Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective 

This should be a mandatory subject taught from kindergarten all the way through to any PhD. THANK YOU TTM ♥

An awesome and practical summary of a super-important topic that profoundly affects and influences *every single human being*. This needs to have 800 Million views, rather then the current 800 thousand views. I agree with other commenters that it would be a marvelous piece to include in regular student education. Thanks to The Trauma Foundation for conceiving and creating this vid! I will pass along the link. (I am a Coach, skilled in Internal Family Systems (IFS), which has been profoundly effective in my own personal healing, even before I made it central to my Coaching practice.) Cheers!

Im in awe, I’ve experienced 6+ ACEs and it scared me. Wish me luck on my journey to a healthier ANS. Thanks so much for this video, it helps me and lots others understand ourselves!!!

Psychedelics are just an exceptional mental health breakthrough. It's quite fascinating how effective they are against depression and anxiety. Saved my life.

This video made me realize I'm basically a walking ball of PTSD right now It's been getting worse recently, with lots of physical symptoms due to the constant stress, which itself triggers even more stress... it's terrible. I haven't been able to get a secure option for therapy for the last 2-3 years. I'm going to start pressing harder for my doctor to assign me a therapist because the fact that it's been left basically untreated for this long is clearly making my life miserable. The fact that this is treatable fills me with so much hope.

Love this video. As a therapist, I often get my clients to watch it. Very informative, easy to understand and a great resource.

My therapist sent me this lol

Great video. Listening with headphones, my ANS didn't appreciate it starting with a thunderclap.

It feels like I'm always mobilized, it never stops, not when I'm sleeping, not when I'm awake. Just constant, overwhelming need to keep going.

OMG! This explains so much about me and why I seem to be systematically collecting all the diseases in the world! I need to fix my ANS.

This is one of the very best educational video on this topic. Most impressive.

Would love a follow up on how loved ones can best support someone with trauma. I feel at a loss and I’d be lying if I said that my loved one’s actions in a trauma state didn’t negatively impact our relationship and myself.

Crazy enough this is ancient knowledge. Chakra healing is exactly this and restores the ANS and your life

WHEN PEOPLE GO THROUGH ACCIDENTS AND PEOPLE SEE THEM WITHOUT MUCH OF PHYSICAL INJURIES LIKE BLOOD COMING OUT PEOPLE THINK THEY ARE OKAY BUT INSIDE THEY ARE BROKEN DOWN COMPLETELY . VICTIMS OF ACCIDENT ALWAYS STRUGGLE TO OVER COME THE PAIN , MENTAL TRAUMA AND SUFFERING. THIS VIDEO EXPLAINS IT SO NICELY WHAT IS HAPPENING WITHIN US

Therein lies the problem: I want to be around positive, calm people because they calm me down and help me move toward a better state. Positive, calm people too often don't want to be around me because it disrupts their state.

Anybody here because their therapist sent them?

very well done! Simple yet clear for anyone to begin the study of how trauma is an experience we move through in our lives...thank you so much!

Well done! One of the most clear and concise descriptions I have seen.

I help people in workplaces and schools understand and navigate their nervous systems so they have the tools to shift their state to feel calm, curious and connected, this video is a fantastic resource to share with them, thank you

They should do a video about the correlation between attachment styles and the Nervous system

This video is brilliant. So clear and concise and helpful. It empowers us to see we are choosing reactions in our bodies - our ANS is taking us where it helps us to be safer. Safe is the foundation of healing. Thank you, Stephen Porges for bringing the Polyvagal Theory to this world.

This explanation of dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system is approachable for many and a great overview of the topic! Bravo! I will be sharing this with my network.

My psychologist gave me this link to watch yesterday and it has really informed me. bigger understanding of all aspects of trauma and what life is around me forming in my head. Big thanks.

Thank you so much for this clear, concise, and possibly life saving information. People can really change their lives if they can learn the patterns that stimulate the ANS and vagus nerve.

Thank you for making a well rounded video that explains how trauma affects the ANS.

Thank you. The video clearly identified trauma and its impact.

This saved me! Thank you for making my recovery journey relatable!

Wow! This is a fantastic and concise version of the presentations I've been doing for a couple years on Polyvagal Theory, trauma and the ACE study. Beautifully done in simple, easy to understand terms. Of course, there's a lot more to this information than what can fit into 9 minutes, but I think this is a very accessible introduction to these concepts. Thank you for putting this together.

This was immensely helpful for me and I've shared it with a friend who I think will be very re-assured by it. thank you so much for creating it and posting it.

More, please. Maybe consider the following for future videos related to trauma: attachment styles, food, complex PTSD, methods to entering recovery.

This is brilliant!!! It does such an excellent job educating about trauma and its impacts.

found this extremely helpful. thank you so much for sharing

Excellent, clear introduction that I use for education with my clients.

ON POINT! Best rendition of ANS and our world I've seen 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Fantastic educational PSA. Let’s all spread this far and wide, as all humans will benefit from understanding this- especially our military and first responder communities where many of us came in with ACEs seeking community and purpose. Thank you thank you for the simple and enjoyable film!

A fabulous resource! Clear, concise, accurate and easy to understand. I will most certainly be encouraging clients to use this video to explain polyvagal theory. Many thanks. Top marks.

This is a great video. It is short, concise, easy to understand. Glad I watched this...

This video is amazing. It explains it super clearly!

This is fabulous. Well executed and explained

What a beautiful and elegant way to present this deeply important message!

This video is an incredible gem of information! Thank you so much!

I appreciate this visual. Thank you for this- it explains a lot of my survival instincts.

