Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
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Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
Narrated by:
Derek Botten
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Narrated by:
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Derek Botten
Summary
The bestselling guide
Dr. Stanley Rosenberg, PhD, offers an easy-to-understand overview of the vagus nerve—and helps you regulate your body’s innate capacity to heal from stress, trauma, anxiety, and injury.
A sigh, a yawn, a swallow: these small reflexes show that the nervous system has shifted out of defense and into safety. Dr. Rosenberg's exercises are designed to bring about that shift in a minute or two.
Building on Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory, Rosenberg shows how the vagus nerve and four other cranial nerves govern breathing, digestion, heart rate, and our ability to connect with others. When these nerves aren’t working well, the body can stay locked in fight-or-flight or sink into shutdown. Rosenberg links those patterns to anxiety, depression, trauma, migraines, and chronic neck and back pain. Most meaningfully, instead of chasing each symptom, he works with the source. Drawing on more than thirty years as a Rolfer and craniosacral therapist, he offers:
- The Basic Exercise, a simple eye-movement technique that takes less than two minutes
- A quick self-check of vagal function by looking at the soft palate
- The Salamander exercises and stretches for stiff necks, tight shoulders, and forward head posture
- Self-massage for migraine trigger points, plus a four-minute natural facelift
- A clear map of the five states of the nervous system
- Insight into autism, sound sensitivity, and the middle ear
With a foreword by Stephen Porges, this is a hands-on guide for readers who want to work through the body, not just the mind, to calm the nervous system and support emotional and physical health. Grounded in neurobiology research, clinical stories, and easy-to-follow exercises, this book gives you the tools to bring your body back into a state of safety, balance, and optimal functioning.
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Critic reviews
“Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve is Stanley Rosenberg’s personal expression of his insight into and appreciation of the role that vagal pathways play in the healing process by calming the body and enabling the body to welcome touch. By intuitively understanding this integrated process, Stanley has developed a system of manipulations that promote states of safety, allowing the body to retune the nervous system, thus optimizing behavior, mental health, and physiological homeostasis.… His powerful insights, metaphors, and treatment models are beautifully conveyed and archived.”—From the foreword by Stephen W. Porges, PhD, Distinguished University Scientist, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, and professor of psychiatry, University of North Carolina
“Stanley Rosenberg has put his encyclopedic clinical knowledge to work through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory, illuminating the path away from the underlying cause of so much of today’s disease: anxiety. A tour de force.”—Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains
“Stanley Rosenberg is one of the world’s most skilled and creative hands-on therapists. His diagnostic and treatment techniques have immediate application for everyone. Read and enjoy this book, and apply the techniques in your life or in your practice.”—James L. Oschman, PhD, author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
“An excellent and most valuable resource, written by one of the true masters in the field.”— Dr. Robert Schleip, director of the Fascia Research Group
“Stanley Rosenberg has put his encyclopedic clinical knowledge to work through the lens of the Polyvagal Theory, illuminating the path away from the underlying cause of so much of today’s disease: anxiety. A tour de force.”—Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains
“Stanley Rosenberg is one of the world’s most skilled and creative hands-on therapists. His diagnostic and treatment techniques have immediate application for everyone. Read and enjoy this book, and apply the techniques in your life or in your practice.”—James L. Oschman, PhD, author of Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis
“An excellent and most valuable resource, written by one of the true masters in the field.”— Dr. Robert Schleip, director of the Fascia Research Group
This audioble is most likely a teaser for most readers to buy the paperback version of this book. I ended up buying a printed copy, as the full understanding of exercises obviously demand the visual aid of the pictures included in part two and annexes.
Extremely enlightening
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The Vague Ñ
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fascinating information on the vagus nerve
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healing oneself
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Exersizes in Part 2 is referenced throughout the book and is actually chapter 12. I had a long wait to find out what they were.
I recommend listern to chapter 12 1st then you know what hes talking about.
The info is very intresting and I've learnt loads. I will continue to look into polly vagus theory.
Very intresting
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