If you have anxiety or chronic stress, here's a quick way to relieve the constriction and pressure around the vagus nerve. When you're anxious, your body activates the "fight or flight" response, which is part of the sympathetic nervous system. This makes your heart race, your muscles tense, and your breath shallow. But the vagus nerve helps counteract this by calming you down once the danger has passed. It slows your heart rate, lowers blood pressure, and helps you relax. So, if your vagus nerv