When I saw Vagus nerve in my email I had to come watch this right away. I was diagnosed with an over active vagus nerve, my heart rate was very irregular and I would pass out sometimes. After leaving my situation that was triggering childhood trauma and eating healthier the issue resolved. I haven't passed out in years and this was an issue that kept me from being able to be physically active for a long time. I always wondered if there was an emotional connection. I am in therapy now and feel better all the time.

That's why singing was always my stress-relief, huh. Thank you so much for these tips! 🙏💖

This is actually quite interesting, as I went through a lot of complex trauma as a child, as did others in my family, and I've always wondered what made me different from, say, my mother who refused help and therapy, whereas I sought healing constantly. But listening to this discussion, I realize I've always used singing as a coping skill and if I can't sing or hum for more than a day, I feel irritable and angry and in turmoil. I wonder, therefore, if what set me apart from my traumatized family members is that I had a coping mechanism that is directly linked with the vagus nerve and allowed me to seek help. Just my thoughts.

You are an extremely gifted psychologist / prof and so generous to post these videos thank you

Love how you validate physiological responses to stress. For so long, I tried to “logic” my way out of my body’s response to trauma.. thinking I was crazy or creating my physical discomfort and pain. Thank you for providing such simple strategies to build physical resilience. You’re such an awesome teacher! 🙌🏼

Healing. Thank you. Butan juuu goor. In my language it means "bundle of humble grateful bowings to you"

I’ve been working on toning the vagus nerve for the past year or so while recovering from a highly toxic relationship. I’ve never seen gargling as a way to activate it. I’m excited to try it!! Thank you for all that you do. 🙏

have I told you that I love your existence? ❤ Thank you, teacher

Dear Dr Nicole, every new video, email, IG post from you feels like Christmas! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, wisdom, and experience with us, helping us grow and live our lives the best we can! Sending you love and light! ❤️

Thank you so much for all the work you do, you're providing an incredible resource and I'm pointing more and more people in your direction every day 🙏❤

Thank you for providing us with this information, since I came across with your Instagram page in July, my life started changing. It is truly important for me to let you know that you're light and magic to this world. I'm so grateful!!! Lots of love from Argentina

I love the style with which you relay information, your whiteboard outline is everything and speaks to my learning style. Thank you for all that you are and all that you do.

I absolutely adore you!! So thankful my friend sent you my way🙏

Thank you for sharing that information. It was very informative and helpful. All of your videos are thoughtfully done. I appreciate your willingness to put your knowledge out there for those of us who are also trying to heal from trauma. ❤

Thank you love... you are a light!

I appreciate you so much for bringing us this information. Thank you🖤🖤

I already knew about this, but I definitely needed a reminder! Thank you so much!

I NEEDED THIS SOOOOO MUCH AT THIS MOMENT!!! Extremely grateful to have your guidance, thank You!

Thank you so much. I am so grateful for you 💖🙏🏻💖

Thank you for all you do and sharing your healing with the world.

This is so good to learn and comes at perfect time in my recovery.

Wowza! I found your videos by accident. This has been so helpful to me and reinforces what I practice in program. The way you present the information feels healing in itself. What a gift. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 💛

Your information is life changing, thank you so much for sharing this ❤️

I have learned so much from you and I just found this channel like a week ago.. I have been studying and working on myself for a long time.. you have an excellent way of just putting things together in a practical way. Thank you!

I just learned about this in massage school!!!! I’m so stoked to watch this 😃😃😃

Thank you so much, I have been enjoying your content, and it's been a great tool in helping my continual path of healing.

Excellent video, thanks for sharing all this valuable information!

I sent this to a certain couple. I hope they make the best of their years and stop projecting their hurt on each other. I wish y'all blessed changes

You are so helpful. I love your short, informative videos on HOW to heal. Thank you so much for doing this. 💕

Awesome information and I really appreciate that you keep your videos short and your information straightforward!!

So incredibly thankful for you and your videos. This has been an issue for over 3 decades. I'm excited to try these.

I’ve found everything you teach to be so helpful and true. Thank you 😊

♥️♥️♥️ Loved this! Such valuable insight. 🙏 Sincere gratitude ✨

These are such good strategies. I love your work. And I need to do this for my body that is used to hypervigilance mode.

