Are you curious about how to evaluate your autonomic nervous system? Today, we’re discussing a specific clinical assessment that uses pupil dynamics to help you better understand your nervous system. In this blog, we’re going to do a vagus nerve assessment—the Samogyi reflex. Rather watch or listen? How Pupil Size Reflects Nervous System Activity One … Read more
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Are you experiencing anxiety or chronic stress? Maybe you feel like it’s daunting to try to practice deep diaphragmatic breathing. Well, if that’s the case, I’m hoping that this technique will be very effective for you, bringing you from a state of fight or flight or even freeze to a state of social engagement where you can be calm, grounded, mindful, and connected.
We’re going to talk about how mechanical pressure, potentially from the cervical spine could be impacting your vagus nerve. Therefore, it could be affecting your blood pressure and heart rate, gut issues, anxiety, depression, so this is yet another thing that you want to explore as the root of your potential vagus nerve issues.