Patrick Farmer
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Vagus nerve is body’s largest serpent, mystery within mysteries of interconnected displacement. They are ‘one’ of twelve cranial nerves, modulator in brain-gut axis (tongue of one’s gut feeling), and so are linked with, among many other roles, digestion and heart rate, wrapping themselves around ear to supply innervation to canal, tragus, and auricle.
This tonal wanderer, both one and one’s other as outburst, also helps to counteract adrenal burnout, otherwise known as fight/flight/faun/freeze, and resonates when we feel compassion and empathy, sometimes called love nerve.
Patañjali calls ability to withdraw mind from sensation, abstraction. Achieving control with one’s heart requires a profound degree of awareness of body. Certain techniques he outlines relate to ‘controlling’ heart to tell them when to beat, wherein vagus nerve can be consciously isolated, experiencing them unto their selves by visualising them as entoptic sea monsters, their many tentacles reaching deep into viscera where myth and proprioception propogate.
Linking this back to resonance matching of bee and flower. Humming has been shown to increase nasal nitric oxide, a vasodilator so-called, helping to dilate blood vessels so oxygen can flow unimpeded through body. Humming stimulates frequencies of vagus nerve in part because they run through both larynx and pharynx, and mantic ohm of Patañjali’s Yoga Sutras finds equivalency in humming of deific bees holding vibration in sinuses as phonic rapture.