may include yoga, acupressure, massage, dancing or deep belly breathing helps reduce stress.Exercise is more effective than medication at treating mild and moderate depression and anxiety because it is helping the nervous system go through natural cycles of activation and relaxation.Unresolved trauma or chronic stress can leave us trapped in the sympathetic response making the fight-flight-freeze response become very sensitive since it gets turned on easily and stays on for a long time. This way trauma or stress gets stuck in the body even when we may not be consciously thinking about the actual trauma.An unhealthy nervous system gets stuck in elevated levels of stress, rarely going through cycles of calm. The sympathetic nervous system takes over and you constantly feel anxious, you may see danger in the slightest signal and find it very difficult to relax. This often leads to periodic exhaustion and crashing.We are often unaware of why we go into the high alert mode and this leads to us being stuck in it even longer. People should learn to build a healthy nervous system through the skill of relaxed vigilance and this is essential for PTSD, anxiety and stress.The basic skill is just learning to trigger that parasympathetic response, that calming response in your nervous system in small moments frequently throughout the day and you do this through simple body based exercises like taking deep breaths or tensing and the softening muscle groups.A person can be a high performer in a high stress job and have a parasympathetically dominant nervous system. You can train yourself to be calmer. The nervous system including the brain has an amazing ability to change and grow depending on how you use it. Research shows that we can change the physical structure, the chemical balance and the electrical activity in our brain depending on how we use it.We can even influence our genes on how they are activated and passed on. We can learn to have a bit of influence on our nervous system, training it to activate when we need to wake up, perform a task or respond to problems and teaching it calm down when it’s time to relax, recoup, process or repair and we do this through physical, emotional and psychological exercises.When we are calm, we make more intentional and powerful choices with our lives. We create calm by resolving the needs of survival, attachment and training our brain to feel safe.When you shut down one emotion and you go into a frozen mode. It’s not just that emotion you are protecting yourself against that gets shut down; but your whole emotional life gets limited.So to relieve an emotion, turn on your favourite music, shake your body to music and act like an idiot. Let your hands go floppy, move your head and dance for about four to five minutes. When you are done, take a few slow deep belly breaths. 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