The Next Foundation
Humming people are happy people, wouldn't you say?😁 Light on their feet? Relaxed?
What is the sound you make when eating something delicious? ""Mmmmm" .....what was the last item you ingested that made you make this sound?
Mine was yesterday!!! A 3-layer almond flour sponge cake with a layer of dark chocolate ganauche and another separated by a raspberry reduction from an Austrian-Hungarian Chocolater - Stubbe!!!!( https://www.stubbechocolates.com/) Mmmmm!!! You all know this is the one item I ask for my half and real birthday each year! Mmmmmm....
How often do you hum? Or hold a note to tune your vocal chords and nervous system?
It is a fantastic practice to stimulate another foundation....your parasympathetic nervous system...through the vagus nerves!
With an opportunity to eat a meal every day (mmmm), practice yoga (ommmm), breathwork (laaaaam), or sexual health (ahhhhhhhhh)......elongate the hummmmmmmmmmmm....aid your nervous system to rest and retune to improve YOURR stress tolerance, try 6 loooooooooooooooong seconds!
Benefits include:
- promotes mental relaxation and lightness in the body
- improved immune system
- decreases stress and cortisol levels
- improves digestion through relaxation
- AND FEELS AHHH-MAZING!! A moment of bliss.
The vagus nerve starts from the brain stem to travel south to inervate your pharynx, larynx and lungs....just noting these glans, the stimulation of the phynyx by hummmmmmmmmmmming ....you are in control of your nervous system. You are in control to shift from fight/flight in your sympathetic nervous system to rest/digest in your parasympathetic nervous system. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh...that feels good!😊
We can tune an instrument...although you cannot tuna-fish!! (I love that joke!) Ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa
However we can tune our bodies!!! and this is a tool at your disposal.
***Humming at the pace of Rimky Korsakov's "Flight of the Bubble Bee" is a bit aggressive...https://youtu.be/aYAJopwEYv8 hold the "ray" just as Julie Andrew's does in the Sound of Music! Looooooong for more than 5.5 seconds and you will reap the benefits!
Continue to hum, run, breathe, skip, frolick, jump, and play this weekend with the ones you love!