Getting Our Nervous Systems Back to Normal
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Getting Your Nervous System Back to Normal
How Your Autonomic Nervous System got shifted in the first place
In this video we look at what is required to get our deep nervous systems back to normal. But this normal is the ancestral normal: the normal of wellbeing. We explore how they got shifted away from it in the first place, and what is required to help bring us back home.
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To understand how and why this all happened in the first place, see Turning on the Connection System, The Evolved Nest, and Triune Ethics Theory. The understand your deep (autonomic) nervous system more deeply, see The Daisy Model of Regulation, and Turning Your Nervous System into Your Ally. For trauma healing, see Healing Trauma. For other Polyvagal perspectives, see A Polyvagal Perspective on Resilience, 3 Steps: Assess, Down-Regulate, Connect, Polyvagal Mapping, Core Neurobiological Self. If you want to be introduced more systematically to Polyvagal Theory, watch A Brief Illustrated Guide to Polyvagal Theory. If you really want to understand it deeply, watch The Science of Safety. To think about Polyvagal Theory in the context of relationships, see Healthy Relationships. For addressing particular nervous system states, see Coming out of Fight, Coming out of Flight, Coming out of Freeze, Calming Anxiety, Releasing Fear. See Embodied Movement, Learn to Set Clear Boundaries, Meditation, Sleep, Tracking Physiology, Ways of Knowing (Refining Intuition).Video: Distill | Photography: Stein Egil Liland | Licensed from Pexels.com, used with permission.