So helpful!🌟 Thank you Dr. Nicole!💗

Learning so much from your channel, thankyou!!

This was the best thing I ever watched ! Super helpful

Thank you so much for doing theses videos. You are helping me tremendously in my life and I am grateful for you. Not only me but you are helping thousands of people. Holding on to my stress and trauma has caused me many health problems. I am ready to start my healing journey. I cant wait to read your new book. ❤️

I love this and your channel. Thank you.

Thank you, I've read about this a while ago and am so happy you're talking about it. You're making the connection between biology and emotion. The connection between psychology and spirituality, notice the vagus nerve aligns perfectly with the chakras? We live in the horrible conflict where we know our life isn't at threat, but it FEELS like we are. The constant stress that feels like it has no solution, it's not like our ancestors that knew the direct threat of the stress and the solution (run, kill it or w.e). But it's not like that for us, we can't kill our boss, or run from our debt or our childhood trauma. Thanks for this

So grateful Dr Nicole ✨💖✨

So well explained! Love this!! ❤️

what i needed to hear. thank you

So glad you posted this about the vagus nerve...so important humanity knows and knows how to use it for healing....no wonder my sib and I made each other laugh to tears....healing

I recently finished reason a study of how this effects animals. I'm a Certified Professional Trainer and Behavior Specialist, and work with many species. This was great for understanding how to help us humans that suffer. Thank you so much for sharing!

Thanks for this Dr Nicole :)

Awesome as always😊

Super good! So important and very well explained. Great my dear!❤️

The best and easiest to understand explanation of the Vagus Nerve I have found. Thank you!

Thank you for this! ❤ I teach yin yoga and it activates the parasympathetic and soothes the system so beautifully

Thank you sooo much! Many Blessings. I do all of these, but gargle. 😊🧘‍♀️🙏💙💫💫💫❣

Wow. I love to sing and listen to music since I was little. Even if it’s not all good sounding but thank you so much for this video!🖤🖤🖤

You speak truth. Yin yoga and restorative yoga help with the parasympthatic nervous system. Mindfulness works on the brain connections but it's important to get grounded first. Noticed massive difference in a few weeks.. hopefully the pain will be over soon. Its hard when it sends you back down but have to keep plugging.

I love her welcoming voice so much.... 🐯

This is helpful and clearly explained ! Thank you . I have been reading the book “my grandmothers hands “ he mentions the vagus nerve and renamed it as the soul nerve . Thank you for your teaching

thank you so so much for your videos💕

So helpful right now - thank u

Thank you so much🙌

WOW We need to have cell groups in our local cities centered around discussing these awesome videos!! Yessssssssssssss

Love your content thanks.

Really interesting, thank you

Love the dramatic top 💜🖤💜🖤

You sound just like my therapist, you actually remind me of her, you both are so calming

Thank you 💚

Thank you❤️

love this

Wow thank you 💚🌺

Love your videos and thank you 🙏 As I was listening today, I was overlooking the beautiful city I live in, and as we are all different I have to say: city and all hustle and bustle relaxing me😳🧐yep that’s right 💯😂I am empath and I do realise ‘weird one’🤦‍♀️😂I have much to say on Vagus nerve as I believe it’s so connected to heighten intuition..but for now enough said😁Thanks again girly 🤝💪👌ps.,exercises, movements... yes.... 💯💯💯me!

Thank you so much

thank you sm ❤️

Great easy to apply tips! I am not a singer but I like to sing and even hum a lot and I always wondered why I have this tendency to hum. I'm now wondering if this is an intuitive response to help my vagus nerve. I recently discovered and admitted to the fact that I have had traumatic experiences that I have repressed since childhood. I'm working on self-healing now and am finding your videos so helpful. Now I feel better about my humming habit. It has probably been me intuitively humming myself to heal. 💖

Not sure if you are entirely right, but some very helpful info here. Thank you.

Thank you

Thank you so much for this video. Timing was perfect.

