The most important thing is to understand that the physiological features that are associated with feeling safe provide the scaffolding or the platform upon which all other forms of interventions and improved social behavior can occur. We have to go down to this basic platform of enabling individuals to feel safe and once we do that, we can start seeing what we can build on top of that. This often doesnt fit in with the motivation and goals of society or institutions. Because our institutions have built into them the notion that if people feel safe, theyre going to be lazy, theyre not going to learn, theyre not going to work. Just think about this whole notion of whats going on in our politics now - about whether people should be fiscally secure, about whether they should have health care, about whether they should have a whole variety of these features that would make them safe. And the argument against that is, then they wouldnt do anything. And what Im saying is, if you can create that substrate, that minimum requirement of making people safe, then the creative geniuses and the unique attributes of individuals can start emerging. -Stephen Porges vimeo/groups/136348/videos/26592356
Posted on: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:54:36 +0000
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