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    Polyvagal Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Understand How Trauma Affects the Body
    Polyvagal Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Understand How Trauma Affects the Body
    Polyvagal Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Understand How Trauma Affects the Body
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    Polyvagal Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Understand How Trauma Affects the Body

    By Gabriel Davidson

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    Are you looking to improve your life and feel better, both physically and mentally?

    You don't have to be an expert in human anatomy or psychology to understand how the autonomic nervous system functions and how the polyvagal theory ties into it.

    This book will cover all the benefits of Polyvagal theory and t

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGabriel Davidson
    Release dateSep 1, 2023
    ISBN9781803625959
    Polyvagal Theory: A Beginner's Guide to Understand How Trauma Affects the Body

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      Polyvagal Theory - Gabriel Davidson

      Introduction

      We all hope for a smooth life throughout. No one anticipates experiencing some breakdowns and low moments in life. We face each day filled with positive vibes, hoping for the best. However, that is always not the case. At times, we face difficult situations whereby people, events, relationships, abuse, and traumatic experiences live leave us in an emotional breakdown situation. In the end, we feel low and have a mental breakdown. Even if the time passed by and we recall, it feels like passing through that repeatedly, which reawaken memories, and switching states feels like hell. Some people are so toxic and judgmental that they always keep judging, taunting, making comments, misguiding, calling names, and hurting others. They stay busy letting others down; if they started feeling how others feel about such acts, they would never do that again.

      Some situations can be tough to imagine because they dump us into an emotional position that can’t go away. On hurting expectations, our minds could stay in the situation for months and even years. Our immaturity is also a significant reason for uncertain circumstances. We start giving our full potential, and we get involved with all our hearts and soul to fake and toxic people. These friendships and relations break our trust and entirely shatter us. In the end, such happenings push us into trauma, and we feel like the entire world has turned against us.

      We end up as broken human beings in terms of physical, emotional, and mental states. It is okay to feel the pressure and face some psychological symptoms and engage ourselves in deep thoughts. You can sometimes experience sleepless nights, procrastination, crying, and other related problems bothering your thoughts. The results are unhappy souls, depressed people, anxiety, and loneliness feelings.

      All these happenings within our bodies affect our brains primarily. And since the brain is a crucial organ in our body, most functionalities stop affecting our overall health. That is how stress issues come in, leading to high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, and other related diseases. Repetitive stress and traumas affect our moods, expertise, food intake and bring on anxiety disorders. The impact of trauma on the mind is commonly the foremost distressing. Traumatic events leave us feeling insecure. They disrupt our beliefs and assumptions concerning the world. The sense of ability to manage our life could also be shattered. Elements of the brain will become supersensitized, inflicting us to get on high alert and understand threats worldwide, leaving us anxious and stressed.

      In the end, our bodies become weak, unable to respond to daily activities.  When people and situations break us, nature helps our bodies to heal us. It is the self-sufficiency, our nervous system, and its responses that react, work against it, fight for us, settles everything, and make us feel better, even more, better than we were used to be. The body's response plays a critical role in dealing with stress and danger in our environment.

      Our bodies then prepare to fight and deal with such conditions. That is why theories such as polyvagal theory explain the happenings to the autonomic nervous system. The purpose of the nervous system in our bodies is to build connections among the body organs. That is why polyvagal theory and how the body responds to traumatic experiences are related aspects. As you read on, you will unleash more details about the theory.

      Chapter 1:

      What is Polyvagal Theory

      The medullary source, which is the brain stem medulla, boasts diverse capacities typical of the vagus nerve. For a proper understanding of most, if not all, various degrees, the Polyvagal theory is essential. The idea aims at pointing out two major working branches of the vagus nerve. The stems are split further into two classes: the dorsal motor nuclei or simply DMNX and the nucleus ambiguous abbreviated as NA. Therefore, the theory plays a valuable role in understanding how the vagus nerve's parasympathetic coordination of a range of organs relates to or connects to the visceral activity.

      Before the Polyvagal theory came into existence at the initial stages, there was a different perception of the nervous system. The system was initially believed to be a two-part antagonistic system. However, the Polyvagal theory stretches to the different extent of exploring the social engagement system, a third response of the nervous system.

      Stephen Porges' Theory

      Among the renowned psychiatry professors, you wouldn't miss out on Stephen Porges, a known professor who's currently from North Carolina University. Professor Stephen Porges boasts some of the critical achievements which earned him better tittles that define him as a great university scientist. Among his most outstanding establishments at Indiana University is consortium research on traumatic stress. Some of his most incredible developments don't just confine to a few kinds of research. Still, it is also essential to understand that through him, we can define the effects of visceral occurrences on the nervous system and the accompanying human behavior in what is called the Polyvagal theory.  It is one of the most fantastic ideas incorporating a unique and fresh perspective into the link between action and autonomic function. It is a unique perspective that aims to define the autonomic system as its central body system. The theory explores an in-depth focus on neural circuits that convert into autonomic reactivity, which lies in the sub-area of the mammalian autonomic nervous system's phylogeny. One of the most fantastic subjects or points of focus of this theory is an extensive understanding

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