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    Reset Your Nervous System After Trauma

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    Discover practical vagal nerve techniques—from breathing exercises to cold exposure and vocal toning—that can help calm your hypervigilant nervous system and reduce physical symptoms like TMJ after trauma and PTSD.

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    The vagus nerve is the primary pathway of your parasympathetic nervous system. When it's working well, it sends signals that slow your heart rate, improve digestion, and basically tell your body, 'you're safe, you can relax now.'

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    I want a handful of strategies, exercises such as EFT tapping or whichever, to tone the vagal nerve and calm the nervous system after years of trauma and ptsd. My nervous system feels heightened all the time and my TMJ is so bad

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