
Ep. 045|Pain, The Brain & Emotional Learning| Melissa Farmer
Physiotutors Podcast
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How to Soothe the Nervous System
polyvagal theory is the idea that we're constantly looking to our environments for information about how safe we are. The most recent stage of nervous system evolution has been a vagus nerve mediated controls that look to social others and take so for instance this it's really sticky to explain this super simply one of the ways that we determine safety is by looking at other people and determining whether they look like they're comfortable and safe, also how far we allow other people to be from us.
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