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Using Your Voice, or Singing, or Humming

Chanting or using your voice, or humming, or even a gurgling, all mulate something called the vages nerve. This is this huge nerve bundle that runs through the neck and the torso and into the gut. And singing and humming is a great way to activate it. Along with boxing, cold therapy, or cold plunges, has been shown to create a relaxing effect later in the day. But there's more science around it too. Just the doing a cold plunge, or taking a cold shower, at least turning it down to cold for that last 30 or 60 seconds, or even doing things.

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