Tunes that Re-Tune
The music of the SSP is unlike any other. Each track has been filtered through a patented algorithm that highlights specific sound frequencies that are similar to the human voice. The specially filtered SSP music is pushed through the evidence-based algorithm backed by decades of scientific research.
As you listen to the music of the SSP, these highlighted frequencies send cues of safety to retune your nervous system, which can help you feel more settled, engaged and balanced.
Discover the science behind the Safe and Sound Protocol
The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) was designed by Dr. Stephen Porges based on decades of research that is now known as the Polyvagal Theory. The vagal nerve is a key player in the autonomic nervous system.
The Autonomic Nervous System
Our involuntary bodily functions, such as breathing, heart rate, and digestion, are regulated by the autonomic nervous system, which has two parts that work together to help us ebb and flow through life: the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems.
Parasympathetic Nervous System
The parasympathetic nervous system is classically called the “rest-and-digest” state, which helps us heal, recover and conserve energy when we feel safe.
(Keep in mind that your “fight-or-flight” state and your “rest-and-digest” state may look different from someone else’s.)
According to Polyvagal Theory, the autonomic nervous system is the foundation of our well-being. An essential component of the parasympathetic nervous system is the vagus nerve. It has two structural pathways with different functions.
Sympathetic Nervous System
You can think of the sympathetic nervous system as a mobilization system that would support our “fight-or-flight” responses.
It functions like a gas pedal, mobilizing internal resources in response to danger. When this happens, you might feel an increase in your heart rate, fast and shallow breathing, tension in your neck and shoulders, and anxiousness.
Your autonomic nervous system is always asking the question
“Am I safe?”
What happens if the autonomic nervous system is tuned to feel unsafe? Even when you are in fact safe…
When we feel safe
When we feel safe, one branch of the parasympathetic nervous system supports our ability to connect socially with others, to better access our higher brain functions and to have balanced, efficient and healthy bodily systems. In what Polyvagal Theory calls the “Social Engagement State,” we feel calm, connected and more resilient to life’s challenges.
When we don’t feel safe
When we don’t feel safe, our autonomic nervous system responds by taking action. In this state, you might notice anxiety, fast breathing, and feeling hot or quick to anger.
If the feeling that we are not safe does not go away, another branch of the parasympathetic nervous system will shut us down.
In this state, you might notice extreme fatigue, difficulty with digestion or feelings of depression. This is our body doing its best to conserve our resources to keep us alive.
The autonomic nervous system is constantly taking in and responding to cues from other people, our environment, and even inside our bodies, that tell us if we are safe.
The more often our nervous system feels unsafe, the easier it is to get “stuck.”
So, what could it look like to “get stuck?”
Cues from other people, the environment, and from inside your body tell your nervous system it is not safe.
Your nervous system mobilizes (“fight or flight”) or shuts down in response.
Because your nervous system feels unsafe, it becomes harder to “tune in” to cues of safety. We turn away from social engagement and we move up and down the autonomic ladder. Over time we tend to land in collapse or mobilization.
THIS IS WHERE THE SSP COMES IN
When you listen to the SSP with a certified provider and then eventually on your own, the music is working to interrupt this feedback loop, redirecting it with cues of safety to help regulate your nervous system.
Through nervous system regulation, you are then better equipped and more ready to respond more effectively to life’s challenges, access higher learning and cognition, and build positive social relationships.
Works alongside you, wherever you are on your healing journey…
The SSP may be helpful in reducing symptoms and supporting overall health and resiliency for people seeking support for:
- Depression and anxiety
- Neurodevelopmental differences, such as autism, hyperactivity and attention
- Learning difficulties
- Sensory processing differences
- Digestive challenges, constipation, bloating, SIBO
- Trauma history
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