Unlock Safety Breath: Stimulate Vagus Nerve To Signal Safety

My job in the OR is to monitor electrical signals in the body. There are also a lot of electrical signals going on in our world. And so we're trying to quiet ourselves and key in on what the signal is actually saying that might be important to allow us to make an adjustment, versus the constant noise that is part of our world.

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And as you're moving into your breath, See if you can expand into your ribs. And so instead of trying to breathe deep, See if you can breathe into your back. You might even reach around and touch your back. Place your hand on your mid-back. Let's see if you can take an easy breath there. Now I feel like you might place your hands on your ribs. You might take a gentle in and out here. There's a few things happening when we breathe in a 360 degree breath. So breathing into our sides. We're breathing into our front and into our back, And we're visioning and seeing the breath going to those places. And so what's happening is not necessarily a deep breath, But with these 360 breaths, We're stimulating the vagus nerve. Just sending another signal. And that's signal of safety.