Sub-Category
Ladder
Planted on:
Apr 28, 2024 5:04 PM
Last tended:
May 5, 2024 11:46 PM
Garden Sprouts
To create safe connections, our bodies consult facial expressions, eye gaze, tone of voice, movements of the head, and social gestures.When safety is present the body can access clarity, growth, and restoration. It can also engage in “spontaneous social engagement behaviors and bodily states”. Our autonomic states restrict our options for engaging socially and the ability to regulate our feelings. When we are calm and relaxed in ventral vagal, we are able to engage in positive social interactions. dorsal vagal handles the organs below the diaphram, for instance the digestive system. the sympathetic “works to circulate blood, shape normal heart rhythms, regulate body temperature, respond to changes in posture, and provide energy to the system to support passion and play.” the ventral vagal allows for relational connection and social engagement. It aims to balance the system.Resilience comes from being able to return to ventral vagal through regulation. This ability comes with a flexible vagal brake.Feeling safe shapes both our mental and physical health.
Category
Nervous system