# 1 Tool to Help Regulate the Nervous System While Going Through Fertility Treatments

The key to regulating your nervous system is through your breath.

According to yoga philosophy, the breath is connected to Prana. Prana is the life froce energy permeating the Universe on all levels — it is physical, mental, energetic, intellectual, spiritual and cosmic energy.

The quality of our breath is linked to the quality of our mind.

Learning to consciously soften, extend, restrain and expand the breath (pranayama) not only creates chemical changes in the body, thus influencing our physiology, but also helps to slow down the brain waves, which helps steady the mind. Tuning in and connecting with your breath stimulates the vagus nerve and induces the parasympathetic branch of your nervous system, signaling safety and connection within ourselves and to one another. In other words, it’s your body’s built in mechanism to help you slow down, get grounded and self regulate.

Stress is not bad!

But being stuck in the “on” position without tools to modulate between the on and off switch is what increases levels of cortisol, inflammation, blood pressure, insulin resistance and impacts restful sleep cycles, all of which can impact trying to conceive and our overall well being

The discipline gained when learning this technique helps bring the senses inward to develop a steady mind and will power while strengthening our intuition and discernment.

As Glinda says, “you had the power all along, my dear.”