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The Vagus NerveSuper Highway to a Calmer Mind, Hope and Wellbeing

The Vagus NerveSuper Highway to a Calmer Mind, Hope and Wellbeing

What does calming your nervous system really mean? Our expert leader, author, and practitioner Dr. Habib is here to introduce you to the vagus nerve, the part of the body that seems to explain how our minds control our bodies, how our bodies influence our minds and the tools we need to calm them both.

The Light Between · Kassandra kuehl

July 5, 202147m 11s

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There is NO DOUBT that today’s current lens is one of anxiety, fear, and grief of loved ones and jobs lost. 

Desperate to get back to a place of peace and calm or our perceived “old normal,” we can gather that understanding exactly how our nervous system works—and what we can do to calm it—can be incredibly empowering.

But what does calming your nervous system really mean?

The vagus nerve, the part of the body that seems to explain how our minds control our bodies, how our bodies influence our minds and the tools we need to calm them both.

About Dr. Navaz Habib:

Dr. Navaz Habib is an author and speaker who empowers his clients and patients to dig a little deeper and find the answers to what is holding back their health. 

In identifying the root causes of health imbalances, and addressing them naturally, his patients experience optimal health the way their bodies were meant to feel, rather than continuing to deal with the stressors that are holding them back.

Dr. Habib’s book “Activate Your Vagus Nerve” is a simple to follow guide to help you identify and address a major missing piece in patients dealing with chronic health concerns.

 

On Today’s Episode You’ll Awaken to:

  • The very first thing I do with my hypnotherapy clients is to teach them about activating the vagus nerve through their breath.
  • I really want to focus on the power of this powerful network that is engaged in the body through our vagus nerve, but I’d love to hear more about your transformation - and what you’re seeing in your office right now?
  • What are the common symptoms that bring clients into your doors at your clinic?
  • So many individuals do their best to live a healthy lifestyle, what is it that you do differently with the clients that set you apart with the success of your clients?
  • Stephen Porges.
  • Activates the anti-inflammatory pathway.
  • The Vagus nerve slows down the inflammatory cytokines.
  • The origin of the nervous system.
  • The Vagus nerve is the sole loner nerve released from the brain.
  • When your ever-vigilant sympathetic nervous system revs up the fight or flight responses—pouring the stress hormone cortisol and adrenaline into your body—the vagus nerve tells your body to chill out by releasing acetylcholine.
  • The Vagus Nerves pathways pull in the intel from all the organs in the body.
  • The enteric nervous system - the second brain that relays messages via the gut.
  • The parasympathetic integration is only 15% within the vagus nerve. 85% of the messaging comes from the organs - information highway!
  • What is vagal tone and how to improve it?
  • How to tell which side of your vagus nerve needs work.
  • Does technology help to stimulate your vagus nerve?
  • Prioritizing your vagus nerve exercises so we’re moving all the time.
  • How do we know if our vagus nerve is working properly or not?
  • Are there specific signs to look for? Are there tests?
  • Exercises to help rehabilitate the vagus nerve.
  • The vagus nerve not only sends information to the organs from the brain but also from the organs back to the brain.
  • The brain-gut connection and vagus are the fastest and clearest direct path between the brain and the gut.
  • Digestive dysfunction is a major symptom of vagus nerve dysfunction.
  • Biochemical stressors, physical stressors, emotional and psychological stressors that affect our health and can be calmed by the vagus nerve and out of the sympathetic state.
  • 70 Percent of people are in hypervigilance at all times.
  • 15% of the information passing through the autonomic nervous system (which is the system that controls all the things we don’t think about, g., digestion, heartbeat, and breathing) is parasympathetic.  Dis-function in these areas means the vagus is not working well.
  • –Dr. Sachin Patel - “Great health doesn’t just change your present, great health changes your possibilities.”
  • What Dr. Habib has awoken to lately?
  • How to STIMULATE the Vagus Nerve:
    • Activate the gag reflex.
      • Gargle with saltwater, which can have a great effect on breaking up the bacterial biofilm that likes to sit at the back of our throats.
      • Humming or chanting to get them into a calm state, Heart rate variability.
      • Our heart rate varies depending upon the level of stress we’re experiencing.  The parasympathetic system (vagus) calms heart rate.

 

Resources Mentioned for the Vagus Nerve:

 

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