This is your body's regulated state. Here, you feel grounded, creative, compassionate, and socially present. The world feels safe enough to connect, learn, and love. Heart rate slows, digestion resumes, and the prefrontal cortex becomes active for clear decision-making.

In this mobilized state, your body prepares to run or defend. Blood pumps to your limbs, breath quickens, and focus narrows. While helpful in emergencies, staying here too long leads to tension, anxiety, irritability, and overwhelm.

This is your nervous system's last resort. It’s an ancient survival state that mimics stillness or disappearance. You may feel heavy, hopeless, dissociated, or invisible. Healing from dorsal involves slow reconnection with safety and gentle re-engagement with the body.