For most of the twentieth century, psychology treated the mind as something that happened above the neck. The body was acknowledged, but usually as a consequence of mental processes, not their source.
That framing is changing. Across neuroscience and clinical practice, a quieter revolution has been gathering force: the nervous system is not a background system. It is the operating environment in which all experience — including thought — occurs.
Autonomic state shapes attention, memory, empathy and the stories we tell ourselves. State precedes interpretation more often than we assume — and ignoring it becomes a clinical and organisational liability.
