Why ANS is an important consideration

ANS creates the platform for daily living experience. The ANS, responding to the demands of the moment, exercises a repertoire of mobilization, disconnection, and engagement behaviors. In each of these states, specific emergent properties – the thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and beliefs that are possible from that state – are activated. It is through these emergent properties that people are moved to behave in predictable ways and the stories about themselves and the world they inhabit are generated and perpetuated. With a map of the ANS, individuals can begin to under- stand the connection between their physiology and cognitions and begin to see the ways their auto- nomic state creates their psychological story (Dana, 2018).