Do you have research that shows that lateral eye movement affects the parasympathetic nervous system? And yes, it does matter. If you're going to make claims about the nervous system there needs to be some science. Saying that moving your eyes impacts the brain means nothing, every single thing impacts your brain.

Thank you so, so much for this. I am a Health Coach who healed my own nervous system using a similar toolbox (hence the career change). I'm putting together a programme for clients, but was finding it challenging to articulate the different ideas and Amanda's talk really does simplify things beautifully. Book ordered and will be recommending it to others! Love the illustrations, too.

Wow! This has been one of the best PV talks I've have watched! You are truly a gift to all of our lives Amanda. Your book looks amazing! It is wonderful to be able to have a resource that has such an holistic and whole systems approach with very accessible tools for both practitioners and clients. My background is also health and well-being. I'm also a trained Buteyko Breathing Coach. When I met the Polyvagal Theory it was like having a big epiphany! Movement and the breath are great state changes. Add in polyvagal theory and we have something. I love how personalised your examples are and I see how that is a reflection of your PT background. Awesome! Thank you so very much! 💚💙🌀🙏🏻

Thank you so much Amanda Armstrong! You are a gifted healer.

You missed an important thing Seth: community building should be our full time job. Feed your next door neighbor and find a need and provide it. They teach this to entrepreneurs about creating a business. For Goodness sake, you are as rich as the number of friends you nurture. Jesus taught this with the way he lived. Go to any American church today and the preacher is on a pedestal like a performer doing a job. After service, his job is done. Jesus was on call 24/7.

Thank you so very much Amber! The science is always catching up 😊💚💙💙🙏🏻

I Love PolyVagal Theory & Stephen Porges! I've already given up social media

Can this help people who are stressed and not able to let go?

I London under ground tube fire people froze unable to react, some fleed into fire . And then other people remained calm logical. So we see danger threats cause primative brain to over rule our logical more modern brain.

SELF HELP please point me to any info that I can use to help me cope with and process GRIEF - it is causing me health issues anxiety depression gut stuff a very tough time indeed. thanks.

Self Help where is the most reliable source of info please?

Seth thank you for developing such a succinct and simple way of explaining your fathers work - brilliant

This is wonderfully encouraging 🫶 I’m so excited about where things will lead.

beautiful, thank. youso much <33

I’m constantly fascinated and disappointed at how Israeli trauma is studied and spoken of in the mental health world. It’s a continuation of the dehumanisation of Palestinians as if their suffering and trauma doesn’t exist. We are hearing and seeing stories of German attack dogs set on sleeping old women, dogs trained to rape detainees. Children taken and jailed as hostages and subsequently tortured. Snipers hitting babies in the head and chest. One American highly placed surgeon said the odds of this being accidental are infinitesimal. The using of burning white phosphorus that torments civilians in their death throes. Where is the study of their decades long trauma? Where is the psychiatric world. Why the silence? Why are people who supervise and gloat on the concentration camp next door the eternal victims?

Wow thank you for the simple language - I can put my dictionary away now Seth 😅😅😅

Excellent video. Thank you. It explains the ANS really well, and the visual was helpful. I really liked the blended states of 'safe and mobilised' and 'safe and immobilised'. I am curious, however, that with co-regulation, you suggest choosing to be with people that offer safety. I think this is partly helpful, yet what about the times we just don't have the choice? I have been practising something called The Work of Byron Katie, which offers the opportunity to sit in stillness and meditation to question the things that cause me to feel unsafe (my thinking). With practice, things that felt unsafe dissipate, and I feel more regulated. Likewise, EMDR, as I am experiencing it, can have similar effects: what once was alarming to my ANS has no velcro or rub, and my nervous system is calmer. My experience with The Work of Byron Katie allows me to accept reality and use what feels threatening to learn from, AND that doesn't mean I put myself in serious danger. I mean the situations that I perceive as dangerous but really aren't. I hope I'm making sense. There are so many options to meet the ANS and learn to open up my mind and heart, and it is exciting that there are options. It feels more controlling to eliminate perceived unsafe people (and if that is all one can do to feel calm and safe, I get it). I like to practice self-inquiry first to understand myself and also a deeper understanding of others, which in turn brings more compassion (self and others) and peace to my world. I can be around once-perceived vexatious spirits and am in peace and connection with myself and others. And it doesn't mean I force myself to be around them. Thank you. Thought-provoking for me.

Thank you so much for having me on to have this conversation!

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Thank you so much, what a great interview! When we cross Dr Porges and Dr Maté's books we do wanna explore polyvagal theory for inflammatory and autoimmune deseases, thank you for bringing this topic here!

❤ what a great conversation! Thank you for sharing!

Such a great interview! I also had the amazing honor to talk with Dr Porges on my pod the Integrated Man Project!

