A collection of groundbreaking research by a leading figure in neuroscience. This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges’s decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism. Adopted by clinicians around the world, the Polyvagal Theory has provided exciting new insights into the way our autonomic nervous system unconsciously mediates social engagement, trust, and intimacy.
Very few people are aware of the importance of the vagus nerve... Did you know it is directly responsible for your physical, but also psychological well-being? As the longest nerve in the body - beginning in the brainstem - it connects to almost all organs. From proper gut work to managing stress, the vagus nerve plays an indispensable role in human overall health. Many studies have found that the vagus nerve works in favor of the parasympathetic system. As such, it is the calming aspect of our nervous system. Just by optimizing the work of your vagus nerve, you can significantly improve your well-being. If you're willing to invest in your health, you should be intrigued to know more about this nerve... ...and how it is related to the polyvagal theory. You're probably asking yourself: What is the vagus nerve? What is the polyvagal theory? What makes it crucial to your health? How it affects your mental health? How can you improve its function? This book offers answers. Aside from explaining the scientific background of the vagus nerve, the author also makes sure to lay it all out plain and simple so everyone can grasp the idea. Moreover, you'll get introduced to the third type of nervous system, as suggested by the polyvagal theory. Even if this is the first time you're hearing about it, it has majorly affected your social engagement. Upon purchasing this book, you will: Discover the functions of the vagus nerve: the vasovagal reflex, how the nerve affects your heart, its role in the autonomic nervous system, etc; Get the picture of the Polyvagal theory: our three-part nervous system, trauma's effect on the nervous system response, specific aspects of the system, etc; Learn how to heal PTSD with the Polyvagal theory: accept adaptation as a survival technique, attentional response bias, etc; Understand vagus nerve dysfunctions: recognize the early symptoms of vagus nerve damage and disorders and battle them; Realize what gastroparesis is: the connection between the vagus nerve and the digestive system, how the nerve supports digestion; And much more! Almost all your bodily functions are affected by the vagus nerve. If you decide to take care of it, you'll notice improvements in your sleep, social engagements, and you'll easily overcome stress. The best part is - this book explains how to activate and treat your vagus nerve without medication! If you are interested in getting to know more on the Vagus Nerve and on the Polyvagal Theory, and Get Your Copy Now!
The bestselling guide to the vagus nerve, now in 20+ languages: unlock the self-healing power of Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory Vagus exercises for reducing anxiety, healing trauma, and rebalancing your autonomic nervous system This comprehensive guide offers an easy-to-understand overview of the vagus nerve—and helps you unlock your body’s innate capacity to heal from stress, trauma, anxiety, and injury. Dr. Stanley Rosenberg, PhD, dispels long-held myths about the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and offers up-to-date research on how our physical health, emotional wellness, and the vagus nerve are all interconnected. Most importantly, he shows how these insights can help you heal your ANS—and live a less stressed, more balanced, and emotionally regulated life. This book offers: An in-depth overview of Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory Step-by-step self-help techniques for regulating the vagus nerve Vagus exercises to relieve emotional, psychological, and physical symptoms Real-life case studies and stories from the author’s clinical practice Insights into the vagus nerve’s role in social behavior An overview of what happens in our bodies when we get stuck in stress states—and how to heal them Simple, research-backed recommendations for initiating deep relaxation, improving sleep, healing from trauma, and stimulating recovery from illness and injury Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve is written for therapists, bodyworkers, trauma survivors, parents, and anyone struggling with chronic stress. Grounded in neurobiology research, clinical stories, and easy-to-follow exercises, this book gives you the tools to bring your body back into a state of safety, balance, and optimal functioning.
The polyvagal theory presented in client-friendly language. This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language. Using a unique autonomic mapping process along with worksheets designed to effectively track autonomic response patterns, this book presents practical ways to work with clients' experiences of connection. Through exercises that have been specifically created to engage the regulating capacities of the ventral vagal system, therapists are given tools to help clients reshape their autonomic nervous systems. Adding a polyvagal perspective to clinical practice draws the autonomic nervous system directly into the work of therapy, helping clients re-pattern their nervous systems, build capacities for regulation, and create autonomic pathways of safety and connection. With chapters that build confidence in understanding Polyvagal Theory, chapters that introduce worksheets for mapping, tracking, and practices for re-patterning, as well as a series of autonomic meditations, this book offers therapists a guide to practicing polyvagal-informed therapy. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy is essential reading for therapists who work with trauma and those who seek an easy and accessible way of understanding the significance that Polyvagal Theory has to clinical work.
