£0Toning Your Vagus Nerve
The Vagus nerve is the longest and most important nerve in the body, controlling so many crucial bodily functions such as immune response, hormonal balance, breathing, digestion and heart rate / blood pressure. It is also crucial in our body's parasympathetic system response - i.e. bringing the body out of the emergency 'fight or flight" state to the soothing, calming 'rest and digest'. The word vagus comes from vagrant because the nerve wanders around the body!
Find out more about the Vagus nerve here: The Vagus Nerve: Anatomy and Function
You can do a fair few things to ensure your vagus nerve is happy. I like this technique because it is easy and also releases a tight neck!
CRANIAL NERVE INTEGRATION TECHNIQUE
This technique works very well for helping with ADHD and anxiety and is amazing for stiff necks! It gets 5 of the key cranial nerves working together, increasing resilience to noise and visual disturbances.
- Interlace the fingers of both hands.
- Put them behind your head in order to anchor your head in place and make contact with the nerves.
- Moving only your eyes, look at far right as you can but not to the point of eye pain. Keep looking right until you feel a release (a yawn, sigh, cough, etc.) or until you can no longer hold that position.
- Move your eyes back to centre and rest.
- Then move just your eyes as far left as you can but not to the point of eye pain. Keep looking left until you feel a release (a yawn, sigh, cough, etc.) or until you can no longer hold that position.
- Repeat this with eyes looking up and then down.
- Repeat daily or as often as you feel the need.
Drinking through a straw, singing, humming, exaggerated yawning and making sounds are all great ways to help the vagus nerve.
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