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The tension needs attention. I'm writing that down!!!!

Self-compassion 5 types 1️⃣ 20:40 Ordinary - feel with & wanting to eliminate pain & suffering 2️⃣ 22:23 Compassionate understanding - I want to know you, I want to understand what is happening - compassionate enquiry 3️⃣ 23:04 Compassionate recognition - I am the same 4️⃣ 24:20 Compassion of truth - I am not here to protect you from pain of truth, truth might bring pain 5️⃣ 25:25 Compassionate possibility - see the beautiful person behind and in the addiction & suffering & trauma & bad behaviour 25:25

I think that permanent IMPORTANT to be able to enjoy TEMPORARY PLEASURE or REWARD. WHEN we EAT, the satiety is a temporary feeling. We don't stop EATING Because the reward isn't permanent. It's important, as WESTERN SPIRITUAL TRADITION is different at the CORE from Eastern. Rudolf Steiner understood and talked on this before he died in Ea

Trauma, or shocks were used Ephesis to enlighten people, in the Mystery treatment tradition. Of course it was controlled!

This was fantastic. Thank you for this interview. Just got introduced to Dr. Levin’s work.. Am ordering pretty much everything he wrote from Amazon. Totally fascinating!!

Thanks

No one actually knows how to fix it.

Beautiful: “The problem is our language. Control of our bodies instead of respecting our body’s communication.”

There is so many helpful things that have been discussed in this talk! This gives me hope!

Thank you for this interview truely it changed my views <3

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Thank you, friends. I've been a student of Dr. Neufeld's for many years, and Gabor does a powerful job of explaining Dr. Neufeld's understanding about how unmet attachment needs drive our behavior. There are so many tender, vulnerable ways we try to connect, adapt our personalities, and attempt to meet these basic needs. Compassion, gentleness, understanding, and levity help us relate to these strategies with wisdom and kindness. And we're all in this boat together - this is the human experience.

Thank you for sharing this.

This is beautiful... Thank you so much... Blessings to you both !!!

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This Dr. has a very clear thinking and deep understanding. I loved this talk, it was one of the best ive seen. Thanks so much!

Exactly, re highly traumatized individuals may suddenly have a paradoxical fear/anger/activation response to deep breathing, meditation practices that for many bring on 'safety.' Why? because their Threat Response has become strongly coupled with any experiences of feeling safe- from years of lived experience in abusive or traumatic experiences. Paradoxical, yes, but very real for some people with trauma. Thank you, Dr Porges, for your kindness and generosity with the Polyvagal Theory, inviting us to apply it, utilize it conceptually and teach it in our own ways. I just love him. Onward, people! Let's return to social engagement, in all the small ways and large ways we can.

Can anyone explain to me why polyvagal theory people are almost always rich white people ?

Brilliant!!!

Great Content Thanks A Lot!

Thank You for been there for us in this way. To get the chance to hear the seminars without costs and to get an imression of your work directly without the interrettions of your students. So it is a nice form to learn your work. All the best for you and your family in the year 🍀2024.

this is so true we have so much nowadays and i feel invisible and lost because i have so much to do and there is no help for the new struggles we are expected to face

30:25 thats a popular knock in Argentina. i heard it from 'Carlitos Balá'.

To all guests. Do you know Prof Mark Solms, a neuroscientist from Cape Town University. I believe all you scientists are attempting to resolve similar questions through neuroscience and triggering neurons. He's all over CZcams.

This is so good. I am learning what I didn't know about myself or where this hook in my jaw came from. I can remember the day it started when I was only 7. I have never felt safe since that thing or thought took over. My dad left. I stopped being carefree.

Such a good one, especially towards the end after 20:00 and the 5 levels

Right - I am having all kinds of physical pains, apparently from stress and EBV. SUckS!

Difficult to cultivate a state of safety when the environment and society are not safe!!!

Ladies you need Jesus in your life...that's what you are missing....

"Trauma isn't just what happened to us, but it's what we hold inside in the absence of the empathetic present connected other." So true.

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Beautiful! The empathy and the "coming from one's own experience" is tangible with both, the Interviewer and the Interviewed. It makes everything so clear and easy to understand. Having been traumatized severely in my childhood I can so much relate to all that has been said. It all is very reassuring to me. It is the first time I listened to Dr. Stephen Porges - so far I heard from him through people who use his wonderful scientific "blocks" in their work. What a wonderful, empathetic person Stephen Porges is. What great contribution he makes to the world. And what precious gift is this Post. Thank you!

