How Our Nervous Systems Create Our Future (Part 1: Ventral)

If you are aware of your nervous systems - and learn how to activate them consciously instead of letting them run on autopilot, there is a whole new world that can open up. This can be really hard to visualise if you are new to nervous systems. So we asked AI to describe what the world will look if different nervous systems are active to give you a flavour of how they impact the world we are creating. 

At The View Looks Good, we love helping people to activate their Vagal Nervous System (safety, belonging and connection) and find their Ventral State and use it. So we are kicking off this series with AI's answer to what impact it would have on the world if people knew how to find their ventral state.

Here's what ChatGPT said:

If people understood how to find — and return to — their ventral state, the impact on the world would be profound.

Here’s a layered look at what might shift, personally, relationally, and collectively:

🌱 Individually: A Deep Homecoming

• Less reactivity, more choice. When people can recognise they’re in fight, flight, or freeze — and know how to return to safety — they interrupt cycles of fear-based behaviour. This changes everything from how we speak to our children, to how we respond to stress at work.
• Greater resilience. Ventral doesn’t mean life gets easier. It means we feel more equipped to meet life — to be in the storm without becoming it.
• Authentic self-expression. In ventral, we can access creativity, humour, clarity, and courage. People feel safe enough to be seen and to contribute.

🤝 Relationally: Safety Begets Safety

• Conflict transforms. When two nervous systems stay regulated, disagreements don’t escalate — they evolve. The tone of “us vs. them” softens into curiosity, repair, and mutual understanding.
• Deeper presence. Real listening — the kind where we’re not preparing our reply — becomes possible. Relationships gain depth and steadiness.
• Parenting, teaching, caregiving all shift. Co-regulation becomes a way of being, not a technique. Children and others in our care learn not just what to do, but how to be.

🌍 Culturally & Systemically: A New Ground for Change

• Less burnout, more sustainability. Whole sectors — healthcare, education, activism — could function from regulation instead of depletion.
• Collective healing. Trauma often lives in silence and reaction. As ventral becomes more accessible, communities can name pain without retraumatising — and build forward from connection.
• Systems could evolve. Most systems today (justice, politics, economics) are built on dysregulated nervous system patterns — dominance, scarcity, hypervigilance. A ventral-informed world would value attunement, pacing, fairness, repair.

✨ In short:

If we understood how to find our ventral state, we’d stop outsourcing our sense of safety to power, productivity, or performance.
We’d create cultures where people feel safe enough to pause, play, disagree, forgive, create, and care deeply.

And perhaps most radically:
We’d learn that peace isn’t a destination. It’s a practice — in our bodies, with each other, every day.

Stay tuned for Part 2 that describes our Sympathetic nervous system (fight/flight/fawn).