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Since Stephen Porges first proposed the Polyvagal Theory in 1994, it's basic idea -- that the safety we feel impacts our health and happiness -- has radically shifted our understanding of trauma and how we can live our best lives. 'Our Polyvagal World' definitvely presents how the Polyvagal Theory can be understandable to all and demonstrates how its practical principles are applicable to anyone looking to live their safest, healthies, and happiest...
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"The strategies and exercises in this book guide the reader towards 'befriending' their nervous system and achieving a state of autonomic regulation that brings a sense of safety, connection, and joy. Inside, readers will find exercises for changing the safety/danger equation; nourishing soundscapes; breathing into safety; developing a resource menu; reflecting; and much more! If you've wondered what Polyvagal Theory is all about and why the vagus...
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"A new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotions in humans and animals The Neuroscience of Emotion presents a new framework for the neuroscientific study of emotion across species. Written by Ralph Adolphs and David J. Anderson, two leading authorities on the study of emotion, this accessible and original book recasts the discipline and demonstrates that in order to understand emotion, we need to examine its biological roots in humans and...
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"When your dog growls and barks, you might assume that he's angry. But how do you know? You can't very well ask him. Even if you could, it's not at all clear that animals even have emotions like humans do. We still know very little about what emotions are and how they drive behavior. In fact, scientists haven't even been able to reach a consensus on how to study them. In The Nature of the Beast, neuroscientist David Anderson argues that the only way...
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La empatía está experimentando una nueva evolución. En una cultural global interconectada, no podemos seguir identificándonos únicamente con las personas que parecen formar parte de nuestra «tribu». Como ha aprendido la Dr. Helen Riess, nuestra capacidad empática no es sólo un rasgo innato, también es una habilidad que podemos aprender y cultivar.
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"Addresses the root of pain. Since pain is literally a product of the brain, which announces it after being warned by a small army of nocioceptors stationed throughout the body, it is also open to glitches in that process. Chronic pain often occurs when the brain "remembers" pain, even though the condition that caused it may have been dealt with"--
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