Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve - Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism (Rosenberg Stanley)(Paperback)

Simple vagus nerve exercises rooted in Polyvagal Theory to calm the nervous system and ease anxiety, depression, trauma, migraines, and chronic neck painThe bestselling guideDr. Stanley Rosenberg, PhD, offers an easy-to-understand overview of the vagus nerve—and helps you regulate your body’s innate capacity to heal from stress, trauma, anxiety, and injury.A sigh, a yawn, a swallow: these small reflexes show that the nervous system has shifted out of defense and into safety. Dr. Rosenberg's exercises are designed to bring about that shift in a minute or two. Building on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory, Rosenberg shows how the vagus nerve and four other cranial nerves govern breathing, digestion, heart rate, and our ability to connect with others. When these nerves aren’t working well, the body can stay locked in fight-or-flight or sink into shutdown. Rosenberg links those patterns to anxiety, depression, trauma, migraines, and chronic neck and back pain. Most meaningfully, instead of chasing each symptom, he works with the source. Drawing on more than thirty years as a Rolfer and craniosacral therapist, he offers:The Basic Exercise, a simple eye-movement technique that takes less than two minutesA quick self-check of vagal function by looking at the soft palateThe Salamander exercises and stretches for stiff necks, tight shoulders, and forward head postureSelf-massage for migraine trigger points, plus a four-minute natural faceliftA clear map of the five states of t
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