**55% OFF for Bookstores! Discounted Retail Price NOW** Are you having chronic stress, suffering from inflammation or experiencing difficulty to remember things sometimes? Did you know you could easily improve your memories, decrease your anxiety and prevent inflammation? Your vagus nerve is the biggest and most significant nerve in your body. It conveys messages to and from your brain, gut, heart, and other substantial muscles and organs. Notwithstanding, regular issues like irritation, stress, or physical injury can meddle with the nerve's capacity to work. Fortunately, there are vast amounts of snappy and-simple approaches to actuate and practice the nerve, reinforcing its position and reestablishing your body to great wellbeing. Pressed with simple-to-follow activities and exercises, this book will tell you the best way to open the intensity of the vagus nerve to mend your body and return to a condition of parity. Through a progression of simple self-improvement works out, the book represents the straightforward ways we can manage the vagus nerve to start profound unwinding, improve rest, and recuperate from damage and injury. Moreover, by investigating the connection between a well-directed vagus nerve and social working, Rosenberg's discoveries and techniques offer new expectation that by improving social behavior, it is conceivable to mitigate a portion of the side effects at the center of numerous instances of chemical imbalance range issue. Helpful for psychotherapists, specialists, bodyworkers, and parental figures, just as any individual who encounters the manifestations of constant pressure and stress, this book shows how we can advance autonomic working in ourselves as well as other people, and carry the body into the condition of security that enacts its intrinsic ability to mend. We will cover these main topics: 1: Vagus Nerve Anatomy and functions 2: The cranial nerves 3: Essential functions of the Vagus Nerve 4: How the Vagus Nerve Affects Stress and Anxiety 5: Polyvagal Theory 6: Exercise to stimulate and activate the Vagus Nerve 7: Measuring Nervous function with heart rate variability
Innovative clinicians share their experiences integrating Polyvagal Theory into their treatment models. Clinicians who have dedicated their work to bringing the benefits of the Polyvagal Theory to a range of clients have come together to present Polyvagal Theory in a creative and personal way. Chapters on a range of topics from compassionate medical care to optimized therapeutic relationships to clinician's experiences as parents extract from the theory the powerful influence and importance of cases and feelings of safety in the clinical setting. Additionally, there are chapters which: elaborate on the principle of safety in clinical practice with children with abuse histories explain the restorative consequences of movement, rhythm, and dance in promoting social connectedness and resilience in trauma survivors explains how Polyvagal Theory can be used to understand the neurophysiological processes in various therapies discuss dissociative processes and treatments designed to experience bodily feelings of safety and trust examine fear of flying and how using positive memories as an active "bottom up" neuroceptive process may effectively down-regulate defense shed light on the poorly understood experience of grief Through the insights of innovative and benevolent clinicians, whose treatment models are Polyvagal informed, this book provides an accessible way for clinicians to embrace this groundbreaking theory in their own work.
Bridging the gap between research, science, and the therapy room. When The Polyvagal Theory was published in 2011, it took the therapeutic world by storm, bringing Stephen Porges’s insights about the autonomic nervous system to a clinical audience interested in understanding trauma, anxiety, depression and other mental health issues. The book made accessible to clinicians and other professionals a polyvagal perspective that provided new concepts and insights for understanding human behavior. The perspective placed an emphasis on the important link between psychological experiences and physical manifestations in the body. That book was brilliant but also quite challenging to read for some. Since publication of that book, Stephen Porges has been urged to make these ideas more accessible and The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory is the result. Constructs and concepts embedded in polyvagal theory are explained conversationally in The Pocket Guide and there is an introductory chapter which discusses the science and the scientific culture in which polyvagal theory was originally developed. Publication of this work enables Stephen Porges to expand the meaning and clinical relevance of this groundbreaking theory.
