The Science of Compassion: Origins, Measures, and Interventions - Stephen Porges, Ph.D.

[@imalittleeggroll]

For years, I thought I’ve been wired wrong. Wrongly diagnosed with bi-polar, severe depression, addiction, etc. THIS IS LIFE SAVING INFO for me. I have such sensitivity yet am completely emotionless with many aspects of my life because I felt like if I mingled MY emotions with everything/one else’s...I AM DOOMED. Is anyone else here in the same situation? I felt like I was on an island until my Life Coach and therapist told me about this. Thank you!

[@bobelsey9684]

Lisa lisa. There are many of us who trudged the lonely road you refer to

[@MindVersusMisery]

Being compassionate, kind, sensitive and caring in a world with many cold, indifferent and apathetic people is not a weakness, it's a much needed power and something extraordinarily beautiful.

[@bouldercolorado90]

​@@MindVersusMisery😊

[@estudandofrancêssozinhocomigo]

Gotta love this man and his insightfulness! What a blessing! Mwah, Dr. Porges!!! Much love and gratitude all the way from Brazil!

[@healcptsd6467]

This basically explains it all! I have watched it so many times and keep sharing it. 📢❤️🙏😊

[@buffy377]

Alan Watts lectures have helped me so so much.

[@svalbard01]

This explains why all the Whos down in Whoville started to sing, and why the Grinch's heart grew three sizes that day.

[@annmoorman1652]

eriksven omg 😂😂😂

[@cherylwilsherlimberlife7210]

Haha this made me smile, so ill stuck in freeze & shutdown & at least I can still laugh

[@DarkMoonDroid]

Yay! 🎅🎄🤶

[@janetvaneeden4079]

Excellent insight into the workings of the human defense system. Also pleasing to see how much of a positive effect meditation and deep breathing has on compassion, as they help turn off the defense systems of the body.

[@fredschofield]

we are using the PolyVagal model as it relates to Schofield Functional Analysis and The Upper Cranial/ Cervical Adjustment> Unbelievable!!!

[@NorfolkSceptic]

Being in the SAFE state can, very often, antagonise those in the other two states, without doing anything at all!

[@Medietos]

Robert Christopher: Because one can feel left out, abandoned by the regulated one not helping me, or even acknowledging my plight. Because of damage into low(-ered) self-esteem, I can believe that it is done on purpose,because you don't think I am worth your help, care,safety myself.Many safe people care so little for us, don't even see another.Sometimes I think other wounded, conscious people who have activated themselves in self-help are more human and valuable than the functional but blind, uncaring ones. It is so painful and frightening to not get help or even support and advice. And people think they are so good.

[@valcurley5010]

As a narcissistic youngster, I was terrified of SAFE state people because some part of me knew that I’d have to let go of my defenses to truly connect and that was unacceptable at that time. As I grew in years and wisdom, I actively sought out Safe state people (and animals) and situations in order to learn how to become ‘compassionate’. As I became a safe person, I noticed that my safe presence antagonized others just as I’d been terrified as a youngster: the circularity of life on the road less traveled.

[@estudandofrancêssozinhocomigo]

sad but true! it does take a lot and a long, long time to disentrance people from the detrimental state they're in, many times!

[@Neilgs]

Yes, because it calls up defense.

[@cocoberlin]

Thank you this is brilliant!

[@juliettacochrane8122]

Brilliant lecture ...

[@SurrenderPink]

Starts at 1:35

[@kberken]

This is great information.

[@sandramedina9482]

This man🎉👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏾👏🏾

[@Paseosinperro]

I would like to ask you something because it seems to be a contradiction in what I have heard Porges is saying. If we don´t feel safe first we look for social engagement (upper branch of the vagus, parasympatheic); if that doesn´t work we go to our second line of evolutionary defense: fight-flight (sympathetic nervous system); if that fails then the third: freeze (lower branch of vagus, parasympathetic). So according to this, if we feel we are dissociating we can move the body to activate the sympathetic and, therefore, enter a superior line of defense. If I am not wrong Stheven advice that but my doubt is that he also says that, if you are afraid, you can activate te vagus by breathing and so on. Wouldn´t that lead us to dissociation (you are activating the vagus, parasympathetic)? As long as we don´t feel safe, is it not preferable to remain withing the sympathetic state?

