Salim Najjar

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Salim Najjar

Salim Najjar

@thatHRVguy

Entrepreneur passionate about mental health & wellness 🙏🏻 Spreading awareness around Heart Rate Variability ❤️ Co-Founder @Sound

United States Katılım Mayıs 2023
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Salim Najjar
Salim Najjar@thatHRVguy·
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Jonny Miller
Jonny Miller@jonnym1ller·
Here’s my attempt to explain the groundbreaking science of ‘latches’ (as I understand it from conversations with @johnsonmxe) ↓ Why do 'latches' matter? They are the mechanism via which the ‘body keeps the score’. Latches are how trauma gets remembered. You might say that human suffering is precisely proportional to the number of smooth muscle latches present. What exactly are they? Latches are a unique anatomical feature of smooth muscle tissue that chemically glues itself shut into contracted states into a kind of set + forget position. Why does the body need them? Latches are super efficient. They save metabolic energy once they’re shut. Put another way, the human brain uses predictive processing to ‘limit the range of interceptive data’ being sent upwards from the body. Does this map to lived experience? Latches serve as an elegant mechanistic description of what happens when someone has a cathartic ‘release’ say during a breathwork session, or unwinds and 'surrenders’ during a guided MDMA session. Are there practical implications? Understanding and rigorously testing precisely what creates the conditions for these latches to open would be a monumental breakthrough for reducing the root cause of human suffering. E.g. what supplements might create the metabolic conditions for latches to open? Which somatic/psychedelic therapeutic interventions create lasting changes? What is an appropriate cadence for latch-opening work vs. integration? There are so many fascinating questions here... Bottom-line If we can figure out how to measure the signatures of these 'latches' in the body (possibly through mapping blood flow) — then it would be feasible to create an objective testing ground for healing modalities + create regulated nervous systems at scale.
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