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What Is a Nervous System State? (And How Movement Shifts It)

By Scribbledeedo® Team 8 August 2026
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Children's behaviour is often nervous system state, not choice. A plain-English guide to the three states — safe & social, mobilised, immobilised — and how movement shifts between them.

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