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How to Use Polyvagal Theory to Shift Your Nervous System with Deb Dana

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The Autonomic Nervous System

Diana: When people think about autonomic nervous system, it's often what they're thinking about. And that we start with ventral when you're talking about sort of the ventral vagus nerve. But I just want to give an example of it because I think it helps people to get it when you're like, can relate to, oh, yeah, I've had that feeling. She says she remembered at a physical level, a bodily level, Jake, he's safe. In that moment, her whole everything shifted. "What a beautiful example of the, you know, embodied safety," Diana writes.

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