#polyvagal

By Michele Judith Mitchell, Founder — Ubuntu Village USAMay 3, 2026 · Health & Wellness · Ancestral Wisdom & Spiritual Exploration It is Sunday morning. The light is soft. Somewhere, a kettle is on. Somewhere else, an alarm is going off because someone must answer one more email, finish one more load, and prove worthiness one more time. I want to ask you something, and I want you to sit with it…

                          ¤ New Moon Eclipse Portal ¤        

                        ¥ We are in a potent DNA activation window. ¥

                 ⁜ ◌ ⁜ We made it this far with spiritual resilience. ⁜ ◌ ⁜

◌ Resilience is an inner fire stoked and fed by airy intellect and wisdom from experience ◌

                ◌ This is an awakening of the Crown energy center. ◌

Our own spiritual energy is ascending within our bodies up the Vagus (serpent) nerve through each center as we heal each sector of our bodies. Consciousness activates the Vagus nerve and moves up out of the Crown and beyond into the ether in creation. We co create in our own individual enlightenment and also in collective enlightenment. 

We are reaching new heights in our own energy bodies and in our own psychic and somatosensory awareness and also watching the Earth activate with us. We are creating our enlightenment and awakening in real time. Now is the time to be who you are authentically and unapologetically and be that brightly. 

ok okokok it's probably rude or weird to do this but - I just reread this fic I wrote. And... I forgot how much I love it.

Like I'm super super proud of it.

Stephen Porges’ polyvagal (pol-ee-vay-gul) theory has helped science solve what may be the greatest mystery of human nature: how can we be so super loving and caring one moment, yet so fearful, rageful, or shut down the next? The theory traces the hidden variable in our nature to an upgrade in the system that is the missing link between mind, heart, and body.

It turns out that our mammal ancestors evolved multiple branches of the vagal nerve (poly=many, vagal=of the vagus)—the calming part of our autonomic nervous system—along with related upgrades, to maintain higher degrees of social safety, connectedness, and cooperation in an ever-challenging world.

Our ability to use our big social brains critically depends on these upgrades calming the older autonomic systems that trigger the reptilian fight-flight-faint-freeze reflexes of stress and trauma. Porges’ theory also answers the age-old riddle of how the safety cues we get from hearing warm voices, seeing friendly faces, rhythmic breathing and speaking help our whole brain and body stay calm, communicative and cooperative, even in the face of vulnerability and danger.

And it finally explains how contemplative methods like yoga, meditation, prayer, symbolism, and movement help calm the human mind and body in ways that promote not just deep inner states of bliss, awe and flow, but also the fearless stillness and unwavering presence that maintain the highest human expressions of love—intimacy, childrearing, caregiving, and altruism.