[@ThatFitGirl]

I think its his recommendation to try to get the mammalian, more evolved aspect of the vagus nerve to override the the more phylogenic origin of the vagus nerve.

[@cherylwilsherlimberlife7210]

Stuck in freeze due to no safety 😬

[@mutant0177]

It depends on the situation. If you give a lecture and you are very nervous you are normally not in a dangerous situation. I mean that you don't need to protect yourself against enemies. So you can use facial expression and breathing to get out of the dorsal vagus (freeze) to the ventral vagus (sozial vagus). Remember both are parasympathic systems. But you want to be calm and not scared (to death). If you are facing a real dangerous situation like e. g. brawl and you feel your going to freeze you can intentionally move, tap/ hit yourself to get in the sympathetic pathway. Just if you feel you can't talk yourself out of the situation. But you don't have to fight you can run but this is only working if you get "up" to the sympathetic reaction. Keypoint of the Polyvagal theory: The are two modes of the parasymphatic pathway (old/new - freeze/be cool) and the sympathic way. And there is a hierarchy to the levels from new to old.

[@Shahina456]

He means shifting from Dorsal Vagal branch if the Vagus nerve, to the Ventral Vagal branch of the Vagus nerve. Shifting the threat/defence response.

[@grahamyates3605]

Important work.I can see clinical use in my physical therapy practise.I feel this work ties in well with Jaak Panksepps(Affective Neuroscience) work and I noticed the amalgamation of the two in The Body Keeps The Score a hugely impressive work. What happened to Porge's new book by the way?.

[@lionking3778]

Graham Yates Got a note from Amazon that it will be published in June 2016.

[@lionking3778]

Can't wait to read it! Wish I could be at his course at Cape Cod Institute this week.

[@svalbard01]

I couldn't find it on Amazon and it's now September. Hmm.. Too bad.

[@naturelover1284]

Explains all the ugly stairs and the blocking of the dairy case with the cards from the old women there with nothing else to do

[@adamwhite4246]

mind blown yo amazing

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

12:00 turtles being ancestors of juman being?! No way! ChatGPT: "No, turtles are not ancestors of humans. Humans and turtles belong to entirely different evolutionary branches. The common ancestors of humans are believed to be early primates, while turtles have a distinct evolutionary history."

[@ursulaplatt5000]

We were turtles?

[@Medietos]

Ursula Platt: We were never anything but human beings, but in different stages of development, and our BODIES going through the forms of all the animals. Like a Christmas tree with its trunk passing from the roots-start to the top and growth-point, with all the branches out to the sides. The spirits of the animals sacrificed themselves for us so that we could evolve. Their specializations means that they have reached the end of their evolution. We are, as the Crown of Creation, the ones with infinite possibility of development through our free spirit. A freedom most of us have bot yet realized and use. We are the only being in the universe who has a free choice! Please don't care about the ones claiming we come from apes, rats and sea-cells. It is a hypothesis turned into fake fact in the lack of the full knowledge of life and the human being. we have brains from the stages of development happening with the appearance of various animals. But a higher form cannot come from a lower. We were here first. Only not visibly-physically-minerally. Spiritual science.

[@alexandrugheorghe5610]

No. It's hilarious. This is what ChatGPT had to say: "No, turtles are not ancestors of humans. Humans and turtles belong to entirely different evolutionary branches. The common ancestors of humans are believed to be early primates, while turtles have a distinct evolutionary history."

[@Pratyang_Ira]

Majority of these topics are "taken" from and built from Indian scriputures and Gurus like Amma .. when will the West start giving credits where its due?

[@carmenl163]

Are these sources about neuro science? Our ANS? It might be the same topic, but it's approached from a very different angle.

[@maureensherman4537]

This is the science behind even Christianity has scriptures to facilitate various states.

[@azaleaslightsage1271]

It helps people understand alot better than the old teachings do