I think I could make these six simple things an almost daily ritual

Hi Nicole this is so interesting, I have occasional SVT episodes (arrhythmias) and to resolve it I need to stimulate the vagus nerve x

This makes so much sense to me Last year I had an injury to my neck and head (can't go into detail but similar to whip lash) that caused 2 subdural hematomas. I've told my family that my gluten issues got worse during that time where I could not tolerate any type of gluten whereas before I could. I also had more flare ups of my Rheumatoid Arthritis with back and severe neck pain. My insurance wouldn't approve cortisone shots to my neck, so I was in a lot of pain for many months. It's been almost 2 years and I am no longer as sensitive as I was during my healing from the head and neck injury. It seemed to physically take about 7 months for my body to get over the sensitivities (beyond the gluten issues). I had no idea about this nerve, but I can totally see that the injury caused trauma to this nerve and is why I had so many sensitivities during my healing. Thanks for sharing this important info. I will be more conscious of using the 6 techniques you gave to continue healing any stress to the area

Dr Nicole! I see you have the flue? Thank you for uploading a video although being sick! Get well soon if its so :)

The brain step, is the plug 🧠 🔌

fight/flight/freeze some very good therapies have come about in the last 5 years to deal with trauma

🙏 please to help. Have TBI and PTSD. Vagus nerve becoming impacted - have seizures and heart issues as result of very recent trauma...

This is good. I wonder, though, if the same things can be applied to someone with high vagal tone (causing vagal Afib)? A nurse told me yoga and deep breathing wouldn't help the dysautonomia, but I don't know. For me, it's like both the gas and brakes are on at the same time.

I love this because these suggestions you've focused on here really do work wonders! I'm a big fan of chanting and yoga. I practice my headstand daily, at least one minute or more. Also, Dr. Nicole I tagged you in a poem I wrote on IG today. My handle and pen name is Ladysag77....your presence on my social media feed is greatly appreciated and I have taken your advice to ❤ I save and go through my most difficult to grasp concepts once a wk. The future journaling is an absolute game changer. Thank you for your work🙏

In Yoga, Mantra is the best treatment for mental disturbance.

Interesting ~ my husband thus far has a mystery condition that is similar to meniers with vertigo and sickness , balance goes etc but is also triggered by bright colours . Seems to be linked to stress so reading about vagus nerve has me curious to find out more - any recommendations ?

Thank you for this. Do you believe that there is any positive to the over active sympathetic nervous system during acute times of intense stress? I am currently separating from a narcopath and i am very aware of how on edge I am and how intense breaking the trauma bond feels. I have been having pain in my throat, and I am definitely going to try the gargling. While in this heightened state, I am watching all the weight come off that i put on during this relationship that turned toxic, almost like magic. I wonder if you have any thoughts on how this could also be an effort for the body to balance out in the long-term?

Thank you. I’m interested in the breath work video link you said you’d provide. I do not see a breath work link below your video. ☹️

Could you explain if my BP running high at times is caused by stress and would the vagus nerve exercise would help? I ran across your KZfaq page thru another video after looking up "vagus nerve" . I try to look at natural ways to heal, ease pain, and relieve stress. I will be following you to learn more info. Thank you!

can you make a video for women in their fertility journey .

This video makes me think of times when you laugh so much that it turns into crying, like real crying jags. Seems to explain that and other times that turn to tears.

I’ve had a History of trauma and childhood, I began getting panic attacks and migraine headaches when I was around eight years old to the present moment. Any suggestions about migraine headaches and the Vegas nerve?

Is there a limit to how much we apply these practices?.. can over exercise overstress the vagus nerve ?? Thanks for your content Nicole.! :)

Ive always found singing relaxing now i know why lol

Could whiplash (rear ended years ago while stopped at a light) disrupt the vagus nerve? My necks never been the same since.

Wow.

Check out deb dana & Steve porges, the new understanding of the poly vegas nerve, 3 branches of the parasympathetic freeze and mediation is in this

What about those of us who have damaged vagus nerves? I.E. having developed gastroparesis due to type 2 diabetes (even if diabetes is no longer an issue being faced). Also in addition to 30 years of trauma. Nerve damage cannot be undone so how would that play a role in one's mental health and would the exercises/tools we'd use to heal vary? Thanks!

Hi! what is the link you rcommended for breathing techniques? Thanks!

Hey! How does someone fully heal there trauma though? These suggestions treat symptoms but dont fully heal. Thanks!

may i ask do you gargle with plain water?