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Feel like going overseas these school holidays and need somewhere to stay? Maybe you’d like to improve your language skills by staying with a reputable host family. At VIL we can help plan your trip and make it a once in a lifetime experience

If you are seeking help with chemistry or further mathematics please sign up to our online SWOTVAC revision classes. Alternatively if you would like one on one help with our online tutors please send us an email to [email protected] or give us a call on 0432498849.

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Thanks for everyone that attended our Chemistry revision session today, we hope that you got lots out of the sessions and are feeling more prepared for the upcoming exam. Our tutors provide students with annotated slides and tutorial questions.

Going forward the Victorian Institute of Learning does offer private chemistry tutoring sessions at a price of $45 an hour with Caitlin, our tutor from today’s session. If you are interested in some one-on-one help before the exam please let us know and we can get something organized.

If you are seeking help with chemistry or further mathematics please sign up to our online revision classes these school holidays. Alternatively if you would like one on one help with our online tutors please send us an email to [email protected] or give us a call on 0432498849.

Science keeps telling us to our children. It's interesting how many scientists are now focusing on the thinking that happens not in your but in your . You have spread through your innards, and there's increasing attention on the vagus nerve, which emerges from the brain stem and wanders across the heart, lungs, kidney and gut.

The nerve is one of the pathways through which the body and brain talk to each other in an unconscious conversation. Much of this conversation is about how we are relating to others. Human thinking is not primarily about individual calculation, but about social engagement and .

Stephen Porges is well-known for his “Polyvagal Theory,” which focuses on how the concept of is fundamental to our mental state. Porges tells us that those who have experienced have bodies that are highly reactive to perceived threat. They don't like public places with loud noises. They live in fight-or-flight mode, stressed and anxious. Or, if they feel trapped and constrained, they go numb. Their voice and tone go flat.

Physical reactions shape our way of seeing and being. When we're really young we know few emotion concepts. Young children say, “I hate you!” when they mean “I don't like this” because they haven't learned their culture's concepts for hatred vs. badness. But as we get older we learn more emotional granularity. The emotionally wise person can create distinct experiences of disappointment, anger, spite, resentment, grouchiness and aggravation, whereas for a less emotionally wise person those are all synonyms for “I feel bad.” A wise person may know the foreign words that express emotions we can't name in English: tocka (Russian, roughly, for spiritual anguish) or litost (Czech, roughly, for misery combined with the hunger for revenge). People with high emotional granularity respond flexibly to life, have better mental health outcomes and drink less.

Cuddles help develop emotional granularity. If bodily reactions can drive people apart they can also heal. Martha Welch of Columbia University points to the importance of loving physical touch to lay down markers of .

Under the old brain-only paradigm, we told people to self-regulate their emotions through conscious self-talk. But real emotional help comes through co-regulation. When a caregiver and a child physically hold each other, their bodily autonomic states harmonise, connecting on a level. Together they move from separate distress to mutual calm.

When we step back and see the brain and body thinking together, the old distinction between reason and emotion doesn't seem to make sense. Our very perceptions of the world are shaped by the predictions our brains are making about our physical autonomic states. And we can also see how important it is to teach emotional granularity, starting from birth.
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Make sure you make the most out of these holidays to consolidate what you have learnt throughout the year. There’s still time to order practice exams, handbooks, and other resources from VIL.

R U OK? Today is our national day of action dedicated to reminding everyone to ask, “Are you OK?” and to remember every day of the year to support people who may be struggling with life's ups and downs.

September Holiday Revision Lectures open for bookings!

Please find our flyer for our September Holiday series of revision lectures attached for you to distribute to you students.

Ensure your students don’t miss out on this great opportunity.

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