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This book explores self-regulation challenges and strategies and contains more than forty activities for children and adults to improve attention, relationships, problem solving, and empathy.
Self regulation helps us concentrate, manage disappointment, reach out to others, and engage in the world. Regulation skills are key to healthy emotions and behavior. On the other hand, when we’re prone to dysregulation, we may experience learning difficulties, poor mental health, and aggression.
• How does regulation influence the way we feel and behave?
• What changes regulation for better and for worse?
• What are common ways we become dysregulated?
• How do targeted interventions improve our ability to stay regulated?

In Regulation from the Inside Out, author Dr. Carolen Hope explores these questions and provides more than forty activities, reflections, and experiences for regulation mastery in children and adults. This guide is organized around three systems and the basic needs that often drive dysregulation: the need to be safe, to be seen, and to be accepted.
Using clear and accessible language, it draws from disciplines like neuroscience, mindfulness, trauma therapies, and movement and exercise research. The suggested activities and strategies are designed to strengthen regulation skills to elicit positive change.

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Emotional dysregulation

Neuroplasticity

Holism

Regulation

Self-help

Behavior

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Publié par	Balboa Press
Date de parution	22 juin 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798765242605
Langue	English

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REGULATION FROM THE INSIDE OUT:
LINKING YOUR BODY, BRAIN, AND BEHAVIOR

Carolen A. Hope, PhD

Copyright © 2023 Carolen A. Hope, PhD.

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The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

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ISBN: 979-8-7652-4259-9 (sc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-4261-2 (hc)
ISBN: 979-8-7652-4260-5 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2023909909

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/21/2023

For my mo ther
Mathilda Frances San ders
A life of faith, service, and accept ance.
And for my husband Steve, with love.
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Organization and Structure
Three Regulation Pathways
CHAPTER 1
REGULATION, STRESS, AND POSSIBILITY
Moving toward Holism
Regulation versus Dysregulation
Responding to Stress
Toxic Stress and Brain Development
Main Ideas
CHAPTER 2
NEUROPLASTICITY AND THE REGULATION PATHWAYS
Neuroplasticity’s Light and Dark Sides
Focused Attention: Precursor to Change
Targeted Change and the Regulation Pathways
Main Ideas
CHAPTER 3
REGULATION ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES: MOVEMENT, MINDFULNESS, AND BREATH AND ENERGY
Movement: Powerful, Available, and Evidence-Based
What Is Mindfulness?
Breath and Energy
Activity: Movement as Change Agent
Activity: Core Movements
Activity: Rhythm Patterns for Brain Development, Attention, and Focus
Activity: Rhythm Patterns and Executive Functioning
Activity: Beginning Mindfulness
Activity: Mindfulness: Simple or Complex?
Activity: Practicing Mindfulness
Activity: Tracking Energy Levels and Well-Being
Activity: Diaphragmatic Breathing
Activity: Acupressure Routine: Smoothing Triple Warmer
Activity: Energy Portals
CHAPTER 4
VERTICAL INTEGRATION: FEELING SAFE AND STAYING CALM
The Triad: Lower, Middle, and Upper Brain
Act Before Thinking or Think Before Acting?
Hijacked: Ongoing Dysregulation
Embodying Calm
Main Ideas
CHAPTER 5
VERTICAL ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES: THE STRESS RESPONSE, MIND-BODY CONNECTION, AND EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Activity: Triad Brain
Activity: Stress Quadrant
Activity: Sense Maps
Activity: In the Zone
Activity: Pulse Biofeedback
Activity: Orienting for Overwhelm
Activity: Body Scan
Activity: Cocoon
Activity: Savoring
Activity: Visual Analogy
Activity: The Weather Within
Activity: Online Resources
Activity: Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
CHAPTER 6
SPECIALIZATION AND THE HORIZONTAL BRAIN
Early Development and the Hemispheres
Specialization: Taking Sides
Diversity and Inclusion
Main Ideas
CHAPTER 7
HORIZONTAL ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES: AWARENESS, COMPLEMENT AND BALANCE, AND BRAIN-BASED WELLNESS
Activity: Hemisphere Awareness
Activity: Mapping Sides
Activity: Cooperating Hemispheres
Activity: Dominance and Stereotypes
Activity: Whole Brain Storytelling
Activity: Crossing the Midline
Activity: Brain-Based Wellness
CHAPTER 8
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT AND THE CONNECTED BRAIN
The Mirror Neuron System
Social Engagement as Resource
Contagious Emotions: When My Dysregulation Becomes Your Dysregulation
Respond or React?
Main Ideas
Reader Reflection
CHAPTER 9
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AND EXPERIENCES: RESPONDING VERSUS REACTING, CO-REGULATION, AND SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING (SEL)
Activity: Responsive versus Reactive
Activity: Relate and Downregulate
Activity: Co-Regulation
Activity: Word Power
Activity: Conversation Connects
Activity: Attachment Awareness
Activity: Engagement Shields
Activity: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Activity: Empathy and EQ
CHAPTER 10
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF REGULATION
Looking Back
Looking Beyond
INTRODUCTION
Regulation plays a critical role in our ability to express ourselves in healthy ways. A regulated nervous system is the foundation for positive engagement, learning, and resilience. The ability to self-regulate affects our physical states, energy levels, attention, emotions, and behavior. Well-regulated people are more likely to respond than react, to form healthy relationships, to meet challenges effectively, and to deal with challenging behaviors.
Staying regulated is like having an effective internal manager. We are better able to listen, accurately process information, and be compassionate. We can talk with those who have a different viewpoint and solve problems together, and we act in ways that are pro-self and pro-social. In short, a well-regulated nervous system is key to a happy and successful life.
On the other hand, a brain and body system that is prone to dysregulation is a liability (Stein and Kendall 2014). Dysregulation disrupts developing mind-body systems and leads to ongoing negative emotions and behaviors. Problems staying regulated become the basis for chronic negative patterns. One of the most important tasks we can undertake is to help children learn to self-regulate. Adults can teach, model, and remediate regulation skills in order to give children a chance to learn and thrive.

