Summary of Deb Dana's Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for the reactions of the body, is also responsible for the responses and recoveries from the challenges of daily living.
#2 The autonomic nervous system is made up of three parts, each with its own set of protective actions. The earliest dorsal vagal system brings strategies of immobilization. The sympathetic system, next to arrive, adds fight and flight. The most recent ventral vagal system offers the ability for safety through connection and social engagement.
#3 Neuroception, detection without awareness, describes the way the autonomic nervous system interfaces with the world. Reshaping the autonomic nervous system involves first making the implicit experience explicit by bringing perception to neuroception and then adding context through the lens of discernment.
#4 Co-regulation is a biological imperative. It is essential to survival. The ability to self-regulate is built on ongoing experiences of co-regulation. With a reliable, regulating other, we engage in the rhythm of reciprocity and build experiences of safety in connection.

Sujets

• Psychopathology
• Général

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 25 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781669364245
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Deb Dana's Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for the reactions of the body, is also responsible for the responses and recoveries from the challenges of daily living.

#2

The autonomic nervous system is made up of three parts, each with its own set of protective actions. The earliest dorsal vagal system brings strategies of immobilization. The sympathetic system, next to arrive, adds fight and flight. The most recent ventral vagal system offers the ability for safety through connection and social engagement.

#3

Neuroception, detection without awareness, describes the way the autonomic nervous system interfaces with the world. Reshaping the autonomic nervous system involves first making the implicit experience explicit by bringing perception to neuroception and then adding context through the lens of discernment.

#4

Co-regulation is a biological imperative. It is essential to survival. The ability to self-regulate is built on ongoing experiences of co-regulation. With a reliable, regulating other, we engage in the rhythm of reciprocity and build experiences of safety in connection.

#5

The autonomic nervous system shapes the way you experience your life. beliefs, behaviors, and body responses are embedded in the autonomic hierarchy. Physiology and psychology are interconnected.

#6

The autonomic nervous system responds moment to moment to what are often competing needs to survive and to be social. In a state of protection, survival is the only goal. In a state of connection, health, growth, and restoration are possible.

#7

The dilemma of balancing the drive to survive with the longing to connect is faced by clients. The responses that were necessary and adaptive for survival in the past bring suffering in the present. The client’s autonomic nervous system is out of balance, and this leads to physical problems as well as psychological problems.

#8

The autonomic nervous system is made up of two branches, the parasympathetic and sympathetic, and three pathways, each working in service of survival. The first organizing principle of Polyvagal Theory is the autonomic hierarchy, which explains the emergence of the three autonomic states.

#9

The ventral vagal state is the top of the hierarchy, and it is characterized by both/and rather than either/or. It is a state of being connected to self, able to reach out to others, open to change, and willing to look at possibilities.

#10

The ventral vagal pathway connects the heart with the muscles of the face and head, regulating how you see, hear, speak, and express emotions with your face. The social engagement system is both a sending system and a receiving system, constantly uploading and downloading information about connection.

#11

When your ventral vagal capacity is depleted, you move one step down the hierarchy and enter the energy of the sympathetic nervous system and the experiences of fight and flight. Here you are a system in motion, focused on survival.

#12

When mobilization doesn’t bring about a resolution to the distress, the autonomic nervous system collapses into dorsal vagal lifelessness. This occurs when the distress is inescapable.

#13

The ventral vagus connects with the heart’s pacemaker, the sinoatrial node, which regulates the rhythms of the heart. This pathway has been named the vagal brake because it describes the actions of the ventral vagus to slow down or speed up the heart, supporting a flexible response to the challenges of everyday living.

#14

The autonomic nervous system is listening inside to what is happening in your internal organs, scanning the environment, and sensing the connection to another nervous system. Cues of life-threat bring a shift into a dorsal vagal state of immobilization or collapse.

#15

Neuroception is a passive pathway that assesses present-moment demands and initiates some actions while inhibiting others.