Eden Elliot - Vagus Nerve,10 Simple Excersises to Activate Your Bodys Innate Healing Power

You are about to explore trauma from a relatively new perspective. Not only will this new theory explain many things that happen in people's lives, but the information can allow you the opportunity to change your life in a very positive manner.

Many of us often wonder as to why our health is in the decline state and we can't seem to get the upper hand on wellness, even though we really work at it.

Psychologists now understand the possibility that most trauma leads to negative programming of our future health. Locked within our mind are the answers we seek, which use the vagus nerve to communicate via every major organ in the body.

As a former practicing psychologist, I and others like me have come to the conclusion that the Polyvagal Theory is strongly worth your consideration and explains why some of us have better health than others.

It is true that how you might interact with your world will determine the impact of your overall health and wellness.

The Polyvagal Theory unlocks a deeper understanding that trauma is much more than just re-living a bad memory. We can now see that there are different levels of neuro-psychology are often influenced or directly impacted by trauma and this leads to physiological events:

What Polyvagal theory proposes is that when an individual is in a situation of severe life threat, and is unable to use mobilization strategies or social engagement strategies to get out of that situation, one might get dissociative features with that event. The issue is not the horrendous experience of the trauma but trying to make sense of the physiological responses that this event triggered. (3)

For example, a young man survives a car accident that was very traumatic and has left him in fear of ever driving a car again. Even thinking about driving the car causes the equivalent of a panic attack, reduced blood flow and anxiety at a level that is difficult to control or explain to others. This third level response is equivalent to an electrical short circuit in the brain and can cause many issues.

This concept leads into an understanding that each and every one of us reacts to various levels of stimulation / trauma contingent on our ability to react in one of three ways to control it, or to lose control:

Social behavior to help defuse the situation.

. Fight or flight response mobilization.

Shutting down or defensive / neuro short circuit.

The Vagus Nerve is the super highway that communicates with your body. Its health can determine how much your body can handle and as to what state you will function or dysfunction (shutting down).

You could actually surmise from this concept that the only way to react to certain stressful situations is to either defuse them through social behavior and/or fight or flight response mobilization.

Shutting down is the third response that can happen to any of us who cannot cope with a particular event, like the car accident.

Yet many traumas in life become an extension of our neuro synaptic and/or cognitive comprehension. Such images, trauma and other events are stored in such a way that your mind creates areas where the focus of negative thought becomes a necessity to allow you to continue to function in daily life.

For example, Joe was recently robbed and beaten near a construction site in the city. Now, anytime Joe walks by this area he becomes physically upset, and has physiological reaction such as elevated blood pressure, rapid pulse and feeling ill are triggered like a panic attack.

It's interesting to note that the body is incapable of total healing when one remains in a negative state. With a malfunctioning vagus nerve, the effect can be amplified, create lasting psychological and physiological health issues.

Your body will maintain trauma in the form of physiological dysfunction and can continue to do so as long as you allow yourself to be traumatized again and again.

Of course none of us believe that we are trying to be traumatized by our own thoughts and feelings. Yet such thoughts and emotions are locked within neuro patterns that are maintained deep within the neurons of our own brain; like trapped neuro storms we keep the storm alive as it flares up and trouble us during some mental triggers.