Tag: Polyvagal Theory
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Animated AI Images of Emotional Threats that can Trigger a State-change into Defensive Modes
In my previous post, I shared a group of images I made with the WordPress AI image generator that showed a stick figure successfully escaping a physical threat. A tiger was chasing the stick figure, the stick figure hid behind a tree until the tiger was gone, and then the stick figure ran to safety.…
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Animated AI Images for Fight/Flight Freeze, the Squiggle of Trauma and the Squiggle of Life, and resolving a physical threat of being chased by a tiger by successfully escaping
I want to pick up where I left off in my previous post about the Polyvagal Theory that had 3 pictures in it for Safety, Fight/Flight, and Freeze. Those pictures helped me see that what is going on is an interaction between your nervous system and your environment…when your nervous system senses something that signals…
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Polyvagal Theory: Images for Fight/Flight, Freeze, and an Overwrought Nervous System
The other day I was drawing a chart to try and get clarity about what it means to go from the Squiggle of Trauma to the Squiggle of Life. I also read this article: “The polyvagal theory: New insights into adaptive reactions of the autonomic nervous system” by Stephen Porges and something clicked with me…
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“The Nearer the Sweeter” by Jessie P. Tompkins
Hymnal Page Scan: Hymns of the Faith p.248 Hymnary.org Keyboard Recording: 1 The nearer I reach the end of life,The sweeter is Home to me;I long for the fragrant flow’rs that growOn the banks of the Crystal Sea. Chorus:Home, Home, Heavenly Home,Fair are my dreams of thee;The nearer I reach the end of time,The sweeter…
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The Christian Race; “Flee, Follow, Fight” — G. Campbell Morgan; Imagery of God as Our Refuge
I have been writing on here about the Polyvagal Theory – fight, flight, and freeze – and about how I am trying to get out of immobility….a prolonged freeze state. Today I am going to be writing about running the Christian race – fighting the fight of faith. We have been working with this Polyvagal…
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Polyvagal Theory: Asking God to turn the bitter waters sweet; Imagery of driving a stick shift and stalling while changing gears; Imagery from the Cliff Hanger game on the Price is Right
I have been writing on here about how I am trying to get out of a freeze state…out of immobility. Here is a link to the Polyvagal Chart I have been talking about: PVChartv10q.pdf. I am struggling to go through the deactivation process, which is the downward arc going from red to green on the…
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Mobilizing and Immobilizing in Safety: Imagery of God’s Presence
In the Polyvagal Theory, there are 3 states: VV – safety, daily living; SNS – fight-flight, danger; and DV – freeze, life-threat. This chart shows the activation and deactivation that happens in a trauma response PVChartv10q.pdf. You can see that the colors on the chart are green (safety), yellow (danger), and red (life-threat). Your body…
