Specific approaches can rewire the nervous system to induce states of calmness or increased responsiveness.

“So we'll return to how one would go about doing that. But I think these results are just beautiful in the sense that they really show that our brain and our body are highly coordinated because people are listening to the story and the heart rate is changing in response to the story, but that there is what we call a stereotypy; sort of stereotyped response to a given story.”