How do you know if you are “stuck” in fight, flight or freeze?
Are you able to shift back and forth- and in between the Parasympathetic Nervous System and the Sympathetic Nervous System?
“Sympathetic” is a reactionary state controlled by your automatic nervous system. When you feel overwhelmed and overworked, this adrenaline-fuelled state can become dominant, forming “Sympathetic Dominance”. Specific neurological and physiological reactions are triggered.
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Test your Heart Rate Variability (HRV) with a bluetooth heart rate monitor and an app as HRV Elite or SweetBeatLife on your phone.
You can improve your vagal nerve by humming, gargling, singing, cold water thermogenesis and more ideas here.
Another trick that works for me to “Reset” my nervous system is to do three deep nasal inhales- and three long exhales. I also like to do “OMs” at the end of our home yoga practice and box breathing. When I am doing my “nature walks”, I like to walk while breathing through my nose (not my mouth) and sometimes hum! Plus I sometimes talk to the animals and plants!
My other trick is using essential oils as from my friend Jodi’s company- Vibrant Blue Oils.
Vibrant Blue Oils Parasympathetic Blend
- Turn on the body’s ability to heal with this all-natural essential oil blend made from a synergistic combination of clove and lime essential oils.
- Melt away stress, elevate mood, boost energy, improve digestion, and regain focus with Parasympathetic®.
- Struggling to fall or stay asleep?
- You might be physically exhausted, but your brain won’t shut off.
- So, you lie awake, willing your brain to turn off so you can finally fall asleep.
- Your struggle ends right now.
Vibrant Blue Oils Gut Repair Kit™
Contains three powerful oils – Parasympathetic®, Intestinal Mucosal Repair™ and Anti-Inflammatory™ – that when used in combination with a healing diet and nutritional supplements, helps support regeneration and repair of the small intestine.
Vibrant Blue Oils Gut Repair Kit™ contains three powerful oils – Parasympathetic®, Intestinal Mucosal Repair™ and Anti-Inflammatory™.
- Healing the gut can be a powerful first step toward healing other issues.
- An unhealthy gut is at the root of almost all chronic health concerns, including heart disease, cancer, depression, ADD/ADHD, arthritis, diabetes, autism, depression, anxiety chronic fatigue and autoimmunity.
- Repairing the gut can help avoid chronic health issues and improve minor health ailments such as fatigue, aches and pains, allergies, mood swings, low sex drive, bad breath, bloating, gas, eczema, constipation, even premature aging.
Vibrant Blue Oils Thrive Kit™ contains three powerful oils – Parasympathetic®, Lymph™ and Adrenal® – that when used in combination with healthy lifestyle changes, help support the brain’s ability to detoxify and heal.
Specific oils for supporting vitality include:
- Lymph™- The lymphatic system is the body’s first line of defense against disease, working to re-circulate body fluids, stimulate functioning of the immune system, and balance the autonomic nervous system.
- The lymphatic system needs to be functioning optimally in order for toxins to be removed from the brain and the body.
- If you think of the body like a hydraulics system where congested tissue downstream prevents optimal flow upstream, congested lymphatic vessels in the neck will impede drainage of toxins from the brain.
- To enhance lymphatic flow and drainage, generously apply Lymph™ around the sides of the neck.
- Parasympathetic®: Your body needs to be in the parasympathetic rest and digest state to heal.
- When the parasympathetic nervous system kicks in, your mind and body relax and calm the release of stress hormones, like cortisol, allowing for optimal energy flow.
- Applying Parasympathetic® blend to the vagal nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone) before meals stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system “rest and digest” state to promote optimal digestion, absorption and assimilation of the nutrients necessary to help the body heal and put it in optimal balance.
- Adrenal®: The adrenals are small triangular glands that sit on top your kidneys and produce and release the body’s stress hormone, cortisol.
- Cortisol provides the body with the energy it requires to survive physical or emotional stress.
- When your adrenal glands are overtaxed or fatigued, they are not able to supply the body with the energy it needs to heal, a state known as Adrenal Fatigue.
- Essential oils can be used like Adaptagenic herbs to help support the adrenal glands for the optimal energy reserves required to support your healing.
- The Adrenal™® blend also contains several stimulatory oils like Thyme, Cinnamon, and Rosemary that you feel invigorated, revitalized and energetic.
- To use, either smell or topically apply 1- 2 drops of Adrenal® on the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side).
Other Vibrant Blue Oils to support body systems includes:
- Blood Sugar Support
- Breathe
- Digest
- Energize
- Immune Support
- Migraine Relief
- Nerve Repair
- PMS
- Purification
- Sleep
- Depression
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