#19 - How Stress Wrecks the Brain and What to Do About It

This podcast episode is based on the article: How Stress Wrecks Your Brain (and How Yoga and Meditation Can Restore Brain Health)

It is divided into two parts.

1. The first is about how chronic, unresolved stress wrecks your brain.
2. The second is about how yoga and meditation repair the damaged brain.

The process of repair occurs in four stages:

1. basic repair of the damage
2. stabilizing normal function
3. building a stronger neural architecture
4. mastery – optimization of brain function.

The key takeaway - 

Most importantly, when practiced in the correct sequence for an extended period of time, yoga and meditation can restore brain function.