The Vagus Nerve and Strategies to Strengthen Vagal Tone

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Video by Dr. Dawn Elise Snipes on integrative behavioral health approaches including counseling techniques and skills for improving mental health and reducing mental illness.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Strengthening Vagal Tone: How to Trigger Your Relaxation Response
00:02:59 - Strengthening Vagal Tone for Improved Emotional Regulation and Reduced Stress Response
00:06:28 - Relaxation Techniques: Blowing Bubbles and Chewing Gum
00:09:27 - Ways to Trigger Your Vagus Nerve for Relaxation
00:12:25 - Managing Stress and High Traffic Times
00:15:31 - Strengthening Your Vagus Nerve for Better Health and Stress Management

[DocSnipes]

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[AmerieFanbase]

Please do a video on probiotic and the different strains and how to feed probiotics.

[ajnadey]

You do a great job explaining something others make seem so mysterious. Thank you

[devynsg]

I have been working on my nervous system for 3 years and yoga is a complete game changer- yoga nidra meditation as well!

[musicmom]

Thank you so much for this very informative video. Definitely the breathing exercises helped me since I have begun to share the long term violent traumas with my therapist. Now I actually will do the breathing exercises before our session. However I still will completely disassociate when recalling some of the more traumatic experiences. Would you have maybe some advice on what to ask my therapist to help me stay in the present?

[KittyKat-]

With this kind of thinking I can trace back in my mind where I lost my PEACE during this day. I can see that something happened that bothered me to set off the cascade. It is like I was doing okay, that then something happened and I got "all up in my head" with fear or anger. "Retro-specting" like this is like prospecting the past to get a sense of what happened to me. This grounds me right back in my self... things start to take back their normal shape and I can go back to thriving with a full cup. 🥤 It is also about how it might be someone else's energy that got me into the bad place too with an attempt to get me off my path and on to theirs and their needs. But I have my boundaries to keep me from getting deep stuck in someone else's needs. Listening to these videos helps me move from the complete trauma response of extreme need and lack into a strategy of getting centered in the awesome of my power in the moment. 🧁 This is the opposite of trauma for me. I am pulling out of the trauma that has gripped me from age 11 when we moved and I lost all my support for the me I loved and enjoyed. THANK YOU Doc Snipes. I am repatterning my brain.

[sylvie]

You offer so much helpful education and support and love how you are incarnating WOMAN!!! 🧡 I trained in Somatic Experiencing to help myself with my severe dysregulation that I have NOT been able to manage and learning that my vagus nerve is super compromised from my severe Cervical spinal stenosis, where I think the Vagus nerve runs through. Curious if you feel I am out of luck as i have suffered massive, chronic insomnia, gut issues, panic etc and nothing I do helps to any significant degree due to my vagus nerve being impinged. I have had CPTSd and struggling to heal due to my incapacity to downregulate as a result of this and wondering if you can offer any suggestions?

[hebar]

Great info, thanks for sharing and your efforts 🙏🏼

[kims]

Cold water plunges calm Vagus nerve too. People with PTSD use this daily to reset their system.

[stephanieburgess]

Hi Doc! I have been trying to locate research on methods of vagus nerve stimulation but haven't been finding much. Do you have any links on hand to support these?

[robbpowell]

I had a tumor on my brain stem removed 30 years ago. In doing so, my right vagus nerve was severed. Along with speech and swallowing being damaged, I have only recently learned how integral the nerve is to the mind/body interface. My querying neurologists about a possible relationship between my surgery and my affliction of Fibromyalgia, for the past 5 years, has revealed there is little relevant research in this area.

So, I am learning what I can. Any credible suggestions would be appreciated. 🍁

[tophat]

A tens machine with a vagus nerve machine attachment can work wonders.

[anitach]

Hi . in what age teens may start pratise yoga?

[RoadRunnergarage]

I wonder if my Traumatic Brain Injury -(TBI) effects my Vagus Nerve since I have a short fuse and are easily angered...

[dmclassical]

There’s no such a thing as pregnant people, only pregnant women. You have PHD and should know better than that.

[trejea]

“Pregnant people”? You just lost my respect and my subscription.