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"Healing Comes From Within"
As massage therapists, our role is to
initiate the natural healing process which lives within each one of us. But,
due to lives circumstances our body is not always our best friend. We are
trained at a very young age to hold in emotions and to not express our
feelings. As we get older most of us don't even recognize the turmoil that
we have created inside our own bodies. As adults we have become quite
proficient at masking our feelings to the point, which makes our day-to-day
lives seem quite healthy.
However, if we look at our lives a little closer we will find that a great
deal of our imbalances is based on our reaction to fear. Most of are taught
if we don't act in a certain way, or live up to certain expectations, there
will be consequences. So as you can see a pattern is being developed that
does not necessarily work to our advantage.
First, we need to acknowledge that we are carrying emotional baggage that
can be the root cause of many of our physical imbalances. We then have to
look at the systems of the body and how they are affected unconsciously.
Studies have shown that the autonomic nervous system holds the key to many
of our physical discomforts/problems. Stress and fear are two of the most
notable causes that have been directly correlated to the dysfunction of the
autonomic nervous system, better known as dysautonomia.
The chain of communication starting with the hypothalamus communicates with
the pituitary gland and then the adrenal gland. These three glands produce
many of the hormones that we need to keep our body in balance. But, through
stress and fear we tend to overload our system to the point of losing touch
with our overall well being.
The autonomic nervous system is broken into three parts, sympathetic [flight
or fight] parasympathetic [rest and digest], and the enteric brain
[digestive brain].
Dr. Paul Canali of Evolutionary Healing center in South Florida has been a
pioneer in the search for therapies that positively affect the autonomic
nervous system. According to Dr. Canali, "the Autonomic nervous system was
always though to be just that, automatic, motor like, reflex like in
natural. It doesn�t matter if a car suddenly cuts you off on the freeway, or
your boss tells you your fired, your autonomic system reacts the same way.
Muscles contract, blood pressure goes up, digestion stops, your heart is
racing, these are but a few of the many reactions activated in the body's
autonomic nervous system survival mode. The good news is that the autonomic
nervous system also has a built in healing network that can override years
of painful stress and trauma.
This part of the system allows for the deepest of human emotion, feeling of
safety, love, and hope to be activated. These are what I call autonomic
afferents, and they can receive information by specific sensory stimulation
to free the nervous system that is stuck in a desperate survival mode. As
much as 85% of modern disease may be due to the stress of being stuck in
autonomic survival mode |
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