Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety: Anchoring the Self in Safety

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Here, for the first time, is a layperson's explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm. A polyvagal appr oach to life is based on the knowledge that the autonomic nervous system is shaped by early experience and reshaped with ongoing experience. This short book offers an overview for nonspecialist readers and provides a series of exercises and meditations (practices) that allow readers to tune into their nervous systems, providing calming prompts to build and strengthen ventral vagal connections.This book includes a never-before-published comprehensive chapter on polyvagal theory, preceded by exercises that focus on: Mapping Reflecting Listening Deepening Creating Connecting Readers who want to change a pattern and find new rhythm for their nervous systems can use this material to work toward those goals. Show more