Naming the Feeling and Need
NVC Basics
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2m 23s
Sarah Peyton, Certified NVC Trainer: When you experience an emotion, your body send a message to your brain that lights up the amygdala. Then what? Listen as Sarah Peyton demonstrates the NVC practice of Naming the Feeling and Need, which calms the amygdala and enables you to move into relational space.
Keywords:
- Sarah Peyton
- NVC basics
- feelings
- brain science
- needs
- universal human needs
- emotions
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