Nervous System Quotes

“The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans. Bad bacteria in the gut creates neurological issues. Autism can be cured by detoxifying the bellies of young children. People who think that feelings come from the heart are wrong. The gut is where you feel the loss of a loved one first. It's where you feel pain and a heavy bulk of your emotions. It's the central base of your entire immune system. If your gut is loaded with negative bacteria, it affects your mind. Your heart is the seat of your conscience. If your mind is corrupted, it affects your conscience. The heart is the Sun. The gut is the Moon. The pineal gland is Neptune, and your brain and nervous system (5 senses) are Mercury. What affects the moon or sun affects the entire universe within. So, if you poison the gut, it affects your entire nervous system, your sense of reasoning, and your senses.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season

“If you haven't been this close to superhumans, you don't understand what it's like to fight them. Even when you've got powers yourself, the predominent impression is one of shock. The forces moving around you are out of human scale, and your nervous system doesn't know how to deal with it. It's like being in a car accident, over and over again. You never feel the pain until later.”
― Austin Grossman, Soon I Will Be Invincible

“Person 1: I'm hurting.
Person 2: Just don't think about it.
Person 1's nervous system: {Not a chance.}”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“Our nervous system likes familiarity. It like sensuality much because it’s scared of the unknown.”
― Lebo Grand

“Kink is inherently somatic: it involves touch, breath, voice, eye contact, movement, power, and ritual. All of these elements interface directly with the nervous system. They can soothe it, or trigger it.”
― Diana Von Rigg, Dom(me) the Darkness Within: Ritual Shadow Work for the Neurodivergent & Kink-Aligned

“The seminal work of Stephen Porges ... suggests that presence becomes possible when there is a felt sense of safety ...

When we are in the role of practitioner, if our autonomic nervous system is receiving what it needs to have a neuroception of safety (our system's felt sense, below the level of conscious awareness, that we are safe) then our social engagement system (the ventral vagal parasympathetic) will be alive in the room as our patients arrive.

In this state, we become a potentially safe landing strip for them. When we are able to offer this safe haven, the possibility of the other person moving toward a similar felt sense of safety awakens the healing space between us through resonance.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Our nervous system likes familiarity. It hates sensuality because it’s scared of the unknown.”
― Lebo Grand

“Our nervous system likes familiarity. It doesn’t like sensuality much because it’s scared of the unknown.”
― Lebo Grand

“these days
I got rather intimate with
my sympathetic chain;

after being treated
like a biblical sand
for decades

I ain't gonna skip
my season of anger,
no way.”
― Remy Alberi, The Comprehension Watch

“El tejido muscular se caracteriza por estar constituido por celulas muy diferenciadas, capaces de contraerse bajo la influencia del sistema nervioso o de hormonas circulantes (oxitocina)”
― Rosa Alicia Saucedo Acuña, Ingenieria de Tejidos

“You might not WANT to feel needy. But your nervous system is extremely evolved to drive you to seek safe emotional connection with others--and it has millions of years of a head start on your wish to be above that.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“Feelings are just your body talking to you.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“Feelings are physiological messages, aka interoception--very simply, messages from your brain tracking your body's physical and emotional state.
With this feedback on how I was doing, I got better at taking care of myself. And I felt less like I had to control things, because I didn't have to anticipate everything: I could just notice things as they happened.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“Feelings are just your body talking to you about how you're doing in the moment. Even if you've gotten used to ignoring them, they're still talking to you. Tune in to your breathing, and then your body, and then your emotions. It's a little thing that pays off big.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“Don't let anyone shame you for old feelings and fears that come up again. Old wounds will come up again since they're in the memory of your nervous system & the whole point of your nervous system is to keep you SAFE. So it's going to remember the painful & scary things that happened to you. Be kind to yourself about that.”
― Allyson Dinneen, Notes From Your Therapist

“The human brain, for all its sophistication, would be useless without its link to the outside world. Consider one experiment that illustrates this point. Volunteers hallucinated when they were deprived of sensory input by being blindfolded and suspended and warm water in a sensory deprivation tank. One saw charging pink and purple elephants. Another heard a chorus, still others had taste hallucinations. Our very sanity depends on a continuous flow of information from the outside.”
― Marieb Elaine N. Hoehn Katja

“Demanding a player to look the coach in the eyes when they are dysregulated could backfire. The player might not actively disrespect the coach or be unwilling to listen, but their nervous system might be biologically unable to do what the coach wants at that moment in time.”
― David Durand

“Demanding a player to look the coach in the eyes when they are dysregulated could backfire. The player might not actively disrespect the coach or be unwilling to listen, but their nervous system might be biologically unable to do what the coach wants at that moment in time.”
― David Durand, B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond

“The ability to self-regulate is important when dealing with stress. The demands of competition, the noise from the stands, and the team dynamics will cause stress for athletes. These stressors will be compounded by the athlete’s personal life and the stress they carry into these performance situations. Overall, athletes will get gripped by stress, whether in a championship game or a mundane practice.”
― David Durand, B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond

“Breathing is not just a physiological process, it’s a tool for self-regulation and enhanced performance. Individuals can improve their learning, recovery, and overall well-being by understanding how to use breathing techniques effectively.”
― David Durand, B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond

“Pausing to implement breathwork throughout the day, places you in a more receptive state of flow. Your mind becomes clearer and your nervous system relaxes. Which also aids in instantly getting you aligned with your manifestations.”
― Robin S. Baker

“The more you practice sitting with the discomfort, the more you gently (and repeatedly) redirect your cast toward something new, the more your nervous system starts to believe you. It starts to whisper, “Hey… maybe we’re okay now. Maybe we can rest. Maybe we don’t have to hustle for our worth.”
― Ronen Dancziger, The Therapist's Handbook for Healing Your Simpsons Syndrome: Unhook from Your Inner Chaos Characters with CBT, ACT, and a Little Humor

“Even self-touch can have profound effects… activating the same calming pathways as being touched by another person.”
― Ken Breniman, Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

“I was never just meant to crawl. I was always meant to fly.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“My healing lives in my daily choices.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“Growth begins each time we choose nourishment over numbness.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“Most feel the discomfort—but rush to silence it instead of learning from it.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“What is real will remain.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling

“I am allowed to simply be. That is enough.”
― Sie Latier, The Cocoon Philosophy: Your Journey to Unfurling