Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism

When two people are socially engaged and communicating face to face, they pass information about their emotional states by small movements of facial muscles. This also stimulates the nerves in the muscles of each person’s own face, so that their fifth and seventh cranial nerves give them ongoing feedback and a clear idea of what they are feeling th

the muscular system loses its tonus, and the blood pressure drops. We might faint or go into a state of shock (syncope).

Relieving COPD and Hiatal Hernia

In contrast to the sympathetic nervous system, which enables extreme mobilization to facilitate fight or flight, the two branches of the vagus nerve can both bring about immobilization.

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chronic activation of the spinal sympathetic chain system (fight or flight) or of dorsal vagal activity (withdrawal, shutdown).

three divisions of the autonomic nervous system: the ventral branch of the vagus nerve, the sympathetic nervous system, and the dorsal branch of the vagus nerve.

Prior to the Polyvagal Theory, depression and depressive behaviors issues lacked a physiological model in terms of the nervous system.

(To get an appreciation of how fine and delicate this tissue is, go to YouTube and search “Strolling under the Skin.”)

By getting the autonomic nervous system to function better, I have been able to help people with a wide variety of chronic problems that have not been helped by other modalities of treatment, whether allopathic or alternative. Although I have worked with many different kinds of health issues, I was especially pleased by my successes in helping COPD