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 superhighway 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 from Horizon Magazine it controls your digestion and gives you that full feeling which is essential in maintaining a healthy weight range.

 

6 Ways To Stimulate Vagus Nerve

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.

This infographic from Hearty Soul shows you some simple tips and tricks including simply splashing cold water on your face. If you suffer stress and inflammation and even migraines, the vagus nerve should be one that you start researching.

 

 

How To Stimulate Your Vagus Nerve

Amy from ‘My Life Delicious’ gives an overview of the Vagus Nerve and also 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 your body restores its default settings. We have been made intelligently and an anxious state is not our natural state.

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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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People With Autism Explain What Stimming Feels Like

Stimming, or self-stimulatory behaviors, are behaviours people with autism may exhibit to counteract an overwhelming sensory environment or alleviate the high levels of internal anxiety, according to researchers. Some examples of stimming are rocking, spinning, pacing, repeating words or flapping of arms or hands.

Autistic people aren’t the only ones who stim, although occasionally people on the spectrum stim in more obvious ways and may attract attention. Many people have a hard time grasping why someone would stim.

Researchers asked readers with autism how they explain what stimming is like.

This is what they had to say: 
1. “It helps my body regulate the sensory information of the world.” —said one of them.

2. “You know how when you’re cooking something on a stove, you sometimes move the lid slightly off the pot to let the steam out? How you put pressure on a bleeding wound to get the blood flow to stop, or at least lessen? For me, stimming is that relief and release — the preventing of inward things from exploding or running out by doing things outwardly to soothe the inward.” — said another.

3. “Stimming is like turning down the radio when you think you smell something burning. It’s a way of turning off the other senses so you can make sure nothings burning.” — according to the 3rd person.

4. “Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed, upset or angry, I need to let it out. I feel antsy when I’m overstimulated, so I need to move around and let out some noise. It’s the only way I know how to cope. It calms me down. A common one for me is humming loudly to myself (sometimes with my ears plugged or covered) and most commonly, I’ll bounce my leg. It’s involuntary, so I don’t always realize I’m bouncing my leg. It bothers some people, but I can’t help it.”– said the 4th person.

5. “What’s it like to stim? You tell me. Most non-autistic people impulsively tap their feet, drum their fingers or let out exasperated sighs. They’re all natural forms of self-expression. The theory behind autistic stimming is the same — we’re just the ones who get called out for expressing ourselves more visibly than you!” — said the 5th person.

6. “Sometimes the sensory input gets too much, and I feel like I might explode. Stimming releases the tension and makes me feel a lot calmer.” —according the 6th person

7. “It’s the ability and opportunity to shut out external effects. I can tune into myself, reign in my energy and feel completely wrapped and enveloped in my own bubble of comfort and total relaxation. It helps ground me to reality, breathe, slow down and soothes my nervous system that is overtaxed. At best, I feel like there is no one else around and I am completely calm, free and one with the world.” —said another person.

8. “It’s a comforting thing to do. Neuro-typical people probably understand and do similar things, but the difference is that autism stims feel more necessary, and trying to stop them causes unpleasantness for us. It makes me feel uncomfortable when [it] cannot be done.” — according to another person.

9. “It’s a combination of habit and releasing build-up of stress or internal energy in the body. It isn’t something you do only when you have anxiety or negative feelings, it feels good. It’s kind of necessary.”---said yet another person.
10. “When I’m stressed and overstimulated, I quietly hum or groan. When I’m extremely happy, I smile a ‘Cheshire Cat’ grin, rock back and forth and voice a little. Stimming is comforting, and it lets off pressure from good and bad emotions. I don’t necessarily think ‘I need to stim,’ I just do.” — as per another person.

11. “Stimming is like breathing… just as natural, just as important.” —said another.

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