Dr. Stephen Porges
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first heard Apr 2026
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I'll start off by really saying we've all been misled.
We've been misled from almost the moment we were born, certainly from the moment we walked into a classroom.
And the whole notion was that our behavior was determined by our intentions.
and so that if we were sad if we were kind of withdrawn it was we were doing that to ourselves and very little respect for the importance of our physiological state our autonomic nervous system how our gut is working how our heart is beating
how our physiology, which is the platform upon which our cognitions, our emotions, and our behavior exist, that when our physiology is challenged, like if we have a high fever, if we are out of breath, if we're exhausted, our ability to socialize, let alone cognitively function, is greatly compromised.
So the main message here is our physiological state.
determines much of our experience as being humans.
And what that means is that part of our responsibility is to be aware of what our body is doing and then to learn how to navigate with our body, not to blame it, but to understand it, not to scream at it, but at times to honor it.
No, it's not the driver.
It's literally the furnace, the engine.
It is the motor system.
In a sense, it goes down even to metabolic.
And you might have had some guests who talk about the mitochondria or they talk about the biome.
It actually goes down to even those levels.
But if our body doesn't metabolize its energy,
we don't move and if we are have certain physiological signatures our brain this is where that word neuroception comes in our brain in interprets the world as being a very very unpleasant place so the part that i really want to emphasize is that we tend to take responsibility
for whatever happens to us, as opposed to kind of like honor what our body, our nervous system is doing with the signals in the world and to be aware of that.
So the first stage that we're really going to get to is how do I develop an awareness of what my body is doing?
okay so to say that it's the driver you're saying it's even more powerful it's the entire engine so it's yeah you and let's step back for a moment because when you use the word driver and it's a you know if you remember forms of speech that's an active or transient verb you're driving something so you're empowering something to do something and that's where we have to step back and that is the engine itself its capacity is
what we need to be aware of.
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