To experience and express compassion requires that we turn off our defenses in the autonomic nervous system.The 10th cranial nerve - the ventral vagus - our mammalian face and heart connector, is the newest component in our evolutionary adaptive journey to be…
How does TRE® help the nervous system regulate to a state of calm? Here's a great film you can watch where Steven Porges explains how TRE® works with insights from the polyvagal theory he developed . Understanding polyvagal theory,our evolution as pro…
(With thanks to the Australian Childhood Foundation for the opportunity to present this at their 2018 International Trauma Conference in Melbourne) This 22-min presentation covers my take (at the time) on topics including: – trauma as a verb – trauma symptoms as signs of ‘active activation’ of ANS defensive responses
How is it that a single celled organism with no nervous system, no nucleus, and no membrane-bound organelles – called a prokaryote – is able to navigate environments, avoid predation, and move toward sources of energy?
Seth Porges is an American science and technology journalist and television commentator. He is the son of neuroscientists Stephen Porges and Professor of Biology C. Sue Carter.