30 Min Vagus Nerve Meditation | Your Path to Stress Relief and Calm with Chibs Okereke

This 30-minute Vagus Nerve meditation is a self-soothing technique to help with managing stress and anxiety. Chibs Okereke is a stress and burnout coach, mindfulness coach, and meditation instructor and narrator on the Calm app, and he has designed this meditation to rejuvenate your nervous system and alleviate stress.

Introduction - 0:00
Meditation - 3:15

This guided meditation focuses on stimulating the Vagus Nerve, a key element in managing your body's relaxation response. Through a series of gentle breathing techniques and progressive relaxation exercises, you'll experience a significant reduction in stress levels, an easing of bodily tension, and an overall improvement in well-being. This meditation offers a science-supported approach to not only calm your mind in the here and now but also to enhance your resilience against future stressors. Ideal for professionals seeking a practical way to maintain mental clarity and emotional balance in a demanding environment.

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[Ahgjlo]

I have just found your videos about meditation on the vagus nerve and is helping me immensely. I had something called chs, and I did not know I had it. CHS apparently can occur in long-term weed smokers. I smoked weed for 30 years every day. CHS has affected my whole system. I believe NOW especially the vagus nerve. My chs came about 3 years ago. The first thing that happened was I was smoking a spliff, and halfway through smoking the spliff, I had very bad nausea, stomach pains and stomach cramps and I then vomited, i didn't understand why i vomited so I continued to smoke. 3 months before this happened. My marriage broke down, and I was missing my children so much I could not cope, so I was already in a bad state of depression, stress and not sleeping or eating much. I continue to smoke after this first bout of vomiting. After this first bout of vomiting, i could not eat food, and my insomnia kicked in very badly. Maybe I'm just eating two spoons of my dinner per day, and maybe 2 too 3 hours of sleep a night. I continue to smoke weed. I worked through this whole period doing manual labour, and somehow, my body was still functioning, and I felt strong even with lack of sleep and hardly eating food. I was functioning on Coca-Cola, Lucozade, and spliffs. Basically, I was ill for 6 months and continued to smoke without knowing the reason for my sickness. 6 months later, I hit a brick wall, and my body started to shut down. I went from 17 and a half stone down to 12 stone in 6 months. My symptoms were tightness of throat, insomnia, stomach cramps, stomach pain, vomiting from time to time, gastro problems. hypnic jerks and restless leg syndrome when i was trying to sleep. once I did fall to sleep, then I woke up with tremors. Other symptom such as Muscle spasms. Muscle stiffness. Muscle pain. Muscle twitching, Bone pain. Muscle spasms in my back . Found it hard to walk. Numbness down my legs. Vomiting, nausea.Waking up with numbness in my arms and hands. Anxiety, also tinnitus in the ears, muscle spasms in my throat, throat tightening every time I lie down to try to sleep. Constipation, Haemorrhoids. I could not urinate properly. The muscle spasms in my throat when I tried to lie down were causing my throat to close. All this time, i was going to the doctor's and getting nothing back from the doctors with regards to why I was getting all these symptoms. The doctor was offering me muscle relaxant tablets, but I could not take them because they made a lot of my symptoms worse. the doctor was telling me to sleep sitting up due to my throat closing when lying down. They sent me for every check-up you could imagine and found nothing about the causes of my sickness. They did find I had developed a hiatus hernia. As more time went past, the muscle spasms in my throat got so bad that I could not smoke because my throat started to close when standing or sitting. This obviously stopped me from smoking weed. It's not that I wanted to stop smoking weed but I was forced to because I could not breathe when smoking my throat would close up. From that day, I stopped smoking. My anxiety and depression were so bad from missing my kids and all the symptoms from the chs, and I was still not diagnosed. I felt like I was dying. My nervous system was in a very bad way. I was researching everywhere and came across CHS. I then took this to the doctor, and they diagnosed me with CHS. I continue to work through this whole period. Looking back, I do not know how I got through. But I think the continuous moving of the body was helping me somehow. I started to eat a little better, and slowly, slowly, I started to put my weight back on. After 1 year of me sleeping sitting up, I was finally able to lie down without my throat going into spasms so I could lay down. I started to sleep a little better slowly slowly. It's been 2 and a 1/2 years since stopping smoking. After 1 year, I was still in a very bad way, with many symptoms still remaining. After about a year and a half, they found a 7 mm polyp, which they cut out of my stomach. Through this whole period of me being sick with chs, i had found that having hot baths with Epsom salts was helping me a great deal. Putting warm olive oil all over my muscles was also helping. Drinking bone broth also helped a lot. After 2 years, my haemorrhoids started to calm down. I was able to go to the toilet better. Both urinating and pooing. It's been 2 and 1/2 years, and I still have tinnitus in the ears and spasms in my back and back pain, but it's nothing like the spasms and back pain I had before. I'm still suffering a little bit with insomnia. And when I wake from sleep, my arms and hands still go numb and numbness down the outside of my right leg, mainly my knee and thigh. The biggest help I have found in my healing period was through cranial therapy. When I start to feel quite good, sometimes I would try to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. Drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes seems to bring back some symptoms. I tried to drink sometimes to test my body. But then I realised I could not drink. Same with smoking cigarettes. Some symptoms start to come back. I have come to the realisation that I can not drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes. And obviously cannot smoke cannabis for the rest of my life. Even standing next to someone who is smoking a spliff affects me. I was always a very fit and strong individual and felt invincible. But this whole experience has humbled me.The one good thing I can see about CHS is that if you stop smoking weed and live a healthy life, it can go away. As I said, I still have some symptoms. But I feel like if I look after myself hopefully I pray to God that all my symptoms will eventually go away. it is possible that there is damage done that can not be repaired from but I am very thankful and go forward with a positive mindframe. It is very good to see that there is information out there for people to find about meditation on the Vegas nerve. I obviously took chs to the Brim. And I personally think it has damaged my Vegas nerve where it is not working as it should. But maybe I'm very lucky because I have been getting better slowly slowly. As I said, the best thing that I found helped me was cranial therapy and light exercise, good diet, meditation. your video about triggering the vagus nerve through meditation is helped me in a massive way right now as I am suffering with Insomnia for the past three years. So i would like to say a big thank you to you sir and God bless you.

