Dr. Stephen Porges

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Yeah.

What happened with my son was that, you know, once he ate, he was certainly a lot calmer and engaging.

It was remarkable.

So the issue was we tend as adults not to understand the fragility of the physiological states of young kids who may get hungry, really hungry, and

It may represent not merely a desire to eat, but their body's need for food.

So I've gotten over the decades, great respect and insights from the dance movement therapists.

who work with people with tremendous challenges like trauma histories, adversity histories, and they utilize movement with facial engagement.

So if our body's moving, that sympathetic nervous system is on board, but now the face is also on board.

So you have play in regulation.

But if you have them sit down, you're asking them to put that sympathetic nervous system away, and they can't.

I would, I would be okay.

I think those are interesting.

I work out in the morning for a reason which is different than there is.

I figured that if I don't work out in the morning, I don't have permission to sit at my desk.

So it's like if you sit at a desk for six or eight hours, it's just not healthy.

But if you take an hour and a half and you exercise, you have permission.

That's my own way of dealing with it.

But the answer is our bodies evolved to move, not to sit.

And again, this is the world in which we elevate cognition as if cognition can live independent

And

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