Vagus Nerve: Activate the Vagus Nerve and Your Body’s Natural Ability to Heal

A Self-Help Guide with Exercises to Relieve Anxiety and Depression, Prevent Inflammation, and Master Your Emotions

By: Dr. Charles T. Shaffrey

Narrated by: Cliff Weldon

Length: 3 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's Summary

Do you suffer from anxiety or depression that you have never been able to get rid of? Want to find out how to manage stress and emotions and heal your body naturally?

If so, keep reading.

Many people do not realize that their entire bodies are connected together. They do not see how, at the end of the day, their guts, their brains, and their hearts all come together. They may realize that they need some degree of cohesion in their body, but they do not know where that cohesion comes from.

The answer is, it comes from the vagus nerve. This nerve starts at your brain stem and innervates much of your body. It travels into your ear, around your face, down your neck, into your chest, and eventually reaches your digestive tract, allowing for communication between everything. This, in particular, allows for communication between the brain and all of these vital organs, allowing for a direct track straight to and from it to facilitate communication. However, things can go wrong very quickly and very easily. When that happens, it is often because the vagus nerve is making a mistake somewhere along the line.

The vagus nerve regulates the vast majority of the functions that you would consider essential for life. It allows you to rest, eat, and connect with other people. It facilitates your emotions. It also facilitates your response to stress. In an ideal world, when your vagus nerve is strong, it can manage this stress with ease. It can take control and determine exactly which method it needs to cope with the stress. However, when your vagus nerve is not particularly strong, you are likely to find that you suffer from issues like anxiety and depression, which are related to a weak parasympathetic response. Thankfully, you can learn how to overcome this, and this book is here to teach you to do exactly that.

Within this book, you will learn everything that you need to know about the vagus nerve, how it works, and what it does. In looking at the vagus nerve, you will see how it relates to fight or flight mode and how that can create all sorts of problems for you if you are not careful.

Within this book, you will find:

• What the vagus nerve is, why it matters, and why you should care about it
• How the vagus nerve interacts with the nervous system and how nerves work
• The way that the vagus nerve interacts with your body
• The several important roles of the vagus nerve
• The signs that your vagus nerve is not functioning properly
• The ways in which you may suffer from damage to the vagus nerve
• Information about the vagus nerve and emotional regulation, anxiety, depression, inflammation, and more
• BONUS: How to activate and tone your vagus nerve
• And more...

If you are tired of living with a weak vagus nerve that cannot do what it must to help you live your happiest, healthiest life, then take back control today."

©2020 Dr. Charles T. Shaffrey (P)2020 Dr. Charles T. Shaffrey

Very Effective!

The vagus nerve fills in as the extension between the psyche and the body and manages the response to unwind. When performing diaphragmatic breathing with the halfway shut glottis, you will loosen up the vagus nerve.

A wonderful listen!

This book has a lot of information, it is easy to follow. This book is a collection of protocols, nutritional interventions, supplement recommendations, meditation techniques and breathing exercises shown to enhance the function of the Vagus nerve in order to improve overall wellness and to enhance one's ability to cope with stress.

Lot of information!

This book is well speaking it has sooo much information and helpful suggestions. It explains the science in an easy to understand way. Everyone should listen this to understand the significance of the Vagus nerve.

Well Explain!

The author explains in detail the vagus nerve system and how it operates. It also explains how it affects our emotional state and our body when it isn't operating correctly. It also gives methods to maintain and keep the system healthy.

Insightful!

The book presented a brief over view of the major nervous systems and then covered in good detail the vagus system. I answered my questions on exercises to be done to improve the vagus system.

Nice

This author does an excellent job of describing the Polyvagal Theory for manual therapists. If you are not a manual therapist, you may still see some benefit from listening this book.

Incredible Book!

This book brings so much knowledge of the vagus nerve and how it affects us from within and our vitality. Great explanations, treatments that are simple and provide a quality of life. There are better ways to live our lives and this book brings awareness to the choices we make in our day to day lives.

Informative!

This book has information I’ve never found anywhere else. I am using the exercises for belly breathing with excellent results.

Easy to follow!

I'm familiar with the Vagus Nerve and its importance. So far, so good, but wish there were some illustrations, and there are several typos, even on the back cover. I also wish the author had stated her credentials, or how she received her experience to lead to writing a book on the topic.

Like it!

Easy listen and understandable. Didn't realise the VN had so many roles! Looking forward to improving the functioning of this very important nerve with many simple strategies.