Dropping Anchor

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Are you familiar with polyvagal theory? It may sound highly scientific, but Martha says polyvagal theory has a profound effect on spiritual practice as well, and she’s talking all about it in this episode of The Gathering Room: Dropping Anchor. The polyvagal nerve is a system of nerves connecting the brain to various parts of the body, and it plays a key role in our response to stress—either revving us up or shutting us down. And according to the work of Deb Dana, it’s also involved with our sense of joy, compassion, love, and connection with higher consciousness through the part of the polyvagal nerve called the ventral vagal. Martha says that even when we feel overwhelmed, the ventral vagal state allows us to anchor into a state of joyful, peaceful relaxation and hold that state of being even amid chaos. To learn how to stay anchored in peace when others are in fight-or-flight or shutdown mode, tune in for the full episode. Martha even guides you through a ventral vagal exercise along with her Silence, Stillness, and Space meditation. Don’t miss it!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Pod, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:07.7	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.1	How are you all?
0:10.6	It's so good to see you.
0:12.5	I feel so happy.
0:14.2	And I see your little names and especially the little emojis and stuff.
0:18.3	And it triggers in me a state of joy. I talked last time I did a gathering
0:26.8	room about how the opposite of a trigger is a glimmer. A trigger is something that reminds you
0:34.0	of a difficult thing or like connects you with a trauma you've experienced before
0:39.0	and it makes you feel bad. And a glimmer is something that connects with something really good
0:45.2	in your life and it makes you feel good. Well, I love this whole concept which came from a woman
0:51.0	named Deb Dana and she is an expert on something called polyvagal theory.
0:57.4	So earlier today, I was talking to some of my wayfinder coaches about polyvagal theory and how I
1:01.9	want to like put it into the coach training in some, to some extent, because it's really great.
1:09.7	And it helps me understand so many things about my life
1:12.6	and myself and in particular what I want to talk about today my relationship with the world and
1:18.3	with other people or as Dana put Deb Dana puts it it's you have a relationship with self
1:24.5	others world and spirit so this is the place I celebrate spirit
1:29.2	most directly. And the polyvagal theory may sound very scientific. It actually has a really,
1:38.2	really profound effect on spiritual practice. So I'm not going to do too much scyance, but I will tell you a little.
1:48.1	Your brain triggers a lot of things in you and interprets what happens to you in the world.
1:55.0	But the relationship between the brain and the body, a lot of that is taken care of by something called the polyvagal
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