Social Vagus
This morning we had a meeting with our Pathways Connect group to discuss articles from the Pathways to Family Wellness magazine. Our chat today seemed to centre on The Social Vagus and creating community. A summary of the article: In this article author and chiropractor Dr. John Edward talks about a turning point in his life. Throughout his career as a chiropractor he had always taught about the two nerve systems, sympathetic (fight or flight) and parasympathetic, which is responsible for balancing everything that enters and leaves the body. While he stands by his long-standing belief that we cannot have health if we live in the sympathetic (stress response) he learned of a surprising study suggesting that spending all our time in the parasympathetic system would wear down one’s health as well. We then learn about the social nerve system, the third branch of the autonomic nerve system. Dr. Edward expresses his personal accounts at the time, going through an emotionally...