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The Vagus Nerve with Dr. Perry Nickelston

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How to Release Tightness and Tension in Your Brain

Tingling and numbness of pins and needles is poor blood flow and suffocation from somewhere. You have all this excess stress from the sympathetic nervous system being all on all the time, what they call sympathetic dominance or sympathetic hyper vigilance. And then guess what happens when you're in that state? You over breathe, you hold your breath, you get excess tightness and tension and then you feed the dragon. That's why one of the reasons I tell people always rub the back of your skull and back of your head and massage it.

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