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418. Nervous System Regulation with Leah Davidson

Better Than Happy

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The Zone of Resilience

If the nervous system senses danger, it assigns you to a sympathetic state. And that sympathetic state is a hyper-arrous state. I call it team hyper, because everything on it is flavored with this activation. That's where we hear a fight, flight, and freeze. You go down to what I call team hypo or the polyvagal theory calls it the dorsal zone. In that zone, that is where you're trying to conserve energy.

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