We live in the age of OVERLOAD.
Moment of truth – when was the last time you checked your email on the toilet? Or doom-scrolled in bed at 3am?
Do you feel:
☐ BUSY
☐ PRESSURED
☐ DISTRACTED
☐ ALWAYS-ON
☐ DIGITAL ANXIETY
☐ OVERWHELMED
☐ FATIGUED
When you're overwhelmed, your SURVIVAL BRAIN takes charge.
Your survival brain is great at keeping you alive, but it also produces an excess of negative emotions like stress, anxiety, anger, frustration and other forms of mental chatter that erode your wellbeing, performance, and overall quality of life.
Survival brain is the default mode of operating and it's where most people get stuck.
Pausing activates your WISE BRAIN.
Research demonstrates that you can actively shift the neural activity and blood flow from your survival brain region to your wise brain region through deliberate pauses.
Each time you consciously shift out of your survival brain and into your wise brain, you're building the mental muscles to thrive in any circumstance and consistently show up as the best version of yourself.
SURVIVAL BRAIN
Brain stem, limbic system, parts of left brain
Alerts you to danger
Keeps you alive
Produces negative emotions
Releases stress hormone cortisol
WISE BRAIN
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Middle prefrontal cortex, empathy circuits, parts of right brain
Wired for creativity
Big picture awareness
Produces positive emotions
Releases endorphins that counter cortisol
Your 4 Core Intelligences
Calm
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Tame your digital anxiety
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Regulate your nervous system during stressful situations
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Get grounded + confident before important events
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Respond calmly to difficult people Keep your cool in overwhelming environments
Develop your SOMATIC (body) INTELLIGENCE so you can operate from a steady baseline of calm and quickly recover your equilibrium when you're thrown off balance.
Your wise brain is powered by 4 core intelligences that are already within you. As you grow and tap into these intelligences, they will help you respond confidently and skillfully in the face of any challenge and activate positive mindsets that make happiness, ease, and satisfaction a daily experience.
Clarity
Develop your SOMATIC (body) INTELLIGENCE so you can operate from a steady baseline of calm and quickly recover your equilibrium when you're thrown off balance.
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Tame your email anxiety
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Regulate your nervous system during a meeting
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Get grounded before a big presentation
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Respond calmly to a difficult client
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Keep your cool with crazy in-laws
Develop your SOMATIC (body) INTELLIGENCE so you can operate from a steady baseline of calm and quickly recover your equilibrium when you're thrown off balance.
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Tame your email anxiety
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Regulate your nervous system during a meeting
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Get grounded before a big presentation
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Respond calmly to a difficult client
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Keep your cool with crazy in-laws
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Savor the joy of life's simple pleasures
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Prevent angry outbursts in heated moments
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Overcome your self-doubt
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Activate positive emotions to boost your mood
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Get unstuck from feelings of frustration
Develop your EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE so you can regulate strong emotions, build empathy, and open yourself up to greater joy and fulfillment.
Creativity
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Choose your mindset as you begin each day
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Tap into fresh ideas when problem-solving
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Stop rumination after receiving criticism
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Release your negative self-talk
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Discover opportunities in life's challenges
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Access your creative flow
Build your REFLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE to release self-limiting thoughts and beliefs, unlock your growth mindset, and fuel your most creative ideas.
Connection
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Boost your confidence in social situations
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Be kinder to yourself when you make mistakes
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Connect authentically with others
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Find common ground with difficult people
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Foster belonging and trust in your communities
Build your RELATIONAL INTELLIGENCE to quiet your inner critic, develop your inner ally, turn conflict into connection, and fuel satisfying relationships
The Pause Method® isn't just a technique—it's a transformative approach to living that can revolutionize how you navigate both your professional and personal life.
By cultivating these four core intelligences, you're not just managing stress—you're unlocking your full potential. You're learning to respond rather than react, to create rather than cope, and to connect more deeply with yourself and others.
Imagine starting each day with clarity, tackling challenges with creativity, maintaining calm in the face of chaos, and fostering genuine connections in all of your relationships. This reality – and so much more – is possible.
Every journey begins with a single step—or in this case, a single pause. Your path to a more balanced, fulfilling, and joyful life is already within you. The Pause Method® simply helps you access it.
Evidence-Based
The Pause Method® is an evidence-based approach that blends neuroscience, positive psychology, performance science, and mental fitness training into a comprehensive resilience curriculum.
While our method and curriculum are uniquely ours, these teachings are here by the generosity and grace of the many teachers, mentors, and researchers who came before us. We are deeply grateful and humbled to draw from this collective wisdom and to be a part of the modern mindfulness movement.