This guided meditation, by Dr. Kristina Seymour, a clincical psychologist and USAF Veteran, adapted from Dr. Andrew Huberman's Time-Space Bridging exercise, is tailored for service members and veterans to foster calm, safety, and agency over perceptions of time and space. It strengthens focus-shifting skills by anchoring participants in the present through deep breathing (e.g., 7-second inhales and 8-second exhales), scanning nearby and distant objects to illustrate how proximity influences time perception (close things feel faster, far ones slower), and reflecting on past and future (everyday) moments while returning to breath for grounding. The practice also promotes healing via nature's vastness, gently redirects wandering thoughts, and ends with a return to embodied presence, empowering everyday focus shifts.DrKristinaSeymour.com
31 Aug 2025
OPTIMAL Boundaries
In high-stress environments, such as military or civilian life, individuals face challenges that demand resilient, proactive responses. Dr. Kristina Seymour, a clinical psychologist and U.S. Air Force veteran, developed the Optimal Response Initiative (ORI) to empower individuals to thrive rather than merely survive (Seymour, n.d.-a). ORI promotes a shift from reactive behaviors to optimal responses along a continuum, using tools to enhance resilience across all health domains (The Optimal Response Initiative, n.d.). This episode examines the role of balance and boundaries within ORI, focusing on Chapter 8, "The Power of Balance and Boundaries" (Seymour, 2025). Integrating ORI’s programs, workbooks, and health tanks, it draws on Seymour’s lecture transcript to connect prior chapters and provide practical applications. Peer-reviewed research supports ORI’s principles, emphasizing their relevance to holistic health and resilience (Kruk et al., 2015; Stoewen, 2017).
24 Aug 2025
The Power of OPTIMAL Balance & Boundaries
Unlock the power of balance and boundaries! Discover how to set and maintain optimal boundaries for enhanced health and quality of life. Learn to prioritize self-care and thrive in all areas. #boundaries #selfcare #balance #healthylifestyle #thrive #wellbeing
24 Aug 2025
ORI Podcast Season 1 Episode 8 Creatively THRIVE
Optimal Response Initiative (ORI) Dr. Kristina Seymour Creatively THRIVING! In this episode, I empower you in that you have the ability to creatively problem solve and THRIVE.
17 Aug 2025
Capitlize On Your Ability to Catastrophize & Set Goals with Dr. Seymour
Unlock your potential: harness worst-case scenarios to achieve your goals! Learn how to turn fears into fuel for success. Discover the power of catastrophizing for good. #GoalSetting #MentalHealth #Resilience #ThrivingTraining
10 Aug 2025
Three More ORI Continuums.mp4
Unlock motivation! Discover how dopamine, ORI tools, and daily actions fuel optimal health. Learn to move from pain to gain, isolation to connection. Prioritize thriving over mere survival. #MentalHealth #Dopamine #Motivation #MentalHealth #Resilience #OptimalResponse #ThriveTraining
10 Aug 2025
ORI Extremes Vimeo.mp4
Source:https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-6vc7k-192cd4bUnlock optimal living! Dr. Seymour reveals how to escape knee-jerk reactions using the ORI Continuum Response Line. Learn to deliberately choose growth and freedom, moving from worst to BETTER. Discover the power of dopamine and practical steps to reclaim your drive! #OptimalResponse #DopamineHacks #MentalWellness #SelfImprovement #Motivation #ViktorFrankl
10 Aug 2025
ORI Extremes
Unlock optimal living! Dr. Seymour reveals how to escape knee-jerk reactions using the ORI Continuum Response Line. Learn to deliberately choose growth and freedom, moving from worst to BETTER. Discover the power of dopamine and practical steps to reclaim your drive! #OptimalResponse #DopamineHacks #MentalWellness #SelfImprovement #Motivation #ViktorFrankl
3 Aug 2025
Embrace Beyond The Suck with Dr. Seymour
Dr. Seymour discusses Chapter 1 of ORI - Embrace Beyond The Suck (to THRIVING). She also shares a personal reading of the ORI Creed & A Call to Recover. If you feel like you are barely hanging on - HOLD ON TO HOPE - you are not alone. Together we are stronger. Together we THRIVE. The beginning of your ORI Journey is about learning how to take care of YOU vs. everyone else, all the time - 24/7. You need a tight seal on your mask, or you can't help anyone else. Let's go - it's time to THRIVE.
3 Aug 2025
Dr. Seymour’s ORI Welcome Message & Invite to Join ORI On-line Training
Welcome to the Optimal Response Initiative ORI Thriving Training with Dr. Seymour - stay alert - stay alive - AND THRIVE! If you sign up for the online training at ORI.DrKristinaSeymour.com
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you can join the community and OPTIMALLY challenge one another - peer to peer. Together we are stronger, together we THRIVE. Dr. Seymour has created the online academy so that you, along with Dr. Seymour and other likeminded ORI Peers can be OPTIMALLY challenged as you train to THRIVE and be reminded that you are not alone.
Dr. Seymour will be hosting live 1x a month "Inside the Perimeter Checks" for and with anyone who is signed up for the on-line ORI course at ORI.DrKristinaSeymour.com.
See you on the inside. And if not, no pressure, Dr. Seymour will continue to publish ORI Podcasts each week with talks and tools full of common sense, insight, and practical application.
3 Aug 2025
OPTIMAL WARNING:Pros & Cons of ORI
There are pros and cons to training to THRIVE. In this short episode, Dr. Seymour welcomes you to ORI and warns you that the pros are - YOU are doing the work and YOU will reap the benefits. The cons are it's challenging and all the OTHERS in your life are NOT doing ORI, but the only thing harder than doing it is NOT doing it.
3 Aug 2025
EMOTES Energy in Motion ORI Thriving Training
The root of the word "emotion" is EMOTE - which means energy in motion. With ORI Thriving Training you learn how to identify the energy in motion, moving up and out to give you intel to THRIVE. All EMOTES have powerful intel for us about what we may need in each thriving situation. Once we gather the intel, we can identify how to meet the need(s) in OPTIMAL ways and move towards OPTIMAL. Move Out into THRIVING Territory - but not before you gather the intel.
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