7 principles of Polyvagal theory
🌿 Your autonomic state is the filter through which you experience the world.
🌿 Environmental cues can deeply affect your physiology.
🌿 A felt sense of safety is necessary for healthy living and bonding with others.
🌿Trauma is in the physiology. Your body
holds the scars and lived experienced and your mind makes a meaning about it.
🌿 Fight/flight/freeze/shutdown are reflexive responses, but you can work with them, if you know how.
🌿 It’s not possible to sustain critical thinking without a felt sense of safety.
🌿 Feeling safe is the base for effective and long lasting healing work.
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