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    Polyvagal Theory: A Self-Help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce with Self Help Exercises Anxiety, Depression, Autism, Trauma and Improve Your Life.
    Polyvagal Theory: A Self-Help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce with Self Help Exercises Anxiety, Depression, Autism, Trauma and Improve Your Life.
    Polyvagal Theory: A Self-Help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce with Self Help Exercises Anxiety, Depression, Autism, Trauma and Improve Your Life.
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    Polyvagal Theory: A Self-Help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce with Self Help Exercises Anxiety, Depression, Autism, Trauma and Improve Your Life.

    By Brad Clark

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    You Are 1-Click Away From Discovering How To Turn On Your Body's Self-Healing Ability By Leveraging Your Understanding Of The Polyvagal Theory To Neutralize Stress, Anxiety, Depression And Many Other Physical & Mental Health Issues!

     

    Ever since Dr. Stephen Porges developed the Polyvagal theory to explain how our autonomic nervous system controls our physical responses as well as emotional reactions, a lot of research and experimentation has gone into this theory to prove just how the functioning of our nervous system relates to our physical and mental health.

     

    The findings have been mind-blowing, as the vagus nerve has been specially found to hold the key to good physical and mental health on a scale never thought possible.

     

    But what exactly is this polyvagal theory?

    What does it entail?

    What does it have to do with good physical and mental health?

    What do scientific studies say about the theory?

    How can you take advantage of what the theory postulates to achieve optimal physical and mental health?

    What physical and mental health benefits can you expect from an understanding and applying polyvagal theory?

     

    This book will answer each of these and other questions you may have about polyvagal theory.

     

    The book breaks down the seemingly complex topic using beginner friendly language to help you to start applying what you learn to get closer to better physical and mental health, free from stress, anxiety, panic attacks, autism, trauma, inflammation, Asperger's spectrum and many others.

     

    More precisely, the book will teach you:

     

    • The basics of the autonomic nervous system, including its structure, how it works, what it does, the different nerves, the different states of the autonomic nervous system and more
    • The ins and outs of the polyvagal theory
    • The basics of the vagus nerve, including what it is, its structure, what it does, scientific studies done on the vagus nerve, the effects of activity in the vagus nerve, the symptoms of dorsal vagal state and more
    • Why you need your vagus nerve to be functioning optimally
    • How the state of the nervous system affects different organs and organ systems, including the heart, the kidneys, liver, gallbladder, the gut, the mind, ears, spleen etc.
    • How to apply the polyvagal theory to relieve stress, phobias, autism, PTSD, bipolar disorder, depression, panic attacks and more using different techniques
    • The ins and outs of vagus nerve stimulation for restoring mental and physical health
    • And much more!

    The polyvagal theory has indeed opened the world to an endless sea of possibilities as far as natural healing is concerned.

    And this book will show you exactly how to take advantage of this scientific breakthrough for optimal health by breaking down everything in a language you can understand, even if this is the first time you are coming across the term 'polyvagal theory'.

     

    Are you ready to discover how it is even wildly possibly to neutralize stress, anxiety, depression and other health problems by simply stimulating the vagus nerve?

    YES?

     

    Click Buy Now With 1-Click or Buy Now to get started!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrad Clark
    Release dateMay 14, 2020
    ISBN9781393885238
    Polyvagal Theory: A Self-Help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce with Self Help Exercises Anxiety, Depression, Autism, Trauma and Improve Your Life.

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      Polyvagal Theory - Brad Clark

      THE POLYVAGAL THEORY

      A Complete Self-help Polyvagal Theory Guide to Reduce with Exercises Anxiety, depression, trauma, Autism, and improve Your Life.

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Automatic Nervous System

      Digging further into the Autonomic Nervous System

      The Spinal Nerves

      Chapter 2: The Polyvagal Theory

      The Five States of the Autonomic Nervous System

      Chapter 3: The Vagus Nerve

      EFFECTS OF ACTIVITY IN THE VENTRAL VAGUS CIRCUIT

      EFFECTS OF ACTIVITY IN THE DORSAL VAGUS CIRCUIT

      SYMPTOMS OF A DORSAL VAGAL STATE

      Entrancing FACTS ABOUT THE VAGUS NERVE

      Chapter 4: Polyvagal Theory: Relieving Stress, Phobias, Panic Attacks, Depression, Autism

      Chapter 5: Anxiety and Panic Attacks

      A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF STRESS

      Phobias

      Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

      Depression and the Autonomic Nervous System

      Bipolar Disorder

      Chapter 6: Autism Spectrum Disorders

      AUTISM AND THE AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM

      Treating Autism

      CONSIDERATIONS IN TREATING AUTISTIC CHILDREN

      Chapter 7: A Polyvagal Approach:  Reducing Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Autism.

      Breathing Exercises

      Using Breathing to Reduce Pain

      The Basic Exercise

      Neuro-Fascial Release Technique for Social Engagement

      The Salamander Exercises

      Massage for Migraines

      Twist and Turn Exercise for the Trapezius

      A Four-Minute Natural Facelift, Part 1

      A Four-Minute Natural Facelift, Part 2

      SCM Exercise for a Stiff Neck

      How to Activate the Vagus Nerve?

