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Polyvagal Theory: Hacking the Stress Response, Ep. 177

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The Different Stages of the Nervous System

I think it's important to acknowledge that aspect of it of just individualization and for any of us to understand and recognize how our bodies might be different than whoever we're comparing it to. Rest and Digest which is your ventral vagal that's like the baseline the mindfulness compassion connection then we have Fighter Flight which is your sympathetic nervous system again everybody probably knows what that feels like and then we have Freeze which is also um it's actually your dorsal vagal and that is also part of your parasympathetic nervous system so there's two sides to theParasympathetic one that goes towards the back and one that went towards the front. Back is dorsal freeze the front is vent

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