The intentional modulation of your breathing will be an easy way to have some immediate influence over your autonomic nervous system (ANS). As this research paper indicates, breathing is a bi-directional interface between voluntary cognitive control and involuntary physiological regulation and it has been shown to exert direct influences on both the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of...
Somatic dialogue is proposed as an integrative mechanism of neurophysiological regulation, defined as the dynamic interaction between internal verbal processing and interoceptive bodily awareness. Based on recent concepts of embodied cognition, interoception, and autonomic regulation, the paper suggests that the coupling between inner speech and bodily sensation constitutes a functional...