      Reducing Inflammation with the Vagus Nerve

      Introduction

      Have you at any point been in a circumstance where you feel uncertain or threatened, however you are not sure why? You may glance around and see that nobody else is troubled by any account, yet something still feels off to you?

      You may not understand it, yet you are strolling around on the planet every day, reading thousands of social cues in your condition. In our cooperation with others, we get facial expressions, manners of speaking, bodily movements, and the sky is the limit from there. We are constantly busy observing and cooperating with the world and others as a component of the human experience.

      As we have these associations with others, our feeling of self is being molded. We find out about ourselves and about others, who we can trust, and who feels dangerous to us. Our bodies are preparing this sort of information constantly through these connections with the world.

      In spite of the fact that the vagus nerve is known for being generally circulated and associated with an assortment of regions of the body, note that this framework can impact the cranial nerves that control social commitment through facial appearance and vocalization. As human creatures wired for association, we can see how checking for threat cues can happen every now and again in our cooperation with our loved ones or significant others in our lives. We inherently long for feelings of wellbeing, trust, and solace in our associations with others and rapidly receive cues that disclose to us when we may not be protected. As individuals become more secure with and for one another, it very well may be simpler to manufacture sound bonds, share vulnerabilities, and experience closeness with one another.

      Chapter 1: The Automatic Nervous System

      The polyvagal theory depicts an autonomic nervous system that is impacted by the central nervous system, touchy to afferent impacts, portrayed by a versatile reactivity subject to the phylogeny of the neural circuits, and intelligent with source nuclei in the brainstem directing the striated muscles of the face and head.

      The hypothesis is subject to collected learning depicting the phylogenetic advances in the vertebrate autonomic nervous system. Its particular spotlight is on the phylogenetic move among reptiles and mammals that brought about explicit changes to the vagal pathways directing the heart. As the source nuclei of the essential vagal efferent pathways controlling the heart moved from the dorsal engine core of the vagus in reptiles to the core ambiguus in mammals, a face–heart association advanced with new properties of a social commitment system that would empower social cooperation to manage an instinctive state.

      The human nervous system is a very proficient, minimal, quick, and solid processing system, yet it weighs generously not exactly the same as most PCs and performs at a staggeringly more noteworthy limit. It has the capacity of performing undertakings that are a long ways past the capacities of any PC yet concocted.

      The present course book manages the life structures of the central nervous system, and on the off chance the peruser asks why we study neuroanatomy, we ought to recall that it is our central nervous system more than all else about us that makes us what we are, human creatures.

      The nervous system is subdivided, morphologically, into two compartments, the central nervous system (CNS), the brain and the spinal rope, and the fringe nervous system (PNS), which radiates from and is a physical augmentation of the CNS. The PNS is made out of cranial and spinal nerve strands and ganglia. Practically, the nervous system is additionally subdivided into two segments, the substantial nervous system, which is under the person's cognizant control, and the autonomic nervous system, which controls the group of exercises related to the intentional nervous system.

      The autonomic nervous system is a tripartite association, in that it has a sympathetic, a parasympathetic, and the enteric part. Essentially expressed, the first starts the flight or battle reaction; the second is worried about the body's vegetative exercises, and the enteric nervous system is engaged with directing the procedure of processing.

      It must be seen, in any case, that the interaction of these three systems looks after homeostasis. The autonomic nervous system follows up on three cell types to play out its capacities; these are the cells of organs, smooth muscle, and heart muscle. Additionally, the nervous system has two other useful parts, tactile and engine. The tactile segment gathers information and transmits it to the CNS (and is along these lines it is called afferent), where the information is arranged, broken down, and prepared. As a rule, the engine part conveys the consequences of the examination away from the CNS (and is in this way called efferent) to the effector organs, i.e., muscles and organs, bringing about a reaction to the boost.

      The autonomic nervous system is an engine system, yet not at all like substantial motoneurons; it doesn't serve skeletal muscle cells, rather it innervates heart muscle cells, smooth muscle cells, and secretory cells of organs. Furthermore, while a substantial motoneuron legitimately innervates its muscle cells, in the autonomic nervous system, the neuron whose cell body is situated in the CNS (preganglionic or presynaptic neuron) neurotransmitters with a subsequent neuron (postganglionic or postsynaptic neuron) situated in a ganglion in the PNS.

      It is the axon of the postganglionic neuron that neurotransmitters with the heart muscle cell, smooth muscle cell, or secretory cell of an organ. In this way, the autonomic nervous system is said to be a two cell system, and neural connections consistently happen inside an autonomic ganglion. The axon of the preganglionic neuron is myelinated and is known as the preganglionic fiber. The axon of the postganglionic neuron isn't myelinated and is known as the postganglionic fiber.

      Diagram demonstrating the difference between autonomic innervation (top) and somatic motor innervation (bottom).

      The autonomic nervous system is answerable for the upkeep of homeostasis and is constructed from three practical components: sympathetic, parasympathetic, and enteric. The sympathetic segment readies the body for battle and flight, though the parasympathetic readies the body for a vegetative state (e.g., digestion). The enteric nervous system is arranged totally inside the mass of the stomach related tract and controls the whole procedure of

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