Do you want to learn how to unleash the body's natural ability to heal itself from stress and anxiety? Are you looking for effective ways to harness the healing power of the vagus nerve to take control of your physical and mental health? If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then this guide might just be what you need. Since the Polyvagal Theory was developed by Dr. Stephen Porges, this breakthrough has taken the world of clinical and therapeutic medicine by storm. This groundbreaking discovery is drawing back the curtain on how the autonomic nervous system controls our physical responses and emotional reactions, many of which are extremely primal and were developed as protective and defense mechanisms early in our evolution. In this guide, you're going to learn how to effectively get rid of stress, anxiety and panic attacks, as well as effectively manage Asperger's Spectrum and autism with social engagement. You're also going to find techniques and exercises and cardiovascular applications that will activate the body's inbuilt switch that allows your body to slow down and relax, boost your autoimmune responses and reduce inflammation. Here's a sample of what you're going to learn in The Polyvagal Theory Everything you need to know about the vagus nerve and the polyvagal theory Why the discovery of the polyvagal theory matters and how it's important for treating nervous problems How the body regulates stress and depression and surefire ways to expedite this process Using Yoga poses and stretches to help you activate the vagal nerves Proven meditative techniques to help you stimulate the vagal nerves Effective diaphragmatic exercises to get rid of stress, anxiety and panic attacks Ways trauma can affect the nervous system as well as prevention tips Surefire ways to practice the Polyvagal Theory in your daily life ...and tons more! You don't need to be a clinician or therapist before using the actionable advice in this book to change your life. This powerful guide provides you with all the tools, techniques and strategies you need to completely understand the human nervous system. You'll also learn how to cure a variety of illnesses and improve your sleep by healing the vagus nerve with instructions and exercises that are simple and easy to follow.
Are you struggling with chronic illness, PTSD, and depression? Are you chronically fighting with illnesses like anxiety, inflammation, fibromyalgia, or chronic fatigue? If so, you've found the right book. Learning about the polyvagal theory is learning about the science of security, the science of feeling safe enough to fall in love with life, and take the risk of living. The polyvagal theory provides a physiological and psychological understanding of how and why patients move through a continuous cycle of mobilization, disconnection, and commitment. Through the lens of the polyvagal theory, we see the role of the autonomic nervous system as it shapes patient safety experiences and influences their ability to connect. The autonomic nervous system does not respond to the challenges of everyday life by telling us what we are or who we are, but by telling us how we are. This system manages the risk and creates connection patterns by changing our physiological state. These changes can be slight for many people, and, at times, when there are significant changes of state, their system is resilient enough to help them return to a regulated state. Trauma disrupts the process of building the autonomous circuit of secure connection and diverts the development of regulation and resilience. Patients with a traumatic history often experience more intense and extreme autonomic responses, which affects their ability to regulate and feel safe in relationships. This book helps everybody to incorporate polyvagal theory into daily life. It provides a comprehensive approach to the intervention by presenting ways to map the autonomous response and configure the autonomic nervous system for safety. With this book, the polyvagal theory is at your disposal, and empirical records and exercises either. In this book, you will find: The Benefits of Vagus Nerve How to Stimulate the Vagus Nerve to Relieve Stress How to Improve the functioning of your body How to Daily Activate Your Vagus Nerve Several Vagus Exercises Anxiety Exercises to relieve the pain The book puts a lot of emphasis on friendship with the nervous system, presents the science of connection, and provides an essential fluency in the language of polyvagal theory. These chapters set out the crucial elements of the method, build a solid knowledge base, and set the stage for working with the clinical applications presented in the rest of the book. With this book, you will learn how to stimulate your Vagus Nerve with practical self-help exercises. You will overcome Anxiety, Chronic Illness, Depression, PTSD, Inflammation, and more with remedies that are already present in your body. ➚ Scroll up and click on "Buy Now"!
A practical guide to working with the principles of polyvagal theory beyond the therapy session. Deb Dana is the foremost translator of polyvagal theory into clinical practice. Here, in her third book on this groundbreaking theory, she provides therapists with a grab bag of polyvagal-informed exercises for their clients, to use both within and between sessions. These exercises offer readily understandable explanations of the ways the autonomic nervous system directs daily living. They use the principles of polyvagal theory to guide clients to safely connect to their autonomic responses and navigate daily experiences in new ways. The exercises are designed to be introduced over time in a variety of clinical sessions with accompanying exercises appropriate for use by clients between sessions to enhance the therapeutic change process. Essential reading for any therapist who wants to take their polyvagal knowledge to the next level and is looking for easy ways to deliver polyvagal solutions with their clients.