[jojoandroses]

Thank you so much. I listen to your sleep meditations on the Calm app every night. They’ve been incredibly helpful. I’m so happy to find you on YouTube.

[hilaryadrian]

Recently came across your meditations. My fight/flight mode has been stuck on since childhood, leading to Chronic Fatigue syndrome. It's so lovely learning how to relax at last. Thank you so much!

[patriciamorgan]

Exceptional. I liked that I was told that some people feel the need to leave their eyes open. I liked the information about how our brains may think about problems but it's because the brain wants to help us solve or avoid problems which allowed me to stop judging my incessant thoughts and loving myself. I appreciate the information about stimulating the vagus nerve. Your voice is awesome. The imagery soothing. Awesome meditation. Thank you ❤

[claraclara]

Just wanna say thanks for such wonderful meditation....i was feeling down, but this practice healed me ❤❤❤

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[sim]

So soothing thank you soo much love the poem 😢

[ScorpioPrincess-dlhb]

Woke up with anxiety. This was so comforting, thank you. I did cry when the poem was read. I needed those words x

[kueunice]

You have such a soothing voice！the outbreath lengthening really helped me relax and feel peaceful, thank you!

[katecotterill]

This helped me so much today… big anxiety attack. I did the meditation on my garden lawn to reconnect with Earth. Thanks so much 😊

[christinecandee]

It’s these mindfulness exercises that naturally soothes my nervous system back to regulation again. Peaceful 💟☮️

[GreatLakesT]

Thanks that was a wonderful respite on a hectic day.

[silverygrey]

What a calming voice you have. Thank you for this meditation 🙏

[laurela]

Just subscribed and will continue to participate in your meditations. This one was very relaxing ☺️ I loved the poem you read; what a great addition to meditation! I’m experiencing Long Covid which affected my Vagus nerve and autonomic nervous system. Has been 2.5 years. Meditations such as this are very helpful in calming me so I can enjoy life again. Thank you so much for sharing your

[afrogypsy]

This Meditation was amazing thank you. I fell asleep afterward and went to amazing places. Your voice is very relaxing. I
Happy I found your video.

[jenerbeleggett]

This is incredibly helpful. I am an employer of psychotherapists, and we are all more than a bit stirred up as we all face this difficult election. This was of great help as a resource to give to folks to help them self-resource during this incredibly difficult time. Thank you SO much! Look forward to some of your other offerings too!

[nelliemoore]

I feel, lighter, more relaxed and peaceful.👣

[moonmarie]

The longer exhale was difficult until I pursed my lips. After the meditation, I notice my breathing is more balanced between inhalation and exhalation. thank you so much!

[vidya]

I'm yawning and crying, not emotionally, but just tearing up.. this works amazingly well..