3 Things You Should Know About Your Dog’s Nervous System 🔥 1. Your dog’s body syncs to yours in seconds. Their heart rate, breath, and muscle tone mirror yours through a process called neuroception. You are their cue for safety. 2. Reactivity isn’t defiance, it’s survival. What looks like misbehavior is often the sympathetic nervous system in overdrive. When stress hormones flood the body, the thinking brain goes offline. 3. Safety unlocks learning. The prefrontal cortex only activates when the

This is what nervous system regulation looks like in real time 👀 Boss Dog is a shelter dog learning what safety feels like in his body. As I use gentle chest circles with an anchor hold, his nervous system begins to shift out of survival mode and into connection. Here’s what you’re seeing: Weight shift forward swallow → His autonomic nervous system is beginning to downshift. Swallowing is a parasympathetic response mediated through the brainstem and vagal pathways. Jaw softening another swallow