Rooted Wellness

Influence your internal beat through sound and music! 🎶

"The core of all singing and even listening is rhythm, thus making it one of the most effective forms to tap the ventral vagal network."

Here are some simple ways to generate rhythm with in your body, this is an excellent way to tap into the vagus nerve and slow down your stress response in this uneasy time.

Tapping the Healing Rhythms of the Vagal Nerve Self-regulation is found through the sound of your internal beat.

👣 By boosting your digestive system and releasing toxins Reflexology can do wonders for your skin!

And of course water, water, water!! 💦💦💦

I have regular reflexology and it unexpectedly helps my skin | IMAGE.ie Reflexology is, usually, performed on your feet. So how could it possibly help your skin? I wondered the same thing, but somehow it did...

🌬 Lets talk about breathing! That thing we rarely consciously do...

The pace we breathe and how deeply we breathe can change our stress responses in the nervous system. 🧠

Fast and shallow breathing takes place naturally when we are stressed. Our bodies think we are our running from a lion (fight or flight). 🦁

Guess what? The opposite also applies! ☯️

Slow breathing signals calmness to our brain. Tapping into our lovely parasympathetic nervous system.

⬇️While lowering our stress levels we are in turn slowing down our heart rate giving the rest of our body systems more energy to do their thang! 🎉

Our digestion improves, toxins release with ease & nutrients get sent to where they are needed!

Why not stop for 10 even 2 minuets a day to slow down and be conscious of your breathing?

Breathing exercises are extremely beneficial for us who find meditation a bit difficult. 🧘‍♂️

You can even take an extra step and put pressure on your solar plexus reflex point on the hands or feet. This will help relax your diaphragm muscle and that big bundle of nerves that sit in the middle of your diaphragm. 👣

You'll find the Solar Plexus reflex exactly on the folding line where the colour changes between the ball and the arch of your foot, pictured below and same area on your hands! 👋

Simply push with the base of your thumb on the point as you breathe in and slowly release on the way out. 👍

I also find the video below great to zone out to while practicing mindful breathing techniques! 😊

If you have read this far big ups to you! 😋🙏🥳

RELAX AND BREATHE: Do Nothing for 10 Minutes

Super interesting read. I have found working the Vagus nerve reflex has amazing benefits to induce long term relaxation! 👣

"The vagus nerve is essentially the queen of the parasympathetic nervous system — a.k.a. the “rest and digest,” or the “chill out” one — so the more we do things that “stimulate” or activate it, like deep breathing, the more we banish the effects of the sympathetic nervous system — a.k.a. the “fight or flight,” or the “do something!” stress-releasing adrenaline/cortisol one."

I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being “Stimulating” it leads to calmness, but how and why?