The below Tibetan throat singing helped move some energy through the other day. Good stuff. Remember tones and chanting is a good way to stimulate and tone the vagus nerve too. Have a good weekend. … [click on title to read and view more]
Vagus Nerve Hacks: Calm Your Anxiety Naturally. ~~ I was tickled to get a list of various self-hacks on how to stimulate the vagus nerve. Once the vagus nerve is stimulated we calm down! It's like magic. The vagus nerve is implicated in all sorts of stress.
Sometimes we refer to our instinctive wisdom as “gut feelings.” Maybe we don’t know why we feel the way we do or how we know the answer to a question. We just do. Some of us chalk it up to instinct or a sixth sense while others discount the phenomenon altogether. Could there be a scientific explanation? The answer may be the vagus nerve, a physical link to the mind-body connection. … [click on title to read and view more]
Time to relax, meditate and generally chill-out. Enjoy.
Listening to and making meditative music and sounds has been an important part of my healing journey… [click on title for the rest of the post]
Recently I've been listening to some lovely audio files by Music for Deep Meditation. Specifically a whole album of songs that take one through the chakras while chanting OM.
It's been phenomenally heart opening and beautiful and intense and healing. Listening to this ancient sound while in meditation seems to assist in the grounding and revelatory experience both. It's clear many folks find these sounds helpful. I'm coming to appreciate what gets labeled "hypersensitivity." In this instance it's a lovely and profound grace to be able to utilize what might also be considered "sound therapy." I call it learning to live well. With this body and these capacities. … [click on title for the rest of the post]
The vagus nerve literally activates the parasympathetic nervous system – the mechanism that controls involuntary actions and affects mood. Doctors sometimes implant vagus nerve stimulators into patients with treatment-resistant depression, but a Yoga practice can produce some of the same effects.. … [click on title to read the rest]
