Vagus Nerve Massage & Exercises for GAD/Anxiety - Sukie Baxter

 

I've just found Sukie & love her wonderful healing resource YouTube Channel - here are some powerful anti-anxiety exercises anybody can easily learn/do. Im finding them extremely useful.

I'm particularly glad to find someone talking about the 'physiology first' nervous system dysfunction that I experience as opposed to the 'mental first' anxiety that gets talked about so much. The 'mind over matter' school usually has pre-eminence in the Patriarchic mindset.

I see & personally experience a massive distinction between a direct nervous system response in a dysfunctionally baselined Parasympathetic Nervous System & anxiety created from actively worrying about something. In my experience they are largely different things with some area of overlap, so the remedy for each would necessarily be quite different. I think they mutually contribute to eachother but in a healthy nervous system that returns easily to a functionally appropriate baseline state - its a different ballgame.  

Obviously, once my physiology is caught in a habitual GAD response my mind can & does take off with it & run wild if I let it, but its the physical response that predominantly needs to be tamed imo.

I find it funny that as a young woman I heard that Menopause very commonly was a cause of Anxiety, immediately i assumed this to be a mental thing. Of course there may be a mental element as well for some people. but, in my own experience, it is a purely physical, biochemical, physiological change, as if the loss of hormones has downgraded my nervous systems capacity to tolerate stress.

To be fair my nervous system was already pretty broken pre menopause, but menopause was like removing the brakes from my physiological anxiety. Bio ID Progesterone does help. But physically releasing the Vagus nerve with cold water & exercises like these are definitely the way ahead & completely free!