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Vagal system and behaviour

Private: Compassion Fatigue Refresh, Reset, Reconnect Program The Nervous System Vagal system and behaviour

The vagus system influences our physiological state and behaviour.

Understanding Polyvagal Theory by Dr S. Porges, and considering nervous system as a ‘system’ that incorporates mechanisms for perception, the vagus system and neuroception is a game changer for how we consider and support behaviour.
Michelle Black

Variation in neuroception

I recall a young person was entering a room, the same room the young person had entered many times. The light was a little different. Although the room was safe and the young person had been in the room before, the young person’s neuroception triggered a physiological response, the young person was shaking, moving away from the room, upset.

An example of neuroception variation which can occur in a vulnerable nervous system.

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