Contemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not
acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from internal physiological states regulated by …

The use of heart rate variability (HRV) in research has been greatly popularized over the
past decades due to the ease and affordability of HRV collection, coupled with its clinical …

Deliberate control of the breath (breathwork) has recently received an unprecedented surge
in public interest and breathing techniques have therapeutic potential to improve mental …

The concept, benefits and recommendations for the cultivation of compassion have been
recognized in the contemplative traditions for thousands of years. In the last 30 years or so …

A century-long debate on bodily states and emotions persists. While the involvement of
bodily activity in emotion physiology is widely recognized, the specificity and causal role of …

We review research showing that rumination has multiple negative consequences:(a)
exacerbating psychopathology by magnifying and prolonging negative mood states …

Psychophysiological research integrating heart rate variability (HRV) has increased during
the last two decades, particularly given the fact that HRV is able to index cardiac vagal tone …

Animals have sophisticated mechanisms for coping with danger. Freezing is a unique state
that, upon threat detection, allows evidence to be gathered, response possibilities to be …

Various forms of self-loss have been described as aspects of mental illness (eg,
depersonalization disorder), but might self-loss also be related to mental health? In this …

Scaling down to its bare roots, at least how I interpret what I'm reading, PVT considers our
ability to regulate our visceral state in the presence of others, our ability to read our body's …