Simple Ways To Heal Your Nervous System

Healing is a choice.

Trauma is stored in the body.

Our sympathetic nervous system is our fight-or-flight response. When our sympathetic nervous system is activated, our body feels like we are in true danger. For many of us who live with stress, we have chronic sympathetic nervous system activation.

Sympathetic nervous system activation leaves us highly reactive, on edge, and unable to take in new information. If you’ve ever seen another person (or yourself) ‘overreacting’ — what you’re witnessing is a nervous system state. Many of us are stuck here.

One of the most important parts of how trauma impacts our nervous system comes from our vagus nerve.

The vagus nerve begins at the brain and connects to every organ within the body. There is a communication highway every second of every day.

The vagus nerve plays a significant role in activating our parasympathetic nervous system.

The parasympathetic nervous system is our rest and digest response. When we are in our parasympathetic nervous system, we feel relaxed, socially connected, at peace, creative, and able to take in new information without feeling threatened.