Autonomics Poster

Hearth Science is pioneering the ancestral future of wellbeing by uniting the cutting-edges of neurophysiology with Indigenous and ancestral lifeways.
Our new Autonomics poster presents our new Foundation model in autonomic physiology, which uses color theory to illustrate the complete spectrum of embodied autonomic states.

The poster

• Re-organizes the functional divisions at the foundation of neurology
• Expands the Polyvagal conceptualization of the Social Engagement physiology
• Clarifies the synergistic nature of the three primary autonomic systems as they interact across a continuum of safety, danger, and life threat
• Delineates the interactions of neurochemistry with neural platform that undergird autonomic state
• Illuminates six additional states beyond the seven articulated by Polyvagal Theory: restore, enjoy, compete, accommodate, appease, dorsal appease
• Visualizes pathways directly from shutdown states to connection states (a circle or spiral, not a ladder)
• Removes the technical language divorced from everyday experience to describe state phenomena

This is a map, but it is also a prayer

–James C. Graves

This is fire!!! 🔥🔥🔥

–Earl Simms, Founder, Restorative Community Solutions