Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP)
The Safe and Sound Protocol, or SSP, is a non-invasive application of Polyvagal Theory, based on decades of research and developed by Dr. Stephen Porges. SSP is based on the theory that the body responds to what you hear and how you hear it.
Listening is connected to the Vagus nerve, the body’s internal control center for processing and responding to cues and signals from the world around us. The SSP uses specially-filtered music to train the neural network associated with listening to focus on the frequency range of the human voice.
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We look, speak and listen with the same system. When the voice changes, the body responds. As we learn to focus on the sound frequencies of human speech through the SSP program, the Vagus nerve becomes stimulated and the state of feeling more safe and calm becomes accessible.
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The proof is in the playlists. Specially treated music playlists are part of the SSP program and all help
‘prime’ the nervous system by exposing it to different sound frequencies. Listening to these playlists through over the ear headphones helps the nervous system to more readily achieve balance, or “homeostasis.”