Hiccups are sudden movements or repeated spasms of the diaphragm that you can’t control. This sudden inhalation is what ...

Take long, deep breaths Deep, slow breathing that moves the diaphragm—with exhalations twice as long as inhalations—activates the vagus nerve to restore a sense of calm. Many traditional ...

Medically reviewed by Raynetta Samuels, PT, DPT, CLTBreathing exercises can temporarily lower your blood pressure and heart rate by activating the vagus nerve. The vagus nerve is part of the ...

Breathing. Inhale deeply. Now, exhale. Try, once more. This process happens because the diaphragm and the lungs are connected with a complex network of nerve cells. Just how deeply and slowly you ...

Linear Movement Method, Gabriella Espinosa, and Breaking Ballet Founder, Sarah Aspinall, guide us through what a somatic ...

The average person takes about 20,000 breaths a day and you would think that makes us experts, but it turns out that most of us are probably not breathing ... the vagus nerve which runs from ...

Looking for the name of Marcel Proust on search engines, it seems that the centenary of his death (1922) has gone unnoticed by medical doctors. Several essays on his illness have already been ...