Vagus Nerve Exercises To Rewire Your Brain From Anxiety | Wellness Talks

Join Todd Schmenk as he walks through some vagus nerve exercises to rewire your brain from anxiety. These quick exercises are useful either when you are experiencing a vasal vagal response as well as a providing suggestions for a simple routine to help prevent or at least lessen this unpleasant, panic like experience.

0:00 Introduction 0:58 How/Why It Happens 1:28 What is the Vagus Nerve?
2:44 What is it's Purpose? 3:39 What Can We Do About It? 4:32 Get Horizontal 5:09 Water/Dive Response 6:10 Self-Massage 7:54 Change the Temperature 9:10 Have a Mindfulness Practice 10:49 Other Preventative Steps 11:40 Summing it Up

If you want a follow up video to help deal with this with a mindfulness skill, consider the following: DBT Skill Half Smile https://youtu.be/n90VVjd75bQ?list=PLvfxC56ej2jKEQTU9C9tfWjaAl7uQn2hq

Another great skill for the immediate moment is the following:

Cognitive Defusion | How to Defuse in 5,4,3,2,1 https://youtu.be/2Q7rX0lSsbk

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