Control our breath, control your mood

 

Inhale: Sympathetic: stress response  

Exhale: Parasympathetic: relaxation response 

 

The power of the breath is incredible. In fact, we can even use it to reset our whole nervous system. Are you ready to learn the Vagus Nerve Reset Protocol?

 

Breathing, self regulation, something we do so much but you probably never think about, there is different kinds of ways to breath, breath is a language to the body, none verbal, you were breathing before you ever learnt to speak and this is a language we learnt as we came into this world through your mothers womb, you were literally breathing through fluid through liquid when you were in your mothers womb, getting oxygen through liquid and when we came into this world we took our first breath without that liquid, and that breath was a signal to your body to begin to start to function in very very precise ways, the breath is a nutrient that feeds every cell in the body, the way that we breath consciously when we take the inhale if you push your stomach out just a little bit, not forcefully but just gently, pushing your stomach out a little allows your diaphragm to drop slightly, your diaphragm is sitting just below your heart, and it is the fluctuation that sends information to the heart, the heart is informing the brain of what chemicals to release into the body and it’s all done through the breath, so when your breathing. a shallow breath that sends one signal that says maybe your in fight or flight maybe you need cortisol and adrenaline so your heart will tell your brain to send those into your body, when you breath deep relaxing breath it’s called the yogic breath, push your stomach out allow the diaphragm to drop your lungs are full of air that sends a very different signal, it shuts down the fight or flight and allows you to send healing chemistry from your brain and into your body, the nucleus in the cell benefits from the oxygen that we are taking in,  The first image below is showing you another factor, the little white molecules are coming in from the lungs crossing the barriers of the capillaries, as you can see the blood cells on the left are a purple blue colour,  because they are lacking oxygen, then they pick up the white oxygen molecules and they become red and go to the rest of the body literally feeding your body through this oxygen from the breath,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so breath is more than just breath it is feeding the code of life within every cell of your body and is informing code as to how much it is able to express so now we can use breath in a very precise way to reset the nerves system in the human body, everybody is stressed because our world is changing, in the last couple of years so many have lost a way of life, lost businesses, lost friends lost family we have been stressed in ways we have not been used to, and one of the ways to respond to that is through the nervous system in the body and breath is very powerful that can be used in a number of different ways to regulate and reset that nervous system. The parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous system work very differently, The relaxation response comes from the parasympathetic nervous system which we activate through the vagus cranial nerve, it goes from the base of your skull down through the back of your spine all the way down your body and it is the largest cranial nerve in the body and it branches off to many organs and glands along the way, each of those are an access point, so if we want to reset the vagus nerve for stress for anxiety for panic and strengthen our immune response and strengthen our cognition all of these come from our ability from when you reset our vagus nerve when you begin to feel this stress, a very effective way to do this, we have all heard the expression take a deep breath but it’s more than that because the inhale triggers the part of the nervous system that’s going to have that stress response which is the sympathetic and the exhale is going to trigger the parasympathetic which is where the relaxation comes from but the key is how we inhale and how we exhale, its the length of time it takes on the inhale and the exhale the ratio, if you inhale for the count of 5 to 6 but when you exhale make it for a longer period of time for the count of 8 to 9 and that will trigger that relaxation response, gentle yogic breathing, inhale through our nose and when you exhale if you narrow the opening of your mouth, as if you are blowing through a straw so it takes a little bit longer, when you focus on your body you begin to see the shift very very quickly, something as simple as shifting the ratio of your breath from the inhale to the exhale and how it leaves your mouth and the images inspire you that a breath is much more than just a breath it is fundamental to your health and your wellbeing and it’s only one example of how we self-regulate what is known as our soft technology, The world is changing our story has to change and our ability to self-regulate our biology in a presence of a changing world

is foundational to our ability to thrive in our times of extremes and we have the ability to awakening this soft technology within us, we can use the external technology when we chose but not to feel lost without it because this is where our power our mastery comes from. 
The Question: that we’re really asking ourselves, 
Do we love ourselves enough to embrace the deepest truth of our existence in our everyday lives? 

We answer this question in the choices we make each moment of every day,