What is Mindful Physiology?

Mindful physiology is the name and process which is used to recognise the signals in mind and body that accompany our day to day lives tracking our emotional and physical well-being.

When you develop approaches using mindful physiology, through breathing space and mindfulness approaches, you gain insight into the physical/physiological signals and the accompanying emotions, thinking and behaviours that may be signalling sustained stress.

This allows you to interpret and act upon these symptom messages to change behaviours that are otherwise unhelpful or damaging. The ability to self observe and use your inner wisdom is restored and with this the ability to recover your purpose and goals as well as essential human needs.

Mindful physiology helps you to overcome and recover from sustained anxiety, depression, functional disorders like irritable bowel, chronic muscular pain, jaw clenching, sustained fatigue, sleep disturbance, medically unexplained symptoms (by definition those symptoms where medical doctors cannot find a reason for the symptoms) as well as performance difficulties involving the voice, and muscular and mental exertion such as in giving presentations or performance anxiety.

Essential to the process of using mindful physiology is to recognise and tune your breathing so that the chemistry is optimal in situations of calm as well as challenge. Carbon dioxide levels (normally 38-40 mm of Hg partial pressure) go down with over breathing and may be the result of chronic over breathing (below 30 mm of Hg) or intermittent. Recognising this and using breathing re-training that is then incorporated effortlessly into the mindful physiology programme then follows.