Do you find it hard to calm yourself down when feeling heightened?

When your sympathetic nervous system is activated, it can feel like you become a passenger in your body & mind.

Your sympathetic nervous system has the role of mobilising you for action when there is a real or perceived threat.

Activating the vagus nerve allows you to down-regulate your nervous system so you can come back into your ventral vagal (parasympathetic) nervous system.

The vagus nerve is made up of 75-80% parasympathetic fibres, and activating it acts like a brake pedal on the activation of the sympathetic nervous system.