The Resilient Father
The resilient father is a podcast by a dad, for dads. Your host Cavan Edwards uses his background in psychology to discuss building mental health resilience and the experience of parenting through the lens of fatherhood. Toolbox episodes share tangible, practical, and actionable strategies that fathers can use to improve their tolerance for the many stresses of life and parenting. The podcast also takes deeper dives into important topics and struggles that fathers experience, with a focus on relevant experts and scientific research.
The Resilient Father
Mastering the Brain's Electrical Rhythm's: Alpha Waves and Open Focus Technique - Electrophysiology Part 2
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Cavan Edwards
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Episode 9
Increase cognitive function, decrease stress and smooth out the communication between areas of your brain to improve your mental health. Learning to consciously increase alpha activity while at rest has a number of benefits to: resilience building, improving distress tolerance, decreasing fear and better focusing the mind. Open Focus Technique: developed by Princeton psychologist Dr. Les Fehmi, powerfully triggers a synchronized alpha response in the brain. In this episode Cavan discusses the benefits of open focus and shares how to make use of the skill, integrating it as both a meditation for self-care, but also a day to day neurohack you can apply in times of need.