The Morning Ritual That Activates Your Vagus Nerve

Name: The Morning Ritual That Activates Your Vagus Nerve
Uploaded: 2026-02-20T00:00:01+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Claudia von Boeselager
Description: In this interview excerpt, Speaker B describes a personal morning routine designed to promote optimism, connection, and physiological balance. The…

20 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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In this interview excerpt, Speaker B describes a personal morning routine designed to promote optimism, connection, and physiological balance. The routine begins with waking at around 4:30 am, followed by naming three to four things they are grateful for, which they say clears mental cobwebs. Next, they set personal intentions for the day, committing to specific actions such as phone calls. They then take a walk in a park, feeding birds and breathing fresh air, and practice box breathing during the walk. This combination is claimed to activate the vagus nerve, put the sympathetic nervous system in flow, and leave them feeling joyful and capable of tackling the day. The speaker emphasizes that consistently following this sequence leads to overall well‑being and effectiveness.

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What are some practices that you do personally to make sure that you can show up as your best self, as your most optimistic and connected?
I'm an early riser. I wake up at about 4:30 and the first thing I do is think of 3 or 4 things that I'm really grateful for. Immediately the brain goes into a very nice place there and the cobwebs of the issues that may arise just go away. And then I set my intentions for the day, for me personally, rather than anything else. Whatever happens today, I will do A, B, C, D. I'll make those phone calls to my parents or et cetera. They will happen. And I again feel quite joyful. And then her first thing we do is go for a walk around a park, which we have, feed the birds. And what is lovely is that you, particularly now, you see the stars, you see the trees, there's no traffic, so you breathe good air. And I do box breathing during that walk. So after that, I feel incredible. I feel like I can take on the whole world. My vagus nerve is active. My sympathetic nervous is in flow. And what I do find is if I do that, everything else works out.