The nervous system reset Heal trauma, resolve chronic stress and pain, and regulate your emotions with the power of the vagus nerve
Book - 2024
"[C]hronic stress and trauma impair the vagus nerve's functions, which can lead to illnesses such as anxiety and depression, chronic back pain, headaches, addictive cravings, irritable bowel syndrome, and insomnia. ... After years of extensive study and practice with her patients, [the author] Jessica developed a series of simple but highly effective techniques for retoning the vagus nerve and restoring mental and physical health"--Flap page 1 of dust jacket.
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- Genres
- Self-help publications
Livres de croissance personnelle - Published
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New York :
Balance, Hachette Book Group
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First US edition
- Item Description
- "Originally published in 2024 in Australia by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd"--Title page verso.
- Physical Description
- 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331).
- ISBN
- 9781538757123
- Introduction: I think I know why you're here
- Does this sound like you?
- Our internal thermostat and set point
- The standard biomedical model
- The vagus nerve: An introduction
- A way forward to balance and health
- About this book
- 1. The nervous system states
- Just-right state
- Too hot state
- Too cold state
- How do we get stuck in these states?
- The secondary states
- Part 1. Foundation and framework
- A nervous system primer
- 2. Our four fact-finding networks
- Network 1. The exteroceptive system (the five senses)
- Network 2. The proprioceptive system (the sixth sense)
- Network 3. The vestibular system (the seventh sense)
- Network 4. The interoceptive system (the eighth sense)
- Wellbeing and our three internal sense networks
- 3. The human nervous system
- The central nervous system
- 4. The peripheral nervous system and the vagus nerve
- The sensory system
- The motor system
- The vagus nerve
- Polyvagal theory
- 5. The body-up, brain-down loop
- The heart-brain axis
- The gut-brain axis
- Fascia and the nervous system
- Interoceptive training for the brain-body loop
- 6. The social engagement system and co-regulation
- Co-regulation
- The power of co-regulation
- Part 2. Resetting your nervous system
- The nervous system reset in practice
- 7. Start where you are: Mapping your nervous system states
- Map your just-right state
- Map your too hot state
- Map your too cold state
- Map your secondary states
- Your roadmap to nervous system regulation
- 8. Choosing the right tools for the right job
- Why finding the right tool is so important
- When it comes to plasticity, the fewer tools the better
- Bioplasticity tools
- Finding the right tool for right now
- Interoception: Tuning in to your state
- Anchoring in the just-right state
- 9. Toolkit for shifting out of your too hot state
- Posture tools
- Movement-based tools
- Breathing tool
- Tools for working with the fascia
- Now bring in brain-down regulation
- 10. Toolkit for shifting out of your too cold state
- Movement-based tools
- Breathing tool
- Posture tools
- Now bring in brain-down regulation
- 11. Lifestyle tools to support your reset
- The many benefits of the Mediterranean diet
- Probiotics and prebiotics
- Movement and exercise
- Animals
- Sleep
- Conclusion: This isn't the end
- Acknowledgements
- Endnotes