Find Out The 6 Best Ways To Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve

The Vagus Nerve is the longest nerve in your body. It originates in the brain and then travels through your digestive system. It is the body and mind connection and is being increasingly seen as the super highway of our nervous system.
We have 2 sides to our nervous system. The first is the parasympathetic nervous system. This is the ‘rest and digest’ part.


On the flip side, we have our sympathetic nervous system which is ‘fight and flight’. This is the part that kicks in when we are being metaphorically chased by a tiger. It’s also the side that most people live in on a daily basis. It’s your bodies survival, or emergency mode, that is responsible for all your stress and anxiety.
 
As you can see from the infographic above Vagus Nerve controls your digestion and gives you that full feeling which is essential in maintaining a healthy weight range.

How To Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve

Vagus Nerve -how you can stimulate it. Gargling, humming, yoga, meditation and breathing are some of the ways. If you are feeling anxious and overwhelmed, your Vagus Nerve is no doubt behind it.
Another tip that you can use to reset your nervous system is to yawn. By yawning deliberately you will find that your body will restore its default settings. We have been made intelligently, an anxious state is not our natural state. 

1) Washing your face with cold water
The mechanism here is not known, but cold water on your face stimulates the vagus nerve.

2) Meditation
Meditation helps promote feelings of goodwill and love towards self and others. Studies show that increasing positive emotions leads to improvement in vagal tone !

3) Humming
Since the vagus nerve is connected to the vocal cords, humming mechanically stimulates it. You can hum a song, or even better repeat the sound of 'Om'. 

4) Slow, rhythmic, diaphragmatic breathing
Breathing from your diaphragm, rather than shallowly from the top of the lungs stimulates and tones the vagus nerve.

5) Balancing the gut microbiome
The presence of healthy bacteria in the gut creates a positive feedback loop through the vagus nerve, increasing its tone.

6) Speaking
Similarly speaking is helpful for the vagal tone, due to the connection to the vocal cords.

When your Vagus Nerve loses tone it needs resetting. You can enjoy many benefits including better bowel movements and balancing your gut. It supports your immune system, healthy blood pressure, decision making and so much more.

 If you suffer stress and inflammation and even migraines, the vagus nerve should be one that you start researching.

Oxytocin Breath 
Breathe into your belly--- on the exhale make a ' pleasure' sound while saying HAhhhhhhhhhhh
This stimulates the vagus nerve, raises your vibration, shifts you out of flight and fight mode and produces the love hormone, ' oxytocin'.

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