I am 50 and only now do I realise why I froze when someone tried to sexually molest me when I was 19…for years I was angry at myself because I did not react to prevent this from happening but since this was a tiny trauma in a long series of other Traumas I had not paid much attention to this experience…until I listened to Dr Levine and Dr Mate talk about the freezing…

Thank you for this wonderful conversation ♥️♥️

For decades I believed I could fix myself by "thinking." WRONG! I was literally unable to physically breathe properly beause of a trio of damage at three years old! If I had one tool, it would be my aromatherapy (after making sure physically able to breathe.) Dr. Joseph LeDoux: "The amygdala learns what stimuli to respond to." Dr. Herbert Benson wrote about "The Relaxation Response." My "favorite" best friend today is a tennis ball. I put it against the wall and massage my knots. This also creates the relaxation response of deep release breath. Dr. Robert Scaer wrote: "The Body Bears the Burden." Dr. Scaer explains the body burden in his CZcams: "How the Brain Works i nTrauma." CZcams: "Polar Bear Not Getting Traumatized" posted by Experiences Reflections or "Polarbear Shaking Trauma" posted by Changing Your Beliefs.

Dr Levine talks about the nervous system needing connection with others. What to do when said nervous system is actually really scared of other Humans to the point where it produces physiological symptoms such as face and body tension and then pain that often lasts all day. How do you teach a nervous system not to be afraid of people?

i feel safer and more grounded living alone

An incredibly insightful interview, thank you so much. Feeling safe can be a trigger-who'd have thought! It's very relatable, though, and explains a lot about my own, puzzling reactions. Finally. However, it's Dr. Porges' emphasis on self-compassion, and keeping an "ear" open for the body's messages of distress that I found particularly helpful. Thanks again.

That's exactly what I've learned both throughout my childhood and in my early adulthood (CPTSD + PTSD). Being accessible and vulnerable = most likely getting hurt (sooner or later). I perceive ALL people as threat, and, as I'm slowly approaching my 50s, I try to avoid them at all cost. It hasn't always been like that. I used to cling to anyone and everyone willing to acknowledge my existance because my hunger and thirst for love and acceptance was much stronger than all the red flags in the world. I started to withdraw in my early 40s and noticed that solitude, although not an ideal state long term, is the only time when I feel a little bit safer and slightly calmer. There's no cure for so much abuse, it doesn't exist. My brain should and could have developed differently but it was deprived of love and acceptance. Humans are cancer to this otherwise beautiful earth. We always hurt both each other and animals.

Brilliant

He describes the process of trauma based brain retraining programs that attempt to change the neurology driving any condition prone to dysautonomia. It may not “cure” the conditions but it is an aid, a tool in the toolbox. Thank you. And yes… so many of the mind body modalities brought to your toolbox invoke unsafe vulnerability states vs calm and safety. Truth. When giving someone your vulnerability leads to harm vs good outcomes then once can become sensitized to waiting for that other shoe to drop. The doctor who listens attentively to your aches and ills and you enter treatment in trust that they understand they get it… then you realize they have your chart marked as psychological vs any concrete physical findings. Closed file on additional diagnostics not leading to a diagnosis of Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. When you share with people community and workplaces and education facilities you have sensitivities your environment that lead to physical repercussions and they nod and smile and wave and make promises yet you realize they believe and perceive it is OCD or psychological only and there are no physical repercussions and do not make accommodation and you land in hospital with anaphylaxis. When you seek therapeutic EMDR or guided meditation based coaches or counselors or psychologist and they become frustrated when you can’t seem to relax and respond or allow your nervous system to enter into their altered states and you are blamed for having trust issues yet you have been subjected to “religious abuse” or “sa abuse” and had allowed vulnerability and was taken advantage of your vulnerability. Being vulnerable can be a block to therapies that might work for others. I always say give someone your vulnerability up front and early and see what they do with it. Vet before you bet. And there you have the maladaptive predictive programming neurology due to abuse intentional or unintentional… good intentions or bad intentions. Good intentions don’t always result in good outcomes. Know yourself and your reactions and responses and then take baby steps to reprogram. Cults call it de conditioning, de programming the early built in programming of abuse that has been in place for maybe decades. And the mind-body people recommend yoga yet with Ehlers-Danlos that destroys your body it might feel good in the moment but then it wrecks havoc so you really gotta know your audience and put together a program that is really individual specific. Yet including movement in the brain retraining program is critical it’s not just words it’s not just vision or mental intention you do need to include movement but it needs to be movement specific to that persons body difference and challenges

We all know what trauma is................. Being aware of feelings and sensations is one thing, but finding safely and building resiliency is not always easy. The freeze response ss very real. Recognize, label thoughts, allow thoughts................ rarely find safely and window or tolerance with on going triggers.

Every time I listen to Dr. Porges I learn something new. Thank you for this conversation ♥️🙏

Love his example of how generational trauma works..

All these trauma experts are very good at describing what trauma is but none of them is really able to offer a way out without spending a fortune

This is incredible content. Thanks for sharing it

safety is a trigger 🤯 yes.

🤯 this also explains why I don't feel a huge sense of calm when I do breathwork, or meditations, etc.

His voice is so calming. I love the way he explains this. So knowledgeable. I am in the middle of reading Dr. Peter Levine's book, Waking the Tiger, and its really really good, too. I'd love to read one of Dr. Porge's also.

That was a huge plaisure to listen to you. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. All my gratitude and thanks. ❤