Ventral vagal activation

🔍 Understanding Our Nervous System Through the "Polyvagal Ladder" 🧠💡 Our autonomic nervous system operates like a highly coordinated team with three key players, engaging and recovering in a specific sequence. Let’s explore the "Polyvagal Ladder," a concept by Dr. Stephen Porges, made practical by Deb Dana. 1️⃣ Ventral Vagal Complex - This is the part of the parasympathetic branch that’s all about social engagement, connection, and safety. 🌟 THIS FEELS LIKE: Joy, connection, creativity…

The Ventral Vagal Pathway, foundational to Polyvagal Theory developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, represents the most evolved aspect of our autonomic nervous system. This sophisticated neural circuitry is part of the parasympathetic nervous system, specifically linked to the vagus nerve. Unlike its counterparts that prepare us for fight, flight, or freeze responses, the ventral vagal pathway promotes states of calm and social engagement. It’s essentially our biological platform for building…

🔍 Understanding Our Nervous System Through the "Polyvagal Ladder" 🧠💡 Our autonomic nervous system operates like a highly coordinated team with three key players, engaging and recovering in a specific sequence. Let’s explore the "Polyvagal Ladder," a concept by Dr. Stephen Porges, made practical by Deb Dana. 1️⃣ Ventral Vagal Complex - This is the part of the parasympathetic branch that’s all about social engagement, connection, and safety. 🌟 THIS FEELS LIKE: Joy, connection, creativity…

🔍 Understanding Our Nervous System Through the "Polyvagal Ladder" 🧠💡 Our autonomic nervous system operates like a highly coordinated team with three key players, engaging and recovering in a specific sequence. Let’s explore the "Polyvagal Ladder," a concept by Dr. Stephen Porges, made practical by Deb Dana. 1️⃣ Ventral Vagal Complex - This is the part of the parasympathetic branch that’s all about social engagement, connection, and safety. 🌟 THIS FEELS LIKE: Joy, connection, creativity…

The Dorsal Vagal Pathway, a fundamental concept within Polyvagal Theory represents the oldest part of our autonomic nervous system in terms of evolutionary history. This pathway is associated with the parasympathetic nervous system and is primarily responsible for the “freeze” or “collapse” responses we experience during extreme stress or danger when neither fight nor flight is an option. It is the the body taking emergency inaction, slowing down heart rate and bodily functions to conserve…

✨Recognizing which state your nervous system is in can help you better understand your feelings and reactions. Each state serves a purpose and signals your body’s needs. ✅Our aim and purpose is to be able to navigate these states with flexibility according to what is needed of us in the moment. ✅A regulated nervous system doesn’t mean calm and peace all the time but what it means is it’s capacity to adapt to what external environment asks of us. 🔥For example, if there is a dangerous…

annatheanxietycoach on Instagram: ✨Gentle vagus nerve activation rituals to shift you into ventral vagal (social & connected) state. How does this work? 👇 The trigeminal…

Polyvagal Theory: Understanding & Empowering Your Nervous System Did you know that our nervous system states aren’t permanent? Thanks to Polyvagal Theory by Dr. Stephen Porges, we can understand how our autonomic nervous system regulates our responses to safety and threat, impacting both our physical and mental health. Here’s a quick breakdown of the three key states: 🟢Social Engagement/Ventral Vagal State: When we feel safe and connected, our ventral vagal system is activated, promoting…

Jordan Green, LCSW’s Instagram profile post: “⁠⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Can you identify the state of your nervous system right now? ⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ The Polyvagal Ladder is a metaphor for how the autonomic…”

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jcamylee on Instagram: A polyvagal-informed functional practice to help move your nervous system into a ventral vagal state. Especially good to help move you…

Mar 29, 2021 - The vagus nerve, also called 10th cranial nerve, is the longest and most complex of the cranial nerves, and one of the most important nerves in your body.