The Effect of Dorsal Vagal Shutdown on the Brain

If you're trying to think your way out of a feeling problem when you are in deep alarm, you've shut off the part of the brain that would actually solve the problem. So I like to say you can't put out a fire from inside a burning house. You got to get outside where it's safe. And what I mean by being outside is being into your body. That's what that alarm is. It's your wounded younger self asking for your attention.