Jim Kwik explains how the vagus nerve controls whether you fight, freeze, or stay calm. Trauma can break your threat detection, making you react wrong to normal situations. Meditation, exercise, and breathwork can reset it.
According to the polyvagal theory, the way our nervous system perceives threats impacts our brain and our body, and our body will respond to any situation, and it focuses on the autonomic nervous system and the vagus nerve specifically. The theory is based around us being either immobilized or mobilized, otherwise known as fight, flight, or freeze, with the end goal to achieve a state of healthy social engagement. When someone has experienced trauma, their ability to scan and their environment for danger cues can sometimes be skewed. This can cause confusion in people who have experienced trauma and are not aware how a healthy response mechanism is supposed to function in our day-to-day interactions. One of the most effective ways to calm the vagus nerve is through something physical, such as meditation, exercise, breathwork,
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