Remember, regulation is not that you never get triggered, it’s about being able to return to the optimal zone of your window of tolerance after you’ve been triggered in a reasonable amount of time.

baby’s nervous system is not only recording the inputs from her mother, but from the other people she interacts with as well as all the events and experiences going on around her. All of these stimuli contribute immensely to the foundations of the baby’s brain and nervous system and, by extension, who they are and how they interpret the world. To p

And yes, a therapist supports you to see things in a new light, or discover root causes of feelings, but you do the work of overcoming that root cause or making different choices to change your perspectives or reactions.

These responses are called the ventral vagal, the sympathetic and the dorsal vagal.

recognised that there was an irrefutable connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and acquired behavioural patterns (programming). NLP operates on the premise that individuals can rewire their thought patterns and behaviours by consciously adjusting the way they use language and their internal mental representations

Sensation

In other words, simply thinking they were having an indulgent milkshake not only made them feel fuller faster, their brain caused their body to literally produced more satiation chemicals. If just approaching food in a different way

These NSMs serve two functions. The first is that they can be used on a day-to-day basis as a go-to option (like the modifying techniques) for regulating yourself when you feel activated. The second is that the regular practice of them is cumulative. In the same way that regular exercise leads to the increased strength, endurance and tone of your m

A critical part of the settling practices is to redesign the search for something negative to respond to (and therefore dysregulate you) into spending more and more time in a state of relaxed awareness.