Polyvagal card deck
07/21/2024, 20:27:00 – 58 practices for calm and change
Over the past couple of years I heard a lot about polyvagal theory in therapy. As it combines the critical corner stones of my therapeutic approach, which is besides the systemic approach, cognitive science (neuroscience) and mind and body point of view with meditative and Ericksonian relational therapy/hypnotherapy elements, I was curious about the specific practices my clients would be able to use. I bought the Polyvagal Card Deck by Deb Dana just recently and went through many of them. Exercises are using neuroscience as the frame of referance, specifically look at our emotional and body processes (autonomic nervous system - two survival systems: sympathetic (activates our reactions to danger) and parasympathetic (shuts down when there is danger), and one well balanced system: ventral (coordinates and manages well) while focusing on a mind and body work with our emotions.
I picked specifically "Story of Three States" that I like to use. It means looking at anything that happened to us or is troubling us through the eyes of all three above mentioned systems.
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