Regulation and the Mind-Body Sy stem
Physical state: relaxed, loose versus rigid, tense
Energy level: calm, flexible versus drained, manic
Attention: focused, directed versus distracted, hyper-focused
Emotions: fluid, responsive versus disconnected, overwhelmed, out of control
Behavior: pro-self, pro-social versus self-destructive, other-destructive

It is important to recognize that adults often assume that children should be able to regulate themselves. However, some children have not yet acquired these skills (DelaHooke 2019). For others, especially children who demonstrate serious disruptive or destructive behaviors, a dysregulated nervous system may be habitual. The good news is that advances in science have deepened our understanding of how the brain develops, learns, and regulates. With this knowledge, it is now possible to impact directly the systems that help or hinder self-control.
This book uses a science-practice approach. It presents scholarly content in an accessible manner, then offers relevant activities and experiences aimed at strengthening regulation skills. The material has a strong foundation in brain science, and is consistent with the perspective that dysregulated behavior reflects skill deficits rather than character deficits. As such, dysregulation can be influenced directly due the brain’s neuroplasticity and the body’s ability to change in response to experience.
Working with challenging behavior can undermine any adult’s sense of safety, competence, and worth. It becomes easy to blame the child or system or to believe that “nothing works.”
Instead, this volume aims to give hope to educators, counselors, and specialists working with difficult, dangerous, or at-risk youth, and to offer a direction forward.
Organization and Structure
The first chapters review some of the basic principles that underlie behavior change and provide a foundation for the next section, which explores specific brain-body systems that are pathways for increasing or decreasing regulation. The content chapters end with a reflection exercise to help the reader integrate new material and increase awareness around personal attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors that themselves can be problematic to staying regulated. Activity and intervention chapters follow and include experiences and exercises for children, activities for all ages, and resources for adults.
For simplicity’s sake, this book will use the terms vertical brain, horizontal brain, and social brain as a way to identify the brain systems. It uses these labels to describe the three distinct brain structures with their associated processes and needs because the terms are easy to remember and they mirror the physical locations of the brain parts.
For example, the vertical brain and its stress response system is on a vertical axis, the hemispheres are located next to one another on a horizontal plane, and the social brain’s engagement circuits connect people. When