How To Use Polyvagal Theory To Re-Tune Your Nervous System And Feel Safe Enough To Be Yourself With Dr. Stephen Porges
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Empathy Is Not an Intentional Behavior
Compassion is not automatic. It requires this ability to first process that reflexive reaction of empathy and then enable the other part, the resilient part, to be supportive to the other individual. The teaching that Jack did here was this two, two step teaching where the first step is to focus on your breath. And then bring your awareness to the wave and then bring love to the way so that sort of observe yourself with compa, it's really a compassion for your own inner experience. But it's a training because our instinct is not to go to the wave.
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