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

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

hands-on healing technique

Depression continues to be the leading cause of medical disability in the United States and Canada, accounting for nearly 10 percent of all medical disability.74 In recent years, medical doctors have been prescribing more and more antidepressants.75 In Denmark, where I live, almost 8.3 percent of the population takes antidepressants.

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

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

Activation of the spinal sympathetic chain in the “fight or flight” response is one of the three possible states of the autonomic nervous system,

After a short period of time—up to thirty or even sixty seconds—you will swallow, yawn, or sigh.

It is more precise to describe stress as the physiological state that arises from activation of the spinal sympathetic nervous system, resulting in a fight-or-flight response.

If you are easily disturbed by background noises, your stapedius muscle might not be doing its job of reducing the volume of the low-frequency sounds, making it hard for you to hear what someone else is saying in a noisy room.