Vagus Nerve Deck: 75 Exercises to Reset Your Nervous System

Great card deck to use with clients who have anxiety disorders. Easy to understand skills that walk you through step by step and explain the benefits on the vagus nerve. I appreciate having these to use with clients and the feedback has been positive so far. Bonus is they created by a trauma survivor who was pursuing her Master’s degree in Social Work.

This deck is so useful. There are 3 kinds of cards: vitality, calm, and connection. The little booklet associates the categories with autonomic nervous system states. There are 25 of each. The exercises I have tried have been helpful. The cards don't seem to have original ideas -- I have seen many of the ideas elsewhere. Examples: box breathing, 5-4-3-2-1 grounding, self-hug, and voo sound. Enough are new to me to make it interesting. It is nice to have them in card form in once place. They seem to be what I needed. The Calm cards even help improve sleep. The cards are close to 4x6, with rounded edges. The box is sturdy and opens up like a book, and doesn't have the kind of lips that sometimes bend cards. Print is pretty large. Deb Dana has a polyvagal deck of 58 cards with much more original options. She's very invested in the theory, so those may be better overall, and the included theory is probably more up to date. I like the Vagus Nerve Deck because these cards have more of a quick start feel -- easy exercises, fewer words -- great for stress. I'm glad I have both decks.

This is one of the best purchases I've made in a long time. The creator of this Melissa Romano has certainly placed a lot of thought and creativity in this product. As a creative myself, I do see the quality of her work. The color coded cards are beautiful. This card pack delivers more than I had expected and the price was great as well. I wish there were more demonstrations on some of the cards and I realize spacing might have been an issue but there are demonstrations on many of the cards however and it was easy to read so no worries at all. Otherwise, this was one of the best purchases I've made in a long time for self-care and it Delivered!!! I just tried some of the techniques and the "proof is in the pudding". I feel very relaxed. I purchased to supplement a health issue and I believe it is going to be a great addition to my lifestyle change and healing results. Its easy enough to pull a few cards and begin working on yourself. This delivered overtime for me!! Thank you.

This deck is awesome!! It comes with a little book that describes the vagus nerve and polyvagal theory. I love how the cards explain what the technique does to your nervous system and then on the other side it explains how to do the technique! I have shared these with multiple clients!!

Awesome deck. High quality stock with nice sturdy box. These are exactly what the description says I highly recommend these for everyone. Honestly I've not seen anything else about the Vagus Nerve and how important it is and that we must take care of it,our health. Price is great. Easy to follow and do exercises.

The Polyvagal Theory is pseudoscience that has been disproven. I was disappointed to see it mentioned in this deck. That doesn’t mean the deck isn’t useful as vagus nerve stimulation has been proven to be effective for relaxing the nervous system. I wish therapists would stop promoting Polyvagal Theory as it makes them seem woo woo and they can get the same point across without it. This deck has some wonderful suggestions for vagus nerve stimulation but it would have been better if the instructions for each card were more in depth. Like gargling. The card should instruct to take a deep breath first then slowly breathe out as the person gargles to allow them to actually reach 30 seconds each time. Instead, it just says gargle the water. I was also surprised ear massage wasn’t included. Overall, the cards are high quality and a nice reminder of exercises for a nervous system reset.

My favorite cards are the blue Calm cards. I love that a lot of these exercises come from spiritual traditions. I've seen some of them before, but have not always had confidence around doing them myself, but because this deck has step-by-step instructions, I can do them with confidence. Using this deck on a regular basis also provides me with practice time. I found myself using the Tonglen exercise one time while I was in a stressful situation and it instantly calmed me down and I was able to let go of my resistance to the situation and think about what the Buddhist thing to do would be in this situation. Now I have an arsenal of tools to draw from whenever I'm in a stressful situation. All I need to do is tell whoever I'm with that I need a minute and I can excuse myself and self-regulate with these exercises. 100% recommend to anyone who is trying to be a more peaceful person.

This deck provides an easy, fun, non-overwhelming way to help reset your vagus nerve. I started learning about this topic at a rough time in my life and learning exercises like the ones here proved extremely helpful.

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Very Good and very important content.

Love this great ideas to share with my clients in counselling

This has been great for our family. We take in turns to choose a colour / card at random and have learnt some interesting strategies for vagus nerve reset. We do this usually after a card games session so it feels like a “game”. Each of us have found different favourite strategies. The box is sturdy as are the cards and it doesn’t feel too childish nor too intellectual. It hits the ball on the head for accessibility.