865: Anxiety Antidote A Healthy Vagus Nerve
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the vagus nerve and its role in helping to neutralize our anxiety and maintain our health and wellbeing. The physical extent and function of the vagus nerve is described as is how we can use it to improve our wellness. Specific practices for toning and strengthening the vagus nerve are included.
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When you get rid of the threat reaction, you become calm and more present. The body can then solve problems on a neurophysiological level.
-Stephen Porges
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore |
| 0:12.9 | anxiety, panic, and PTSD, sharing how you can overcome them from life. |
| 0:17.8 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. |
| 0:27.7 | I'm your host and coach Gina Ryan, and I am so happy to be with you again today as |
| 0:34.6 | together we can consider the many ways to bring your mind and body back to its natural |
| 0:41.5 | peace and calm. |
| 0:43.7 | And in today's episode I'm talking about anxiety antidote, a healthy vagus nerve. |
| 0:51.5 | Why is it that people with anxiety end up having so many different symptoms and sensations? |
| 0:57.4 | If you think about how our body works, it'll come as no surprise that the vagus nerve |
| 1:03.0 | is in charge of why people with anxiety are feeling so many different symptoms and sensations. |
| 1:10.9 | We can feel them in any organ of the body. |
| 1:14.2 | If you think about it, when people talk to me about being anxious, of course they're |
| 1:20.2 | talking to me about their very specific anxiety and common anxiety symptoms and sensations, |
| 1:28.8 | but they also talk to me about having fatigue, digestive problems, food sensitivities, they |
| 1:35.3 | talk about depersonalization, depression, sleeplessness, brain fog, having low motivation |
| 1:44.4 | and the inability to concentrate or OCD and so on. |
| 1:50.4 | What they are talking about often are things that they are telling me are cropping up since |
| 1:55.6 | they have been anxious. |
| 1:58.0 | So I want to talk today about how our vagus nerve very much plays a part in our anxiety |
| 2:05.2 | and our anxiety plays a part in how our vagus nerve is operating. |
| 2:11.4 | This will go to show that it's all connected. |
| 2:15.6 | Now that we know this on a conscious level, we can do something more about it. |
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