Simple Daily Practices to Shift from Stress to Safety
You’ve probably heard the term vagus nerve floating around wellness spaces. Maybe it sounded too medical… or too woo.
But what if we told you this one nerve is the gateway between survival and healing?
At True You Collective, we believe that real transformation doesn’t happen from chasing symptoms — it begins when you partner with your nervous system.
And the vagus nerve?
It’s the bridge.
🧠 What Is the Vagus Nerve?
The vagus nerve (from the Latin word for wandering) is the longest cranial nerve in your body. It travels from your brainstem, down your neck, through your chest and diaphragm, and into your digestive tract — touching nearly every organ along the way.
Think of it as the communication superhighway between your brain and body.
Its job? To regulate:
- 💓 Heart rate + blood pressure
- 🌬️ Breath and oxygen levels
- 🧬 Digestion and detox
- 🧠 Mood, memory, and focus
- 🔥 Inflammation response
- 🤍 Emotional regulation + connection
Most importantly, the vagus nerve is the main component of your parasympathetic nervous system — aka your “rest, digest, and heal” state.
🚨 When the Vagus Nerve Is Offline…
You don’t rest well.
You can’t digest.
Your emotions swing wide.
Pain lingers.
And your body lives on high alert — scanning for danger, even when none is present.
This is what we see daily in clients battling:
- Chronic stress
- Burnout or adrenal fatigue
- Mold toxicity or Lyme
- Autoimmune flares
- Anxiety + grief
- Pain that won’t go away
🔬 The Science Behind Vagal Tone
Vagal tone refers to the strength and responsiveness of your vagus nerve. Higher tone = better ability to bounce back from stress.
Low vagal tone = body stays stuck in fight-or-flight mode too long.
Harvard Health, NIH, and dozens of clinical studies now confirm:
People with higher vagal tone experience:
✔️ Less inflammation
✔️ Faster recovery from stress
✔️ More emotional resilience
✔️ Improved sleep + digestion
✔️ Lower risk of chronic disease
(Source: Harvard Medical School, National Institutes of Health)
✨ Frequency Meets Function at True You Collective
At True You Collective in Arvada, CO, we specialize in frequency-based therapies that support vagus nerve health and nervous system recalibration.
🌀 Vibroacoustic Therapy stimulates the vagus nerve through low-frequency sound vibration, which has been shown to:
- Increase HRV (heart rate variability — a key marker of vagal tone)
- Promote emotional release
- Relax muscles and tension patterns held by trauma
🔴 Red Light Therapy (photobiomodulation) supports mitochondrial repair and reduces neuroinflammation, which improves vagus nerve signaling and cellular resilience.
🧖♀️ Infrared Sauna + Breathwork amplify parasympathetic activation while detoxifying at the same time.
You don’t have to will your body into healing.
You just have to give it a safe enough environment to do what it already knows how to do.
🧘♀️ 5 Daily Practices to Support Your Vagus Nerve (from Home)
You don’t need a clinic visit every day — small daily rituals add up. Here’s how to start:
1. Longer Exhales
Your vagus nerve is activated on the exhale. Try breathing in for 4, out for 6 to 8. Even 2 minutes a day helps.
2. Cold Exposure
Finish your shower with 30 seconds of cold water or splash cold water on your face — proven to activate the vagus nerve via the mammalian dive reflex.
3. Humming or Chanting
Sound vibration directly stimulates the vagus nerve through the vocal cords and inner ear — try humming, chanting “OM,” or even singing in the car.
4. Gargling Water
Gargling activates vagal pathways and strengthens throat muscles that also affect your digestion and immune response.
5. Intentional Stillness
Lay down, hand on heart, and say:
“You’re safe now. We’re not rushing anymore.”
This softens the inner alarm system and builds a sense of internal safety.
🌱 The Nervous System Reboot™ Is a Relationship
This isn’t about fixing what’s broken.
It’s about rewiring what’s overwhelmed.
When you learn to speak the language of your vagus nerve — through frequency, light, sound, breath, and intention — your body remembers how to heal.
Not by force.
But by permission.
📍 Want to Experience a Vagus Nerve Reset in Arvada, CO?
Book a Vibroacoustic Sound Lounge or Red Light Session at True You Collective.
Your first red light visit is half off book here — let your nervous system feel what safety truly means.
“This is not a luxury. It’s the foundation your healing depends on.”
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