Widen the Window | Elizabeth A. Stanley

Why it is here: The hardware of stress.

Stanley (a professor and veteran) explains that you cannot "think" your way out of a survival response.

When stress narrows your "Window of Tolerance," your prefrontal cortex (IQ/Strategy) goes offline, and you revert to the reptilian brain.

We include this to teach Somatic Regulation.

It provides specific protocols to keep the "Thinking Brain" online during chaos.

It shows that "Adaptive Flow" is not just a mindset; it is a physiological state of the nervous system that must be trained like a muscle.