Stephen Porges talk about Polyvagal Safety
The Science of Psychotherapy
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The Baby's Nervous System Is Making a Discrimination
We have a tool kit that we know intuitively that will turn off threat reactions. But do we use that in educational settings? Seldom. In therapeutic settings, rarely. It's like we end up saying we're cognitive but our body doesn't really care what the words are. Our body wants the words to sound melodic. We will talk to the childlike individuals with these intonations, and they will calm down. And when it's off, it becomes part of their ina sense temperamental features. The safe and sound proticle, which is this acoustic one acoustic intervention,. i view it as a stealth intervention because it doesn't require any conscious interpretation. It just requires
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