Polyvagal Theory: Why You Feel So Anxious All The Time - Dr Stephen Porges - #1128

You've authored more than four hundred peer reviewed scientific papers and literally created polyvagal theory. It's sort of rare that you get to ask Mike Tyson about how to throw a jab Uh or the founder of a really impactful theory about what it means. So I guess How do you describe polyvagal theory to someone who Isn't familiar with it. It's really quite simple. It's that our underlying physiological state affects how we perceive the world, how we interact with others, and how receptacle we are to others engaging us. So in a sense, we we kinda got dropped into a world where we think That all our behaviors are intentional.

And But we don't acknowledge that some days we feel basically quite constrained, and some days we feel very energetic and engaging. The bottom line is that we have to start paying attention to our own underlying physiological state'cause it will help us navigate to very a very complex world. Mm. So we're responsive in that way to the local ecology, kind of like a plant.

We are a plant in a way, exactly. We are be we're detecting signals just like plants. We're responding. The difference is that with our great intelligence We think is all our uh we caused it all. We create narratives of uh control when in reality we're being s swept away by the challenges of the environment in which we are in. And when we feel swept away and overwhelmed, at that point we start acknowledging things.

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