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The Vagus Lounge is a place where we can rest, digest, and contemplate; physically and mentally. Relax. 🙏🏼☺️

Anatomy and Physiology

The vagus nerve is the tenth cranial nerve. It is a bidirectional nerve that connects the brain to other organs in the body. This blog focuses on the vagus nerve’s role in resting and digesting.

When the vagus nerve is activated the body redirects blood away from the muscles in the legs and arms and directs it towards the center of the torso. It also slows the heart rate, relax muscles, and digest food if a meal has just been eaten.

Personal backstory: I was starting my senior year in high school, and all my Lutheran church friends had left for college. I was left alone with the sermons. However, the way Christianity was being taught to me, there seemed to be too many internal inconsistencies to ignore. I couldn’t suspend disbelief any longer. At 18 years old, I was done with organized religion. I couldn’t switch to atheism; I still felt a pull that had to have a source. The Emmanuel Books found me first. Gentle and warm, the channeling of Emmanuel follows a ‘question-and-answer’ format. “What does dying feel like?” “It feels like taking off an uncomfortable shoe.” Comforting as the books were, they didn’t explain what the ‘point’ of life was. What was the base, the foundation, what were the first principles? If I knew that, the rest of life could make sense. Find a unifying theory of life, perhaps? Sure, let’s keep looking… Many years later, after investigating psychics, mystic Christianity, philosophy, and A Course In Miracles (among others), I stumbled upon Buddhism. This blog is a continuation of my searching, finding, and reporting. Thanks for taking the time to follow my journey. We are all on this adventure together. I hope you find something here to help you in your quest, too.

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