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October 04, 2019 at 12:18PM   What if we told you that you could actually train your brain to cope after trauma? For Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D., healing post-trauma doesn’t have to be a reactionary process, as we have the power to increase our resilience during and after high-stress situations. Her new book, Widen the Window, focuses on the concept of Mindfulness-based Mind Fitness Training (MMFT), a practice she’s taught to thousands of individuals in civilian and military high-stress environments. A former U.S. Army intelligence officer, herself, Stanley knows what it takes to create the best proactive therapies to regulate the nervous system and the brain. For a piece of her incredible wisdom, you’ll want to check out this excerpt below. First, what is Mind Fitness Training? I designed MMFT with two overarching goals in mind: to help individuals widen their windows and to do so in a stress- and trauma-sensitive manner. To achieve these tailored goals, MMFT draws from two lineages: mindfulness training and body-based trauma therapies for reregulating the nervous system and survival brain after trauma, such as sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, and the trauma resilience model. MMFT has three components: (1) mindfulness skills training; (2) an understanding of our neurobiology and body-based self-regulation skills training to regulate the nervous system; and (3) concrete applications of both types of skills to participants’ personal and professional lives. This blend of mindfulness skills training with body-based self-regulation skills training is crucial for widening the window, increasing resilience, and enhancing performance in

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