I loved this video btw. It made me cry and really touched me. And, it touched me to the point that I felt it important enough to bring up the reality that the only way to end trauma on a global scale is through global revolution. I really hope that we all can learn to regulate enough to pull it off. Perhaps global revolution could be the mass push to regulate all of our nervous systems that our world needs. Its all intrinsically tied together. I have so much respect for the power of survival and the way that it has shaped our world.

Very clear and relatable. Appreciate the clearly drawn outcomes as connected to the number of experiences. I know there can be exceptions but this seems sound as a general rule. Unless a child has someone to guide them through understanding the experiences and how to process them in relation to self, it's pretty hazardous, and most folks in the environment often don't have the insight to see what's happening. A lot of times people just do the best they know to do with a child. If you have generations of dysfunction and a culture that families are formed and live in... it won't be a pretty outcome, which I think is evident in a lot of inner cities (usually the most obvious). Things like music, art, writing and introspection were the inner life preservers I caught hold of that led me to the conviction that I had unique value and a spiritual voice that others couldn't always hear. Eventually I connected this voice to the reality of God and the knowledge that dysfunction and distortion on every level was something common to man (not just me). But even though my perspective of myself and the world has gained great clarity and with it has come great peace and contentment... my nervous system is sometimes like a rebelliously reluctant elephant, slow to just chill and venture to the watering hole, in some circumstances, enough to be an undesirable impediment. Tomorrow's a new day and another opportunity, armed with knowledge and an assurance of plan and purpose that I could not have had yesterday!

Greatest explanation of ANS and Polyvagal theory..

An excellent video. Really well explained and illustrated.

Absolutely fabulous video...pow! Thank you.

Thank you very much! It really very helpful, especially for those struggling with PTSD! Will be waiting for more videos!❤

Thank you so much for making this video💗💗💗

Thank you so much, this is fantastic!

I really enjoyed this description, very clear and enjoyable to watch.

Thank you!!! So wholesome.

This summary is awesome. Thanks

I will divide this very good and simle video here in Germany to fear-depressive, bipoolar and other people. I am a anti-depressive and anti-fear coach, a neurochemist and live in Frankfurt. Bernhard Pallmann

Thank you! This will be great to share with EFT clients!

such an amazing video! thanks!

Excellent video! Thank you!

thank.you... thank you... thank you soooooo much for the amazing video.

Amazing video, thank you!

Wow, absolutely brilliant video! 👏

thank you so much for putting this video together so informative!

wonderful. thaaaaanx !!!!

Subscribed but this channel only has one vid! Great vid. Keep up the great work!

What a magnificent video!

This is amazing!!

Really great. Thank you.

@ The trauma foundation I would love to see more of these educational and informative videos.

Brilliant information thank you

Very beautifully explained.

Wonderful video, thanks so much!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Das ist eine sehr schöne Erklärung. Danke :)

This is amazing!

What a fantastic video, helped me understand a lot about myself. Thank you :)

Very helpful, thank you 🧡

Really great video! Thank you so much :)

Thank you for this video! Please please provide closed captions/subtitles to make this video more accessible

One of the best videos ever

Thank you for this video.

Very great video , thank u so much

What a fantastic wee video!

EXCELLENT VIDEO

Good explanation, but like many of these videos glosses over the thing people really want to know, which is how to heal. And not everyone can just spend all their time with other regulated people.

Gotta find me some others who are "safe, attuned, and present" to connext with and do yoga thank you for the inspiring video amen !

I love this video and it explains things in a very easy to understand way. Before any energy healing session focusing with a client, I share this to watch. Great info! Would love to see "energy healing" added to some of the slides as it benefits so many working on these topics, but hopefully in the future it will be more mainstream :) Thank you for the video!

This is very interesting , thanks for posting this

Thanks for that great video!

Good video. Very relatable.

I’m fortunate to not need it but agree with others subtitles/closed captioning needed for info to be accessible to all who can benefit.

Such a helpful resourcse THANK YOU!!!!! what an amazing explanation :)

Great explanation

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Well done, thanks:)!

Thank you 🙏🤗🌹

Fantastic video!

This is a great video!

This is a great video! I teach trauma-informed Mindfulness and yoga. I also give talks on the impact of trauma and trauma-informed practices in mainland China. I absolutely love how informative and concise this video is! I also love the animation! I sometimes find it challenging explaining the involvement of the polyvagal system to folks who don’t have any background in psychology. The polyvagal theory is such a useful tool not only in understanding the impacts of trauma, but also empowering survivors through a neurobiology-informed lens. The animation really makes it so much easier to follow and understand! I wonder if I can have your permission to make a subtitle in Chinese to this video, as well as uploading this video (with Chinese subtitles) to a Chinese video sharing website? So I can share this video to people who are interested in this topic but can’t access RU-vid (RU-vid is censored in mainland China) and/or can’t follow in English? I won’t change the content of your video, all that I will do is to add Chinese subtitles. When I upload, I will link to your RU-vid channel and website. I would so appreciate if I can have your permission to create a subtitle in Chinese so that I can share this video with more people!

Thank you

Thank you. I found this very informative. So many people think of trauma in terms of shock only. I personally suffered trauma from covid and an election that divided the country and now of course with being bombarded with chemical food news, imbalances of power...and the list goes on.

Great video!

I'm seeing a therapist at the moment, she's got a lot of experience with addictions. She gave me a good tip when I'm feeling anxious or having difficult thoughts. Just to say to myself that everything's ok and also think of myself as a baby feelling very scared. It does seem to help ease my anxiety.