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How do you shift out of hyper-vigilance to be able to meditate or do yoga, or do whatever you like to do?
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Oh my god, this. This is my experience. I’ve found myself cowered near a grocery end-cap, unable to manage, at least a half-dozen times. For YEARS, I didn’t know it was hypervigilance running amuck so reading this description today felt wildly validating. Phew. Words are so powerful — thank you!!When my hyper-vig is running hot the grocery store becomes an acid-kaleidoscope-nightmare of whirling sounds and colors.
I love this! Thanks for sharing; I’ll be sure to try it soon!One trick i learned from my ptsd guru was to stop fighting the hypervig and make an actual threat assessment
Plant both feet on the ground and then sowly turn in a circle
Identify and name anything that I believe is a true threat to my life
Decide a course of action for that specific threat...will I fight/flight/freeze?
Repeat as necessary
Its worked amazingly well- even if I do look a little funny
Went for that shopping trip this morning. Blind in one eye and it still is visually overstimulating.When my hyper-vig is running hot the grocery store becomes an acid-kaleidoscope-nightmare of whirling sounds and colors. People become caricatures of themselves. There’s no prioritizing, no automatic anything. It’s a clusterf*ck.
45 years of living with it, its not a choice anymore. Its comfortable - normal if you will. I can usually only tell its happening when I start getting really tense and my neck starts feeling really tight. Then I have to spend time in the car working back down before I go anywhere else.I'm not sure it's a choice you can make?? However if you apply yourself to do a particular task then it shifts your brains focus because your concentrating and focusing on something else therefore lessening the hyper-vigilance.
How do you shift out of hyper-vigilance to be able to meditate or do yoga, or do whatever you like to do?
* i have now completed several sessions of EMDR. Daily sessions, and the change in my reaction to the triggers is magical. I have begun calling my psychologist a magician.Giving up the Hyper vigilance is something I am asking myself at this very moment. Or more begone and let me rest.
I have been recently triggered, and I have noticed thru hindsight that I had steadily become more and more jumpy......jumping at shadows, shying away from things, flinching. Resorting, or returning to hypervigilance. For me this leads to anger......then guilt....circle of doom.....
I don't like constantly looking over my shoulder, listening for every little sound, every little sniff of something different in the air, a raised voice, a loud noise....overloaded sense's...... It gets very tiresome.
I'm trying EMDR. I judge its success in 2 ways......firstly How I feel, how I react to triggers after. Secondly, the change in me as noted by those around me. My partner, my family, co workers, and friends. So far its been great, I look forward to my next session.