Amit’s Reviews > Widen the Window: Training your brain and body to thrive during stress and recover from trauma > Status Update

**Ch. 12. 4/5 Cooperation between thinking and survival brain,** ~dangers pf standalone mindfulness practice with no stress reduction techniques~. **Persist through weeks 3 to 7’s** difficulties as doubts as more issues are clear, but not improvements. Ends with **contact points (body and environment, seat, feet, etc)**
**Meditation**.

Ch 11 4/5 Warrior traditions, Be courageous and wise, no matter the which, where and when, like Malazan’s Cold Iron leaders. Best training, Domain general training, music training, aerobic, mental visualization and mindfulness focused and open monitoring and action video games

Ch 10. 4/5 Stuck on high, stuck on llow High is pushing hard and long, via caffeine, sleep deprivation and adrenaline, Low is d procrastination, Reasons for it, trauma or continuous stress during childhood, Shock trauma like car fender bender, which is acute stress that might simmer below and Challenge that goes on too long or comes up too often, aka chronic.

Ch. 8. 5/5 Shock trauma. Summary: An accident or event that traumatized the survival brain, creating physical symptons, instead of functioning, numbing, fight or flight or freeze.

Ch 9. 4/5 Everyday Life (Intervene downward spiral of harmful and compulsive, that is, deemed uncontrollable habits, Disorderly sleep, Junk food and Caffeine, Alcohol and Sedentary life for better metabolic (BP, Heart) and mental health

Beware of social norms for above.

Neuroplasticity - The repetition of any Habit or pattern makes it easier to do and harder not to do in the future. In short, Do right, again and again.