Diminishing Dysregulation While Cultivating Vagal Tone and Mental Peace

Dysregulation in the body and mind arises when survival-based strategies remain active beyond their usefulness. Chronic stress, unresolved tension, and identity-bound mental roles keep the nervous system oriented toward vigilance rather than restoration. The result is reduced vagal tone, impaired “rest and repair,” and a mind that cannot fully settle—even when external conditions are safe.

By working consciously with the nine aspects of the mind and their 27 projections, we address dysregulation at both the physiological and psychological levels, allowing restoration to occur in a stable and sustainable way.

Regulating the Body: Vagal Tone and Restorative Intelligence

As the projections soften and no longer operate compulsively:

• The autonomic nervous system shifts out of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn

• Parasympathetic (vagal) tone increases

• Inflammatory and stress signals diminish

• The body re-enters rest, repair, digestion, and immune regulation

• Healing and restorative intelligence can function without interference

Rather than forcing relaxation, the body is allowed to recognize safety, which is the true prerequisite for restoration.

Regulating the Mind: From Projection to Peace

Each projection of the mind represents an attempt to create peace, safety, or meaning externally. When these projections are brought into awareness and integrated:

• Mental urgency decreases

• Identity loosens from rigid roles

• Thought becomes functional rather than defensive

• Attention stabilizes without effort

The mind no longer needs to project order, authority, purpose, or control onto the world to feel settled. Instead, mental peace becomes intrinsic, not conditional.

Enhancing Mental Function Through Integration

Importantly, this work does not diminish the mind’s capabilities—it enhances them.

The Nine Aspects

Each Aspect represents a core survival or meaning-making function of the mind.
Within each Aspect are three projections—variations of the same underlying impulse.

At integration:

• The Defender becomes clear boundaries

• The Manager becomes intelligent order

• The Preserver becomes continuity without strain

• The Artist becomes authentic expression

• The Producer becomes sustainable creation

• The Missionary becomes embodied purpose

• The Strategist becomes insight

• The Leader becomes stewardship

• The Teacher becomes wisdom without weight

Learn more about these nine aspects (and more about this event) here!

Meet Your Facilitator: Greg Toews

Greg Toews is the President, CEO, and Head Minister of Astara, a school devoted to Mysticism, Active Clairvoyance, Intuition, Angel Work, Theosophy, and Healing. Through both outer and inner transmissions, he helps students bridge ancient wisdom with practical inner development.

With more than 100,000 clinical hours, Greg specializes in integrative healing for body and soul—addressing trauma loops, vagal tone regulation, whiplash, PTSD, dissociative patterns, and a wide range of physical and psychological conditions. He is also a recognized practitioner of ceremonial healing, where ritual, energy work, and sacred practice catalyze restoration, integration, and growth.

Greg’s method synthesizes Tantric Buddhism, Mysticism, Alchemy, Kabbalah, Shamanism, Energy Medicine, Phytotherapy, Jungian Psychology, and Osteopathic principles—uniting scientific insight with mystical tradition. As founder of Plant Prana Oils, he advances education on botanical remedies for physical and psychological healing, spiritual growth, angelic and planetary work, and energetic practices.

He was personally empowered for clairvoyance by Satguru Choa Kok Sui and further developed his path through Buddhist Wisdom and Tantric practices. Greg is the creator of Auric Programming—a system that clarifies how the aura creates and heals, refining intuition and vagal tone to accelerate recovery, alignment, and realization of the soul’s higher potential