❤ thank you for this amazing conversation

This is WHY telehealth mental.health visits are no good. You need to meet with the Patients face to face to feel.the aura and real demeanor this is a Professional. I cant wait ro read the book.

32:32 What if we don't feel safe around anyone, family included?

Thank you for this wonderful interview! I admire Dr. Porges's work immensely and with so much gratitude. He mentioned, regarding human evaluation, religion, education, and medicine. I used to consider these fields sacred, sacred jobs, all having to do with caring for the human soul, mind, and body. Now I understand how easy it is to break a human, just consider the most vulnerable aspects . One would think they are working together to put back the whole human being. Instead, looks like they are fighting over, every one wants its piece of this poor human being. Thank you again! ❤

Informatief filmpje!

Please change this translation. I’m bilingual and wanted to send this to my parents as they struggle with mental health issues but the translation is terrible and feels rushed and inspiring…the total opposite from the English narration. Please change it so I can share this wonderful video

Por favor cambien la traducción es horrible y acelerada. No ayuda a entender al información birn

What do you do when you know all this information and keep trying to learn more because none of the techniques are working, and you can’t work so you don’t have any money to get help, or any friends or family because you’ve been in self-isolation for years unable to get up even for basic daily self care and everyone sees you as a burden so you don’t have anyone to speak to even though you want to and try to. Also, I’m safe, and I actually feel safe, so that’s not the problem.

Where would I find more information on the fawn response and how it relates to dissociation & appeasement?

I just finished reading the book, The Polyvagal World, and it's so life changing! Thank you so much Dr. Porges for your work, I'm so touched by it and I'm beyond excited to integrate what i have learned from you work into my personal life and my professional work as a clinical therapist.

I Love this episode!! 🔥 Thank you. 2 Greats in such an amazing conversation, i learned so much 😌

Hi where can i found the ssp music please suggest

Just brilliant. By the second meeting with a patient I ask them, “Close your eyes and allow an image to arise which brings a sense of safety,” if they are stuck, I’ll say that the image can be a person, animal, place in nature or event. I then have them imagine feeling the safety of that image using all senses . Then I suggest they they create that image or find it with an internet search. I then suggest that they print out a wallet size and larger image. The small image goes in their wallet or purse, which they can access whenever they want to or need to. One patient had the image of a Christmas tree.

Very interesting and informative video. Thank you for explaining.

Certified nurse-midwife here, 💯 Thank you this was an EXCELLENT podcast. Started in midwifery and went back for psychiatric nurse practitioner to integrate the both. Hospital based midwife but work hard to integrate empowered process in safe and feeling safe space. Doing a deeper dive into Dr Porges’ work. Trauma informed care is where it’s at! ❤

We all understand the theory. We need the way out. Nothing else. Just pure help and guidance and protocol and consistently delivered so people can feel better.

What a gentle, sensible man, he really impressed me, and I am so grateful for all the information and the way he presented it. As well as for the decision to be the voice for his brilliant father's lifetime efforts - thank you both gratefully! ❤

Can Polyvagal Theory help with this kind of trauma? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtGRocVlmdyWlIU.htmlsi=lLZ_xgxlBE652r1O

This is so heartbreaking. The founder of Polyvagal Theory whom one has come to respect, whose work has inspired healing of trauma, comes on a podcast with a known Zionist sympathiser and supporter, who are carrying out a genocide in front of our eyes, caused untold suffering including murder, hostage taking, state terrorism and TRAUMA for 75 years and are now starving a population most of whom are women and children . It does not stack up. So disappointed in Dr Porgess, Deb Dana and the Polyvagal Institute

This is an excellent video. I love hearing Steve (Dr. Porges) share his knowledge. Every time I listen to him, I walk away with more information to help my own healing process, to help explain things I am going through, and to help others. I never understood why I am okay with some hugs and not others. I mean, I did, but not in the expert way it was explained here. Thank you.

@MayimBialik, I wonder how we can increase the feeling of safety of the Palestinian children in Gaza while they're bring massacred by Israel? What do you think, as a staunch Zionist?

Dziękuję, super ten film i dużo mi wyjaśnił ❤❤❤

Love the clear presentation. I have wondered why it’s named polyvagal when it’s only two major branches. Are there any other less significant branches unnamed ?

La narración en sí la siento un poco estresante. Han debido reducir la velocidad del video un poco para que al traducir la narración al castellano no quede tan apresurada. Dicho eso gracias por la información.

Gracias por compartir.

"The ability to play is one of the principal criteria of mental health." Ashley Montagu "Never do anything that isn't play." Marshall B. Rosenberg "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats." Charles Darwin

¡Excelente! Quizás un poco apresurado y rapido y esto puede crear un poco de activación, le recomendaré a mis pacientes que ajusten un poco la velocidad del video. Que pena la verdad, pero ahí nos acomodamos. @polyvagalinstitute