Technology has brought breakthroughs in the world as we know it. Many discoveries being made regarding your nervous system and how it works are opening up new insights into wellness.
These new insights include finding ways of restoring healthy functioning to your nervous system. This is critical when you consider your reaction to the affair.
Discovery of the affair changed you in more ways than you may realize. Although the phrase “I’m a different person now” or “I’ve changed“, there’s more evidence to that than previously believed.
The affair changed both you and your spouse. Although I’ve discussed some of those changes in previous emails, one area seldom addressed is how affairs change your vagus nerve.
The vagus nerve is activated when you’re stressed. With enough stress the ‘tone’ or functioning of the nerve changes.
Even though you appear calm to the rest of the world, the vagus nerve knows what you’re actually feeling. You can fool others with appearing cool and composed, yet the stress of the affair continues changing you.
When the tone of the nerve lessens, it begins impairing other systems and functioning in your body. Those sleep, stomach issues, food sensitivities, fatigue and brain fog could be telling you that your vagus nerve is stressed.
Although the symptoms are alerting you that something’s wrong, you may still want to believe your symptoms are due to anything but the affair. You may not want to see the connection between what happened and what you’re experiencing.
Since you’re still functioning, albeit less than what you were functioning at, resolving the issues behind it haven’t been a high priority. Treating the symptoms rather than the cause is a common response.
There are things you can do in healing the vagus nerve and the parts of the body it activates. Having the right kind of diet and exercise are a start. Your body and nervous system need restoration after what you’ve been through.
Your limited attention span may also force you to re-read or have to watch things repeatedly in order to comprehend what you were just exposed to. This is part of the effects of trauma.
In the video, “Overcoming Affair Trauma“, you can learn ways of restoring your emotional and physical functioning. Your body needs recovery from the massive change that’s happened to it.
Keeping It Real,
Jeff
