Stephen Porges
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Stephen Porges is an American psychologist and psychophysiologist.
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- Born: 1945 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Known for: Polyvagal theory (1994) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Roles: Professor of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Kinsey Institute Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, Indiana University (opens wiqqi.app)
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6 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Health and wellbeing strategies fail our biology by ignoring that feeling safe emerges from inside the body. (opens korrents.com)
“Contemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from inside the body.”
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Humans, as social mammals, are on a lifelong quest to feel safe. (opens korrents.com)
“After reflecting on this question, I arrived at a concise and intuitive principle that humans, as social mammals, are on an enduring lifelong quest to feel safe.”
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Feeling safe is not the same as being safe: removing threat does not by itself produce the feeling. (opens korrents.com)
“Feelings of safety are not equivalent to an objective measurement of safety, which may pragmatically be defined as the removal of threat.”
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Health and wellbeing strategies fail our biology by ignoring that feeling safe emerges from inside the body. (opens korrents.com)