Your Body will take care of you. Why am I saying that?
I was listening to a webinar on the vagus nerve and they made an off-hand comment that the vagus nerve which is one of the cranial nerves from the brain has 20% of its activity going to the body and 80% of its activity comes from the body to the brain. What does that mean?
It means that the major job of the main calming nerve ( which is also the longest nerve in the body ) is to RECEIVE information from the body rather than to CONTROL things from the brain. So to me that explains the concept of whole person well-being.
The vagus nerve is in control of the relaxing actions of the actions of the body from neck down to the colon. It is a calming nerve and it is affected by the environment around it. We want comprehensive body healing to have a good body environment.
So we want the body environment to be as good as it gets. Because it affects the vagus nerve and the vagus nerve sends the information back to the brain.
Treating the Whole Body
I think of a recent client I saw. She started having bothersome headaches when her eyeglass prescription was increased. The annoying headaches went down when the eyeglass prescription was adjusted downward but they still continued.
When I saw her four months later, she was still having headaches. When I examined her neck, I found that her right neck was a problem. I treated it with neural therapy and the neck pain was dramatically improved after one visit.
Her neck pain affected her headaches and treating the neck pain lessened the headaches. Less headaches lessened her stress and made her feel better. Less effect on the calming vagus nerve.
So if you have a health issue, don’t think of treating one area because that bothers you the most. Think of comprehensive body healing.
Everything in the body is connected to each other and most of the major organs in the body are connected to the vagus. We want information going to the brain showing that the body is doing well NOT that the body is inflamed and not doing well.
To Health!
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To your health!
Dr. Richard Chen
Focused Wellness Author,
A New Way to Health: Wheel of Health
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