The sympathetic nervous system becomes more active during times of stress, and for some people, this activation can become excessive or prolonged.

It tells your heart to beat and your lungs to breathe ... One part, called your sympathetic nervous system, helps you fight or run away in an emergency (also known as your "fight-or-flight ...

A chronically dysregulated nervous system can lead to both physical and mental symptoms. Here's what to look out for.

"For physical and mental balance, chakras must act in concert with one another," writes yoga educator Tony Sanchez.

Affectionate touches tap into the nervous system’s rest and digest mode ... Cervantes will discuss how researchers study the communication between the gut and lung in normal and disease states. In ...

It monitors and receives information about the functioning of the heart, lungs ... pathway of the parasympathetic nervous system, which, along with the sympathetic nervous system, constitutes ...

Following acute multiple trauma, hypothalamic stimulation of the sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands causes an increase in circulating corticoids and catecholamines, or a stress response.

Begin by exhaling completely to empty your lungs. Inhale slowly ... the autonomic nervous system enters a balanced state where both sympathetic and parasympathetic branches operate optimally ...