Dr. Stephen Porges
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
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So the real secret is good recovery.
It's not the sympathetic tone.
It's the recovery of taking away that tone because the sympathetic nervous system is metabolically costly to maintain.
Okay.
But we do it intuitively.
You may not say we do it, but we do it.
We react to people when their eyes move to the side or their faces get flat.
If their voice loses its intonation, we will say, what are you mad at me?
Or something like that.
What did I do?
We live in too much of a virtual world.
I always like to use the use of email in the very beginning as a perfect example.
When email first started to become popular, people got very upset because people would just respond with terse points.
And then the culture shifted and we just talk and engage in that terse way.
But our bodies had grown up with the notion of saying, how are you?
Nice to see, you know, in a sense, these few innocuous, pleasant words.
But we've gone into this efficiency of communication that makes communication lack.
It makes it lack its social value.
So I like to use the word sociality and think of sociality as one of our homeostatic processes.
So in a sense, our health giving behaviors with others, our trust, our engagement, our ability just to be present with another is extremely important.
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