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

One in four women (25%) and one in seven men (14%) have been the victim of “severe” physical violence by an intimate partner.

This technique takes less than five minutes to perform, requires no physical effort, and is highly effective.

Most people believe that pain in the body comes from tight muscles, and therapists usually massage the body where it hurts and/or it where muscles are hard. But often, when a massage therapist alleviates pain at one place, another pain arises some-where else. This may seem inexplicable to massage therapists who know that they did a good job making

The enteric nervous system is even sometimes referred to as “the second brain,”

frontal lobes are considered the human part of the brain and are involved with the functions of language and will. By “will,” I mean conceiving an idea to do something, and monitoring our progress toward that goal.

One hybrid state supports the experience of intimacy: the dorsal vagus is engaged to slow down our physical activity, at the same time as the ven-tral vagus allows a feeling of safety with another person.

how to release the tension at the back of her neck with the Neuro-Fascial Release Technique described in Part Two.

Nearly one in five women (18%) and one in seventy-one men (1.4%) have been raped in their lifetime.

The ventral branch of the vagus nerve relates to positive emotions of joy, satisfaction, and love.