Many people have anxiety and stress in their daily lives, so we need good ways to manage and reduce stressn. Because prolonged, negative stress takes a huge toll and we are not made for it. The good thing is that we can use our body’s own intelligence to calm everything down! Because becoming calm is a active action that we can choose for ourselves. That’s why I have developed the new ABV method where you calm yourself in a few minutes by holding on points that stimulate AVB – calm breathing, the vagus nerve and the abdominal brain.

We need ways to distance ourselves from our stressful lives so that we can both feel better on all levels. Stress easily settles in the abdomen, affecting bowel function and impairs digestion and nutrient absorption. More than half of people have problems with their stomach and intestines nowadays, so simple everyday measures are needed.

Calm and relax your entire body in just a few minutes by holding points that stimulate the AVB:

• A for calm breathing
• V for central vagus nerve
• B for emotional and intuitive Abdominal brain

Why is it important to calm the stomach? Because 80% of the communication between the stomach/abdomen and the brain goes from the stomach’s ‘brain’, the ENS, up to the CNS. Stress that settles in the stomach will inevitably affect our brain function. Both nutrient absorption and cognitive ability deteriorate, for example. But we can change this, quickly with the right approach.

Calmfulness stops stress response and calms your body quickly.

The ABV method or Calmness training takes just 3-5 minutes to do – and it can both completely break a stress response and calm the body. Because you touch on important points and because conscious breathing is so important for our well-being! (Read more about breathing in the links below.)

The more often you do this exercise, the more you will counteract the stress and not let its negative effects take hold of your body. When you repeat the method daily, you inevitably rewire your own automatic response. This means you are rebuilding your body to a higher level of resilience, stress tolerance. A small shift that brings a big change to your new life!

It is also very mentally strengthening to experience that you can so directly control your own well-being in a positive direction! For everyday life to work well, we need good tools – here you have a simple and well-functioning one!

Stimulating peace and quiet

The AVB method stands for breathing, vagus and abdomen, and I have developed this childproof simple method to provide quick help to overstressed people. The vagus nerve is the body’s largest nerve and it affects EVERYTHING at lightning speed, calming and stimulating recovery processes.

This is how you do it:

1. the A-points

The A-point (breathing) involves stopping, and taking a few deep breaths. Breathe slowly in and out through your nose throughout the exercise. To activate deep abdominal breathing, take the fingers of one hand (the left one) and put the fingertips together to form a flower. Put this finger flower on the lower part of the sternum, approximately between the nipples. Hold at that point for a minute or more, keeping your attention focused on your breathing. Your breathing will become both calmer and deeper.

2. V-points

The V-point represents the activation of the vagus nerve. Using the same finger flower, place it on one of the body’s vagus points located at the base of the neck where the neck ends, and hold with your fingertips on top of the lower cervical vertebra. Continue to breathe calmly while touching lightly with the finger flower for one to two minutes. Touching this area relaxes the vagus nerve – and thus the rest of the body. (Picture of the vagus nerve.)

The vagus nerve is the largest nerve in the body, reaching all organs.

It is extremely important that the body relaxes, because then the communication in the nerves works better. And the abdominal brain sends far more signals to the brain than vice versa. Most people don’t realize that the abdominal brain is important, because the abdomen contains 80% of the immune system cells and 80% of the communication from the abdominal brain to the brain of the head. The better this communication works, the better we and the immune system feel.

Therefore, it is good to try to live in a de-stressed state as much as possible. So hold the V-point for one to two minutes, that’s enough for a big shift in the body but more relaxation. When I did this before a writing session, I was so relaxed that I had to go to bed and rest for a while! It works…

Create bliss inside by activating your peace and quiet system

3. the belly points

The abdominal point is the third point to be stimulated. Bring your whole hand down and place it on the abdomen, just below the navel, and continue to breathe deeply. Touching the skin of the abdomen with the hand gives the best effect, but it works well on top of clothes. Our biggest energy center is two finger widths below the navel, such an important place.

Move your hand slowly around in circles on your abdomen, and continue this movement for at least one minute. By now, it may have been five or six minutes since the start, and your body is in a much calmer state. Not only is this very good, but it is necessary. It works very well to calm the stomach. So feel free to do this before you eat – 3-5 minutes of Calmdulness – breathing, vagus and touch on the abdomen.

I call this state Bliss – peace and calm with an inner quiet joy and harmony. We are created to be in that state for most of our time. However, we are NOT created to be in our heads with thoughts and stress incessantly. Therefore, it is good to repeat the AVB exercise often because then it becomes a positive imprint.

Feel free to do Calm and Tranquility training several times during the day, because it only takes 3-6 minutes and it can make 80-90 percent of your stress disappear! Please write below in the comment field how it goes!

Reinforce calm with the Blissful body method

If you then want to further strengthen the calm within you, it is positive to continue doing the Blissful body method. This involves shifting your consciousness from the abdomen by bringing your fingertips together and placing them on top of the heart, or somewhere near the heart region. Concentrate on positive, pleasurable and empowering needs. Choose five or six positive words and repeat them, such as light, warmth, peace, joy, love, harmony or whatever words suit you. Repeat these words for a few minutes. It has an immediate effect on the heart, which goes into a calmer phase.

The heart communicates directly with all the cells of the body, and at the speed of light.

Therefore, it is crucial to also involve the heart to calm the stomach. This is a simple way. Read more here about my Blissful body method

Dr. Sanna Ehdin

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In this context, we would like to highlight our good friend and professor Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, who discovered our Calm and Tranquility System and researched it for a long time. Oxytocin is very important here. A fantastic pioneering effort! You can listen to her here: Lecture about closeness, touch and the immune system

Learn more about:

• The vagus nerve and how to activate it for better health and energy.
• Get energized by nasal breathing
• Conscious breathing
• How to increase resilience, stress tolerance.
• The Blissful body method -method
• See references in New Stop Fighting – Start Living
• Stimulate oxytocin: Massage to calm the body and produce feel-good hormones