The autonomic nervous system is the part of the nervous system that works against our will, controls internal organ functions and ensures our survival. This system is examined in two parts: parasympathetic and sympathetic. While the parasympathetic system facilitates healing, rest, digestion and excretion, the sympathetic system ensures that energy is given to the muscles rather than the organs in cases of fight and flight.

Considering today's intense stress factors, almost all of us cannot rest effectively and try to continue life with high sympathetic system activation. This situation causes digestive, excretory and immune system problems, and as a result, we have to resort to pharmacological agents that have many side effects. However, if we can activate the parasympathetic system when necessary and the sympathetic system when necessary, our healing mechanisms will occur as they should.

There are many exercise concepts developed with this information in mind, and many of them were developed by taking into account breathing rhythm and vagus nerve anatomy. In this context, we organized an exercise program for coping with stress and autonomic system regulation with the faculty members of Ereğli Vocational School of Health Services and the students of the Medical Imaging Techniques Program. At the event, we learned eye exercises, breathing exercises and vagus nerve harmonization methods by practicing them together.