@drlindseyschmidt: From stressed to chill 👇 (Did you like this post — a little something different ☺️) Meet your vagus nerve, it’s thee BIGGEST nerve is your parasympathetic (rest-digest-healing) nervous system—basically the system that helps you chill out after stress. And helps your react better to stress. You know when you can’t sleep, feel anxious, fidgeting (like picking nails, hair, bouncing your leg), etc…well, this can relate to low vagal tone, putting our nervous system into more of a fight-flight state (sympathetic nervous system turned on.) Oh, and this can affect things like our lymphatic system, gut and seggs hormones (estrogen, progesterone)… no big deal. So, what can we do? Workout our vagus nerve aka vagal tone. When we do this, we create a stronger, more resilient nervous system. An example given in today’s post — deep belly breathing — this stimulates the vagus nerve. This can be beneficial in times of stress, and done daily to BUILD your nervous system back up (just like a muscle, or training for a race.) Want some more examples? Lmk and I’ll make some posts 💕 (Nervous system regulation tool, nervous system healing, nervous system dysregulation, nervous system exercise, vagal tone exercise, vagal tone example) (Educational and informational)

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